The first paper I ever wrote in graduate school was a review of the literature on Leprosy. It is a disease transmitted by contact that we now know to be caused by a close first cousin of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, and can be cured using the same antibiotics that we use against TB. [...]
Archive for the ‘Birth Control’ Category
Komen Wants Out of the Planned Parenthood Leper Colony
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Breast Cancer, Uncategorized, tagged ABC Link, Breast Cancer, Defund, Oral Contraceptives, Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Enslaved… At Last
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Birth Control, tagged Birth Control, Cardinal Dolan, Conscience Protections, Obama on January 26, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Word comes this week that Cardinal-elect Timothy Dolan received a telephone call from President Obama stating that the Catholic Church would not receive an exemption from the requirement to purchase contraception for its employees. Cardinal Dolan is less than enthused: “It’s not about contraception. It’s about the right of conscience.” “The government doesn’t have the [...]
Sebelius’ Sensible Decision
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Dignity, tagged Family Health International, FDA, NPR, Plan B, Sebelius on December 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The recent overruling of the FDA decision to sell Plan B over the counter (OTC) to children as young as eleven years of age has engendered no small amount of outrage by proponents of the FDA plan, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has come in for severe criticism from women’s health and advocacy groups. Setting [...]
Proabort Researchers Look at Abortion Stigma, Eye New Strategy
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, tagged Abortion, Abortion Stigma, Al Gore, Birth Control, Climate Change, Post-Abortion Healing on June 30, 2011 | 11 Comments »
From UPI today comes news that a team of researchers, including the Guttmacher Institute, are looking into the issue of abortion’s stigma. Here is a new front in the abortion war. In many ways, it is the vulgar inverse of post-abortion healing ministries such as Lumina and Rachel’s Vineyard. CINCINNATI, June 29 (UPI) – U.S. [...]
Medical Science and Truth on Trial in New York City
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Planned Parenthood, tagged American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Christine Quinn, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, New York City Council, Planned Parenthood, Pregnancy Resource Centers on November 11, 2010 | 34 Comments »
My article in today’s Headline Bistro. Next week I will join other doctors and concerned citizens and give testimony before the New York City Council on the truth of abortion’s myriad effects on women’s physical and mental health, future fertility and pregnancies. The City Council is proposing legislation that will severely restrict the ability of [...]
The ABC Literature: #8
Posted in Birth Control, tagged ABC Link, Breast Cancer, Breastfeeding on October 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Those following daily are beginning to get confortable with the jargon (I hope). For ease of newcomers following along , please consult the glossary of terms that I’ve written to make the terminology very understandable. Also, consult the post that explains the essential background. As we continue our analysis of the ABC literature, we turn [...]
ellaOne, More lethal than Plan B, and RU 486 On the Way to US?
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, tagged ellaOne, FDA, Ulipristal on May 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »
ellaOne (Ulipristal 30 mg) is the new and improved version of RU 486. Its mechanism of action is similar in that it blocks the hormone progesterone from its effect of maintaining the endometrial lining of the uterus. Recall that while estrogen is key to stimulating the growth and development of a new uterine lining (endometrium), [...]
Katie Couric, ‘We Need to Double the Number of Minorities on the Pill’
Posted in Birth Control, Margaret Sanger, Uncategorized on May 14, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Watching this video, I have become convinced of reincarnation. Margaret Sanger has returned.
It’s sex o’clock in America
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, tagged Raquel Welch on May 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I’m republishing an article by Actress Raquel Welch. A very hopeful sign. Thanks to Deena Stephens for sending it along. (CNN) — Margaret Sanger opened the first American family-planning clinic in 1916, and nothing would be the same again. Since then the growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both [...]
Planned Parenthood and The Destruction of Innocents
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Planned Parenthood, Sex Education, tagged Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Sex Education, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Stand and Deliver on February 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Here are the CDC data that show what a horrifically effective job Planned Parenthood and their fellow travelers have done in destroying the lives of our young people, corrupting them in their innocence and fertility. The data are from the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Surveillance, 2008. These data are presented as a follow-up to yesterday’s post [...]
Planned Parenthood In New Initiative Targets 10 Year-Old Children With Condoms That Don’t Work
Posted in Birth Control, Condoms, Planned Parenthood, Sexually Transmitted Disease, tagged Condoms, Planned Parenthood, Stand and Deliver on February 9, 2010 | 11 Comments »
WARNING: GRAPHIC AND SEXUALLY EXPLICIT FOX NEWS reports on a new initiative by Planned Parenthood to target children as young as ten years old for teaching the pleasures of sex. The initiative, Stand and Deliver is linked here. From the Fox Report: The report, “Stand and Deliver,” charges that religious groups, specifically Catholics and Muslims, [...]
New Video on Abortion-Birth Control-Breast Cancer Link
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Breast Cancer, tagged Abortion Breast Cancer Link, Oral Contraceptives on January 19, 2010 | 27 Comments »
FROM MY EMAIL TODAY: Dear Friends: We need your help, so please be sure to read our Action Items at the end of this message! We are excited about our new YouTube video reporting on the study, Dolle et al. 2009, in which U.S. National Cancer Institute scientist Louise Brinton and Dr. Janet Daling of [...]
Our Sons and Daughters
Posted in Birth Control, Dignity, Family, Sex Education, tagged Dinity, Marriage, Sex Ed on January 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Little girls are unburdened. There is a lightness about little girls in those golden years before adolescence that is unmistakeable. Its unblemished beauty is like a rose bud, with all of the promise of the splendor about to unfold. A florist once shared that rose buds exposed to a sudden and extreme chill will not [...]
Oral Contraceptives: WHO Group I Carcinogen
Posted in Birth Control, Breast Cancer, tagged Biohazard, Breast Cancer, Estrogen, Oral Contraceptives, WHO on January 18, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Bethany, a good friend of this blog, has shared this link to the World Health Organization’s list of Group I carcinogens. The following oral contraceptives are listed along with some other Group I Carcinogens for reference. From the document: Estrogen-progestogen menopausal therapy (combined) (Vol. 72, Vol. 91, Vol. 100A; in preparation) Estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives (combined) [...]
