LGBTweekly.com:
The Irish edition of tabloid news magazine The Sun recently covered the story of Penny Lawrence, a 28-year-old woman suffering from Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA) who is now pregnant with her father’s child.
If you seriously don’t think there are folks waiting in the wings for same-sex ‘marriage’ to set the legal precedent they need to make what is described above legal – along with absolutely anything else you could imagine – then check out a website called Full Marriage Equality. (They refer to this father and daughter’s relationship as “consanguinarmory”.)
Categories: ethics, family, incest, Marriage, Marriage Legalities, morality, Politics & Marriage, polyamory, Same Sex Marriage, Sex Radicals, sexual identity Tags: ethics, family, homosexual agenda, Same Sex Marriage
by Sheila Liaugminas
And don’t make me lie about knowing you’re killing yourself, either.
Since euthanasia laws are in place in some of our states now, and that movement is spreading like a cancer, some basic reminders are in order. Like the ones in this column. Read more…
by Paul Miller
The German parliament is debating a ban on whether to legalise screening embryos for unwanted genetic traits.
Not every innovation is beneficial. The 1997 film Gattaca is a dark tale of what can happen when a society genetically engineers its offspring. The story is told through the eyes of a human who was conceived the natural way – without having been screened for genetic defects – and thus illegally. Read more…
Click this link to listen to the BBC radio broadcast on the subject.
Should we protect Children from being ‘infected’ with Christianity?
So argued the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the case of Johns v Derby using the word ‘infected’; an argument implicitly accepted by the Court who held that the views of Christian foster carers on sexual morality could be ‘inimical’ to the welfare of children in care. The Commission has now said it was an ‘error’ to have used this term but did not retract this statement when I raised it in court. Read more…
JillStanek.com:
Julie Rovner, NPR health policy correspondent: Well, the conflict is really that PP keeps its statistics according to the percent of those services that are provided, not according to how many people get what… Sarah Stoesz from PP kind of misspoke when she said it was 3% of patients who come in get abortions.
It is actually a little bit closer to the 10% that [Susan B. Anthony List President] Marjorie Dannenfesler suggested, because there are about 3 million patients who come in. There are about 300,000 abortions provided…
Neal Conan, host: And the difference might be that the same woman who later received an abortion also got a pregnancy test and counseling and some other services.
Rovner: Absolutely. So many of those patients are getting more than one service and who – many of the patients who get an abortion are probably getting other services as well.
“A little bit closer”? 3 million divided by 300,000 is actually 10%. Furthermore, and the bigger point, as LiveAction.org pointed out, over 35% of PP’s income comes from abortion. NPR would be fair and balanced to report that statistic as well.
Actually, almost 37% of their health center income is from abortions, in fact… Read more…
Why not keep the news a-comin’?
As I’m sure you know, the now-famous case of Baby Joseph in Canada is becoming critical. He could die in the next couple of weeks if his breathing tube is removed as the hospital and the government intend.
Baby Joseph is only 13 months old and often has difficulty breathing on his own. He needs a procedure called a tracheostomy in order to go home and live under his parents’ care. However, the Canadian health care system is refusing to let the family take care of their son — even though hospitals in the United States have privately said that they would take Joseph in and give him the tracheostomy he needs to survive. U.S. doctors and hospitals who are now familiar with the case are appalled that Baby Joseph hadn’t received the tracheostomy 3 or 4 months ago rather than make the baby suffer all this time. Read more…
Some further info on this situation. The baby is aptly named since St. Joseph is the patron saint of the dying. He’ll be in good hands when the time comes. With the help of our prayers, too, of course.
by Sheila Liaugminas
The hospital involved in this sad story is representing itself as allowing the family’s wishes to take their child home to die there instead of in the stark atmosphere of the medical facility. And some news stories have reported that the parents are getting their wish, after all. Not exactly true… Read more…
by Zac Alstin
Do taboos on incest and infanticide have a rational basis?
The father of modern astronomy, Galileo, did not win converts to his theories through their obvious truthfulness. Rather, the younger generation of astronomers were drawn to the new and exciting research possibilities that came with Galileo’s telescopes. Older, more established astronomers doubted that the new technology could be trusted. We moderns take for granted that what we see through the end of a telescope is real. Yet some of Galileo’s contemporaries refused to even look through one of his telescopes for themselves. Read more…
Abortion Centers in Texas Evade Laws, Dump Records and Waste:
The evidence we uncovered of illegal activity reveals a systemic problem throughout Texas that is not confined to one particular clinic or group of clinics… These violations endanger the heath of women, violate the rights of women to be informed and have their medical records protected, and present health hazards to the general public.
