"When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit."
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founder of the Women's Movement
June 2005: Abortion
Woman Dies Following Kansas Abortion
Medical Training for Abortions
Florida Teen's Abortion May Have Covered an Incest Case
More States are Passing Fetal Homicide Laws
Beauty Salons Fuel Trade in Aborted Babies
Man Who Botched Abortions May Not Change His Name, Judge Rules
Abortion Pill Crackdown in Philippines Has Police Chasing the U.N.-supported NGOs
Forced Abortion in China Still a Reality
Planned Parenthood Must Release Medical Records in Statutory Rape Cover-up
KS ABORTION DEATH BY TILLER – Wichita’s George Tiller is infamous for his late-term abortion center, complete with incinerator. The State of Texas and the TX AG have subpoenaed Tiller regarding the death of a 19-yr-old disabled TX woman who suffered a fatal emergency at his site. Operation Rescue, which monitors the abortion site, reports that 5 ambulances in the past 13 months have rushed women from Tiller’s facility to the Wesley Medical Center; at least 1 woman has now died and at least one more is suspected to have died. Women from Ontario and Quebec are being sent to Tiller for late-term abortions, paid for by the gov’t. “This is the quality care that the women we send…receive!” said Mary Ellen Douglas [Nat’l Organizer of Campaign Life Coalition]. [CLC National News, 4/05]
MEDICAL TRAINING FOR ABORTIONS – in 2000, 87% of US counties had no abortion service, and 99% of all sites that kill more than 400 babies/year were located in metro areas [JAMA, 1Oct03, vol. 290 #13, 1777-78].
In 2000, there were 1,819 sites where abortions were performed – a 37% decrease since 1982. This has coincided with the decline in routine abortion training in residency programs: 23% of training hospitals provided this training in 1985 and only 12% provided the training in 1991 for first trimester abortions. Second trimester abortion training dropped from 21% to 7%.
Noting this, New York City and California passed legislation requiring such training; however, all such programs have been limited by low response rates. In every program, a Right of Conscience (conscience clause) allows the physician in training to opt out. The actual prevalence today is unknown.
[Rt to Life of Greater Cincinnati, 5/05]
REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES: ACOG - Each year, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists holds a conference. This conference is mandatory for any practicing ob/gyn at least once every five years. The 2005 conference was attended well, with thousands of doctors present.
More noteworthy were abortion providers, about 2,000 strong in attendance. This year's convention boasted several seminars on abortion procedures.
To oppose the abortion-themed affair, over thirty pro-lifers were able to attend, protesting outside the Moscone Center buildings in San Francisco, where the conference was held. Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Patrick Johnston, of Ohio, the pro life presence was constant, as the volunteers were put up in a hotel not five blocks away from the event. Operation Rescue's two Truth Trucks circled the complex and visited heavily traveled tourist locations.
The buildings housing the conference were located parallel to each other, across a busy street. Doctors and abortionists alike had to cross at a crosswalk flanked with pro-life picketers and photos of dead babies. Some doctors looked away in disgust, some had choice words to say to the picketers, and some openly admitted to performing abortions.
When confronted with the dark side of their industry, nearly all appeared ashamed or embarrassed of their chosen profession. Many were too upset to stop and talk, but rushed by the protesters with their heads down. Both sides of the street were armed with bullhorns, and the pro-life crowd spoke eloquently about the destruction of human life. Added to that, the Truth Trucks circled the block as attendees entered and exited the buildings.
Not only were the doctors affected, but pedestrians appeared stunned by the large pictures of aborted babies on the trucks as they drove by. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and most of Monday were spent on the streets, picketing the event.
A team of young people visited the three hotels where most of the doctors attending ACOG were staying. Going from floor to floor, the team slid pieces of pro-life literature under each closed door.
The five-day event concluded with a baby saved: a young woman just over 4 weeks pregnant saw the signs and decided not to kill her child. Pray that she has the courage to stick with her decision. [May 18, 2005 San Francisco, CA; 800 705-1175, http://www.operationrescue.org Operation Rescue P.O. Box 782528 Wichita KS 67278]
Florida Teen's Abortion May Have Covered up Incest Case -- Authorities are looking into a teen's abortion in another case of an abortion facility performing an abortion on a teenager who has been raped. In this case, officials believe the teen's mother took her to the abortion facility to cover up incest.
Police detectives had wanted to perform a paternity test on the unborn child as part of their incest investigation. However, the teen's 33 year-old mom took her to a Broward County abortion business without notifying them.
The mother did not tell the abortion facility about the incest and she is now charged with evidence tampering. "She was protecting her daughter and her husband, thinking we would not have any evidence and would not be able to pursue it," sheriff's spokesman Paul Miller told AP. Her attorney, Jack Fleischman, told the Associated Press he questions whether the woman can be charged because police did not have a court order for the paternity test.
The girl's 40 year-old stepfather is facing charges of sexual battery and he and the girl's mother are free on bond, AP reported. The state attorney's office will determine whether the charges should be pursued now.
