Year: 2009

South Korean Obstetrician ends abortion practice

~ Pharmer

Dr. Shim Sang-Duk  used to perform  similar numbers of abortions and deliveries in his practice, in South Korea, which has one of the lowest fertility rates (1.19 live births per couple).  The physician initially became numbed by abortion, but eventually came to despise himself.   Gradually he began trying to persuade his patients against abortion, and finally ceased performing the operations altogether.  He has since formed an alliance with other physicians,  ~ 30 of which have ceased aborting, along with hundreds of supporters who are at perhaps some earlier  phase of development.
While there is considerable opposition to the physicians who won’t abort, as well as loss of patient base, there are no legal hurdles for those who cease the practice in the nation where abortions remain technically illegal.
 
LA Times John M Glionna writes:

Dressed in his white lab coat, the bespectacled Shim embodies a new public consciousness against abortion.
In the lobby of his Ion clinic, a sign explains his new philosophy. “Abortions, which abandon the valuable life of a fetus, are the very misery for the nation and society as well as pregnant women, families and ob-gyn doctors,” it reads.

For years, Shim rarely, if ever, even used the word “abortion.” Rather, he said, he sought to “erase” or “prevent” the fetus.

“I bought into the government’s argument that it was OK to do this,” he said. “It was good for the country. It boosted the economy.”

Still, Shim was often baffled by his patients’ behavior: After receiving their abortions, he said, most women cried.

“Many patients cry when they give birth,” he said, “but these were a different kind of tears.”


Observing the introspective style of presenting abortion, found much more often in this years’ news output, this blogger wonders if the media is beginning a phase of reinventing itself to address the changing culture.


Chief Climate Skeptic

~ Pharmer

Meet the Grand Poobah -David Holland, who’s Freedom of Information Requests to East Anglia University’s climatologists , were referenced among the escaped email files now residing in hard drives worldwide.  He has gained widespread recognition for his skepticism, and efforts to obtain the actual climate data which was said to support the Global Warming Religion.  The movement to prosecute the climatologists for violating Freedom of Information regs,  has caused the group to turn 180 degrees and promise full disclosure.

The only roadblock is that much of  raw climate data  has been thrown out long ago, so we have no chance of reviewing it.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
Apparently the emails were leaked to the press  well over a month ago,  (before they were hacked).   The BBC is reported to have dropped the ball, and this perhaps precipitated the hacking and dissemination of the files on the internet.

Not to be deterred, the UN shows no signs of changing policy of sacrificing the economic and technological progress of  nations on the altar of the Global Warming Religion.
There is “virtually no possibility” of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN’s top global warming body, its chair said today.

Jerry Brown is Toast

~ Pharmer

Attorney General Jerry Brown of California has decided he can’t get enough pain, so he’s cozied up to the morally bankrupt institution of ACORN in his blighted attempt to replace the departing Arnold Schwarzeneggar. 

Jerry’s  blight has been contracted from the dumpster diving, private detective, Derrick Roach, who unearthed 20000 pages of discarded documents from the San Diego ACORN office.  As you may recall, this office was visited by the intrepid team, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, and supplied some now famous video demonstrating utter corruption.   Warned of impending governmental scrutiny, the office filled it’s dumpster with paperwork, and this has been resurrected to the embarrassment of Jerry Brown, who spearheaded the fake investigation.

American Thinker: Ask Robin: A Recovering Liberal Addresses Some of Your Burning Questions

~ Pharmer

 Robin of Berkeley  adds evidence supporting the theory of Pharmer……. what causes liberalism (U.S. style)? 
 She presents herself as a near classic case.  

It’s fun to see someone almost echoing  my  amateur psychoanalysis of leftists … and this one is making her living in the field.

The old saying…. about how a liberal is converted to conservatism, by mugging is also supported here.

It’s almost too good to be true, but Robin assures us that the folks at American Thinker gave her the exam and she passed.  So, check her out, and hope for more feminists to be heading to the conservative camp as the abuse of women, and the Wilding of Palin  wake them up.

Robin gives us a peek inside her brain here:
 American Thinker: Ask Robin: A Recovering Liberal Addresses Some of Your Burning Questions

Big Government » Blog Archive » Breaking: Charges Filed in Kenneth Gladney Case

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THE rest of the story… charges are finally being filed against the six thugs (SIEU) who beat up Kenneth Gladney at a town hall meeting called by democrat Russ Carnahan in St. Louis. Still waiting for Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to come to the aid of Gladney on account of his race. Whups……….. forgot that conservative ideology is considered some kind of magic race changer.

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