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Perth: January 31 2002
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WA's only Catholic weekly newspaper
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By Bronwen Clune The intimidation campaign against former brothel madam and anti-prostitution crusader, Linda Watson. took a serious turn last Monday night, when shots were fired at her house in Cannington. Ms Watson has become the victim of a string of serious threats since setting up Linda's House of !lope and undertaking her Ca 11paign against the legalisation of prostitution. Linda's House of lope is supported financially by the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. The latest incident happened on Monday 21 January at around apm. after Ms Watson went outside to have a cigarette. Ms Watson said she had only just sat down to light up when she heard a gunshot. She looked up to see two men dressed in black standing at the fence of an adjoining vacant block One of them appeared to he holding something, which police later suspected was a revolver. Another two shots were fired as she ran inside to raise the alarm. Her neighbour Leo Joyce also heard the shots and ran out to see what was going on: both he and
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'almighty bang.'" She believes their vision would have been partly obscured by a wall, although they were definitely looking in her direction when the shots were fired. The property where the incident occurred forms part of the Catholic Church-funded refuge for women trying to escape the slavery and abuse of prostitution and is used as the initial assessment centre. Another building, located in the same street and used as a refuge. was firebombed three weeks ago causing $20.000 worth of damage. In October the front windows of the assessment centre were smashed and she also suspects a fire in a vacant block behind her was deliberately lit. She said police had found two gas cylinders in an abandoned shed on the block where the fire was. Mr Jayce said there had never been any trouble in the area and that all this had started happening a few months ago. "Before all of this it was a very quiet neighbourhood so it's certainly very suspicious that it all seems to be happening right here where Linda lives," he said. Continued - Page 2
Archbishop urges abortion effects study Coolg die Archbishop Barry Hickey has urged the committee conducting a review of the Acts Amendment (Abortion) Act 1998 to take a broad approach to the practice of abortion in Western Australia. drawing on all available information within this society nationally and internationally. The deadline for public submissions to the review was Friday January 25. Accepting that it was not the role of the Review to examine the rightness of Par'lament's decision, the Archbishop argued that for this reason the Review was in a position to examine the effects of abortion in our society across a broad front and with rigorous intellectual discipline. "Where adequate information is not available, the Review should ream-
mend that Parliament and Government set in place the appropriate mechanisms for gathering and analysing such information on an on-going basis," he said. 'Abortion is not a simple medical procedure with minimal consequences or after-effects. It is not in the category of pulling a tooth or excising a skin cancer. 'Abortion has profound effects on sodety. marriages, families, and individuals, including a great many who are only peripherally involved in the immediate act. "It affects the fertility rate of our society, which is currently well below replacement rate. It affects relationships within marriage and outside marriage. it affects relationships within families, particularly
between parents and children, both existing and subsequent. It affects the physical and emotional health of women who undergo abortions, and in many cases the men who are involved or excluded from the process. "We are now acutely aware of the effects of abusing children. We need to be equally aware of the effects of our choice to end the lives of more than 8000 children each year who are otherwise safe in their mothers' wombs. 'A society that is committed to making abortion virtually free and almost unconditionally available has good reason to ensure that it accumulates the widest possible knowledge of the subject. Continued, more reports - Pages 21ir 3
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