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This AP news blurb appeared yesterday in The Seattle Times:
ABERDEEN, Wash.—An Aberdeen doctor who admitted misconduct with an abortion will keep his license under an agreement with Washington regulators.
The Aberdeen Daily World reports Dr. John Eiland will pay a $3,000 fine, attend ethics training and be on probation for three years.
He’s an obstetrician and gynecologist with the Grays Harbor Women’s Clinic.
The state Health Department accused him in February of having an improper relationship with a co-worker in 2006 when he worked at Providence Centralia Hospital. Investigators said he performed an abortion on the woman when she became pregnant. He failed to refer her to another doctor or keep records of her treatment.
So Eiland violated the fraternization rules of the Catholic hospital where he worked — that much is clear.
But it also appears that in the eyes of the state Health Department, there would have been no additional “misconduct” on Eiland’s part if he had merely allowed another doctor to kill his unborn child instead of doing it himself and sweeping it under the rug.
December 15, 1992—League Directors Joe and Ann Scheidler attend “A Christmas Night in Vienna,” a party at Chicago’s Drake Hotel, hosted by Apostolatus Uniti and National Rosaries for Peace and Life, headed up by Robert Zeiner. Ann (pictured left) is surprised when she is presented with the Angel Award for her tireless work on behalf of the unborn.
Cook County Jail in Chicago is notorious as a place you don’t want to be. It is overcrowded, housing more than twice the number of inmates it is designed to hold.
About 800 of the nearly 10,000 inmates are women. Over the past year and a half, 325 of those women were pregnant during their stay at Cook County, and a dozen gave birth while incarcerated.
In the past there have been reports of women being handcuffed while giving birth at Cook County’s Stroger Hospital, which prompted a class action lawsuit against the county. [Continue reading ...]
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal starts out talking about a pregnant surrogate mother from Bulgaria in a hospital on the Greek island of Crete planning to deliver a baby whose biological mother is an anonymous European egg donor and whose father is Italian.
The arrangement is being coordinated by PlanetHospital, which WSJ describes as “a California company that searches the globe to find the components for its business line. The business, in this case, is creating babies.”
Hence the article’s title, “Assembling the Global Baby.”
CEO, Rudy Rupak boasts that PlanetHospital’s we-do-it-all approach to surrogacy can be likened to a “concierge service.” [Continue reading ...]
December 14, 1987—A 4-4 United States Supreme Court ruling on parental notice and waiting periods prior to procuring abortions sends the 1983 Illinois parental notification law back to the lower court as unenforceable. League Director Joe Scheidler denounces the decision in interviews with INS News, CBS News, WLS radio, WXRT, WPI, WGN-TV and WBBM radio, but expresses optimism that the court will one day rule in favor of life.
League Executive Director Eric Scheidler and Bryan Kemper of Stand True protesting abortion in Dublin
Hilary White writes from Ireland that “D-day for Ireland’s pro-life laws looms: urgent prayers requested.”
The facts are even more sinister than Miss White reveals in her call for prayers. The decision this Thursday could, and will, if passed, introduce an evil we can hardly imagine. It could, for the first time ever, be a step towards establishing abortion as an internationally recognized “human right.”
Ireland has been one of only three European countries that have banned abortion, the others being Poland and the tiny Malta.
Leading abortion opponents have seen a disaster coming for some time, ever since Ireland joined eleven other countries in the Single European Act some years ago. Of these eleven, only Belgium did not have legal abortion, but it shortly followed the others. [Continue reading ...]
December 13, 1998—League Director Joe Scheidler attends an Operation Rescue (OR) Summit in Atlanta, Georgia. Upon his arrival at the hotel where the event is taking place, Joe joins a mob of 200 pro-abortion activists protesting outside, curious whether they will recognize him. One woman does recognize him and points at him while leading the chant, “Not the Church, not the State, women will decide their fate.” Joe observes that he is neither the Church nor the State, but the distinction is lost on them. When another pro-abortion woman is denied entry to the OR event, she spits in Joe’s face and then flees.
December 12, 2008—Despite arctic temperatures, 400 Catholics attend the first ever Mass at Chicago’s Federal Plaza in honor of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Mass is co-sponsored by the League and the Archdiocese of Chicago, with help from the Thomas More Society Pro-Life Law Center in securing the necessary permits for this extraordinary example of the free exercise of religion in the public square. Auxiliary Bishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller celebrates the Mass.
December 11, 1997—League Director Joe Scheidler retrieves some old choir stalls from a barn in Iowa for the St. Joseph Chapel, under construction at the League’s offices on Chicago’s northwest side. League staffer Penny Kleiner hunted down the stalls, which had been in storage since the renovation of the Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of New Melleray in Dubuque, which she had attended at one time. One of the barns in which the old chapel effects were stored had burned down, but not the barn holding the beautifully crafted choir stalls, which would return to daily use in the League chapel.
Three months ago, abortionist Rapin Osathanondh pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 22-year old Laura Hope Smith, and was sentenced to six months in prison.
This week, he was released from jail after serving only three months.
Eileen Smith, Laura’s mother, issued the following statement:
Rapin Osathanondh was granted a “revise and revoke” motion on his sentence today by the same Judge who originally gave him the “light” sentence. Once again the man who killed my daughter receives mercy while our daughter and family receive none. He will leave jail as soon as they get the bracelet on him for his “million dollar home” confinement. Even though the Parole Board recently denied his parole because they said he was NOT remorseful for what he did, and he was the most “arrogant and callous person to ever ask for parole in their experience serving on the parole board”, the Judge disregarded the parole board’s comments and decision and granted him freedom to go home. Where is my daughter’s freedom to go home, Judge?
For all their crowing about how they’re All About Women, you might think that the leading “pro-choice” organizations would share Eileen Smith’s outrage. [Continue reading ...]