A French appeals court ruled in February that a driver who caused the death of a pregnant woman and the fetus she was carrying cannot be charged with two counts of manslaughter in the accident.
In October 2003, a van driven by Kevin Germon, 30, struck a car that Florinda Braganca, 34, was riding in. […]
After a miscue earlier this year, in October France deported Muslim imam Abdelkader Bouziane after Bouziane made comments in defense of domestic violence in a magazine interview.
Bouziane, who has Algerian citizenship, was quoted in Lyon Magazine in early 2004 as saying that “beating your wife is authorized by the Koran.”
Bouziane was arrested in February […]
In the past few months a controversy over Muslim women and girls wearing headscarfs has heated up again in France.
On the one hand, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy angered some Muslims in France when he insisted that women having their photographs taken for France’s national identity card would have to remove their headscarfs. Sarkozy was […]
Earlier this month I noted that French gynecologists were refusing to do ultrasound scans for new patients after a French judge ruled in favor of a child who sued on the grounds that he never should have been born. An ultrasound scan failed to catch the boy’s birth defect, and he argued successfully in […]
Last summer, France became the first country to my knowledge to rule that there was such a thing as a right not to be born. Now, French gynecologists are refusing to do ultrasound scans of pregnant women out of fears they will be held liable if they make a mistake.
In the case that set […]