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Despite strong objections and numerous appeals from opposition parties the South African Government refuses to follow international trends regarding a conscience clause for health professionals in respect of abortion. Most democracies have legislation to protect doctors and nurses who have conscientious objection to abortion. Recently Dr Henry Morgentaler, a pro-abortionist, known as Canada’s father of abortion stated that, “doctors should not be obliged to do things (referring to abortion) which they don't approve of themselves.” ... |
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September 21, 2007
Doctors for Life International (DFL) is disappointed at the way their concerns were misrepresented in the National Council of Provinces when the Traditional Health Practitioners and the Abortion Amendment Bills adopted. During the proceedings ANC MP Faith Mazibuko stated that DFL’s concerns “smacked of discrimination” and were “insulting and disrespectful” to other cultures. She added that DFL failed recognised that the Abortion Amendment sought to protect women and children. ...[more]
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August 24, 2007
The public’s recent condemnation of abortion-on-demand was so overwhelming that it ought to become a pivotal issue during the upcoming South African elections. Doctors For Life International (DFL) monitored countrywide public hearings and found that the general public consider abortion-on-demand to be morally wrong. Even though the Abortion Amendment Bill was under discussion, the public refused to confine themselves to it. ...[more]
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August 22, 2007
Provincial Hearings held in all the provinces about the proposed Choice on the Termination of Pregnancy Amendment and Traditional Health Practioners Bills
The Management and Staff of Doctors for Life International would like to thank Members and Friends for their willingness to represent the organisation at the various Public Hearings across SA. Some donated money, others gave accommodation and many simply gave their time and talents. Thank you. ...[more]
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August 14, 2007Doctors for Life International (DFL) is concerned about the equality with which the Gauteng Provincial Legislature conducted public hearings on the Traditional Health Practitioners Bill today. At the beginning of the hearings, the public was told that they would be able to deliver their input after representatives of organisations spoke. This, however, appears not to have happened and requests from individual members of the public to be heard were, in fact, dismissed. ...[more]
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August 03, 2007
In 2006, the Constitutional Court declared these two laws invalid because Parliament did not consult the public when it passed the laws. Parliament can now re-enact these laws after they have involved the public as required by the Constitution.
Public hearings will now be held across South Africa during the week of 13 through 17 August. ANY person may voice his or her opinion about these laws at these hearings. ...[more]
The list of Provincial Health Committees contact details with confirmed dates and time for Public Hearings ...[more]
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June 22, 2007
This morning the Labour Appeals Court heard the case of nursing sister Wilhelmien Charles, assisted by Doctors For Life International, in which the right of health workers to refuse to participate in abortion was at issue. ...[more]
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June 19, 2007
Sister Wilhelmien Charles who was dismissed from her job as theatre sister at the Kopanong Hospital in Vereeniging in 2004 for refusing to do abortion evacuations, and Doctors for Life, return to Court on June 22 ...[more]
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April 19, 2007
According to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the United Kingdom, there has been a big rise in the number of doctors who have conscientious objection to participating in abortion. The increasing number of medical doctors who are opting out of performing abortions may be a ...[more]
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April 10, 2007
Adv Kemp J Kemp SC has accepted the brief to lead for Crystal Osler, her parents and Doctors for Life at the trial of the case against the Rose Clinic, Durban and Danville Girls’ High School. ...[more]
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March 7, 2007
Case opens in Durban High Court on April 16, 2007
Dr Anne Speckhard, a professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School, Washington DC, USA, will lead a team of experts who will give evidence in the Durban High Court on behalf of Crystal Osler (now 21 years) who was subjected to an illegal abortion at 28 weeks in 2004 while in her Matric year at Danville High School. ...[more]
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January 31, 2007
It is with great sadness that Doctors For Life International (DFL) notes the tenth anniversary of the legalization of abortion-on-demand. The current count of victims of this law amounts to more than 550 000 babies dead, thousands of women suffering from ...[more]
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By majority of 8 to 3 the Constitutional Court upheld Doctors for Life's application alleging that the NCOP and the Nine Provinces had failed to provide "a meaningful opportunity" for the public to participate in the Democratic Process of passing the Bills. ...[more]
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June 28, 2006
Doctors For Life International (DFL) is pleased with the conviction of illegal abortions by the Rose Clinic Staff in Durban. This is believed to be the first prosecution in South Africa under the 1996 Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act ...[more]
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March 4, 2006
Doctors for Life ( DFL) International was delighted to receive the news that the State of South Dakota in the United States passed legislation on 1 March 2006 outlawing all abortions except when the life of the mother is threatened. ...[more] |
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March 4, 2006
Doctors for Life ( DFL) International was delighted to receive the news that the State of South Dakota in the United States passed legislation on 1 March 2006 outlawing all abortions except when the life of the mother is threatened. ...[more]
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February 28, 2005DFL Challenges Parliament In The Constitutional Court Re Abortion (Amendment) Bill And Three Other Health Bills
DOCTORS FOR LIFE have filed a suit in the Constitutional Court against the Speaker of Parliament and the Chairman of the National Council of Provinces alleging that Parliament failed to comply with two sections of the Constitution when it passed four Health Bills at the end of 2004.
