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“The motivation is abortion”
“The motivation is abortion,” says R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “If the Supreme Court allows states to declare embryos as personhood, you would be in a position to say immediately that all abortions have to stop.” LifeEthics covered this story a few days ago, … Continue reading
I’m quoted in Texas Monthly
Over the weekend, at the annual convention of the Texas Medical Association, a friend said that she’d read my quote in “Texas Monthly.” I assumed she meant an old article in Texas Medicine, the journal of the Texas Medical Association. I was wrong. (And, maybe now I know why I can’t get appointed to any … Continue reading
Gynecology and Obstetrics Policy makers respond to doctors on conscience
It appears that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and ABOG (the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists may be about to abort their efforts to change laws concerning conscientious refusal in Washington. It remains to be seen whether they will deliver on their promise to support — without limits – the Conscientious Refusal … Continue reading
>Dr. Nurse? Why not just Doctor?
>Get ready for Dr. Nurse, who will call himself/herself “Doctor,” but who, after 4 year bachelor’s degree in nursing, has gone to the Doctor of Nursing school for two years with a one year internship — that’s compared to the 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, followed by at least 3 years … Continue reading
>Abortion, miscarriage, and risk to later babies
>I’m afraid that the report I blogged about a couple of days ago is being misinterpreted by at least one Pro-life source. The numbers are impressive enough from a public health and pro-life view point, without ignoring the fact that the original data is 40 to 50 years old (without the advantage of our current … Continue reading
Emotional Debate on “Physician Assisted Suicide”
On Tuesday night, November 26th, I drove to Houston to hear Wesley J. Smith, debate Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) with Kathryn Tucker, the Director of Legal Services for Compassion & Choices, which was once the old Hemlock Society and then Compassion in Dying. Mr. Smith is the author of The Culture of Death and Forced … Continue reading
>Embryonic Stem Cells from Patient’s Own Adult Stem Cells
>Well, they did it! From Reuter’s, UK: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two separate teams of researchers announced on Tuesday they had transformed ordinary skin cells into batches of cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells — but without using cloning technology and without making embryos. Their breakthroughs could make possible the long-sought goal of … Continue reading
>Government Health: Intervention, Restrictions, and Penalties
>What do Massachusetts and Great Britain have in common? Mandated health coverage. Today is the last day that citizens of the State of Massachusetts may buy health insurance or risk penalties on their State income tax. The BBC News from Britain reports that the Nuffield Council on Bioethics proposes that the government do more to … Continue reading
>Parental Notification for Abortion Decreases STD risk
>Instinctively, I believe that many of us knew this. However, now we have documentation to point to. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Advance Access published an article online by Jonathan Klick and Thomas Stratmann on September 4, 2007 , entitled, Abortion Access and Risky Sex Among Teens: Parental Involvement Laws and Sexually Transmitted … Continue reading
>The all or nothing dilemma (SCHIP)
> The advocates of government-funded health care are (repeatedly, pleadingly, as though they are in some weakened, minority status) urging doctors and everyone with an eye to see or ear to hear to let our legislators know that we, too, want government to grow, to own medical care, and to tax us and regulate us … Continue reading
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