IVF May Be Tied To Ovarian Tumors Later In Life: A Dutch study suggests that stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs for in vitro fertilization or IVF, may increase the risk of developing ovarian tumors, some of which may become cancerous, later in life. Overall, the researchers found rates of non-fatal "borderline ovarian tumors" were increased four-fold and rates of malignant tumors were increased two-fold compared to other women seeking fertility treatment who did not undergo IVF.
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Final installment: Does God whisper?
Many well-meaning Christians apparently believe God is in the habit of communicating important details regarding His purpose for our lives with speech that is not clear.
. . . If human limitation interferes with God’s communication, we surrender our argument for the inerrancy of Scripture.
. . . One way God works is to give wisdom, which He promises to those who ask, especially in the midst of trying situations James 1:5. Some think, however, this means God simply tells them what to do. God speaks; they listen. This is not wisdom, though, because even a fool can follow directions. Wisdom is skill at living. It’s insight into the way the world works. Merely following orders requires no discernment, no deliberation, no knowledge, no reflection, no understanding—in short, no wisdom. There’s a difference between receiving revelation of some sort (“God told me…”) and growing in wisdom, or gaining insight to unravel a problem, or
getting creative “inspiration,” or experiencing the outworking of a spiritual gift.
. . . Special revelation is extremely rare and carries with it a unique authority. By contrast, creative inspiration or insight is common, especially for the Christian actively depending on God and leaning on Him for help (Prov. 3:5-6). STR
. . . If human limitation interferes with God’s communication, we surrender our argument for the inerrancy of Scripture.
. . . One way God works is to give wisdom, which He promises to those who ask, especially in the midst of trying situations James 1:5. Some think, however, this means God simply tells them what to do. God speaks; they listen. This is not wisdom, though, because even a fool can follow directions. Wisdom is skill at living. It’s insight into the way the world works. Merely following orders requires no discernment, no deliberation, no knowledge, no reflection, no understanding—in short, no wisdom. There’s a difference between receiving revelation of some sort (“God told me…”) and growing in wisdom, or gaining insight to unravel a problem, or
getting creative “inspiration,” or experiencing the outworking of a spiritual gift.
. . . Special revelation is extremely rare and carries with it a unique authority. By contrast, creative inspiration or insight is common, especially for the Christian actively depending on God and leaning on Him for help (Prov. 3:5-6). STR
Gardasil: What About the Boys?
Gardasil: What About the Boys? « Coming Home: "From a strict infectious diseases perspective, the goal of public health is to certainly limit the pool of pathogen within a population, and to eradicate it if at all possible. This was done successfully with smallpox through a determined and aggressive campaign of world-wide immunization. From a strictly scientific perspective, the same makes sense with HPV. Why not shoot for eradication?"
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Teen-mom devotional
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Another Attack on PCCs
Care Net | BREAKING: Another Pregnancy Center Attack: On his October 26 MSNBC program “Politics Nation,” Reverend Sharpton referred to pregnancy centers as “the most immoral and should be illegal thing in the country” (sic). Sharpton’s outrageous claim occurred during a five minute segment which attempted to indoctrinate the MSNBC audience with false and baseless accusations against pregnancy centers. The segment featured a NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina representative, but failed to include any pregnancy center representative to respond to the allegations.
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Medicaid Pays $16,000 to Abort 30-Week Down Syndrome Baby
Call Reveals Medicaid Paying $16,000 to Abort 30-Week Down Syndrome Baby :Operation Rescue: As Down Syndrome Awareness month concludes, Operation Rescue has released a video containing excerpts from an undercover call to a late-term abortion clinic that assured the caller that Medicaid would pay the total costs of an abortion at 30 weeks gestation on a pre-born baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome. Estimated cost of the abortion was between $10,000 and $16,000.
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The Abortionist's Wife
The Abortionists Wife « Stand True Christ Centered Pro-life: The abortionist’s wife pulled up next to the [40 Days for Life] vigil participant, rolled down her window and asked, “How are you doing?” The surprised volunteer answered, “Good! How about you?”
She responded, “I just wanted to tell you that I so appreciate what you do and how you are always so nice and respectful.” That simple response turned out to be the opening line in a very lengthy conversation.
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She responded, “I just wanted to tell you that I so appreciate what you do and how you are always so nice and respectful.” That simple response turned out to be the opening line in a very lengthy conversation.
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On Brink of Passage of Bill Regulating Pennsylvania Abortion Clinics Pro-Abortionists Show True Colors
On Brink of Passage of Bill Regulating Pennsylvania Abortion Clinics Pro-Abortionists Show True Colors | NRL News Today: The day before two of West Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s untrained workers plead guilty to third-degree murder charges a piece appears in the Philadelphia Weekly excoriating the legislature for attempting to pass a law that would prevent a repeat of Gosnell’s “House of Horrors.”
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HPV vaccine cocktail targets not only HPV
HPV vaccine cocktail targets not only HPV: "To me this vaccine looks like a chemical soup that was not made to immunize but to sterilize the youth of the world."
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Shredding Kathleen Sebelius
Michelle Malkin: If a private health insurer had engaged in the kind of criminal obstruction that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been tied to in her home state of Kansas, it would be a federal case. Instead, it's a non-story in the Washington press. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Life-Affirming Clinic Opens Next Door to Planned Parenthood
Life-Affirming Clinic Opens Next Door to Planned Parenthood - YouTube: Stanton Healthcare, a life-affirming clinic, moves next door to Planned Parenthood. Stanton Healthcare will provide confidential, professional, compassionate care to women who are facing unexpected pregnancies. Stanton will stand for social justice and human rights, and will prophetically proclaim to the nation that women deserve better than abortion!
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Clinic Workers Laugh as Woman Injured in Botched Abortion
Clinic Workers Laugh as Woman Injured in Botched Abortion | LifeNews.com: A new video has surfaced showing workers at an abortion clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin dancing and laughing as they wait for an ambulance to pull up to take a woman to the hospital who has suffered injures from a botched abortion.
The video has employees of Affiliated Medical Services transporting the third woman this year to a local hospital following a failed abortion. The video, from Friday as abortion practitioner Bernie Smith was reportedly on duty, shows AMS staff clearly seen laughing, dancing and even doing the limbo as the woman is taken away.
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The video has employees of Affiliated Medical Services transporting the third woman this year to a local hospital following a failed abortion. The video, from Friday as abortion practitioner Bernie Smith was reportedly on duty, shows AMS staff clearly seen laughing, dancing and even doing the limbo as the woman is taken away.
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Grand Opening of Pregnancy Center in Keller, Texas
Grand Opening of Pregnancy Center in Keller, Texas: Pregnancy Help 4 U Opens -Pregnancy Center in Keller. Did you know that in the last 30 days, over 10,000 people within a 25 mile radius of Keller have searched for a pregnancy center? Now there is search goes answered.
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Contraceptive Birth Control Pills Double Risk Of Blood Clot
Contraceptive Birth Control Pills Double Risk Of Blood Clot: The older-generation pill that contains an estrogen and the progestin hormone levonorgestrel roughly doubled the risk compared to women not on any hormonal birth control.
The newer kinds of pills, which contain the progestin hormones drospirenone, desogestrel, or gestodene along with estrogen, doubled the risk again, making it six to seven times as high as women who weren't using hormonal forms of birth control. On average, roughly 10 out of 10,000 women taking newer kinds of birth control pills had venous thromboembolism within a year.
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The newer kinds of pills, which contain the progestin hormones drospirenone, desogestrel, or gestodene along with estrogen, doubled the risk again, making it six to seven times as high as women who weren't using hormonal forms of birth control. On average, roughly 10 out of 10,000 women taking newer kinds of birth control pills had venous thromboembolism within a year.
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Two of Gosnell’s Abortion Workers Plead Guilty to Murder
Two of Gosnell’s Abortion Workers Plead Guilty to Murder :Operation Rescue: The Associated Press is reporting that two former employees of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell have pled guilty of 3rd degree murder for their parts in the deaths of an abortion patient and one baby born alive during a failed late-term abortion.
This is the first time that an abortion worker has been guilty of murder for killing a baby. Adrienne Moton admitted her part in the murder of one baby. Sherry West pled guilty for helping to drug Karanaya Mongar to death during an abortion. Neither women had any medical training or licensing.
