Pro-Lifer to Run Graphic Abortion Ads During Super Bowl | LifeNews.com: Pro-life activist Randall Terry, last year, launched a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He did so to qualify as a federal candidate in order to air graphic abortion ads on television under a law requiring stations to air them.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Peter Singer: Killing Dog Bad, Killing Non-Infant Baby Not
Peter Singer: Killing Dog Bad, Killing Not-Infant Baby Not | LifeNews.com: Ariel Kaminer’s “Ethicist” column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, approvingly cited controversial Princeton University bio-ethics philosopher and animal rights “ethicist” Peter Singer, who has been protested by advocates for the disabled for radical statements. A Dog’s Right To Life?
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North Carolina to Compensate Victims of Eugenics Program
North Carolina to Compensate Victims of Eugenics Program Who Were Sterilized - ABC News: The state sterilized more than 7,600 people in North Carolina from 1929 to 1974 -- one of many other states in misguided attempts to weed out criminals and the mentally disabled. The Eugenics Compensation Task Force recommends a lump-sum payment of $50,000 per person.
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Free Online Sperm
Women Skip Both Banks for Free Online Sperm - ABC News: Using a sperm bank can quickly break the bank. That’s why a growing number of women have turned to the underground, online world of free sperm donation.
There are websites such as knowndonorregistry.com (formerly freespermdonorregistry.com) that offer a list of hundreds of men willing to donate free sperm to thousands of women eager to conceive.
“It’s a weird blend of Facebook, Match.com and a traditional sperm bank,” said Tony Dokoupil, a reporter who spent months investigating the subject for a Newsweek cover story. “You get all [the] medical information, about the health and fitness of this person you might procreate with.”
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There are websites such as knowndonorregistry.com (formerly freespermdonorregistry.com) that offer a list of hundreds of men willing to donate free sperm to thousands of women eager to conceive.
“It’s a weird blend of Facebook, Match.com and a traditional sperm bank,” said Tony Dokoupil, a reporter who spent months investigating the subject for a Newsweek cover story. “You get all [the] medical information, about the health and fitness of this person you might procreate with.”
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Noted physicist doubts climate change
Freeman Dyson on climate « The Enterprise Blog: Noted physicist Freeman Dyson has ruffled feathers in recent years by coming out as a skeptic about catastrophic climate change. Given his reputation, even the NYT magazine had to give him a reasonable hearing on his views. In two short videos, Dyson makes the case for adaptation as a primary response to climate change.
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Fears of Ocean Acidification: Justified?
Matt Ridley on Fears of Ocean Acidification | Mind & Matter - WSJ.com: The Natural Resources Defense Council has called ocean acidification "the scariest environmental problem you've never heard of." The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls it global warming's "equally evil twin."
But do the scientific data support such alarm? Last month scientists at San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and other authors published a study showing how much the pH level (measuring alkalinity versus acidity) varies naturally between parts of the ocean and at different times of the day, month and year.
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But do the scientific data support such alarm? Last month scientists at San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and other authors published a study showing how much the pH level (measuring alkalinity versus acidity) varies naturally between parts of the ocean and at different times of the day, month and year.
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Rep. Ron Paul Signs Personhood Pledge--With Reservations
Rep. Ron Paul Signs Personhood Pledge--With Reservations | CNSnews.com: Paul signed the pledge December 19, but included a lengthy signing statement that spelled out some of his objections to what he thinks the pledge would obligate a president to do. He says the federal government should stipulate that life begins at conception, but he also believes its involvement should end there, leaving the application of that standard to the states. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman are the only two remaining candidates who have not signed the pledge.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
China Stops Unapproved Stem Cell Treatments
China Stops Unapproved Stem Cell Treatments | Fox News: A growing number of hospitals and clinics in large cities in China have been offering stem cell therapies for treatment of diseases ranging from cancer and Alzheimer's to spinal cord injuries, treatments that are backed by little or no scientific evidence and which are considered at best experimental.
Some of these involve large general hospitals where patients pay thousands -- or even tens of thousands -- of dollars for treatments that are advertised online, which attract both Chinese patients and those from overseas, sparking what experts say is a dubious type of medical tourism. Patients have come away with little or no improvement and a number have died.
