- Pint-sized hero saves drowning toddler
- Surge in homosexuality leads to HIV epidemic in mideast
- Catholic scholars blast aggressive U.S. contraceptive mandate
- Pill risky, potentially fatal for a significant percentage of population
- Doctors file ironic lawsuit to force abortion in Kansas
- Costa Rica under pressure to destroy human life via IVF
- San Francisco city attorney wages war on pregnant women
| Pint-sized hero saves drowning toddler  Image via Wikipedia Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:52 AM PDT A 9-year-old California boy has saved the life of a toddler found unconscious at the bottom of a San Jose apartment complex swimming pool. |
| Surge in homosexuality leads to HIV epidemic in mideast Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:49 AM PDT Epidemics of HIV are emerging among gay and bisexual men in the Middle East and North Africa and high levels of risky sexual behavior threaten to spread the AIDS virus further in the region, researchers said Tuesday. |
| Catholic scholars blast aggressive U.S. contraceptive mandate Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:00 AM PDT A new federal requirement that employers’ health care plans must cover contraceptives is an “aggressive” approach that could hinder or shut down Catholic institutions because of inadequate and “impossibly narrow” religious exemptions, several Catholic commentators have said. |
| Pill risky, potentially fatal for a significant percentage of population Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:18 AM PDT Women who use the standard form of birth control pill may have a much higher than average risk of dangerous blood clots if they also have a vein malformation seen in a quarter of the population, California researchers say |
| Doctors file ironic lawsuit to force abortion in Kansas Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:11 AM PDT A father-daughter 'physician' team is going to court to stop Kansas from imposing new rules that could potentially leave the state abortion free by the end of the week. |
| Costa Rica under pressure to destroy human life via IVF Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:00 AM PDT Costa Rica, a nation that takes pride in its respect for civil liberties, is being sued for failing to lift a ban on in-vitro fertilization (IVF), as it remains the only country in the Americas that prohibits the procedure, which results in the creation and destruction of 'leftover' human embryos. |
| San Francisco city attorney wages war on pregnant women Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:00 AM PDT Supervisor Malia Cohen and City Attorney Dennis Herrera today announced a joint effort to combat what they view as deceptive marketing at crisis pregnancy centers - and were peppered with questions from pro-life activists who attended the press conference. |
