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• Once Again, Minors Are Left Unprotected in Illinois

  
  americans united for life blog — Authority: 553
  On Tuesday we reported that the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) would be considering whether to once again delay implementation of the Illinois parental notification law.  For a short while on Wednesday, pro-lifers felt victorious: rather than further delay enforcement, as we ...
  6 days ago

• Popping the “Bubble Zone” Jurisprudence Before It Floats Away

  
  americans united for life blog — Authority: 553
  Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found a Pittsburg ordinance restricting access to public areas around abortion clinics unconstitutional.  More specifically, the court held the ordinance to be “insufficiently tailored” because it “burdens substantially more speech than necessary” to ...
  1 week ago

• Information v. Abortion

  
  A True Believer's Blog — Authority: 410
  Hat tip to Brotherhank at Lawn Gospel . Get the story from KBTX.com . Many pro-life groups have, over the years, called for laws in various states that would require that women considering abortions be shown certain information, told certain things, presented with ultrasounds, accurate scientific information about ...
  1 week ago

• Women who have abortion ‘at higher risk of depression’

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 146
  The Daily Telegraph – Nov. 2, 2009 By Alastair Jamieson Women who have an abortion can be at increased risk of anxiety and depression, according to the results of a study published today. Researchers at University of Otago, New Zealand, who studied more than 500 women, concluded that abortion “leads to ...
  1 week ago

• The Cruelty of Circumcision

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 471
  Over at my blog, I comment on a recent story of the effects of routine circumcision on a boy’s brain.  I’d love to hear people’s comments. On a related note, here’s an old post by Freddie at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen in which he completely eviscerates a Matt Steinglass post on circumcision.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disclosure in Phase 1 Cancer Trials

  
  Lost in Translation — Authority: 106
  F ollowers of this blog may recall my continuing concern with the way informed consent is obtained in phase 1 trials involving patient-volunteers (typically, these patients have exhausted standard care options and enter phase 1 trials as a final shot at managing their disease). Language used by investigators in these ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ooo…. Scary….

  
  Woman to Woman Childbirth Education — Authority: 128
  Reality Rounds is hosting a Halloween-themed “Change of Shift” blog carnival, so I thought I’d post scare tactics used by some people (doctors, usually) to get women to go along with whatever it was they wanted to do. Granted, some of the time, women would do well to be scared — their test results are [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Mich. Senate panel considers changes to HIV testing law

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  LANSING — A Michigan Senate panel heard testimony Wednesday about a controversial piece of legislation which would eliminate the current requirement that patients provide written, informed consent to receive an HIV test. “This is unusual and not in keeping with what we do for other tests or other procedures ...
  3 weeks ago

• Googling and Oogling

  
  Shrink Rap — Authority: 467
  Weve been talking about Psychiatrists and Facebook here on Shrink Rap and it got me thinking about psychiatry and technology. I always think of the internet as kind of public turf. Can it be "wrong" to Google someone? Its not illegal, its not hard, and the stuff is all in the public domain. People will sometimes ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Flu Vaccine Casualty, where was informed consent

  
  Natural Health News — Authority: 131
  It is very disturbing to me as a long-time health care professional as I listen to local friends and read and listen to news report about flu and swine flu vaccines. So many necessary questions are just not being asked. And required information is being withheld from those who are choosing to get theses jabs. In a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Depression Suffering

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  The ‘experts’ have tried to evaluate me as a sufferer of this but found no such evidence or behavior. The same was true for all other mental or medical conditions, so they think ‘witch’ covers my condition in life; because I refuse to participate in the materially managed environment any more. We will not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Response to OB: Scare tactics vs. informed consent aka why I started this website

  
  VBAC Facts — Authority: 400
  I receive this comment on the post Hospital VBAC turned CS due to constant scare tactics : I am very disheartened by the tone of this website. I am a board certified Ob/gyn and a very strong advocate for VBACs, IF a patient chooses one within the hospital guidelines. I DO believe and say to my patients my goal ...
  3 weeks ago

• Michigan HIV Activists Angered by No-Consent Testing Legislation

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 733
  Activists with the group Michigan POZ Action are organizing a campaign to get state lawmakers to stop legislationthat will remove a law that requires persons being tested for HIV do sowith informed consent. Under current law, anyone seeking an HIV antibody test must sign adocument acknowledging they have consented ...
  3 weeks ago

• HIV activists angered by no-consent testing legislation

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  Activists with the group Michigan POZ Action are organizing a campaign to get state lawmakers to stop legislation that will remove a law that requires persons being tested for HIV do so with informed consent. Under current law, anyone seeking an HIV antibody test must sign a document acknowledging they have ...
  3 weeks ago

• H1N1 Vaccine: Parents Must Give Informed Consent

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  James Geiger, M.D.-- Informed Consent for H1N1 There is no shortage of emotions when your child is sick. Especially in light of the recent statistics documenting the increased trend in this point of the pandemic of deaths of children from Swine Flu. Although the CDC has verified that the deaths were among children ...
  4 weeks ago

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