Category: medical ethics

What your Health Care Professional Doesn’t Know about Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

~ Pharmer

A major source of Continuing Education, which Pharmer utilizes for keeping updated,  and which serves both pharmacists and physicians, had downgraded the concept of linkage between abortion and breast cancer to the status of “rumor”.  This was done in the face of a large body of peer reviewed research, and meta analyses which had produced conflicting results.

Under normal circumstances, a competent educator would conclude that there is a possible link, but that so far the analysis of data is conflicting or inconclusive.  Further study is warranted.  If an educator were not invested  in the ideology that at least one abortion is a necessary female rite of passage into the Pentagonal Order of the Gaia Green Sisterhood, health professionals would be advised to be alert to the possibility of abortion breast cancer linkage and await further results.

Well, a new meta analysis from China is out now, showing a stronger link between abortion and breast cancer, as well as a sort of dose effect (the later the abortion, the bigger the linkage). Click on the image below, or click this link to see the reference.

Pharmer has not paid great attention to the theory of abortion breast cancer linkage, because so many abortion customers likely have such a high risk tolerance, that a 30 or 40 percent increase in the rate of breast cancer would be meaningless to them. It might be more useful to a woman who has been  impregnated against her will, rather than as a result of willingly assuming personal risk. Public policy makers might have more interest in that linkage, as an impetus to control health care costs.  The current crop generally  likes population control and abortion so much that they are unlikely to be swayed.

This example is supplied mostly to inform people that their health care professionals are often being “educated” by ideologues rather than dispassionate purveyors of medical information.   Consequently, the things that your health care professional tells you might be fairly inaccurate, or even opposite of the truth.

Meta-analysis of Chinese Abortion-Breast Cancer linkage Studies 2-2014
Meta-analysis of Chinese Abortion-Breast Cancer linkage Studies 2-2014

In conclusion, abortion (and late child bearing) probably do have a positive association with the increased breast cancer rate, but as always, further study is warranted.  It’s not such a big deal that a person should need Xanax three times a day due to anxiety over breast cancer, but getting the mammograms and being a bit more vigilant would help if either of these life style options applied to you.

Your friendly Pharmer thinks that there are much bigger reasons to avoid abortion.

Related: What your Pharmacist Doesn’t Know about Plan B.

Statistician Patrick Carroll Did the Math analyzing possible breast cancer risk factors in Europe

Martin Haskell’s Sharonville, Ohio Clinic Shut Down

~ Pharmer

Operation Rescue brings news of the Ohio Dept. of Health shutting down Women’s Med Center, a  Cincinnati area abortion clinic, run by the infamous Martin Haskell.  It is expected to be shuttered on Feb 4, this year.

Haskell was a nationally known  proponent of the now illegal partial birth abortion method which involved a face-down, partial breech delivery, and puncturing the head of the baby before it had fully exited  the vaginal canal.

A history of problems accompanied Haskell’s abortion practices, some documented by Operation Rescue. Haskell’s remaining Dayton clinic still operates under a similar variance, as that which allowed the operation of the Sharonville clinic.  Two of Haskell’s abortionists, Walter T. Bowers and Roslyn Kade have lost admitting priveleges.  Haskell replaced them with Chandra Gravely and Cindy Hansel, who have also been accused of negligence, and share at least seven malpractice suits between them, since 2000. Haskell failed to notify ODH of the two back up abortionists, and of their credentialing and disciplinary issues in a timely manner.  These and other difficulties have led to the order to close the Women’s Med Center.

Read the ODH order here. 

Cincinnati Right to Life has also reported on the closure.

Compare and Contrast these Home “Health Care” Attempts.

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A couple charged and may face Jail in New York for illegal home neutering of a dog and cat.  The animals are said to have required extensive veterinary attention after the botched “amateur” operations.

Women on Waves purports that do it yourself home abortion is sufficiently safe using misopristil.  The results of such attempts can be disastrous for the women.

In California, non physicians are now permitted  do surgery on women, if it’s a vacuum aspiration  abortion.This is despite the fact that women sometimes need extensive care in a hospital when the procedure is botched, even if it is done by a “physician”.

FOX News -Not Leading Edge News Source for Pro-lifers

~ Pharmer

A good number of social conservatives regard FOX news as fair and balanced, and a good source of news that other networks choose to lose.  This has sometimes, but not always been the case.

It used to be that when a pro-life health care professional was fired, demoted or suffered other kinds of discrimination for their refusal to kill patients, almost no news coverage would result.

