March 24, 2010

NEWS SHORTS FOR WEDNESDAY

NEWS SHORTS FOR WEDNESDAY

Planned Parenthood Also Knows Obama's Executive Order on Abortion is a Ruse

Planned Parenthood Also Knows Obama's Executive Order on Abortion is a Ruse

Planned Parenthood is generally happy with the new health care reform law.  They see having no Stupak language in the bill as being a victory.  They also know that President Obama's executive order that was promised to give Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) an out was a complete ruse.

From the Planned Parenthood Action website:

Thanks to supporters like you, we were able to keep the Stupak abortion ban out of the final legislation and President Obama did not include the Stupak language in his Executive Order

This makes Stupak's betrayal seem even worse as the pro-abortion groups aren't even upset by the executive order, not that it has the force of law anyway.
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30 MILLION Children Received Rotarix Vaccine Tainted with Pig Virus

30 MILLION Children Received Rotarix Vaccine Tainted with Pig Virus

Federal health authorities recommended Monday that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the United States against rotavirus, saying the vaccine is contaminated with material from a pig virus. "There is no evidence at this time that this material poses a safety risk," Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg told reporters in a conference call. Rotarix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, was approved by the FDA in 2008. The contaminant material is DNA from porcine circovirus 1, a virus from pigs that is not known to cause disease in humans or animals, Hamburg said. About 1 million children in the United States and about 30 million worldwide have gotten Rotarix vaccine, she said.
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Corruption Alleged as Tainted Vaccines Kill Chinese Children

Vaccine

For Wang Mingliang, the birth of a son should have been the start of a season of joy in his village at the rural heart of northern China. But his little boy, Xiao'er, lived just seven months before he suffered convulsions and a fever, then died. Wang said Xiao'er fell ill after vaccinations against tuberculosis and hepatitis. "My whole family i s plunged in sorrow," he said. "Our son was vaccinated by the hospital and they sterilised my wife to conform to the birth control policy. Now my son is dead and my wife can have no more children."
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Fourteen States Sue over Obamacare

Fourteen States Sue over Obamacare

In a sign of political battles to come, 14 states filed lawsuits on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of health care reform just moments after Obama signed it into law. Other states are expected to join the fight against the far-reaching reforms which could place huge burdens on state budgets. Many are also considering legislation to block a provision which requires most people to buy insurance or pay a fine. "This lawsuit should put the federal government on notice that Florida will not permit the constitutional rights of our citizens and the sovereignty of our state to be ignored or disregarded," said Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum.
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Poll Shows 'Millennials' Most Pro-Life Group
 
Twenty-three percent of Americans age 18-29 agree that abortion should be illegal in all cases, according to a Gallup poll.

Twenty-three percent of Americans age 18-29 agree that abortion should be illegal in all cases, according to a Gallup poll.

Kristan Hawkins, executive director of Students for Life of America, said the results show why so many millennials are opposed to the health care law President Obama signed today that includes federally funded abortions – something that's never happened since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion on demand.
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Pro-Lifers Lose 'Buffer-Zone' Battle


Life advocates in Massachusetts will have to remain 35 feet away from abortion clinics after the Supreme Court rejected a challenge Monday
 
Life advocates in Massachusetts will have to remain 35 feet away from abortion clinics after the Supreme Court rejected a challenge Monday to a Massachusetts law that prevents people from discussing the harms of abortion near the entrances of clinics.

Pro-life experts say the law violates free speech rights and potentially puts them in harms way by forcing them into the street.

The 'buffer-zone" law went into effect in 2007.
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