Tag: abortion (last 300)
(Slate) Gators QB Tim Tebow praises creationist Ravi Kumar Zacharias. Controversy over Super Bowl accepting Tebow’s anti-abortion ad and rejecting one for gay dating. (ht: Amar) More on Zacharias:
(NYT) Among Chinese, Korean and Indian Americans, the chance of having a boy was 50 percent greater if the first 2 kids were girls.
(Slate) Unusually high boy percentages among 3rd- and 4th-born Indian children in California would be consistent with gender-selective abortion rates of around 10%. (ht: RF)
(Tabloid) An anesthesiologist in Britain has been accused of sexually assaulting abortion patients while they were semi-conscious. Dr Narendra Sharma, 51, is facing three counts of engaging in sexual activity without consent.
(TO Globe Photofeature) IndoCarribean person speaks about her abortion.
(AP) Ultrasound scans leave no trace. In Punjab, some rural areas had just 500 girls for every 1,000 boys, and some communities of high-caste urbanites just 300 girls per 1,000. ‘Lancet’ says up to 500K female fetuses are aborted each year. (ht: chickpea)
(Nationalpost) Abortion doc who was shot, stabbed: She was 18, 18-19 wks pregnant, Hindu with a Muslim boyfriend. She said if her parents found out, she would be disowned, and her brothers would murder her boyfriend. ‘We saved two lives today.’ [
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