Social & Moral Issues Abortion

LEGAL ABORTION IN USA CHALLENGED BY LADY WHO STARTED IT 19 June 2003 The lady who got abortion on demand legalised in America has just filed a lawsuit to re-open her case and get the judgement overturned at the Supreme court to again ban abortion in the USA. If she succeeds, it will impact us also. America has also recently passed a ban on partial-birth abortion - killing a pregnant woman has become a double murder crime and abortionists in many states are being forced to give information to women on alternatives and the baby in the womb. It is significant that the three key people who got abortion legalised in the USA are now helping lead the fight on the pro-life side to get the law overturned. This comes at a time when the South African health department is wanting to get more hospitals and push more nurses to kill more babies. The deadline for submissions is today, but informally they will accept to the end of the month. Philip Rosenthal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CITIZEN LINK, 17 JUNE 2003 'Jane Roe' Goes to Court to Challenge Roe v. Wade By Terry Phillips, correspondent SUMMARY: The landmark case that gave us abortion is under assault in a Texas courtroom. Today in a Texas courtroom, a motion was filed to re-open Roe v. Wade, the 1970s-era case that made abortion legal. The challenge is being brought by the one person who can do so: the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, Norma McCorvey. Attorney Allan Parker, of the Justice Foundation, represents McCorvey. Because Norma was a party, she can file a motion to reopen her own case, that no one else in America could do, Parker said. The motion will include affidavits from 1,500 women testifying that they were injured by abortion. They're part of Operation Outcry/Silent No More -- a national campaign to speak the unspeakable. These women tell of tearful nights and days of agony over the regret and grief from taking the life of their own child, Parker said. Dr. Julie Parton, who heads Focus on the Family's ministry to crisis pregnancy centers, said that, until recently, most post-abortive women couldn't even name what they were experiencing as grief. They have a hard time recognizing it is that, because the world is saying, 'What's the big deal? It's over with, (you) don't need to talk about it. Just move on,' Parton said. Now, many women convey to each other the psychological injury that abortion brought them.   _______________________________________________ Please read our disclaimer   Back to Social Issues