NEWS SHORTS FOR FRIDAY
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EWTN promises ‘most complete coverage’ of March for Life events
Irondale, Alabama - The Eternal Word Television Network says it will offer the “most complete coverage available” for the 2010 March for Life in Washington, D.C. and for the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco. Coverage includes Masses, marches, rallies, interviews, panel discussions and speeches from pro-life speakers around the country.
Many of the events will also be broadcast on the internet. More to come.
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Anti-Lifers Fear 'A Fair Trial' for Scott Roeder may Spur Abortion violence
WICHITA, Kansas - A judge's decision to allow a confessed killer to argue that he believes the slaying of one of the nation's few [sic] late-term abortion providers was a justified act aimed at saving unborn children has upended what most expected to be an open-and-shut first-degree murder case. Prosecutors have challenged the ruling that allows Scott Roeder to tell a jury that the fatal shooting of Wichita doctor George Tiller was voluntary manslaughter. Some abortion opponents were pleasantly stunned and eager to watch Roeder plead his case. Tiller's colleagues and abortion advocates were outraged and feared the court's actions give more than tacit approval to further acts of violence.
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Teenager Dies from Embolism Caused by Contraceptive
The Swiss Federation of Service to Patients (Patientenstellen der Schweiz) has called for a ban on one type of contraceptive pill after it was linked to the death of a 17-year-old German girl in a Swiss hospital last month. The girl, who died at the University Hospital of Basel, was taking a pill that includes drospirenone, a synthetic progestin compound used in newer brands such as Yaz, Yasmin and Yasminelle. This was the third grave incident reported in Switzerland this year involving such contraceptives. In each case, the woman suffered a pulmonary embolism.
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Hillary Seeks 'Murder by Abortion' as 'Basic Right'
In Washington last week, United States (U.S.) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United States would engage in a massive funding push over the next five years to promote “reproductive health care and family planning” as a “basic right” around the word. Clinton has previously stated for the record that this includes abortion. The plan includes potentially siphoning off funds currently directed towards fighting HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis and malaria. Commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the controversial International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Clinton said there were only five years left to achieve ICPD’s goal that “all governments will make access to reproductive healthcare and family planning services a basic right.”
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Abortion becomes issue in Massachusetts race for U.S. Senate
Boston, Massachusetts - Abortion has become a live issue in the Jan. 19 special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts. While both candidates generally support permissive abortion law, controversy has centered upon pro-life conscience protections, partial-birth abortion and the place of abortion in the health care bill.
State Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican, is running against Democrat Martha Coakley, the state Attorney General.
According to Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Brown opposes taxpayer funding for abortion and the so-called Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). Unlike Brown, Coakley opposes a ban on partial birth abortion, parental consent requirements for minors seeking abortions, and favors taxpayer funding for abortion.
While Brown supports specifically exempting abortion from health care, Coakley opposes it.
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