(AP) - In this undated file photo released by his supporters, blind activist Chen Guangcheng is seen in a village in China. A Chinese court, citing inadequate evidence, overturned the guilty verdict of a blind activist who was sentenced to more than four years in prison after documenting claims of forced abortions, his lawyer said Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006. Chen Guangcheng was convicted in August and sentenced to four years and three months in prison for damaging property and ‘organizing a mob to disturb traffic’ after a trial in eastern Shandong province.(AP Photo/Supporters of Chen Guangcheng, HO)
The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Covington, Ky., last week wrote a letter to priests saying they should have “no involvement” with the antiabortion group Right to Life of Northern Kentucky, and “[n]o one is saying exactly what caused the split,” the [click link for full article]
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NEWS RELEASE – 31 October 2006
This afternoon, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries’ Bill to reduce…
Nicaragua’s Asamblea Nacional, the national Legislature, on Thursday voted 52-0 with nine abstentions and 29 not present to pass a bill that would ban abortion in all cases, and Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos is expected to sign the measure into law, the New York Times reports (Lacey, New York Times, 10/27). [click link for full article]
In this week’s BMJ, a senior doctor raises serious concerns over abortion law in the US state of South Dakota.Earlier this year, South Dakota passed a bill which bans virtually all abortions in the state except for circumstances in which the procedure is necessary to “prevent the death of the mother.” Under this new legislation, doctors face prosecution for the termination of any pregnancy in which maternal death is not clearly averted by its performance. [click link for full article]