The pair also pled guilty to lesser charges, including participating in a corrupt organization.
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This is the first time that an abortion worker has been guilty of murder for killing a baby. Adrienne Moton admitted her part in the murder of one baby. Sherry West pled guilty for helping to drug Karanaya Mongar to death during an abortion. Neither women had any medical training or licensing.
The pair also pled guilty to lesser charges, including participating in a corrupt organization.
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Women who have IVF at higher risk of complications
Women who have IVF at higher risk of complications - Telegraph: Women who undergo infertility treatment are as much as 40 per cent more likely to develop a serious complication in pregnancy, research suggests.
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Kids on a shoestring: Making the most of the public library
Public libraries are more than just a place to borrow or read books, magazines and newspapers, audio books, music and videos for both children and adults. This quick tour will help you maximize your library’s resources. Feminists for Life
Download powerful, free ads from Feminists for Life
Online Ads - Feminists for Life of America - Pro Woman Pro Life: Post our ads in your community and around campus. Use them as flyers at your table or FFL Rally for Resources. Have them printed in local and campus newspapers, and magazines to which you subscribe. Offer them to your local religious congregation for an insert in their bulletin.
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Planned Parenthood Names Obama Official as Vice-President
Planned Parenthood Names Obama Official as Vice-President | LifeNews.com: A Politico report today indicates Planned Parenthood has hired a key White House aide, Dana Singiser, as its new Vice President for Public Policy — a position that will undoubtedly have her representing the abortion giant in relations with members of Congress and the White House.
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Kansas pre-natal video website wildly successful
Kansas pre-natal video website wildly successful | NRL News Today: Kansas pro-lifers could never have imagined that our state interactive website showing pre-natal development videos would achieve 10,000 hits—let alone in one month! But that happened in September, and, coupled with a state-wide increase in the number of free, life-affirming crisis pregnancy and adoption centers, makes for a great Respect Life Month in Kansas.
While opponents have taken to the courts to try to stop new constitutional laws regulating abortion clinics and health insurance, they cannot prevent 24/7 access via smart phone or computer to the best scientific information on life in the womb.
Women's Right to Know is the informed consent site managed by the state, with a 24-hour hotline. Prior to any Kansas abortion, the mother must sign that she accessed the state-prepared information in written form or on this website.
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While opponents have taken to the courts to try to stop new constitutional laws regulating abortion clinics and health insurance, they cannot prevent 24/7 access via smart phone or computer to the best scientific information on life in the womb.
Women's Right to Know is the informed consent site managed by the state, with a 24-hour hotline. Prior to any Kansas abortion, the mother must sign that she accessed the state-prepared information in written form or on this website.
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College Students Given 200K Copies of 180 Movie
College Students Given 200K Copies of Pro-Life Movie 180 | LifeNews.com: More than one thousand pro-life advocates gave away more than 200,000 copies of the new pro-life documentary 180, the movie that has taken the nation by story with its 33-minute presentation on abortion. The pro-life film has already eclipsed 1.2 million views on YouTube as pro-life advocates are relying on the documentary to change public opinion and move it towards the pro-life perspective.
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Eastern Europe Sees Growing Pro-Life Effort
When asked what country should be watched for upcoming pro-life initiatives, Joseph Meaney, director of international coordination at Human Life International, replied that pro-lifers should look towards Russia. “In the near future, probably in Croatia and Slovakia we’ll start seeing some wonderful [pro-life initiatives],” Meaney added. LifeSiteNews
Laws Regulating Abortion Facilities Stop Abortions
Proof: Laws Regulating Abortion Facilities Stop Abortions | LifeNews.com: A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that supply-side strategies — strategies aimed at reducing the number of abortion providers — also have promise for lowering abortion rates.
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Recommended New York sex ed site extremely offensive
Recommended New York sex ed site offers middleschoolers offensive tips | LifeSiteNews.com: The recommended curriculum for a mandatory sex education course to be implemented in New York middle and high schools next year directs students to a website that details extreme practices.
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Reducing Planned Parenthood's Abortion Footprint
Arizona Abortions Drop Over 30% As New Law Leads to Planned Parenthood Reducing Abortion Footprint | CatholicVote.org: Planned Parenthood recently wrote on Facebook: “Putting restrictions on abortion care does not reduce the need for care.” But what Planned Parenthood doesn’t want to talk about is this: putting restrictions on abortion reduces the need for Planned Parenthood.
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N.C. judge rejects ultrasound requirement in state's abortion law
N.C. judge rejects ultrasound requirement in state's abortion law | McClatchy: A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the most "controversial" part of North Carolina's abortion-restriction law, which goes into effect Wednesday: the requirement that patients be presented with a narrated ultrasound image of their womb within four hours of the operation.
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Planned Parenthood: Hospitals Are Dangerous
Swedish Health Services and Providence Health & Services, a Catholic healthcare organization, have tried over the last decade to find a way to join forces to provide the best possible medical services at Seattle’s Swedish Hospital. They’re poised to come to a historic agreement that would allow both organizations to do the most good for everyone, but controversy has crept in because, as part of the agreement, Swedish is committing to not perform elective abortions.
NOW is in an uproar that any hospital anywhere would dare to not provide abortions. But Planned Parenthood is actually excited about the move. Why? Why else: money.
Swedish is helping to underwrite the costs of a new Planned Parenthood facility in Seattle, supposedly built to handle the scads of women who will be turned away when the new policies are implemented. But in the face of such a gift at the hands of the hospital establishment, Planned Parenthood inexplicably lashes out at hospitals for infringing on their abortion turf.
NOW is in an uproar that any hospital anywhere would dare to not provide abortions. But Planned Parenthood is actually excited about the move. Why? Why else: money.
Swedish is helping to underwrite the costs of a new Planned Parenthood facility in Seattle, supposedly built to handle the scads of women who will be turned away when the new policies are implemented. But in the face of such a gift at the hands of the hospital establishment, Planned Parenthood inexplicably lashes out at hospitals for infringing on their abortion turf.
They claim they’ve perfected the quick in-and-out abortion, but they also claim to give the most attentive and loving patient care. They claim that hospital abortions are somehow more dangerous than abortions at their facilities, but these hospitals are the very places to which Planned Parenthood regularly rushes their clients when they botch the procedure. Pro-Life Action League
Sordid History of Abortionist Karpen
Sordid History of Abortionist Karpen Should Be Considered By TX Medical Board :Operation Rescue: A sordid series of incidents paint a picture of Karpen’s seedy abortion practice and his well-established pattern of ignoring the law and disregarding a woman’s right to information about medical procedures. Time and again he denied women adequate information about abortion and misled them about their medical conditions. He has shown pattern of disrespect for the law and for the health and safety of his patients dating back to 1988.
Traditional disciplinary means have seemed to have little or no effect on Karpen over the years. Therefore, Operation Rescue is asking the Texas Medical Board to impose the maximum penalty possible on him in order to protect the public and help him take measures to amend his ways.
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Traditional disciplinary means have seemed to have little or no effect on Karpen over the years. Therefore, Operation Rescue is asking the Texas Medical Board to impose the maximum penalty possible on him in order to protect the public and help him take measures to amend his ways.
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Shepherding Women in Pain
Shepherding Women in Pain | Evangelism.net: Bev Hislop’s book, Shepherding Women in Pain, focuses at helping those of us who need practical resources to help women in pain. Hislop has gathered true-life stories and professional advice from experts in the fields of depression, infertility, terminal illness, disabilities, chronic pain, aging, addiction, abortion recovery, eating disorders, incarceration, homelessness, suicide, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, divorce, spousal involvement in pornography, spiritual abuse, and same-sex attraction.
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Tip Sheet: Twitter 101
Tip Sheet: Twitter 101 Nonprofit | Marketing / Branding - Social Media | How to / Guide | IdeaEncore Network: An introduction to Twitter, offering tips to leverage Tweeting to promote & increase exposure for NGOs and their causes.
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Pro-Choicers Hate the "What if I Hadn't Been Born" Question. Here's Why.
