UNBORN MAY FEEL PAIN AS EARLY AS 20 WEEKS As U.S. pro-life groups launches a campaign next week to bring a ban on late-term abortions back to Congress, a new study out of Great Britain shows that the unborn child may feel pain as early as 20 weeks. https://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,33437,00.html
WOMEN HAD ABORTIONS IN RESPONSE TO JOB LOSS THREATS Union officials and legal counsel are coming to the aid of a Washington D.C. medical worker who aborted her child for fear of losing her job. The young woman and other rookies were told by a top official from the fire department’s Emergency Medical Services that they would be fired if they became pregnant or took medical leave. At least 10 other women in the same department have recounted incidents where officials discriminated against them because of pregnancy. https://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&ArticleID=20010830-61175687
EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS NO BETTER THAN ADULT CELLS The president of the German Pharmaceutical Industry Association says that there is no proven benefit to using embryonic stem cells over adult cells in developing new medications. https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=9319
NETSCAPE FOUNDER SUSPENDS BIG DONATION TO LAB American billionaire Jim Clark, founder of internet companies such as Netscape and WebMD, has suspended a $60m donation for a bio-medical lab at Stanford University to protest Bush’s restrictions on stem cell research and cloning. https://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_1520000/1520448.stm
PRO-ABORTION MILITANT SEN. KENNEDY TO GO AFTER BUSH OVER STEM CELLS President Bush’s decision to limit embryonic stem cell research will likely come under fire this week when Sen. Edward Kennedy heads a congressional panel investigating the availability and accessibility of existing embryonic stem cell lines. https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=Politicsarchive