Polish Catholic paper loses abortion ‘kill’ case

A Polish Catholic weekly has lost an appeal and is being obliged to pay compensation and apologize after accusing a woman of trying to kill her unborn baby, the Court of Appeal in Katowice has ruled.

Vietnamese nuns stop women terminating pregnancies

A Church-run home in Hue, central Vietnam, is helping to stop women aborting their babies by providing a safe haven for them to have their children. (UCA News)

Daring scheme for raising Korean births

Unless Koreans have more kids, their nation could disappear. A dynamic gynaecologist has a plan to reverse the trend by applying the existing laws on abortion. (MercatorNet)

Sixth Academy member calls Fisichella ‘unfit’

A sixth member of the Pontifical Academy for Life has described its president, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, as “absolutely unfit” for office.

‘Anti-Theist’ American woman tweets abortion

Florida woman Angie Jackson has caused a storm by making a YouTube video and live tweeting the details of her abortion.

Korean hospital promotes abortion alternatives

A Catholic hospital in South Korea is urging expectant mothers not to abort babies with congenital diseases because many cases can be cured after birth.

Fears over European ‘Roe v Wade’ case

Ireland’s constitutional amendment protecting the unborn is under challenge in a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) described as the Roe v Wade of Europe.

Gaining ground against abortion

For nearly two decades, obstetrician Shim Sang-duk aborted as many babies as he delivered — on average, one a day, month after month. (John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times)

Change society to stop abortion: Korean bishops

The Committee for Bioethics of the Catholic Bishop’ Conference of Korea is backing a campaign against abortion launched by a group of doctors and called for all laws facilitating abortion to be repealed.
“We hope that [the doctors'] decision will provide our society an opportunity to build a culture of life and overcome a trend that [...]

Viet Catholic med graduates avoid obstetrics

Most new Catholic medical graduates in Vietnam are avoiding the obstetrics field in order to avoid requests to perform abortions, a recent graduate says.
“Catholic doctors should provide effective cures for patients for love, not money,” medical graduate John Baptiste Nguyen Phan Nguyen, 24, told UCA News after a recent thanksgiving Mass in Ho Chi Minh [...]

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