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By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:08 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested that Susan G. Komen for the Cure shouldn’t provide grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings because abortions cause breast cancer, a false claim that has been repeatedly debunked.
The candidate told Fox News host Chris Wallace that he didn’t agree with the Komen Foundation reversing itself last week and making Planned Parenthood eligible for future grants.
“I’ve taken the position as a presidential candidate and someone in Congress that Planned Parenthood funds and does abortions,” Santorum explained. “They’re a private organization they stand up and support what ever they want.”
“I don’t believe that breast cancer research is advanced by funding an organization where you’ve seen ties to cancer and abortion,” he added. “So, I don’t think it’s a particularly healthy way of contributing money to further cause of breast cancer, but that’s for a private organization like Susan B. Komen to make that decision.”
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the several small flawed studies that suggested a link between abortion and breast cancer have been disproven.
“Since then, better-designed studies have been conducted,” the institute’s website said. “These newer studies examined large numbers of women, collected data before breast cancer was found, and gathered medical history information from medical records rather than simply from self-reports, thereby generating more reliable findings. The newer studies consistently showed no association between induced and spontaneous abortions and breast cancer risk.”
In 2002, the Bush administration temporarily altered NCI’s website to say that scientific evidence supported a possible link between abortion and breast cancer. After an outcry from the scientific community, NCI corrected its website with an accurate fact sheet.
A study released by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) in 2006 found that the Bush administration also used pregnancy resource centers — commonly known as “crisis pregnancy centers” — to falsely inform pregnant teens that the risk of breast cancer increased by 80 percent after an abortion.
“This tactic may be effective in frightening pregnant teenagers and women and discouraging abortion,” the study concluded (PDF). “But it denies the teenagers and women vital health information, prevents them from making an informed decision, and is not an accepted public health practice.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/05/santorum-suggests-abortion-causes-breast-cancer/
Watch this video from Fox’s Fox News Sunday, broadcast Feb. 5, 2012.
"What an Odd thing to say!!!"By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:08 EST
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A simple urine test carried out mid-pregnancy could predict which women will go on to suffer from a potentially fatal complication.
link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8883372/Simple-urine-test-can-predict-fatal-pregnancy-condition-research.htmlA simple urine test carried out mid-pregnancy could predict which women will go on to... more
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Babytrapped is a brand-new film that looks at how a young couple cope when the woman unexpectedly falls pregnant after unprotected sex.
Meet Liam and Nita, a couple who had been going out for a few weeks when they found out a baby was on its way. For Liam the solution was simple: abortion. But Nita had her own ideas about the pregnancy.
Babytrapped is an intimate portrait of two parents-to-be and the fears and difficulties they face in the light of this life-changing event. Exploring two sides of the same coin through tough decisions and gender differences, this film is sure to spark strong feelings about abortion, family and responsibility.14 November at 10pm: Babytrapped
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Brittany Larson, 27-year-old teacher at Devereux Glenholme School, New Milford, Connecticut, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 16-year-old student. The school serves students with Asperger's syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other learning disorders.
Police had been conducting an investigation since being contacted last month by administrators at the school. A statement released by the school’s assistant executive director expressed concern for the privacy of the victim, and said the school was fully cooperating with police and that the safety of the students is paramount.Tthe employment of Ms. Larson, a New Milford resident, was terminated.
She was charged with second-degree sexual assault and held by police on a $25,000 bond. Ms. Larson is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 24. The case was investigated by Washington State Trooper Stephen Sordi.
At the present time Larson is reported to be pregnant
http://badbadteachers.blogspot.com/2011/11/brittany-larson.htmlBrittany Larson, 27-year-old teacher at Devereux Glenholme School, New Milford,... more
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Babytrapped is a brand-new film that looks at how a young couple cope when the woman unexpectedly falls pregnant after unprotected sex.
Meet Liam and Nita, a couple who had been going out for a few weeks when they found out a baby was on its way.
For Liam the solution was simple: abortion. But Nita had her own ideas about the pregnancy. Babytrapped is an intimate portrait of two parentsto- be and the fears and difficulties they face in the light of this life-changing event. Exploring two sides of the same coin through tough decisions and gender differences, this film is sure to spark strong feelings about abortion, family and Responsibility.
14 November at 10pm: BabytrappedBabytrapped is a brand-new film that looks at how a young couple cope when the woman... more
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In the run-up to Christmas, Current will tackle some of the big issues surrounding the party season.
