| HEADLINES |  |  Abortion, the economy, and the 2012 election
American Thinker
In addition to the potential for massive numbers of abortions to disrupt the nationwide balance between supply and demand by eliminating [a] large number of prospective consumers . . . it must not be forgotten that an economy also flourishes when large percentages of the citizenry can work. But when a populace kills off large numbers of its young people, the populace will disproportionately age, with more and more retiring members of the workforce and an insufficient supply of youth to replace them. It has been pointed out that a population also requires around 2.1 children for every 2 parents just to replace itself, and that at rates lower than that, we will instead see an unnatural and inverted family tree, with one child to care for two parents to care for four grandparents. |
|  Vulgar website targets Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli for rejecting abortion compromise
LifeSiteNews
Virginia's pro-life attorney general Ken Cuccinelli is no stranger to controversy or name-calling. As he has moved to hold the state's abortion clinics to the highest health and safety standards, he finds himself the subject of a vulgar website that encourages pro-abortion protesters to trail him around the state. Although the state of Virginia passed a law regulating the state's abortion facilities in the same manner as hospitals, on June 15 the state Board of Health voted to waive one architectural regulation by a vote of 7-4. Reportedly, 17 of the state's 21 abortion clinics could not afford the overhaul and would have to close. |
|  Cord blood stem cells restore toddler's hearing
ABC News
At age 1, baby Madeleine was completely deaf in her right ear and her hearing was severely lost in the left, said Connor. While a hearing aid helped to amplify some sounds for Madeleine, it would never fully repair the damage in her ear. But a simple experimental procedure that Connor enrolled in for Madeleine may have restored her hearing and reversed her condition. In January 2012, Madeleine, 2, became the first child to undergo an experimental hearing loss treatment through an FDA-approved trial at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center that infused stem cells from her own banked cord blood into her damaged inner ear. Within the last six months, Connor says she's seen a dramatic improvement in Madeleine's ability to hear. | |
