Catholic and pro-life groups said this week they will protest outside of the cathedral in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Sunday during a Mass celebrating the anniversaries of the diocese and the consecration of the bishop. Leaders of the pro-life group Operation Rescue said they are concerned that Democrat Edward M. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts, has been invited to attend, despite Kennedy’s longtime support of pro-abortion legislation.
After performing a botched abortion that killed a young woman, being tried for murder, convicted of involuntary manslaughter and eventually sentenced to six months in county jail, abortionist Bruce Steir is being released more than two months early for good behavior, WorldNetDaily reports. https://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosterj_news/20000916_xnfoj_jailed_abo.shtml
The Tennessee Supreme Court struck down portions of the state’s abortion law Friday, including a two-day waiting period and mandatory counselling, as overly burdensome to women. The other provisions that were held unconstitutional required that all second-trimester abortions take place in a hospital instead of a clinic, and established medical-emergency exceptions to the waiting period and counseling rule. https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000915/us/abortion_tennessee_2.html