April 05, 2004

Pro-Lifers Win Injunction

Judge: City Trampled Pro-Lifers Free Speech
City Loses Abortion-Sign Ruling - SCROLL DOWN

News briefs from Southern California
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The city of Riverside, Calif., must allow anti-abortion signs erected by protesters on the sidewalk outside a family planning clinic, a federal judge ruled. Confiscating signs from sidewalk demonstrators tramples on free speech, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Timlin said in a ruling last week. City code enforcement officials had confiscated the signs twice, saying they violated the city's sign ordinance. Timlin granted a preliminary injunction preventing the city from enforcing the ordinance. "There is little doubt that (the protesters') activities placing large stationary signs on public sidewalks to express their opposition to abortion are protected under the First Amendment," the judge wrote.

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Abortion to be shown on TV in the UK

Outrage Over Plans To Show Abortion On TV
A TV programme that will show an abortion being carried out drew furious protests yesterday. It is performed on a woman four weeks pregnant - and the foetus will be placed on a glass dish and shown to the camera. Remains of other babies, aborted at 10, 11 and 21 weeks, will also be featured. The 21-week foetus has a clearly developed face and limbs.

Go ahead and say it...
``The unborn deserve the same defense as the born"
ChristianGallery.com
This links to a short audio/video clip of Chuck Spingola teaching a crowd of pro lifers outside a baby butchertorium in Kansas City on the thirty second anniversary of legalized baby butchering in the United States of America. Chuck offers a simple example of something that every pro lifer can do.

Penn State Students for Life
Rally outside of Abortion Clinic

Penn State Students for Life ended its "life week" with a demonstration Saturday outside State College Medical Services, 900 W. College Ave. About 25 students in the club stood outside the building in the afternoon at the interchange of College Avenue and Route 26, holding signs with messages such as "Babies killed here," "Abortion kills children," and "Lord forgive us and our nation."

Pamphleteer OK with spotlight
Almost overnight she went from being part of the crowd to “the girl who is suing the school district.” The eighth-grader and her mother, Debra Heinkel, filed suit March 26 against the Lee County School District, demanding that she be allowed to distribute anti-abortion pamphlets April 16 during a “Day of Remembrance” for aborted fetuses. Suddenly her name was on the front page of the newspaper. Then television stations started calling her for interviews. At school she faced constant questions — and some mocking — from classmates.

Debate on unborn rages as Iowa House plans vote
A bill in the Iowa Legislature, linked to a sensational murder case 1,700 miles away, has reignited a fierce debate over the question of when life begins. The Iowa House is expected to vote this week on legislation, called the "Laci and Conner Peterson Bill," that would recognize a fetus as a person in the eyes of the law by granting victim status to those killed unlawfully.

Challenge to Parental Notification Law Goes to Trial
The case of a then-underage girl who used fake identification to get an abortion in 2000 -- the first such challenge to the state's parental-notification law -- will go to trial, a judge ruled last Tuesday. State District Judge Mark Davidson denied a motion on behalf of Aaron's Family Planning Clinic and the physician who performed the abortion, Dr. Douglas A. Karpen, to dismiss the case on the grounds that the plaintiff, Cherise Mosley, committed fraud when she used a fake ID card. Mosley, now 21, was weeks away from her 18th birthday when she had the abortion. She and her father, Frederick Mosley, filed their lawsuit in 2002 claiming that the clinic performed the abortion without properly notifying her parents. Jared Woodfill, the Mosleys' attorney, argues that the Legislature intended for abortion clinics to accept identification from minors but it's not specifically spelled out in the law.

Underage Girls Buying Morning-After Pill in Australia
GIRLS as young as 13 are buying the controversial morning-after pill repeatedly, triggering uproar among religious and ethical groups over the easy access teenagers are being given to the emergency contraceptive. Perth pharmacists have revealed that girls under 16 were asking them for the pill, called Postinor-2, with some buying it several times in a matter of weeks, often on weekends after a big night out.

``THE BIG SHOW"

Carhart Testifies that Ban on Certain
Abortions Would Have Broader Effect

The doctor who got the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Nebraska's ban on a controversial abortion procedure testified Thursday that a similar federal law is so vague it would outlaw nearly all abortions after the first trimester. "There are at least 21 different procedures that it covers," Dr. LeRoy Carhart said during a challenge of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, signed last year by President Bush. "There are terms in this act that I do not understand ... and that have many definitions. "But in reality I think this act covers everything after the 12th week" of pregnancy, Carhart said.

