Jivin J’s Life Links 8-23-10
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- According to a poll of Russians, 41% of the country favors a complete abortion ban, up from 8% in 1998. Another 25% of the country only approves of “therapeutic” abortions.
- At ABC News, Susan Donaldson James has another piece (her last one was a weakly veiled piece promoting Cytotec) on one of drugs in the chemical abortion cocktail. This piece focuses on depression studies performed by Mifeprex’s (RU-486) manufacturer, and on how one 53-year-old lady is using the drug as an anti-depressant:
One has to be cautious, though, because depression waxes and wanes on its own, and it’s always hard when looking at a small number of people, whether it is the effect of the drug, or if it would go away anyway,” said Robbins. “We have to make sure we are careful with the studies. There is a long history of people making claims about substances helping depression.”
But, he warns, taking a drug for an off-label use can be dangerous — and not only for Cheryl’s health.
“I have delayed telling my story for so many years, and the main reason is because I am risking my ability to get this drug for my own well-being,” she said. “It’s a federal offense. RU-486 is a schedule 1 drug, the most controlled we have.”
Cheryl, who is uninsurable except in an expensive high-risk pool, said she averages about $15k to $20k a year on her drugs. Her lucrative high-tech job allows her to medicate herself.
- Scottish doctors plan on injecting fetal stem cells developed from a 12-week aborted child into the brains of stroke patients:
ReNeuron, the British biotechnology firm behind the project, are waiting to get final clearance for the surgery.
When they do, Dr. [Keith] Muir will inject the contents of a single vial of the stem cells into the brain of the successful volunteer.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
So this lady, Cheryl, is abusing a drug, outside its intended use, and has 15 – 20 thousand dollars of disposable income to spend on treating her depression? I’d say she’s mispending such a large sum of money – with a minimum of $15 K per year to budget for her mental health, one would expect she could find a better coping mechanism than abusing poison. Maybe I’m the crazy one, but if I had $15K per year, I’d use it for massage and some soft music. At current rates, she could get over 200 hundred hour-long massages per year, including an ipod for the good tunes. Who would be depressed if one got a nice theraputic massage every other day or every two days? This lady is crazy alright, and I’m willing to bet she’s also got an expensive “counselor” who is participating in and encouraging her madness. Mental health is a serious issue, but there are many people that have no desire to be cured. And there are, to go with them, thousands of “counselors” who have no desire to cure their “clients.”
These Scottish doctors want to inject stem cells from an aborted baby into stroke patients, why? Stem cells from murdered fetuses have the nasty habit of producing teratomas don’t they?
The Ruskies have a far worse abortion problem than we have in terms of percentages. From a purely practical standpoint they now see the folly of killing off their future. With a huge Muslem immigration problem, rampant alcoholism, and a declining birthrate the sensible Russians are wondering about the long term prospects of dear mother Russia. Where are all those beautiful children?
Sydney M
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Yes. Yes, they do. And the patients who’ve been tested with this sort of thing tend to die in gruesome fashions. I really wish they wouldn’t do this.
I watched part of a documentary about abortion in Russia called “Killing Girls” once (online). Late-term “induction abortions” are very common there, apparently. If you’re interested in learning more about abortions in Russia, I’d suggest seeing if you can find some of the clips on this online. I found it interesting to kind of look into how the abortion issue works in a different culture. It’s sad how ignorant some girls are about their bodies, and how ingrained abortion is in the culture there.
Ashley and army wife I have heard from missionaries that the level of self-devastation in Russia is horrible. Life is so devalued there, the horrific numbers of abortions even very late term ones, the rate of depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, the numbers of children and elderly being abandoned and neglected and children left in orphanages, prostitution and STDs running rampant. They embraced the culture of death and post-abortive women are the “walking dead”, with broken bodies, emotional and mental illness running rampant. I understand the Russian government is begging for Christian children’s programs to teach children The 10 Commandments, The Golden Rule and morality because the youth have no sense of right or wrong. Sounds like what we may become here in America.
I thought abortion was supposed to solve these problems with “every baby a wanted baby, the right to choose planned and wanted babies, “reproductive choice” was supposed to free women and child abuse , over-population and poverty was supposed to be virtually eliminated because of the “right to choose”.
Hey Ashley I have been praying for you and sincerely wish you well.
It really upsets me that that ESC story is calling this farce of science “ground breaking” and “first of it’s kind”. Have they done no research at all? Do they not even care to? This has been tried over and over again with horrific results. EMBRYONIC “STEM” CELLS ARE NOT BLANK. They are already imprinted with a destiny by God to become a unique WHOLE human being. Not a simple kidney or brain stem. A WHOLE PERSON! That’s why these experiments always end up with “masses” and “tumours” made up of human bone, hair, and flesh. The cells attempt to become the body they were meant to be wherever they implant, be it inutero or a poor hapless victim of political science’s skull.
Sioko, I agree. Adult stem cells have been shown over and over to have actual promise, and they don’t involve destroying a human being – but for whatever reason the politically-correct “powers that be” are absolutely determined that they will make ESCs an acceptable treatment for something, anything – no matter the (human) cost, both with respect to the lives of the embryonic humans and the grown humans they’re trying to “cure”. Any “scientist” who advocates using ESCs for anything is both a quack and a snake-oil salesman. This is worse than the sometimes-poisonous “patent medicines” our forefathers knew.
Did you know that people a few decades ago used to actually ingest radioactive isotopes in the mistaken belief that they were “healthy” and would cure a number of things? Many of these people died horrible deaths from radiation-related diseases. There was even a device to add radioactive isotopes to peoples’ water. ESCR reminds me of this.
so Russia and abortionists have something in common. abortions are done by ‘old, sick men’.
Hopefully america can learn from the mistakes of other countries, instead of fall into the same death trap. literally.