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| Published: May.13.2009 @ 8:50 am
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by Scott Crockett
Meet Katie Brickell of the United Kingdom. Katie was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 23. Prior to her diagnosis, Katie tried three times to get a routine pap test but was refused because the U.K.'s government rationing board (National Institute of Clinical Excellence or NICE) that controls what treatments patients may receive only allows screenings for women 25 or older in an effort to cut costs. Katie's cancer is terminal.
Listen to her story
Before Congress considers any form of government-run health care, they should hear Katie and the other voices of patients denied care because their government deemed it too costly or delayed care because of long waiting lists for surgery or diagnostic tests.
That is precisely what is happening in Britain and Canada today. It may begin to happen soon in the U.S. if we don't stop the continued incremental steps government has made into our health care system.
One of President Barack Obama's first acts upon taking office was to provide $1.1 billion for the Federal Coordination Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (FCCCER), a national health care board designed to oversee effectiveness of health services. The FCCCER is modeled after the U.K.'s NICE. Can you imagine seeing news stories here in the U.S. such as:
Sadly, these types of stories have become much too common in the U.K.
- To a doctor who explains how the elderly in the U.K. get rationed out of care.
- To a doctor discuss how patients in Canada are dying while on a waiting list for treatment.
- To Angela French, denied life extending cancer drugs.
- To Don Neufeldt explain why he left Canada for treatment in the U.S.
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| Published: Apr.25.2009 @ 7:08 pm
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{Christian Newswire} -- On March 23rd, a judge ruled that the controversial abortifacient "morning-after pill" Plan B, be available to 17 year olds without a prescription. US District Judge Edward R Korman also ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reconsider whether to make the drug available to girls of all ages without a prescription.
Ignoring patient safety and the damage high dose steroids have on developing female bodies, Korman petulantly insisted the FDA revisit the controversial previous ruling on the abortion drug. Hundreds of women have had serious side effects from Plan B as it has killed millions of preborn babies. It is the subject of ongoing lawsuits and public scrutiny.
Another negative associated with the use of Plan B by underage girls will give legitimate cover for abusive situations with older men and incestuous situations.
Previous studies by the FDA and the Plan B manufacturer, Barr Labs, has shown Plan B is abortifacient 75 to 89% of the time. Planned Parenthood claims that it distributes more than 1 million Plan B kits annually, more than tripling its death claim of performing nearly 300,000 surgical abortions annually.
Barr typically gives groups like Planned Parenthood sweetheart deals on drugs like Plan B as if they were a closed network hospital system, while the group turns around and sells the product for 10-20 times its cost, undercutting local retail pharmacies in the process during a downturned economy.
Pharmacists have increasingly called for rights of conscience protection so they can refrain from dispensing, counseling or referring for such chemical abortions. Four states have granted outright Conscience Clauses and 4 have given broad conscience rights to pharmacists. Recently, President Barrie Hussein Obama initiated the process of reversing the Bush Conscience Clause HHS regulations that codify three existing federal conscience protection laws.
Will an issue like this become the Thermidor for the radically abortoholic regime in office now?
Related: http://pharmphun.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-district-court-orders-plan-b-otc-for.html
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| Published: Mar.07.2009 @ 10:31 am
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by Mass Resistance
A new study has shown that the AIDS virus is outpacing man's ability to create ways to stop it.
The great tragedy of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is that it is 100% preventable. It is contracted ultimately from behaviors which can be avoided. But millions of people are tragically suffering and dying around the world. Normal public health procedures are being ignored in favor of militant political correctness, enflamed by the homosexual movement.
People are not being told to stop engaging in destructive behaviors, such as homosexual sex and drug use. They are being told to try to use "safe sex" (which is proven not to work), needle exchange programs, etc. Millions (maybe billions) of dollars are going toward developing so-called AIDS vaccines.
But go to any AIDS event, including school AIDS presentations and "World AIDS Day" gatherings, and you won't hear anything about behavior or responsibility. It's all about "tolerance", safe sex, condoms, HIV testing, and clean needles. Of all the things the homosexual movement forces on the world, this may be the most criminal, in our opinion. Good people must speak out the truth.
HIV rapidly evolving past defenses, study says
"By Michael Kahn
Reuters / February 26, 2009
"LONDON - The AIDS virus is quickly adapting across large groups of people to avoid human defenses, posing another challenge in the search for a vaccine, researchers said yesterday.
Scientists know the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, constantly mutates within individual people to find ways to attack cells. But the study published in the journal Nature suggests changes that help the virus do this are increasingly passed on in the wider population."
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| Published: Mar.03.2009 @ 8:45 am
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by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
PARIS - (LifeSiteNews.com) - The use of the contraceptive pill is plummeting among younger women, in response to growing awareness of its destructive health effects, reports a French bioethics site.