The “what if my mom had an abortion” [argument] applies to more people than those whose mothers were raped. It applies to people born in the mixed up days before Roe v. Wade when abortion was legal in some places and not others. It applies to everyone who’s ever been adopted. Of course, it really applies to EVERYONE, but some of us have more cause to dwell on it than others.
And I think the reason that we freak out the pro-choice movement so much is . . . that we fly in the face of the narrative about how awful life is for unwanted children. We give lie to the claim that a fetus is just a clump of tissue. We offer painfully real evidence of what happens if you don’t have an abortion. It’s very easy to say “but what about all the times that you have sex and don’t get pregnant?” Duh. But once something has been done, it can’t simply be undone. An aborted fetus had a heartbeat, and a brain, and, depending on the gestational age, tiny arms and legs and maybe even fingers and toes. It was human.
I don’t know if the world itself is a better place because I’m in it. . . . But my life is precious to me. It’s funny—many people are pro-life because of their religious convictions. I am pro-life at least in part because I’m not religious. I don’t believe in fate, or that God has some purpose for me. My being here is accidental and miraculous and I value every second of it. Slate
And I think the reason that we freak out the pro-choice movement so much is . . . that we fly in the face of the narrative about how awful life is for unwanted children. We give lie to the claim that a fetus is just a clump of tissue. We offer painfully real evidence of what happens if you don’t have an abortion. It’s very easy to say “but what about all the times that you have sex and don’t get pregnant?” Duh. But once something has been done, it can’t simply be undone. An aborted fetus had a heartbeat, and a brain, and, depending on the gestational age, tiny arms and legs and maybe even fingers and toes. It was human.
I don’t know if the world itself is a better place because I’m in it. . . . But my life is precious to me. It’s funny—many people are pro-life because of their religious convictions. I am pro-life at least in part because I’m not religious. I don’t believe in fate, or that God has some purpose for me. My being here is accidental and miraculous and I value every second of it. Slate
HBO drama modeled on the life of abortion provider George Tiller
New HBO drama “Wichita” modeled on the life of abortion provider George Tiller | Have You Heard? | Wichita Eagle Blogs: The Hollywood Reporter says Alan Ball will executive produce the HBO show that’s based on the life of abortion provider George Tiller. “Wichita” is described as “an hourlong drama about a Kansas surgeon who inadvertently becomes the focal point of a contemporary political, cultural and ethical war.”
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Shareholders Demand Pepsi Stop Using Aborted Fetal Cells
Pepsi Shareholders Demand It Stop Using Aborted Fetal Cells | LifeNews.com: Pepsi shareholders have filed a shareholder resolution with the Securities and Exchange Commission and PepsiCo demanding that the company has been contracting with a research firm that uses fetal cells from babies victimized by abortions to test and produce artificial flavor enhancers.
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United Way Sent $1.9 Million to Planned Parenthood in 2008
United Way Sent $1.9 Million to Planned Parenthood in 2008 | LifeNews.com: Each local United Way determines whom they will support through their grant programs and their lists of charitable organizations in the area. While most United Way organizations claim they do not fund programs for abortion services, in truth, some do support Planned Parenthood or other abortion-advocate agencies.
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Youth to Gather in Los Angeles for International Pro-life Conference
Youth from Around the World to Gather in Los Angeles for International Pro-life Youth Conference - Christian Newswire: Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust and Ireland's Youth Defence will host the first ever International ProLife Youth Conferenceto take place in the United States. Young people everywhere are invited on November 11-13 in Downey, CA to take on new levels of pro-life outreach and to meet with internationally recognized pro-life leaders.
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Judge grants extension to replace evidence in Planned Parenthood case
Judge grants extension to replace evidence in Planned Parenthood case - KansasCity.com: Johnson County prosecutors have more time to try to replace shredded evidence in the country’s first criminal case against Planned Parenthood, a judge ruled Monday.
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Lufkin man convicted of killing 2 fetuses filing appeal - KTRE.com Lufkin and Nacogdoches |
Lufkin man convicted of killing 2 fetuses filing appeal - KTRE.com Lufkin and Nacogdoches |: Lufkin Police arrested Gerardo Flores, 25, on May 7, 2004, after they learned he had killed his girlfriend's twin fetuses by kicking her in the stomach. Throughout the investigation and subsequent trial, he claimed he did it because she wanted an abortion. Because state law prevents a woman from being charged with killing her own fetus, Flores had to go to trial on his own.
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North Carolina Pregnancy Centers Face Pro-Abortion Attack
North Carolina Pregnancy Centers Face Pro-Abortion Attack | LifeNews.com: The North Carolina affiliate of the NARAL pro-abortion organization has released a new report today attacking pregnancy centers in the tar Heel State that provide abortion alternatives to women. The report comes out the same time as the state is making it easier for pro-life North Carolina residents to purchase Choose Life license plates designed to provide support for pregnancy centers.
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Fears hundreds of healthy babies are being aborted every year simply because of scan blunders
Hundreds of mothers-to-be a year are being wrongly told they have lost their baby because of mistakes in reading ultrasound scans, doctors fear. Some of the 400 women given a wrong diagnosis each year will choose to wait to see if they go on to miscarry naturally but others will take the option of terminating the pregnancy. Last night the researchers said that the possibility of an ‘inadvertent termination’ was the ‘worst possible outcome for any woman’ and called for the guidelines used to determine miscarriages to be changed immediately. Daily Mail
Panel Recommends HPV Vaccine for Young Boys
Panel Recommends HPV Vaccine for Young Boys - NYTimes.com: While cervical cancer rates have plunged over the past four decades because of widespread screening, anal cancer rates in men and women have been increasing. Head and neck cancers have also been increasing, with the share associated with HPV infection increasing rapidly — perhaps because oral sex has increased in popularity.
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Opposition to latest London abortion clinic is growing
John Smeaton, SPUC director: Opposition to latest London abortion clinic is growing: Opposition to a newly-opened British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) abortion centre is gaining momentum. Last Saturday (22 October) a large group of Christians, Muslims and local residents united to spend the day campaigning against the BPAS centre in Stratford, which has been opened secretively.
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“Alarming questions about the rule of law in Kansas”
“Alarming questions about the rule of law in Kansas” | LifeSiteNews.com: “It’s remarkable. The Sebelius administration fought us in court. These records were relevant. They destroyed the originals without telling us,” former Kansas Attorney General and Liberty University Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Phill Kline told LifeSiteNews. “Copies can still be used by the prosecution. Where are those?”
“The Kansas print media don’t want to ask any questions. The Kansas City Star won the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Maggie Award for Media Excellence in 2006,” Kline said.
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“The Kansas print media don’t want to ask any questions. The Kansas City Star won the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Maggie Award for Media Excellence in 2006,” Kline said.
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New Arizona Pro-Life Law Cuts Abortions by a Third
New Arizona Pro-Life Law Cuts Abortions by a Third: The state reported there were 729 abortions in Arizona during September -- a decline of almost 31 percent from September 2010, nearly 32 percent from August of this year and 39 percent from the monthly average for the last year, the Associated Press reported Oct. 12.
The decrease in abortions came after the Arizona Court of Appeals unanimously upheld in August a 2009 state law that places limitations on abortion services. The Abortion Consent Act mandates only doctors perform abortions; requires women to receive full information 24 hours beforehand on abortion, its risks, fetal development and alternatives to the procedure; mandates parental consent for minors, and protects freedom of conscience for pro-life, health-care workers.
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The decrease in abortions came after the Arizona Court of Appeals unanimously upheld in August a 2009 state law that places limitations on abortion services. The Abortion Consent Act mandates only doctors perform abortions; requires women to receive full information 24 hours beforehand on abortion, its risks, fetal development and alternatives to the procedure; mandates parental consent for minors, and protects freedom of conscience for pro-life, health-care workers.
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Woman tells of late abortion horror
Woman tells of late abortion horror: Ms Pheap Sem had arrived at the emergency department on August 18 in a critical condition following a late-term abortion performed by one of Melbourne's most controversial doctors, Mark Schulberg.
Ms Sem's case has sparked the third investigation in six years into the clinic, now Marie Stopes Maroondah. Dr Schulberg had aborted Ms Sem's 23-week-old foetus, without anaesthetic, even though she was dangerously ill, unconscious and had no family present.
