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EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH HAS LOST THE BATTLE, CALIFORNIA WAS THE WATERLOO

by Joe Carter
January 13 , 2010

The battle over embryonic stem cell research is over. A few skirmishes will no doubt continue -- perhaps even for years -- and some ESCR advocates will refuse to acknowledge defeat. But they have decisively lost.

Years from now, when we look back in astonishment at having been fleeced for billions to pay for therapeutically worthless research, we'll recognize that California was the Waterloo for ESCR.

In 2004, California approved Proposition 71, a ballot measure that would allow the state to borrow $3 billion for ESCR. At best the measure would have been an epic boondoggle: pharmaceutical companies would have been able to profit off the taxpayer-funded research without the state sharing any of the profits or even obtaining any of the developed drugs at a cheaper cost.

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GARDASIL VACCINE NEWS

Finally, the American Medical Association has spoken some truth about the controversial vaccine Gardasil, the mainstream media has picked up the story, and doctors are “just saying no,” to it for their patients.

getting a shotAn article in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, August 19, 2009) takes Gardasil manufacturer Merck to task for marketing Gardasil as a cervical cancer vaccine rather than an HPV vaccine; for ignoring those populations of girls and women most at risk for cervical cancer; and for what amounts to deceptive advertising by withholding troubling facts about the vaccine.

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Merck Researcher Admits:
Gardasil Guards Against Almost Nothing


by Joan Robinson and Steven W. Mosher

The Gardasil vaccine has made millions for Merck, but it will prevent very few cases of cervical cancer. And it has caused tens of thousands of prepubescent girls to suffer side effects.

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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE HEALTH CARE SITUATION

By J. C. Willke, MD

Sarah Capewell's son is dead in-part because of Britain's nationalized health care system. Little Jayden was born premature at 21 weeks and 5 days after conception. Had he been born two days later, doctors would have worked to save his life. But the cutoff age for a premature baby under Britain's National Health Service rationing guidelines is 22 weeks. Forty-eight hours denied Jayden the lifesaving healthcare that he needed to live. Even without it, he breathed on his own for two hours before dying. In spite of his mother's pleas with doctors to save his life, they refused to offer even the most remedial care—granted saving Jayden would have been a strenuous, uphill fight.


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PLANNED PARENTHOOD : 'EXPECT TO HAVE STD'

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Planned Parenthood has announced a new message to sexually active Americans: Expect to have the human papillomavirus, or HPV , sexually transmitted disease because "all of us get it."

Planned Parenthood Federation of America's vice president for medical affairs, Vanessa Cullins, M.D., aired the following advertisement on YouTube , in which she urges viewers to "become more explicit and more concrete in talking about sex."


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Fight FOCA

FOCA would wipe away every restriction on abortion nationwide. It would eradicate state and federal laws that the majority of Americans support, such as:

•  Bans on Partial Birth Abortion

•  Requirements that women be given information about the risks of getting an abortion

•  Only licensed physicians can perform abortions

•  Parents must be informed and give consent to their minor daughter's abortion

FOCA would erase these laws and prevent states from enacting similar protective measures in the future.

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RATIONING AND DEATH PANELS: END OF LIFE CARE SHOULD NOT END LIFE

by Ken Connor
October 23, 2009

The subject of how best to honor and care for those facing death due to terminal illness or old age has always been controversial. As talk of "death panels" and "rationing" stirs debate over the government's proper role in health care, two new studies funded by the National Institutes of Health are lending new weight to the argument that, when it comes to providing end-of-life care for the elderly and terminally ill, sometimes less is better.

The studies, featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, document how certain medical therapies implemented in the final months of a patient's life often cause emotional and physical stress and pain, effectively negating any positive benefits associated with such treatments.

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STUDY SUPPORTS EFFECTIVENESS OF ABSTINENCE – ONLY MESSAGE

Wednesday, February 03, 2010
By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor

(CNSNews.com) – The “abstinence-only” message to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases actually works. That is the conclusion of a scientific study that was released Monday by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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The study found that an abstinence-only message was significantly more successful in getting pre-teens to delay the onset of sexual activity than was a “health-promotion control intervention” – or general risk-reduction effort.

“It shows that the kind of abstinence-only intervention that we used was effective in reducing rates of sexual initiation among young African American adolescents, compared with a health-promotion control group,” lead author John B. Jemmott III, a professor at the UPenn School of Medicine, told CNSNews.com.

 

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Action Alert!

Every Pro-Life American
Must Tell Congress Now:
“Vote against any health care bill that does
not explicitly exclude abortion!”

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REAL HEALTH CARE RESPECTS LIFE

The current so-called health care bills under construction on Capitol Hill fail to provide care for those most vulnerable – the unborn, the elderly, and the terminally ill.

Don't be deceived by sugar coated words like “compromise” and “alternatives”. Changing the terminology does not change the plan. Contact your elected officials and let them know that you oppose health care which funds abortion and rationing. ABORTION IS NOT HEALTH CARE!!

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A Quiet Admission Speaks Loudly About Abortion and Breast Cancer

by Dave Andrusko
January 13 , 2010

The first couple of sentences might seem to have precious little to do with abortion and breast cancer but read the following quotation right to the end. It's from a post by Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center:

"Back in the early 1800's, most practicing physicians refused to believe that the simple gesture of washing their hands between patients could help prevent the spread of childbed fever among the pregnant women they examined. Even in the face of compelling scientific evidence, they remained stubbornly opposed to the practice. As a result of this intransigence on the part of the medical establishment over a period of many years, childbed fever (also known as puerpural infection) ended up unnecessarily claiming the lives of thousands of young women. Today, a similar intransigence exists among many physicians who refuse to "wash their hands" of abortion; they also fail to acknowledge a key and dangerous effect of abortion on women's health, namely, an increased risk of breast cancer."

I quote from Fr. Pacholczyk for a lot of reasons (it's a very clever parallel, for starters), but most of all because it illustrates the power of conventional thinking, a.k.a. the received wisdom. This is critically important in the debate over abortion.


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