September 21, 2007 Parliament Fails to Address Abortion and Traditional Healers Concerns 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]
September 18, 2007 LIFE Alerts - Special Edition
Suicide Group Secretly Aids Death of a Mentally Ill Woman The corpse of Jana van Voorhis, a 58-year-old Phoenix woman, was found in her home by her sister, Viky Thomas. Because of Jana’s mentally unstable condition, her sister expected to see signs of suicide, like pills and alcohol lying about, but she was surprised to find the place ‘neat and orderly’ in a scene that could have been ‘staged’. ...[more]
September 8, 2007 Doctors For Life Welcomes Warning Lables on Booze The SA Government should be commended for the new regulations that require warning labels for alcoholic beverages which highlights the negative effects of alcohol consumption. This legislation reflects the cutting edge of world wide trends. It is no surprise that the British Public Health Minister Caroline Flint also announced in May 2007, that a voluntary agreement has been reached to put similar warning labels on Britain’s alcoholic beverages by the end of 2008. ...[more]
September 8, 2007 Doctors: No Human Body Parts in Medicine Please The recent report of a terrorized community in the North West Province, where people are too terrified to leave their houses at night after the gruesome muti-murder of a 17 year old boy, is once again drawing attention to the ongoing horror and reality of the practice of muti-murders in South Africa. These body parts somehow find their way to the consumer without ever being advertised as such. However ...[more]