Ms Sem's case has sparked the third investigation in six years into the clinic, now Marie Stopes Maroondah. Dr Schulberg had aborted Ms Sem's 23-week-old foetus, without anaesthetic, even though she was dangerously ill, unconscious and had no family present.
Planned Parenthood brings ‘webcam’ abortions to Minnesota
Planned Parenthood brings ‘webcam’ abortions to Minnesota | NRL News Today: Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life reported on August 30 that Planned Parenthood had begun performing RU486 chemical abortions at its Rochester clinic. It was the first time that Planned Parenthood in Minnesota had expanded its abortion operation beyond its St. Paul abortion center. We then learned and reported in the Sept.-Oct. issue of MCCL News that these RU486 abortions in Rochester are being done via webcam. This is a very troubling development.
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Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations: Using LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter
Teleseminars Sponsored by NonProfit Direct: The NonProfit National Resource Directory: Social media has become "de riguer" for progressive nonprofits wanting to establish a presence, and those looking to identify and communicate with donors, potential donors, clients and other nonprofit leadership. The largest US nonprofits use social media to raise awareness, cultivate interest in their causes and some use social media to fundraise.
If your nonprofit is considering dipping a toe into social media or is hoping to become more fully immersed, join us for this overview of how your nonprofit can join the virtual conversation taking place on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
If your nonprofit is considering dipping a toe into social media or is hoping to become more fully immersed, join us for this overview of how your nonprofit can join the virtual conversation taking place on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
First Half of ‘Texas Ten’ Abortionists Face Disciplinary Hearings Friday
First Half of ‘Texas Ten’ Abortionists Face Disciplinary Hearings Friday :Operation Rescue: Five Texas abortionists -- Robert Hanson, Alan Molson, William W. West, Jr., Franz Theard, and Douglas A. Karpen -- are scheduled to appear before the Texas Medical Board on Friday, October 28, and answer to allegations of wrongdoing based on complaints filed by Operation Rescue based on a three-month undercover investigation.
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Fall issue of At the Center magazine
Centerboard: Stepping up to the Challenge
By Tom Lothamer
Project 180 Helps Kids Make a Turn for the Better!
By Lori Hatcher
Pregnancy Centers and the Local Church: Partners in Life or Adversaries in Ministry? — Part 3
By Elaine Ham
Dream to Vision to Reality
By Pat Stonestreet
ARIN: Abortion Recovery InterNational
By Stacy l. Massey
It's That Time Again — Back to School
By Sherry Camelleri
Preparation for Future Attacks in the Upcoming 2012 Legislative Sessions
By Thomas A. Glessner, J.D.
Walking by Faith Toward Adoption
By Mark Hiehle
Fishing for Foundations
By Ron Haas
Marketing 101: Speaking the Same Language
By Jerry Thacker
By Tom Lothamer
Project 180 Helps Kids Make a Turn for the Better!
By Lori Hatcher
Pregnancy Centers and the Local Church: Partners in Life or Adversaries in Ministry? — Part 3
By Elaine Ham
Dream to Vision to Reality
By Pat Stonestreet
ARIN: Abortion Recovery InterNational
By Stacy l. Massey
It's That Time Again — Back to School
By Sherry Camelleri
Preparation for Future Attacks in the Upcoming 2012 Legislative Sessions
By Thomas A. Glessner, J.D.
Walking by Faith Toward Adoption
By Mark Hiehle
Fishing for Foundations
By Ron Haas
Marketing 101: Speaking the Same Language
By Jerry Thacker
Abortionists not held accountable for errors
"I recently took care of a woman who almost died because she’d had an abortion. A few days before I saw her, she’d had an abortion because of a positive pregnancy test. Now, after an abortion, the clinic will examine the remains which have been scraped from the uterus to take inventory of fetal parts in order to ensure that the entire pregnancy was totally eliminated. This clinic noted that there were no fetal parts, which meant that the pregnancy had not been in the uterus.
". . . In any legitimate medical facility, a woman with an ectopic pregnancy would have an immediate ultrasound to assess the ectopic, be admitted to the hospital, and have surgery before it could rupture and potentially take her life. In this abortion facility, the woman was sent home and told to call her doctor. Unfortunately, time was not on her side — before she ever had the chance, her ectopic pregnancy ruptured, she was rushed to the ER by ambulance, and taken immediately to the operating room.
"Had this quality of care been provided by any other medical provider — family physician, obstetrician, or emergency physician — it would be considered grossly negligent. By an abortion provider, it does not even cause a stir. In fact it goes unnoted and unreported." Elliot Institute, 2000
". . . In any legitimate medical facility, a woman with an ectopic pregnancy would have an immediate ultrasound to assess the ectopic, be admitted to the hospital, and have surgery before it could rupture and potentially take her life. In this abortion facility, the woman was sent home and told to call her doctor. Unfortunately, time was not on her side — before she ever had the chance, her ectopic pregnancy ruptured, she was rushed to the ER by ambulance, and taken immediately to the operating room.
"Had this quality of care been provided by any other medical provider — family physician, obstetrician, or emergency physician — it would be considered grossly negligent. By an abortion provider, it does not even cause a stir. In fact it goes unnoted and unreported." Elliot Institute, 2000
Abortion, Not Conscience Protections, Is Killing Women
Abortion, Not Conscience Protections, Is Killing Women | After Abortion: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recently claimed that a bill protecting the right of health care workers not to be involved in performing abortions would lead to the deaths of women. Pelosi misrepresented the bill, saying that it doesn’t infringe on life-saving treatment and in fact contains an exception when the life of the mother is in danger. But it is also worth pointing out that abortion is linked to higher death rates among women.
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Sebelius Admin Destroyed Records in Case Against Planned Parenthood
Sebelius Admin Destroyed Records in Case Against Planned Parenthood | LifeNews.com: Kansas health department (KDHE) in 2005 destroyed the state late-term abortion reports at the heart of the felony charges against Planned Parenthood.
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Woman ‘drugged with abortion pill’ by fiance
Wood Green woman ‘drugged with abortion pill’ by fiance - News - Tottenham Journal: A mother who suffered a miscarriage has accused her ex-fiance of killing their unborn child by drugging her with an abortion pill. She overheard him telling a friend what he had done. He has since been arrested.
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IVF ups fatal pregnancy condition
IVF ups fatal pregnancy condition - Times Of India: According to experts from US universities and research centres including the National Institutes of Health, data from six studies has found that the risk of pre-eclampsia was much higher -- increased by almost 41 percent! -- in IVF pregnancies than among those conceived naturally.
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'My headache's about to explode': U.S. girls just dropping dead
'My headache's about to explode': U.S. girls just dropping dead: Gardasil is back in the news as newly unearthed documents reveal 26 additional deaths associated with the vaccine. Judicial Watch obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act from the Food and Drug Administration. "The adverse-reaction reports detail 26 new deaths reported between Sept. 1, 2010, and Sept. 15, 2011, as well as incidents of seizures, paralysis, blindness, pancreatitis, speech problems, short-term memory loss and Guillain-Barré Syndrome," Judicial Watch said.
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Tools for Schools
Tools for Schools - Feminists for Life of America: Feminists for Life reveals the next solution-oriented tool for schools: Model School Policies and Model Text for Student Handbooks/Websites/Handouts for use by campus clinic staff and other school advisors.
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The Best Pro-Life Arguments for Secular Audiences
The Best Pro-Life Arguments for Secular Audiences: Here are the best arguments from science, the law, and women's rights to advance the pro-life case against abortion.
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I See You: Telling the ICU Mobile Story
I See You: Telling the ICU Mobile Story: "I see you." It's not just a sweet game. It's not just three simple words. It's a profound lesson. Isn't that the first, or at least one of the first games we play with our infants? Baby learns: There's an "I." There's a "you." And there's a bond of love between us two. Image Clear Ultrasound (ICU) is also a pun. It's a wonderful pun: I see you.
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Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental Rights?
Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental Rights? - NYTimes.com: Imagine you have a 10- or 11-year-old child, just entering a public middle school. How would you feel if, as part of a class ostensibly about the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, he and his classmates were given “risk cards” that graphically named a variety of solitary and mutual sex acts? Or if, in another lesson, he was encouraged to disregard what you told him about sex, and to rely instead on teachers and health clinic staff members?
