AAP reports on a couple from Maine who kidnapped their own pregnant daughter in an attempt to procure for her an abortion because they feared the father was a man now in jail. They were arrested by police and arraigned before the district court on charges of kidnapping, which carry a sentence of 7-15 years in prison. Such was the couple's desperation, police found inside their car duct tape, rope, a knife and rifle. Apparently they had been informed given the term of their daughter's pregnancy it would not be possible to have a legal abortion in their own state and were intending to take her across the state line to New York.

In other news, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has weighed into the 'controversy' over Pope Benedict's 'inflammatory' address saying "The Pope has already issued an apology and I think his views on this need to be judged against his entire record, where he has spoken very positively about dialogue."