Two for One Tuesday!

Yes, I KNOW it's not Tuesday, but "Two for one Thursday" just doesn't have the same ring to it!

Two developments to report this morning about things I commented on during the past few weeks. I'm sorry to say that although one of them is very good, the other one is very bad!

Let's get the bad news over with first. You remember I told you about a couple in British Columbia who had sextuplets after taking fertility pills?

I was concerned for the babies because not only would they have a terribly hard time surviving in the best of times, but they were also born of Jehovah's Witness parents and couldn't receive blood transfusions.

Well, my worst fears were realized. The B.C. government got court orders in the past week to seize three of the surviving sextuplets born in Vancouver earlier in January and ensure they got blood transfusions if necessary. Two of the sextuplets have already died.

The Father of the sextuplets said "[The mother] and I could not bear to be at the hospital when they were violating our little girl. We took our immense sadness and grief and tried to console each other in private."

The minister responsible for child care defended the government's intervention.

Tom Christensen, the minister of children and family services, said he would not comment directly on the case, but he explained that the government sometimes has to act. "So in the event that there is a child that is need of a medical treatment, and it appears that the child is not going to receive that medical treatment because a parent doesn't want the child to, then medical practitioners have an obligation to report that to the ministry."

"We will review the situation and if necessary, we would go to court to seek an order to have that medical care."

Lawyers representing the family of the sextuplets went to B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday filing an appeal.

The parents will be back in court later in February where they will argue against future seizures, and, according to their lawyer, demand an apology for what they call the province's outrageous and illegal handling of their case.

Here we have a family who avail themselves of modern medicine to conceive children but refuse to let the babies live through readily available medical procedures because their local Witchdoctor told them it was wrong!


(You wonder why I hate mainstream religion and sometimes wonder if maybe it's the Devil's work!)



The second bit of news was also caused by a combination of religion and misogynous males but the outcome was quite a bit cheerier!

This is the story of the girl who stabbed to death a man that was trying to rape her, and -She was charged with stabbing him!

(Wait, wait, it gets better! Really!)

(CBC News) A teenage girl sentenced to death in Iran was released from jail Wednesday, much to the relief of a Canadian woman who fought 10 months to free her.

Vancouver singer Nazanin Afshin-Jam, who was once crowned Miss World Canada, said she is ecstatic that 19-year-old Nazanin Fatehi has been freed.










(Former Miss Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam, at the Miss World contest.)

Fatehi was sent to death row a year ago after she confessed to stabbing and killing one of three men who tried to rape her and her 16-year-old niece. The attack happened in a park near Tehran in 2005, when Fatehi was just 17.






In early January, an Iranian court overturned the death sentence and ruled that Fatehi was acting in self-defence.

She was exonerated from the charge of murder, but the court ruled she must pay compensation to the family of the man she stabbed in exchange for the pardon.

She was released on bail while her lawyers appeal the compensation!

Your "good new, bad news" scribe;
Allan W Janssen

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God-101 (what the church doesn't want you to know!) www.God-101.com