Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Heroic News: “Brits clamour for state-funded IVF treatments” plus 12 more

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Brits clamour for state-funded IVF treatments

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 12:34 PM PDT

National Health Services North Staffordshire was one of five Primary Care Trusts in Britain not offering IVF treatment at the time of a survey by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infertility.

NFP: The 'greenest' option

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:01 AM PDT

Oral contraception is the only drug approved to treat a healthy condition as a disease and rewire a normally working system so that it malfunctions.

Online resource promotes sexual healing from pornography, sex addictions

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:00 AM PDT

The RECLAIM program for overcoming unhealthy sexual behaviors is the result of years of intense effort and development by a remarkable team of highly experienced mental health professionals.

Miami man undergoes surgery to save sister's life

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:18 AM PDT

Michael Torres' sister, Ana, has lymphoma and needs a stem cell transplant. Her brother is her only match. South Florida man went under the knife to save his sister's life.

Pro abort lawyers scrambling to regroup before La.'s debate tomorrow

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:05 AM PDT

Faced with the prospect of effective abortion bans being enacted in multiple states, Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, an attorney for the ACLU’s “Reproductive Freedom Project,” says, “We’ll regroup after the chips fall.” Because they know they can’t prevent them from falling.

Personhood USA calls for authentic pro life witness

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Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:02 AM PDT

Personhood USA urges pro life activists to 'not settle for the protection of just some,' urging people to get off the couch and take their message of life to the streets.

Gallup: Churchgoers more likely to be pro life

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 07:54 AM PDT

A new Gallup analysis of polls it has conducted on abortion from 2008-2011 finds churchgoers are much more likely to be pro-life on abortion than those who never attend or rarely attend services.

AIDS: 30 years later

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 05:34 AM PDT

The Vatican’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva says that 30 years after the discovery of AIDS, international relief agencies and faith-based groups are beginning to show an openness to the Catholic solution for the illness.

Saints can help heal wounds of sexual abuse

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Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:45 AM PDT

Dawn Eden, a popular Catholic author known for her work on chastity in the modern world, is set to release a new book on the central role of the saints in healing wounds from childhood sexual abuse.

Buy one get one free abortion coupons?

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Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:45 AM PDT

A clinic in Orlando, Florida, is offering a bizarre “deal” to women who opt to terminate their pregnancies. According to the facility’s web site, women are entitled to a free pap smear or a discount on the abortion pill should they choose to pay for an abortion procedure.

Planned Parenthood of Indiana fighting to stay afloat

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:15 PM PDT

A dispute between Indiana and federal Medicaid officials over the state's new abortion law cutting off some public funding for Planned Parenthood should be resolved by government administrators and not the courts, Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher told a federal judge Monday.

Meet the Parents: Couple, docs tell tale of newborn sextuplets

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Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:13 PM PDT

The Carey family just got really big really fast. Between 1:15 and 1:21 a.m. Wednesday, Stacey and Brendan Carey welcomed Emma, Samantha, Olivia, John, Patrick and Connor into the world at Abington Memorial Hospital. Conceived after Stacey was administered ovulation-inducing drugs, the sextuplets were born at only 27 weeks gestation.

Republicans More Unified Than Democrats on Abortion

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 01:47 PM PDT

Roughly two-thirds of Republicans across most major gender, age, educational, and income lines describe themselves as "pro-life," while about a quarter call themselves "pro-choice." By contrast, Democrats' support for the "pro-choice" label rises sharply with education and income.