March 16, 2010
Mom on Trial for Killing Six Babies
News24.comA 38-year-old woman went on trial on Monday in northwest France, accused of killing six of her newborns and hiding the corpses in bags in her basement. Celine Lesage faces life in prison if convicted by the jury in the courthouse in Valognes, near the Atlantic coast, on charges of aggravated homicide. She was arrested in 2007 after her partner at the time discovered the corpses in plastic garbage bags in the basement of their apartment building in Valognes. The babies were born between 2000 and 2007. She told investigators that the father of five of the newborns was an ex-boyfriend, who was detained for questioning after she was arrested in 2007. She said the father of the sixth newborn was the partner who discovered the corpses.
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French Woman 'Murdered Newborn Babies And Hid Corpses In Cellar'
Daily Telegraph
A French mother on Monday stood trial for murdering six of her newborn babies in almost as many years and hiding their corpses in a cellar. Céline Lesage, 38, faces life in prison for "aggravated homicide" after allegedly choking four babies by placing her finger in their mouths, and strangling two others who were "more vivacious" with a cord. She secretly delivered the babies alone between August 2000 and September 2007, putting "the babies and their dirty clothes neatly in a sealed plastic bag and (hiding) them," according to Michel Garrandaux, the Cherbourg prosecutor. "Her attitude was wholly ambivalent. On the one hand, she expressed her desire to have children, and then she refused to keep them," Mr Garrandaux added. Wearing a beige dress and with her brown hair tied back, Miss Lesage told the court in the Channel port of Cherbourg: "I admit to the charges."
French Woman On Trial for Six Baby Murders
Brisbane Times
A 38-year-old French woman went on trial Monday, accused of strangling or smothering to death her six newborn babies. Celine Lesage, a petite brunette who has a teenaged son, admitted before a judge in the Channel town of Coutances to killing the six infants between 1999 and 2007. "I admit to the charges," Lesage said on the first day of her trial. Lesage is accused of first degree murder and faces a life jail sentence if convicted, with no possibility of parole for 18 years.
Anti-Abortion Pictures Unlikely To Have Impact (Only if you're stone cold dead)
By Anthony Westbury / St. Lucie News TribuneThe Personhood anti-abortion organization will bring its Personhood FL Spring Break Tour 2010 to the intersection of U.S. 1 and Port St. Lucie Boulevard between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. It's all part of a statewide caravan that began this week in Panama City Beach and will end in Jacksonville after working its way through the peninsula. The most visible and controversial aspects of the tour are sure to be the "truth trucks," which display large, graphic photographs of aborted fetuses, along with pictures of born and "pre-born" children.
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Some Say Planned Parenthood Relocation to East Knox Racially Motivated
Standing behind a banner that read "Black children are an endangered species," six black pastors joined a handful of white anti-abortion protesters Friday on the sidewalk of Cherry Street in front of the new Planned Parenthood clinic in a prayer vigil. The clergy members and the Pro-Life Coalition of East Tennessee say the relocation of the clinic from a predominantly white neighborhood in West Knoxville to a predominantly black one on the east side of town is, in part, racially motivated. "Yes, I think they target black neighborhoods and black women, Hispanics and poor people," said Cecil Clark, pastor of True Vine Baptist Church, a black congregation located across the intersection in front of the clinic.Click Here For The Full Story......
Countdown to Health Insurance Nationalization
By Sheldon RichmanThe "debate" over what to do about the serious problems in the medical system has been pretty lame, with strange economics, chicanery, and demagoguery run rampant. The minority party's pitiful offerings and compromises are documented in an article I wrote here. The majority's several variations on a nationalization theme have provided grist for many other articles. Watching each side's advocates on television gives one the impression that they would say anything to score points with the uncritical viewing public. Case in point: Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. I only single him out because I happened to catch his "special comment" Wednesday night, the night before the big bipartisan show -- excuse me, summit. Olbermann has much in common with his fellow progressive talkers, though he does add an extra dash of self-righteousness that sets him apart.
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Pro-Abort Proposes Sweeping Reforms to No Child Left Behind
The MonitorMcALLEN -- Obama's plan to overhaul the nation's education law received generally positive marks from superintendents in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday. Obama's proposal would cast aside much of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law and would move away from punishing schools for not meeting federal benchmarks and instead focus on rewarding progress. Among the more important revisions, local superintendents said, was Obama's proposal to call for states to adopt standards to ensure students are college or career ready rather than grade-level proficient, as the current law does. Obama unveiled his plan Saturday, saying the proposal would make sure kids have better teachers and attend better schools so that they can make up for academic ground lost to children in other countries.
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Obama to push 'No Child Left Behind' overhaul
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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration plans to send a wide-ranging overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law to Congress on Monday, arguing that the current legislation has pushed schools to lower their standards to meet federal requirements. The 8-year-old law was one of the signature policies of the Bush administration. It set up a regimen of state reading and math tests for students in third through eighth grades, intended to identify failing schools. But critics have said the Bush administration never properly funded the effort and that states needed more flexibility in meeting those goals. During his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama said his administration's proposed overhaul will "set a high bar -- but we also provide educators the flexibility to reach it."
Overhauling No Child Left Behind
Los Angeles Times
If the No Child Left Behind Act is to be overhauled -- and it should be -- the new version should strip away the law's overly prescriptive notions of what constitutes improvement and impose fairer ways of holding schools accountable. Though some of the fixes outlined Monday by the Obama administration would improve the law, others could prove as rigid, and therefore as unrealistic, as the original, which naively promised to make every student academically proficient. The new target is for 100% of high schoolers to be graduating by 2020, and for all of those graduates to be "college ready." We're glad to see the Obama administration target dropout rates; reducing them is a necessary and achievable goal. No Child Left Behind never paid enough attention to the one-third of students who leave school without a diploma.
Homosexual Secretary of Education Touts 'Shared Responsibility'
George Stephanopoulos / ABC News.comThe top teachers' unions are already pushing back against Obama's proposed changes to "No Child Left Behind" – which gets sent to Capitol Hill today. American Federation of Teacher's President Randi Weingarten says, "this blueprint places 100 percent of the responsibility on teachers and gives them zero percent of the authority." I asked Education Secretary Arne Duncan about that this morning on 'GMA'. He wasn’t buying it: "there will be shared responsibility not just with teachers but principles, school systems…and even states – everyone is gonna be responsible for driving better results."
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Homosexual Education Secretary Pushes 'No Child Left Behind' Overhaul
WHO-TV
DES MOINES -- Obama plans to send his plan for an overhaul of the nation's education system to congress Monday. Sunday, Obama's education secretary, Arne Duncan, pushed the plan in Des Moines saying it will overhaul the 'No Child Left Behind' law. "I think there are many things with 'No Child Left Behind' that didn't work," Duncan told a crowd at Morris Elementary School, "I think the law was too punative. I thought it was great at blaming folks but not at pointing out successes. I think the law was too prescriptive and tried to micro-manage things from Washington."
Gender-Bender Chemicals are Turning Boys Into Girls
The government of Denmark has released a 326-page report affirming that endocrine disrupting chemicals are probably continuing to the birth of fewer males and the "feminization" of existing ones. The report centers on chemicals like PVC, flame retardants, phthalates, dioxins, PCBs and bisphenol-A, all of which mimic the action of estrogen in the body. The researchers concluded that due to the prevalence of these chemicals, children could easily be exposed to high enough levels to place them at "critical risk" of harm.Click Here For The Full Story......
Wake County Commissioners Vote To Restore Elective Abortion Coverage
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wake County Commissioners voted Monday on a measure to restore elective abortion coverage to the county's health plan for employees. County Manager David Cooke removed elective abortions from the health plan last month on the advice of County Attorney Scott Warren. Warren said the change puts the county in line with policy for federal employees, and he also cited a 1981 State Supreme Court case. He said the county could face a lawsuit if the change wasn't made. Board Chairman Tony Gurley said he supports keeping elective abortions out of the county's health plan. "We're following what the Supreme Court has said. So we're not allowed to cover elective abortions," he said. Commissioner Stan Norwalk proposed a resolution Monday during the board's regular meeting to restore elective abortion coverage. Norwalk said the law can be interpreted differently, and he said it's up to commissioners to determine what the county's employee health plan includes. "The reason I'm bringing it up again is because I don't think we should be bullied into what we do," he said. After Cooke removed elective abortions from the health plan last month, the measure was put before the board, which deadlocked 3 to 3 on the consent agenda, which included the measure. Democrat Harold Webb, still recovering from a stroke, was absent at the meeting.Click Here For The Full Story......
Pasco Planned Parenthood Clinic To Open In May
PASCO -- A controversial Pasco medical clinic is preparing to open in two months. Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and Northern Idaho is remodeling a building for its clinic on Court Street. Planned Parenthood officials have said the clinic is needed because of Franklin County's high rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The nonprofit received a special permit for the clinic from the city in December, after the Pasco City Council decided to overturn the planning commission's recommended denial of the permit. Planned Parenthood appealed the commission's decision. The issue brought 200 people to a planning commission meeting, filled the city council chambers, sparked pro-life protests on Court Street and spawned numerous letters to the editor.Click Here For The Full Story......
March Ruling Expected In Abortion Notification Case (And then you can kill the baby)
A judge in Chicago expects to rule March 29 on whether to lift a temporary restraining order on a long-debated Illinois law that requires a teenage girl's parents to be told before she has an abortion. Cook County Judge Daniel Riley heard arguments Monday from the Illinois attorney general's office and the American Civil Liberties Union, which sought the order. Lawmakers passed the law in 1995, but it hasn't been enforced because of various court actions. The law requires doctors to notify the guardians of a girl 17 or younger 48 hours before the teen gets an abortion.Click Here For The Full Story......
Flordia Abortion Regulator: Unborn Child Bill Not Intended to Affect Abortion
State Sen. Mike Fasano is pushing legislation that would give legal rights to a fetus during any stage of a woman's pregnancy. He says the bill is not intended to affect a woman's right to have an abortion, but opponents disagree. Fasano's proposed legislation would change Florida's legal definition of "viable fetus" to "unborn child." Currently if someone kills a pregnant woman, in a car crash or by injuring the mother, the person can be charged separately with killing a viable fetus. That's defined as being able to live outside the womb with standard medical procedures.Click Here For The Full Story......
Pope Benedict Participated In The Sex Abuse Cover-Up While An Archbishop
The unpleasant skeleton in the closet here is that Pope Benedict, back when he was Archbishop Ratzinger, apparently was involved in the long ugly process of reassigning priests guilty of child abuse to other duties that still involved children. Ratzinger apparently signed off on at least one instance of reassigning a priest rather than defrocking him, or even assigning him to non-children duties. The result of this instance of failure to address the problem appears to have been more sex abuse activity involving the same priest.Click Here For The Full Story......
Pope Will Struggle To Survive Abuse Cover-Up Scandal
A depressing week for Pope Benedict dramatically escalated last night into an unprecedented papal crisis when he was directly implicated in a cover-up of a German paedophile priest when he was Cardinal Archbishop of Munich 30 years ago. The latest revelations are so potentially damaging to the reputation of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that speculation was mounting last night that they could severely, perhaps even irreparably, damage his moral authority as Pope Benedict XVI. It was being speculated that the German Pope could conceivably have to recognise that his position as supreme pontiff could become untenable -- and do what was until now considered impossible, resign from the Petrine throne.Click Here For The Full Story......
