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As of this date, 05-05-28, this folder contains 5 items. ******* item 1 SOUTH DAKOTA SENATE APPROVES PRO-LIFE BILLS LIMITING ABORTIONS ******* item 2 ILLINOIS ABORTION RATE DECLINE CREDITED TO ABSTINENCE EDUCATION ******* item 3 DENVER WOMEN COMMEND GOVERNOR FOR VETO OF EMERGENCEY CONTRACEPTION BILL ******* item 4 FUNERAL HELD FOR PRE-TERM BABY FOUND IN WASTEWATER ******* item 5 WISCONSIN ABORTION NUMBERS AT LOWEST LEVELS SINCE 1974 ***************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 1 SOUTH DAKOTA SENATE APPROVES PRO-LIFE BILLS LIMITING ABORTIONS ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Pro-Life News Report 3/2/05 #3423 ******* date Wed, 2 Mar 2005 ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. ******* Pierre, SD (LifeNews.com) -- The South Dakota state Senate on Monday approved three pro-life bills that would place additional limits on abortion in the state. The measures are expected to get the approval of pro-life Governor Mike Rounds, a Republican, once they clear the legislature. One of the bills would ban abortions in South Dakota if the Supreme Court ever overturns the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized virtually unlimited abortions. Another bill would ensure that women are provided proper information by the state's lone abortion facility on abortion's risks and dangers as well as alternatives. A third would create a 15-member panel that would study how abortion affects women. HB 1166, the abortion information bill, previously passed in the state House 58-10 and cleared the Senate on a 24-10 vote. HB 1249, the abortion ban, would make it a felony to perform abortions unless needed to prevent the death of the mother. Abortion practitioners would face two years in prison and a $2,000 fine under the measure. That measure was approved 25-9 and will be sent to Rounds for his signature. HB 1233, the abortion study measure, cleared the state House 60-8 and was backed on a 28-6 vote by the state Senate. It must return to the House for approval of minor changes. ***************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 2 ILLINOIS ABORTION RATE DECLINE CREDITED TO ABSTINENCE EDUCATION ******* Illinois Abortions Drop to Lowest Point in 30 Years ******* by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor ******* September 13, 2004 ******* Springfield, IL (LifeNews.com) -- New statistics in the state of Illinois show a whopping 10 percent drop in the number of abortions performed last year. The new numbers take the state to its lowest number of annual abortions in thirty years. ******* According to the Illinois Public Health Department, 42,228 abortions were performed in the Midwestern state last year compared with 46,945 in 2002. ******* "I have no way to explain the drop," said Tom Schafer, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Public Health told the Illinois Leader. Schafer said the drop was not due to incomplete reporting of abortion numbers. ******* Libby Gray, director of the Illinois-based Project Reality, an abstinence organization, credited abstinence education with helping to lower the abortion numbers. ******* "Since 1985, the State saw the teen birthrate drop to a 20-year low in 2000," Gray told the Leader. "Then Gov. Ryan and public health officials credited abstinence training in the state as contributing to that decline. So it's wonderful to hear abortions are also at a record low, meaning that if abortion rates have dropped and birthrates have dropped, something is changing in behavior." ******* Most abortions in Illinois occur in Chicago's Cook County, which saw an 11 percent drop from 2002 levels. Gray said 29 abstinence education groups work in Illinois and many in Cook County. ******* In 1973, 32,760 abortions were performed in Illinois, and the number has never been that low since. The highest number of Illinois abortions occurred in 1977, with 71,326 performed. ******* The new report shows that fewer college students and college-aged women in Illinois are having abortions. Half of last year's abortions involved women in their 20s and the group had the biggest decline in the number of abortions obtained. ***************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 3 DENVER WOMEN COMMEND GOVERNOR FOR VETO OF EMERGENCEY CONTRACEPTION BILL ******* Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 ******* From: [email protected] ******* DENVER, USA, April 15 (CNA) - Yesterday at the Colorado State Capitol building, over 40 people turned out at a press conference to show their support for Governor Bill Owens� decision to veto an emergency contraception bill passed by the state legislature. ******* The Catholic governor has been taking considerable heat for his decision, in which he called House Bill 1042 a violation of religious freedom. ******* Critics of the bill, including Denver�s Archbishop Charles Chaput, have said that it violates the religious freedom of hospitals, particularly Catholic ones, by forcing them to offer information on abortion to victims of rape. ******* A panel of three Denver-area women presented yesterday�s press conference. Jamila Spencer represents the Colorado Catholic Conference, Terri Polakovic, ENDOW (Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women), and Alexis Wagner, President of the University of Colorado�s Respect Life Committee also presented. ******* Wagner expressed her gratitude to the governor for his moral courage in striking down the bill, which, she noted, �offends the fundamental rights of the unborn.