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Compiled by Steve Jalsevac

A Gift of Time – Continuing your pregnancy when your baby’s life is expected to be brief. – Mercator

Whiz Kid: Chloe Kondrich
She may only be seven years old, but Chloe Kondrich has a resumé more impressive than most adults. She’s met Sen. John McCain and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, had a press conference with former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell and has been on the floor of the senate. Chloe’s charmed life is the result of her parents’ belief that she can do everything any other child does. In fact, from the minute she was born, her parents Kurt and Margie decided that Down syndrome is only something their beautiful daughter has: it’s not who she is.

Big IVF: Couple Must Pay Gestational Carrier Child Support – Wesley J. Smith
Big IVF–for that is what it has become, a rich and politically powerful industry–objectifies human beings and distorts familial and other relationships in the name of making babies.  It objectifies women as egg farms and womb leasing merchants.  It objectifies embryos

NHS Meltdown: And the Rationing Increases – Wesley J. Smith
The NHS has gone from rationing the most expensive for whom to care and the elderly, to a general withholding of care to people with regular conditions. Growing numbers of patients are being denied treatment for conditions such as loss of sight, arthritis and infertility as the NHS increasingly rations healthcare in order to save money, research by the Guardian shows.

Surgeons say patients in some parts of England have spent months waiting in pain because of delayed operations or new restrictions on who qualifies for treatment.

The Coverup of Abortion’s Real Risks
– American Thinker
Abortionists in this country are actively burying risk research just as tobacco companies did many decades ago.  There are now literally piles of genuine medical research which show what most would deem dire elevated risks from abortion—not just to the baby killed in the procedure—but to the woman and also to the future siblings of the aborted baby.

Pro-lifer: Blacks ‘exterminating’ themselves
One News Now
Reports indicate abortion is the leading cause of death within the African-American community in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), since 1973—the year of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade—13 million African-American lives have been lost to abortion. Currently in Congress, every member of the Congressional Black Caucus identifies himself or herself as “pro-choice.”

Is there a “duty to die”?
– Mercator
Should “unproductive burdens” on society do the right thing by the rest of us and make an early exit?