Related
Abortionist Leroy Carhart Speaks: The Carhart Testimony
In early December it was discovered that the University of Nebraska Medical Center was conducting experiments using brain tissue from pre-born children killed by the notorious partial birth abortionist Leroy Carhart. What follows is court testimony from July '97 where abortionist Carhart explains how he commits abortions. Warning: Graphic descriptions.

The Baby Parts Industry
Grim Harvest:
• The Carhart Testimony
• America's Back Door Market For Aborted Fetal Tissue
• Baby Parts For Sale!
• House Takes Up Fetal Tissue Probe
• "You've Come a Long Way, Baby"
• Baby Parts Marketing Kit


Prosecutors Discuss Plea Deal for
Nurse Accused of Killing Patient

TRENTON, N.J. -- A top New Jersey law enforcement official met Friday with prosecutors to discuss a possible plea agreement that would give immunity from the death penalty to a nurse who claimed he killed up to 40 patients. Vaughn McKoy, director of the Division of Criminal Justice, met with five prosecutors from New Jersey and two from Pennsylvania conducting separate probes in the case. They are involved in negotiations with attorneys for Charles Cullen of Bethlehem, who said he killed the patients during a 16-year nursing career in the two states.

Newborn Found Dead Laid to Rest
HARPERS FERRY, W.VA. - The baby was found on the banks of the Shenandoah River by a Harpers Ferry National Historical Park ranger, deputies said. The umbilical cord still was attached. Weights had been placed in a bag with the baby's body. Investigators believe someone was trying to throw the bag into the river. The body was picked up at the state medical examiner's office in Charleston, W.Va., and returned to Eackles-Spencer Funeral Home in Harpers Ferry, which handled the arrangements. Burial was in Edge Hill Cemetery off Congress Street in Charles Town as a light rain fell.

Man Charged With Corpse Abuse
MaineToday.com
MILO, Maine — A Milo man faces a charge of abuse of a corpse after police found him burning what are believed to be the remains of an infant, police said. Ralph Disley, 46, was arrested Friday after police received a call from a resident who thought the remains of an infant were on Disley´s property, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety. When Maine State Police detectives arrived at Disley´s Lyford Road home, they found him burning what appeared to be an infant´s remains outside on his property, McCausland said.

Inmate says that Nichols did not help make bomb
McALESTER, Okla. -- A federal death row inmate who may testify in the state murder trial of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says the defendant didn't help Timothy McVeigh make the bomb. Prosecutors contend Nichols and McVeigh made the bomb at a lake in north-central Kansas the day before the April 19, 1995, attack, but David Paul Hammer asserts McVeigh told him that other coconspirators helped him assemble the device the night before in an Oklahoma City warehouse.

Weeding out liars takes priority in jury selection
``Yes, your honor. I believe I can be fair.'' All jurors say it, but they don't all mean it. Jurors who lie about their intentions can wreak havoc in court, and high-profile cases such as the Scott Peterson trial attract liars like moths to a bright, shiny celebrity light, legal experts say.

The Peterson Trial: The art of jury picking
The man and the woman who have sat quietly in the front of the Redwood City courtroom for the past month are hardly noticeable. During the course of the trial, they will not testify, cross-examine a witness, or address the judge. But they rank high among the critical courtroom players in the double-murder trial of Scott Peterson. From opposite sides of the courtroom, Howard Varinsky and Jo-Ellan Dimitrius are there to pick the jury -- Varinsky working with the prosecution, Dimitrius with the defense. Although both come welltrained in the art of jury selection, they work with decidedly different purposes.

TV Linked to Attention Problems
CHICAGO -- Very young children who watch television face an increased risk of attention deficit problems by school age, a study has found, suggesting that TV might overstimulate and permanently ''rewire'' the developing brain. For every hour of television watched, two groups of children -- aged 1 and 3 -- faced a 10 percent increased risk of having attention problems at age 7. The findings bolster previous research showing that television can shorten attention spans and support American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations that youngsters under age 2 not watch television.

Posted by Editor at April 5, 2004 08:02 AM

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