When Ann Norton refused to remove an anti-abortion sign containing a color photo of a bloody, aborted female child's head being held by surgical equipment, a passerby tore the sign from its backing. A Kalamazoo police officer was dispatched to the scene. To Ann's surprise, instead of taking action against the passerby, she was threatened with arrest for violating Section 75-038 of the Michigan Penal Code, a criminal law that prohibits the public display of pictures of murder. Norton called the Thomas More Law Center, which promptly filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on her behalf challenging the constitutionality of the Michigan law as it applied to her sign and seeking damages against the police officers for violating her First Amendment rights. As a result of this suit and as part of a settlement with the City of Kalamazoo, Norton agreed to dismiss her claims for damages against the individual police officers. In turn, the City agreed to pay North $650 as part of this settlement. According to Norton, a portion of the money from the City will be used to purchase several new pro-life signs to aid her in future anti-abortion protests outside of the PLANNED PARENTHOOD abortion facility in Kalamazoo.

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PLANNED PARENTHOOD, an aggressive promoter of abortion on demand both here in the U. S. and around the world, offered its supporters the opportunity to send a Mother's Day "e-card" to moms as a way of showing support for "family planning." Says Ed Szymkowiak, National Director of STOPP INTERNATIONAL: "OVER 3 MILLION CHILDREN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEND THEIR MOTHER'S A CARD THIS MOTHER"S DAY BECAUSE THEY WERE ABORTED AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS, YET PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS RUNNING A HYPOCRITICAL MOTHER'S DAY E-CARD CAMPAIGN THAT INCLUDES THE OPTION OF MAKING A DONATION TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN SOMEONE'S HONOR. PLANNED PARENTHOOD WILL EXPLOIT ANYTHING FOR A BUCK."

On Easter weekend, the "Washington Post" published a lengthy feature on two deaf lesbians who had deliberately sought a deaf sperm donor so they could genetically engineer a baby to be born deaf. These women were successful. Their son, Gauvin is totally deaf in one ear and is hearing impaired in the other.

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WorldNetDaily reported in March that doctors who perform abortions could be held legally liable if they fail to inform their patients of the link between abortion and breast cancer. A North Dakota lawsuit against an abortion clinic seeks to force the clinic personnel to inform women about their increased risk of breast cancer if they abort their children. The COALITION ON ABORTION/BREAST CANCER says that 28 of 37 studies "SHOW A LINK BETWEEN ABORTION AND BREAST CANCER," yet most abortionists refuse to advise their clients of the risks.

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Cybercast News Service (CNS) reported on March 8th that Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift has just signed legislation that will force pro-life groups to provide contraceptive devices as part of their health care coverage for employees. The "Contraceptive Coverage Law" will require businesses to provide Hormone Replacement Therapy and contraceptive drugs, devices and services. Marie Sturgiss with the Massachusetts Citizens for Life is angered by this legislation. "THIS DOES AFFECT MCFL. HERE WE ARE A PRO-LIFE GROUP AGAINST ABORTION AND WE’RE GOING TO BE FORCED TO HAVE THIS VERY THING PROVIDED FOR IN OUR HEALTH PLANS FOR OUR EMPLOYEES. THAT’S HOW LUDICROUS THIS THING IS."

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Chuck Colson has recently publicized the effort of the ACLU to require Christian-operated hospitals to perform abortions. The ACLU claims that access to abortions is "increasingly jeopardized by the imposition of religious beliefs in the health care context." In short, in the opinion of the ACLU, a religious hospital is "imposing" its religion upon clients when it fails to kill unborn children. The ACLU maintains that if a hospital provides services to the public, it should be required to perform abortions.

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Handing the assisted-suicide movement a major victory, a federal judge ruled that the Justice Department cannot interfere with the state’s law allowing doctors to help terminally ill people kill themselves. (Oregon is the only state that allows assisted suicide. Earlier this year, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a statement declaring that Oregon’s assisted suicide law violated the Controlled substances Act by permitting individuals to dispense federally controlled substances for the purpose of facilitating suicide. The Controlled Substances Act says that federally controlled substances may only be prescribed for "legitimate medical purposes." ) U. S. District Judge Robert Jones said Oregon voters decided "not once, but twice" to support the law and "have chosen to resolve the moral, legal and ethical debate on physician-assisted suicide for themselves." Assistant Attorney General Robert McCallum said the Justice Department remains convinced that "assisting suicide is not medicine." "Physicians pledge a sacred oath to preserve health, heal disease, relieve pain and not to terminate lives with deadly drugs," McCallum said. Ashcroft said no decision has been made on whether to appeal.

A paralyzed woman who wants doctors to remove the ventilator that keeps her alive has a right to die, a British judge ruled. "LIFE IN THAT CONDITION MAY BE WORSE THAN DEATH" said the judge. The case was apparently the first in Britain in which a mentally competent patient had applied for the right to terminate life-sustaining treatment. "SHE IS CLEARLY A SPLENDID PERSON, AND IT IS TRAGIC THAT SOMEONE OF HER ABILITY HAS BEEN STRUCK DOWN SO CRUELLY," said Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, president of the court’s family division. "I HOPE SHE WILL FORGIVE ME FOR SAYING. . . THAT IF SHE DID RECONSIDER HER DECISION, SHE WOULD HAVE A LOT TO OFFER THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE." The hospital said it did not plan to appeal the decision.

