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• Anti-Choice Zealots Chase After Patients’ Private Medical Records

  14 May 2008, by Katherine Spillar
  With anti-abortion forces bearing down on him, Dr. George Tiller fights for his patients’ privacy — and their lives.
  Mary was more than 22 weeks pregnant in 2003 when she was told the baby she was carrying had a rare and severe fetal abnormality that would cause it to live in a vegetative state, if it survived at all. In disbelief, she consulted with several additional doctors and specialists hoping there had been a mistake; this was a long-hoped-for pregnancy. But in the final analysis, (…)
  
  

• India: The court cases against MF Hussain on charges of obscenity and religious offence dismissed

  11 May 2008, by siawi
  (i) STATEMENT BY SAHMAT
  SAHMAT
  8, Vithalbhai Patel House, Rafi Marg
  New Delhi-110001
  Telephone-23711276/ 23351424
  e-mail: sahmat at vsnl.com
  9.5.2008 The artists community welcomes the Delhi High Court ruling dismissing three criminal cases against the painter M.F. Husain for the supposed crime of obscenity. The court has in our perception, upheld the right to artistic creation and decisively quashed efforts at censorship through street violence and orchestrated legal action by (…)