Dutch Officials Tout no Reports of Infant Euthanasia in 2007 Despite Legality
Anti-Euthanasia experts believe unwanted children are instead killed by dehydration
Dutch officials have told the Associated Press that there have been no reports of infant euthanasia in the Netherlands in 2007, the first year after the country officially sanctioned the practice. However, drawing on data from previous years, anti-euthanasia advocates say they suspect that some Dutch infants may have been intentionally killed by dehydration last year, a procedure that is not technically labeled "euthanasia."
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08111807.html
Testimony Continues in Tiller Criminal Hearing
Lawyers for Wichita abortion provider George Tiller spent the morning trying to show that former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline and his associates misrepresented information to a judge that kicked off a five-year investigation. Dan Monnat, who represents Tiller, spent most of the morning questioning former investigator Tom Williams, who filed affidavits that led to a secret investigation into Tiller's Wichita clinic and another run by Planned Parenthood in Overland.
http://www.kansas.com/news/updates/story/601556.html
1000 Brazilian Women To Be Denounced For Abortions
Nearly 1000 women and their partners are to be publicly denounced for having abortions in a Brazil clinic, as women's groups slammed the move as an inquisition. Prosecutor Paulo Cesar dos Passos said that 150 women in western Campo Grande have so far been reported to authorities for ending their pregnancies, and he expects the number to reach 1000. "We're also processing their lovers and husbands who paid, accepted or encouraged the procedure," he said, adding the names of some 10,000 women who went to the Campo Grande clinic from 2000 onward have been made public. Abortion is illegal in Brazil, except in cases of rape or when pregnancy puts a mother's life at risk. But penalties for lawbreakers only range from one to three years in jail.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,24674446-5005361,00.html?from=public_rss
Many Groups Police Spied Upon In Md. Were Nonviolent (Including Pro-Life Groups)
Maryland State Police labeled members of a Montgomery County environmental group as terrorists and extremists days after they held a nonviolent protest at an appearance by then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. at a Bethesda high school. A review by The Washington Post of those and other files given in recent days to many of the 53 Maryland activists who were wrongly labeled as terrorists in state and federal databases shows an intelligence operation eager to collect information on the protest plans of a broad swath of nonviolent groups from 2005 to at least early 2007. Those groups included not only death penalty and Iraq war protesters who were spied on by undercover troopers in a 2005-06 surveillance operation exposed in July, but also those who opposed abortion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111803487.html
