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- Peruvian group accused of inflating deaths to defend abortion
- Till death do us part
- Canadian supreme court refuses to hear appeal on infanticide case
- Colombian women witheld sex for ... asphalt?
- Doctors deny link between IVF, breast cancer
- NeoStem to co-host stem-cell conference at the Vatican
- Horrified highschoolers bolt from gay PDA in school play
| Peruvian group accused of inflating deaths to defend abortion
Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:40 AM PDT The Population Research Institute in Lima criticized an NGO director for claiming that over 50,000 women die in Peru each year because of illegal abortion, when the actual number is around 30. |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:26 AM PDT An Iowa couple who was married for 72 years died one hour apart last week in the hospital as they held hands. |
| Canadian supreme court refuses to hear appeal on infanticide case
Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:25 AM PDT The Supreme Court of Canada declined last Thursday to hear an appeal in the case of a mother who smothered two of her children. The decision means that a Canadian mother can continue to plead to the lesser charge of “infanticide” rather than “murder” when she ends the life of her newborn child. |
| Colombian women witheld sex for ... asphalt? Posted: 19 Oct 2011 06:49 AM PDT The women of Barbacoas, Colombia, have ended a three-month, 19-day "crossed legs" strike of sexual abstinence aimed at getting a road to their isolated town paved, after officials pledged to invest in the project. |
| Doctors deny link between IVF, breast cancer Posted: 19 Oct 2011 06:38 AM PDT TV celebrity Guiliana Rancic, who has no family history of breast cancer, said she was dragged “kicking and screaming” to the breast screening after the specialist insisted on the mammogram before he would start a third cycle of in vitro fertilization, or IVF. |
| NeoStem to co-host stem-cell conference at the Vatican Posted: 19 Oct 2011 06:35 AM PDT NeoStem will co-host a conference at the Vatican in Rome, Italy, next month to discuss the social and political challenges of stem cell research, with special guest speaker Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate, Tommy Thompson. |
| Horrified highschoolers bolt from gay PDA in school play Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:38 PM PDT Several students at a Hartford, CT high school expressed horror and left the auditorium when two male members of a city-funded school play shared a passionate kiss onstage. |
