The widower of a 35-year-old woman, LINDA BOOM of Bayside, Wisconsin, is suing a Milwaukee hospital for malpractice. After chemicals intended to kill her unborn child were instead injected into her bloodstream, within 36 hours she died from heart damage according to an autopsy performed by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s office. According to Attorney Patrick Dunphy’s statement to a jury: "IN LINDA’S MIND, DOWN SYNDROME MEANT NO LIFE."

The Health & Human Services Dept. told State Medicaid directors that RU-486, like abortions, will only be covered when a pregnancy results from rape or incest or when a woman’s life is in jeopardy: "BECAUSE THIS IS AN ABORTION DRUG, THE SAME RESTRICTIONS HAVE TO APPLY TO IT." Department spokesman Campbell Gardett stated: "THIS IS JUST TAKING THE LAW AND APPLYING IT AS WE’RE REQUIRED TO DO."

African-Americans comprise 12% of the population, but they account for 29% of all abortions. Hispanic Americans make up 11% of the population and account for 20% of the abortions. Catholics make up 31% of the population and account for 31% of all abortions. Protestants are 54% and account for 37% of abortions. Those women who profess no religion are 6% of the population, but obtain 24% of the total number of abortions. (Alan Guttmacher Institute survey published by Peter Brimelow in FORBES.)

Spanning 11 time zones from the Baltic Sea to the Bering Strait, Russia has abundant reserves of oil, gas, metals and diamonds. But one precious resource is dwindling - PEOPLE. Russia’s population has been sliding since 1993, when it numbered 148.3 million. By 2000, it was down to 145.6 million, and the government predicts it will drop below 135 million in 2016. Russia has one of the world’s lowest birthrates - 1.17 children per woman. To keep the population level, its citizens would need to have twice as many children. It has been estimated that 70 percent of all pregnancies in Russia since 1994 have ended in abortion. Abortion is provided free on demand during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to legalize abortion in 1920, and now only Romania has a greater number of abortions per live births. The Russian population is said to be shrinking by 2,500 every day.

(ABC News - 5/18/00)

Just prior to leaving office, former President Clinton proposed a federal regulation that would have stated that a newborn child is still a "FETUS’ until it is determined that the baby will live by "independently maintaining a heartbeat and respiration." Only when this determination is made is the baby considered a "CHILD." Fortunately, the Bush White House is going to eliminate the Clinton ruling. Parents will not have to fear that their newborn who is suffering from heart problems or respiratory ailments will be labeled as "FETUS DOE" while newborns are labeled as "BABY DOE."

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LIFE DECISIONS INTERNATIONAL (LDI) which organizes the nationwide boycott of companies which donate to PLANNED PARENTHOOD, announced on February 21, 2001 that TARGET had been removed from the boycott list. Says Douglas Scott, LDI President: "We at LDI are really, really picky. We require any corporation that wants to be removed from THE BOYCOTT LIST to say things in just the right way. After all, we don’t want them to have a rhetorical way out. Finally, after more than a decade as a boycott target due to its support of PLANNED PARENTHOOD, TARGET CORPORATION has been removed from the BOYCOTT LIST!!"

The plaintiffs in the two landmark Supreme Court cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the two companion cases decided on January 22, 1973 which compelled legalized abortion throughout the nation, appeared in Philadelphia on May 31, 2001 to personally file friend of the court briefs with the United States Court of Appeals. In their briefs they tell the courts why the decisions in their own landmark cases have proven to be harmful to the rights of women and why the decisions in their own cases should be overturned.

Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade) and Sandra Cano (Mary Doe of Doe v. Bolton) are filing their friend of the court briefs in the case of Donna Santa Marie, et al v. Christine Todd Whitman, et al. The Santa Marie case is a federal class action suit brought by five women (three of whom had abortions that were performed without voluntary or informed consent) who argue that NEW JERSEY’S abortion laws violate the most important constitutional rights of women. The Santa Marie plaintiffs have gained the notice of many women throughout the country who feel they were mistreated by the abortion industry, and a new women’s movement has begun behind their message.

