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Women use Web to obtain abortion

BBC News

Some women in countries where abortion is restricted are using the Web to buy medication enabling them to abort a pregnancy at home, the BBC has reported. Women in more than 70 countries with restrictions have used one of the main websites, Women on Web. Almost 11 percent of the women who took the drugs went on to need a surgical procedure — either because the drugs had not completed the abortion or because of excessive bleeding. More info here>>

Prayer saved former hostage from bitterness

Beliefnet

A week after the dramatic rescue in Colombia, former hostage Ingrid Betancourt has revealed that praying the Rosary helped her get through her six years in captivity, as David Gibson notes on his blog, Pontifications. Betancourt told Pelerin, a French Catholic weekly, that God saved her from bitterness during her captivity. During a visit to her native France, the politician prayed at Sacre Coeur Basilica in Montmartre and Saint-Sulpice. More info here>>

Suing over the Word of God

The Chicago Tribune

A Michigan man has filed lawsuits in a Michigan federal court against two Bible publishers, claiming some editions that Zondervan and Thomas Nelson put out call homosexuality sinful, which has led him to suffer discrimination, emotional pain and mental instability. "By designing this product to promote hate and violence toward homosexuality, because such product is promoted as being the ‘authentic word of God,’ it is a design defect," says Bradley LaShawn Fowler’s lawsuit. More info here>>