NEW YORK, April 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has backed a program to have obstetrics and gynecology residents in the city's public hospitals routinely trained to perform abortions rather than having the option available as an elective. Currently the program allows student to opt out for moral or religious reasons.
Pro-lifers are concerned that the exemption may soon be made unavailable. Bloomberg's action comes after lobbying from the National Abortion Rights Action League.
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Scientists Claim Woman Eight Weeks Pregnany with Cloned Baby
Dr Severino Antinori, the well known Italian in vitro fertilization specialist involved in the controversial human cloning project has announced that a woman taking part in the project is eight weeks pregnant. “Our project is at a very advanced stage. One woman among the thousands of infertile couples in the program is eight weeks pregnant,” he said to reporters.
Dr Antinori, a director of an Infertility unit at the International Center for the Study of Physiopathology of Human Reproduction in Rome, refused to reveal the identity of the woman or even her country. He did admit the project is well advanced. “We have nearly 5,000 infertile couples in this project now,” he said.
Interestingly he used the press attention to put in a plug for “therapeutic cloning” noting that he works in that field as well.
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(This update courtesy of LifeSite News.)
