News

* The Ontario election has been called for June 3. The only pro-life party contesting the election is the Family Coalition Party.

* An April 13 deal cut between the Markham-Stoufville Hospital and eight pro-life nurses was finally approved by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) last week. The nurses were seeking compensation for being forced out of their jobs for refusing to participate in abortion for religious reasons.

* A three judge panel of the Sixth U-S Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has ruled that a law requiring parental consent for abortion in Tennessee for those under 18 can go ahead.

* A group of pro-abortion US Senators announced yesterday that they would be fighting to restore funding to UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), one of the most militant pro-abortion arms of the United Nations.