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• When Abortion Isn’t a Choice

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 153
  by Kathleen Parker for the Washington Post Hat tip: Greg Griffith for StandFirminFaith.com One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion. Yet, coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace in China, Beijing’s ...
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• Elderly U.K. Couple in Good Health Commit Suicide, Complain of Assisted Suicide Law

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 153
  By Hilary White for LifeSiteNews An elderly, but healthy British couple who are thought to have committed suicide together, sent a letter to the BBC just before their deaths complaining about the law prohibiting assisted suicide. Neither Dennis nor Flora Milner of Newbury, Berkshire, aged 83 and 81 respectively, ...
  3 days ago

• Texas Late-Term Abortionist and Baptist Minister Admits: “Am I killing? Yes, I am.”

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 153
  By Thaddeus M. Baklinski  LifeSiteNews.com In a jarringly candid statement made to WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, late term abortionist and Baptist Minister Dr. Curtis Boyd said that when he performs abortions he is "killing," and he has no issues with it whatsoever. "Am I killing? Yes, I am. I know that," Boyd said ...
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• IVF Mother: “I Love Him to Bits, But He’s Probably Not Mine”

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 153
    `Guardian’   Maggie O’Farrell Angela Carter once said that "paternal parentage is often clouded in a way that maternity is not." She was talking about Wise Children, her novel concerned with the slippery, unknowable nature of paternity. The essential mechanics of reproduction have always put women at an ...
  4 days ago

• Genetic tests for UK asylum seekers draw criticism

  
  OncoBlog — Authority: 147
  [ AP ] Britain is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking outrage from... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Wall Street Firms Get Swine-Flu Vaccine over Pregnant Women

  
  OncoBlog — Authority: 147
  [ WSJ ] The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged health officials around the country Thursday to ensure swine-flu vaccine is getting to high-risk groups, after criticism... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Family stores cord tissue for stem cells

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 617
  A family from Cheshire have become the first in the UK to store tissue from their son’s umbilical cord which could be used to help cure the family of illnesses in the future. Pro-lifers support the move because, unlike the use of embryonic stem cells, the use of stem cells from cord tissue does not [...]
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• Sperm and egg created in lab by USA scientists

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 617
  US scientists claim to have created human eggs and sperm in a laboratory, sparking ethical concerns. Scientists in California used embryonic stem cells to create sperm which were reasonably mature and eggs at an early stage of development.But pro-life groups have expressed concern at the breakthrough which has been ...
  6 days ago

• Must You Still Practice Defensive Medicine to Avert a MalpracticeLawsuit?

  
  OncoBlog — Authority: 147
  [ medscape ] Every day, doctors face pressure to choose between practicing defense medicine or trying to lower healthcare costs. Your patient comes in, and even if you think the treatment is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  6 days ago

• Obama Lifts HIV Travel, Immigration Ban

  
  OncoBlog — Authority: 147
  [ Advocate ] During a signing ceremony for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, President Barack Obama announced Friday that the federal government would end its ban on travel and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Health Care Abroad: Taiwan

  
  OncoBlog — Authority: 147
  [ NYTimes ] William Hsiao is a professor of economics at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of the 2004 book “Getting Health Reform Right.” He served as a health care adviser to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• US abortion boss quits after viewing abortion ultrasound

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 617
  The director of an abortion clinic in Texas has quit her job after watching ultrasound footage of an abortion – and joined a pro-life group which protests outside the facility.Abby Johnson, 29, spent eight years working at the Planned Parenthood centre in Bryan, Texas, two of them as director.Miss Johnson said her ...
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• Abortion increases risk of depression, study shows

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 617
  Women who have an abortion are at greater risk of suffering from anxiety and depression, according to a new study. Researchers in New Zealand examined the medical history of over 500 women and concluded that those who reported having adverse reactions to a previous abortion were up to 80 per cent more likely to have ...
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• Schools’ ‘text for morning- after pill’ scheme expands

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 617
  A scheme encouraging schoolgirls as young as 11 to request the morning-after pill by text message is to be expanded.After an initial trial among six secondary schools, Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) hopes to roll out the scheme across the county.The scheme, which allows schoolgirls to text requests for the ...
  1 week ago

• Schools’ ‘text for morning- after pill’ scheme expands

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 617
  A scheme encouraging schoolgirls as young as 11 to request the morning-after pill by text message is to be expanded.After an initial trial among six secondary schools, Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) hopes to roll out the scheme across the county.The scheme, which allows schoolgirls to text requests for the ...
  1 week ago

• Is the Abortion Debate Over?

  
  Hawaii Right to Life — Authority: 134
  By Micah Watson , RealClearPolitics June 24, 2009 The lines of disagreement in the philosophical debate over abortion have never been clearer. While the politics of abortion remain as tumultuous and contested as they have ever been, the underlying philosophical, ethical, and scientific issues have been clarified to ...
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• Law and Order TV Show Presents A Pro-Life Viewpoint?

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 150
  I rarely watch Law and Order. The characters on the whole just dont interest me for some reason. That being said it is a popular show. I was very happy to read they presented more of Pro-life viewpoint on some difficult medical issues recently. First Thoughts has “Dignity” . I agree with him we all need to ...
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• Swiss May be Turning Tide Against Assisted Suicide Free-for-All

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 153
  By Wesley J Smith, First Things Switzerland, perhaps as much as the Netherlands, illuminates the perils of legalizing and culturally accepting assisted suicide.  The Swiss permit lay assisted suicide–proving that causing death is not a medical procedure–so long as the motive is proper.  This has led to the ...
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• Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Create Babies Without Men, Women, or Sexual Relations

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 153
  By Hilary White, LifeSite News Researchers announced a scientific breakthrough yesterday in which the progenitor cells to human ova and sperm have been created out of embryonic stem cells. Pro-life commentators have responded to the news by highlighting the massive ethical pitfalls involved in the technology: not ...
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• Spit it out, Mr Einstein!

  
  The Witch Doctor — Authority: 422
  You could say The Witch Doctor grew up in a nutty environment. Her mother loved nuts and she ate some nearly every day. Not the mamsy-pamsy shelled nuts you buy nowadays in little packets. She would buy big paper bags full of almonds,  hazelnuts, walnuts and brazil nuts with their shells still on and crack them ...
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