According to the site "Genetique," the use of "the pill" among women aged 15 to 24 years old dropped from 43% in 2003 to 26% in 2007. The rate of childbirth among the same group increased at the same time.
"The principal reason for this decrease is the attention paid by women to their health," says Genetique. "It is now proven that the pill suppresses libido and causes weight gain. The fear of cancer and sterility are equally responsible."
According to numerous studies on the effects of the contraceptive pill, its use is also linked to increased risk of heart disease, hypertension, and stroke.
Related LifeSiteNews coverage:
New Study Shows Contraceptive Pill Increases Risk of Heart Disease, Stroke
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08050713.html
Massive Study Finds the Pill Significantly Increases Cancer Risk if Used more than Eight Years
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/sep/07091306.html
Birth Control Pill Linked to Hardening of the Arteries
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08040807.html
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| Published: Jan.07.2009 @ 8:48 am
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Yahoo News (AFP) - The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.
The pill "has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tons of hormones into nature" through female urine, said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in the report.
"We have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male infertility in the West is the environmental pollution caused by the pill," he said, without elaborating further.
"We are faced with a clear anti-environmental effect which demands more explanation on the part of the manufacturers," added Castellvi. The article was promptly dismissed by several organisations.
"Once metabolised, the hormones contained in oral contraceptives no longer have any of the characteristic effects of feminine hormones," said Gianbenedetto Melis, vice-president of a contraceptive research association, quoted by the ANSA news agency.
The hormones contained in the pill such as oestrogen "are present everywhere... in plastic, in disinfectants, in meat that we eat," added Flavia Franconi, of the Society of Italian Pharmacology.
Pope Benedict XVI in October [once again] reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's [official] condemnation of artificial birth control.
Contraception "means negating the intimate truth of conjugal love, with which the divine gift (of life) is communicated," the leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics wrote on the 40th anniversary of a papal encyclical on the topic, [Humanae Vitae].
An encyclical is a letter usually treating some aspect of Catholic doctrine and issued occasionally by the pope.
The landmark document, whose title in English is "On the Regulation of Birth", was published at a time when the development of the [abortifacient] Pill was giving new sexual freedom to women across the world.
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| Published: Dec.19.2008 @ 7:29 pm
| Last edited: Feb.15.2009 @ 4:59 pm |
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. /Christian Newswire/ -- Undercover footage from a second Indiana Planned Parenthood clinic shows an emerging pattern of abuse, as more clinic counselors evade their legal responsibility to report the statutory rape of young girls. The new footage is the second video in Live Action Film's "Mona Lisa Project," a series of investigations documenting how secret abortions keep young girls trapped in cycles of sexual abuse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxsWZz9whg
In the video, shot undercover this summer at a Planned Parenthood in Indianapolis, two employees state they "don't care" about the age difference between a 31-year-old man and the 13-year-old girl he was reported to have impregnated. A previously released video shot at a Bloomington Planned Parenthood showed similar results. Neither the Bloomington nor Indianapolis clinics reported the rape and both clinics counseled the 13-year-old to obtain a secret abortion across state lines where no parental consent laws applied.
At both clinics, Lila Rose, student journalist and president of Live Action, enters posing as a 13-year- old girl and discloses she is pregnant by a 31-year- old man. The Indianapolis staffer states, "We don't really care about who, what, the age of the boyfriend." She then sends Rose to a counselor, who after hearing about the 31-year-old also states, "I don't care how old he is." When Rose tells the counselor that her mother would be upset about the 31-year-old boyfriend, the counselor informs Rose that "the surrounding states don't have parental consent. I can't tell you anymore."
In Bloomington, the nurse declares, "I don't want to know how old he is" and instructs Rose to travel to an Illinois Planned Parenthood and say her 31-year-old boyfriend is only fourteen. Although the Bloomington clinic fired its nurse, Rose says this is not an isolated incident. "We have more videos documenting this pattern of law-breaking within Planned Parenthood. There are actual cases all across the country where their failure to follow state statutes has allowed predators to continue their sexual abuse of young girls."
On Monday, Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter launched an investigation of Planned Parenthood in response to the Bloomington footage. Indiana State Representative Jackie Walorski and right-to-life advocacy groups including American Life League publicly called for the investigation. In 2005, the Attorney General also sought the records of 84 Planned Parenthood patients under the age of fourteen who may have been victims of sexual abuse, but Planned Parenthood sued to prevent their release.'
Rose commends the Attorney General's efforts. "We applaud Mr. Carter's integrity and urge him to conduct a thorough and complete investigation, despite any political attacks Planned Parenthood may attempt against him personally or his office."
Rose challenges Planned Parenthood to cooperate. "Planned Parenthood must release files they have previously sued to keep private and allow state authorities to conduct a complete investigation." She adds, "Mandatory reporting laws are necessary for the protection of young girls, and Planned Parenthood must not be allowed to sabotage them."
