American president Bill Clinton’s Justice Department has interfered in a local religious freedom vs. homosexual rights issue, filing a brief in favour of an ordinance that the appellant says would force him to “hire openly homosexual persons in violation of his religious beliefs.”
An American father is trying to get custody of his unborn child. So far, however, he has been unsuccessful with Judge Robert P. Doherty ruling that the question of custody does not exist until the child is born. Focus on the Family disagrees with this decision.
The abortion pill RU-486 may be approved for U.S. consumers by way of an executive order in the final days of Bill Clinton’s presidency, Conservative News Service has suggested today.
The anti-euthanasia group, Not Dead Yet, has announced a rally it is holding on Saturday, September 2, outside the Boston Park Plaza Hotel where a Hemlock Foundation-sponsored conference, “Assisted Dying in the New Millennium-An International Perspective” is taking place from September 1-4. Contact is Diane Coleman at 708-209-1500; [email protected] or Amy Hasbrouck at 617-349-4692 (v); 492-0235 (tty); or [email protected]
Leading American euthanasia practitioner, Jack Kevorkian had yet another motion to be released from prison for health reasons rejected by the judge. He is serving a 10 to 25 years in prison for administering a lethal injection to a Michigan man.