That prospect would horrify most parents. But such lessons are part of a middle-school curriculum that Dennis M. Walcott, the New York City schools chancellor, has recommended for his system’s newly mandated sex-education classes. There is a parental “opt out,” but it is very limited, covering classes on contraception and birth control.
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That prospect would horrify most parents. But such lessons are part of a middle-school curriculum that Dennis M. Walcott, the New York City schools chancellor, has recommended for his system’s newly mandated sex-education classes. There is a parental “opt out,” but it is very limited, covering classes on contraception and birth control.
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Destruction of Abortion Records Prompts Delay Request in Planned Parenthood Criminal Case
Destruction of Abortion Records Prompts Delay Request in Planned Parenthood Criminal Case :Operation Rescue: Planned Parenthood has been charged with 107 counts of illegal late-term abortions and manufacturing evidence to cover their alleged crimes based partly on the KDHE reporting records that seemed to have been tampered with.
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MUST READ: Planned Parenthood Kept Me in the Dark on My Abortion
Abby Johnson describes her medical abortion and Planned Parenthood's lack of informed consent:
Looking back on my tonsillectomy and my abortion, one thing really stands out. When my ENT was going over all of these crazy risks, I was kind of thinking, “Hey, can you just not tell me any of this.” But then I was grateful. Because if I woke up and I wasn’t able to talk, or if my two front teeth were all busted up, at least I would have known that was a possibility. At least I had the choice to back out. With my abortion, I wasn’t given that choice. They didn’t tell me what was really going to happen to me…because they didn’t want to “scare” me? So much for freedom of choice.
Here is another glaring contrast. When my ENT was explaining the risks to me, I became nervous. But as he was calming my fears, I remember him saying, “Don’t worry, none of this has ever happened before to any of my patients.” That made me feel better. But the same cannot be said of abortion…particularly medication abortion. Women have died from medication abortion. Thousands of women have had very serious complications. I saw many of them with my own eyes…I was one of them.
Planned Parenthood Lies About PRCs
Planned Parenthood Lies About Pregnancy Resource Centers: Planned Parenthood recently posted a status on Facebook claiming that 87% of pregnancy resource centers gave “false or misleading information” to their callers, posing as a 17-year-old pregnant girl, during a phone investigation of the centers. The vast majority of these centers informed the callers that induced abortion can lead to an increased risk of breast cancer, mental health problems, and infertility issues in the future, which Planned Parenthood avidly denounces.
Editor: Again, from our Standards of Operation -- "The PCC is committed to providing a high quality of care for its clients by offering accurate and complete information about prenatal development, pregnancy, abortion procedures and risks, and lifestyle issues."
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Editor: Again, from our Standards of Operation -- "The PCC is committed to providing a high quality of care for its clients by offering accurate and complete information about prenatal development, pregnancy, abortion procedures and risks, and lifestyle issues."
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Massive petition campaign launched to Defund Planned Parenthood
Massive petition campaign launched to Defund Planned Parenthood | LifeSiteNews.com: An ambitious petition campaign demanding that Congress immediately pass legislation to defund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood was launched today.
Click here to sign the petition to Defund Planned Parenthood.
The petition has an initial goal of 100,000 signatures. Once that goal is reached, the signatures will be presented to all U.S. Congressmen and Senators.
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Click here to sign the petition to Defund Planned Parenthood.
The petition has an initial goal of 100,000 signatures. Once that goal is reached, the signatures will be presented to all U.S. Congressmen and Senators.
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Pregnancy After Transplantation
Pregnancy After Transplantation: Milestones and Assessments of Risk - Armenti - 2011 - American Journal of Transplantation - Wiley Online Library: A new study recently published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that the ability to successfully carry a pregnancy after kidney transplantation is very high, with 73.5% live birth rates. The relatively high rate of medical complications of the pregnancy motivates very careful monitoring.
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Phill Kline Wrongly Targeted For Taking on Planned Parenthood
Phill Kline Wrongly Targeted For Taking on Planned Parenthood | LifeNews.com: What happens when a prosecutor takes on the corrupt abortion industry in a state that has been governed by abortion-lobby-endorsed politicians and Supreme Court justices appointed for life by a pro-abortion governor? What if he files criminal charges against Planned Parenthood that could result in the loss of its federal funding?
The answer is not surprising: A protracted public scourging, vitriolic character assassination by a state supreme court justice aided by local media, and eventual suspension of the law license of one of the bravest, most dedicated men ever to step up to the plate to fight Planned Parenthood.
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The answer is not surprising: A protracted public scourging, vitriolic character assassination by a state supreme court justice aided by local media, and eventual suspension of the law license of one of the bravest, most dedicated men ever to step up to the plate to fight Planned Parenthood.
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Naomi Wolf: Instructive on free speech rights for all protesters
Naomi Wolf: How I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: Naomi Wolf is a pro-abortion feminist who has written thoughtfully about the issue. Here she writes about her experiences of being arrested for merely advising Occupy Wall Street protesters with some information that would be instructive for pro-life protesters:
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"In my book Give Me Liberty, a blueprint for how to open up a closing civil society, I have a chapter on permits – which is a crucial subject to understand for anyone involved in protest in the US. In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of "overpermiticisation" – requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment."
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Cain: Personally pro-life, but as president he wouldn't impose his view on the nation
Breitbart.tv » Cain: I’m Against Abortion, Without Exceptions–But It’s Not the Government’s Choice to Make:
"So what I'm saying is, it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president. Not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family, and whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn't have to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive issue."
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"So what I'm saying is, it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president. Not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family, and whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn't have to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive issue."
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The Day After The Silence; The Pro-life Generation Spoke Loud and Clear Yesterday
"Another thing that struck me this year was how many first-time participants we had who were taking on this day alone. I read about how nervous they were as they walked into school not knowing if anyone else would be taking the vow of silence or how their friends would react to their stand.
"Many of these kids faced some heavy persecution from both their peers and school faculty as they went through the day. Students told me about dirty looks, rude comments, eye rolls and outright harassment — and this was from teachers. They talked about how other students would make comments about how they should have been aborted or how stupid pro-life was, but no matter what they faced they took a stand and shined a light in their schools.
"While there were stories of harassment there were also many stories of solidarity and support from unexpected places. One student told me about how one of the most popular boys in school read her flyer and then joined her for rest of the day. Others talked about how they brought a whole roll of duct tape to school and by the end of the day it was depleted from the number of kids who joined them.
"Many students bring literature and other educational tools to school with them to help educate their classmates with the truth about abortion. With today’s technology and tools like smart phones and iPads it is easy to show people the truth without using words."See more photos on Facebook.
San Francisco OKs New Law Attacking Pregnancy Centers
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors initially approved the proposal on a 10-1 vote and Supervisor Malia Cohen, chief sponsor of the legislation told the San Francisco Chronicle that the bill is intended to “protect consumers of pregnancy-related services by prohibiting limited-service pregnancy centers from knowingly disseminating false or misleading advertising information about the services they provide.” LifeNews
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Court: Woman Who Killed Baby in Infanticide Can Remain Free
Court: Woman Who Killed Baby in Infanticide Can Remain Free | LifeNews.com: The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled it will not hear an appeal of a case that received international attention in September, which saw a woman who strangled and killed her newborn baby released and facing no jail time.
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Federal judge orders Kansas to fund clinic
Federal judge orders Kansas to fund clinic | Deseret News: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Kansas to restore federal family planning funds to a Dodge City clinic that claims it is "collateral damage" to a new law aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood, saying that the U.S. Constitution trumps state law.
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted the request from the unaffiliated Dodge City Family Planning Clinic and ordered the state to immediately pay the clinic. He rejected a state request for a $100,000 bond, calling it "mean-spirited" because they knew the clinic, whose employees have been working without pay, could not meet it.
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and the unaffiliated Dodge City clinic are challenging a law requiring the state to first allocate Title X monies to public health departments and hospitals, leaving no fund for specialty family planning clinics. They argue that under the Supremacy Clause Kansas cannot impose further restrictions on a federal program.