Breaking into the news on this issue required the development and use of the internet.  Once the information reached critical mass there, it was then possible to get some mainstream media attention.   In other words, it had to become sufficiently common knowledge before the media would feel obligated to cover it.

Once the news about being fired for refusing to dispense abortive drugs had sufficient internet attention, and made a few local news papers, and the American Center for Law and Justice put out a press release about a lawsuit, then Bill O’Reilly got interested enough to cover it.   Actually many local FOX news reporters inquired and attempted to set up interviews, but their EDITORS could never find the time or means for them to follow up.  Instead, FOX news generally  left it to NBC,CBS and ABC (and international media)  to cover the desire to avoid chemically killing unborn humans as a freak show.

In an interesting contrast, FOX has decided to extensively cover a Nurse who was fired before Christmas for refusing a flu vaccine because she is pregnant.  She was fearful of using an vaccines during her current pregnancy because of a recent history of miscarriages.  She cites the comparative lack of studies of flu vaccine use during pregnancy.   (It’s not uncommon for vaccines to go into general use without extensive safety and efficacy data in various subpopulations.)

Your friendly Pharmer would not be using the flu vaccine at this time of life, if it were not a job requirement. It is possible through personal hygiene practices to significantly reduce the likelihood of infection.  Most vaccines, (which confer only partial protection against disease)  are more helpful  for the people who do not exercise a knowledge of infectious processes in their daily living habits. Kids who are too young to be personally hygienic can benefit from certain vaccines, for example. The population whose Mamas did not teach to wash their hands after going potty would obtain significant overall  benefits from such a public health program.  Where cleanliness is not possible as a means to prevent disease, the vaccines confer the most benefit.  As the “environmental engineering” departments  inside hospitals become defunded, due to the crunch of socialized medicine,  and the filth becomes apparent to the naked eye, vaccines will become more and more necessary in the United States.

Pharmer feels empathy for the nurse who was fired on Dec 17th, likely after she blew the big dollars  on various Christmas preparations.  This is basically due to a instinct towards freedom, bodily autonomy, and the right to choose one’s own form of hygiene, as well as having gotten the boot at a similar time of year.
Pharmer is happy that FOX decided to cover the story, so that people can see the heavy hand of governments and corporations encroaching on personal bodily integrity.  Prayers for Ms. Dreonna Breton, for her baby-on-board, and her future job prospects in nursing.

Pharmer is still wondering which government bodies and advertisers stopped FOX News from similarly covering those  pro-lifers who were fired for refusing to dispense chemically abortive drugs, and left the stories  to all of the other U.S. and international media outlets.  The decision by FOX News and the U.S. Catholic Bishops to ignore this issue is the reason that that we now  face the spectre of the HHS mandate (temporarily stayed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor last night), which will force participating U.S. citizens to be complicit in birth control, sterilization and abortion practices, despite their religious beliefs.

Go to your alternative media for the news that FOX chooses to lose.  Lifenews is growing by leaps and bounds, and as an important source of info and events which get NO coverage elsewhere, is worth your attention, and perhaps your monetary support.

Supreme Court Justice Delays HHS Mandate

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The Little Sisters of the Poor who run a Home for the Aged in Denver,  requested an emergency stay of the HHS mandate, forcing religious organizations to pay for birth control / sterilization / abortion.  After a federal appeals court failed to respond, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor decided late on New Years Eve to block this requirement of Obamacare.  Government officials have until 10am Friday morning to respond.

Sotomayor’s decision excuses the religious organizations from being forced to comply with the birth control / abortion / sterilization mandate while the Supreme Court addresses the issue.

The HPV Vaccine Lacks Reproductive Safety Studies in Females

~ Pharmer

Dr Dierdre Little of Australia hunted for reproductive safety studies of the HPV vaccine after one of her teen patients experienced premature menopause. She found out that the drug developer did not bother, and the FDA did not require such studies.  She has also found insufficient  followup evaluation of this drug.
Japan has dropped support for this vaccine. India is citing lack of sufficient safety studies for the vaccine, and the feminist groups there are opposing it’s use.
This video is definitely worth a look. Click HERE

Dr Diedre Little presents Gardasil Safety Studies
Dr Diedre Little presents Gardasil Safety Studies

Live Action Uncovers Plaza Inn Abortions, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Live Action Films has done an expose  of the close relationship that the Plaza Inn  in Albuquerque, NM has with the Southwestern Women’s Options. Plaza Hotel offers discount rates and transportation and is helping to bring late term abortion tourism to Albuquerque, NM.