� ******* She also empathized with the governor�s difficult position and echoed the words of Archbishop Chaput in his February column, in which called the bill well intentioned, but seriously flawed. ******* In response to some of the more hostile reporters gathered yesterday, Spencer explained that HB 1042 �was not about educating women on emergency contraception�it was about making referrals or requiring Catholic hospitals to supply emergency contraception.� ******* She clarified the fact that emergency contraception often aborts an unborn, but conceived child. ******* �We must�, she emphasized, �allow Catholic hospitals to define pregnancy under their own terms.� ******* In cases of rape, Spencer said that �the rapist should be punished�not the child.� ******* She likewise outlined the Catholic Church�s stance saying that, �all human life is valuable. To ask the Church to choose between a woman and her child is to ask the Church to choose one life over another.� ******* �The Church will never do that,� she said. ******* Kathryn Johnson, a student at the University of Colorado Medical Center, now in her residency, commented that, �it�s really alarming that so many senators want to define for doctors how to do their work. It�s a really alarming double standard.� ******* Added Spencer: �[The bill suggests] that the state of Colorado knows better than the Catholic hospitals.� ******* �It absolutely breeds intolerance.� ***************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 4 FUNERAL HELD FOR PRE-TERM BABY FOUND IN WASTEWATER ******* Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 ******* From: [email protected] ******* SAYREVILLE, NEW JERSEY, USA, April 15 (CNA) - A funeral was held April 11 for a five-month-old fetus found at the county�s wastewater treatment plant last week, reported the Suburban Daily. ******* About 50 people attended the funeral for John Paul, named after the late Pope by Our Lady of Victories Pro-Life Group that organized the funeral. Fr. Michael Krull, pastor at Our Lady of Victories Church, conducted the funeral. ******* Janice O�Brien, chairwoman of the pro-life group and wife of Sayreville�s mayor, decided to organize the funeral when she read the news about the pre-born baby April 6. ******* Robert Latham was on duty at the Middlesex County Utilities Authority when the fetus was discovered in a bar screen used to catch large objects within the waterway. He reported the finding to authorities. ******* He said medical examiners believed a woman must have had a �spontaneous miscarriage� and flushed the fetus down the toilet. ******* �It just seems like [the mother] panicked and didn�t know what to do,� O�Brien told the newspaper. �We want this mother to be at peace and know that he is taken care of.� ******* Latham said the funeral was a �wonderful� idea. He attended, along with his wife and their six children. ******* The baby was to be buried in a part of the Catholic cemetery dedicated to infant deaths, but Fr. Krull decided to bury the fetus at the entrance of the cemetery instead, below a statue of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, as a reminder �of the beauty and dignity of life.� ***************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 5 WISCONSIN ABORTION NUMBERS AT LOWEST LEVELS SINCE 1974 ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 ******* Madison, WI (LifeNews.com) -- Thanks to pro-life legislation and education, abortion rates in Wisconsin are at their lowest levels since 1974, according to new state figures. Abortion advocates and pro-life groups disputed the reasons for the decline. According to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, there were 9,943 abortions in the state last year, less than half of the all-time high of 21,754 in 1980. In addition, the abortion rate is also less than half of its peak. Last year, there were 14 abortions for every 100 births in Wisconsin while there were 29 abortions per 100 births in 1980. The state health department also shows that there were nine abortions per 1,000 Wisconsin women in 2004 but a high of 20 per 1,000 women in 1980. Barbara Lyons, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life, told the Associated Press her group is "absolutely elated that (abortions) continue to go down." Lyons said the number of abortions is one the decline because younger state residents are more pro-life, because of television commercials her group has run directing women to crisis pregnancy centers. Lyons also cited a 1998 law requiring abortion facilities to tell women about abortion's risks and alternatives. Similar laws in other states have reduced the number of abortions by about one-third. *****************************************************************************************************************

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