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March 11, 2005
The Rose Clinic have filed a Defence Plea in the Durban High Court action which Doctors for Life are conducting on behalf of Crystal Osler the Danville Park schoolgirl who had an abortion in her matric year. She claims R250 000 damages against the clinic because the abortion was illegal, and against the school who arranged the abortion behind her parents’ back. ...[more]
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February 28, 2005
DOCTORS FOR LIFE have filed a suit in the Constitutional Court against the Speaker of Parliament and the Chairman of the National Council of Provinces alleging that Parliament failed to comply with two sections of the Constitution when it passed four Health Bills at the end of 2004. ...[more]
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January 19, 2005
DFL and Sister Charles have decided they do not wish their case to go to the Labour Court but instead will take the case to the High Court. As soon as a date is fixed for hearing we will issue a further Press release. ....[more]
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| November 30, 2004DFL has not yet had the opportunity to study the 112 page judgement handed down by the SCA today. At least one judge dissented, and DFL will intervene when the matter goes to the Constitutional Court on the following ground. ...[more]
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| November 16, 2004Durban north high school arranges secret abortion for schoolgirl in February 2004. Midwife performs abortion at Durban clinic without consulting medical practitioner. Parents suffer devastating shock when their daughter gives birth to a 28-week term baby son called Storme as a result of the abortion ...[more]
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| November 5, 2004DFL Press Release - Sister* Charles, a Chief Professional Nurse with special qualifications in Theatre work, was barred from working in theatre at the Kopanong Hospital in Vereeniging because she had taken a stand on her constitutional right not to do abortion cases on the ground of her Christian beliefs. ...[more]
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| November 4, 2004DFL Press Release - Further to our Press release of 2004-08-23, the first hearing of Sister Charles’ case against the Gauteng Department of Health, the National Minister of Health and the Gauteng MEC for Health will be. ...[more]
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| October 20, 2004DFL Press Release - A short Report on the KZN Parliamentary Health Portfolio Committee Sittings on Friday 15 October and Monday 18 October 2004 with particular reference to the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Amendment Bill. ...[more]
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| DFL Press Release - Health Committees of Provincial Parliaments have been discussing the Abortion Amendment Bill this past week, but the public have been refused the opportunity to make submissions. ...[more]
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August 23, 2004
Doctors For life Institutes proceedings in the new Equality Courts. A Chief Professional Nurse with special qualifications in Theatre work has been barred from working in theatre at the Kopanong Hospital in Vereeniging because she has taken a stand on her constitutional right not to do abortion cases on the ground of her Christian beliefs. ...[more]
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June 16, 2004
Doctors for Life views with grave concern the decision of Judge Mojopelo in the Pretoria High Court refusing to allow the Christian Lawyers’ Association (CLA) application challenging the constitutionality of section 5(3) of the 1996 abortion Act to go forward to trial ...[more]
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October 3, 2002
In an outrageous effort to overturn centuries of scientific medical thinking, the Medical Research Council (MRC) in South Africa tries to reclassify pregnancy as a pathological condition and appears to suggest that one should help hurting women by killing their babies.
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June 26, 2002
Doctors For Life (DFL), an organisation of about 770 doctors, places the blame for the lack of staff to support women having abortions at Philadelphia hospital, squarely on the shoulders of the South African government. Before the government bulldozed the law to legalise abortion on demand through Parliament, DFL warned via numerous press releases that the infrastructure to implement the law does not exist.
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May 8, 2002
Pro-life Health Professionals were apparently deliberately oversighted in Mugabean style by the Reproductive Rights Alliance when invitations were sent out to make oral submissions at the so-called “National Oversight Hearings into the Implementation of Pregnancy Act.”
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March 21, 2001
As predicted by DFL over the years, abortion on demand is the beginning of the downward slide towards other forms of gross violations of human rights. Active Euthanasia is on the table and government seems to lack the moral will to with stand its legalisation.
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February 9, 2001
Doctors For Life (DFL) is in possession of documentation from the Free State Department of Health which states that, due to the inappropriate use of Misoprostil, complications have occurred in a number of cases
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February 2, 2001
Today, four years ago, abortion on demand was legalised in our country. As we anticipated, the progression of the ethics of death is taking place, exactly as Doctors For Life (DFL) predicted in our submission to parliament in October 1996.
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January 23, 2001
The promotion of the "morning-after pill" after unprotected sexual intercourse to "prevent" pregnancy is misleading. Doctors For Life believes that the public deserves all the facts in order to make an informed decision.
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May 14, 1997
DFL has decided to confront the KwaZulu-Natal, MEC regarding a clause in a recent abortion circular. The circular, dated 24 February 1997, advises medical personnel, in the case of a late term abortion.
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