NEWS SHORTS FOR TUESDAY

Obama's 'Kill Grandma Bill' - Will Americans tolerate the denial of healthcare to those 65 and older?

When United States citizens reach the age of 65 they are forced into Medicare and out of any private insurance option for coverage of their healthcare. The government sets the dollar amount doctors, other healthcare providers, and hospitals will be paid for the treatments of a Medicare patient. When a Medicare payment is decided, often the fee is based on which special interest group lobbies the federal government most effectively. No efficacy research for a particular treatment and no market forces enter into this entirely arbitrary decision made in Washington, D.C. Once a fee is established, Medicare pays 80% of the allowable charge. Twenty per cent may be covered by supplemental insurance or patient out of pocket payment. The patient cannot pay his own money for care above and beyond the Medicare allowable–it is against the law.
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At Least 5,000 Irish Women Murdered Their Babies In Other Countries Last Year

Almost 5,000 women gave Irish addresses at abortion clinics in the UK and Netherlands last year, new figures reveal. The Crisis Pregnancy Agency revealed a 31% drop in the numbers travelling to Britain for a termination over the last seven years. However, data showed a 12.6% rise in women undergoing free post-abortion medical check-ups funded by the agency in 2008. The organisation launched a major campaign to highlight groups it claims seek to manipulate women into making decisions by providing disingenuous counselling.
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The Abortionist's Eye Is On Us

King's niece fights this era's civil rights battle

Abortion has taken a gruesome toll on the black community, killing more than AIDS and crime combined. Some 14 million black babies have been aborted since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in all stages in all 50 states. That's equal to one-third of the number of blacks living today. By the abortion industry's own statistics, black women are 4.8 times more likely to abort than are non-Hispanic white women. Blacks comprise about 13 percent of the population, yet have 37 percent of all abortions.
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Planned Parenthood Seeks to Force Radical 'Sexual Rights' Agenda on All People

IPPF declaration seeks to force radical "sexual rights" agenda on all people. "International Planned Parenthood Federation has launched an extremely dangerous campaign that is even more bizarre, broader in scope and more aggressive than the standard fare we have come to expect from the sex-crazed, abortion-peddling giant. IPPF plans to force all nations to adopt and abide by its perverse "sexual rights" declaration. "The document, titled Sexual rights: an IPPF declaration, draws a bleak picture of a heathen world entitled to self-destruction through self-centered sexual pleasure, with no regard for the consequences of that behavior.
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Switzerland Attempting to Curb "Suicide Tourism" with Stricter Regulations

Swiss prosecutors in the region of Zurich have instituted stricter regulations that are intended to curb the growing problem of "suicide tourism," reports The Telegraph.

Numerous high-profile cases over the last several years of foreigners traveling to Switzerland to commit suicide - including the recent case of a renowned U.K. conductor and his wife - have brought the country's macabre suicide trade into the limelight, and appear to have triggered concerns by Swiss officials that their country is becoming famous largely for being the premiere spot in the world to kill oneself. As of late last year approximately 100 U.K. residents had committed suicide with the help of the Swiss group Dignitas, although individuals from numerous other countries have also used Dignitas' "services."

Prosecutors in Zurich have now announced arrangements with the country's second largest assisted suicide group, EXIT, that will see significant restrictions placed upon the process of obtaining the group's help in committing suicide, reports the Telegraph.
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YouTube Bans Student Group's Video Showing Abuse at Planned Parenthood, Group Protests Politically Motivated Censorship

In a censorship that appears politically motivated, the popular video-sharing site YouTube has blocked a video critical of Planned Parenthood made by the student-led nonprofit Live Action. The video shows a Planned Parenthood clinic in Birmingham offering to "bend the rules" of Alabama's parental consent and mandatory reporting laws in order to cover up statutory rape with a secret abortion, and has opened an investigation by the state Attorney General's Office into the nation's largest abortion provider.
 
YouTube offered no prior warning or specific explanation for removing the video, which contains no apparent violations of YouTube's "community guidelines." After remaining up for ten days, the video had several thousand views and had been linked to by many news organizations. YouTube has previously censored Live Action videos, and the latest removal casts further doubt on the video-sharing site's professed regard for free speech and political neutrality. Click here to listen to the full audio from the Alabama investigation.
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