An estimated 150,000 ethnic Tamils are still trapped in a small patch of Tamil-controlled area in the northeast of the island country.
What would happen in a Roe v. Wade reversal is far from certain, Balch added. "Theres a lot of scholarly writing in the event of what would happen," she said, like how to enforce a law outlawing abortion that is still on the books but that has been dormant for close to four decades. "Even if there a
"This is a step in the right direction," said Father Jose Espino, a priest of the Miami Archdiocese and a Cuban native.
A Vatican spokesman dismissed reports that the Holy See has rejected several candidates because of their support for legal abortion.
Pope Benedict XVI called for all nations to end the production, stockpiling and use of land mines and cluster bombs.
Tom McCluskey, vice president of FRC Action, the legislative arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council, said the effort to ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution may provide a better analogy for state-by-state campaigns to restrict abortion than efforts to abolish the death penalty. Bu
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, England (left), as archbishop of Westminster.