Bill Forces Every New Yorker To Be Organ Donors
New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky introduced a new bill in Albany that would enroll all New Yorkers as an organ donor, unless they actually opt out of organ donation. It would be the first law of its kind in the United States. "Overseas, 24 nations have it. Israel has it. Others have it. And it works without a lot of controversy," Brodsky said. Currently one of the biggest obstacles to being a donor is while 9 out of 10 are favorable to it only 1 out of 10 is signed up to be a donor. Legal experts said if the law is passed, it will likely face challenges in court from family members or some religious groups.
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S.Carolina Senate Rejects Bid to Limit Funding on Killing Rape/Incest Babies
South Carolina senators have rejected efforts to bar abortion coverage under the state health insurance plan for victims of rape and incest. The 24-17 vote on Wednesday came in the midst of state budget debate as Republican state Sen. David Thomas of Fountain Inn tried to revive a measure the House had included in its version of the state's $5 billion spending plan. But Republican state Sen. Mike Fair of Greenville was trying to limit the handful of abortions that are covered by requiring victims to report rape or incest within 48 hours. Rape victims covered by the state health plan would have to submit to medical treatment within five days of the rape.
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Baby Boy Lived Two Days After Abortion
The 22-week infant died one day later in intensive care at a hospital in the mother's home town of Rossano in southern Italy. The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled. However, the infant survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabro hospital, and was left by doctors to die. He was discovered alive the following day – some 20 hours after the operation – by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body. He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing.
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New Push to Extend Pro-Abort Backed Maputo Plan of Action in Africa
Last week, the African Union (AU) held a continental conference on maternal and child health in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the possibility of extending the non-binding Maputo Plan of Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (Maputo PoA), which was scheduled to expire this year.
The conference, themed "Achieving the MDGs through the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality in Africa," brought together maternal and child health experts from AU Member States, United Nations (UN) agencies and non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives to discuss ways of reducing the high rates of maternal mortality in the continent, and in particular to review a lengthy extension of the Maputo PoA through 2015 to coincide with the time frame of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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