Vaccine Safety Appeal Goes to the Supreme Court
On the first of March, the United States Supreme Court accepted the appeal of parents who say that vaccines can cause serious health problems. The case involves the parents of Hannah Bruesewitz of Pennsylvania and began in 1992, when the Congressional judicial forum for vaccine safety heard the case and denied it. Since then, the case has been threading its way through the courts. At issue in this case, labeled Russel Bruesewitz, et al., Petitioners v. Wyeth Inc., fka Wyeth Laboratories, et al (09-152) or just Bruesewitz v. Wyeth Inc., is whether the vaccine case can be heard in civil courts outside of the Congressional forum.Click Here For The Full Story......
Central Figure in CDC Vaccine Cover-Up Absconds With $2M
A central figure behind the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials discovered massive fraud involving the theft of millions in taxpayer dollars. Danish police are investigating Dr. Poul Thorsen, who has vanished along with almost $2 million that he had supposedly spent on research. Thorsen was a leading member of a Danish research group that wrote several key studies supporting CDC's claims that the MMR vaccine and mercury-laden vaccines were safe for children. Thorsen's 2003 Danish study reported a 20-fold increase in autism in Denmark after that country banned mercury based preservatives in its vaccines. His study concluded that mercury could therefore not be the culprit behind the autism epidemic.Click Here For The Full Story......
March 15, 2010
Spring Break Abortion Protest
Since 1973, the United States has allowed abortions. But these people say abortion is equivalent to murdering the unborn. Tuesday they staged demonstrations along Panama City Beach, with Spring Break as their backdrop. The "Personhood" group is supporting an amendment to Florida's constitution called the "Personhood Amendment", which would extend the definition of person to every human being. Chris Warner, from Wisconsin, is just one of about 50 protesters. "I went and served in the navy to help and protect our country. If I did that and I let this country stand by and watch unborn babies being murdered I just wouldn't be doing my duty," Warner said. The pro-life group is trying to get nearly 700,000 petition signatures to have the "Personhood Amendment" added to Florida's ballot in the near future.Click Here For The Full Story......
Arizona Bill Would Ban Embryo Sales, Human-Animal 'Hybrids'
A bill working its way through the state Legislature sounds like a science-fiction novel, with its wording to prevent the creation of "human-animal hybrids." And although science has yet to produce mythical creatures such as Minotaurs and mermaids, supporters say the bill is a pre-emptive effort to ban human cloning, human-embryo research and the creation of human-animal hybrids. Opponents say the legislation is meant to frighten and confuse. On its face, they say, the bill could restrict fertility procedures and prevent research. But they also believe it's a bigger-picture step by the state's anti-abortion movement toward defining an embryo as a person. A national movement to establish the rights of "personhood" for embryos has emerged based on the theory that doing so would unravel the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade abortion-rights ruling that a fetus is not legally a person.Click Here For The Full Story......
Someday Soon, Unborn Babies Will Have Rights
By David GillisYou won't find the word "personhood" in your dictionary, at least not right now. It's a safe bet, though, that it will appear in future lexicons. The idea of personhood and thus the word have been influenced by various legal, religious and philosophical traditions. It has entered the realm of politics and, as a result, will grow contentiously. Many just consider it a genderless form and a further definition of the word "manhood." In the future, we will find it has a much greater effect, especially in how we personally and legally interpret human rights.
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Obama Seeks To Overhaul 'No Child Left Behind'
LA TimesObama said he would send to Congress on Monday a blueprint for overhauling the nation's education program and the No Child Left Behind project to improve schools, support teachers and set standards that would give high school graduates "the best chance to succeed in a changing world." Worried that the U.S. is falling behind in education, Obama warned Saturday in his weekly address that "the nation that out-educates us today will out-compete us tomorrow." He said America had "lost ground" over the last several decades, pointing to 15-year-olds who no longer are near the top in math and science compared with their peers around the world, high school graduation rates that have lagged behind most other wealthy countries, and a United States that no longer leads the world in producing college graduates.
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Pelosi Confident House Will Pass Health Care Bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday she's confident the House will pass health care legislation and dismissed Republican criticism that she did not have enough votes for the measure. "We're very excited about where we are and will not be deterred by estimates that have no basis in fact," she said during a dedication of the renamed Lim P. Lee Post Office in San Francisco. The post office was renamed after the nation's first Chinese-American postmaster. Pelosi declined to say when House members would vote on a health care bill, or how many votes that she had secured. Although she added that lawmakers were "on the verge of making history." Click Here For The Full Story......
Catholic Health Association Backs ObamaCare Bill
WASHINGTON -- A group representing Catholic hospitals Saturday rallied behind Obama's health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role. The chief executive of the Catholic Health Association, Carol Keehan, wrote on the group's Web site that although the legislation isn't perfect, it represents a ``major first step'' toward covering all Americans and would make ``great improvements'' for millions of people. Keehan said in an interview that she believes the approach now in the bill would work just as well to keep federal dollars from being used to pay for abortion. ``On the moral issue of abortion, there is no disagreement,'' Keehan said. ``On the technical issue of whether this bill prevents federal funding of abortions, we differ with Right to Life.'' Click Here For The Full Story......
Obama Healthcare II Is Financial Lunacy
Even if the Obama administration is able to persuade (or bludgeon) enough Democrats into passing his latest version of healthcare, it would still be financial lunacy. According to CBS, the Director of the CBO, Doug Elmendorf, told the Senate Budget Committee that none of the bills he has seen would reduce health care costs: “In the legislation that has been [analyzed so far] we do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of ... health care spending by a significant amount.... On the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.” Click Here For The Full Story......
Pro-Aborts Use Immigration to Push National Biometric ID Card
Democrat Chuck Schumer (the pro-abort who introduced NRLC's Face ACT) and Republican Lindsey Graham (neocon pro-abort boot-licker) have joined forces in an effort to force a biometric ID on the American people. The new national ID scheme is part of a comprehensive immigration bill now in the Senate. Schumer and Graham want every American worker required to have a biometric ID card in order to work. “Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker,” reports The Wall Street Journal.Click Here For The Full Story......
Pro-Aborts McCain-Lieberman Bill Would Deny Civilian Trials for 'Enemy Belligerents'
On March 4 Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill entitled “The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010.” If you thought some of the legislation introduced and passed by Congress under Bush II was scary, then in the immortal words of Bachman and Turner you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The stated purpose of the bill is to ban civilian trials for those designated by the federal government as “enemy belligerents.” The bill would bar such individuals from receiving the legal rights usually afforded those accused of crimes in the United States. “Enemy belligerents” would be taken into military custody for the purposes of interrogation and determination of their status. Some, after interrogation and determination of status, may become "high-level detainees."Click Here For The Full Story......
Police State 2010: Homeland Security Unveils Mobile Mind Screening Checkpoints
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Amendment IV to The Bill of Rights
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Young Mother Tossed Newborn Out Bathroom Window
TINLEY PARK, IL -- A Blue Island teenager gave birth at her home then threw the newborn out the bathroom window, Cook County prosecutors said in court Saturday. Adelina Cortez, 17, of the 12500 block of Greenwood Avenue, is accused of killing her newborn daughter, Estrella, on Oct. 22. She was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder. Bail was set Saturday at $750,000. Prosecutors said the newborn's death was caused by hypothermia - she had been alive at birth.Click Here For The Full Story......
Proposed Food and Drug Amendment to the United States Constitution
With all the fight over healthcare reform, it makes sense that no matter who wins or loses the battle, Big Pharma's drug lords and the tyrannical government administration known as the FDA will come out on top. These money grabbing organizations fueled by the media and the super-elite organizations with mottos such as "kill the useless eaters" (Henry Kissinger) are gaining ground fast. The once thought of as conspiracy theories such as chemtrails are now too much in plain sight to deny any longer. These chemtrails contain barium and aluminum for the purpose of electro-charging the sky. They also often contain new viruses and other bio-experiments just to provide Big Pharma with another shot at owning a top selling vaccine.Click Here For The Full Story......
Virginia's Planned Parenthood' License Plate Bill Passes
RICHMOND, Va. -- A bill establishing an abortion license plate is headed to Gov. Bob McDonnell, who has said he doesn't support the organization that would receive money from the plates. The Senate voted 22-15 and the House 64-30 for a bill that would create a "Trust Women/Respect Choice" license plate. After the first 1,000 plates are sold, $15 from each $25 plate would go to Planned Parenthood, which provides medical and reproductive care to more than 30,000 Virginians.Click Here For The Full Story......
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God Mocking Virginia Governor 'Protects' Homosexuals
Abominations
RICHMOND -- Hoping to quell a growing uproar on Virginia's college campuses over homosexuality, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell issued a directive to all 102,000 state employees Wednesday that prohibits discrimination in the state workforce, including on the basis of sexual orientation, and warns he will reprimand or fire anyone who engages in it (Isa.5:20). McDonnell's directive comes a week after Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) distributed a letter to the state's public colleges and universities asking them to remove references to sexual orientation from their campus nondiscrimination policies. Cuccinelli says that only the General Assembly has the authority [sic] to extend legal protections to faggots.
Social Security to Start Cashing IOU's
The Associated PressThe retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration. It's time to start cashing them in. For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits — billions more each year. Not anymore. This year, for the first time since the 1980s, when Congress last overhauled Social Security, the retirement program is projected to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes — nearly $29 billion more.
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Hillary Rallies for More Women's Opportunities Worldwide
UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told government delegates and activists here Friday that violence against women remains a "global pandemic" and that their "subjugation" constitutes "a threat to the national security of the United States." Speaking on the final day of a two-week U.N. conference on women's rights, Clinton urged U.N. member states to expand opportunities for women and end practices that subject them to discrimination and violence. Friday's event was scheduled to review progress on the 1995 Beijing Declaration, a landmark document that sets out women's economic, social and political rights. Clinton, who attended the Beijing conference as first lady, received a standing ovation from a crowd that included her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright.Click Here For The Full Story......
Pro-Abort China Calls Pro-Abort U.S. a Hypocrite Over Human Rights
BEIJING -- China accused Washington of hypocrisy on Friday for its criticism of Beijing's restrictions on the Internet and dissent, blaming the United States for the financial crisis and saying its own rights record was terrible. In its annual survey of human rights in 194 countries issued on Thursday, the U.S. State Department criticized China, along with Cuba, Myanmar, North Korea and Russia. China's State Council Information Office, or cabinet spokesman's office, issued its own annual assessment of the United States' human rights record in response, and this year it dwelt on America's economic woes.Click Here For The Full Story......
'Pornographic Cartoons' Used By Elementary School to Teach Sex Ed
Parents' anger after class of seven-year-oldsis shown 'graphic sex cartoon' at school
Lisa Bullivant, from Legbourne, Lincolnshire, was so upset by the 'graphic' content, she took her daughter out of East Wold Primary School and placed her with another school. Mrs Bullivant said: 'The cartoon was very graphic. My daughter was frightened and children have unfortunately been copying what they have seen. Parents should have been given the decision of whether the video should have been shown or not. 'Seven to nine-year-olds should not possess this knowledge. There is no educational or psychological benefit or need for children of this age to have full knowledge of what sexual intercourse actually entails.'
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Australia's 'Doctor Death' to Visit Dublin
Controversial Australian assisted suicide advocate Philip Nitschke is planning to hold his first public meeting and workshop in Dublin later this month. Dr Nitschke’s group, Exit International, provoked uproar in Britain when it tried to hold such meetings and some were cancelled. He said he was coming to Ireland because, over the years, Exit had received “significant interest” from older people in Ireland wanting information about their end-of-life choices. The meeting is set for March 19th. Dr Nitschke believes he was the first doctor in the world to administer a legal, voluntary lethal injection to terminally ill patients.Click Here For The Full Story......
