Quarterback Philip Rivers: A champion for children
By Doug Bean
Celebrate Life
Like any good quarterback, Philip Rivers dropped back and surveyed the field. Only this time, he wasn't searching downfield for an open receiver. He was looking beyond the confines of the stadiums where he makes his living as a professional football player. In the distance, he saw children in the community who needed help, a home, and a family to call their own. As he zoomed in for a closer look, he saw hope in the faces of kids who had been bounced from house to house and were separated from siblings, never knowing the love and stability of a real home. [ Click here to read more. ]
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CDC: Chlamydia rates have skyrocketed among American women since 2000
LifeSiteNews
Alongside an unprecedented level of access to contraception, the number of American women infected with chlaymidia has skyrocketed in the past decade. Both the number and percentage of women infected have grown in all 50 states and U.S. territories, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Monday. Chlamydia infections increased among American women by 51 percent from 2001 to 2011. In that time, chlamydia surged from 430 cases per 100,000 women to 649 cases. The total number of cases has nearly doubled, from 783,242 cases to more than 1.4 million. The disease----which is more prevalent among girls in their late teens and African-Americans females----often has no symptoms. However, without treatment it can lead to ectopic pregnancy, early menopause, and permanent infertility.
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Playing God without the wisdom of God
Crisis Magazine
The dominant secular culture portrays the world of In vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogate pregnancies as a great advance for mankind, even as it generates a stream of horror stories beyond the imagination of Greek tragedians. Not a week passes, it seems, without a new disturbing permutation to this culture. "Surrogate offered $10,000 to abort baby," reported CNN this week. So now surrogates are offered money not just to carry children but to abort them. A more complete headline on CNN's story would have been: "Surrogate offered $10,000 to abort baby diagnosed as disabled." Untroubled by eugenic abortion, CNN doesn't even bother to engage that obvious element in the story.
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In utero surgery saves 20-week unborn baby with cyst the size of an orange
LifeSiteNews
Most unborn babies who experience a surgeon's tools at 20 weeks gestation in their mothers' wombs are sadly moments away from termination. But not so for Elijah Leffingwell. The baby's first ultrasound revealed a macro-cyst the size of an orange in the unborn baby's chest, right next to his tiny heart. Doctors gave the little guy a 50 percent chance of survival, reported Fox6Now. "The mass in the chest is huge and it's just totally crushing the heart and putting the baby into heart failure," recounted fetal surgeon Dr. Scott Adzick, who would lead the team that performed the complex surgery on Elijah. The high-risk operation involved partly taking the unborn baby out of his mother's womb, opening the baby's chest, removing the cyst, then replacing the baby.
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