Bootleg Booze will investigate the rise in cheap and potentially deadly counterfeit alcohol sold in bars and shops across Britain, What Did I Do Last Night? Season 2 is back with a vengeance to have a look at our nation's drinking habits, and Babytrapped looks at the very real consequences of unprotected sex.
If you love having a good time and you love good TV, then don't miss the Party Now Pay Later season, 14 November - 10 December.
14 November 10pm: Babytrapped
21 November 10pm: Bootlegged Booze
29 November - 4 December: What Did I Do Last Night? Season 1
5 December - 10 December: What Did I Do Last Night? Season 2In the run-up to Christmas, Current will tackle some of the big issues surrounding the... more
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How to save $600... It's missing a few zeros. Also saves you from ever having to go to these stores. 60% of the time, it works every time.How to save $600... It's missing a few zeros. Also saves you from ever having to... more
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There’s nothing we all like better than a bit of good news so it’s perhaps not that surprising that the world went crazy about Beyoncé’s baby announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night.
Twitter pumped out an incredible 8,868 tweets per second on the subject of Mrs Jay-Z’s pregnancy, smashing the previous record of 7,196 tweets per second when the Japanese women’s football team beat the US in the World Cup back in July.
This new record comes as the increase in Twitter use continues. The microblogging site reports that its users are now sending 200 millions tweets a day – up from 135 million a year ago.There’s nothing we all like better than a bit of good news so it’s perhaps... more
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This week’s Us Weekly and Life & Style covers share conjured stories about the contents of Jennifer Aniston’s womb.This week’s Us Weekly and Life & Style covers share conjured stories about... more
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A FORMER DEVIL WORSHIPER in Swaziland says she gave BIRTH to a seven-headed snake during her exorcism!
According to the Swazi Observer, Patience Tsabedze, a 27-year-old mother of two, who says she served the devil “in a very high rank” for seven years, suffered a “horrific” deliverance last week witnessed by her husband, who works as a police officer, his fellow officers, and a pastor who performed the exorcism.
Over the course of weeks, “Patience vomited gallons of blood, three live starfish and 20 ordinary fish, a dead rat, over 700 worms and other gory items. Her ears also excreted millipedes,” according to reports in the Swazi Observer.
But the horror scene didn’t end there, Patience says she later suffered severe “labor pains” and “gave birth” to a live snake.
“It was my first time seeing such a snake, a seven-headed one with glittering eyes. I tried to kill it but it hid inside the toilet so we decided to flush it,” her husband told the Times of Swaziland.
Despite no longer worshiping the devil, Patience says she still suffers attacks by demons.
http://www.tabloidprodigy.com/2011/07/20/devil-worshiper-gave-birth-to-seven-headed-snake-during-her-exorcism/A FORMER DEVIL WORSHIPER in Swaziland says she gave BIRTH to a seven-headed snake... more
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That'ts right, a 16 pound baby was born in Texas today!
Janet Johnson of Texas pushed a 16-pound, 1-ounce baby out of her ladyparts. That little boy, JaMichael Brown, is the sole reason that all children should say to their mothers, “I’m reeeeeeeally sorry if I caused you pain,” but they wouldn’t end that sentence with “in your vagina,” even though both mother and child would know that’s exactly what s/he meant.That'ts right, a 16 pound baby was born in Texas today!
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Ina May Gaskin started delivering babies in 1970 while on a hippie cross-country trip known as the caravan. She had no medical training, just a master's degree in English and a gut feeling that women deserved kinder, gentler births. When the hundreds of caravaners settled in Tennessee on what they called the Farm, Gaskin and several other women began delivering the community's babies at home and also opened one of the first, nonhospital birthing centers in the country. Word got around when Gaskin wrote about her successes in Spiritual Midwifery, and a movement was born.
Today, women still travel far and wide to give birth on the Farm, and Gaskin's methods have the respect of clinicians around the world (there is even an obstetric maneuver named after her). Now 71, she is credited with reviving what was essentially a dead profession in the U.S., inspiring scores of women to enter the field and helping found the Midwives Alliance of North America. But even while midwives attend more births in the U.S. — about 7.5% in 2008 — they're finding it increasingly hard to get practice agreements with doctors and hospitals. In her latest book, Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta (Seven Stories, April 2011), Gaskin argues that America needs midwives more than ever.
You started attending births with no formal medical training. How did you know you could do it?