Scientology Insider's Nightmare Childhood
A former Scientologist who says she was a "child slave" and alleges she saw a six-year-old boy chained up in a ship's hold is disappointed the Senate has blocked a full inquiry into the religious organisation. Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has been calling for a full inquiry into the church since revealing claims of forced abortions and other abuses in Parliament last year. Keryn, 54, grew up in the church and has asked the ABC to identify her only by her first name. She says she was a victim of "hard labour, mental brutality and separation" on Scientology ships, which were used for the Church's elite band of followers in the 1960s to 1970s. She is angry the motion for a Scientology probe has been blocked in Parliament. "Australia is an egalitarian society; Scientology is not egalitarian," she told ABC News Online.Click Here For The Full Story......
Delhi Man, Mother Get Life Terms In Dowry Death Case
NEW DELHI -- The Delhi High Court Thursday upheld life sentences to a man and his mother for killing his wife for dowry. The court also regretted the stand of the girl's family, saying the case shows discrimination against the girl child still exists in Indian society. Dismissing the appeal of Balbir Singh and Kamla Devi against their conviction by the trial court for Pinki's murder in 2002, a division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Suresh Kait said: "Wrought with discrimination and prejudiced by rituals, Indian society has dealt the girl child a rough hand, starting even before her birth and ending with the dusk of her life". "Amidst uproar of gender equality and law enforcement, female infants are found dumped in the trash by the dozens, and unborn female foetuses continue to be sniffed out in the womb," it said.Click Here For The Full Story......
IVF Clinics Told To Clamp Down on Test Tube Multiple Births
Women who want an IVF baby will be forced to undergo more attempts at fertility treatment using just one embryo at a time, to avoid the risk of multiple births. Clinics which flout strict new rules, to be introduced next month by the Government's IVF watchdog, face enforcement action including losing their licence. The new rules, enshrined in a formal code of practice, will replace the previous "One at a Time" policy which was introduced last year by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) last year, but which carried no sanctions against clinics which breached it. Dollars Over Human Life: However, it is feared that the new regulations will increase the overall cost of having an IVF baby. For couples who pay privately the cost could rise from around £5,000 to £10,000 or even £15,000, because they will require more cyles of treatment in order to conceive.Click Here For The Full Story......
March 13, 2010
Harlan Drake Biggest Witness Against Himself In Murder Trial
By Laura Angus / Flint JournalCORUNNA, Michigan -- In the end, Harlan Drake turned out to be the biggest witness against himself. The biggest murder trial in years in Shiawassee County may have pivoted on Drake’s own words to jurors. With his fate hanging in the balance, the 34-year-old former truck driver cracked jokes and matter-of-factly described how he gunned down anti-abortion activist James Pouillon and gravel pit owner Michael Fuoss on Sept. 11, 2009. . . . Shiawassee County Prosecutor Randy Colbry called Drake’s testimony "chilling." ``Chilling because of his lack of any remorse or feeling with regard to killing these men," said Prosecutor Randy Colbry.
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Prosecution Calls Rebuttal Witnesses: Prosecutors Called Forensic Psychologist
The Argus-Press
CORUNNA -- Prosecutors called Dr. Charles Clark, a forensic psychologist, to the stand to wrap up their rebuttal of Harlan Drake's insanity defense Wednesday. Clark was hired by the Prosecutor's Office to evaluate Drake at the Shiawassee County Jail in December, and testify about his findings regarding whether Drake was legally insane when he shot and killed Jim Pouillon and Mike Fuoss Sept. 11, 2009. “In my opinion, Mr. Drake was not mentally ill on that date, or as far as I can tell, on any other date,” Clark said. According to Clark, Drake told him during the evaluation that he had suffered 37 to 38 concussions, had been involved in 34 to 35 car crashes, was involved in nearly 1,000 bar fights while he worked as a bouncer at bars, and received roughly 2,300 stitches throughout this life. Although Clark did say that one of the tests he ran on Drake might have shown that Drake was exaggerating during the interview, he also said concussions may, or may not, leave permanent brain damage.
Group To Display Oversize Abortion Photos At South Florida Intersections
Sun-SentinelThe Personhood anti-abortion organization has announced it will bring its Personhood FL "Spring Break Tour" to Fort Lauderdale, Miami and West Palm Beach. The event, coming to Fort Lauderdale on March 16, includes two "truth trucks" with large signs of born, pre-born, and aborted babies along with 45 pro-lifers with large signs of born, pre-born and aborted babies," the group said in a news release. The tour started Tuesday in Panama City Beach and is headed to Tallahassee, Gainesville, Ocala, Tampa, Sarasota, Fort Myers, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Port St. Lucie, Orlando, Daytona Beach and Jacksonville. For detailed times and locations, go to the Personhood Facebook page. The group plans to distribute 30,000 petitions seeking to challenge the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortions.
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Mass Grave Of History: Vatican's WWII Identity Crisis
By Julia Gorin / The Jerusalem PostCatholic Church, looking for a bulwark against communism, supported what became genocidal regime of Nazi satellite Croatia.
The controversy over the canonization of Pope Pius XII concerns whether he spoke out enough against the slaughter of Jews during World War II. But that question is a red herring when trying to grasp the big picture of the Vatican's role during the war. The real question is whether the Vatican supported the world order, or at least aspects of it, that the Third Reich promised to bring, a world order in which dead Jews were collateral damage - which Pius indeed regretted. The answer can be found in a region of Europe that is generally ignored despite being the nexus of world wars: the Balkans.
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Gov't Clinic Project Draws 'Abortion' Controversy
FREEPORT, Ill. -- A proposal to obtain a federal designation for the FHN Community Healthcare Center in Freeport drew criticism from several Stephenson County Board members Wednesday, who worried that such a clinic could operate outside the county’s control, and provide abortions to the public. County Health Administrator Craig Beintema was quick to point out that these fears were unfounded, and that having a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) could only benefit the area. Even so, five County Board members Wednesday voted against a resolution to create a governing council for the proposed clinic.Click Here For The Full Story......
Baby's Body Found In Basement Furnace Room
WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- The Adams County Coroner conducted an autopsy Thursday on a near-term fetus or term infant that was found inside a home in Westminster. The body was found Wednesday in a furnace room in the basement of the house, located on the 4100 block of West 111th Circle. The residents of the home, who neighbors say are a couple in their 50s, discovered the baby's body inside a cloth travel bag. The autopsy was inconclusive as to how the baby died. Further tests are being conducted the Adams County Coroner. Westminster police did not release additional information, saying the case has been sealed by a judge. The coroner met with Gerri Walsh and other neighbors on Wednesday. "He said that they had found the body of an infant in the house," Walsh said. Walsh said the couple who owns the home has a daughter in her 20s who comes and goes at the home.Click Here For The Full Story......
Maryland Lawmakers Attempt to Impeach Sexual Deviant Attorney General
Attorney General's Impeachment May Lead To Legislative ShowdownDwyer, R-Glen Burnie, said that he will offer impeachment charges against Attorney General Douglas Gansler on March 31, even though House Speaker Michael E. Busch, D-Annapolis, has said he will follow legal advice that the House has no authority to so. "He will be charged with impeachment unless the speaker rules me out of order and has me removed from the assembly," Dwyer told reporters. "I hope that it doesn't come to that." Busch said he has no choice but to follow the advice he has received from Dan Friedman, the counsel to the General Assembly. Friedman wrote that the state constitution allows the attorney general to be removed only for "incompetency, willful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office, on conviction in a court of law."
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Reprobate Attorney General: Maryland AG Approves of Homosex
(Isa.5:20)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- State agencies in Maryland should recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states until the legislature or courts decide otherwise, Maryland's attorney general said in a long-awaited legal opinion. The opinion by Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler concluded that the state’s highest court was likely to rule that legal same-sex marriages in other states are valid in Maryland. But, he said, the matter “is not free from all doubt.” Maryland law defines marriage as being between a man and woman, and the state is one of six that do not specifically address the validity of same-sex marriages from other states.
Faggots Laud Maryland Decision to Recognize
Homosex 'Marriages' from Other Places
Sex offenders in Maryland rejoiced Thursday, a day after reprobate Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) said the state will recognize same-sex marriages from other places and ordered state agencies to immediately begin giving gay married couples the same rights as heterosexual couples. The announcement comes just a week before the District will begin allowing homosex marriages, making it possible for Maryland couples to marry locally and be afforded benefits in their home state.
Dwyer Undeterred Still On Gansler Impeachment Effort
Daily Record
House Speaker Mike Busch won’t allow it and the attorney general’s office calls it unconstitutional, but Del. Don Dwyer still hopes to impeach Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler. In a statement Tuesday, Dwyer set the date: March 31. “The House Speaker has publically [sic] stated that he will rule me out of order when I attempt to bring the charge,” Dwyer wrote. “My hope is that the Speaker will recognize my authority under Article 3 Section 26 of the State Constitution” (giving the House “sole power of impeachment in all cases”).
Homosexuality Is A Crime
By Jim Rudd / The Covenant News
For civil officials and judges to approve of homosexuality brings eternal damnation upon themselves (Rom. 13:2) and God's righteous judgment of death on the society as a whole (Gen. 19:24, II Pet. 2:6). Such officials are not only anti-Christian by approving of homosexuality, they make the civil government a vile cesspool from which the abominations vomit out across the land. By displaying such a contempt for the administration of Justice, such civil officials are not only the source of the defilement (Lev.18:24-25), they are the criminals (Rom.1:32), and a hostile enemy authorizing the destruction of the society in which we live (Jude 1: 7).
Texas Baby Killers Hold Gala to Raise Money for Abortion 'Super Center'
Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas is holding a gala next month to raise money for its new abortion clinic, which will be specially equipped for performing late-term abortions. The April 30 event is being billed as a “historic event” to celebrate the opening of the 78,000 square-foot facility and the 75th anniversary of the Texas Planned Parenthood operation. Tickets for the fundraiser range from $25,000 for a table of 10 to $350 for individual seating. The event will also honor Melanie Gray and Mark Wawro: husband and wife, successful attorneys, and significant financial supporters of Planned Parenthood. Gray served on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas and chaired its $15 million capital campaign.Click Here For The Full Story......
Former Abortion Clinic To House Teen Parent Center
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- A building that used to be an abortion clinic has a new tenant. Little Steps has taken a lease out on the downtown Greenville property. The teen parent program offers parenting classes, mentoring, support groups, supplies and childcare to young moms and dads. The group's founder, Mandy Black, was a teen parent herself. "They're young parents, they're going to be parents whether we come along side and help them or not," Black said. The abortion clinic closed in 2002. The building has been unoccupied for years. It is moldy, water damaged and in need of repairs. To fix it up, Little Steps has planned a community makeover the first weekend in May.Click Here For The Full Story......
Child Molestor Will Be Rearrested Upon Friday's Release
SANTA ANA -- A former Costa Mesa resident who was convicted of child molestation but was due to be released from prison Friday will be immediately arrested on a federal warrant out of Palm Beach, Fla., according to the Orange County District Attorney. Details of the arrest warrant for George Joseph England were sketchy, but Tony Rackauckas said the case may involve child pornography. Rackaukas made the announcement during a news conference at which had been expected to warn the public of England's pending release. England, who was convicted in 1977 of sexually assaulting three girls but then went on the lam for 29 years, was due to be released from prison Friday after serving just more than three years for his crimes, according to prosecutors. . . . England, meanwhile, continued to sexually assault the Vietnamese girl in a variety of ways and even forced her to have sex with animals, Schroeder said. The girl became pregnant six to eight times, and England made her get abortions until she became pregnant at age 13 and the pregnancy was discovered too late for an abortion, Schroeder said.Click Here For The Full Story......
