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Charges dropped against anti-abortion Notre Dame commencement protesters – WSBT-TV.
It was a significant problem in the funding department for Notre Dame to be criminally prosecuting pro-life protesters who objected to the Pro-Abortion Extremist, Obama being honored at Notre Dame and giving a commencement speech.
It seems that efforts such as the one to Replace Jenkins have had their effect on funding for the university.
More U.S. women using “morning-after” pill: study – Yahoo! News.
The above article purports a single mechanism of Plan B, levonorgestrel, to operate by stopping ovulation. It is known that progestin-only (a class of hormone analogs) pills perform this job very poorly, or not at all if taken in the latter third of the fertile period of a human female. The media claim that this is their only operative mechanism of action would hinge upon extremely poor performance, a failure rate of approximately 40 percent per use.
From the Prescribing information of Plan B One-Step:
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
12.1 Mechanism of Action
Emergency contraceptive pills are not effective if a woman is already pregnant. Plan B One-Step is believed to act as an emergency contraceptive principally by preventing ovulation or fertilization (by altering tubal transport of sperm and/or ova). In addition, it may inhibit implantation (by altering the endometrium). It is not effective once the process of implantation has begun.
Note that it contradicts the above linked article by mentioning the fact that levonorgestrel affects the endometrium and may act to inhibit implantation. This stops the life of a human embryo at the blastocyst stage of development, and is one of the bases for controversy concerning dispensing and use of this form of birth control. Unmentioned in the package insert is that effect on tubal transport also influences the transport of the very early embryo prior to implantation.
Here’s the quote of the year concerning Plan B:
“It has more than doubled since the last time the data were collected,” said Megan L. Kavanaugh, a senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute in New York who worked on the study.
However, she said in an interview, “its use still seems relatively low, given that it’s easy to access. So there’s room for improvement.”
Somehow, in the fevered brain of Ms. Kavanaugh it represents an improvement to fail in the more reliable forms of preventing pregnancy, and require the use of the LEAST reliable modality, the morning after pill, tossed over the counter by the local pharmacist, who could be censured for attempting to ascertain clinically appropriate application of the drug. Kavanaugh credits the media, and not health care professionals, for stimulating the increase in this dependency. (A tiny silver lining in this cloud.)
The above article suggests that the number of women who require afterthought birth control is on the rise, since the levonorgestrel form of morning after pill has been given over the counter status, and that this is a positive development. It is one more reason that women should not obtain medical information and advice from the mainstream media.
The prescriber info of Plan B One-Step admits to a failure rate of 16 percent, per use (which corroborates the multiple mechanisms of action), and admits to the cumulative problem of failure should a woman rely on the morning after pill as her main form of birth control.
How does the Guttmacher institute spell “improvement”?? Birth control failure. It sells abortion.
Jill Stanek’s blog featured some Aggie News, relating equine behavioral and biological phenomena to the abortion issue. Pharmer, being Pharmer, can’t pass up such hot issues as animal husbandry (that’s breeding livestock …ok.)
It’s been noticed that bringing in outside male zebras to prevent inbreeding at zoos has resulted in an extremely high miscarriage (abortion) rate among the mares. Horses share this difficulty, as do other animals such as some rodents. In the presence of the males from the home location, the mares which have been bred by outsiders will often lose their offspring. Some of the mares will copulate with the home males, and if unable to do so will be more likely to abort. It is surmised that this is a biological adaptation to the fact that the male equines will very often kill the offspring which resulted from relations with outside males. It is believed to result in a conservation of energy and resources for the mare to lose the offspring before birth rather than go through the effort of delivering a foal which will be killed anyway.
In one of the fluffy news pieces describing the phenomenon among horses, it was suggested that the mares could actually will the loss of the pregnancy if the circumstances regarding the presence of non parental males were untoward. Pharmer supposes that this notion is no more crazy than man-made global warming.
In a somewhat related phenomenon, the smell of urine from newly introduced males who did not breed with the female mouse will elicit failure of implantation, but does not cause loss after that stage. This is referred to as the Bruce effect, in which production of a functional corpus luteum is prevented. This effect is abated by the presence of familiar males, even if they did not breed with the female mouse. The Bruce effect is not seen in rats, and is a good deal different than what is being observed in horses.
The vote split along party lines to allow a bill to ban federal spending on abortion to go to the House Floor in 2011, with 100 percent of the Democrats opposing the bill, as expected.
The confused Hank Johnson (who fears that Guam might capsize due to overpopulation) offered comic relief for the day. Quoted at The Hill:
“Some might argue that life begins with the potential, with just one sperm … with just … one egg, so if we decided that we’re going to make it illegal for a man to get a vasectomy because we believe that life begins at that point, what’s to stop us from doing that?”
“We can argue arbitrarily that life begins at conception, which is the sperm penetrating the egg. We can decide it like that, but you are not respecting those who think that sperm or the egg standing by itself represent the potential life and that potential should not be cut short,”
Amusing as this is…. and even the legislators are said to have stifled their responses…. Pharmer has heard this, and stranger stuff coming from the abortion supporters.
And here’s an insider view.
Laura Ingraham discusses the Pro-life sign which was censored in New York City.
Learn about Life Always, the organization which put up the billboard.
Alveda King: ‘The Most Dangerous Place for An African American is in the Womb’ | CNSnews.com.
Prol-life leader, Alveda King spoke up about Al Sharpton’s threat to protest the Pro-life sign put up in the Soho district of New York City. It pointed out the fact of NYC’s extremely high rate of abortion for Black residents.
Pro aborts threatened people who worked in the building near the pro-life billboard, and this caused Lamar Advertising Company to remove the sign prematurely.
Al Sharpton took credit for the censorship. Apparently he’s OK with New York’s incredibly high abortion rate, with the rate of killing Black babies vastly outpacing that of White babies. He apparently has concluded that pointing out the problem is a much greater offense than the actual killings.
This one is going to have the planned parenthood people screeching…. 😀 and maybe PETA too. It’s a two-fer.
Congratulations to American Life League.
Presenting, after much delay, the CDC’s latest Abortion Surveillance: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which was published in February, instead of in November as usual.
Pro-Kline report concealed for months | CJOnline.com.
This is a unique article found in a regular newspaper revealing that Phil Kline, the Kansas prosecutor who brought charges against planned parenthood is being punished by accusations of ethics violations, without probable cause.
The document showing the investigation of Kline, and the finding no probable cause for ethics complaints was willfully kept hidden from Kline and the public.
The Ethics Disciplinary hearing will take place anyway, because it is very important to the Kansas State government to punish those who would dare to bring criminal charges against its benefactors from the abortion industries.
See also at Jill Stanek’s blog, the basis for charges that would have been brought against George Tiller, for not reporting the sexual abuse of minors who came to his clinic, had he not been so well protected by Kathleen Sebelius, who is now head of Obama’s Health and Human Services Dept. Much more is expected to be revealed at the Ethics trial of Phill Kline.
Keep watch of the colorful Kansas corruption, and finally the case against Planned Parenthood going forward over at Operation Rescue’s site.