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PrintISRAELI JUDGE RULES ON LANDMARK RIGHT-TO-DIE CASE
TODAY'S HEADLINES
TEL AVIV (CWN) - An Israeli judge ruled on Sunday that the parents of a terminally-ill boy could refuse life-prolonging surgery for their son who will eventually die from kidney disease anyway.
District Judge Uri Goren overturned a lower court order that said the 8-year-old boy, who is severely mentally retarded, must receive the surgery. "I have no doubt that if the child could talk he would want to be released from the hard life that was forced on him through no fault of his own, "Goren said, according to the newspaper Haaretz.
Back to TopSOUTH AFRICA'S SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT
CAPE TOWN (LSN) - Since the legalization of abortion on February 1st of this year over 7,000 South Africans have had their children killed by abortion. Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma proudly announced the morbid news proporting that women were saved from trying to obtain unsafe pregnancies.
"So far, 7,069 women have terminated pregnancies up to June 1997," Zuma told reporters. Doctors and nurses repulsed by the horror of abortion refused to partake in the slaughter causing delays in the implementation of the "Termination of Pregnancy Act" in at least three provinces. "Travelling teams of staff that terminate pregnancies are being considered to meet the needs of women," Zuma said.
HOPE FOR A CURE FOR BIRTH DEFECTS
LEEDS (LSN) - English scientists said on Tuesday that they are getting closer to discovering the causes of some of the most common birth defects. The research has produced a new vitamin "insistol", which could prevent spina bifida in newborns, for the 30 percent of women for whom folic acid is ineffective.
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