Pro-Life News in Brief.World's Tiniest Premature Baby Born in England The world's smallest surviving premature baby, born in London 16 weeks early and weighing only 21.14 ounces, is now six months old and is a healthy nine pounds. Christopher Williams The name Christopher Williams may refer to:
"When I first saw Christopher I just burst out crying," his mother Leona told the Guardian. "He was so tiny that I didn't know how long I would have him for. Every day was a milestone, and every night I prayed that he would make it through the night." The previous record-holder was James Elgin Gill of Canada, who was born 128 days premature and weighing 21.84 ounces. Christopher underwent weeks of oxygen therapy and had two hernia operations, spending the first five months of his life in the hospital. But his mother said he is doing very well. "I look at him now and I can't believe he's the same Christopher," Leona Williams told the Guardian. "He's just a bouncing baby boy with the sweetest nature. "I just want to do everything I can to make sure the rest of his life is easy now." Abortion Ship to Launch in June The first voyage of the abortion ship is scheduled to begin at the end of June, with Dublin, Ireland, as its first port of call, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the London Times. The ship will moor 12 miles off the Irish coast and abortionists on board will kill unborn babies in violation of Ireland's pro-life laws. Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a Dutch physician, leads the Women on Waves Women on Waves is a non-profit, pro-choice organization created in 1999 by Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts. The stated goals of the organization are to raise awareness and stimulate discussion about laws regarding abortion which they allege to be restrictive, as well as to provide Foundation, which funds the abortion ship. The ship is registered in the Netherlands, whose liberal pro-abortion laws will be followed as the ship will be moored in international waters. In addition to abortion, the ship will provide abortion information and training for doctors, according to the Times. "If [Gomperts] breaks the law, she will have to be dealt with," pro-life Irish politician Mildred Fox Mildred Fox (born 17 June, 1971) was an Irish independent politician and Teachta Dála (TD) for Wicklow from 1995–2007. During the 1997–2002 Dáil she gained some notability as she, and other independent TD's, supported the government which otherwise would not have had an told the Times. "If she is providing information, she's not providing any service that isn't already there. "But if she is actually carrying out abortions, you have to ask - - what's next? Can we have a ship from the Netherlands selling drugs 12 miles offshore or carrying out euthanasia?" Pro-abortion groups in Ireland invited Gomperts to bring the ship to their country, and "are planning an extensive publicity campaign around its appearance, including celebrity, legal, and medical endorsement," the Times reported. But pro-lifers are equally determined to prevent the abortion ship from spreading its message of death to Ireland. "We are not going to allow Women on Waves to achieve the publicity they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ," pro-life leader John Smyth John Smyth may be:
In addition to its stop in Dublin, the abortion ship may also sail to Cork and Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. , the Times reported. Biskind Sentenced to Five Years in Prison Arizona abortionist abortionist /abor·tion·ist/ (ah-bor´shun-ist) one who performs abortions. John Biskind received a five-year jail sentence jail sentence jail n → peine f de prison and $12,841.40 fine May 4 for his role in the 1998 botched-abortion death of patient LouAnne Herron. A Maricopa County jury convicted Biskind, 75, of manslaughter in February. According to the Arizona Republic, Judge Michael Wilkinson told Biskind during the sentencing hearing that the conviction was not "a political statement about abortion," but rather "about your indifference to whether LouAnne Herron lived or died." Biskind punctured Herron's uterus while aborting her 23- to 26-week-old unborn baby on April 17, 1998, the Republic reported. He left the A-Z Women's Center without getting Herron emergency care even though she was bleeding profusely pro·fuse adj. 1. Plentiful; copious. 2. Giving or given freely and abundantly; extravagant: were profuse in their compliments. and complaining of pain. An autopsy revealed that Herron's uterus had a two-inch by 3/4-inch tear, and that she lost two to three liters of blood. Michael Gibbs, Herron's father, addressed Biskind at the sentencing hearing, saying, "You could walk out of the clinic and leave my daughter bleeding and go to the tailor. Way to go." Speaking just before he was sentenced, Biskind told Herron's family he was sorry for her death, the Republic reported. "My heart went into my shoes when I was told she had no pulse and no heartbeat," Biskind said. "I really ran away, and for what reason, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. ." Also convicted for her involvement in Herron's death was clinic administrator Carol Stuart-Schadoff. Convicted of a lesser charge of negligent homicide in a joint trial with Biskind, Stuart-Schadoff received a sentence of four years' probation, a monetary fine, 500 hours of community service, and a ban on working in the medical field. Michigan Abortionist Agrees to Plea Bargain plea bargain n. in criminal procedure, a negotiation between the defendant and his attorney on one side and the prosecutor on the other, in which the defendant agrees to plead "guilty" or "no contest" to some crimes, in return for reduction of the severity of the for Late-Term Abortion late-term abortion Post-viability abortion Medical ethics Any abortion performed after the fetus would be viable if delivered to a nonspecialized health center. See Partial birth abortion. Avoiding a trial for performing an illegal late-term abortion, abortionist Jose Higuera pled guilty May 7 to a lesser charge of falsifying fal·si·fy v. fal·si·fied, fal·si·fy·ing, fal·si·fies v.tr. 1. To state untruthfully; misrepresent. 2. a. medical records. He is expected to receive a sentence of probation. Denying that politics played a part in the plea-bargain agreement, Chris DeWitt, spokesman for state Attorney General Jennifer Granholm, told the Detroit News, "The penalties are the same for both charges, and by pleading guilty to altering records, his medical license is automatically revoked. Any time you take a case to trial, there are risks of not getting a conviction." "The only good that comes out of this is that he will no longer be practicing in Michigan," said Pam Sherstad, spokeswoman for Right to Life of Michigan. Higuera, who no longer lives in Michigan or practices medicine, performed a two-day abortion procedure on an unidentified woman in his Highland Park clinic on October 14-15, 1994, the Detroit Free Press The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep". Some still refer to it locally as "The Friendly" -- a slogan from an ad campaign in the '70s. reported. Despite ultrasounds that determined the unborn baby's gestational age ges·ta·tion·al age n. See estimated gestational age. Gestational age The estimated age of a fetus expressed in weeks, calculated from the first day of the last normal menstrual period. was 28 weeks, prosecutors charged that Higuera changed the woman's medical file to falsely show the baby's age to be 24 weeks, according to the Free Press. Michigan law bans abortions after viability except if the mother's health is endangered. The legal definition of viability--when the unborn baby can survive outside the womb--is usually considered to begin after 24 weeks' gestation. According to court documents, the woman told prosecutors that she wanted the abortion for "purely personal reasons and she was aware of no medical need supporting an abortion.">EN |
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