(From THE WANDERER, June 7, 2001)

     Americans are adopting fewer babies from home and increasingly turning abroad, where infants are more readily available and adoptions can be less complicated, according to a report. More than 17 percent of children adopted by American parents in 1996 were born abroad, according to the National Council on Adoption in a report which shows that the number of foreign adoptions has more than doubled this decade. For infants, children under 2, international adoptions account for nearly a third of the total, the report says. Fueled by well-publicized horror stories, some prospective parents worry about complications with U.S. adoptions, such as when birth parents change their minds after agreeing to an adoption. Such battles often end up in court. "The attorney could simply say - and they do say: 'Hey, domestic adoption is too risky. We can get you a healthy kid from Russia or China in six months.'" said William Pierce, executive editor of the National Council for Adoption.

     Birth control and abortion powerhouse Plannd Parenthood has come under attack from Life Dynamics of Denton, Texas for distributing the remains of children aborted at its "clinics" to pharmaceutical companies and research institutes through third party companies that are responsible for the dissection and shipment of bodies. Life Dynamics says Planned Parenthood is charging "site fees" as part of "services rendered" to third-party companies, because the outright sale of fetal parts is not allowed by law. Invoices have been obtained that show orders for whole cadavers of preborn babies, as well as parts. Invoice demands require bodies and parts to be packed in ice within ten minutes of an abortion and sent overnight via shipping companies. Abortionists have been reported to have drowned, beat or suffocated infants who survived partial-birth abortions in order to use their body parts. The sale of preborn babies is potentially a lucrative business for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, with each body reported to be worth thousands of dollars on the open "market". In contrast, a simple abortion only nets $300 to $400.

     The Chinese government, faced with a demographic imbalance, an aging population, youth suicides and instances of wife selling, is rethinking its policy of one-child families. A new law on birth control, to be passed within the next three years, will allow couples to have two children. The one-child policy was begun by Mao Tse Tung in the late 1970s and was imposed with harsh sanctions in all major cities. But despite the policy, China's population still grew to 1.2 billion by 1998. Meanwhile, the population is aging, with the proportion of Chinese over 65 projected to reach 25 percent by 2050. There are over 30 million more men than women, and wives are difficult to find, which has led to the phenomenon of wife selling (19,000 such cases have been investigated in 1999). (In Taiwan, the government has started a compaign among its population declaring that "three children are not too many!" Ten years ago, it had said that two were enough.)

     Dr. Oscar Biscet, President of Lawton Foundation for Human Rights, has been an outspoken critic of human rights violations including abortion by the Castro regime. On November 16, 1998 Biscet publicly read an open letter to the United Nations, in which he said: "We honor posthumously the thousands of innocent victims who have been assimilated in this concrete pile (hospital) ... here as well as in other hospitals in Cuba. Day after day, hundreds of children are sacrificed who were never given the opportunity to receive a name, to hear a caressing word, nor feel the love of their mothers ... We say 'no' to abortion and 'yes' to life." Less than two weeks after reading that statement, Biscet was arrested, threatened and pressured to publicly retract what he had said. In response, Biscet launched a 40-day fast on behalf of Cuba on June 7, 1999.

     A recent Zogby International "American Values" poll shows the majority of Americans believe abortion is manslaughter, oppose tax-funded partial birth abortions, and support the right of parents to be notified if their minor daughter seeks an abortion. 77.7% said physicians should notify parents if an underage girl is seeking an abortion. 56.4% oppose partial birth abortion because it is "murder", except if the mother's life is in danger. 71% oppose the use of federal funds for partial birth abortions. This poll and other recent polls reveal a continuing trend supporting the pro-life positions on matters which have been before the Congress, state legislatures, and the courts for more than two decades.

     "Watch for a well-organized, stealthy attempt by the anti-adoption movement to eliminate confidentiality of adoption procedures. Under 'open records' laws being pushed in Maryland, Missouri, Oregon and other states, adopted children would be able to seek out their birth mothers and vice versa. (Tennessee has already enacted a law, now tied up in court.) When Great Britain adopted such a law, infant placements dropped 70% in ten years. Already, fears about future protection of records are causing some families to adopt overseas. A lot more American children will languish in foster care - or be snuffed out in the womb - if adoption loses its legal protections."