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Some of these involve large general hospitals where patients pay thousands -- or even tens of thousands -- of dollars for treatments that are advertised online, which attract both Chinese patients and those from overseas, sparking what experts say is a dubious type of medical tourism. Patients have come away with little or no improvement and a number have died.
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Stem Cell Fraud: A 60 Minutes investigation
Stem Cell Fraud: A 60 Minutes investigation - CBS News: Dr. Dan Ecklund claims he can treat dozens of diseases using stem cells. But there's a problem. Ecklund is a disgraced doctor whose medical license was revoked in 2005. That hasn't kept him from founding a company and a website that offer hope where science cannot.
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First 'mixed embryo' monkeys born
BBC News - First 'mixed embryo' monkeys born: For the first time, scientists have produced monkeys composed of cells taken from separate embryos. The animals were born after researchers combined cells from different embryos and implanted them into female monkeys.
Such animals, which contain genetically distinct groups of cells from more than one organism, are called "chimeras." A US team, which has reported its work in the journal Cell, says the advance could have "enormous" importance for medical research.
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Such animals, which contain genetically distinct groups of cells from more than one organism, are called "chimeras." A US team, which has reported its work in the journal Cell, says the advance could have "enormous" importance for medical research.
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Unreached people
WORLD Magazine | Unreached people | Mindy Belz | Jan 14, 12: Missions are both geographic and generational. The 2.4 billion of the world's population between the ages of 10 and 30 have been dubbed the 10/30 Window.
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China: Bizarre results of the one-child system
China: The rise of the 'Precious Snowflakes' - Telegraph: The current generation of students had been banned from making any "big movements," like jumping, dancing or crawling, because of fears the children might hurt themselves.
"We have padded all the stairs, bannisters, corners and the children do not do physical exercise. Instead we lie them on cushioned mats," she said. "They are more aggressive, and also more weak. They cannot control themselves and they give up when given tasks to do. Because their parents do everything for them, they do not believe they can do things themselves. They cannot even do up their buttons."
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"We have padded all the stairs, bannisters, corners and the children do not do physical exercise. Instead we lie them on cushioned mats," she said. "They are more aggressive, and also more weak. They cannot control themselves and they give up when given tasks to do. Because their parents do everything for them, they do not believe they can do things themselves. They cannot even do up their buttons."
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Why This Pro-Choice Feminist is Now a Pro-Life Activist
Why This Pro-Choice Feminist is Now a Pro-Life Activist | LifeNews.com: "I came to embrace the pro-choice philosophy based on the twin pillars of reasonability and convenience. . . . [E]ven though I viewed myself as well-informed on abortion . . . I was lacking many basic facts. . . . I had not known, for instance, that a heart starts beating 24 days after conception, or that brain waves can be detected 43 days after the unification of egg and sperm."
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Rick Santorum's Arlen Specter problem
Rick Santorum's Arlen Specter problem - Political Hotsheet - CBS News: Santorum said he made a hard decision that was grounded in his opposition to abortion, saying Specter had agreed he would support then-President George W. Bush's Supreme Court nominees no matter what. Specter denies this assertion. Santorum said he wanted to make sure the high court was as conservative as possible. "You questioned my judgment, and you have every right to do so," Santorum told the questioner. "But please don't question my intention to do what's right for those little babies."
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Friday, January 6, 2012
FBI crackdown on unproven stem cell therapies
FBI crackdown on unproven stem cell therapies - health - 05 January 2012 - New Scientist: They are the modern equivalent of snake oil merchants: clinics that charge desperately ill people thousands for unproven stem cell "cures." Now the US federal government is cracking down on one of the most notorious – and the defendants include a scientist at a leading research university.
Vincent Dammai, of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, is named in a federal indictment as part of a team that allegedly received more than $1.5 million from people with cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Vincent Dammai, of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, is named in a federal indictment as part of a team that allegedly received more than $1.5 million from people with cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
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'Octomom' case stuns one-child public in China
The Associated Press: 'Octomom' case stuns one-child public in China: In a country that limits most couples to one child, many Chinese were amazed to learn that a couple had spent nearly a million yuan ($160,000) and illegally enlisted two surrogate mothers to help have the four boys and four girls. Chinese media are calling the mother "babaotai muqin," or "octomom," a reference to the American woman who gave birth to octuplets using in vitro fertilization.