Alaska Verifies Signatures to Keep Abortion Legal By Parental Notice Initiative
Even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, with the passage of the parental notice ballot initiative in Alaska, abortion will remain legal in the state....due to the ballot initiative.JUNEAU, Alaska -- Enough signatures have been gathered to put to voters an initiative that would require parental notice or consent before a minor can have an abortion. The Division of Elections reports verifying 36,285 signatures, more than the 32,734 that supporters were required to gather to get the measure on the ballot. Barring an unexpected special election or legislative action that would do what the initiative intends, the state says voters will be asked decide the matter during the August primary.
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Driver Gets 30 Years for Killing Pregnant Woman
The driver of a stolen car who ran a stop light and killed a pregnant woman was sentenced today in Criminal Court to 30 years in prison. Jarvis Evan was facing possible murder charges, but agreed to plead guilty to vehicular homicide and theft of property over $10,000 for consecutive sentences of 15 years for each offense. He will be eligible for parole after serving 16 years. Iyana Swindle, 21, was killed on July 20, 2009, after Evans stole a 2001 Saturn from a Express Car Rental on Brooks Road and ran a red light at Mitchell and Horn Lake, striking her car. Evans, 27, was not charged with a crime in the death of Swindle’s unborn baby because she was in the first trimester and under the law the baby was not considered a viable fetus, state prosecutor Alanda Dwyer said.Click Here For The Full Story......
Collins Teacher Lost Baby After Attack By Pupil
A 13-year-old student's attack on a pregnant Collins Elementary School teacher earlier this year caused the teacher to lose her baby, according to documents filed Thursday in Richmond County Juvenile Court. The Jan. 20 incident initially wasn't reported to law enforcement. The Richmond County School Safety Department stepped in to investigate only after Lt. Richard Roundtree got a call from a Chronicle reporter. School officials have thus far refused to comment on the baby's condition, saying only that the teacher was examined by a school nurse, instructed to see her physician and on leave for three school days after the incident. The teen, a special needs student, is charged with aggravated battery in the attack, during which a teacher -- trying to break up a fight -- was struck repeatedly on her body and "intentionally" in the stomach, according to a complaint Roundtree submitted to juvenile authorities.Click Here For The Full Story......
March 12, 2010
Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Neal Horsley Charged With Threatening Elton John
Randy Wyles / ExaminerAn anti-abortion activist and Georgia gubernatorial hopeful faces charges alleging he made death threats against entertainer and part-time Atlanta resident Elton John. Neal Horsley, 65, faces charges of making terroristic threats, criminal defamation and using the Internet to disseminate threats. He was arrested by Atlanta police and deputies of the U.S. Marshals Service in Carrolton on Wednesday. Horsley became upset and posted a rant on the Internet entitled "Why Elton John Must Die" after John told a journalist last month that, in the opinion of the music legend, Jesus was a homosexual. Horsley was later seen holding a large sign outside of John’s Atlanta home that read “Elton John Must Die.”
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Neal Horsley Charged With Threatening Elton John
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Neal Horsley was booked into the Fulton County Jail, charged with terroristic threats, criminal defamation and using the Internet to disseminate threats. During a hearing Thursday morning at the jail, Magistrate Judge James Altman set bond for Horsley at $40,000 on all three charges. As a condition of his bail, Horsley must remain at the home of his son, Nathanael Horsley of Gainesville, Altman said. In addition, there must be a land-line in the home. The younger Horsley is acting as his father's attorney. Elton John, a part-time Atlantan, raised the ire of Horsley last month when he told an interviewer that he believed that Jesus was a homosexual. Horsley, 65, responded with an Internet diatribe on "Why Elton John Must Die." A video posted on YouTube shows Horsley protesting outside John's Peachtree Road condominium with a large sign proclaiming, "Elton John Must Die."
Daughter of James Pouillon Said She Was Struck by Harlan Drake's Lack of Remorse
By Laura Angus / Flint JournalSHIAWASSEE COUNTY, Michigan -- Mary Jo Pouillon said she was struck by Harlan Drake's lack of remorse, but she knows it's not up to her to judge him. Drake is accused of gunning down her father, James Pouillon, while he was protesting against abortion in front of Owosso High School. Drake testified this week about the shooting and about the slaying of gravel pit owner Michael Fuoss. His trial began March 1, and his attorneys are seeking a legal insanity defense. Drake told the court he only wanted to target people who wronged him, and said he does not feel remorse for the killings.
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Harlan Drake Faces Life In Prison Without Parole
for Killing Anti-Abortion Activist, Gravel Pit Owner
By Laura Angus / Flint Journal
CORUNNA, Michigan -- Harlan Drake smiled as he walked into court Thursday and kept smiling after hearing he was convicted of murder. Drake, 34, of Owosso will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole for the Sept. 11 shooting deaths of anti-abortion activist James Pouillon and gravel pit owner Michael Fuoss. His attorneys argued Drake was insane when he killed the pair but prosecutors countered that he killed the pair because he felt that had wronged or upset his family.
Personhood Maryland Gets Hearing
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland -- The Maryland Personhood Amendment Bill was introduced to the MD House of Delegates on February 17th, by 20 courageous Delegates in the Maryland House of Representatives – led by Delegate Don Dwyer from Anne Arundel County. The hearing for this Bill is scheduled for March 19, 1pm in the Health and Government Operations Committee. Citizens who would like to attend the hearing or testify in person should plan on being at the Committee Meeting Room by 12noon on the 19th to register, and plan on being available to testify well into the evening – possibly 8 or 9pm – depending on how many show up to testify. <Click Here For The Full Story......
Personhood Group In Florida To Display Oversize Abortion Photos At Intersections
The Personhood anti-abortion organization has announced it will bring its Personhood FL "Spring Break Tour" to Fort Lauderdale, Miami and West Palm Beach. The event, coming to Fort Lauderdale on March 16, includes two "truth trucks" with large signs of born, pre-born, and aborted babies along with 45 pro-lifers with large signs of born, pre-born and aborted babies," the group said in a news release. The tour started Tuesday in Panama City Beach and is headed to Tallahassee, Gainesville, Ocala, Tampa, Sarasota, Fort Myers, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Port St. Lucie, Orlando, Daytona Beach and Jacksonville.Click Here For The Full Story......
School District Will Pay $16,140 to End Lawsuit Over Anti-Abortion T-Shirt
By Allison Dougherty / The Patriot-NewsThe family of a Crossroads Middle School student who was told by school officials to turn an anti-abortion T-shirt inside out will receive $16,140 for legal fees as part of a settlement approved Thursday by the West Shore School Board. The settlement also calls for the district to change its dress and grooming and student expression policies. The student’s father, William Boyer, had filed a lawsuit in federal district court claiming his son, identified as E.B. in the suit, was unfairly censored on Sept. 8 when he was told to turn his homemade "Abortion is not healthcare" T-shirt inside out.
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Antiabortion Group Seeks New Probe of Philadelphia 'Botch Doc'
An antiabortion group yesterday urged the Philadelphia district attorney to investigate whether disgraced abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell violated a law that requires physicians to report suspected child abuse. In a letter to District Attorney Seth Williams, the Pro-Life Union of Southeastern Pennsylvania also questioned whether Gosnell failed to submit fetal remains of second-trimester abortions for a pathologist's examination, as required by state law. Gosnell's medical license was temporarily suspended Feb. 22, the day his West Philadelphia clinic was raided and shut down. He has not returned calls requesting comment, but said that he had done his "very best to provide good care." Williams "is actively investigating" Gosnell and therefore cannot comment on the case, his spokeswoman Tasha Jamerson said yesterday. "We welcome an investigation, and I just hope it's fair and thorough," said Michael J. McMonagle, public affairs director of the Pro-Life Union.Click Here For The Full Story......
Bunch of Damned Thieves: Obama Says Curbing Waste, Abuse Will Help Fund Health-Care Plan
BloombergObama made his case for an overhaul of the U.S. medical system to Missouri voters, emphasizing his efforts to curb waste and fraud in government health programs. "The health-care system has billions of dollars that should go to patient care and they’re lost each and every year to fraud, to abuse, to massive subsidies that line the pockets of the insurance industry," he said yesterday at a high school in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Missouri. Obama is trying to rally public support for the biggest changes to U.S. health care in 45 years in the face of unanimous Republican opposition. He said his proposals show there are ways to pay for expanding insurance coverage to tens of millions of Americans without running up the federal budget deficit.
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Bunch of Damned Thieves: House Democrats Looking At 'Slaughter Solution' to Pass Obamacare Without a Vote on Senate Bill
Washington ExaminerWould House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democrats try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill? Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out a way to do it, according to National Journal's Congress Daily: "House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday. "Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version. "Slaughter has not taken the plan to Speaker Pelosi as Democrats await CBO scores on the corrections bill. 'Once the CBO gives us the score, we'll spring right on it,' she said."
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Virginia's Evil Governor Protects Homosexual State Workers
The Washington PostRICHMOND -- Hoping to quell a growing uproar on Virginia's college campuses over homosexuality, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell issued a directive to all 102,000 state employees Wednesday that prohibits discrimination in the state workforce, including on the basis of sexual orientation, and warns he will reprimand or fire anyone who engages in it (Isa.5:20). McDonnell's directive comes a week after Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) distributed a letter to the state's public colleges and universities asking them to remove references to sexual orientation from their campus nondiscrimination policies. Cuccinelli says that only the General Assembly has the authority [sic] to extend legal protections to faggots.
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Put Homosexuals To The Sword
By Jim Rudd / The Covenant News
Civil officials have a God ordained duty to execute sodomites. The word of God commands, "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them" (Lev.20:13). The Magistrate, in his proper role, "beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil" (Rom.13:4).
W.Va. Killing-Regulations Amended, Clears House Committee
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A bill designed to deter abortion was amended by a key legislative panel on Wednesday, and the abortion people now believes it has salvaged a partial victory from the debate [sic]. The bill, which would require doctors or their staffs to inform women they can view an ultrasound image of their fetus before the killing starts, made it to the House floor Wednesday evening. It cleared the House Judiciary Committee after nearly six hours of caucusing, shuttle diplomacy and sideline debate. While the bill adds a new step for women seeking to murder their children, baby killing regulators believe it weakens the state's existing Women's Right to Know Act in another respect. By using the judiciary committee amendment to the ultrasound bill to remove penalties, abortion people stand to rid the act of sanctions they have objected to since the Women's Right to Know Act passed during the Wise administration.Click Here For The Full Story......
Boyfriend Convicted of Murdering Austell Teen
A Douglasville man was convicted on Wednesday of stabbing and beating his 16-year-old girlfriend to death after she confided she was pregnant and wanted to keep the baby. It took a Cobb County jury about five hours of deliberation to find Matthew Frederick Wilkins, 20, guilty in the Jan. 19, 2008, slaying of Marlisa Wells. Wells believed she was pregnant at the time of her death. However, an autopsy revealed that she was not. Wilkins claimed that he was never at Wells' home the day of her murder. His cell phone records and a pair of blood-stained shoes police found concealed in his attic proved otherwise, said Assistant District Attorney Jesse Evans. Prosecutors said Wilkins and Wells met while attending Christian Ministries Academy in Marietta. They stayed in touch after Wilkins graduated and enrolled at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Ga., on a basketball scholarship.Click Here For The Full Story......
