Pro-Life Today | 14 October 2008
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'Eugenic abortion': with pre-natal testing, 9 in 10 Down Syndrome babies aborted
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37421
CNS News
In 1972, a year before the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, virtually all children with trisomy 21, or Down syndrome, were born. Less than a decade later, with the widespread availability of pre-natal genetic testing, as many as 90 percent of women whose babies were pre-natally diagnosed with the genetic condition chose to abort the child. The practice has been described by one physician as "eugenic abortion."
Biohazard bag baby's death blamed on unlicensed staff
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/
World Net Daily
A civil lawsuit is being launched in the Florida case of a baby girl who survived an abortion procedure but promptly was shoved into a chemical-laden biohazard bag where police found the body nine days later. Officials with the Thomas More Society of Chicago say they have begun work with Florida lawyer Tom Pennekamp Jr. on the case stemming from the 2006 death of Shanice Denise Osbourne. A funeral is scheduled tomorrow for the infant, 27 months after she survived an abortion at the A Gyn Diagnostic Center in Hialeah, Fla. In front of her shocked mother and a stunned clinic worker, "Shanice was stuffed into a medical waste bag filled with chlorine bleach just after she was delivered alive by abortion clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez," the non-profit legal group said. "This all took place without any licensed medical personnel (doctors or even nurses) in attendance." Although investigators previously have told WND they were pursuing criminal counts for Shanice's death, no charges have yet been filed. The charges apparently have been delayed or prevented because of the abortion procedure.
Merck's combination children's vaccine linked to convulsions
http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/index.php?cmd=news.article&articleID=1907
Republic Broadcasting
Children who take Merck's combination vaccine ProQuad suffer from convulsions twice as frequently as children who are given two separate vaccines, a federally funded study has found. In response, the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has reversed its prior position of recommending ProQuad, which protects against measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and chicken pox, over two separate vaccines for chicken pox and MMR.
