NEWS SHORTS FOR MONDAY
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Abortion activist heads Obama communications team
Barack Obama has named Ellen Moran to be his director of communications at the White House.
Basically, she will be in charge of getting Obama's message out. She is currently executive director of the Washington group EMILY's List - a group that backs female candidates who support abortion rights. She also has worked for the AFL-CIO.
Her deputy in the White House will be Dan Pfeiffer, who is communications director for Obama's presidential transition team. He helped manage the press operation on the Obama campaign. http://www.onenewsnow.com/Headlines/Default.aspx?id=330224
Surprise! Tiller Lawyers Contend Kline Is A Wild-Eyed, Right-Wing Anti-Abortion Zealot
During a pre-trial proceeding, lawyers for George Tiller, the infamous late-term abortionist who's facing 19 abortion-related misdemeanor counts in Sedgwick County, attempted to revive one of the most familiar characterizations in modern Kansas jurisprudence. Tiller's attorneys portrayed former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline as a wild-eyed, right-wing radical who launched an investigation into Tiller's clinic based on his overzealous opposition to abortion.
One More Teen Abandoned Before Child Dumping Law Tightened
One last parent slid in under the deadline of Nebraska's old child dumping law Friday, the last day in which older children qualified for legalized abandonment. A 14-year-old boy from Davis, Calif., was dumped off by his mother at a hospital in Kimball, in the southwest corner of the Panhandle. It occurred nine hours before the newly amended law, limiting child dumping to infants up to 30 days old, took effect. http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/11/24/news/local/doc492833c74e38b131547474.txt
A medical student decides if she wants to join the ranks of "abortion providers"
There isn't anything nice about abortion, Lesley Wojick said, but she does not equate it with murder. A woman's control over her body is representative of her freedom. I feel the obligation to make sure that service is available and not stigmatized." In college, she considered herself more of a foot soldier than a leader. But when Lesley got to Maryland and saw how few students were members of Medical Students for Choice, she knew she had to get involved. "There was a need for me to be an activist," she said. She and two other students, chapter president Christina Bokat and Regina Bray, set out to reinvigorate the group. The first thing they did was to volunteer to host the regional Students for Choice conference on the Maryland campus. Their plans were derailed when the new dean of the medical school, E. Albert Reece, refused to allow the conference on campus. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111401698.html
More Mothers Reject Abortion To Have Babies With Down's Syndrome
More babies are being born with Down's syndrome than before pre-natal screening for the disorder was introduced at the end of the 1980s, it was revealed yesterday. Parents appear more willing to bring a Down's child into the world than they used to be, research shows. Many are taking the decision because those affected by the syndrome are more accepted in society today and their quality of life has improved, according to a new survey. |
November 24, 2008
NEWS SHORTS FOR MONDAY
