Israeli forces have shot dead at least three palestinians in yet another day of violence in the region. Israel has vowed to stop the wave of knife attacks after two israelis were critically injured in mondays unrest. In the latest incident a palestinian man was killed in west jerusalem. Andrew simmons has the details 67 now, the police have issued a further statement about that attack in west jerusalem. They say after the soldier was fighting with the palestinian and civilians became involved. Police got on the bus. They got involved as well. And that at one point a pistol came out of a holster of one of the officers and the palestinian went to grab the pistol. That point, the police say, an officer fired and shot the palestinian dead. Now the atmosphere really is did declining all the time in terms of fear and in terms of resolve amongst Security Forces to be quick witted in respond to go any potential attacks. That, in turn, is leading to a real climate of fear amongst palestinians w
Thank you, chris, and thank you all for being here today. Delighted you got off to such a good start for the mississippi book festival. To put our best foot forward, put on a court and tie, and governor barbour wore socks in the summer. Anyway, before i make the introductions of the panel, i see former governor william winner in the audience. Were so glad to have you. [applause] and i saw former governor ronny muss grove earlier but i dont know whether he is in here, but he is on the grounds, too. So were glad so many people have turned out. Let me just briefly introduce each member of the panel. The one thing that struck me ive read all of the books, and how its, again, reminder how small and swim hat and interconnected we are in this state because there are characters in these books that appear in more than one book. One member of the panel appears in more than one of the books and its a reminder again of how we really kind of all together in this state. But beginning on my far right
Signals that your five minutes have expired. Doctor, we will begin with you. Welcome. Please turn on your microphone. I apologize. Thank you, chairman, and members of the committee. I only have five minutes and i will get right to it. Second trimester abortions, your patient today is 70 years old and 22 weeks pregnant and her baby is the length of your hand and a couple inches and she has been feeling her baby kick for the last two weeks. You walk into the operating room and you introduce a suction catheter into the uterus. And if she were 12 weeks pregnant or less come in basically the width of your hand or smaller, you could do the entire procedure with this. The baby this day do not fit through catheters for size. After centering the fluid out from the baby, you introduce the sulfur clam comments about 13 inches long and made of stainless steel. The business and is about two and a half inches long and a halfinch wide. There are rows of sharp teeth. When he gets a hold of something h
Abortion procedures and medical ethics in the nations largest Abortion Provider and i will begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Before i go to the statement on bad i would like to take a moment to remember the life of former congressman William John Edwards who passed away this month at the age of 100. Don edwards was first elected into congress in 1963 where he had a distinguished career working on the Voting Rights act , the Civil Rights Act and served on the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of the watergate scandal. During this time don edwards served the former congressman Caldwell Butler who i worked for at the time. When don edwards left office in 1995 after 32 years of congressional service, he was succeeded by our own zoe lofgren and her 15 district that i rate i had the opportunity to serve for two years with congressman edwards myself and appreciate his service. Its now my pleasure to ask a member to share a few words about our former collea
The reason why this is important is because the number one complaint that we received was the failure of vfg and its agents to redisclose the redirect risk. Because its illegal to sign away your pension, they could direct the escrow company, the Pension Company to redirect the funds back to a different account and no longer to that es ko account or if the pensioner got into financial trouble, the pension would get caught up and no longer go to the escrow account. They were no longer getting that monthly return. They were never warned that this was possible. A lot of the investors were Senior Citizens and thats how this was packaged to them. They were safe. You get a return each month. Some were told it was government insured, which was patently false. Another miscommunication and lie from vfg was the failure to disclose the fees involved in these type of products and youve heard some about that. They failed to disclose a fee break down on both sides. A pensioner never knee what their p