Warning: Ancient Sex and Human Sacrifice On Show In Paris Parallels With Modern Life
The latest show at Paris' Quai Branly museum comes with a warning for visitors: "This exhibition of Moche ceramics shows sexual acts of an explicit nature." But the extraordinary and graphic testimonial of the ancient Moche civilization of Peru isn't about physical pleasure or procreation, according to the curator. He says the sexual acts evoke the rituals that accompanied the death of dignitaries, and the human sacrifices that went with them. They tell a story about the power of the elite that he says has parallels with modern life. "Sex, death and sacrifice in the Moche religion," which opened this week and runs until May 23, brings to Europe for the first time 134 erotic Moche ceramics on loan from the Larco Museum in Lima, Peru.Click Here For The Full Story......
Scientists Reveal Negative Impact of GM Crops
Five studies published in the October 2009 issue of The European Journal of Agronomy reveal the negative impacts of using Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, a formula developed specifically for the company's line of genetically modified (GM) "Roundup Ready" crops. The papers, which were not released in the United States, offer a solid indictment against GM crops and the plight of using the Roundup herbicide. Robert Kremer, a microbiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, co-authored one of the five papers and offered insight into their premise during an interview with The Organic & Non-GMO Report, a monthly newsletter that offers recourse in addressing the challenges of fighting GM foods.Click Here For The Full Story......
Girl Scouts Distribute Planned Parenthood Sex Guide at UN Meeting
The World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides hosted a no-adults-welcome panel at the United Nations this week where Planned Parenthood was allowed to distribute a brochure entitled “Healthy, Happy and Hot.” The event was part of the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) which concludes this week. The brochure goes on to encourage young people to “Improve your sex life by getting to know your own body. Play with yourself! Masturbation is a great way to find out more about your body and what you find sexually stimulating. Mix things up by using different kinds of touch from very soft to hard. Talk about or act out your fantasies. Talk dirty to them.”Click Here For The Full Story......
1 In 6 Americans Infected With Herpes
WASHINGTON -- About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. Black women had the highest rate of infection at 48 percent and women were nearly twice likely as men to be infected, according to an analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes, compared to only 11.5 percent of men, while 39 percent of blacks were infected compared to about 12 percent for whites, the CDC said.Click Here For The Full Story......
Premature Baby 'Tom Thumb' Born At 25 Weeks Weighing Half A Pound Survives
German doctors have revealed photographs of the smallest premature baby boy to have survived against incredible odds after being born at 25 weeks weighing just over half a pound. The baby, who doctors dubbed "Tom Thumb" was less than the length of a sheet of A-4 paper and weighed a fraction over 9.7 ounces (275 grams) when he was born by Caesarean section 15 weeks prematurely at the University of Medicine at Göttingen in western Germany in June 2009. For 24 hours a day, the child was in an incubator and hooked up to feeding tubes, breathing tubes, a heart monitor, a catheter and a plethora of electronic devices to monitor every vital sign as he faced risks of cerebral haemorrhage or organ failure.Click Here For The Full Story......
Incest: 'British Fritzl' Made His Girls Pregnant 18 Times
Two sisters who were raped more than 1,000 times by their father received an “unreserved apology” yesterday from social workers who failed to prevent the daily abuse. The self-employed monster made his daughters pregnant 18 times and nine children were born. Seven of the children are still alive, two of whom have serious health problems. A damning serious case review published yesterday exposed a catalogue of missed chances by police, social workers and health workers to save the sisters from their hell. It admitted professionals were intimidated by the violent father, and while many had strong suspicions of incest they failed to act. They relied on “having a quiet word” in the hope the girls would disclose what had gone on. But any hint of suspicion provoked the father to move his family to another part of the country to evade detection.Click Here For The Full Story......
March 11, 2010
Harlan Drake Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder
By Laura Angus / Flint JournalCORUNNA, Michigan -- A jury found Harlan Drake guilty of two counts of first-degree murder today. Harlan Drake, 34, was charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 11 shooting deaths of James Pouillon, 63, in front of Owosso High School and gravel pit owner Michael Fuoss, 61, in his Owosso Township office. Drake’s lawyers sought a legal insanity defense. His trial began March 1 and jurors began deliberating early Thursday morning. They could have found Drake guilty, guilty but mentally ill, not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity or guilty of a lesser charge, second degree murder.
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Flint Journal links: Complete coverage of Harlan Drake murder trial
By Laura Angus / Flint Journal
Here's a look at the Flint Journal's coverage of the trial, which began March 1.
Harlan Drake Found Guilty In Double Murder Trial
WNEM TV-5 News Mid-Michigan
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, Mich. -- A Shiawassee County jury has come to a decision in the first-degree murder trial of a trucker charged with two fatal shootings. Harlan Drake, 33, was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder. The verdict means Drake will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance for parole. The jury was handed the case for deliberations Thursday morning and returned with a verdict five hours later. Drake, who admitted killing anti-abortion activist James Pouillon and Owosso-area businessman Mike Fuoss, claimed he was insane last September and should not be found guilty.
Jury Hears Closing Arguments In Harlan Drake Murder Trial
Jury to begin deliberating in Drake trial Thursday MorningBy Laura Angus / Flint Journal
CORUNNA, Michigan -- Jurors are expected to begin deliberations Thursday morning in the trial of a man accused of killing an anti-abortion activist and a gravel pit owner. Harlan Drake, 34, is charged with murder in the Sept. 11 shooting deaths of James Pouillon, 63, in front of Owosso High School and gravel pit owner Michael Fuoss, 61, in his Owosso Township office. In closing arguments Wednesday, Shiawassee County Assistant Prosecutor Sara Edwards told jurors that Drake considered himself a hero for the slayings. She said he killed Pouillon and Fuoss because the men upset or wronged his family. Prosecutors said Drake planned to kill a third man that day but was caught first. “He knew exactly what he was doing,” said Edwards. “His goal was murder because he had a personal hatred toward these three men.”
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Closing Arguments Get Underway In The Trial of Harlan Drake
ABC TV-12 News Mid-Michigan
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY -- In Shiawassee County Wednesday, closing arguments got underway in the trial of Harlan Drake. He's accused of killing two people -- a Michigan abortion protester and a businessman. It took seven days for both sides to make their case. Now the jury has to decide. Was Drake in his right frame of mind? "I just shot one person," he said. "I might as well go shoot anyone else that I think deserves to be shot that day." The Shiawasee County prosecutor and defense lawyers relied heavily on testimony from Drake earlier this week to make their case during closing arguments.
'The Death-Lovers': Interview with Jerry Dincin, President, 'Final Exit Network'
John Lofton / The American View:(Proverbs 8:36) Interview with Jerry Dincin, President, "Final Exit Network," defender of physician-assisted self-murder. That is the topic on this "The American View" radio program which broadcasts live, daily, from 11 am to Noon (EST) and is now on the Liberty News Radio Network. Our call-in phone number is 1-866-986-6397. Do listen, please, and give us a call. The Liberty News Radio Network site is LibertyNewsRadio.com.
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'Don't Want Morality? Here, Have Some Porn'
Gary DeMar / The American VisionA group of student atheists in Texas have made it possible at the school for students to swap their religious "propaganda" — like Bibles, for instance — for pornography. The idea being the this is "Smut for Smut." Gary has a few words to say about this.
Florida Personhood Group's Abortion Signs Causing Some Residents to Cringe
Those anti-abortion billboards we showed you Tuesday night are causing some Panama City Beach residents to cringe. Some of the images show dead babies.WJHG TV-7 News Panama City
Tuesday, the debate over abortion hit the streets of Panama City Beach. The "Personhood" group staged demonstrations in support of an amendment to Florida's constitution. The "Personhood" amendment would extend the definition of "person" to every human being. Some of the pictures, showing dead babies, are too graphic for television and too much for Sarah Evanko. This rolling billboard drove through Evanko's neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. "My eleven year old clearly saw a horrible picture. He knows exactly what it was and the message they were trying to get across, but he though it was horrible. I was able to distract my five year old so that I don't think she was able to see what she saw," Evanko said. Evanko understands the group's point of view, but say they should keep those images isolated to area's frequented by spring breakers. And away from her neighborhood on this stretch of Front Beach Road.
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'Colored Blind Abortion Regulations' Pass in Georgia House Committee (And now you can 'non-racially' kill the babies - because we're all colored blind now)
ATLANTA -- A bill that would criminalize race-based abortions narrowly cleared committee at the Georgia Capitol Wednesday evening, drawing the Georgia General Assembly closer to a full-blown abortion debate. House Bill 1155 grew out of Georgia Right to Life's ongoing campaign to widen its reach in the black community. The bill would make it illegal for anyone to solicit or coerce a woman to have an abortion “based in any way on account of the race, color, or sex of the unborn child.” Doctors would face up to 10 years in prison if they perform an abortion despite knowing that the woman has been coerced. The women who get the abortions would not be criminally liable at all, the bill states.Click Here For The Full Story......
Bunch of Damned Thieves!: Powerful Catholic Quietly Shaping Abortion, Health Bill Debate
By Laura Parker / NPRRichard Doerflinger doesn't look the part of a high-powered political strategist. Bearded and bespectacled, he works in a small, cluttered office out of one of Washington’s less fashionable neighborhoods, far from the lobbying bastions of K Street. Yet as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' point man on abortion, Doerflinger has emerged as a major player in the health care debate, one likely to play a pivotal role in the outcome. It was Doerflinger who orchestrated the bishops’ successful campaign late last year to add a tough anti-abortion provision to the House legislation. The Senate adopted less stringent language. Now, as President Barack Obama begins his last-ditch effort to pass final legislation, Doerflinger and his bosses are sending a clear message: If the Democrats want to succeed, they must include the House provision, or something equally restrictive, on abortion.
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Bunch of Damned Thieves!: Immigration Provision Has Hispanic Caucus Threatening 'No' Health Vote
A group of Hispanic lawmakers on Thursday will tell Obama that they may not vote for healthcare reform unless changes are made to the bill’s immigration provisions. The scheduled meeting comes as Democrats and the White House are struggling to craft a final bill that will attract 216 votes in the lower chamber. Unlike abortion, immigration has flown beneath the radar, and almost seemed to vanish altogether as House Democrats have wrestled with how to accept a Senate healthcare bill far different from the one they passed in November. But immigration remains just as explosive an issue and carries the same potential to derail the entire healthcare endgame, a number of Democrats said. Click Here For The Full Story......
Church's Crosses Cause Controversy
Members see them as a message of redemption and peace for women in the area who have had an abortion.By Jorge Valencia / Roanoke Times
The church's leader sees the crosses as a symbol of redemption. And the local Planned Parenthood administrator sees them as a political statement. [According to what has been alleged] there were 729 abortions during 2008 in the areas between Alleghany and Roanoke counties, and members of Rainbow Forest Baptist Church commemorated them by staking the same number of crosses on a grassy hill the church owns beside U.S. 460 near Bonsack. It's an expression in an emotionally contentious issue, and it's an example of how some faith groups vocalize their convictions. "Someone needs to speak up for those who can't speak up for themselves," the Rev. Mike Grooms said. "I'm not going to not do it because it's not the socially accepted thing to do."
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America's Newest Crisis: Walmart Cuts Price on Black Barbie Dolls
Stinking racists! Walmart discriminates against people who want to buy white Barbie dolls!ABC News
Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll's white counterpart at one store and possibly others. A photo first posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com and later to the Latino Web site Guanabee.com shows packages of Mattel's Ballerina Barbie and Ballerina Teresa dolls hanging side by side at an unidentified store. The Teresa dolls, which feature brown skin and dark hair, are marked as being on sale at $3.00. The Barbies to the right of the Teresa dolls, meanwhile, retain their original price of $5.93. The dolls look identical aside from their color.
