NEWS SHORTS FOR FRIDAY
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Trial Date Set for Abortionist Rapin Osathanondh
The doctor charged with manslaughter after a patient died following an abortion could stand trial in September. The trial for Rapin Osathanondh is expected to last at least two weeks and will focus largely on the testimony of experts, lawyers for the doctor and the district attorney's office said in Barnstable Superior Court yesterday. Osathanondh appeared in court for a pretrial hearing. He is charged in the death of Laura Hope Smith, 22, of Sandwich, who died on Sept. 13, 2007, shortly after the pregnancy termination was performed. Osathanondh allegedly sedated Smith without monitoring her vital signs or having another appropriately trained medical staffer present.
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090306/NEWS/903060328
Woman Files Wrongful-Death Suit Against Abortion Clinic Operator
Belkis Gonzalez is serving probation for unlawfully running a Miramar abortion clinic, and now faces new criminal charges and a lawsuit over a botched abortion at her Hialeah Clinic. But the lawyer for a Broward County Click here for restaurant inspection reports woman suing Gonzalez over the abortion says her latest criminal charges don't go far enough. Tom Pennekamp, Sycloria Williams' Miami lawyer, thinks the case "is clearly a homicide." Williams sought an abortion in 2006 from Gonzalez's clinic, but she says her 23-week-old infant was instead born alive and thrown out in a plastic bag. The wrongful-death civil lawsuit, filed in January, accuses Gonzalez, 43, of Miramar, of attending to the surprise live birth before a doctor could arrive. The suit claims Gonzalez knocked the infant off a chair where Williams had given birth, scooping the baby and afterbirth into the red bag.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbabort0306sbmar06,0,7764558.story?track=rss
Abortion Pill Makes Woman Bleed to Death
Manon Jones was just 18 when she took pills to abort an unwanted baby six weeks into her pregnancy. Manon Jones was just 18 when she took pills to abort an unwanted baby six weeks into her pregnancy. The bright and bubbly A-level student went with her mother to Southmead Hospital in Bristol to terminate the baby, after deciding that continuing the pregnancy would cause too much trouble with her boyfriend's family.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1153576/Should-GPs-REALLY-handing-abortion-pills-woman-bleed-death.html
Catholic Church to Excommunicate Abortion Girl's Mother, Doctors
THE mother of the nine-year-old girl who had an abortion this week - and the doctors who performed the procedure to save her life - will be kicked out of the Catholic Church. The girl had been pregnant with twins after allegedly being raped by her stepfather. An archbishop for the northern region of Brazil where the termination was conducted, Father Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, said the church was excommunicating all adults responsible for the abortion. The operation - carried out because of doctors' fears the slender girl might die if she carried the fetuses to term - was a crime in the eyes of the chuch, he said. "God's law is above any human law. So when a human law ... is contrary to God's law, this human law has no value,'' Archbishop Cardoso told the news television network Globo.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25146388-5006003,00.html?from=public_rss
The Washington Post's False Report on Vitter's Planned Parenthood Amendment
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has introduced an amendment to the omnibus spending bill that reads, in its entirety: "None of the funds appropriated under this Act shall be made available to Planned Parenthood for any purpose under title X of the Public Health Service Act." (Title X is the federal law that provides for contraceptive funding.) The Washington Post's Mary Ann Akers writes that Vitter's amendment would "drastically cut funding for family planning programs." This is untrue. Vitter's amendment wouldn't cut contraceptive funding provided under Title X by one cent.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/03/the_washington_posts_false_rep_1.asp
Pro-life experts ask Obama not to push abortion in Latin America
aThe Latin American Post-Abortion Care Network has sent an open letter to President Barack Obama asking him to reverse his efforts to fund abortion in the region.
In response to the reversal of the Mexico City Policy, the Network, which provides pastoral care to those who have undergone abortions, explained that in “Latin America, we believe in the self-determination of nations, a basic principle of international law, and we believe in the absolute respect for human life as the basis for all other human rights.”
“Therefore, we appeal to common sense to not interfere by providing resources to groups identified with feminist trends that radically promote abortion as a form of birth control.”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15286
