Terri Schiavo's Feeding Tube
Scheduled For Removal Today
The feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive is scheduled to be removed at 2 p.m. today. Doctors will remove the tube under a court order. The decision comes after a legal battle that has gone on for years between Terri's husband and her parents, who have been trying to keep her alive. The Schindlers say their son-in-law, Michael Schiavo, is preventing them from visiting their daughter at the hospice where she lives. Terri Schiavo is expected to die within two weeks after the tube is removed.
Newborn's Body Found in Trash Bin
OLATHE, Kan. -- A trash-truck driver found a newborn girl dead in a garbage bin behind a strip mall, but police in this Kansas City suburb said it was not immediately clear whether the baby was stillborn or died after birth. The driver found the girl shortly after noon Monday. Soon after investigating the scene, detectives said they had found a 20-year-old Olathe woman who they think gave birth to the baby.
Putting Baby Together
Three years after the federal government put restrictions on two New York doctors developing a controversial fertility technique and the scientists shared their technology with Chinese doctors, the method has been used to achieve a pregnancy in a 30-year-old infertile Chinese woman. But none of her three developing babies survived, and some question the ethics of such research.[?]
Can Americans Now Go to Other Countries and
Commit Criminal Acts Outlawed Here at Home?
To say that this outlawed cloning experiment used to murder innocent children in another country raises 'ethicical questions' is outrageous! Using these barbarous experiments on humans is not a question of ethics, it's a question of criminal law! These murdered children demand Justice! We must not be blinded by the secular media's twisted talk about human cloning vs. religious ethics. The deaths of these little babies at the hands of mad scientists demand Justice! The American scientists responsible for killing these children must be prosecuted! --Jim Rudd
Baby Killer to Speak to American
Society for Reproductive Medicine
US doctors have created the first pregnancies using a controversial technique related to cloning. The babies died before birth. Other experts have condemned the procedure because the health risks are unknown. James Grifo of New York University School of Medicine created and implanted the human embryos in China, working with colleagues at Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Science in Guangzhou1. Grifo will discuss the results today at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Triplets In China Died
In an experiment that raises questions over how close some mainstream fertility doctors have moved toward human cloning, a team of Chinese and American scientists are expected to report today that they have created the first human pregnancy using a DNA-swapping technology similar to that which created Dolly the sheep. The embryos created from the procedure weren't clones made from a single source of DNA. Instead, their genetic material came from their parents and an egg donor. Doctors involved said the project aimed to create normal children, and to test new methods for correcting hard-to-treat cases of infertility.
New Fertility Technique Raises Eyebrows
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in impregnating a woman using technology similar to that which is used in cloning animals. Although the babies were born prematurely and died, the feat has raised ethical and other eyebrows. Not only was some of the technology similar to that used in cloning, but the procedure had been banned in the United States and as a result was conducted in China.
Murder-For-Hire Case Sent To Second Grand Jury
A second grand jury will hear the case of Melinda Elem, who is charged with trying to kill her husband's pregnant mistress. Leo Plowman, Elem's attorney, asked that two conspiracy to commit first-degree murder indictments be dismissed or that the charges be sent back to a grand jury for reconsideration. Pima County Superior Court Judge Paul Tang denied the dismissal but agreed to remand the case to another grand jury. Plowman asked for a new hearing because the first grand jury indicted Elem on the two first-degree murder conspiracy charges, one for the woman and one for her unborn child. Elem, 30, was arrested July 25 after she allegedly contacted a person she thought was a hit man to harm a woman she believed was seven months pregnant by Elem's husband.
Gary Coleman Linked to Anti-Abortion Website
Gary Coleman is in for a shock the next time he surfs the internet - his domain name is still being linked to an anti-abortion site. The Diff'rent Strokes star thought he'd legally shut down www.garycoleman.com after learning it was linked to an antiabortion site, but it's still running. He says, "I believe in women's rights period, end of story, there is no argument.
Judge Refuses To Delay Nichols Trial
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A judge on Tuesday refused to delay the state's murder trial against Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols despite claims that the federal government is not cooperating in making witnesses available to defense attorneys. But District Judge Steven Taylor issued a Feb. 13 deadline for the government to make witnesses available for interviews, saying the delay was jeopardizing Nichols' right to a fair trial.
'Did Sen. Boxer's Pressure to the FDA
Contribute to Holly Patterson's Death?'
WASHINGTON -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) released to the media a letter from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which may have contributed to the loosening of patient safety standards for RU-486, the abortion drug implicated in the death of 18-year-old Holly Patterson last month in Pleasanton, Calif. "Sen. Boxer's eagerness to carry water for the abortion lobby may very well have contributed to the death of one of her own constituents. Certain patient safety standards were eliminated by the FDA, standards that Sen. Boxer insisted be eliminated," said Sandy Rios, president of CWA. "What should be more important to Sen. Boxer than the health and safety of a young girl?"
2 Life Terms For Molester
A paroled child molester released from prison two months before he repeatedly raped a 12-year-old Tyler girl and impregnated her was given two life sentences Tuesday. "There is nothing in this world I can imagine that is so completely, utterly despicable as what this man did to this 12-year-old little girl," Assistant Smith County District Attorney April Sikes told a judge, pointing at twice-convicted sex offender Christopher Whittemore. Mrs. Sikes said the rape victim, who reported the assaults began in January, underwent an abortion. She said Whittemore claimed innocence until DNA linked him to the attacks on the girl.
