NEWS SHORTS FOR TUESDAY
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Personhood Amendment Launches State's First All-Volunteer Initiative
Today's press conference will launch the 2010 Personhood Amendment petition drive with a request to re-activate a thousand volunteer petitioners from 2008. The Colorado Secretary Of State title board has given the unanimous go ahead for the new Personhood effort to begin gathering the 76,047 signatures required to place the amendment on the November 2010 ballot. The press conference, at a post office, will announce that the campaign will strive to become the first initiative campaign in Colorado to be run completely by volunteers.
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Pregnancy Testing Kits Encourage Promiscuity
A bargain shop has been accused of encouraging underage sex by selling pregnancy testing kits at the ‘pocketmoney price’ of 99p. Dozens of girls - many below the age of consent - have been snapping up the tests from the store. Chemists charge up to £10 for pregnancy testing kits. But mothers living nearby say bargain basement prices will see teenage pregnancies soar.
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Obama Not Being 'Straight' With Voters On Abortion Coverage In Health Reform, Washington Times Editorial Says
A Washington Times editorial claims that President Obama "isn't being straight" with voters when he says the current health care reform proposals in Congress "don't provide government funding for abortion." The editorial says, "If Democratic plans are passed, your taxes will pay for abortions." During a conference call with religious leaders last week, Obama said, "'You've heard that this is all going to mean government funding of abortion. Not true.'"
The editorial calls this Obama's "most demonstrably false statement." The editorial cites an Aug. 5 Associated Press article reporting that the Senate version of health reform legislation is "'still largely silent on the abortion issue.'" The editorial also claims that the House Energy and Commerce Committee's version (HB 3200) includes an amendment that "specifically provides for abortion coverage," the editorial says.
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Half Of Doctors Will Refuse To Take Swine Flu Shot
Healthcare workers revolt against vaccination while government plans mass immunization programmes
Two separate polls of GPs in Britain have revealed that one in two doctors have severe reservations over the safety of the forthcoming H1N1 flu vaccine, raising serious questions over the government’s planned mass vaccination programme.
A poll of doctors for Pulse magazine found that 49% would reject the vaccine with 9% still undecided.
56 of the 115 GPs surveyed said they did not intend to receive the jab, according to the UK’s leading medical weekly publication for health professionals.
A second poll conducted by GP magazine reveals that Up to 60% of GPs have severe doubts over the proposed vaccine. Of 216 GPs surveyed, 29% say they will outright refuse to be vaccinated, while a further 29% remain unsure. Only 41% of doctors said they would definitely take the shot.
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Controversy surrounds ‘guilt inducing’ Veterans Affairs booklet on end-of-life issues
A booklet from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on end-of-life issues asks its veterans to consider under what circumstances their life might not be “worth living.” One critic says the booklet is “guilt inducing” and sends a “hurry-up-and-die” message, while a U.S. Senator has called for hearings on its contents.
The booklet “Your Life, Your Choices” says it is intended to help plan for future medical decisions and for the preparation of a personalized living will.
The 52-page document includes a checklist asking “What makes my life worth living?” The reader is asked to rate scenarios on the checklist by quality of life.
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That’s Where the Money Is
Geezers beware Obamacare.
When famed bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he said: “Because that’s where the money is.”
For the same reason, it is as predictable as the sunrise that medical care for the elderly will be cut back under a government-controlled medical system. Because that’s where the money is.
My experience is probably not very different from that of many other people in their seventies. My medical expenses in the past year have been more than in the first 40 years of my life — and I did not spend one night in a hospital all last year or go to an emergency room even once.
Just the ordinary medical expenses of keeping an old geezer going along in good health are high. Throw in a medical emergency or two, and the costs go through the roof.
So long as my insurance company and I are paying for it, it is nobody else’s business what my medical expenses are. But once the government is involved, everything is its business.
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