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More on life ethics:

• For abortion foes, a South Dakota strategy | Abortion opponents are trying to use this state as a national platform to challenge the US Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, as the Legislature moves toward passage of a state law that would outlaw virtually all abortions (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Anti-abortion protesters not cited for violating city ordinance | For the second week in a row, abortion opponents who have vowed to disregard a new city ordinance regulating protests were not cited when they broke the law by holding a worship service in front of a local abortion clinic (Waco Tribune-Herald, Tex.)
  
  
• Abortion is illegal in Lebanon, but available | Secrecy means that medical standards are low and uneven (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
  
  
• DOJ seeks Planned Parenthood Abortion records | The Justice Department subpoenas medical records for hundreds of women who had abortions at Planned Parenthood offices in six cities. The government's move is part of its effort to defend the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act (Morning Edition, NPR)
  
  
• Patient disputes doctors' right to end his life | A man with a degenerative brain condition who is challenging guidance he claims would allow doctors to let him die took an unprecedented "right to life" case to the high court yesterday (The Guardian, London)
  
  

Unborn Victims of Violence Act:

• House passes unborn victims legislation | The House voted Thursday to treat attacks on a pregnant woman as separate crimes against both her and the fetus she is carrying. Critics say it would undermine abortion rights by giving fetuses new federal legal status (Associated Press)
  
  
• House confers legal protection on fetuses | The House approved a measure on Thursday that would make it a separate offense to harm the fetus while committing a violent crime against a pregnant woman, overcoming objections that the legislation was intended to undermine abortion rights (The New York Times)
  
  
• House passes bill for unborn victims | The House yesterday approved for the third time legislation legally recognizing two victims when a pregnant woman and her unborn child are injured or killed in a crime — a bill that has notable public support and that is now in the hands of the Senate this election year (The Washington Times)
  
  

Catholic church abuse report:

• Two studies cite child sex abuse by 4 percent of priests | The studies found that 10,667 children allegedly were victimized from 1950 to 2002, but even these numbers may represent an undercount (The New York Times)
  
  
• 4 percent of priests are linked to sex-abuse crisis | Four percent of the about 110,000 men who served as priests from 1950 to 2003 were involved in the sexual-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church — three percentage points higher than originally cited by church officials (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Board calls priest abuse 'shameful' | A panel of prominent Roman Catholics rebuked U.S. bishops Friday for failing to stop widespread clerical sex abuse over the last half-century, calling the leaders' performance "shameful to the church." (Associated Press)
  
  
• Report: 10,667 children reported priest abuse | More than 10,600 children have reported being molested by priests since 1950, according to two studies that found the U.S. Roman Catholic Church suffered an epidemic of child sexual abuse involving at least 4 percent of priests (Reuters)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48