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UK Mother Loses Baby After Being Given 'Abortion' Drug to Induce Labour
A leading teaching hospital is giving pregnant women an unlicensed abortion drug, Misoprostol, to induce labour despite being sued over the death of a baby. The death of Sofia Figus three days after she was born was caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain during a difficult birth. Her mother Anne Willicombe, 39, a university lecturer, was 12 days overdue when she was prescribed Misoprostol – a drug widely used in abortion clinics – to bring on contractions. Mrs Willicombe and her husband Roberto Figus are now suing the Homerton Hospital in east London for failing to monitor the baby in the womb and follow correct safety procedures which should have been put in place as a result of being given the drug. A midwife was sacked over the death.
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Pro-Life Marches In Two States: Maine, NH
CONCORD, New Hampshire - The anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion prompted weekend demonstrations in northern New England capitals. In Concord, New Hampshire Right to Life organized a demonstration that drew about 300 people to the State House on Saturday. The group included politicians, clergy, activists and families. In Maine, abortion opponents formed a human chain around the Capitol building in Augusta on Saturday to mourn the 37th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision.
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Pro-Life Protests Live on Outside Madison Surgery Center
Since news leaked one year ago that UW Hospital, its doctor group and Meriter Hospital were proposing to add abortion procedures to the surgery center, which they jointly own, opponents have kept up a near-daily presence at the site and begun measures intended to hurt the hospitals financially. Now a year later, with no abortion services yet offered, local anti-abortion activists say the issue has reinvigorated their movement, and they are taking at least partial credit for the delay.
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Pro-Lifers Take to Streets of Dallas
Opponents of abortion packed the pews and took to the streets in downtown Dallas on Saturday, marking the anniversary of the January 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. Among those turning out was Jeslene Cruz of Dallas, who brought her two sweater-clad dogs along. "I'm very pro-life," Cruz said. "I want to change the law, and I want to change our culture." Last year's crowd was estimated at 5,000, and Farrell issued a challenge then that the number be doubled this year.
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Pro-Life Rally Draws Thousands to Downtown Portland
>From opposite sides of Southwest Sixth Avenue on Sunday afternoon came opposing views of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in 1973. Under a persistent winter drizzle, about 3,000 people gathered in Pioneer Courthouse Square to call for an end to abortion while approximately 125 abortion rights advocates stood across the street, chanting and shouting. For abortion foes, the rally actually began at 11 a.m. when they gathered at the site of the new headquarters for Planned Parenthood Columbia-Willamette, under construction at Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Beech Street. From there, they walked about three miles to Pioneer Courthouse Square.
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Bill Would Ban Insurance Coverage Of Abortion
ST. LOUIS - Anticipating possible federal changes in health care, state Sen. Scott Rupp, R-2nd District, of Wentzville on Tuesday filed a bill that would expand the state's health-insurance coverage ban on abortion. The bill, if passed, would prohibit any plans and policies offered through any health insurance exchange in Missouri from covering abortion. "We're not sure what kind of health care plan will come from the federal government, but this bill will make sure the citizens of Missouri will not subsidize abortions in policies offered through the health insurance exchanges currently being discussed in the pending federal health care bills," Rupp said in a prepared statement.
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