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U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted the request from the unaffiliated Dodge City Family Planning Clinic and ordered the state to immediately pay the clinic. He rejected a state request for a $100,000 bond, calling it "mean-spirited" because they knew the clinic, whose employees have been working without pay, could not meet it.
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and the unaffiliated Dodge City clinic are challenging a law requiring the state to first allocate Title X monies to public health departments and hospitals, leaving no fund for specialty family planning clinics. They argue that under the Supremacy Clause Kansas cannot impose further restrictions on a federal program.
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The Supply-Side Economics of Abortion
The Supply-Side Economics of Abortion — NEJM: Perhaps frustrated by many women's determination to overcome demand-side hurdles, abortion opponents have turned to supply-side restrictions, focusing on providers of abortion services. This strategy is likely to be more effective.
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OK judge blocks abortion law from taking effect
The Associated Press: Okla. judge blocks abortion law from taking effect: An Oklahoma judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked from taking effect a new law designed to reduce the number of abortions performed in the state by restricting the ways in which doctors can treat women with abortion-inducing drugs.
The temporary injunction prevents the bill from going into effect on Nov. 1. Passed earlier this year by the GOP-controlled Legislature and signed by Gov. Mary Fallin, the measure requires doctors to follow the strict guidelines and protocols authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and prohibits off-label uses of the drugs. It also requires doctors to examine the women, document certain medical conditions and schedule follow-up appointments.
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The temporary injunction prevents the bill from going into effect on Nov. 1. Passed earlier this year by the GOP-controlled Legislature and signed by Gov. Mary Fallin, the measure requires doctors to follow the strict guidelines and protocols authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and prohibits off-label uses of the drugs. It also requires doctors to examine the women, document certain medical conditions and schedule follow-up appointments.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Ignores Pill's Link to Cancer
Breast Cancer Awareness Month Ignores Pill's Link to Cancer | LifeNews.com: Dr. Bullecer, who practices medicine in the Philippines and is a pro-life activist, said he was “shocked” by the lack of information being transmitted about the link between oral contraceptives and breast cancer.
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Asia-Pacific Pro-Life Congress in Kazakhstan
HLI Brings Pro-Life Leaders Together for Asia-Pacific Congress in Kazakhstan: Astana is a beautiful city of the future, and its people are very well off. But the visiting pro-lifers from 16 different nations felt an almost subliminal undercurrent of uneasiness, brought on by something important that is missing — in this case, small children.
You would think, in an empty nation like Kazakhstan, there would be groups encouraging people to have more children, but exactly the opposite is the case. Family Health International and USAID distribute contraceptives by the ton, the Population Council writes long reports supporting the continued availability of abortion for any reason or no reason at all, and, of course, the lethal alphabet soup of the United Nations coordinates everything — UNAIDS, CEDAW, UNDESA, UNDP, UNIFEM, and the omnipresent UNFPA.
Nobody could explain why all of these population control groups are necessary in a nation that has an average of only 15 people per square mile. The answer lies in the nation’s natural resources. Kazakhstan is rich in manganese, chromium, copper, cobalt, gold, uranium, coal, natural gas, and, of course, oil.
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You would think, in an empty nation like Kazakhstan, there would be groups encouraging people to have more children, but exactly the opposite is the case. Family Health International and USAID distribute contraceptives by the ton, the Population Council writes long reports supporting the continued availability of abortion for any reason or no reason at all, and, of course, the lethal alphabet soup of the United Nations coordinates everything — UNAIDS, CEDAW, UNDESA, UNDP, UNIFEM, and the omnipresent UNFPA.
Nobody could explain why all of these population control groups are necessary in a nation that has an average of only 15 people per square mile. The answer lies in the nation’s natural resources. Kazakhstan is rich in manganese, chromium, copper, cobalt, gold, uranium, coal, natural gas, and, of course, oil.
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Fundraising principles from a new ECFA paper
In a very real way, God is the one and only Fundraiser. We acknowledge this when we ask supporters to give prayerful consideration as to how they may respond to an appeal for funds. If we are being honest in that request, we are turning the giving decision over to the Holy Spirit working in the heart of the supporter. In this way we trust God fully to bring the increase for raising resources for Kingdom work Toward a Theology of Endowment
Most surprising abortion statistic: The majority of women who terminate pregnancies are already mothers
Most surprising abortion statistic: The majority of women who terminate pregnancies are already mothers. - Slate Magazine: "Women who are already mothers have more abortions than anyone else, and by an increasingly wide margin. When Guttmacher Institute researchers last ran the numbers in 2008 they found that 61 percent of women who terminate a pregnancy in this country already have at least one child. That was before the recession, though—before the poverty rate rose to swallow 40.7 percent of women who head families, many of whom know they can’t afford another child.* So I asked the National Abortion Federation, a professional association of abortion providers, to run the numbers on the women visiting their clinics and calling their hotlines in the past few years. The resulting figures shocked NAF President Vicki Saporta, who called to tell me that every year since 2008, a whopping 72 percent of NAF clients looking to terminate a pregnancy were already mothers, up at least 10 percent from the years before the economy crashed."
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Love Facts: What you don't know can hurt you
Love Facts, Things you need to know: Empower yourself and friends. Even if your aren't currently sexually active, you should know what modern research shows regarding sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, abortion effects and the emotional fallout that can come from premature sexual involvement. You thought you had heard it all before? You'll be surprised at what you learn here!
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Articles on volunteering, from NonProfit Direct
Entrepreneurs in the Volunteer Corps: Building Capacity as Nonprofit Organizations Answer the Call to Serve by Jennifer Rackow and Jill Fixler, JFFixler Group
Hiring Effective Volunteers by Michael A. Sand, Sand Associates
The Value of Engaging Your Volunteers by Carrie Gray, Capability Company
Your only job with volunteers is to make them successful by Susan Black, Allene Professional Fundraising
Should Volunteers Do Data Entry? Cheryl Weissman, CJW Consulting and Services
Questions About Volunteers at a Gala by Kayte Connelly, Best Principled Solutions
Volunteerism is all about the experience by Linda C. Ridge, OnPoint Solutions, Inc.
Hiring Effective Volunteers by Michael A. Sand, Sand Associates
The Value of Engaging Your Volunteers by Carrie Gray, Capability Company
Your only job with volunteers is to make them successful by Susan Black, Allene Professional Fundraising
Should Volunteers Do Data Entry? Cheryl Weissman, CJW Consulting and Services
Questions About Volunteers at a Gala by Kayte Connelly, Best Principled Solutions
Volunteerism is all about the experience by Linda C. Ridge, OnPoint Solutions, Inc.
Second Students for Life staffer passes away after car accident
Second Students for Life staffer passes away after car accident | LifeSiteNews.com: While initial reports had indicated that Jon Scharfenberger’s condition had been stabilized, he succumbed to his injuries this morning, Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
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Girls as young as ONE 'forced to have sex change operations in India'
Girls as young as one are being forced into sex change operations in India by parents desperate for a son. Surgeons in the city of Indore are reported to be 'converting' hundreds of girls a year, who are subsequently pumped full of hormone drugs. A report in the respected Hindustan Times newspaper said the 'shocking, unprecedented trend, catering to the fetish for a son, is unfolding at conservative Indore's well-known clinics and hospitals on children who are one to five years old. Daily Mail
Abortion & Breast Cancer: Review of Epidemiologic Studies
Of 66 studies done over the last 54 years, 53 showed a positive correlation and 25 were statistically significant.
By Dr. Angela Lanfranchi. BCPInstitute
Related:
- Breast Cancer Risks and Prevention (Cáncer de mama: Riesgos y Prevención, Cuarta edición) now available in Spanish
- Fact sheet on abortion and breast cancer (Spanish)
Planned Parenthood Appears Set to Bring Web-Cam Abortions to Towns Throughout Wisconsin
Planned Parenthood Appears Set to Bring Web-Cam Abortions to Towns Throughout Wisconsin | NRL News Today: “We have known for some time about Planned Parenthood’s deadly plan to bring RU 486 web-cam abortions to cities and towns throughout the nation,” said Susan Armacost, Legislative Director of Wisconsin Right to Life. “First it was Iowa, then Minnesota. Now it appears Planned Parenthood is set to begin expanding its abortion business here in Wisconsin.”
