by Kelli

• Down on the Pharm reminds us that the old “hCG in the tetanus vaccine” scandal happening in Kenya right now is nothing new:

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• Abolitionist Society exposes abortion’s role in society’s eugenic attitude toward children with special needs. But the average family choosing to abort a special needs child does so for one of two reasons unrelated to eugenics:
  

  The argument from the desire to eliminate pain…. [and] [t]he argument from the desire to preserve a personal level of living.

While the Solicitor General and his legal team are trying very hard to convince us that state-mandated contraception under the Reproductive Health Law is not population control, an aggressive vaccination campaign among the poor is reported to be causing an alarming rise in infant mortality in the countryside.

Last weekend I listened to reports from family life workers assembled in Cebu City [who]… reported similar cases of infants dying after having been vaccinated by local health workers….

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• At Priests for Life, Janet Morana discusses the case of Ariel Knights, who sought (and thought she had) an abortion after she was told her pregnancy was a risk to her life due to uterus didelphys, and her baby survived. Most revealing is that this article on the case minces no words regarding the substandard conditions of the abortion facility and stark facts of the procedure:
  

  When her name was called that March morning a year ago, she walked into a cramped room and climbed onto a table, positioning her lower body above a trash bag. When the doctor finished, Knights, still woozy from being sedated, was handed her things and shown the door.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat I’m not sure who came up with the title for the AP article, “One-child policy a surprising boon for China girls.” Yeah – 43 million girls aborted because they were female, coercive family planning measures, being less likely to have siblings, family members who are bitter you’re not […]

The pregnancy was difficult from the beginning, characterized by pain and bleeding. “A number of times they were certain they had lost me,” he writes. His parents went to the best doctor in their area of the Philippines who told his mother in a slow monotone that “An abortion is the only way to save […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat The Archbishop of Manila has issued a pastoral letter on abortion after a couple of aborted children were left outside churches in the Philippines. Ramesh Ponnuru writes in Politico about how social issues like abortion still matter in elections: MS Gov. Haley Barbour says that the social issues […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat SC Gov. Mark Sanford has signed informed consent legislation which includes a 24-hour waiting period and gives women the option of viewing their ultrasound. NE Attorney General Jon Bruning has decided against appealing NE’s abortion screening law to a higher court after a U.S. District Court in NE […]