I knew how to deal with potential complications because kind doctors helped me. But basically I was behaving the way my aunt, who had a farm, would around any laboring mammal. You don't disturb her, you don't upset her. She deserves peace and quiet and respect. Doing that meant that no C-sections were necessary for the first 200 births on the Farm.
The C-section rate on the Farm is very low, under 2% for about 3,000 births, while the average in the U.S. for low-risk women is 20%. Can you explain?
It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't be around in case there is a problem. It just means that you should be able to tell when there's a problem, and you should be able to tell how not to create problems.
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2062393,00.html#ixzz1P9FhJMRxIna May Gaskin started delivering babies in 1970 while on a hippie cross-country trip... more
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I know a lot gets outsourced to India.... but pregnancy and childbirth? you've got to be kidding!...this is pretty much pregnancy farms! This can't be morally right...and surely it paves the way for black market business and surrogates being treated as nothing more than vessels and not humans themselves...
This Channel 4 documentary being aired at the end of the month investigates this strange and sick proposalI know a lot gets outsourced to India.... but pregnancy and childbirth? you've... more
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I won't be offering any opinions, I just find this poll rather interesting.
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By a 24 percent margin, 61-37 percent, Americans take the pro-life view that abortions should either be legal under no circumstances or legal only under a few circumstances. Although Gallup doesn’t specify those “few” circumstances, polling data has consistently shown that, when asked about cases such as rape, incest, or the life of the mother, a majority of Americans want all or almost all abortions made illegal — leaving only life of the mother or rape and incest as the exceptions.
“Americans are rather conservative in their stance on abortion, with 61% now preferring that abortion be legal in only a few circumstances or no circumstances. By contrast, 37% want abortion legal in all or most circumstances,” Gallup analyst Lydia Saad writes. “Over the past two decades, Americans have consistently leaned toward believing abortion should be legal in only a few or no circumstances, although less so in the mid-1990s than since about 1997, when combined support for these has averaged close to 60%.”I won't be offering any opinions, I just find this poll rather interesting.... more
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A small study of maternal deaths in New York City rings loud warning bells for pregnant African American women. Experts offer ideas on lowering some of the deadliest risks for all women: hypertension, C-section, embolism and pre-eclampsia.
One of the few looks at maternal mortality in the United States was New York City's recent analysis of 161 women who died from 2001 to 2005.
It's a small study with loud warning bells for African American women, who make up 24 percent of the city's maternity population.
Fifty-eight percent of those who died of pregnancy-induced conditions in the study were black and 10 percent were white. Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander pregnant women died at twice the rate of white pregnant women, but at significantly lower rates than blacks.
Women over 40 were found to be about 2.6 times more likely to die from childbirth-related conditions than younger women. Forty-nine percent were obese. Pregnant women who had private insurance and those insured by Medicaid –government insurance for those with low incomes--had similar rates of pre-natal care.
The New York City report drew no conclusions about how to lower the city's high rate of maternal deaths among African Americans.
In the United States 1 out of every 7 maternal deaths occurs six weeks after delivery, so some deaths might have been prevented if the woman received more follow-up care.
Full Story at: http://www.womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/110425/study-details-causes-high-maternal-death-ratesA small study of maternal deaths in New York City rings loud warning bells for... more
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A clever high-school student in Toppenish, Washington, shocked a student assembly this week when she took off her prosthetic baby bump after six months of convincing everyone at her school that she was pregnant, according to the Yakima Herald-Republic. Gaby Rodriguez, 17, initially conceived the social experiment during her sophomore year as part of a senior project on stereotyping, but only a handful of people knew about it, including her mother, boyfriend, and the school principal. "She sacrificed her senior year to find out what it would be like to be a potential teen mom," said Principal Trevor Greene. During the assembly, she asked students and teachers to read some of the judgmental things people had said about her during her pregnancy. One teacher admitted to have initially wondered, "How are we going to take all of the potential that's in this girl and make sure it manifests itself and not let [her pregnancy] define who she is?" One of the conclusions Ms. Rodriguez drew from her research was that this was an issue Hispanic teens are more likely to face than white teens. At Toppenish High School, 85 percent of the student body is HispanicA clever high-school student in Toppenish, Washington, shocked a student assembly this... more
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Gaby Rodriguez would worry whenever anyone asked to touch her baby bump.
It wasn't because she felt shy or embarrassed. It was because the bulge -- fashioned from wire mesh and cotton quilt batting -- didn't actually contain a baby.