WHY are we still allowing our taxes to be used to fund this monstrous industry???
Yet more evidence that Anonymous Sperm and Egg Donation is Over (and not soon enough, if you ask me).
newsweek.com:
Currently, in the United States, you need a license to sell a condo or cut hair in a salon, but not to broker human life. The $3 billion fertility industry goes largely unregulated, offering blank pages to those searching for information where the rest of us are free to access vital statistics of public record. “I’m not a treatment, I’m a person, and those records belong to me,” says Pratten.
On top of the serious risk of inbreeding and the medical and health concerns associated with anonymous sperm and egg donation, we all should be entitled to know our biological heritage for the sake of the effect it has on our self image and identity: Read more…
Categories: Artificial Reproductive Technology, Canada, Donor Conceived Persons, egg donation, ethics, Infertility, Invitro Fertilization, morality, popular culture, Surrogate Mothers Tags: artificial reproductive technologies, Donor Conceived Persons, ethics, invitro fertilization
From LifeSiteNews.com
Former Planned Parenthood director turned pro-lifer Abby Johnson tells CBN News that Planned Parenthood usually makes a $300 to $400 profit off each abortion using the abortion pill, which includes telemed abortions.
It also cuts its costs with telemed abortions because it can pay a discounted rate to doctors who are not physically present meeting the patient.
What a ‘quality’ health care provider Planned ‘Parenthood’ is.
Why should they receive so much as one more penny of tax-payer’s money? Why did we ever allow them to gorge themselves on public largess?
This incident is just more evidence of Planned Parenthood’s mindset and priorities.
Categories: Abortion, ethics, family, fathers, Fathers' Rights, Health Care, It Takes a Family, morality, Parental Rights, Planned Parenthood, Political Correctness, Teenagers Tags:
Occasionally on this blog, same-sex ‘marriage’ proponents have challenged those of us who would seek to protect the institution of marriage to explain why, if we truly believe that (part of) the public purpose of marriage is to attach parents to their children, we nevertheless maintain that even a man and woman who are (for whatever reason) incapable of procreating together, or who simply have no desire or intention of doing so, should still be allowed – and even encouraged – to enjoy the benefits of married life. Read more…
Categories: Artificial Reproductive Technology, Babies, Book Suggestions, Demography, ethics, family, fathers, feminism, Marriage, Parenting, popular culture, sex differences Tags:
How many of you are long-in-the-tooth enough to remember when pro-’choice’ folks ridiculed anyone who warned that legalizing abortion-on-demand would lead to things like euthanasia… and sex selective abortions… and aborting the handicapped… or euthanizing the handicapped?
Well this article, about “well-known Brazilian pro-abortion activist and anthropologist Debora Diniz” justifies all those fears, if you ask me.
Debora Diniz:
Subhumans are those whose lives are bound to ‘fail’—as Dworkin, a liberal American jurist who studies abortion, explains—or those for whom, to say the least, the concept of life is inadequate. Subhumans are extreme human otherness, those not expected by the miracle of procreation. Read more…
Do the words “official duty” mean anything to guys like Barack Obama or Jerry Brown? How about “oath of office”?
But at least we can be certain they know about “collusive litigation”?:
…the Obama Justice Department’s defense of DOMA maintains a pattern that a distinguished scholar has termed “almost like collusive litigation”—that is, where presumed adversaries are actually seeking the same result. The Obama Administration is indeed all but abandoning DOMA—but not in the forthright manner that would result in a real battle in the courts where both sides of the controversy are represented. Read more…
And what happened to the other embryos? And how will this child feel when he grows up and learns we was created through science, not conceived out of love, for the purpose of helping his siblings, not because he was wanted for his own sake. Talk about feeling used. I hope his parents can also afford his therapy. Even his name will serve as a constant reminder of his utilitarian purpose in life. Read more…
November 18th, 2010
Betsy
By Evan Rosa, CBC Communications Director
Reviewed: Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics (Basic Bioethics), Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger, eds., The MIT Press, 2010
“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.” (G.K. Chesterton, Fancies Versus Fads) Read more…
Sara Connell, left, holds her new baby Finnean Lee Connell, on Thursday at Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago. Sara’s mother, Kristine Casey, 61, served as a surrogate for her daughter. (Stacey Wescott, Chicago Tribune / February 11, 2011) 
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