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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=3><SPAN><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#ff0000>SOUTH AFRICA: DOCTORS FOR LIFE INT. PRESS
RELEASE</FONT><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=2><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Embargo:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:date Month="11" Day="15"
Year="2004"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=2>Immediate
release (15-11-2004) </FONT><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><FONT size=2> </FONT><STRONG><FONT
color=#000000><BR></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></st1:date><FONT size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Enquiries:</B> </SPAN><st1:PersonName><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">John Smyth</SPAN></st1:PersonName><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">,QC (</SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Legal spokesperson for
DFL) <BR> </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cell: 083 653
8804<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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align=center><FONT size=2><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DURBAN</SPAN></B></st1:PlaceName><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></B><st1:PlaceName><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">NORTH</SPAN></B></st1:PlaceName><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></B><st1:PlaceType><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HIGH SCHOOL</SPAN></B></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> ARRANGES SECRET ABORTION
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=2>FOR SCHOOLGIRL IN FEBRUARY
2004<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><FONT size=2><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MIDWIFE PERFORMS ABORTION AT
</SPAN></B><st1:City><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DURBAN</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:City><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> CLINIC <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=2>WITHOUT CONSULTING MEDICAL
PRACTITIONER<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=2>PARENTS SUFFER DEVASTATING SHOCK WHEN
THEIR DAUGHTER GIVES BIRTH TO A 28-WEEK TERM BABY SON CALLED STORME AS A RESULT
OF THE ABORTION<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=2>DOCTORS FOR LIFE INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Doctors for Life
International (DFL) have launched legal action in the Durban High Court
against the Headmistress and Counsellor of the Danville Park Girls’ High
School in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Durban</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City></FONT><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, the School Governing
Body, the MEC for Education in KZN, and against the Rose Clinic, its
gynaecologist proprietor Dr Vikash Nundall, and Sister Pillay, a
midwife.<BR></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial>
</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DFL is a co-Plaintiff with
Crystal Osler and her mother, both of whom sue for damages for post-traumatic
shock, and in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Crystal</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">’s case, severe
depression.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
size=2><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Crystal</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> is claiming R250,000 and her mother R100,000 by way
of general damages.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=2>Crystal</FONT></SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><FONT size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> alleges that the School acted
unlawfully in arranging an abortion without consulting her parents, and
without ascertaining the term of her pregnancy. She alleges that the clinic
subjected her to an illegal third trimester abortion.<BR></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DFL claim orders against
the Rose Clinic and its proprietor that they cease to offer abortion
facilities at their clinics (in Durban and at Richard’s Bay) until the
provisions of the Abortion Act of 1996 and its Regulations are complied with
in respect of counselling their patients, obtaining their informed consent,
and ensuring criminal offences are not committed by breaching section 2 of the
Act as to the circumstances in which the law permits an
abortion.<BR></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial>
</FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The case raises the
Constitutional issues of whether a woman who is subjected to an illegal
abortion is entitled to damages for loss of dignity under section 10 of the
Bill of Rights, and whether a baby born alive as a result of an abortion has a
right to life under section 11 of the Bill of Rights.<BR></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial> </FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Attorneys Van Lingen of
</SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Durban</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> act for all the Plaintiffs and they
have instructed Adv </SPAN><st1:PersonName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dieter Achtzehn</SPAN></st1:PersonName></FONT><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=2> as Counsel for the
Plaintiffs.<BR></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DFL represent more than 1000
medical doctors and specialists three-quarters of whom practice in
</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">South
Africa</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. Doctors For Life was founded as a South African
organisation in 1991 and has spread across the globe. Please go to: <A
href="http://www.doctorsforlifeinternational.com/">www.doctorsforlifeinternational.com</A>.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><FONT size=2>Doctors For Life
International<BR>P.O.Box 1647<BR>3640 Kloof<BR>South Africa</FONT></P>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>+27 (0)31 764 0443 (office)<BR>+27 (0)31 764 0440
(fax)<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.doctorsforlifeinternational.com/"><FONT
size=2>www.doctorsforlifeinternational.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2> <BR></FONT><A
href="mailto:mail@dfl.org.za"><FONT size=2>mail@dfl.org.za</FONT></A><FONT
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