For the past 61/2 months -- the bulk of her senior year at Toppenish High School -- the 17-year-old A-student faked her own pregnancy.
Only a handful of people -- her mother, boyfriend and principal among them -- knew Gaby was pretending to be pregnant for her senior project, a culminating assignment required for graduation.
Her teachers and fellow students, except for her best friend, didn't realize they were part of a social experiment.
Neither did six of her seven siblings -- including four older brothers -- her boyfriend's parents, and his five younger brothers and sisters.
"At times, I just wanted to take it off and be done," she says. "I didn't want to go through this anymore."
But Gaby didn't give up the charade until Wednesday morning, when she revealed her secret during an emotional, all-school assembly.
The topic of her presentation: "Stereotypes, rumors and statistics."
"Teenagers tend to live in the shadows of these elements," she says.
Before taking off her fake baby belly in front of the entire student body, Gaby told her audience, "Many things were said about me. Many things traveled all the way back to me."
Then, she asked several students and teachers to read statements from 3x5 cards, quotes people actually said about her during the course of her experiment.
Her best friend, Saida Cortes, a 17-year-old senior who was sitting in the front row, read card No. 3: "Her attitude is changing, and it might be because of the baby or she was always this annoying and I never realized it."
It grew quiet in the gym as more and more quotes were read aloud. Then Gaby dropped her bomb: "I'm fighting against those stereotypes and rumors because the reality is I'm not pregnant."
She had been nervous about how the crowd might react. After all, she had been lying to them since October.
"It 'happened' at homecoming," says principal Trevor Greene, making air quotes with his middle and index fingers at the word "happened."
"In essence, she gave up her senior year," he says. "She sacrificed her senior year to find out what it would be like to be a potential teen mom.
"I admire her courage. I admire her preparation. I give her mother a lot of credit for backing her up on this."
But, the principal continues, "I have a daughter that will be here next year, and I would not let her do it."
At first Gaby's mother wasn't sure what to make of the idea, either.
"I thought she was crazy," says 52-year-old Juana Rodriguez, adding it was difficult to lie to family members -- "It didn't feel good" -- but she felt she needed to support her daughter, who enlisted two mentors from Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital's Childbirth Education Program to help her with her project.
When Gaby approached Greene last spring, she says she worried he might say no. He says he was impressed with her determination. He also says he was "shocked."
"I heard her out," he says. "I listened to her presentation, her proposal. And then I went through all the difficulties I foresaw to making this happen."
People might talk about her behind her back. Her older brothers might want to beat up her boyfriend. And there might be backlash -- even broken relationships -- when students, teachers and family members learned the truth.
"None of that deterred her," Greene says, adding he felt he needed to get permission from superintendent John Cerna.
Cerna signed off. In fact, he left the west side of the state -- where he had been attending a conference -- at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday in order to get to Gaby's 10:15 a.m. presentation.
"I wouldn't miss this," Cerna says, adding, "It's amazing that a young lady would take this challenge on. It was a well-kept secret."
Gaby began wearing her homemade, basketball-sized, prosthetic belly to school after spring break. Before that, she wore baggy sweaters and sweatshirts to conceal her faux pregnancy.
Her supposed due date was July 27, not quite two months after graduation.
Gaby and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Jorge Orozco, met at the homecoming game when she was a freshman and he was a senior. They started dating just over three years ago.
When Gaby told him her plan, "I thought she was nuts," the 2009 Toppenish High School graduate says. "I thought I was going to end up getting into problems with her brothers. I didn't really want to get into problems with anybody."
But, "I was doing it for her," he says, adding, "My parents thought it was going to be a boy."
Gaby -- who has a grade-point average of 3.8 and serves as president of her school's MEChA, or Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, Club -- came up with the idea during her sophomore year Advanced Placement biology class with Shawn Myers. She's in his anatomy class this year.
"You saw the side comments and the looks at her stomach," says Myers, who says he wasn't disappointed -- "just concerned" -- when she told him she was pregnant.
He says he wondered: "How are we going to take all of the potential that's in this girl and make sure it manifests itself and not let this define who she is and let it be a roadblock to what she wants to accomplish?"
It's a question Hispanic teens are more likely to face than white teens, Gaby found in her research. Black and Hispanic teens continue to have higher pregnancy rates than white teens.
And most teens at Toppenish High School -- about 85 percent -- are Hispanic.
Gaby came clean to Myers and two other teachers, both women, Monday. The women, she says, seemed relieved.