The video can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxsWZz9whg and can also be found with more information on The Mona Lisa Project at LiveActionFilms.org. For interview or special requests for copies of footage and documentation, please contact lilarose@liveactionfilms.org.
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| Published: Dec.12.2008 @ 6:20 pm
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by Mass Resistance
On November 21 the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) released what it calls a "Groundbreaking Report on Health Disparities Based on Sexual Orientation". As the DPH press release describes:
"The report revealed significant disparities among people who identified as homosexual or bisexual in the areas of access to care, self-reported health status, anxiety, depression, suicide ideation, smoking, binge drinking, illicit drug use, sexual assault victimization, intimate partner violence, disability, obesity, asthma and heart disease . . . Lesbians were 2.2 times more likely than heterosexual women to be obese."
Read entire DPH press release.
Read the Department of Public Health report HERE
In other words, the DPH is forced to admit what everyone has known for a long time. Unfortunately, the extremely destructive nature of homosexual behavior - both medical and psychological - is usually not only suppressed, but is considered completely off-limits for discussion. But ultimately, some of the truth gets out, even in Massachusetts.
The "good" news, according to the report is that . . .
"Gay/lesbian/homosexuals and bisexuals were more likely than heterosexuals to have been ever tested for HIV than their straight/heterosexual counterparts. In addition, gay/homosexual men were less likely to be obese or overweight compared to straight/heterosexual men [probably due to weight loss from AIDS or other diseases?]. They were also more likely to obtain lifetime colorectal cancer screening and to report recent condom use."
Interestingly, the Massachusetts DPH is probably the most pro-homosexual public health department in America. It's run by DPH Commissioner John Auerbach, who is "married" to another man. In 2007, Auerbach appeared at a homosexual "youth" event telling the kids that he'd make sure there's enough HIV testing available for everyone there. In 2005, the Massachusetts DPH helped create the notorious Little Black Book, Queer in the 21st Century, which depicted homosexual sex acts and listed places kids can hook up with homosexual adults.
How will the report's findings be used?
What does the DPH say the report hopes to accomplish? Unfortunately, this really exposes how politicized the public health profession has become. The report recommends:
"Specific interventions should be developed to work with the bisexual population in these areas. Health officials also hope that the report will stimulate further study on ways to reduce and eliminate health disparities faced by gay, lesbian and bisexual people."
But they are ignoring the root of the problem. The obvious way to "reduce and eliminate" these health disparities would be to discourage homosexual behavior, and help those currently involved in it to leave that horribly addictive and dangerous lifestyle. (Instead, we'll probably see more of "encourage condom use and HIV testing" types of pseudo-remedies.)
Unfortunately, common sense won't be found even in medical circles these days. But the raw facts will continue to show up.
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| Published: Sep.13.2008 @ 2:38 pm
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By Michael Gerson - Washington Post
In addition to Barack Obama making history as the first African American to be nominated for president and Sarah Palin taking her shotgun to the glass ceiling, there was a third civil rights barrier broken at the political conventions this year. Trig Paxson Van Palin -- pronounced by his mother "beautiful" and "perfect" and applauded at center stage of the Republican convention -- smashed the chromosomal barrier. And it was all the more moving for the innocence and indifference of this 4-month-old civil rights leader. It was not always this way.
John F. Kennedy's younger sister Rosemary, who was born in 1918, had a mental disability that was treated as a family secret. For decades Rosemary was hidden as a "childhood victim of spinal meningitis." Joseph Kennedy subjected his daughter to a destructive lobotomy when she was 23. It was the remarkable Eunice Kennedy Shriver who talked openly of her sister's condition in 1962 and went on to found the Special Olympics as a summer camp in her back yard -- part of a great social movement of compassion and inclusion.
Trig's moment in the spotlight is a milestone of that movement. But it comes at a paradoxical time. Unlike what is accorded African Americans and women, civil rights protections for people with Down syndrome have rapidly eroded over the past few decades. Of the cases of Down syndrome diagnosed by prenatal testing each year, about 90 percent are eliminated by abortion. Last year the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended universal, early testing for Down syndrome -- not just for older pregnant women. Some expect this increased screening to reduce the number of Down syndrome births to something far lower than the 5,500 we see today, perhaps to fewer than 1,000.
The wrenching diagnosis of 47 chromosomes must seem to parents like the end of a dream instead of the beginning of a life. But children born with Down syndrome -- who learn slowly but love deeply -- are generally not experienced by their parents as a curse but as a complex blessing. And when allowed to survive, men and women with an extra chromosome experience themselves as people with abilities, limits and rights. Yet when Down syndrome is detected through testing, many parents report that genetic counselors and physicians emphasize the difficulties of raising a child with a disability and urge abortion. This is properly called eugenic abortion {Prenatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act, S.1810 - Ed.} -- the ending of "imperfect" lives to remove the social, economic and emotional costs of their existence. And this practice cannot be separated from the broader social treatment of people who have disabilities. By eliminating less perfect humans, deformity and disability become more pronounced and less acceptable.
