Category: medical news

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Sued for Coercing Nurses to Assist Abortions

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The Alliance Defense Fund has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey against the University of Medicine and Dentistry on behalf of 12 nurses.  The University has been threatening nurses with loss of their jobs if they refuse to train for and assist in abortions.  This is a due to a recent change in policy and supervision of the nurses.

The suit asks for removal of federal funding for the hospital until it ceases religious discrimination against the nurses whose beliefs forbid participation in killing the unborn.  It asks also for the hospital to return 60 million in federal funding which it received in 2011,  attorney fees  and relief for the nurses as the Court sees fit.

A Copy of the Complaint filed with the United States District Court in NJ can be found HERE.

Pharmer congratulates the 12 Nurses who have distinguished themselves  by courageously taking action against the hospital, and offers prayers for their success.  (Be encouraged.  There is life, and even a job after this kind of  lawsuit.  Been there, done that.)

Oklahoma Mom Refuses Chemo In Order to Save Her Baby

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This is the unfettered human maternal instinct, to put the lives of one’s children first. It’s so rare now, as to be newsworthy, and many would criticize it.
Stacie Crimm refused chemo for an aggressive tumor for fear that it would harm her baby. Her child was delivered prematurely. Stacie had only one chance to hold her baby girl prior to her own death. Prayers for her and her family.

Treatment for Infertility, Cash Only In Ottawa?

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MercatorNet: Are babies prizes or gifts?.

Margaret Somerville  commented on a contest at an Ottawa, Canada radio station, HOT 89.9.   They offered as a prize, up to three fertility treatments.   Numerous couples submitted short statements explaining why they should be most eligible for such assistance.  In the end, the field was narrowed to five contestants, and all of them “won” the treatments.

People of various views on the life issues are troubled by the contest.

Pharmer, as usual,  gets down to the nitty gritty:

The main problem is not the contest itself, but the fertility treatments, which (depending on the type) frequently  have in their design the idea that babies are objects.   You see…… there is selective reduction.  The parents are convinced (by the docs)  to knock off some of the babies if there  are multiples, to increase the survivability of the remaining one or two.

The type of fertility treatments is not specified, so it could include some procedures which inherently involve killing human embryos.

What most people are saying “yuck” to  is not the killing that so often  accompanies the fertility treatments,  but the exhibitionism.   These five couples may be putting that killing  on display, since they agreed to shed the privacy which usually surrounds the treatments.

Note that the socialized medicine system of Ottawa  is apparently not covering the treatment of the disease of infertility.  That apparently  has to be won in a contest.

Abortion Supporters Fear Legal Recognition of Biological Fact

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Mississippi Abortion Amendment 26 Says Life Begins at Fertilization | Video | TheBlaze.com.

It’s in your developmental biology book, and your general biology text.   Life for an organism of sexually reproducing species begins when fertilization is complete.

Mississippi proposes to recognize this fact in law, amid objections from abortion supporters.

They complain that this amendment might affect the availability of many birth control pills.

This is an admission that birth control pills, which operate by multiple mechanisms, including interference with implantation, have been misbranded as contraceptives.

Maybe we can request a surgeon general warning on BC pill packs that says: WARNING: this pill may operate by stopping the life of an early human embryo.

The warning could be upgraded for Plan B, and especially for Ella, doses of which can be accumulated for use in home abortions.

It is feared that legal recognition of what developmental biologists have observed might hurt the pharmaceutical and abortion industry.   Maybe if they had been honest all along, such efforts as Mississippi amendment 26 would not have been necessary.

California Stops the Ban on Male Infant Circumcision

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The most interesting thing about this Reuters article,  concerning the San-Francisco no-circ law being overturned for the second time by the State of California, is the comment section.

See the no-circ people going nutz about the practice of infant circumcision, and foaming at the mouth about the religious underpinnings.

So Pharmer asked them, where to they stand on the issue of removing the entire baby and throwing him into the trash?

Hmmmm?

Did they vote for Obama, who thought it is  ok to do this even after the kid is born?

California quietly passes law to allow coerced vaccinations, removing parental rights : Moral Outcry

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California quietly passes law to allow coerced vaccinations, removing parental rights : Moral Outcry.

AB-499 has been passed by the California Legislature and awaits Governor Jerry Brown’s signature.   It transfers consent for the Gardasil vaccine for HPV  to the authority of 12 year old girls, bypassing their parents.  Of course the parents would remain financially responsible for untoward effects of the drug in their children.

Why Do Peyton Manning, Americans Leave U.S. for Stem Cell Treatment? | LifeNews.com

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Why Do Peyton Manning, Americans Leave U.S. for Stem Cell Treatment? | LifeNews.com.

Rebecca Taylor,  author of the Mary Meets Dolly blog, comments on the reasons for medical tourism out of the United States for AUTOLOGOUS stem cell transplants.  These use the patients own cells, so there are no ethical restrictions in law regarding these procedures.  The road block for this kind of treatment is the FDA, which regards the treatment as a DRUG, and regulates it as such.

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Whoopsie Baby! Birth Control Pill Recall by Qualitest

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Qualitest is a Generic drug manufacturer and distributor which has made an oopsie in the packaging of several brands of birth control pills

The affected brands are: Cyclafem 7/7/7, Cyclafem 1/35, Emoquette, Gildess FE 1.5/30, Gildess FE 1/20, Orsythia, Previfem, Tri-Previfem. Qualitest has issued a national voluntary recall of the drugs.

The packages apparently got rotated 180 degrees and the inactive pills are at the top for ingestion during the first week of the cycle. This could result in a WHOOPSIE BABY.

Check the video below and notice the LAST woman interviewed, who says she would like a pill screwup. She’s taking them AT HER HUSBAND’S BEHEST. He doesn’t want another kid.

Pharmer takes this opportunity to advertise Natural Family Planning, which is without drug side effects, and very effective if one can follow the directions.

Donor Sibling Registry: To Avoid Accidental Incest

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Donor Sibling Registry :: Home.

Hey! Some people  (not Dr. David Epstein of Columbia University fame)  still think that incest is not a great idea.

There is some relief for kids who’s biological dad is a sperm donor (literally).   If you know your donor number, or even if not, this registry will help you locate  (and thereby avoid reproduction with) half siblings.

Apparently some sperm donors have been found to have fathered up to 150 kids, so this accidental incest is a very real problem.