NEWS SHORTS FOR TUESDAY
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Cord Blood Stem Cells may Help Treat Heart and Lung Disorders
Two new studies in animals suggest that stem cells from transplanted human-derived umbilical cord blood could help treat some lung and heart disorders. Scientists already know that such stem cells can differentiate into a long list of different kinds of cells in the laboratory, Dr. Won Soon Park of the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, Korea, co-author of one of the studies, said in a news release. But it's not clear if they can develop into lung-specific cells in the body, he added.
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Mother Gives Birth to 15-Pound Baby
Some numbers are just too big to register. It was like that when Wendi Dolton heard a doctor say the number '15.6' moments after giving birth to her third child on Monday. She thought at first he was referring to the time. "And he goes, 'weight.' "And I said, 'wait for what?'" "And he goes, 'no, the weight." Wendi's next response: "Are you kidding me?" No kidding. Wendi had given birth to a baby boy weighing 15 pounds, 6 ounces. "There's been doctors and nurses that have been around here a fair amount of years and they've never seen one that big," says Mike Dolton, Wendi's husband. The Racine, Minnesota parents named their baby boy Axel LaVerne.
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Legislation Prompts Vermont Abortion Debate
A state senator is poised to introduce a bill in response to an August car crash that claimed twin fetuses a Bennington woman was carrying. Before the legislation comes off the printer, Patricia Blair knows it doesn't go far enough to recognize the lives she lost. Blair was injured when her van was struck by another car in Bennington on Aug. 10. Her 6-month fetuses — a boy and a girl — died as a result of the crash, which also seriously injured her husband, Randy Blair, leaving him unable to walk. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Sears, D-Bennington, bill would enhance penalties for assaulting a pregnant woman, wording that he believes walks a careful line: creating consequences for harming an unborn child without unfurling a debate about abortion.
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Unborn Vitcims Bill to seek Tougher Penalties for Those who Kill a Pregnant Woman
BAYSIDE, NY -- An Arverne woman whose daughter and unborn child were killed on the daughter's due date is going to Albany this week to ask for tougher penalties for those who kill a pregnant woman. Towanda Wimms is seeking support for the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in Albany, which would treat the act of killing a pregnant woman as two murders. Wimms' daughter, Niasha DeLain, a 25-year-old who worked in customer service at a Rockaway Capital One Bank branch, was killed in Ozone Park on her due date and on her father's birthday -- Oct. 25, 2008. She was also pursuing a bachelor's in accounting from the College of New Rochelle.
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Many Pregnant Women take Drugs that are Harmful to their Baby
NEW YORK -- With the help of their doctors, women planning to become pregnant should take an inventory of the medications they take, researchers from Canada advise. In a study, they found that many pregnant women still take medications long known to cause birth defects. Some medications with known fetal risk, such as drugs that control epilepsy, are essential during pregnancy, Dr. Anick Berard, at the University of Montreal in Quebec, noted in an email correspondence to Reuters Health. Other medications, such as those that treat severe acne, anxiety and psychiatric drugs, antibiotics, and many drugs prescribed for heart disease and medical conditions, "can and should be avoided," according to Berard.
Click here for the full article.
Monthly Abortion Fee in Senate Health Plan
Although its illegal to use federal money to pay for abortions, the gargantuan healthcare bill presented this week by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will levy a new "abortion premium" fee on Americans in the government-run insurance plan. The much-ballyhooed 2,074-page bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that will start being debated this weekend in the U.S. Senate includes a monthly abortion premium charged to all enrollees in the government-operated health plan. The $848 billion overhaul package is being touted by Reid as a measure that will "save lives" even though it covers a procedure that ends them.
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Fourteenth Fort Hood victim forgotten
Washington D.C. - Last week, Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan was indicted on 13 counts of murder for the shootings at Fort Hood which took place on Nov. 5. Missing from the list of victims is the three-month-old unborn child of Private Francheska Velez. The Alliance Defense Fund, a legal alliance of Christian attorneys, has sent a letter to the Office of Staff Judge Advocate at Fort Hood requesting that the murder of Velez's child be included in the case against Malik.
"It would cause a severe and negative impact on morale if Army women were made to believe that the Army valued their children less than they did adult victims of crime. We respectfully request that you enforce UCMJ Article 119a against the suspect," the ADF's letter stated.
Click here for the full article.
(Referral to Web sites not produced by The Illinois Federation for Right to LIfe is for informational purposes only and does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of the sites' content.)
