Saturday, September 24, 2011

Heroic News: “Ca. continues battle to protect tweens from gov. mandated shots” plus 7 more

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Ca. continues battle to protect tweens from gov. mandated shots

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 08:56 AM PDT

“Scandalous” new information about the Gardasil HPV vaccines shows that California Gov. Jerry Brown should veto a bill that allows 12 year olds to consent to such treatments without their parents’ involvement, opponents said ahead of the governor's expected decision.

Catholic ethicist calls for transparency in organ donor controversy

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 06:52 AM PDT

A top Catholic ethicist is calling for donor guidelines that are clear to the public after a proposal was made to allow surgeons to retrieve organs from donors less than two minutes after their hearts stop beating.

Patients face longer waits, reduced care under Obamacare

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 06:50 AM PDT

Those are among findings from a report out from a think tank the Tennessee’s largest health insurer, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, launched this year to study the interface between public policy and health care.

Pro-abortion blogger's own abortion after ultrasound scarring, full of grief

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 06:20 AM PDT

"Then she turned the monitor to me. I have so many little brothers and sisters. I was with my mother the first time she heard my younger siblings heartbeat. There was a heartbeat now, too."

Jewish law perspective raises disturbing bioethical questions

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 05:40 AM PDT

Children are a blessing, Broyde concluded, and "any processes and technologies that allow the production of children -- even with a little bit of a mouse in them -- is intrinsically good.

'Personhood' is abortion truth

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT

In the 38 years since the first legalized abortion in Mississippi, 95,000 reported couples were able to abort the child not of their dreams, through legalized abortion.

Argentina: Divorced woman wins embryo custody

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:44 AM PDT

A judicial ruling in Argentina said frozen embryos from a divorced man's sperm can be 'used' by his ex-wife to get pregnant again.

ACLU challenges abortion insurance ruling

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:25 AM PDT

The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday predictably challenged a magistrate's recommendation that the federal court deny its request to halt a new Kansas law restricting insurance coverage for abortions, since restricting abortions is the furthest thing from the ACLU's interests.