Sunday, August 19, 2012

Heroic News: “Mother's milk for needy babies” plus 5 more

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Mother's milk for needy babies

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:48 AM PDT

New England's first breast milk depot has opened in a parenting center outside Boston. The freezer at Isis Parenting in Hanover, Mass., is a place for moms to drop off breast milk donations for needy infants.

The complicated legacy of a Cosmo Girl

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:37 AM PDT

She is sometimes held up by secular culture as a pioneer and a role model, yet feminists could never quite get comfortable with her. She championed women in the workplace and encouraged no-strings-attached sex, which earned her much praise, yet her feminist sisters often rejected her for her intense focus on attracting the attention of men.

Is There a Future for Catholic Doctors?

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:35 AM PDT

The effects of Obamacare on physician morale promise to be devastating. Polls from the Medicus Firm and Investors Business Daily in 2009 show that anywhere from 30% to 45% of physicians plan to retire early or leave medical practice soon. The Medicus Firm poll showed that 36% of physicians would not recommend medicine as a career, no matter what, and an additional 27% would not recommend it if Obamacare became law.

Mom hears dead son's heartbeat once again

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:31 AM PDT

A man who received a teenagers heart meets the donor's family for the very first time.

New leadership for March for Life

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:24 AM PDT

Board members of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, Patrick Kelly and Jeanne Monahan, have been selected to serve as the new leaders following the death of president Nellie Gray.

Asexually oriented toward...nothing?

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:21 AM PDT

A book published in the UK next month claims some men and women, an estimated 1 per cent of the population, should be recognized as a 'fourth sexual orientation' – asexuals.