Cord Blood Stem Cells may Help Treat Heart and Lung Disorders
Two new studies in animals suggest that stem cells from transplanted human-derived umbilical cord blood could help treat some lung and heart disorders. Scientists already know that such stem cells can differentiate into a long list of different kinds of cells in the laboratory, Dr. Won Soon Park of the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, Korea, co-author of one of the studies, said in a news release. But it's not clear if they can develop into lung-specific cells in the body, he added.
Click here for the full article.
Mother Gives Birth to 15-Pound Baby
Some numbers are just too big to register. It was like that when Wendi Dolton heard a doctor say the number '15.6' moments after giving birth to her third child on Monday. She thought at first he was referring to the time. "And he goes, 'weight.' "And I said, 'wait for what?'" "And he goes, 'no, the weight." Wendi's next response: "Are you kidding me?" No kidding. Wendi had given birth to a baby boy weighing 15 pounds, 6 ounces. "There's been doctors and nurses that have been around here a fair amount of years and they've never seen one that big," says Mike Dolton, Wendi's husband. The Racine, Minnesota parents named their baby boy Axel LaVerne.
Click here for the full article.
Legislation Prompts Vermont Abortion Debate
A state senator is poised to introduce a bill in response to an August car crash that claimed twin fetuses a Bennington woman was carrying. Before the legislation comes off the printer, Patricia Blair knows it doesn't go far enough to recognize the lives she lost. Blair was injured when her van was struck by another car in Bennington on Aug. 10. Her 6-month fetuses — a boy and a girl — died as a result of the crash, which also seriously injured her husband, Randy Blair, leaving him unable to walk. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Sears, D-Bennington, bill would enhance penalties for assaulting a pregnant woman, wording that he believes walks a careful line: creating consequences for harming an unborn child without unfurling a debate about abortion.
Click here for the full article.
Unborn Vitcims Bill to seek Tougher Penalties for Those who Kill a Pregnant Woman
BAYSIDE, NY -- An Arverne woman whose daughter and unborn child were killed on the daughter's due date is going to Albany this week to ask for tougher penalties for those who kill a pregnant woman. Towanda Wimms is seeking support for the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in Albany, which would treat the act of killing a pregnant woman as two murders. Wimms' daughter, Niasha DeLain, a 25-year-old who worked in customer service at a Rockaway Capital One Bank branch, was killed in Ozone Park on her due date and on her father's birthday -- Oct. 25, 2008. She was also pursuing a bachelor's in accounting from the College of New Rochelle.
Click here for the full article.
Many Pregnant Women take Drugs that are Harmful to their Baby
NEW YORK -- With the help of their doctors, women planning to become pregnant should take an inventory of the medications they take, researchers from Canada advise. In a study, they found that many pregnant women still take medications long known to cause birth defects. Some medications with known fetal risk, such as drugs that control epilepsy, are essential during pregnancy, Dr. Anick Berard, at the University of Montreal in Quebec, noted in an email correspondence to Reuters Health. Other medications, such as those that treat severe acne, anxiety and psychiatric drugs, antibiotics, and many drugs prescribed for heart disease and medical conditions, "can and should be avoided," according to Berard.
Click here for the full article.
Monthly Abortion Fee in Senate Health Plan
Although its illegal to use federal money to pay for abortions, the gargantuan healthcare bill presented this week by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will levy a new "abortion premium" fee on Americans in the government-run insurance plan. The much-ballyhooed 2,074-page bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that will start being debated this weekend in the U.S. Senate includes a monthly abortion premium charged to all enrollees in the government-operated health plan. The $848 billion overhaul package is being touted by Reid as a measure that will "save lives" even though it covers a procedure that ends them.
Click here for the full article.
Fourteenth Fort Hood victim forgotten
Washington D.C. - Last week, Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan was indicted on 13 counts of murder for the shootings at Fort Hood which took place on Nov. 5. Missing from the list of victims is the three-month-old unborn child of Private Francheska Velez. The Alliance Defense Fund, a legal alliance of Christian attorneys, has sent a letter to the Office of Staff Judge Advocate at Fort Hood requesting that the murder of Velez's child be included in the case against Malik.
"It would cause a severe and negative impact on morale if Army women were made to believe that the Army valued their children less than they did adult victims of crime. We respectfully request that you enforce UCMJ Article 119a against the suspect," the ADF's letter stated.
Click here for the full article.
