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Roeder Jury Selected; Trial to Begin Today on The Anniversary of Roe V. Wade
Opening statements in Scott Roeder's first-degree murder trial are scheduled to begin Friday following six days of jury selection. Most of the juror questioning occurred behind closed doors, with a final session open to some reporters today, and a jury panel of 14 was seated Thursday afternoon. Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller, one of a handful of doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions.
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Terri Schiavo's Brother Says the Press Is Still Lying About His Sister
It's been nearly five years since his sister, Terri Schindler Schiavo, was starved and dehydrated to death, and Bobby Schindler says the mainstream press is still "telling lies" about her.
"It's still being misreported by the mainstream media," Schindler told CNSNews.com Thursday. "There's things that are being said that were simply not true."
"They refer to Terri as being brain dead," Schindler said of news accounts. "I see that all the time, and it simply is not true. They say that she was on artificial life support, without explaining to people what artificial life support means. There's this perception out there that Terri was on a machine – that people like Terri need machines to keep them alive. And it simply is not true."
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Contraceptives delivery by 11-year-olds is 'dangerous prescription,' critics warn
A Planned Parenthood partner in Ecuador is using youth as young as 11 to deliver the contraceptive injection Depo-Provera as part of a "peer-to-peer" model. Critics said it was a "dangerous" program that undermined parental authority, corrupted youth and would be illegal in the United States.
Veena Siddharth, the vice president for international programs for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), and Dee Redwine, PPFA Latin America regional director, wrote about the program in a Dec. 15 article in Global Health Magazine. Planned Parenthood operates the program through a partnership with the Ecuadoran group, Centro Medico de Orientacion y Planificacion Familiar (CEMOPLAF).
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Care Net on Roe Anniversary: Pregnancy Centers Flourish Yet Endure Numerous State Attacks
On the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Care Net President Melinda Delahoyde said the pro-life pregnancy center movement is flourishing and contributing to the growing culture of life across the nation. Yet, because of the movement's effectiveness, abortion advocacy groups are mounting an increasing number of attacks in state and local governments across the country, she said. "The compassionate outreach of pregnancy centers is infectious and our movement is growing," Delahoyde said. "Yet these numerous attacks on pregnancy centers call for a new level of support and partnership to defend their critical work."
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Low-Dose Birth Control Pills Decrease Bone Density in Young Women
A new study showing a link between long-term use of oral contraceptives and a decrease in bone density in women under the age of 30 has found that the modern low-dose forms of estrogen pills have the greatest risk of harming a woman's bone density.
The study, published in the January issue of Contraception Journal, measured bone mineral density (BMD) of the hip, spine, and whole body to analyze how both the duration of taking the contraceptive pill and the estrogen dose affected bone density in young women.
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Why is National Cancer Institute Covering up Link?: Abortion Breast Cancer Coalition Letter to Congress
The US National Cancer Institute (NIC) has again denied the link between abortion and breast cancer to a Globe and Mail reporter, despite one of their leading researchers being named as co-author on a study that admitted up to a 40 per cent increased risk of breast cancer associated with induced abortion.
In 2003, Louise Brinton, NCI's chief of the Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology branch, was an organizer of the NCI workshop in 2003 that told women it is "well established" that "abortion is not associated with increased breast cancer risk." Then, in 2009, Brinton was co-author of study, published in April last year by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, in which she admitted that abortion raises breast cancer risk.
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