Drunken Mother back in Court
Stacy Gilligan, the woman accused of being drunk while giving birth to a baby boy with a blood alcohol content of .18, appeared in Glens Falls City Court again. Gilligan has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child. District Attorney Kate Hogan says the newborn suffered a life-threatening complication from alcohol withdrawal.
Baby Murdering Abortion Regulator
Chages Court With 'Judicial Activism'
Lt. Gov. Loren Leman criticized a Superior Court judge's ruling striking down the state's parental consent law on Tuesday. Leman, a Republican and former state senator who sponsored the 1997 law, said the ruling by Superior Judge Sen Tan "is way out of step with mainstream judicial reasoning." "This is yet another example of judicial activism, of judges exceeding their constitutional authority and acting as writers of the law, rather than interpreters of it," Leman said in a statement issued late Tuesday. (Read: Christians Murdering Babies)
U.S. Senate To Vote On Late-Term Abortion Ban
Local groups and politicians disagree over a bill the U.S. Senate plans to vote on prohibiting late-term or partial-birth abortions.
Representatives for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) said Durbin would likely vote against the bill and Fitzgerald for it. Laura Miller, spokeswoman for Fitzgerald, said the senator was a co-sponsor of the upcoming bill and had long been a proponent of such legislation. She said Fitzgerald was a co-sponsor of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which extend protective rights to unborn children and those born outside the womb.
Flashback:
Pro-Life Action Must Originate from Principle
The worst offender of federalism is the so-called Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which not only indirectly surrenders the pro-life principle but actually directly undercuts the right to life by granting a specific exemption to abortionists! This exemption essentially allows some to take life with the sanction of federal law. By supporting this legislation, pro-lifers are expressly condoning a legal exemption for abortionists – showing just how far astray some in the pro-life community have gone.
Partial Birth Abortion, Republican
Heroes and The Gullible Christian
The latest news coming from Washington is that partial birth abortion "WILL BE OUTLAWED". As one who has for the last 13 years stood on the front lines in the battle for children's lives, I say, "BIG DEAL". We are a pathetic lot when we get excited over the banning of one form of execution as opposed to another. The banning of partial birth abortion will not save a single life. Not one! Large donor based "pro-life" organizations raise enormous sums of money over this non-issue because it is an easy sell to their gullible Christian donors.
Violent Protests Erupting Over Biotechnology
SAN FRANCISCO - A growing militant movement opposed to genetic engineering in agriculture and medicine is turning to violent and criminal sabotage - from the bombing of a Bay Area biotech company to the destruction of genetically modified crops. As a result, targeted companies aren't just taking extra security precautions but also often altering business strategies. The violence, which the FBI says suddenly became more serious this year, stems in part from frustration that peaceful protests have failed to slow the pace of biotech's progress.
Police: Driver Was Lucid
Though he was visibly injured in the hours following March's head-on collision that killed a pregnant West Dundee woman, Kane County detectives say Brandon Carone was lucid in conversations with them. The 19-year-old from Algonquin is charged with reckless homicide and reckless homicide of an unborn child for the March 7 crash that killed Kimberly Morvay, a 31-year-old pregnant stepmother of two young boys. Carone's Camaro crossed the Randall Road median south of Binnie Road in Dundee Township and smashed head on into Morvay's Honda as she was driving to work.
Father Accused In Infant's '99 Death
Theodore Bramwell told police that he shook and beat his 7-month-old daughter four years ago. She died several hours after the beating. 'What offense did she commit? She was, in his words, `whining and crying,' '' said prosecutor Al Guttmann.
Tape Of Nanny Is Misleading, Attorney Says
On Tuesday, a lawyer for a nanny accused of violently handling a Hollywood infant said a videotape of the caregiver and the child, which has aired repeatedly on television, is misleading. Fort Lauderdale attorney Allison Gilman said that slowing the tape, which shows Claudia Muro, 29, shaking the 5-month-old back and forth so aggressively that the baby's legs and arms whip back and forth, would likely show Muro ''playfully'' treating the infant.
Baby Taken After 16 Months
For 16 months, Carmen and Armando Alvarez raised the baby as their own daughter. When the newborn stayed up all night fighting the effects of drug addiction, Carmen cradled her in bed and held her tight. They took her to birthday parties and family reunions. The Alvarezes' children called her their sister. But on Monday, without offering any explanation, the Florida Department of Children & Families took the baby away. They said she would now live with a maternal uncle in Volusia County.
Peterson Phone Logs Shed New Light on Affair
Newly released phone records belonging to accused double murderer Scott Peterson offer a very different account of his extramarital relationship than what his lawyers and family have discussed publicly. Though Peterson's defense team and family have suggested that 28-year-old massage therapist Amber Frey was a temptress who doggedly pursued him, the records show Peterson called Frey hundreds of times, even after his wife Laci had been reported missing.
Abortion Bill's Veto Spurs Plan To Override
LANSING -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm's veto Friday of the Legislature's latest attempt to limit the abortion procedure that opponents call partial birth abortion sets the stage for an emotionally charged legislative override attempt. Granholm said the bill, approved by comfortable majorities in both the state House and Senate, is constitutionally flawed because it does not contain a "clear exception" to protect the health of the pregnant woman.
Baby Killer Sues Officer, Claiming Sexual Assault
A Toronto woman alleges in a $1 million lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by a police officer who befriended her while investigating a complaint about an abusive ex-boyfriend. In a statement of claim filed in July, the woman, referred to in the suit as "Janet Doe," alleges Toronto police Constable James Bragg used his position and access to confidential information about her situation to "prey" on her vulnerability. Doe said she had an abortion and has gotten over the breakup and alleged assault involving her ex-boyfriend. However, she said she is not over Bragg's alleged actions.