Thumbnail image for blog buzz.jpgby intern Anne Marie D.
Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs…

  • Why Mommy is a Palin Supporter presents a personal testimony on the topic of Natural Family Planning….

  • nfp.gifThe author writes that after being diagnosed with cervical cancer, she was advised by her physician to use artificial contraception until her cervix grew back. Instead, the author and her husband chose to practice NFP, and report positive results from the experience:

    For 3 years we successfully prevented conception without the use of any artificial birth control and while continuing an active conjugal relationship. Once given the “all clear” to conceive, we had three more children, one after the other, and received them with joy.
    It is because of my personal experience with NFP that the arguments of feminists that they should be able to ask a doctor to kill their own unborn children in order to have “control” over their own bodies fall on deaf ears.

  • Flash Point comments on the prevalence of medical tourism (i.e. the pursuit of cost effective, faster or better private medical care), particularly in India, as reported by bioethicist Dr. Jameela George. While the concept seems beneficial, the ethics behind some of the medical procedures are poor to non-existent.
    Among several particularly worrisome issues is that of surrogacy tourism, or “wombs for rent,” which are often contracted through Indian hospitals. Surrogates live in dormitories or “baby farms” and are paid $5-7k each, a relatively low cost. This is extremely exploitative to the concept of family, and turns the physiological process into a commodity.
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  • American Papist reports President Obama would prefer Americans “not get distracted” by the abortion issue in health care reform:

    Yesterday Katie Couric asked Obama the question that Catholics and other Americans are very worried about:
    Katie Couric: Do you favor a government option that would cover abortions?
    President Obama: What I think is important, at this stage, is not trying to micromanage what benefits are covered. Because I think we’re still trying to get a framework. And my main focus is making sure that people have the options of high quality care at the lowest possible price.
    As you know, I’m pro choice. But I think we also have a tradition of, in this town, historically, of not financing abortions as part of government funded health care.
    Rather than wade into that issue at this point, I think that it’s appropriate for us to figure out how to just deliver on the cost savings, and not get distracted by the abortion debate at this station….

    … [H]ow are we to take seriously Obama’s claim that he wants to reduce the number of abortions in America when his attitude about the single-greatest expansion of abortion access in our nation’s history is … “let’s not get distracted”?!
    … [A]nd now that I think about it… if Obama doesn’t want abortion to “distract” us, why not simply rule out covering them with taxpayer dollars? That strikes me as a very simple fix.

  • [Image and photo attributions: billings-centre.ab.ca; americanpapist.com]

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