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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
| | Central Texas Komen Flaunts Planned Parenthood Alliance By John Pisciotta Today's guest commentary discusses the partnership between a Komen affiliate and Planned Parenthood. It is especially important to educate ourselves about these facts during this month of breast cancer awareness. Read more for what one American Life League Associate group is working hard to do. [ Click here to read more. ] | | | | | | | HEADLINES |  |  Battle against abortion mandate now includes SBC
ethics entity
Baptist Press
The Southern Baptist Convention's religious freedom entity
has joined the legal battle against the Obama administration's abortion/contraception mandate in the first case to reach a federal appeals
court. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief filed October 12 that asked a federal appeals court to reverse
the dismissal of two lawsuits against the controversial requirement under the
2010 health care law. The brief supports challenges by Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian school in suburban Chicago, and Belmont Abbey College,
a Roman Catholic institution in North Carolina, to the mandate that employers provide workers with health insurance that covers contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs. |
|  Planned Parenthood's Abilene Perini Center closing
after 12 years
KTXS.com
Planned Parenthood's Abilene Perini Center will be closing next month, the result of state budget cuts. The center at 3449 N. 10th St. will shut down effective November 9, said Carla Holeva of Planned Parenthood of West Texas. "It's an incredibly difficult decision for our board," Holeva said. The center, which has been in Abilene since 2000, has provided birth control, general health care, HIV testing, and pregnancy and STD testing, among other services, according to its website. It has also provided medication abortions one day a month over the past two or three years, Holeva said. Those abortion services at the Perini Center were discontinued last week,
she said. |
|  Stem cell discovery will allow gay men to create their own eggs for surrogate birth
The Guardian Express
Japanese stem cell researchers have discovered a way to combine the DNA of a gay couple to create an egg that can then be used for surrogacy. This procedure could be used to bypass the need of a female surrogate's egg. Researchers say the results would be a child born with the DNA from both gay parents. The Japanese research team, led by Mitinori Saitou of Kyoto University in Japan, said that they had finally attained their seemingly insurmountable objective, creating eggs from embryonic stem cells, as well as producing eggs that will become healthy offspring. The most astonishing part of the discovery was that the bio-engineered eggs were then fertilized in-vitro with sperm created from stem cells as well, and then implanted in the mice. The resulting pregnancy produced healthy mice, and so far, this accomplishment is a rousing success. The embryonic stem cells used in the study were a different kind of stem cell than we are used to hearing about. When we think of stem cells, we think of umbilical cord stem cells. But this differing type of stem cell, referred to as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), can be obtained from the skin cells of a mouse, and a human as well." |
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