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WISCONSIN PRO-LIFE GROUP WANTS TO HELP PATIENT TARGETED BY EUTHANASIA
LaCrosse, WI - Wisconsin Right to Life has filed a legal motion to attempt to intervene on the behalf of a disabled woman there who has become the target of euthanasia. The guardian of the LaCrosse women has requested the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration that could lead to a painful death similar to Terri Schiavo.  The woman is named Marilyn and in her 50s and she has had several strokes and has dementia. However, she is believed not to be terminally ill and is not dying, the pro-life group told LifeNews.com.  She is currently a patient at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center where she is being kept under sedation and is fed through the use of a feeding tube.  Marilyn has left no advance directive or instructions or otherwise indicated her wishes with respect to the withdrawal of life-preserving nutrition and hydration. That's what led to the legal dispute between Terri's family and her formal husband, who eventually won the right to have her killed.  Wisconsin Right to Life attorneys Rick Esenberg and Terry Allen Davis submitted the motion to intervene in the case for the organization. Source: Life News, August 16, 2007

VIETNAM ABORTIONS CAUSING HIGH INFERTILITY RATES THERE, STUDIES BACK DATA
Hanoi, Vietnam - The Asian nation of Vietnam is experiencing high rates of infertility among women there, which is another sign of the damage abortion causes women. The number of abortions in the communist nation is staggeringly high and government figures show one woman dies every five days from abortions there.  Dr. Le Thi Phuong Lan, deputy director of the Central Hospital for Obstetrics and Gynaecology’s Reproductive Assistance Centre, has noticed the recent infertility problems.  He commented on the case of Thu Trang, who was recently diagnosed with an obstructed ovary tube, which will prevent her from having any more children.  Trang had used a contraceptive intra-uterine device and Dr. Lan told Viet Nam News that such devices are causing the problems. He said previous figures from the government showed that the devices caused infections accounting for 40 percent of the cases of infertility last year and that the number has risen to 56 percent.  But Dr. Lan said similar problems are occurring after abortions.  He said that a survey conducted by Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City found that women who had abortions were 5.2 percent more likely to suffer from infertility. The number of women who suffered from obstructed or infected ovary tubes after having abortions accounted for 40-60% of infertility cases. Source: Life News, August 16, 2007  

RUSSIA ALLOWS CITIZENS TIME OFF TO HAVE BABIES AS UNDERPOPULATION WORSENS
Moscow, Russia - The Russian region of Ulyanovsk has a unique way to respond to the underpopulation crisis plaguing the nation as a result of years of unlimited abortions. It is allowing its citizens time off from work to make a baby and will award prizes to those who give birth on the nation's annual holiday next year.  The regional government has declared September 12 the Day of Conception and wants workers to go home and procreate.  Couples who then give birth on June 12 during the nation's holiday can win anything from cash prizes to cars to refrigerators.  Ulyanovsk, which is about 550 miles east of Moscow, has conducted similar contests since 2005, according to the Denver Post, and the number of participants and prizes awarded each year has risen.  The Russian population has been shrinking since the 1990s as abortion became a means of birth control. The nation is the largest in the world but it has just 141.4 million citizens -- less than half of the United States.  President Vladimir Putin, in May, defined the crisis as the nation's biggest problem and the government is offering hefty bonuses to women who have a second child. Source: Life News, August 16, 2007

LOUISIANA ABORTION LAW ON ULTRASOUNDS AND BABY'S PAIN GOES INTO EFFECT
Baton Rouge, LA - Louisiana is the next state to have a law go into effect that tells a woman considering an abortion that her baby will feel considerable pain during the procedure. The measure also requires abortion businesses to give women the option of seeing an ultrasound of their unborn child beforehand.  During the legislative session, Republican Rep. A.G. Crowe was the key sponsor of the bill, H.B. 25, that Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco eventually signed.  The law requires abortion practitioners to give women the information in a brochure beforehand and also tells them to offer the mother a chance to give the baby anesthesia. It applies to any abortions done after 20 weeks of pregnancy, where studies are conclusive that an abortion baby has the capacity to experience pain.  The measure also helps women by giving them a chance to see an ultrasound and learn of the development of their unborn child -- something abortion centers rarely make available.  "This enhanced informed consent bill gives women who face the desperate choice of abortion the option to view an ultrasound of their unborn child," pro-life attorney Dorinda Bordlee told LifeNews.com.  Bordlee, the director of the Bioethics Defense Fund, said the bill requires abortion practitioners to give women a statement saying, "by twenty weeks gestation, the unborn child has the physical structures necessary to experience pain."  She told LifeNews.com she encourages other states to pass similar legislation because "ultrasound and fetal pain information awakens the heroic maternal instinct by giving the mother a connection to the humanity of her child."  Source: Life News, August 16, 2007 

OHIO TEEN CHARGED WITH MURDER, KILLED GIRLFRIEND'S BABY AFTER ABORTION REFUSAL
Cincinnati, OH - An Ohio teenager accused of attacking his pregnant girlfriend and killing her unborn child after she refused to have an abortion will be charged with murder. Alfonso Price, a 15-year-old, allegedly attacked Kerria Anderson, 18, because she refused to have an abortion of her baby who Price fathered.  Price reportedly kicked Anderson, who was eight months pregnant, in the stomach and hit her causing her to miscarry the old unborn child. She planned to name her baby Precious.  Anderson was eventually able to contact authorities from an adjacent store but the baby girl wasn't able to be saved. Her skull had been fractured in the attack.  During a Wednesday court hearing, Anderson described how Price and Jebrell Wright, who is 17, lured her to an apartment and attacked her. She begged the pair to stop assaulting her but they didn't comply.  Source: Life News, August 16, 2007

BRAZIL POLL: CITIZENS OPPOSE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON ABORTION, RESULTS DISPUTED
Brasilia, Brazil - A new poll of citizens in Brazil claims that a strong majority oppose the views of the Catholic Church there, which doesn't want the nation's government to legalize abortions. However the results of the survey differ significantly with previous polls showing most Brazilians want the pro-life law retained.  The Ibope polling agency conducted interviews with 2,002 Brazilian adults in mid-May and asked: "The Catholic Church opposes abortion under any circumstance. Do you agree or disagree with this view?"  The survey showed just 41 percent sided with the Catholic Church's pro-life stance while 59 percent disagreed with it.  Ibope's polling comes nowhere close to the results of other polls on the topic of abortion -- likely because it mentioned banning all abortions. Had the poll reflected the status of the current abortion law in Brazil it would probably have come up with different results.  Source: Life News, August 16, 2007