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Dr. Susan Berry / Breitbart • Sun 2014 Jun 15, 9:34pm

Melinda Gates, of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has announced that her international family planning foundation will no longer fund abortion because she believes abortion and family planning have become “conflated.” … [Melinda Gates:] "The question of abortion should be dealt with separately. But in the United States and around the world the emotional and personal debate about abortion is threatening to get in the way of the lifesaving consensus regarding basic family planning."

greghousesgf at Comics Curmudgeon • Wed 2012 Mar 21, 9:03amRemember, it’s only premarital sex if you get married afterwards!
SarahM at Comics Curmudgeon • Wed 2012 Mar 21, 9:01amI was raised Catholic myself, so I’m well familiar with the guilt/shame spiral that causes adherents to cherry-pick which “sins” they commit – Catholic guilt certainly doesn’t stop people from engaging in premarital sex, but it does sometimes prevent them from seeking proper birth control, because only a “loose” woman would be so brazen as to go that far. So then they are more likely to get pregnant, compounding their sense of shame… and perhaps will even go so far as to get an abortion rather than bear the public ignominy of being a “fallen” woman. Saw this happen with friends and relatives. It’s a weird, counterproductive mindset that causes a lot of misery that could be avoided if they weren’t taught by the Church to be so hung up about natural urges.
Steve Chapman at Reason • Tue 2012 Mar 20, 2:10pmModern technology allows prospective parents to learn the sex of a fetus, and many of them use that knowledge to exercise a preference for sons. Absent such intervention, about 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. But as Mara Hvistendahl reports in her 2011 book "Unnatural Selection," the number for boys per 100 girls has risen to 112 in India and 121 in China.

It was once assumed that the general preference for male offspring would subside as countries became richer and women became more educated. But in country after country, that has proved false. … "female feticide" is so common in Canada that he believes "doctors should be allowed to disclose this information only after about 30 weeks of pregnancy — in other words, when an unquestioned abortion is all but impossible…."

Selective abortion, however, does not target only girls. Recent screening advances now make it easier and safer to detect Down syndrome in the womb… A survey reported in the American Journal of Medical Genetics found that only 4 percent of parents with Down syndrome children regret having them — and nearly 99 percent of the people with the disorder said they are happy with their lives&hellip.
The Atlantic • Wed 2011 Dec 28, 8:40pmLess than two weeks after finding out about the tumor, the McCartneys decided to go ahead with open fetal surgery, a procedure that had been successfully completed fewer than 20 times worldwide. It would be the first time the operation would be conducted at Texas Children's Hospital. But with Macie's heart getting weaker by the day and excess fluid building up around it, there wasn't much time to deliberate.
christianpost.com • Sun 2011 Jul 10, 9:51pmMany companies already offer domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples. Now that same-sex couples can marry in six states and the District of Columbia, companies must decide if same-sex couples should marry to receive those benefits. Some companies in New York, and elsewhere, have decided to no longer offer domestic partner benefits.
fullcomment.nationalpost.com • Sat 2011 Mar 12, 11:55amAccording to the study, 5,500 women want sperm from complete strangers, but only about 60 men are willing to donate their sperm without recompense. Now who would have seen that coming? Dr. Edward Hughes, the study's main author, is deeply concerned about this situation, and he has a solution: Government action!
breitbart.com • Thu 2009 Jun 18, 1:35pmA U.S. appeals court says a California girl conceived from the frozen sperm of a dead man cannot receive his Social Security benefits. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision Wednesday, ruling the girl wasn't dependent on her father at the time of his death… he died unexpectedly in 1995 from an allergic reaction….
newson6.com • Wed 2009 Jun 10, 2:41pm

An Oklahoma farm family could be the next global reality TV stars.... The Brits will be expected to attend church and help with chores around the farm.

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sltrib.com • Tue 2009 Jun 2, 3:59pm…told police he grew marijuana with his son so he could be a "cool dad,"
ocala.com • Tue 2009 Jun 2, 3:58pm

While leaving the baby by the road was a criminal act, state law does provide for the legal abandonment of newborns at certain designated locations.

telegraph.co.uk • Tue 2009 Jun 2, 3:56pm

A mother has had her three-year-old daughter taken away from her by social services after authorities deemed her too stupid to look after the child.

emaxhealth.com • Fri 2009 Apr 10, 1:52pm

now the proud parents of their first child, Stella, who was born in February. Yet when he was a teenage in the 1980's, he not only did not know if he would survive to adulthood or become a father. He was diagnosed with leukemia and had three years of chemotherapy. His doctors then recommended radiation therapy. His parents concerned about the possibility of him surviving but being sterile managed to persuade doctors to freeze a sperm sample for him. ... after 22 years the frozen sperm was thawed and via in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) last June his wife became pregnant....

shieldsgazette.com • Mon 2009 Mar 16, 9:11pm

STUNNED teenager Rachael Yannetta was rushed into hospital with stomach pains ... and then gave birth to a baby daughter. The 19-year-old had no idea she was heavily pregnant and simply thought she was "piling on weight". "I'm still in complete shock," said Miss Yannetta. "Surprise isn't the word, the whole family's stunned."

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