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Crossing The (Protest) Line On Abortion (profane)
By Yvette Cabrera / Orange County RegisterIf any issue polarizes America, it's abortion – and nowhere does that polarization play out more dramatically than on the sidewalk in front of the Planned Parenthood medical clinic on Tustin Avenue in Orange. That's where a line has been drawn, almost literally, separating people who oppose abortion (and choice) (Isa.5:20), and those who work for, or use the services offered by, Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties. The Tustin Avenue center is the one Planned Parenthood medical clinic in the region where abortions are performed. As such, it's a popular gathering spot for those who want to publicly (and legally) oppose the private (and legal) practice of abortion.
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Oklahoma Senate Passes Individual Abortion Bills, Hate-Crimes Noncooperation Bill
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The state Senate on Wednesday passed three bills designed to replace an abortion law that was struck down by an Oklahoma County judge last month. One bill would ban abortion based on the gender of an unborn child. A second measure would allow pharmacists and employees of health-care facilities to refuse to participate in a medical procedure or prescription with which they have a religious or moral objection. Such procedures would include abortion, euthanasia and anything that would destroy a human embryo. The third bill would require certain conditions, such as follow-up appointments and recording of medical information, during the administration of the abortion pill, RU-486.Click Here For The Full Story......
Philadelphia Abortion Doctor's License Suspended In Delaware Earlier This Month
The Delaware Board of Medical Practice suspended the license of Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell during their emergency hearing earlier this month. After deliberating in executive session for about 10 minutes, the board emerged and immediately voted 15-0 to temporarily suspend the medical license and controlled substance registration of Gosnell. The announcement comes as the board comes under fire for not dealing with rumors about the conduct of Earl Bradley of Lewes. Bradley has been indicted on hundreds of child sexual abuse charges.Click Here For The Full Story......
Sex Assault On Tribal Girls Rocks House
BHUBANESWAR -- Growing incidents of sexual exploitation of tribal girls in government residential schools today sparked an uproar in the Assembly with the Opposition demanding exemplary action against the culprits. The House witnessed noisy scenes as SC/ST welfare minister Bijoy Ranjan Singh Bariha admitted that a student of Bada Ambada Sevashram was found pregnant following medical test and departmental inquiry was conducted on the basis of a written complaint lodged by a lady teacher of the same school. The inquiry also revealed that the headmaster of the school had got abortion of another girl student done during the Christmas vacation, said the minister.Click Here For The Full Story......
March 10, 2010
Candidate for Governor Arrested at Campaign Headquarters
Neal Horsley arrested:This morning at approximately 7:30 Neal Horsley, a candidate for Governor of Georgia, was placed under arrest at his campaign headquarters in Carrollton, Georgia. Law enforcement officers from the FBI, Atlanta, and Carrollton were involved according to eye witness, Robert Rudnick. Rudnick reports that he and Esther O’Toole, both volunteers for the Horsley for Governor Campaign, along with Horsley, heard loud banging on the door of the campaign headquarters located at a wear house facility in Carrollton. The police placed all three face down on the ground, machine guns drawn, placed Horsley under arrest, and allowed the other two temporary detainees to go free. Horsley was taken to the Fulton County Jail.
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Harlan Drake Finishes Testimony: 'I Don't Feel Bad About The Murders'
By Dan Armstrong / TV-12 News Toledo On The MoveHarlan Drake, the man who says he shot and killed a pro-life advocate and a local businesses man, takes to the witness stand in his own murder trial. Drake described in detail his thought processes throughout the whole ordeal. The prosecution wants to use his testimony to show premedidation while the defense wants to use it to show he's a reasonable man who's battling mental illness. The day before killing pro-life advocate Jim Pouillon and Fuoss Gravel owner Mike Fuoss, 33 year old Harlan Drake says he had lunch with his family the day before. He says his mother was upset by Jim Pouillon's pro-life signs and said he was protesting at Owosso High School that day. Harlan Drake says, "Kind of under my breath I said 'I'll take care of that tomorrow.'"
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Mama Says Protesters Are the Devil
By Allen Hunt
Harlan Drake may employ the Bobby Boucher defense. After all, it appears he was just trying to please his mother. The classic mama's boy. Adam Sandler found success playing the apron-strings-still-attached Boucher in The Waterboy. Boucher is best remembered for his line, “Mama says, mama says, mama says, girls are the devil.” Harlan Drake, on the other hand, is not a movie character but rather is presently on trial for murdering Jim Pouillon in Owosso, Michigan, on September 11, 2009. Drake's defense appears to consist, at least in part, of the phrase, “Mama says protesters are the devil.”
Accused Killer: 'You Should Be Nicer To Your Employees'
Harlan Drake tells his jury he killed two Owosso men because they upset his mother
WILX TV-News Lansing MI
"I did kill two men, sir," Harlan Drake says as he takes the stand in his own defense Tuesday. Two moments that have forever devastated some local families were as ordinary as running chores for accused killer Drake; that's according to his testimony. "I put the guns in the bag, I took the dog out for a walk, I went back inside," he lists in court. Drake tells a jury of six women and eight men that his mother was upset with local anti-abortion activist, Jim Pouillon. So he loaded his car with weapons and decided if Pouillon was protesting outside Owosso High School September 11, 2009, he'd kill him. "I grabbed a 45 with my left hand, leaned out the window, and shot him three times," Drake says. Then he says he shot him once more in his lower half. "I didn't want him to suffer, if that makes sense." Then, Drake tells the jury he'd figured if he'd killed one person, might as well kill anyone else who "deserves to be shot." He then headed straight for the office of Mike Fuoss, his mother's and his former employer. "Mr. Fuoss was coming out of his office. He was yelling at me 'what the hell do you want?' I pulled out a .22 semi, and fired once in his chest," he says. Drake testifies he shot Fuoss 17 times in total-- including four in the head.
Harlan Drake: 'I Deserve to Die for Committing Those Murders'
By Laura Angus / Flint Journal
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, Michigan -- Harlan Drake said he feels he deserves the death penalty for gunning down two men on Sept. 11, 2009, and said he is not a "safe person" to be on the streets. "I deserve to die for committing those murders," he told the court under at-times argumentative questioning from the prosecution. Drake is accused of gunning down two men and seeking to kill a third, and his attorneys are seeking a legal insanity defense. His trial began last week, and he first took the stand Monday. Drake told the court he deserved to be "locked up somewhere" since there is no death penalty in Michigan because he's not a "safe person." Drake told the court he is not sad his victims, anti-abortion activist James Pouillon and gravel pit owner Michael Fuoss, are dead, and said he shot the men in a way to ensure they would die quickly and not suffer.
Harlan Drake Testifies That He Asked to See Victims' Autopsy Reports, Finishes Testimony In Murder Trial
By Laura Angus / Flint Journal
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, Michigan -- Harlan Drake told the court today that he asked to see his victims' autopsy reports, the last point of his testimony in his murder trial. "I asked to see the autopsy reports so I could see what my aim was like," he said. Drake, 34, told the court he is a shooting and target practice is an activity he enjoys, and a skill he worked hard to improve.
Mental health professionals also testified for the prosecution, serving as rebuttal witnesses. Dr. Candyce Shields, a forensic psychologist at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry, testified that in her opinion Drake is criminally responsible and did not suffer mental illness as defined by Michigan law. She gave details about Drake's actions that day, including ensuring he killed his victims rather than let them suffer, to show he was aware of what he was doing. "These are all indicative of someone who appreciates the nature, the quality and the wrongfulness of his actions," she said. Shields is expected to be questioned by defense lawyers tomorrow.
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Florida's Personhood Amendment Group Makes News During Spring Break
WJHG Panama CityA group of pro-lifers hit the streets of Panama City Beach Tuesday wanting an end to abortions (See Video). Since 1973, the United States has allowed abortions. But these people say abortion is equivalent to murdering the unborn. Tuesday they staged demonstrations along Panama City Beach, with Spring Break as their backdrop. The "Personhood" group is supporting an amendment to Florida's constitution called the "Personhood Amendment", which would extend the definition of person to every human being. Chris Warner, from Wisconsin, is just one of about 50 protesters. "I went and served in the navy to help and protect our country. If I did that and I let this country stand by and watch unborn babies being murdered I just wouldn't be doing my duty," Warner said.
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More Scientology Accusations Exposed (Forced Abortions)
Sydney Morning HeraldScientology has been hit by a fresh wave of allegations, likely to give added weight to calls for a Senate inquiry into the church. Several Australians have spoken out for the first time about their experiences with the church, accusing it of forced abortions, holding slave labour camps and exploiting child workers. Former rugby league player Joe Reaiche told ABC's Four Corners program on Monday of being coerced into spending $400,000 on spiritual books and being paid just $20 a week as an employee.
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Democrats' Full-Court Press On Healthcare Reform
WASHINGTON -- The steady stream of top Democrats in and out of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office Tuesday was the latest signal of a full-court press to get a majority of Democrats on board healthcare reform. That means passing the Senate version of the bill and a package of “fixes” – still being negotiated – that can clear both the House and Senate. It’s a heavy lift that will require potentially high-risk votes from two groups in the House Democratic caucus. One is the 37 Democrats (still in the House) who voted “no” on the House healthcare reform bill in November 2009 and might flip to “yes.” The other are the 42 Democrats who voted for the bill, but only after leadership allowed an amendment that included tough restrictions on the use of federal funds to pay for abortion services. Click Here For The Full Story......
Va. Health Bill Could Foil Obama Proposal
RICHMOND -- Obama dismissed the assertion of unconstitutionality as "talking points" because he is a damned criminal. Here in the former capital of the Old Confederacy, where resistance to the supremacy of federal law has a long and tortuous history, a new battle is being waged over a question that could undercut a key part of President Obama’s health care proposal: whether Washington can require that most Americans have health insurance. Dozens of other states are considering similar measures, possibly setting the stage for one of the greatest tests of federal power over the states since the civil rights era. Click Here For The Full Story......
Missouri House Passes Health Care Freedom Act
By Michael Boldin / Tenth Amendment CenterThe Missouri State House has passed House Joint Resolution 48 (HJR48). The legislation, known as the "Missouri Health Care Freedom Act" seeks to make public policy for the state that every person within the state of Missouri is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty by the federal government of the United States of America.
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Operation Health Freedom
A Free Market Alternative To Government Run Health CareCampaign for Liberty:
Campaign for Liberty believes America's health care system is in desperate need of reform, but current proposals only cement the status quo by mandating further government interference and requiring Americans to either carry a government-approved plan or surrender more of their hard-earned money to the IRS. There is a real alternative to yielding more power over our lives to Washington: implementing a plan centered on freedom, choice, and faith in the American taxpayers that they know how to spend their money better than some unelected bureaucrat.
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Tenn. Bill Requires Killing-Regulations
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- State lawmakers want to make it a crime for a woman to be forced into having an abortion. A House committee passed a bill Tuesday that would require a woman to give written consent before having an abortion. In addition, any clinic or hospital that performs abortions would have to post a sign letting women know it's against the law for someone to force them to have an abortion. Clinics who don't post the signs could face penalties of up to $2,500.Click Here For The Full Story......
City Hall Denies Newstand Moved Over Anti-Abortion Ad
CHICAGO -- The Daley administration on Tuesday emphatically denied snatching up a newsstand outside a North Side abortion clinic because it carried a controversial ad counseling pregnant women against abortion. The newsstand that mysteriously disappeared was located on the northwest corner of LaSalle and Division, roughly 30 feet outside the door of an abortion clinic operated by Planned Parenthood. On Feb. 9, Aid For Women purchased an ad on the newsstand with the picture of an attractive young woman with a concerned look on her face. Above the picture were the words, “Unplanned Pregnancy? What Now?” Below was the address and phone number of Aid for Women, a 30-year-old organization that counsels young women against abortion. The ad was supposed to run for twelve weeks. Instead, the entire newsstand disappeared after just ten days.Click Here For The Full Story......
