COURT DENIES ASYLUM TO SPOUSES OF THOSE WHO HAVE
UNDERGONE FORCED ABORTIONS AND STERILIZATIONS
17/07/07 10:27 Permalink
The 2nd U.S. District Court of Appeals has ruled that spouses of those who have undergone forced abortion and/or sterlization under one-child policies cannot seek asylum.
The court said the immigration reform act of 1996 explicitly protects those who are forced to "abort a pregnancy or to undergo involuntary sterilization, or who has been persecuted for failure or refusal to undergo such a procedure or for other resistance to a coercive population control program." But the Court narrowed the coverage to only those who have been the direct victim of such coercion and excluded the spouse.
For a decade, the Justice Department's immigration courts considered husbands of women forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations to be political refugees in their own right. The protection also extended to women whose husbands were sterilized. The 2nd Circuit is the first federal circuit to deny, as a matter of law, refuge to the spouses of those forced to undergo the surgery. The decision, which differs from the rulings of five other circuits, could tempt the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.
This decision will also force those who are seeking asylum to move out of the District and into one that is willing to grant asylum to spouses.
A man whose wife has undergone a forced abortion and his child is murdered is indeed a victim of the coercive one-child policy and should be granted asylum. Denial of asylum to a person whose child was killed or whose spouse was forcibly sterilized is tantamount to support of the one-child policy.
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THE NEW BARBARISM: DOCTOR ADMINISTERS MASSIVE DOSES
OF PARALYZING DRUG TO PREMATURE BABIES
05/07/07 21:20 Permalink
Michael Munro, a consultant neonatologist, gave 23 times the normal dose of pancuronium, a muscle relaxant, to the children moments before their deaths, contrary to medical guidelines in an act "tantamount to euthanasia", the GMC was told.
The doctor failed to record his actions in the medical notes of either child.
Dr Munro told Baby X's parents he could give the child a drug but "it was on the verge of what society finds acceptable", the hearing was told.
He then injected the child with 2,000 milligrams of the drug which, he admits, hastened the death of Baby X.
So many will scoff at the fact that this Doctor is facing any ramifications, whatsoever, for his actions--but these are the defining moments of a civilization. Historically when one made the decision to terminate innocent human life this was condemned as murder. The audacity of modern man however knows no bounds since he now calls murder -- "mercy".
"Our generation has been forced to realize how fragile and unsubstantial are the barriers that separate civilization from the forces of destruction. We have learnt that barbarism is not a picturesque myth or a half forgotten memory of a long-passed stage of history, but an ugly underlying reality which my erupt with shattering force whenever the moral authority of a civilization loses its control." C. Dawson, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture (1948)
"That Civilization that conflicts with the doctrines of the Holy Church is but a worthless imitation and a hollow name." Pope Leo XIII (1878)
The full article can be found at Telegraph