(The Associated Press - London)

A guest chaplain who offered a prayer in the Colorado State Senate is under attack for his pro-life prayer. Pastor David Meek of Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church in Greeley offered the following prayer: "I PRAY, LORD, HELP THIS GREAT STATE OF COLORADO TO BE A LEADER, TO BE A REAL LEADER, LORD JESUS, AND LORD, EVEN TO REVERSE THE ROE V. WADE SO WE CAN STOP THE KILLING AND MURDER OF THE INNOCENT LITTLE BABIES." Senators Stephanie Takis, Bob Hagedorn, Penfield Tate, and Mary Ellen Epps walked out of his prayer in protest.

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Lisa Klassen, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student at Central Elgin Collegiate Institute in St. Thomas, Ontario, was sent home at the end of October 2001 after she wore a sweatshirt to school that read "ABORTION IS MEAN." The back of her shirt said, "YOU WILL NOT MOCK MY GOD. YOU WILL STOP KILLING MY GENERATION." Principal Ele Gibling had previously warned Lisa she would be suspended if she wore the shirt again. "THE PRINCIPAL TOLD ME ABORTION IS A VERY CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE AND OTHER STUDENTS FIND MY SHIRT OFFENSIVE." The teen says.. "SHE WOULD NOT SAY HOW MANY COMPLAINTS SHE GOT." But Lisa believes she has the right to express her opinion. A lawyer at her evangelical church offered to help her protect her rights. Lisa also accuses the school of enforcing the dress code selectively. "I’VE SEEN KIDS WEARING (SHOCK ROCKER) MARILYN MANSON SHIRTS, AND T-SHIRTS WITH BEER SLOGANS." Following the suspension, 50 of Lisa’s classmates held a protest at the school - many wearing shirts with similar pro-life messages. .

(The National Report - 12/3/2001)

State social services in California announced that they will spend $500,000 to publicize a law that they will spend $500,000 to publicize a law that allows parents to abandon their newborns at hospitals without fear of prosecution. The law took effect January 1, 2001, but before now the state had done little to publicize it. The law provides that within 72 hours of a baby’s birth, parents can leave the child with employees at a public or private hospital without facing prosecution. The money will be used to weave messages about the baby abandonment law into existing public service campaigns, as well as to develop a new publicity campaign in four to six months aimed specifically at the baby abandonment law. Officials cited baby abandonment statistics from last year as an indication the law needs to be better publicized. In 2001, four babies were left at hospitals statewide, while seven were abandoned and found alive and two were found dead.

The National Abortion Rights League (NARAL) is engaged in an all-out war against crisis pregnancy clinics in New York. NARAL has teamed up with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to harass crisis pregnancy centers. In California, NARAL’s chapter has just held a strategy conference to teach pro-aborts how to infiltrate and destroy pro-life clinics. The California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (CARAL claims that pro-life centers are designed to "limit access to abortion" for women. CARAL is urging pro-abortionists to spy on the clinics.

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A recent study by the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH reported that condoms provide no guarantee against becoming infected by the most serious sexually-transmitted diseases. The government study demonstrated that consistent and correct use of condoms still had a failure rate of 15% for transmitting AIDS, and that there is no evidence that condoms prevent any HPV (Human papillomavirus) transmission, the cause of more than 90% of all cases of cervical cancer, which kills more American women each year than AIDS. Condoms were found between 49% and 100% effective in preventing the spread of gonorrhea in men, but no effect was found for women. And an array of other serious diseases - chlamydia, chancroid, trichomoniasis, syphilis, and genital herpes, showed no reduction with condom use.

(RIGHT TO LIFE OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY Newsletter - December 2001)

The evidence is now overwhelming that the standard so-called "birth control pills" actually have abortifacient properties, i.e., they operate post-conception, and prevent implantation of the newly-created embryo in the womb, thereby causing an abortion. If there were any doubt, it is removed by a simple reference to the wrappers published by the manufacturers themselves, that come with the pills as they are sold in their packages at the drugstore. The language on the wrappers contains a paragraph: "Clinical Pharmacology:, which describes the function of the pills, intended to suppress ovulation, and intended to cause change in the cervical mucus which increases the difficulty of sperm entry into the uterus, but also causes "changes in the endometrium which reduce the likelihood of implantation." The identical language is contained in all of the birth control manufacturers’ literature, including LOOVRAL, YASMIN, LOESTRIN, ORTHO-NOVUM, ORTHOCEPT, ORHO-TRI-CYCLEN, and LEVLEN. Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 6th Edition, defines "conception" as "the union of the male sperm with the ovum of the female," and defines "contraception" as "the prevention of conception." Hence, chemicals which act post-conception are, inescapably, abortifacient. As pointed out by Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth, Principal Research Associate of the Harvard University of Medical School, "It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception when the egg and sperm join to from the zygote, and that the developing human always is a member of our species in all stages of its life. There is not one medical text in use in one medical school in this country that teaches to the contrary."

(RIGHT TO LIFE OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY Newsletter - December 2001)

In New Jersey’s first embryo-custody case, the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman and against her ex-husband who had asked that their frozen embryos be kept in storage so he could use them with another woman or donate them to an infertile couple, according to the Associated Press. The court ruled August 14, 2001 that the embryos could not be implanted into another woman without the ex-wife’s consent, the AP reported. But in its 7-0 decision, the court also held that the ex-husband be allowed to decide whether they should be kept in storage or destroyed.

(NATIONAL RTL NEWS - September 2001)