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NORWAY RELEASES ABORTION STATS: 13,500 BABIES KILLED IN 2002 http://www.spuc.org.uk/index.htm   SLOVAK COALITION GOVERNMENT SPLIT OVER ABORTION http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?rub=online&cl=12573   UN POPULATION FUND BOASTS OF RECEIVING AMERICAN FUNDS DESPITE BAN http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2626044 WHITE HOUSE UNDERCUTS CONSERVATIVE AIDS EFFORTS http://www.frc.org/?i=WU03D26   WEBSITE DEDICATED TO EXPOSING MICHAEL MOORE DUPLICITY Provides details claiming that Michael Moore, who received best documentary Academy Award, “invented facts, fabricated events, staged scenes, or doctored the depiction of what actually happened.”  http://www.revoketheoscar.com   CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION UPDATED STATEMENT ON HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOPE http://www.cathmed.org/homosexuality_and_hope9-4-02.htm   BRITISH COLUMBIA PARENTS AND TEACHERS FOR LIFE http://www.bcptl.org/
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INDIAN ABORTIONIST CAUGHT SELLING BABIES

NEW DELHI, April 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Ish Aggarwal, who runs a nursing home in Uttam Nagar where she performs abortions, has been arrested for selling babies.  In a sting operation police sent a woman to pose as one interested in paying for a child.  Once the deal was nearing completion police raided the nursing home.  Officials say that when abortions are too dangerous (late term) Aggarwal encouraged her patients usually poor parents or single mothers to give up their children.  Allegedly, Aggarwal would then falsify birth papers to make it seem as if the woman purchasing the child […]
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MICHIGAN ABORTION ACTIVISTS CHALLENGE LAW BANNING ABORTION PRE-PAYMENTS

GRAND RAPIDS, April 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Michigan law which was to come into effect this month has been challenged by the legal arm of the pro-abortion movement.  The law, which forbids prepayment for abortions, was designed to keep women from being financially bound to abortion providers. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights has challenged the law and a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge John O’Meara is scheduled for April 25.  Legislation prohibiting prepayment for abortions was introduced in the Michigan legislature to clarify the meaning of “abortion-related services” in the Informed Consent law. The legislation was […]
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HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS FRUSTRATED IN ATTEMPT TO ATTACK SANTORUM

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com)  Powerful homosexual activists groups have been frustrated in their attempts to malign U.S. Senator Rick Santorum over his statements regarding the Supreme Court case on the Texas sodomy law. The Associated Press reported Santorum saying, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.”  Family Research Council President Ken Connor said “The Human Rights Campaign’s attack […]
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PRO-ABORTION GROUP CLAIMS “ONLY 20%” OF CANADIAN HOSPITALS DO ABORTIONS http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=19F36A41-F788-458A-9A7D-730EC9D4BDBF COURT STRIKES DOWN FLORIDA LAW ON ADOPTION RULES Adoption groups praised the ruling since they said the law encouraged abortions.  It required mothers who wished to put their children up for adoption to publish in the newspaper their names, ages and the name of the father of the child or names of potential fathers if she was unsure.  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030424/ap_on_re_us/publishing_adoptions_8   COLORADO SPRINGS WITHDRAWS HOMOSEXUAL PARTNER BENEFITS http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030423/ap_on_re_us/brf_benefits_withdrawn_2 TEACHERS UNION FORCED TO DIVERT PROFS DUES TO NON-PRO-ABORTION CHARITY http://www.pacificjustice.org/press/2003/pr042303.htm   FTC SUES MAN OVER PORNOGRAPHIC SPAM http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0025643.html
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INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ‘ELECTS’ PROSECUTOR

UNITED NATIONS, April 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, Luis Moreno Ocampo of Argentina was officially ‘elected’ as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).  A press release from the United Nations on the election notes that the election of Ocampo was unanimous with 78 members voting.  However, the release fails to mention that Ocampo was the only candidate for the position.  LifeSite reported on March 24 that Ocampo had been selected to be prosecutor in a secret meeting of the ICC’s steering committee.  The term of office of the newly elected Prosecutor will commence on June 16, 2003. Ocampo […]
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