Wichita, KS had been the late term abortion capitol of the U.S. until George Tiller was unnaturally caused to meet the same fate as his almost-born patients. Since New Mexico has no abortion restrictions, it was natural for late term abortionists to settle there.

This film, CLICK IT HERE, features phone call inquiries to the abortion clinic and  to the Plaza hotel, juxtaposed with an earlier undercover visit to Southwestern Women’s Options.

Live Action Films present Abortion Hotel Plaza Inn, Albuquerque
Live Action Films presents Abortion Hotel Plaza Inn, Albuquerque
Live Action Films- What the Southwestern Women's Center Counselor tells women to do at the hotel
Live Action Films– What the Southwestern Women’s Options Counselor tells women to do at the hotel

Jill Stanek is wondering how guests at the Plaza Inn would feel, knowing that the room they are using had been the labor and delivery room during a late term abortion, and questioned the ability of the hotel staff to maintain appropriate sanitation.

UPDATE:   The abortion supporters had to spend a million bucks to defeat legislation which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks gestation in Abuquerque.  There are more voters registered in that locality than there were in the previous election.  Early and absentee ballots were the key to defeating the abortion ban.   By all indications, Pro-lifers will continue this locally based strategy of restricting abortions with a more clearly worded bills, and wring more resources from the Lefties.

CDC Abortion Surveillance Report Concurs with Pro-lifers: Minorities are Targeted

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Pro-lifers have known for decades that abortion clinics are concentrated in minority neighborhoods.  It’s been a eugenics program all along, to regulate the population sizes of Blacks and Hispanics most particularly.

In November, the CDC Abortion Surveillance Report was published, which shows that 63 percent of the abortions in the U.S. end the lives of Black or Hispanic babies.  This wildly outpaces the proportions of these minorities in the general population, and it directly relates to the locations of the abortion clinics.

From the CDC Report comes a data set from 2009.

White women had 38% of abortions  or 8.5 abortions 1ooo women (15-44yrs) or 140 abortions per 1000 live births.

Black women had 35.4% of abortions, 32.5 abortions per 1000 women (15-44yrs) or 477 abortions per 1000 live births.

Hispanic women had 20.6% of abortions, 19.3 abortions per 1000 women (15-44yrs) or 195 abortions per 1000 live births.

Women of other races: 6.3% of abortions, 17.7 abortions per 1000 women (15-44yrs) or 243 abortions per 1000 live births.

Admittedly the CDC is not counting all of the abortions, but the analysis of data which they have been able to collect bears out what pro-lifers have noticed all along.   The placement of abortion clinics is having its intended effects.

Ob-Gyn Who Stopped his Abortion Practice Testifies in Favor of Limiting Abortions to 20 Weeks.

~ Pharmer

Dr Anthony P Levatino MD, an Ob-Gyn practitioner in New Mexico has performed about 1200 abortions during his career, with many of them being in the second trimester. After reevaluating the issue of abortion, he discontinued that part of his practice, and is now supporting Trent Frank’s House Bill to limit abortions to less than 20 weeks gestation.

Listen to Dr. Levatino’s testimony HERE.

One of his most salient points is that late term abortion is not useful for saving the life of a woman. The procedure is much too long and harrowing in contrast to the option of delivering a live infant.

abortion testimony to congress 5-23-13 Anthony P Levatino MD

Leroy Carhartt’s Nurse Caught in the Whistleblower Race

~ Pharmer

Late term abortionist Leroy Carhartt may lose the sole remaining  nurse, Lindsey Creekmore, who works at his suburban Omaha, Nebraska clinic.

The state regulators are circling like vultures over this  abortion clinic.  Records show a pattern of improper drug administration and compliance, which could endanger patients served by the abortion clinic.

Carhartt operates another infamous clinic in Germantown, MD, and commutes between the two. It seems that another nurse, who quite the Omaha clinic in April, 2011, has blown the whistle on practices at the facility.  Part of the information which provides the impetus for Lindsey Creekmore’s  prospective disciplinary hearing, scheduled for August 5, comes from that unnamed individual.  It would appear that Ms. Creekmore lost the whistleblower race, and her nursing license may be at risk.

It is recommended that abortion clinic workers who are aware of substandard practices at their place of employment consider contacting the people at ATTWN.org, or operationrescue.org or clinicworker.com, an outreach of Life Dynamics, in order to avoid being caught on the wrong side of the clinic cleanup trend.