Those who escape the net of screening are often viewed as mistakes or burdens. A tragic choice becomes a presumption -- "Didn't you get an amnio?" -- and then a prejudice. And this feeds a social Darwinism in which the stronger are regarded as better, the dependent are viewed as less valuable, and the weak must occasionally be culled.
The protest against these trends has come in interesting forms. Last year pro-choice Sen. Edward Kennedy joined with pro-life Sen. Sam Brownback to propose a bill that would have required medical professionals to tell expectant parents that genetic tests are sometimes inaccurate and to give them up-to-date information on the quality of life that people with Down syndrome can enjoy. The bill did not pass, but it was a principled gesture from Rosemary's brother.
Yet the pro-choice radicalism held by Kennedy and many others -- the absolute elevation of individual autonomy over the rights of the weak -- has enabled the new eugenics. It has also created a moral conflict at the heart of the Democratic Party. If traditional Democratic ideology means anything, it is the assertion that America is a single moral community that includes everyone. How can this vision possibly be reconciled with the elimination of children with Down syndrome from American society?
Are pro-choice Democrats really comfortable with this choice?
The family struggles of political leaders can be morally instructive. Contrast the attitude of Joseph Kennedy with that of Charles de Gaulle, who treated his daughter Anne, born with Down syndrome in 1928, with great affection. The image of this arrogant officer rocking Anne in his arms at night speaks across the years.After her death and burial at age 20, de Gaulle turned to his wife and said, "Come. Now she is like the others."
And now we have met Trig, who is just like the others, in every way that matters.
Michael Gerson is a columnist for the Washington Post. He may be reached at michaelgerson@cfr.org
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| Published: Sep.03.2008 @ 7:12 pm
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by John D'Aloia
The moment of death is God's decision, not a decision by one or several would-be gods, who, having all the frailties of human beings, have motives and emotions that ignore the person's immortal soul and who make judgments based on their limited understanding of the material and supernatural world. Euthanasia or willful suicide is a crime against life, just as is abortion.
In life's journey, suffering plays its part. In 1980, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in its Declaration on Euthanasia, wrote: "According to Christian teaching, however, suffering, especially suffering during the last moments of life, has a special place in God's saving plan; it is in fact a sharing in Christ's passion and a union with the redeeming sacrifice which He offered in obedience to the Father's will." The document goes on to say "....without in any way hastening the hour of death, [we] should be able to accept it with full responsibility and dignity. It is true that death marks the end of our earthly existence, but at the same time it opens the door to immortal life." Mr. Peyton understands and is an example of what the Church teaches in the case of terminally ill people - besides appropriate medical care, they need love, "the human and supernatural warmth with which the sick person can and ought to be surrounded by all those close to him or her, parents and children, doctors and nurses." [from the same Declaration]. On a very earthly level, laws that give medical care givers the right to make "a death with dignity" decision shred any degree of trust one can have in one's doctor, especially in this day when so many medical decisions are made by gnomes wearing green eye shades deep in the bowels of an insurance company. Doctors must remain true to their oath, must do no harm, must be the final line of defense of the dying person against those who want the person out of the way ASAP. Mr. Peyton is providing a noble example of death with dignity. He is cooperating with God's plan. Eternal rest grant unto him Oh Lord.
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| Published: Sep.02.2008 @ 6:16 pm
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by PFLI International
Washington, DC – A U.S. Department Health and Human Services proposed regulation that would protect freedom of conscience for pro-life physicians and pharmacists will be rewritten to reflect pro-abortion demands.
"Why is Secretary Mike Leavitt kowtowing to birth control companies and abortion activists?" asked Jen Catelli, American Life League director of media relations. "If he is seeking to protect conscience rights of those who want nothing to do with abortion, he needs to recognize that contraceptives can cause abortions." A widely circulated draft of the HHS proposal would have defined abortion to include the birth control pill, thus protecting pro-life pharmacists from dispensing abortion-causing drugs like the pill. The proposed regulation defined abortion as "any of the various procedures – including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action – that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation." Upon release of the proposal, pro-abortion activists, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, NARAL Pro-Choice America and drug companies that produce birth control collaborated in an organized lobbying campaign against the proposal.
"The truth is that life begins at creation, and anything that destroys that life is an abortion," Catelli said. "We hope Mr. Leavitt will have the courage to stand for truth against abortion advocates."
The final draft of the proposal has not yet been issued. FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRAzTceSVpUdFDosQqzkDNCzFqwgD92DNLL00
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