Ethics Hearing Delayed For Former Assistant AG
TOPEKA -- An ethics case against a former assistant attorney general is on hold indefinitely. The Disciplinary Administrators Office said Tuesday the hearing for Stephen Maxwell won't take place until after hearings for former Attorney General Phill Kline and another of his former assistants, Eric Rucker. The office has issued a subpoena for Maxwell to testify in the those cases. Rucker's hearing is set for April 27 and 28, while Kline's is schedule for May 26, 27 and 28. At issue is whether they misled others to further investigations of abortion providers.Click Here For The Full Story......
Patients' Medical Records Go Online Without Consent
Those who do not wish to have their details on the $16.4 billion computer system are supposed to be able to opt out by informing health authorities. But doctors have accused the Government of rushing the project through, meaning that patients have had their details uploaded to the database before they have had a chance to object. The scheme, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will eventually hold the private records of more than 50 million patients. But it has been dogged by accusations that the private information held on it will not be safe from hackers.Click Here For The Full Story......
Catholic Church's Latest Scandal: Members of Vatican Running Homosex Prostitute Ring!!
Vatican Pair Removed In Homosexual Prostitution InquiryThe BBC
A senior aide to the Pope and a Vatican chorister have been removed from their posts over allegations of involvement in a homosexual prostitution ring. The Vatican confirmed it had suspended Angelo Balducci, an usher known as a Gentleman to His Holiness, whose duties included greeting important visitors. Police had been tapping his phone in connection with a corruption inquiry, when they heard about the sex ring. The chorister, Ghinedu Thomas Ehiem, is said to have found men for Mr Balducci.
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New Woe for Vatican As Usher Linked to Prostitution
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VATICAN CITY -- One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter's Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring, in the latest sexual scandal to taint the Vatican. Ghinedu Ehiem, a Nigerian, was dismissed by the Vatican on Wednesday from the Giulia Choir after his name appeared in transcripts of police wiretaps, published by an Italian newspaper, in an unrelated Italian investigation. The wiretaps were carried out in connection with a probe into corruption in contracts to build public works, including the planned venue in Sardinia of last year's G8 summit. The summit was eventually moved to the Abruzzo region as part of efforts to help it recover from an earthquake.
Homosexual Prostitution Incident Tied To Vatican
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In what has to go down as one of the most hypocritical defenses on record an Italian government official accused of financial corruption and who allegedly used a Vatican choir singer to arrange homosexual liaisons for him says leaking the details is "shameful," the official's lawyer told CNN Saturday. Angelo Balducci is appealing a judge's decision to keep him in prison over allegations of financial corruption, said his lawyer, Franco Coppi. Police say they learned of the alleged homosexual liaisons while wiretapping Balducci as part of an investigation into how public-works contracts were awarded. His lawyer says he is innocent of the corruption charges, and declined to comment on the sex scandal. Balducci oversaw the Italian government's awarding of construction contracts, including work on the airport at Perugia. He also served in the unpaid role of papal usher. Italian authorities say they recorded conversations between Balducci and Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 39-year-old Nigerian singer. They were recorded between April 14, 2008, and January 20, 2010.
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Male-Dominated Asia 'Missing' 96 Million Women
ASIA is "missing" about 96 million women – the vast majority in China and India – who died from discriminatory healthcare and neglect or who were never born at all, the UN has estimated. Female infanticide and sex-selective abortion have caused a severe gender imbalance in Asia, and the problem is worsening despite rapid economic growth in the region, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report said. "The old mindset with its preference for male children has now combined with modern medical technology" that makes it easier to predict and abort unborn girls, said Anuradha Rajivan, the report’s lead author.Click Here For The Full Story......
Rocks Thrown At Australia Anti-Abortion Poll Campaigner
A Democrats election candidate, Jeanie Walker, says the anti-abortion political party, Save the Unborn, has behaved in a way that provokes attacks. An anti-abortion campaigner had rocks and a wheelie bin thrown at him in Adelaide on Tuesday after he spoke with people who were taking down election posters at Woodville Park. Ms Walker says the party's posters are offensive and have been inflaming public emotions over abortion. "Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me and that's why I've been calling for the posters to be taken down right from the first day they were put up," she said.Click Here For The Full Story......
March 09, 2010
Accused Killer Takes the Stand
WILX TV-10 News Lansing"I hate myself, I have for a long time," Harlan Drake told jurors Monday. Drake said he's never been the same since he was involved in a 2004 car accident that left two teenagers dead. "I asked the officer, did I just kill two people?" Drake said. The accident wasn't his fault and he was never charged, but Drake said he never could shake the guilt. Despite therapy and prescription drugs, he said he was very "screwed up." "I even said to my family I thought of killing everyone then myself so they wouldn't be sad I was dead," Drake said, "but thought that wasn't a good idea." A psychiatrist as well as Drake's mother also took the stand Monday -- the defense laying the foundation that Drake was temporarily insane in September of 2009 when he shot anti-abortion activist James Pouillon and gravel pit owner Mike Fuoss to death.
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Harlan Drake Takes The Stand In Murder Trial; Tells Court 'I Hate Myself'
By Laura Angus / Flint Journal
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, Michigan -- An at-times emotional Harlan Drake took the stand today in his murder trial in Shiawassee Circuit Court. Drake, who turned 34 today, told the court he felt something was broken inside of him after the 2004 crash he was involved in that killed two teens. Drake is accused of gunning down two men and seeking to kill a third on Sept. 11, 2009 and his lawyers are seeking a legal insanity defense. Drake said for the past two years, he has thought about finding a way to "get rid of himself" without hurting his family.
Psychiatrist: Harlan Drake Suffered from 'Severe Psychosis'
(Defendant was so depressed from a traffic accident involving the death of two people that he decided to go out and kill people so he could "end his own life"? Riiight!)
By Laura Angus / Flint Journal
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, Michigan -- A forensic psychiatrist told the court today that Harlan Drake suffered from "severe psychosis" the day of the Sept. 11, 2009 shootings, and could not be criminally responsible. Drake is accused of gunning down two men and intending to kill a third that day, and his trial began last week. Defense attorneys began calling their witnesses on Thursday, and they are seeking a legal insanity defense. Dr. Emanuel Tanay told the court today that Drake's behavior was goal-directed, but his goal was psychotic as he wanted to end his own life. "There are many ways to destroy yourself, to destroy your life ... Mr. Drake has been successful," he testified today.
Pastor Dave Wilkinson's Mobile Clinics: A Drive To Fight Abortion
Los Angeles TimesPastor Dave Wilkinson of Simi Valley runs weekly mobile clinics in Watts and elsewhere, offering free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, prayers and counseling. Last year Dave Wilkinson asked God for guidance. He wanted to know what he could do to better fight abortion. Wilkinson, an evangelical pastor, runs three Ventura County pregnancy clinics that encourage women to choose alternatives to the procedure. He believes the prevalence of abortion is the biggest test Christians face. "It's probably one of the things that American Christians are going to have to stand before God and answer for," Wilkinson said. "He will say, 'You, as Americans, what did you do to fight abortion?'" Wilkinson, a 55-year-old Simi Valley resident with a gray beard and a calm manner, said God answered his prayers with a directive to "go where the battle is." So last September, he brought his work to Watts. Every Tuesday since then, Wilkinson and a handful of like-minded Christians have driven into the city in a donated motor home equipped with an ultrasound machine and parked it near the Imperial Courts housing project.
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Bill Gates On 'Vaccines To Reduce Population'
By F. William EngdahlMicrosoft founder and one of the world's wealthiest men, Bill Gates, projects an image of a benign philanthropist using his billions via his (tax exempt) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to tackle diseases, solve food shortages in Africa and alleviate poverty. In a recent conference in California, Gates reveals a less public agenda of his philanthropy-population reduction, otherwise known as eugenics. Gates made his remarks to the invitation-only Long Beach, California TED2010 Conference, in a speech titled, "Innovating to Zero!." Along with the scientifically absurd proposition of reducing manmade CO2 emissions worldwide to zero by 2050, approximately four and a half minutes into the talk, Gates declares, "First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."
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68 Fatal ODs Linked to Kansas Clinic
WICHITA, Kan. -- A new federal indictment implicates a Kansas doctor and his wife in nine additional patient deaths, bringing to 68 the number of fatal overdoses the government contends are linked to illegal prescription writing and a moneymaking conspiracy at their clinic. Dr. Stephen Schneider, his wife Linda, who is a nurse, and unnamed others are accused of scheming to illegally dispense prescription drugs and defraud health insurance programs and patients through their Haysville clinic. They also are accused of money laundering. The couple are directly charged with contributing to 21 deaths.Click Here For The Full Story......
Missouri House Passes Health Care Freedom Act
By Michael Boldin / Tenth Amendment CenterThe Missouri State House has passed House Joint Resolution 48 (HJR48). The legislation, known as the "Missouri Health Care Freedom Act" seeks to make public policy for the state that every person within the state of Missouri is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty by the federal government of the United States of America.
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Bunch of Damned Thieves: Abortion Battle On Health Bill May End
The Associated Press and The New York TimesTAWAS CITY, Mich. -- Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of Obama's health-care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday. Rep. Bart Stupak said he expects to resume talks with House leaders this week in a quest for wording that would impose no new limits on abortion rights but also would not allow use of federal money for the procedure. "I'm more optimistic than I was a week ago," Stupak said between meetings with constituents in his northern Michigan district. "The president says he doesn't want to expand or restrict current law (on abortion). Neither do I."
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Obama: More Civil Rights Enforcement In Public Schools
The Obama administration intends to step up enforcement of civil rights laws that apply to schools. Education Secretary Arne Duncan made the announcement in a speech in Selma, Ala., timed to commemorate the 45th anniversary of civil rights marches there. Education Secretary Arne Duncan signaled Monday the Obama administration’s intention to step up enforcement of civil rights laws that apply to schools and colleges, many of which are often ignored. In remarks delivered in Selma, Ala, timed to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the marches in which civil rights protesters were brutally attacked by police, Secretary Duncan said, “The truth is that, in the last decade, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has not been as vigilant as it should have been in combating gender and racial discrimination and protecting the rights of individuals with disabilities. But that is about to change.... We are going to reinvigorate civil rights enforcement.” Click Here For The Full Story......
Obama Pledges $900 Million More of U.S. Taxpayer Dollars To Stem Public Schools 'Dropout Crisis'
The Christian Science MonitorCiting a high-school dropout crisis in America, Obama pledged an additional $900 million in school-improvement funds. That may mean more controversial school 'turnarounds,' like the one last week in which all the teachers at a low-performing Rhode Island school were fired. The sort of controversial school turnaround strategy employed in Rhode Island last week, in which the entire staff of a poorly performing school was fired, may get more common. Obama reiterated his commitment to such approaches in a speech Monday morning highlighting the dropout crisis.
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Planned Parenthood Is The Black Community’s Worst Enemy
Recently, the pro-life group, Georgia Right to Life began sponsoring billboards which proclaim black children to be an “endangered species.” The billboards illustrate what many of us have believed for years…Abortion on demand was begun to eliminate black babies. In April 2008, a group of black pastors held a vigil outside of a Washington D.C. Planned Parenthood clinic, they did so to protest what they characterize as a “genocide” carried out against black babies. Angered, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, of Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny said: “Every day … over 1,500 black babies are murdered inside the black woman’s womb. This is a race issue.” In addition to beginning a campaign to educate the public about the toll which abortion is taking on the black community, the pastors have asked Congress to audit Planned Parenthood. During Fiscal Year 2008, Planned Parenthood received a total of $300 million in government contracts and grants. Click Here For The Full Story......
