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Abortion Protester Sues City Officer
A party in two failed lawsuits alleging Constitutional violations by the City of York and York City Police officers, abortion protester Luanne C. Ferguson filed another federal suit last week against the city and Officer Troy Bankert. In her complaint filed in U.S. Middle District Court on Oct. 30, two days before the expiration of the two-year statute of limitations, Ferguson claims Bankert used excessive force while arresting her without cause outside Planned Parenthood on South Beaver Street on Nov. 1, 2006. Ferguson, who is representing herself in this suit, claims police action outside Planned Parenthood have "chilled, frustrated and deterred . . . the exercise of her First Amendment activities."
http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_10921650?source=rss
D.C. Hospital Sues to Remove Boy, 12, >From Life Support
The family of a 12-year-old New York boy is entangled in a legal fight with Children's National Medical Center over whether doctors can cease life support because they believe he is brain-dead. The dispute involves Motl Brody of Brooklyn, who was diagnosed with a severe form of brain cancer. The boy has been under the care of the Northwest Washington hospital for about six months. His tumor grew progressively worse, and doctors there pronounced him dead Tuesday night after tests showed no signs of brain activity.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110504602.html?nav=rss_religion
First Trial against an US Surgeon for Killing a Patient to Harvest Organs Begins
A San Francisco surgeon is undergoing trial for allegedly hastening the death of a terminally ill patient to harvest his vital organs.
The case against Hootan Roozrokh is believed to be the first of its kind brought against an American transplant surgeon.
Rosa Navarro, the patient’s mother, successfully filed suit against the hospital where the patient died and received $250,000 in compensation. Now the District Attorney’s office is pressing charges against the 34-year-old surgeon for “dependent adult abuse, administering a harmful substance and prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose.”
Roozrokh is also being charged with giving the 25-year old Ruben Navarro an antiseptic called Betadine, normally administered to an organ donor after death, via feeding tube to the stomach. Some commentators suggest the antiseptic was ultimately responsible for the patient’s death.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08110607.html
Voters Deal Setbacks To Abortion Opponents
Divisions between two camps of the anti-abortion movement may have helped doom ballot measures to ban abortion in South Dakota and Colorado and stymied plans to challenge the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision in the voting booth. South Dakota voters rejected their ballot measure 55 percent to 45 percent while Coloradans rejected theirs 73 percent to 27 percent. The South Dakota initiative would have banned abortions except in the case of rape or incest or to protect the health of the pregnant woman. The Colorado measure would have given fertilized human eggs the same rights as human beings with no exceptions.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20081107/NEWS0206/811070427/1001/RSS01
Indiana Boy Latest Neb. 'Child Dumping' Case
An 8-year-old Indiana boy was left Thursday at an Omaha hospital, bringing to 28 the number of children left under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law. Todd Landry with the Department of Health and Human Services Division of Children and Family Services said the boy was left late Thursday morning at Bergan Mercy Hospital. The department was still gathering information on the case and offered no other details immediately. Children from Iowa, Georgia and Michigan have been among the children left at hospitals under the Nebraska law.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-11-06-safe-haven_N.htm?csp=34
