Pro-Life Attorneys Want City to Pay $360,000 in Legal Fees After Winning Court Battle Over Buffer Zones
A Christian legal group that successfully overturned a Pittsburgh law restricting protests near abortion clinics and health facilities wants the city to pay $360,000 in legal fees. City Solicitor Dan Regan says the fees sought by the Alliance Defense Fund of Scottsdale, Ariz., are "excessive" and is challenging the request. The group sued saying a 2005 law denied free speech rights to Indiana Township nurse and abortion protester Mary Kathryn Brown. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in October overturned the Pittsburgh law which banned protesters from standing within 15 feet of entrances but also kept protesters 8 feet from clients in a 100-foot buffer around entrances.
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NH House Delays Bill Treating Fetus As Person
The New Hampshire House has postponed voting whether to allow prosecutors to charge people who kill a fetus with murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide. The House decided Wednesday to delay action a week. Opponents say the bill is an attempt to define an unborn child in statute. Supporters say it has nothing to do with abortion and is in response to a 2006 case where a speeding driver slammed his car into a cab, killing a passenger. The cab driver was pregnant and delivered a baby who wasn't breathing, but was kept alive temporarily on life support.
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Oklahoma Senate Panel Approves 3 Abortion Regulations
A slate of bills targeting women seeking an abortion in Oklahoma have been approved by a Senate committee. The Senate Health and Human Services committee on Thursday passed three abortion-related measures. A fourth abortion bill was laid over and can be reconsidered by the panel next week. The bills dealt with the use of the RU-486 "abortion pill," prohibited abortions based on the gender of the fetus and prevented discrimination against medical employees who refuse to participate in abortions. All of the provisions were included in omnibus abortion bills approved in previous sessions that were tossed out in separate court cases.
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Kansas Bill Would Require Special Insurance For Abortions
A House committee has heard testimony on a bill to remove abortion coverage from most insurance policies and require Kansans to purchase extra coverage for the procedure. Supporters of the bill told the House Insurance Committee on Thursday they believe Kansans abortion morally offensive and do not want to pay insurance premiums for the procedure. The committee's chairman, Republican Rep. Virgil Peck of Tyro, says the bill would require women to purchase a rider from their insurance carrier for elective abortions. Insurance policies could still cover abortion if a pregnancy endangered a woman's life or resulted from incest or rape. The committee took no action and plans to work the bill next week.
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Coalition Launches Petition Asking Bishops to End Grants to Pro-Abort Groups
A petition was launched on Wednesday, which asks the U.S. bishops to suspend Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) grants. The petition is sponsored by American Life League, Human Life International, Catholic Advocate, Bellarmine Veritas Ministry and Real Catholic TV, members of the Reform CCHD Now coalition (RCN).
The effort comes after repeated calls over the past three months for explanations from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in response to the discovery that CCHD money is being used to support organizations that promote abortion and same-sex “marriage.”
American Catholics are asked to sign the following at http://www.reformcchdnow.com/
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Dutch Call for Suicide Availability for the Elderly
I have said it until I am blue in the face and I will continue saying it: Once a society decides that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, that which is deemed “acceptable suffering” will continue to expand until just about any category of suicidal person will eventually qualify. The Netherlands shows again that it is true. Despite the most liberal euthanasia/assisted suicide culture in the world–the loose laws aren’t even really enforced–it is still not enough. Now, there is a call to help the elderly commit suicide who are “tired of life.”
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