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Parole for French abortion plot music star Cheb Mami – BBC
A singer jailed in France for abducting an ex-partner and trying to abort her child has been paroled after serving less than half his five-year sentence.
Breakdown of Black Families in U.S. Linked to Planned Parenthood’s Birth Control Campaign, Experts Say – CNS
Patrick Fagan, director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the Family Research Council, a conservative group, said people do not like to talk about it but the decline of the intact black family dates back to the 1930s when the pro-abortion, family planning agenda was being pushed by groups such as the American Birth Control League, which was renamed the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in the early 1940s. “The first family targeted by Planned Parenthood in the late 30s, early 40s was the black family,” said Fagan.
Planned Parenthood announces plans for facilities in 12 new communities in Neb., Iowa
What’s Behind the Surge of Abortion Bills?
The political climate is what some have called a “perfect storm” for anti-abortion activists seeking to curb the procedure and make direct attacks on Roe v. Wade. Droves of social conservatives have taken office in recent elections, angst over health care reform continues, and the Planned Parenthood “sting” has given opponents leverage to undermine the other side.
More state bills are targeting abortions – USA Today
Roll over states to see abortion-related bills introduced this year in state legislatures:
Legislatures in more than 30 states are weighing — and in some cases passing — many fast-moving bills to restrict abortion rights in a blitz that could prompt the Supreme Court to revisit the issue. Ian Bartrum, a constitutional law professor at Drake University Law School in Iowa, says the number of bills could speed a case to the Supreme Court to challenge Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling making abortion legal. “The more places they have a law,” he says, “the more likely they can get a challenge.”
Pro-abortion terrorists slash tires at pro-life hero’s tribute; threaten more violence
I’d heard tires were slashed on cars bearing pro-life bumper stickers at the tribute to pro-life hero Joe Scheidler April 2 but couldn’t find any police reports or news stories so didn’t post on it. I never dreamed the perpetrators would be so stupid as to brag about their “attack” online, but one did.
Fear of Dying of Old Age Assisted Suicide in Switzerland – Wesley J. Smith
Why do people keep saying that assisted suicide is about terminal illness when nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering, when that premise is patently untrue? Latest example: A UK woman went to Switzerland for assisted suicide to ensure she did not experience the decline associated with old age.
Bobby Schindler Connects Dots on Quasi Judicial Bioethics Committee Threat – Wesley J. Smith
In fact, it has escalated to the point that physicians, attorneys, hospital administrators and others can make medical decisions that are completely contrary to an individual’s wishes – even if this “medical treatment” involves basic and ordinary care such as food and water. The people pulling the strings are commonly referred to as “ethics committees,” people with unilateral power to make life and death decisions regardless of a patient’s desires or those of his or her immediate family.
‘Cheerleading’ BBC to show an assisted suicide on TV
The BBC stands accused of being a cheerleader for assisted suicide after deciding to show a man with motor neurone disease killing himself at a facility in Switzerland.
Look, no embryos! The future of ethical stem cells – The Guardian
For years, ethical issues hampered progress in stem cell research. Now, experts believe that developments in reprogrammed ‘iPS’ cells will truly revolutionise the treatment of life-threatening illnesses
Scientists create animals that are part-human – MSNBC
Stem cell experiments leading to genetic mixing of species
Media Bias On Stem Cell/Cloning Debates Still Biased – Wesley J. Smith
The Stem-Cell War – Unlike embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells do have a record of healing. You wouldn’t know it from the media.
New Irish government to legislate for opt-out organ donation system
This is an area of deep concern as it also involves the issue of the definition of death. An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine has re-opened the debate about the ethics of organ donation. The article warns that organs can be – and are being – harvested from the bodies of patients who cannot be convincingly termed ‘dead’.
Organ Transplant Community Should Publicly Refuse Organs from Suicides – Wesley J. Smith
Belgian doctors are harvesting organs from euthanasia cases and I warned about the potential that despairing people might want to kill themselves if they thought their organs could benefit others. And now, a man has shot himself in a hospital parking lot, leaving a note to harvest his organs
Earthquake Demographics – Steyn on the World
Looting is a young man’s game, and the Japanese are too old. They’re the oldest society on earth. They have a world-record life expectancy — nearly 87 for women. A quarter of the population is over 65 — and an ever growing chunk is way over.
Age is unjust. You’re in pretty good shape, you’re sharp as a tack, you have a comfortable life in a nice neighborhood — and then you slip on the ice in the last weeks of winter, and you never quite make a full recovery. That’s Japan after the earthquake, and tsunami, and nuclear accident. Fifty percent of Japanese women born in the Seventies are childless, and in a decade the childless percentage of the much smaller number of women born in the Eighties will be even greater.
When the earthquake strikes, who clears the downed electric lines from the roads, pulls you from the rubble, supervises an orderly evacuation? Young people. Where will they be when the 2025 tsunami washes in? The tsunami has accelerated Japan’s date with demographic destiny, as the economic downturn accelerated Europe’s.
“Let Us Feed the Nearly 1 Billion People Who Are Malnourished”
statement delivered Tuesday by Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations, to the 44th Session of the Commission on Population and Development. He spoke on the topic “Fertility, Reproductive Health and Development.”
Medical Errors Still Common in U.S. Hospitals – Fox News
Canadian Healthcare Meltdown: Don’t Come to ER! – Wesley J. Smith
The ERs in London, Ontario are so strained, people with serious medical issues are being urged not to come. For the third time in as many months, St. Joseph’s Hospital is restricting hours at its London urgent care centre because of a lack of doctors. The hospital announced Friday it will continue temporary hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., seven days a week, until at least May 31. “We don’t have a reliable source of qualified physicians that would allow us to extend the hours on a regular basis,” said Dr. Gillian Kernaghan, president of St. Joseph’s Health Care.
NHS Meltdown: Patients Denied Expensive Drugs – Wesley J. Smith
Family doctors are being prevented from prescribing drugs for conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and osteoporosis as NHS managers attempt to make drastic budget cuts, an investigation has found. Primary care trusts are adding more medicines to their so-called “red lists” which means they can only be prescribed by a hospital consultant and not a GP.