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Tuesday October 14, 1997
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PrintCHINA DISPLAYS ITS MURDEROUS APPARATUS
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BEIJING, Oct 14 (LSN) - At a population conference in Beijing, China unveiled a new device for expediting the crime of abortion. A mobile abortion clinic was presented with pride, complete with bed, body clamp and suction pumps. China plans to send 600 such white vans around the country to kill their children. At the conference, with some 1,400 delegates from around the world, Western experts reported that China commonly used coercion to force mothers to abort their children. Yves Blayo, a French researcher at the Institut National D'Etudes Demographiques, said that family planning officials scoured neighbourhoods to find pregnant women. ``If someone is pregnant but has no permit she would be put into a truck and dragged into a hospital to have an abortion,'' he said in an interview. Chinese government officials denied the forced abortions, going so far as to posit, ``The government criticizes people who give women coercive abortion''. (Zheng Xiaoying of Beijing University's Institute of Population Research)
Back to TopCLINTON VETOES ABORTION BAN, CONGRESS MAY WAIT ON OVERRIDE
Catholic World News Oct 13, 1997
WASHINGTON, DC (CWN) - President Bill Clinton vetoed a proposed ban on partial-birth abortions on Friday as he had promised, and congressional supporters of the bill said they plan on waiting for an override until next year.
The reason for the delay is that the proximity of the 1998 congressional elections could force some representatives and senators who might be on the fence about the override to contemplate the backlash possible on the politically-charged issue. The House voted for the ban with a large enough margin to win an override, but the Senate was two or three votes short of guaranteeing an override according to Republican leaders.
Clinton said he opposed the ban because it did not offer enough exceptions including one for any pregnancy that affects the health of the mother. But the American Medical Association and other medical experts had already thrown their support behind the current bill, saying the procedure is never medically necessary to safe the health or life of the mother.
A SAD MILESTONE REACHED IN CANADA
Common-law couples increase: census
OTTAWA (CP) - Statistics Canada today released its report on marital status, common-law unions and marriages. Figures from the 1996 census show that single-parent families exceeded the one-million mark for the first time. Moreover, in the last 5 years, the number of common-law families increased 28 per cent and families headed by a single parent grew by 19 per cent.
One in four families is now said to be either common-law or single parent. This brought the percentage of children living in a household with unmarried parents up a staggering 52 percent.
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