Planned Parenthood Made Abortion Referral, Didn't Report Abuse

Sacramento, CA -- Details have emerged from documents in a California appeals court case that a Planned Parenthood abortion business referred for an abortion on a sexually-abused teenager without telling authorities about the abuse. The case prompts pro-life advocates to say parental notification is needed. According to court documents, a Santa Clara County sexual predator impregnated his 13-year-old stepdaughter and forced her to have a late-term abortion.

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Army to present first $1,000 recruiting referral bonus to Fort Huachuca Soldier

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. (Army News Service, June 7, 2006) – The Army’s first $1,000 recruiting referral bonus will go to a Fort Huachuca, Ariz., Soldier tomorrow in a ceremony at the Gazebo on historic Brown Parade Field. Staff Sgt. Consuelo Spears of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center referred Pvt. Bartolomeij Rdes. As Spears receives the bonus, Rdes will finish simultaneously finish advanced individual training at Fort Sill, Okla. Rdes is the first referral candidate to finish his training. The $1,000 isn't payable until the referral candidate enlists, completes basic training and then graduates from advanced individual training. “Soldiers continue to...

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RUSSIA DOES IT AGAIN - Russian tries to delay a formal referral of Iran to the council.

"BERLIN (Reuters) - EU powers began circulating a draft resolution on Wednesday for a February 2 meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog asking it to report Iran to the Security Council, but Russia was seeking moves that stopped short of a formal referral. The EU draft resolution drew scorn from Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency will hold an emergency meeting that day on Iran's nuclear work at the request of European Union powers, an IAEA spokesman said. France, Britain, Germany and the United States are expected to push to have Tehran referred...

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Rice Expects Referral of Iran Nuclear Issue to UN Security Council

9/20/05 Rice Expects Referral of Iran Nuclear Issue to UN Security Council By David Gollust, VOA, United Nations U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she is certain the issue of Iran's nuclear program will be referred to the U.N. Security Council. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has begun a critical meeting on Iran's nuclear program in Vienna. The 35-nation IAEA governing board opened its meeting on the Iranian nuclear program Monday amid reports that key members including Russia and China are resisting European efforts for an early referral of the issue to the Security Council for possible...

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France threatens Iran with U.N. referral(a frog trying to impress a bully)

France threatens Iran with U.N. referral Wed Sep 14, 2:27 PM ET France threatened Iran with referral to the United Nations over its nuclear activities on Wednesday despite the misgivings of the IAEA, the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency. In remarks to the U.N. Security Council, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin stressed the need for a "determined response" against weapons proliferation. "In the nuclear sphere, we have put our trust in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," where there are rights to uphold and duties to enforce, he said. "If a state fails in its obligations under the (Nuclear)Non-proliferation Treaty, it...

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This Day In History

Maximilien Robespierre: Reign of Terror leader was guillotined in Paris during the French Revolution (1794)

Quote of the day

"I love the irony — I've spent over 400 hours of my life looking for comets, and haven't found anything, and now, suddenly, when I'm not looking for one, I get one dumped in my lap."...

by Alan Hale