Appeals Court to Hear Groundbreaking Argument on Whether Abortion Ends "Human Life"

Patrick Goodenough/TN : Apr 10, 2007
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"Someone who has a financial stake in performing abortions should not be allowed to represent women in a case challenging women's right-to-know laws..."

CNS News reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit Court in St. Louis will hear arguments Wednesday in a potentially groundbreaking case that—for the first time, according to attorneys—addresses the question of whether an abortion terminates a human being's life. The case considers a 2005 South Dakota law that requires abortionists to tell women that their abortion will terminate the life of a living human being.

"Someone who has a financial stake in performing abortions should not be allowed to represent women in a case challenging women's right-to-know laws," said Jordan Lorence, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which filed the brief on behalf of the FRC. "Because an abortionist may earn a profit from women who abort their pre-born children, Planned Parenthood should be disqualified from representing the interests of women," he said.