NEWS SHORTS FOR FRIDAY
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S.Dakota AG Challenges Court Ruling on How State Can Kill Babies by Abortion
The state filed an appeal challenging a portion of a lower court ruling involving Planned Parenthood... according to Attorney General Marty Jackley. Planned Parenthood challenged a 2005 South Dakota law requiring informed consent to an abortion. A prior court ruling validated one provision and tossed out two others. Now Jackley says those two provisions that were tossed out are what they will be appealing. Those include telling women seeking abortions they would have a risk of suicide. And that they are ending a relationship with an unborn child. Less than 30 minutes ago we spoke to Jackley who said these two provisions need a closer look. "We have sorted out two main legal issues that again we feel warrant further review by the higher court."
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Doggone Abnormal Clones
A U.S. company is backing out of the dogfight over cloning dogs, but leaving behind some interesting kibbles and bits about the cloning business. BioArts International, associated with disgraced cloner Woo-Suk Hwang, has announced it is ending its pet cloning business. BioArts had been in a patent dispute with South Korean cloning firm RNL Bio, started by some of Hwang's colleagues.
BioArts has issued a press release detailing why they are getting out of the dog cloning business. While most of the reasoning is financial and related to the competition with RNL Bio, there are some shocking revelations related to dog cloning, and perhaps the cloning process in general.
Under reason #4, titled "Unscalable Bioethics", the numbers of dogs necessary for the cloning process:
"At current cloning efficiencies, an average of twelve dogs are needed as donors and recipients to produce a singled cloned puppy."
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Pro-life women target 12 in Congress
The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List has targeted 12 members of Congress up for re-election in 2010 who it says are out of step with their constituents.
The organization's effort will include the use of television and radio ads, as well as telephone conferences and online campaigns, to inform citizens of the voting records of their senators and representatives. The campaign especially will address the congressional members' votes on funding of abortion.
The "Votes Have Consequences" project will seek to educate citizens in the states or congressional districts of the following Democrats: Sens. Michael Bennett of Colorado, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Harry Reid of Nevada, as well as Reps. Alan Grayson of Florida, Debbie Halvorson of Illinois, Suzanne Kosmas of Florida, Frank Kratovil of Maryland, Walk Minnick of Idaho, Glenn Nye and Tom Perriello of Virginia, Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire and Harry Teague of New Mexico.
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Will Michelle promote partial birth abortion in healthcare pitches?
In a fundraising letter for her husband's US Senate campaign in February 2004, Michelle Obama called partial birth abortion "a legitimate medical procedure."
With Politico reporting yesterday Michelle "plans a packed autumn that aides say will include a 'dedicated focus' on health insurance reform," will she be pitching mandated public and private insurance coverage of partial birth abortions?
Oh, I know pba is now illegal, but Michelle also claimed in that fundraising letter a ban against it was "clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned." Michelle could add relegalizing pba to her healthcare pitch.
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Pro-Life Group at St. Mary's University Targeted Again: Booth Contents at Society Fair Stolen
The St. Mary's University (SMU) Students for Life group has once again had its activities disrupted, the second incident this year in which attempts have been made to silence the group's message. According to representatives of the group, last Thursday morning at the student society fair an unknown man stole the entire contents of the group's booth.
Paul Mullen, a SMU student in his final year of a degree in math, computer science, and engineering, says that he had just finished setting up the group's display this past weekend when the theft happened. He says he had only been at the booth for about five minutes, and had already had people sign up, when he stepped away for a few seconds to throw some tape in the trash can.
"I just walked about fifteen feet away, and I turned back around ... and everything was gone, there was nothing on the table," he told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN).
"I wasn't really angry," he said. "I wasn't surprised. I was just disgusted. Because, I mean, that's a line I didn't think they were going to cross ... and they just jumped right over it."
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