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Heads of Two Texas Affiliates Leave Planned Parenthood over New Abortion Mandate
Heads of Two Texas Affiliates Explain Why They Left Planned Parenthood over New Abortion Mandate | NRL News Today: Claudia Stravato headed Planned Parenthood of the Texas Panhandle (Amarillo) for ten years. Amanda Stukenberg ran Planned Parenthood of South Texas (Corpus Christi) for 16. Both women very much believe in and support abortion. But both pulled their affiliates out and left the Planned Parenthood Federation of America when the national organization began to pressure them to add abortion to their affiliate services.
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Students Worldwide Silently Speak for Unborn Children Tuesday
Students Worldwide Silently Speak for Unborn Children Tuesday | LifeNews.com: Young people will sacrifice their voices tomorrow for the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity, and will do it in honor and memory of Kortney Blythe Gordon and her baby Sophy.
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Planned Parenthood Misleads Women About Chemical Abortions
Planned Parenthood Misleads Women About Chemical Abortions: Planned Parenthood’s shallow explanation of how a chemical abortion procedure occurs is found on its website. "Pathetic partial-truths like these keep women in the dark about what really happens during an abortion. What other motives does Planned Parenthood have in hiding the details from women except monetary incentives? Denying women information is no different than from lying to them."
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Chinese woman dies during forced abortion
Chinese woman dies during forced abortion: was six months pregnant | LifeSiteNews.com: According to a report posted on fanfucn.com, Jihong Ma was seized by Family Planning Officials for a forced abortion because she violated the one-child policy. Due to her state of stress, she was placed on oxygen. In the words of a family member:
More than ten persons from the Family Planning Bureau came, took off the oxygen mask from her and forced her to induce labor. From the time she was put into operating room at 4:00 p.m., there was no news about her . . . At night around 10:00 p.m., someone came, opened the door of the delivery room and slipped away. We ran into the delivery room and saw that the doctors and nurses all disappeared while poor Jihong Ma’s body had already been totally freezing cold, with purple lips and bleeding nose, lying on the operating table without any movement.'via Blog this'
Ohio Medical Board’s Leniency Keeps Haskell’s Late-term Abortion Mill Open
Ohio Medical Board’s Leniency Keeps Haskell’s Late-term Abortion Mill Open :Operation Rescue: Pleading for leniency to preserve his hospital privileges, Walter T. Bowers II, an associate of late-term abortionist Martin Haskell, appeared before a hearing of the State Medical Board of Ohio recently and made excuses for a Kentucky disciplinary order that banned him from the practice of obstetrics in that state. On October 12, 2011, the Board issued their ruling granting Bowers leniency by issuing a simple reprimand and placing him on probation for two years without other restrictions to his Ohio medical license.
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"How come pro-life folks don't care about those children they insist be born?"
There is a whole network of pro-life pregnancy centers in this country committed to supporting mothers and the infants they've chosen to bear. The three largest are Heartbeat International, CareNet, and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates. Altogether, they have a total of some 2,300 affiliates serving almost 2 million American women a year. They operate some 350 residential centers for women and children across the country, 22 of them in New York City alone, helping about 2,000 women every year. Paul Greenberg
Study: Hundreds of U.K. Women Wrongly Told They Had Miscarriages
Scientists said ultrasound checks are resulting in some women with perfectly healthy pregnancies wrongly being told that their baby died in the womb. Women then usually would have a termination.If women experience pain or bleeding during a pregnancy, doctors scan the gestational sac inside the womb. If there is no embryo or the fetus has no heartbeat, they diagnose a miscarriage.
But where there is doubt, doctors are advised to measure the size of the gestational sac seven to 10 days later. If the sac has not grown, a miscarriage is assumed to have occurred. FoxNews
Related: Improve miscarriage guidelines to prevent misdiagnosis
Editor: This is disturbing.
But where there is doubt, doctors are advised to measure the size of the gestational sac seven to 10 days later. If the sac has not grown, a miscarriage is assumed to have occurred. FoxNews
Related: Improve miscarriage guidelines to prevent misdiagnosis
Editor: This is disturbing.
Media Prefers Occupy Wall Street to Pro-Lifers | LifeNews.com
Laura Ingraham: Media Prefers Occupy Wall Street to Pro-Lifers | LifeNews.com: Radio host Laura Ingraham noted all the media coverage surrounding the “Occupying Wall Street” protesters. Yet at the same time, the prayerful “40 Days for Life” movement won’t make the evening news.
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Response to Coleman's study
Replies to Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009: The usual suspects hammered Coleman’s scrupulously fair conclusions in letters to the editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry. But there was a breath of fresh air from one self-described pro-choicer: Dr. David Fergusson."What will be clear to any alert analyst is that there is a clear statistical footprint suggesting elevated risks of mental health problems amongst women having abortions, irrespective of the comparison group used or the outcome studied." NRLC
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3 Ds: The Duty of Care, the Duty of Loyalty, the Duty of Obedience
NonProfit Direct: Nonprofit board members don't always know their legal and ethical responsibilities. Help them understand with this free copy of 3 Ds: The Duty of Care, the Duty of Loyalty, the Duty of Obedience provided by NonProfit Direct: The NonProfit National Resource Directory.
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4-minute video on Mifeprex abortions
Educational Drama: Learn the medical facts as a young woman planning to end pregnancy using the abortion pill talks to the provider (medical abortion). Every statement has a medical footnote available at our site. Fact Not Opinion
Grant Writing for Christian Non-Profits
Grant Writing for Christian Non-Profits | 501(c)(3) University: In this niche seminar, you will learn the key features of a proposal to find money in economically challenging times and what you get and give up when you source the government for funding for your faith-based initiative.
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United Nations Women’s Agency Openly Promotes Abortion
United Nations Women’s Agency Openly Promotes Abortion | LifeNews.com: A senior UN official for women’s rights has outlined a vision for a Brave New World that incorporates a push for a global “right” to abortion.
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Funeral Services for Kortney, Status on Jon
Funeral Services for Kortney and a Status on Jon - Students for Life: Pro Life Youth, Anti-Abortion Facts, and Pro-Life Training: The entire team at Students for Life am overwhelmed by the outpouring of love, support, and prayers for the loss of Kortney and her pre-born daughter, Sophy, and for Jon’s continued recovery. Jon continues to make small progresses and has overcome many large obstacles since the accident, but he isn’t out of the woods yet and still desperately needs your prayers. Please continue to flood heaven so that our dear friend can be healed.
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Planned Parenthood Marks 95 Years as Biggest Abortion Biz
Planned Parenthood Marks 95 Years as Biggest Abortion Biz | LifeNews.com: Planned Parenthood is marking its 95th anniversary as an organization this week, but, despite the shiny gloss its president Cecile Richards uses to try to paint a pretty picture on its work, it’s now best known as the biggest abortion business.
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Teen Sexual Behavior: Promoting Wise Choices
Teen Sexual Behavior: Promoting Wise Choices: Statistics released today about American teens’ sexual behavior belie the popular portrayal of American youth as permissive and careless. New data from the Centers for Disease Control shows that the majority of teens have remained abstinent.
Operation Rescue Unmasks the “Fly-In Abortionista”
Operation Rescue Unmasks the “Fly-In Abortionista” :Operation Rescue: “On a plane bound for the Midwest from an East Coast city, a lanky 55-year-old woman sits in the 12th row window seat, knitting a sweater. Her waist-length, wavy white-blonde hair is held up in a bun behind her head by a pair of silver knitting needles, while another set clacks away at a gray top. Knitting is her way of keeping busy on this and the many other flights she must take for her unusual, and these days much in-demand job as a traveling abortion doctor, or as she puts it, a ‘fly-in abortionista.’”
So begins a story published on October 5 in the Santa Fe Reporter describing a “circuit-riding” abortionist who travels to the Midwest to ply her grisly trade. She wears a creepy Stooge mask to hide her identity and dives under blankets in the back seat of vehicles to keep pro-life activists from photographing her.