Myers had a different reaction: "She kept talking, and it did not register. Then I just kind of leaned forward and said, 'Are you serious?' I told her, 'You've run a great value experiment. You couldn't tell anybody because you had to control the variables.'"
But, he says, "When you're running a social experiment, you're dealing with human emotions. The human person in me felt I had been lied to."
Wednesday, Gaby apologized to teachers and students for misleading them.
When she took off her baby belly, there were a few nervous giggles, and a loud, "Whaaaaat?!" from the audience.
Then, there was applause. And, at the end of the assembly, following a Q&A session, there was a standing ovation, the first one Greene says he remembers during his three-year tenure at Toppenish High School.
"She really fooled me. I never would've guessed it," says 17-year-old senior Vicente Villanueva. "I'm really surprised."
So was 19-year-old Angel Jalomo, a 2010 Davis High School graduate and Gaby's niece: "I didn't know what to say. I just started crying."
Gaby will present her research to a board of community members in May. It will include photos and video from Wednesday's assembly. And Gaby still needs to finish writing her report. But by revealing the project to students Wednesday, she can go on her English class trip to Ashland, Ore., on Friday without her baby belly.
Plus, she didn't want to be pregnant for prom. She already has her dress, a teal form-fitting mermaid gown with spaghetti straps.
Gaby plans to attend Columbia Basin College to study social work or sociology in the fall. And, she says, "I'm not planning to have a child until after I graduate."
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/04/20/pregnot-toppenish-high-student-fakes-pregnancy-as-social-test-about-stereotypes-rumorsGaby Rodriguez would worry whenever anyone asked to touch her baby bump.
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Leading research organisations and patient groups are asking the government to change the law to allow scientists to implant embryos into women that have genetic material from three different parents.This "tiny" bit of third person's DNA can prevent inherited disorders being passed on researchers claim. The groundbreaking procedure has so far only been tried in a lab and mostly using animal embryos. But if it proves safe and successful it could prevent several hundred babies every year being born with genetic defects.The afflictions can include blindness, organ failure, muscular disorders, learning disabilities and diabetes. Many babies die as a result of the genetic defects.The diseases are caused by mutations in the mitochondrial DNA, which is found only in the egg of the mother.British scientists have led efforts to find ways to prevent inherited disorders being passed on and causing babies to die or be disabled.The call for a law change comes in a letter sent to Andrew Lansley, the health secretary. The letter, from the Wellcome Trust, Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council and Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, among others, was dispatched as a group of experts published a review commissioned by Lansley into the safety and effectiveness of scientific procedures attempted so far.How do they do it?There are two separate techniques - both of which involve mixing the DNA of the parents with a small amount of mitochondrial DNA from a donor egg.This is not, however, "three-parent IVF", said Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, one of the authors of the review which has now gone to the government. "It is not a term we have used once in this report and it is not a term that should be used," he told the Guardian."This is a tiny, tiny bit of DNA. It is not carrying any characteristics except that you have normally functioning mitochondria."The DNA contribution from the egg with normal mitochondria is tiny compared to the DNA from the two main parents.Dr Evan Harris, the former Lib Dem MP who has taken a close interest in embryo research, likened it to "changing the battery on the laptop, but not affecting the information on the hard disk".One of the two experimental techniques is called maternal spindle transfer and involves removing the genetic material from the would-be mother's unfertilised egg and fusing it into a donor egg from which the nucleus has been removed. Fertilisation with the partner's sperm takes place afterwards."It's been done in various animals and seems to be both efficient and safe," said Lovell-Badge. But it has not been tried using human eggs, which the scientists would like to see happen.The other method is proncuclear transfer, which has been researched by the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Newcastle University. This involves the transfer of both parents' DNA from a fertilised egg into a fertilised donor egg which has had its nucleus removed. This was successfully carried out in mice as early as the 1980s, and in Newcastle has also been done with abnormal human eggs.Lovell-Badge and his team would like to see this attempted in normal fertilised human eggs and also in monkeys, to be sure of the safe outcome.The further experiments should not take much more than a year. Scientists and patient groups are now pressing the government to consider the legal and ethical issues involved, so that the necessary regulatory changes can be made to move the experimental work into the clinic as soon as possible.
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A mother's diet during pregnancy can alter the DNA of her child and increase the risk of obesity, according to researchers.The study, to be published in the journal Diabetes, showed eating a lot of carbohydrate changed bits of DNA.
:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13119545A mother's diet during pregnancy can alter the DNA of her child and increase the... more
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