|
"On 15th May 2003 the House of Lords by a majority ruled on the BBC's appeal against an earlier ruling by Laws L.J. that its refusal to transmit a 2001 General Election broadcast by the Pro-Life Alliance containing images of abortion infringed the European Convention on Human Rights." (Newsletter of the Association of Lawyers for the Defence of the Unborn, Spring 2003). "Allowing the appeal, the Law Lords held that restrictions on the transmission of offensive material applied to election broadcasts and that the BBC could not be faulted." (R. (Pro-Life Alliance) v. BBC, House of Lords, Lords Nicholas, Hoffman, Millet, Scott and Walker.) " A 27 year-old woman who had an abortion using the RU486 abortion pill and then found the aborted child's body in a jar is planning to sue the hospital where the abortion took place" (Image News, Nov. 2002). Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, had labelled the jar with her name.
|