W.Va. Killing-Regulation Requiring Doctors to Offer Ultra Sounds Before 'The Killing Starts' Advances
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- After a long and sometimes emotional debate in the House Health and Human Resources Committee, a bill requiring doctors to offer women ultra sounds before an abortion passed out of the committee. The committee discussed the bill for nearly four hours Monday. Several amendments were proposed to change the language of the bill. Most of those amendments failed by a narrow margin. The bill is an addition to the Women's Right to Know bill. The bill now goes onto the House Judiciary Committee for consideration.Click Here For The Full Story......
Utah Guv Signs Revised Killing Regulation
Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law Monday a bill that would allow a woman who arranges an illegal abortion to be charged with criminal homicide. The new law is in response to a case last year where a 17-year-old pregnant girl paid a man $150 to beat her in hopes of inducing a miscarriage. A judge ruled there was no law on Utah's books allowing the mother to be charged with a crime. The bill's original version drew national headlines because it allowed criminal charges if the mother's behavior was "reckless." That raised concerns that a mother who fell on the ice or was an avid jogger and suffered a miscarriage could be charged with a crime. Herbert balked at signing that language and the bill's sponsor, Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman, quickly revised the legislation to remove the word "reckless." Herbert vetoed the original legislation, HB12, Monday -- his first veto as a governor -- and signed the revised version, HB462.Click Here For The Full Story......
WHO Gives 85 Million African Children The Polio Vaccine
CBS NewsThe World Health Organization says more than 85 million children under 5 in west and central Africa will be vaccinated against polio. The agency says the massive vaccination campaign in 19 countries by U.N. agencies and the Red Cross will start March 6. It will involve more than 400,000 volunteers and health workers. It is largely funded by Rotary International. WHO says a 2008 polio outbreak in Nigeria spread throughout western Africa up to Mauritania. It says previous vaccination programs failed to stop the outbreak.
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India, China 'Missing' 85 Million Women: UN
NEW DELHI -- The United Nations estimated Monday that India and China are "missing" about 85 million women who died from discriminatory health care and neglect or who were never born at all. In a major report on gender equality, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) found that Asia had the highest male-female sex ratio at birth in the world, with 119 boys born for every 100 girls. This far exceeded the global world average of 107 boys for every 100 girls. "Females cannot take survival for granted," the report said. "Sex-selective abortion, infanticide, and death from health and nutritional neglect in Asia have left 96 million missing women ... and the numbers seem to be increasing in absolute terms," it added.Click Here For The Full Story......
Gender Selection: In India, Abortion Of Girls On The Rise
NANDGAON, India -- Gender selection via abortion appears to be on the rise in India – and more common among the wealthy. India's upper classes tend to have fewer children and more access to ultrasounds that reveal their babies’ sex. The gender imbalance means fewer women available to be wives. . . . Indeed, across India the most skewed gender ratios tend to occur in more prosperous communities. Far from being an ancient legacy of backward, chauvinistic communities, the practice of gender selection via abortion (also known as female infanticide or female feticide) is flourishing as India’s economy burgeons and the country modernizes. In the capital, New Delhi, the gender ratio is more unbalanced than the national average, with 821 females to every 1,000 males. Some of the greatest imbalances occur in the wealthy neighborhoods of south New Delhi.Click Here For The Full Story......
March 08, 2010
Miracle on 9th Street: Victory In Court For Anti-Abortion Citizen
By Drew Heiss / Word on the StreetThe Recap of my Injunction Trial -- A victory in court for any anti abortion citizen is nothing short of a miracle, especially when it involves the infamous Milwaukee injunction. I cannot think of anyone that has won an injunction case until now. I was very zealous in asking for prayer, and I'm convinced that was the main reason I won. It was helpful that the pro aborts had a weak case against me. I certainly did not intend to violate that injunction, and they had the burden of proving it. It was also debatable if I even violated the injunction at all. Additionally, I had an outstanding attorney, Russell Jones, that was able to find legal issues that have never been raised before.
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City, Pro-Life Activists Settle Lawsuit
By Angie Mason / Daily Record/Sunday NewsYORK, PA -- Settlements have been reached in two federal lawsuits involving anti-abortion activists who claimed their First Amendment rights were violated by the city, according to the parties involved. Two men sued York in connection with incidents near the Planned Parenthood clinic. Edward Snell, of Harrisburg, sued the city after he was arrested in 2004 in Rose Alley, behind the organization on Beaver Street, where he was trying to hand out literature and speak to people entering the clinic. In his suit, Snell claimed he was wrongfully arrested for refusing to leave the alley and that police used excessive force. He was found not guilty of disorderly conduct. John McTernan, of Millersville, said in his own lawsuit that in 2005 he was threatened with arrest by a police officer in the same alley, where he was holding an anti-abortion sign.
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Four Arrested In Child Sacrifice Case
NEPAL -- Police on Thursday arrested four persons in Rupandehi district on charges of killing an eight-year-old girl to offer her as a human sacrifice to the gods. Among those arrested include the owner of the brick kiln where the blood stains of the victim including religious offerings of food and money were later found. The minor's body was found with the throat slit with a sharp weapon, police said. Reports quoted police as saying that the evidences so far clearly suggest that the girl was sacrificed. Two of those arrested, police said, have already confessed of killing the girl as a religious offering to please the gods for good fortune and business.Click Here For The Full Story......
Baby Dumped Outside Mosque 'Died After Police Failed to Realize He Was Breathing
A newborn baby boy dumped on steps outside a mosque died after police failed to notice he was still alive when first found, witnesses have claimed. The child was found wrapped in a plastic bag outside the Makki Masjid mosque in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, on Saturday morning. But witnesses said the newborn was left in the street in freezing conditions for more than an hour after police failed to realise he was still breathing.Click Here For The Full Story......
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'Dead' Newborn Was Alive When UK Police Found Him
Police left an abandoned baby's "body" in a freezing street for up to an hour before realising he was still ALIVE, it emerged last night. An officer raised the alarm after seeing "vague" signs of life. The newborn - undiscovered for FOUR HOURS before cops were alerted - was rushed to hospital. The tiny boy was pronounced dead an hour later. A probe will investigate if the officers could have done more for him. The tot was in a blanket in a bag left outside a mosque in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent. A message read 'Please help bury him' and included two tenners. A witness saw the bag at 6.30am on Saturday but took no action. Said Ahned, 64, peered inside at 10.40am and called cops. He said: "An officer took a brief look in the bag and presumed, because of the letter, the baby was dead." And Penelope Meadows, 21, added: "They put a tent over the body. The officers looked panicked when they discovered the child was alive." The baby reached hospital at about 11.30am. His mother was still being sought last night. Police are treating the death as "unexplained". A post-mortem into the cause is due.
Kentucky Killing-Regulation May Kill 3 Child-Welfare Bills
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A bill intended to help prevent child abuse deaths and critical injuries may die in the House because of a Republican effort to add controversial anti-abortion language. The move also threatens two other child-welfare bills — one that would enhance collection of child support and another that would gather information on alternative education programs for youths. "He's killed the bills," said Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, referring to the amendment's sponsor, Rep. David Floyd of Bardstown. Burch is the sponsor of two of the jeopardized measures, House Bill 192, the child fatality review bill, and HB 414, the child support measure. The alternative education bill, HB 412, is sponsored by Rep. Joni Jenkins, D-Shively. . . . Both anti-abortion bills would require doctors to perform an ultrasound on a woman seeking the procedure and offer to show her the images. The bills also would require the woman to get face-to-face counseling 24 hours in advance of an abortionClick Here For The Full Story......
Final Health Care Pitch: Obama Tells Dems to Have Faith
WASHINGTON -- In private pitches to Democrats, Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn't have the power to keep. Obama told House liberals last week that he understands their frustration in seeing priorities -- such as allowing the government to sell insurance in competition with private companies -- dropped from the revised legislation. He promised to work with them in the future to improve health care laws, said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who leads the Congressional Black Caucus. Obama is asking his party's House moderates to have a different kind of faith. The party's strategy calls for House Democrats, despite many misgivings, to go along with a health care bill the Senate passed in December. Obama would sign it into law, but senators would promise to make numerous changes demanded by House Democrats. Because Senate Democrats no longer have the numbers to stop GOP filibusters, the changes would have to be made under rules that require only simple majority votes. Click Here For The Full Story......
Antidepressants During Pregnancy Cause Premature Birth
Women who take strategic serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants during pregnancy are twice as likely to give birth prematurely as women who do not take the drugs, according to a study published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine and funded by the Danish Medical Research Council. Many of the most popular depressants are SSRIs, such as Prozac. Researchers compared rates of premature birth between different women receiving prenatal care at the same hospital in Aarhus, Denmark. They compared women who were depressed and taking SSRIs with those who were depressed and not on any drugs, as well as those who did not suffer from depression.Click Here For The Full Story......
Former Deputy Kansas AG Challenges Panel In Ethics Case
TOPEKA -- A former deputy Kansas attorney general is trying to remove a member of the panel hearing an abortion-related ethics complaint against him because of her ties to a company that provided an answering service for a slain abortion provider. The complaint against former Deputy Attorney General Eric Rucker stems from investigations of Dr. George Tiller and a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2003-08 by the attorney general's office and the Johnson County district attorney's office. Among other things, Rucker is accused of lying to the Kansas Supreme Court in arguments in 2005 in an abortion case, an allegation he denies. A three-member panel of the state Board for Discipline of Attorneys plans to have a public hearing in Rucker's case on April 27 to 28. Rucker's ex-boss, former Attorney General Phill Kline, also faces an ethics complaint and a hearing on May 26 to 28.Click Here For The Full Story......
Hazleton, PA: Killers Out Killers In
HAZLETON, PA -- Less than two months after Planned Parenthood closed its doors, another women's health care provider will open in Hazleton. Maternal and Family Health Services' family planning center will see its first patients March 15 from a space previously occupied by Planned Parenthood at 10 W. Chestnut St., Hazleton. The office will accept patients who do not have health insurance, and will provide women and teenage girls with reproductive health care services like gynecological exams, Pap tests, pregnancy testing and contraception, said Shannon B. Hayward, an MFHS spokeswoman. Hayward said the non-profit group isn't new to the area.Click Here For The Full Story......
Report Reveals That One Percent of US Children, and Growing, Have Autism
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a new report showing that one out of every 110 children in America today have some form of autism. With an estimated three-quarters of a million children somewhere on the autism spectrum, child advocacy group Autism Speaks is calling on the federal government to increase research efforts to combat the disease. The report, published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report illustrates a 57-percent increase in autism cases between 2002 and 2006. A staggering 600-percent increase in the disease has occurred over the past two decades, plaguing boys more often than girls. Roughly one out of every 70 boys currently has some form of autism.Click Here For The Full Story......
Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse (Forced Abortions)
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Raised as Scientologists, Christie King Collbran and her husband, Chris, were recruited as teenagers to work for the elite corps of staff members who keep the Church of Scientology running, known as the Sea Organization, or Sea Org. They signed a contract for a billion years -- in keeping with the church's belief that Scientologists are immortal. They worked seven days a week, often on little sleep, for sporadic paychecks of $50 a week, at most. . . . Fifty-six years after its founding by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986, the church is fighting off calls by former members for a Reformation. The defectors say Sea Org members were repeatedly beaten by the church’s chairman, David Miscavige, often during planning meetings; pressured to have abortions; forced to work without sleep on little pay; and held incommunicado if they wanted to leave. The church says the defectors are lying.Click Here For The Full Story......

















