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Pro-Abortion Group’s Report Says Unsafe Abortions Kill 70,000 Women a Year
Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer abortions worldwide, but deaths from unsafe abortion remain a severe problem, killing 70,000 women a year, a research institute reported Tuesday in a major global survey.
More than half the deaths, about 38,000, are in sub-Saharan Africa, which was singled out as the region with by far the lowest rates of contraceptive use and the highest rates of unintended pregnancies.
The report, three years in the making, was compiled by the New York-based Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights and is a leading source of data on abortion-related trends. Researchers examined data from individual countries and multinational organizations.
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Health Care Legislation Moves Back Behind Closed Doors Wednesday
Health care talks slip back behind closed doors Wednesday as Senate leaders start trying to merge two very different bills into a new version that can get the 60 votes needed to guarantee its passage.
All eyes are on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who has said he wants to complete the wedding quickly and get historic health care overhaul legislation onto the floor the week after next.
Both bills were written by Democrats, but that's not going to make it easier for Reid. They share a common goal, which is to provide all Americans with access to affordable health insurance, but they differ on how to accomplish it.
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Bishop Who Would Have Barred VP Biden from Speaking at Catholic School Dies
Bishop Emeritus Michael Saltarelli of the Diocese of Wilmington died early on Thursday. A diocesan spokesman said that the 77-year-old Saltarelli died from bone cancer.
Bishop Saltarelli had stood against pro-abortion politicians during his 12 years as Bishop of Wilmington, before his retirement last year. In his Statement on Catholics in Public Life, issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Saltarelli compared the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade to their decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford; he said that both "have a comparable corrosive effect on public life, politics and society."
He continued: "No one today would accept this statement from any public servant: 'I am personally opposed to human slavery and racism but will not impose my personal conviction in the legislative arena.' Likewise, none of us should accept this statement from any public servant: 'I am personally opposed to abortion but will not impose my personal conviction in the legislative arena.'"
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Growth in world population does not lead to more hunger, says FAO director
During his remarks at the Synod of Bishops of Africa taking place at the Vatican, the Director of the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), Jacques Diouf, rejected the myth that the increase in hunger is directly related to the increase in world population.
In an interview with L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s Permanent Observer at the FAO, Archbishop Renato Volante, said Diouf made his remarks in response to a question posed to him by the synod fathers.
Archbishop Volante said this myth is “certainly a false problem.”
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Pro-Life Activists Speak Out Against Pro-Abortion Leaders in U.S., Spain
Signs in English pointed to the
pro-abortion views President
Barack Obama and Prime Minister
Zapatero share. Signs in Spanish
included one proclaiming that
Zapatero's mother chose life.
As President Barack Obama met with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on Tuesday, pro-life activists gathered on Capitol Hill to condemn both leaders’ pro-abortion policies, including Zapatero’s support for a Spanish law awaiting approval by Parliament that would make abortion available on demand to women 16 and older.
“What we are trying to do here is get the people to realize that there are alternatives to abortion, which is being promoted by Zapatero,” Walter Hintz of Madrid told CNSNews.com at the demonstration.
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