The state of Florida has taken the teen and her sister into custody. The girl claimed her stepfather impregnated her late last year and she told officials he had another sexual encounter with her in April. [LifeNews.com Editor, 26May05 West Palm Beach, FL; http://www.lifenews.com/state1054.html]
MORE STATES ARE PASSING FETAL HOMICIDE LAWS - In 2004, Kentucky, Mississippi, Virginia and Iowa passed new fetal homicide laws. This trend is continuing through this legislative session as Maryland, Kansas and New Mexico have introduced fetal homicide bills in their legislatures. Maryland's bill protects unborn children only after viability, however both Kansas and New Mexico define an "unborn child" as being in any stage in utero.
The American public overwhelmingly supports this type of legislation. A Newsweek Poll taken in May 2003 found that 84 percent of Americans believe that when both mother and fetus die, the attacker should be charged "for two murders instead of one."
Currently 31 states recognize the killing of an unborn child as homicide at least in some circumstances.
These states have fetal homicide laws that protect the unborn at every stage of development (18): AZ, ID, IL, KY, LA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NE, ND, OH, PA, SD, TX, UT, VA and WI. These 13 states have fetal homicide laws that protect the unborn only after certain stages of development: AK, CA, FL, GA, IA, MA, NY, NV, OK, SC, TN, RI & WA. These 5 states do not establish legal rights for fetuses, but criminalize certain conduct that terminates pregnancies or causes miscarriages: IN, KS, NC, NH, NM. “It is time for the remaining 14 states without any protection for the unborn from acts of violence to step up and begin passing fetal protection laws.” [Elizabeth Hurley is a student at Gordon College and an intern at CWA. http://www.cwalac.org/article_202.shtml, LifeSiteNews.com, 28April05]
BEAUTY SALONS FUEL TRADE IN ABORTED BABIES: Racketeers pay Ukraine women to sell fetuses to quack clinics for £10,000 courses of 'anti-ageing' shots Aborted fetuses from girls and young women are being exported from Ukraine for use in illegal beauty treatments costing thousands of pounds. The fetuses are cryogenically frozen and sold to clinics offering 'youth injections', claiming to rejuvenate skin and cure a raft of diseases.
It is thought that women in the former Soviet republic are being paid £100 a time to persuade them to have abortions and allow their fetuses to be used in treatments.
Most of the fetuses are sold in Russia for up to £5,000 each. Some are paid extra to have abortions late in their pregnancy.
Border guards stopped a train entering Russia from Ukraine last week and arrested a 'mule' carrying 25 frozen fetuses hidden in two vacuum flasks. The man said he had bought them from a medical research center. Ukrainian law allows an aborted human fetus to be passed to research institutes if the woman involved consents and her anonymity is protected. But police say staff at state health institutions are selling them to private clinics offering illegal therapy.
'It is extremely difficult to detect this because there are corrupt agreements between respected doctors and academics,' said one senior officer.
Beauty salons in Moscow that buy the aborted material to provide 'fetal therapy' are flourishing, despite a Russian ban on all commercial treatments using human cells other than bone marrow. The salons offer injections of stem cells, the undivided cells present in embryos that can adapt into any kind of tissue, although they are still at the trial stage worldwide.
Sergei Shorobogatko, a former Kiev policeman who is investigating the trade, said abortion clinics in the poor eastern regions of Donetsk and Kharkiv are selling fetuses - often untested for viruses such as AIDS – without permission.
Abortions performed more than 12 weeks into a pregnancy are restricted in Ukraine. Older fetuses fetch extra because their curative powers are thought to be greater.
'When a doctor wants a fetus [to sell], he tells a girl there is a medical reason for an abortion later than 12 weeks,' said Shorobogatko. 'A special procedure extracts it with the placenta.'
The woman would be paid to wait until a late stage of her pregnancy, or might never even know she was duped, he said. Her aborted fetus would be passed to a middle-man or institution, which would cut it into separate organs before placing these in storage. The material was then sold and taken abroad.
Beauty courses of injections using blends of fetal cells are banned in Ukraine and Russia, but they are widely available in salons that charge up to £10,000. Wealthy clients are told the treatment can stop the ageing process, or eliminate such debilitating conditions as Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's.
One fashionable Moscow clinic approached by The Observer promised to 'take 10 years off your face'.
'We are talking about a huge, corrupt and dangerous trade in quack therapies,' said Professor Vladimir Smirnov, director of the city's Institute of Experimental Cardiology. Outside state institutes, Russian law allows only extraction and storage of human cells, but enforcement is lax.
Earlier this month the Ministry of Health announced that 37 out of 41 clinics offering stem-cell treatments in Moscow were acting illegally. Yet most continue to operate.
'What is unclear is what people are injected with,' said Dr Stephen Minger, of King's College, London. 'Are they really stem cells or a mixture of tissues?' Ukrainians, accustomed to tales of illegal privatizations and government corruption, are not surprised.
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