NEWS SHORTS FOR TUESDAY Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of The Illinois Federation for Right to Life. They are presented only for your information. Jury Selection Set for LA Woman Accused of Performing Illegal Abortions Jury selection is scheduled to begin in Los Angles on Dec. 1 in the trial of Bertha Bugarin, longtime operator of Clinica Medica para la Mujer de Hoy, a chain of Southern California abortion clinics with the same or a similar name that for years targeted poor Hispanic women in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. Bugarin is charged with 18 felony counts of performing abortions without a medical license. If convicted, she faces more than 15 years in prison. Bugarin, 48, of Granada Hills, also faces 10 felony counts and one misdemeanor charge in San Diego County for similar offenses. She had a hearing in that case earlier this month, and is scheduled for trial in San Diego sometime in 2009. http://calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=9d8107f9-d68c-4378-b599-4ee49623c83a More Babies With Down's Syndrome Born As Attitudes Change More babies with Down's syndrome are being born today than before pre-natal testing became widespread, as perceptions of the condition change. In 1989, the year screening was widely introduced in the UK, 717 babies with Down's syndrome were born. In 2006, the last year for which figures are available, 749 were born. The numbers had fallen in the years following the introduction of testing, to 594 in 2000. Parents who had gone ahead with a pregnancy after receiving a positive test result said they felt people with Down's syndrome had a better future today than 20 years ago, and that they also had the support of their families and friends. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/24/mentalhealth-disability A Belgian couple accused of selling their unwanted second child over the internet found themselves at the centre of a media storm on Monday as national media voiced its disgust at the allegations. Prosecutors in the northern city of Ghent opened an investigation over the weekend into the couple for agreeing an adoption without official authorisation, an offence that carries a five-year prison sentence in Belgium. "Will we soon be buying babies on eBay?" asked Flemish language newspaper De Standaard, describing the case as "human smuggling", while the tabloid Het Laatse Nieuws voiced "incomprehension" at the case. |
November 25, 2008
NEWS SHORTS FOR TUESDAY
