Thursday, October 18, 2007

Ex-Kansas AG still anti-abortion leader

A dangerous ideologue abortion rights activists and Ex-Kansas anti-abortion leader, Phill Kline was called "the future of the anti-abortion movement" by GQ magazine. He was listed one of 15 Americans who are seen to be a major threat to abortion rights. Phill's credentials as a champion of anti- abortion movement still remains solid even after him losing bid to remain Kansas' attorney general last November. At the Kansas gathering he commented "The soil of Kansas is stained red, abortion is sin, and sin always begins with a lie." A hearing is scheduled on November 16 about Phill's latest challenge to him and his whole team came Wednesday when he charged a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park with crimes including providing unlawful late-term abortion. Total of 107 counts, 23 of them were felonies. Peter Brownlie, president of Planned Parenthood called the charged "baseless" and an "outrageous attack." Brownlie also added on Thursday that "Phill Kline continues to further his political ambition of making abortion illegal by using unethical tactics in his role as district attorney."
Kline began his anti-abortion fame as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives and he also helped draft the state's late-term abortion in the late 1990's. This article talks a lot about Kline about how he started his anit-abortion. it also is outlined really good as well as it also talked about his recent charge on Planned Parenthood and when the court hearing will be. This was also a very interesting article because is talked about one of the many difficult issues this country has to face as well as gay marriage,war,healt insurance, etc.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_re_us/in_the_news_kansas_prosecutor;_ylt=AhTFjq8fKWXothE1doks6WZvzwcF

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Iran releases U.S. peace activist

On Tuesday a judiciary spokesman said that Iran has released and Iranian-American peace activist name Ali Shakeri after he spend four long months in a Tehran prison. He was the fourth U.S citizen to be released by Iran since August. "He was released based on a 1 million rails (about $110,000) bail last night and a judge decided he can travel abroad," said spokesman for the judiciary, told The Associated Press. he and three other Iranian-Americans were charged with endangering national security. The charges against a businessman and member of a California-based democracy group, Shakeri have increased tensions between the United States and Iran. Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons and is fueling threats and violence in Iraq. But Iran has denied both claims. In a separate case, the Iranian government has also said this week it would allow the wife of missing American who once worked for the FBI to travel to Iran even though it has no information on/about his whereabouts. That was the summary of the article I choose to write about. The reason I choose this article is because I like the way it's outlined. It first talks about the recent Irainan-American who was relased, Shakeri to all the others Iran has set free in the past few months. Another thing I like about this article is it gives you a little background information about the activist they have released so you as the reader get a little bit of idea in what,where, and how the activist planned their ideas out as well as the article aslo gives you details about why and how they were caught and after how long they were jailed and then released. And at the end there are few sentences about how they are thinking of setting free the wife of the missing American.