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Reach students with this publication
And Justice For All: ...And Justice For All highlights abortion as the greatest social injustice of all time. Through personal stories, hard facts, and shocking statistics, ...And Justice For All encourages young people to take action, giving the child in the womb the rights and opportunities all people deserve as human beings in a just society. It's an eye-catching, engaging publication designed to appeal to young people in high school and college. It asks students to consider abortion and its consequences from a new perspective - social justice.
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Charitable Giving Incentives Webinar
Charitable Giving Incentives Webinar: Various “tax reform” proposals and concepts are under discussion on Capitol Hill. Join ECFA for this Charitable Giving Incentives Webinar, October 18 at noon.
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‘Pieces of children’: former abortion worker describes life at Boston Planned Parenthood
‘Pieces of children’: former abortion worker describes life at Boston Planned Parenthood | LifeSiteNews.com: "Catherine Adair, a former Boston Planned Parenthood worker, shared her story at the Value Voters Summit on Saturday. Adair described gruesome details from her time working at a PP abortion center where business was “all abortions, all day, every day.”
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Designing a Successful Volunteer Recruitment Advertisement
Designing a Successful Volunteer Recruitment Advertisement Nonprofit | Volunteer - Recruitment | How to / Guide | IdeaEncore Network: Taking time and care in creating an effective advertisement and advertisement campaign is crucial in the overall recruitment process. Getting your advertising right will improve success rates and speed up the process of finding suitable volunteers to involve in your organisation.
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Reference Checks
Reference Checks Nonprofit | Volunteer - Back ground check | FactSheet | IdeaEncore Network: A reference check is a key step in the volunteer recruitment and screening process. Checking references verifies details gathered from the volunteer during the application and interview process and helps assess the applicant’s suitability for the role. In other situations reference checks can complement the screening procedures already in place.
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Conducting Successful Interviews
Conducting Successful Interviews: The interview is the first opportunity for an organization and a candidate to get to know one another, so it is imperative to prepare well. You should start preparing by compiling a list of questions and/or issues you would like to probe with each interviewee.
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Test results suggest Gardasil doses contaminated
Test results suggest Gardasil doses contaminated: A new report suggests that the documented side effects including rheumatoid arthritis could be the result of contamination in the vaccine. The report comes from InvestigateHers magazine, a New Zealand publication, which cited the work of a number of analysts and doctors on the topic of the Merck company product's side effects.
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Pro-abortion violence
Buffalo pro-lifers pelted with feces, pro-life display vandalized | LifeSiteNews.com: In the past two weeks, two different groups of pro-life activists in Buffalo, New York, have been subjected to harassment: one group was pelted with feces and eggs, and another saw its pro-life display vandalized multiple times.
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Undercover Calls Reveal Medicaid Pays For $9,000 Late-term Abortions With Our Tax Dollars
Undercover Calls Reveal Medicaid Pays For $9,000 Late-term Abortions With Our Tax Dollars :Operation Rescue: An investigation conducted by Operation Rescue and Project Defending Life shows millions of tax dollars are already paying for abortions each year. Operation Rescue has released a short video containing excerpts from an undercover recording showing that Medicaid pays not only for abortions, but completely covers third-trimester abortions for no medical reason whatsoever.
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Student mothers grapple with additional challenges
Arizona Daily Wildcat :: Student mothers grapple with additional challenges: With an education at hand and a child at the hip, student mothers must juggle classes, research, child care and work all at once. For mothers and their families, the U of AZ provides some helpful resources, but it fails to provide others.
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In Kortney Blythe Gordon, We Have Lost a Loved One
In Kortney Blythe Gordon, We Have Lost a Loved One | LifeNews.com: Erik Whittington of Rock for Life has this remembrance: "She was a tireless advocate for the preborn. She was extremely intelligent, a great communicator and organizer. . . . Kortney was friendly, loved our Lord, and didn’t have a mean bone in her body. She always had a smile on her face and a kind word to say."
WI abortion numbers drop
"State abortion numbers drop" by Latest News -- GazetteXtra: The number of abortions performed in Wisconsin dropped by more than 9 percent last year. The Department of Health Services reported Friday that there were 7,825 abortions in 2010. That is down from 8,542 in 2009.
The rate of women aged 15-44 who had an abortion in 2010 was 6.8 per 1,000, down from 7 per 1,000 the year before. That is well below the national rate of 16 per 1,000 as of the most recent data available from 2007. The decline comes after abortions increased 3.8 percent between 2008 and 2009. Prior to that, abortions dropped for five straight years.
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The rate of women aged 15-44 who had an abortion in 2010 was 6.8 per 1,000, down from 7 per 1,000 the year before. That is well below the national rate of 16 per 1,000 as of the most recent data available from 2007. The decline comes after abortions increased 3.8 percent between 2008 and 2009. Prior to that, abortions dropped for five straight years.
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You can get an abortion but not a tan, kid
You can get an abortion but not a tan, kid « Don Surber: Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices. But they can get an abortion without a parents consent or even knowledge.
Coming soon: October Baby
OCTOBER BABY is a coming-of-age story of Hannah, a beautiful 19 year old college freshman. In spite of her energetic (if somewhat naïve) personality, Hannah has always felt like an outsider. Something is missing. She has always carried a deep seeded sense that she has no right to exist.
When she discovers she was adopted it comes as a shock, but Hannahʼs world is rocked even more when she learns why she was never told before - because she was the survivor of a failed abortion. Desperate for answers, she embarks on a road trip with some friends (including her oldest and closest friend Jason) to find her biological mother. In the process she unexpectedly discovers hope, love and forgiveness. YouTube
When she discovers she was adopted it comes as a shock, but Hannahʼs world is rocked even more when she learns why she was never told before - because she was the survivor of a failed abortion. Desperate for answers, she embarks on a road trip with some friends (including her oldest and closest friend Jason) to find her biological mother. In the process she unexpectedly discovers hope, love and forgiveness. YouTube
Mammogram Questions Reveal Breast Cancer Risks, Hide Abortion
Mammogram Questions Reveal Breast Cancer Risks, Hid Abortion | LifeNews.com: "At my mammogram last week, I was asked a series of questions as part of the exam. I was NOT asked anything about smoking, food and alcohol intake or my exercise regimen. I was asked: At what age did my period begin and menopause begin? How many pregnancies did I have? How many children were living? Had I ever used oral contraceptives or post-menopausal hormones? That is because any honest expert understands that breast cancer is largely an 'estrogen' story, and the questions all reflect that."
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Surgeon Says Abortion Ups Breast Cancer Risk, Pregnancy Helps Lower It
Surgeon Says Abortion Ups Breast Cancer Risk, Pregnancy Helps Lower It | LifeNews.com: Dr. Angela Lanfranchi is a surgeon who deals with breast cancer and is also a Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. She published a paper this week in the medical journal Linacre Quarterly that shows how different pregnancy outcomes influence breast cancer risk.
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Pro-life memorial targeted by township
Reports: blind Chinese pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng may be dead
Reports: famed blind Chinese pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng may be dead | LifeSiteNews.com: According Chinese human rights organizations there are ominous reports emerging from China about the fate of the blind lawyer, who has suffered years of imprisonment and persecution for his outspoken position against China’s brutal one-child policy.
According to Radio Free Asia, Chinese authorities detained a group of at least nine human rights activists trying to visit Chen Guangcheng. Voice of America cited villagers as saying, “Chen is dead already.”
According to Radio Free Asia, Chinese authorities detained a group of at least nine human rights activists trying to visit Chen Guangcheng. Voice of America cited villagers as saying, “Chen is dead already.”
Pregnancy centers sue city over sign ordinance
Pregnancy centers sue city over sign ordinance: Four facilities that counsel women with unplanned pregnancies sued the City of Austin on Thursday, arguing that an ordinance passed last year violates their constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of religion.
The ordinance requires the centers to post signs at their entrances saying they don't offer or refer clients to abortion or birth control services. Those that violate the ordinance can be charged with a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by fines of up to $450. Municipal court records show that no one has violated the ordinance since it took effect last April.
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The ordinance requires the centers to post signs at their entrances saying they don't offer or refer clients to abortion or birth control services. Those that violate the ordinance can be charged with a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by fines of up to $450. Municipal court records show that no one has violated the ordinance since it took effect last April.
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