A huge pro-life victory

Fantastic news from Malta, the last pro-life haven in the European Union. Abortion activists have been awaiting a court ruling on the case of Andrea Prudente, who was denied an abortion and instead flew to Spain. Prudente sought to overturn Malta’s pro-life laws. Instead, the judge excoriated abortion activists. From my report in First Things:

The long-awaited ruling, released this past July 1, dashed those hopes. Judge Miriam Hayman, after examining medical testimony and hearing from experts, concluded that there was no evidence of imminent risk to Prudente’s life and that she had been given proper medical care. In fact, Hayman stated that Prudente had mistakenly convinced herself she would die of septicemia if she did not obtain an abortion following conversations with “pro-choice doctors.” “This poor mother,” she wrote, “was subjected to fear and strong emotional pressure that either the baby inside her would be removed or she would die.”

Hayman then excoriated abortion activists for exploiting the case. “The Court has no hesitation whatsoever in saying that this woman ended up being used by so-called pro-choice people to push forward their call for more extreme legal changes they would like to see, without taking into account her emotional state and that of the father,” Hayman wrote. Prudente, she added, “played ball to their beliefs.” Since the failure of the Prudente case to legalize abortion, activists have launched a campaign to illegally distribute abortion pills.

Read the whole thing here.

At The Bridgehead, I have a column on the extraordinary story of the Bogaard family of the Netherlands. An excerpt:

On Wednesday, October 6, 1943, four officers arrived at the Bogaard farm in Haarlemmermeer, hunting for illegally slaughtered meat. All seemed quiet and peaceful.

Officially, the Dutch farm was inhabited by 77-year-old Johannes Bogaard, his sons Willem and Theunis, his daughter Aagje, and his niece, Metje. Two of his other nine children, Johannes Jr. (Hannes) and Piet lived nearby with their own families. Unofficially, over 70 people lived on the farm. The police were about to stumble on one of the largest single family rescue operations of the Second World War.

Read the whole thing: “The Dutch Farm That Defied Hitler: One Family’s Courageous Rescue of Hundreds.”

Finally, Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen, who was recently convicted by Finland’s Supreme Court for quoting the Bible, has been told that she cannot go through the UK’s Heathrow Airport in London due to her “hate crime” conviction: “Finnish MP convicted for quoting Bible denied transit through London’s Heathrow Airport.”

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