The incident has highlighted both the use of birth surrogates, a violation of Chinese law, and how wealthy Chinese do as they please, with scant regard for the rules that constrain others. The most common reaction, though, has been simple disbelief.
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The incident has highlighted both the use of birth surrogates, a violation of Chinese law, and how wealthy Chinese do as they please, with scant regard for the rules that constrain others. The most common reaction, though, has been simple disbelief.
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A family learns the true meaning of the vow “in sickness and in health”
A family learns the true meaning of the vow “in sickness and in health” - The Washington Post: Journalist Robert Melton suffered a stroke that left him irrevocably changed. When his wife found a new love, she was determined to keep Robert with her.
Quiet Pro-Traditional Marriage Shift Coming?
Quiet Pro-Traditional Marriage Shift Coming?, Christian News: Focus on the Family expert Glenn Stanton told The Christian Post that forming strong families and healthy marriage is something young people want; they just don’t always know how to get it. “The biggest untapped opportunity of the church is to meet young people at one of their greatest points of need,” which is their desire to form good, healthy families, Stanton said. “Many say their number one life goal is marriage and parenting, but they are scared because they have never seen it succeed.”
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Arbitrary Morality: The Degrading Effects of Nature Worship
Arbitrary Morality: The Degrading Effects of Nature Worship - YouTube: Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi, theologian and philosopher, talks about the inferiority of pagan cultures, specifically on morality. Nature does not reveal God's law in a way that can be clearly understood; thus, those who worship nature do not have a morality that is consistent or defined. Natural morality is survival of the fittest— the law of the jungle. True culture can't be established in that kind of society because the basis for culture, the rule of law, does not exist.
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Obscuring the meaning of ‘pro-life’
WORLDmag.com | Obscuring the meaning of ‘pro-life’: Abortion doesn’t cause temporary, almost undetectable reduction in neurological development among one-in-six babies. It kills one-in-five babies conceived in America (22 percent). Since 1973, because of abortion, over 54 million babies in this country have been dead on arrival.
Yet the Evangelical Environmental Network insists that politicians who support the continued intentional massacre of over a million babies a year can proudly wear the pro-life label so long as they support EPA’s plan to impose new restrictions on mercury emissions.
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Yet the Evangelical Environmental Network insists that politicians who support the continued intentional massacre of over a million babies a year can proudly wear the pro-life label so long as they support EPA’s plan to impose new restrictions on mercury emissions.
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From One Flesh—Or Two?
From One Flesh—Or Two? - Answers in Genesis: Ever since the time of Darwin, many church leaders and academics have attempted various ways to harmonize Genesis with “millions of years” and Darwin’s ideas of common descent. Consider a new proposal by Bill Dembski, who teaches at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, who claims that Adam and Eve came from “human-like beings” who lived outside the Garden of Eden.
These claims could be tested against several scriptural teachings, but just one -- the teaching of "one flesh" -- is more than sufficient to show how Dembski's position undermines key biblical doctrines, including marriage, the Church, and ultimately the authority of God's word in old and new testaments.
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Duggar Stillborn Baby Photo Provokes Mixed Reactions
Duggar Stillborn Baby Photo Provokes Mixed Reactions, Christian News: The photos include one of Jubilee’s hand being held by her mother’s index finger – which is now being featured on the Duggar family website. Another photo showing Jubilee's tiny feet contains the caption: "There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world."
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Pro-Abortion UN Agencies Fail Audit, Millions Unaccounted For
Pro-Abortion UN Agencies Fail Audit, Millions Unaccounted For | LifeNews.com: Shadowy accounting often signals systemic waste, fraud and abuse. In a moment of candor in 2007, a UNFPA executive boasted at a conference that, though the agency was barred from directly funding abortion, it disburses money to abortion providers.
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Best and worst biotechnology developments of 2011
5 best and worst biotechnology developments of 2011 from a pro-life perspective | LifeSiteNews.com: In 2011, there were more ways human life was marginalized than a pro-life person could possibly count.
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2011: The year of the abortion restrictions
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