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TUESDAY February 22, 2000 vol. 11, no. 37 SECTION THREESee why so many consider the Daily CATHOLIC as the "USA Today for CATHOLICS!"
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There's good news and bad news on the pro-life front. For the bad word that the FDA is about six months from fully approving the dreaded RU-486 abortion pill for distribution in the United States by Danco Laboratories will send shivers up and down every God-loving Catholic who shuns the thought of so many innocent unborn souls never having a chance. On the positive side, Planned Parenthood is finally getting a dose of their own medicine. The suing-crazy organization is being sued by a security guard injured outside an abortion clinic in Massachusetts in 1994 by a mentally ill gunman. continued inside.
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CWNews.com) - The introduction of the
French abortion pill RU-486 moved closer to full approval
by the US Food and Drug Administration last week.
The FDA sent a letter to the New York-based Population
Council -- which holds the license to manufacture and
distribute the drug, also known as mifepristone, in the US
-- indicating a six-month deadline to final approval. The
FDA has requested information regarding manufacture and
labeling.
If the drug receives FDA approval, the council intends to
have the drug manufactured by Danco Laboratories of New
York. With approval, Danco "can get moving fairly quickly"
to distribute the drug, according to council spokesman
Sandra Waldman.
Although Waldman declined to estimate how many US women
might use the drug, she said that about 500,000 European
women have used it since it was first approved in France,
Sweden, and the United Kingdom 10 years ago.
In a related story, out of Boston a security guard injured in the 1994
shooting at a Massachusetts abortion clinic on Friday filed
a lawsuit in federal court against two pro-abortion groups,
claiming they owe him a $100,000 reward for catching the
shooter.
Richard J. Seron sued Planned Parenthood and the National
Abortion Federation for the reward for catching John Salvi
III, a mentally ill man convicted of killing two women and
five others in the shootings at two clinics in 1994. Salvi
died in prison in 1996, his hands tied behind his back and
a noose around his neck. Authorities ruled his death a
suicide.
Seron said he fired back at Salvi after being wounded,
forcing Salvi to flee, leaving behind a bag of weapons and
ammunition that led to his arrest. Planned Parenthood and
the National Abortion Federation set up a $1 million reward
fund in 1993 to help solve attacks on abortion clinics.
Seron said his request for a $100,000 reward was rejected.
Seron was shot four times. He said he suffers from
post-traumatic stress and depression as a result of the
shooting. Seron also has sued the owners of the building
where the shooting took place, arguing that they were
negligent by not posting a police officer at the clinic. A
jury rejected that lawsuit in March 1999.
All of the time and effort in stumping the world on behalf of East Timor's cause by the country's spiritual leader Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, Apostolic Administrator of Dili, is paying off with the announcement that the World Bank has earmarked $21.5 million toward reconstruction in East Timor. He also noted that though the money is much needed and will help, it cannot help those hundreds of thousands who've shed their blood for freedom or the uncounted refugees who are still oppressed. In other words, you can't buy freedom. It is a God-given right that needs to be respected in order to stop future tragedies like East Timor, Kosovo and the Sudan.continued inside.
DILI, East Timor (CWNews.com) - The World Bank today has
pledged $21.5 million to East Timor for reconstruction as
the country begins it slow rise from subjugation to
Indonesia for more than two decades.
World Bank President James Wolfensohn said: "I've had ...
some of my colleagues here living in tents wherever they
could get cover, 24 hours a day to get this project going
and I frankly find it incomprehensible that people don't
recognize that everybody is working their tails off here to
get money to East Timor."
Wolfensohn is in East Timor, touring the country to see the
damage imposed on the territory by pro-Indonesian forces. He
stopped in the coastal township of Manatuto, east of Dili,
where he received pleas for help from Church and local
political leaders. "The people sitting here have no food,
so can you help us in our plantings?" said Padre Domingos,
a local priest.
Although the bank had not planned to launch any programs
until May, Wolfensohn said the World Bank was "anxious" to
help the East Timorese and announced 600 million rupiah
($80,000) for six villages in the Manatuto area over the
next two to three months.
"This is my first visit to East Timor. I have been to other
war zones and I have been to other countries that have been
ravaged, but the sheer scale and the depth of the
destruction was something that surprised me," he said.
Indonesia, the most populous Muslim nation in the world,
invaded mainly Catholic East Timor in 1975 and annexed it
the following year in a move not recognized by the United
Nations. Last August, the region held a Jakarta-proposed
referendum to allow Timorese to choose either autonomy
within Indonesia or full independence. After the
pro-independence results were revealed, pro-Indonesia
militias, armed and backed by Indonesia's military, went on
a rampage, killing hundreds and forcing hundreds of
thousands to flee the former Portuguese colony.
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