The abortion/weight loss clinic
Hat tip to Secular Pro-Life for making this odd discovery.
Women & Teens Healthcare, located in North Miami Beach, Florida, offers both surgical and RU486 abortions.
It also sells the HCG diet.
HCG, or human chorionic gonadotropin, is the first hormone produced after conception. It is what turns a pregnancy test positive.
HCG is first produced by the baby before s/he implants. HCG triggers menstruation to stop and the placenta to grow.
HCG for diets is extracted from the urine of pregnant mothers and sold in pill or liquid form. The theory behind the HCG diet is it makes nonpregnant women (and men) burn fat.
Whether or not this is true, the irony here is obvious. Abort your baby in one room, and get a pregnancy hormone to lose weight in another room.
One other point. The FDA has declared over-the-counter (homeopathic) HCG illegal, although prescription HCG is legal. I called Women & Teens Healthcare this morning and asked which HCG product it sells.
It sells the over-the-counter HCG. I confirmed that twice. For $350 you can get a two-month supply of illegal and probably worthless HCG pills.
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.
*throws up*
Abortion centers are anti-science when it comes to prenatal development; it comes as little surprise that they’d also sell a weight-loss regimen that the FDA says is completely bogus. I hope everyone will contact the FDA about this; the email address is consumer@fda.gov. We need to show Women & Teens, and the abortion industry generally, that they are NOT above the law.
Hmm…I wonder if the abortion is meant to be the first step in some sort of crazy weight-loss program.
After all, I have heard of pro-aborts talking about aborting because pregnancy makes you fat.
I have known people that have done this “diet”. One of the gals told me she had lost 20lbs in two weeks but she nearly doubled that weight loss as soon as she went off the pills. But I have to question how this effects a woman’s cycle because if hCG is what causes menstruation to stop when you are naturally pregnant… wouldn’t this cause a woman’s body to start thinking it’s pregnant, stop her period and she start “acting” pregnant (with the typical early pregnancy symptoms).
Worse, Dirtdartwife, if men can also take this product, how would a female hormone affect them?
I don’t really get how it works, anyway, I would think that a pregnancy hormone would cause you to store up fat…
If one were getting HCG injections in a doctor’s office – real HCG – then one would lose weight. However, fooling your body into thinking it is pregnant so that it consumes its stores of fat, and then muscle, is so extreme that very few LEGITIMATE doctors would agree to give the injections. Of course, there are always quacks and lowlifes – like abortion providers – who would give a woman anything she would pay for, regardless of its health effects.
My daughter loses weight in every pregnancy because she is carrying extra weight and the HCG produced by her pregnancies consume the fat in her body because the mom’s body will do whatever is necessary to nurture the pregnancy. Kind of ironic, the body is created to nurture the pregnancy at all costs; it is the soul and mind that can be perverted to act against nature.
Legitimate HCG does, indeed, lead to rapid weight loss. What is being commercially touted as HCG, i.e., the homeopathic version, is just expensive snake oil. It has ZERO HCG in it and is a fraud.
ADDENDUM: Any weight loss reported with the OTC homeopathic “HCG” is due to the 500-CALORIE a day diet that is “necessary” while using the homeopathic version.
Hahahhahahaha. No one thinks this is real, right? It seems like you do. Oh Boy.
Please tell me that you recorded that phone call and have sent it to the police.
HCG for diets is extracted from the urine of pregnant mothers…
Wait, what? Is this done knowingly? Do clinics pay pregnant women for their urine, or is this done without consent?
Also, ew.
i didnt hear the audio but i see the topic. my girlfriend aborted about 15 years ago and sad to say aborted for the purpose of staying in school she told me about the procedure. twilight sleep. fading out into sleep and heard sounds of a machine ringing. spoke about a girl who sat across from her and te girl said she feared getting chubby. even my aborting girlfriend.says “that was a terrible reason to have an abortion.”
it does work, i’ve seen people who have done it, but you can get it from a place that doesn’t offer abortions and from a doctor that doesn’t commit abortions…
Some years ago, a lady called my mom to put “the wise and careful use of HCG” on the prayer line. She asked me if I knew what HCG was and how it could be misused. While I saw all the HCG for weight loss articles, what struck me was articles on trace amounts of HCG identified in tetanus toxxoid vaccines given to women in poor countries. The vaccine was only mandated for women, and, those who were pregnant proceded to miscarry their children. It seems that WHO in concert with UN organizations was trying out a pregnancy vaccine which acts by the woman’s immune system building antibodies to HCG which are necessary for a healthy pregnancy. Therefore, a woman who was pregnant at the time, or would be pregnant in the future, could not carry the pregnancy as her own immune system would destroy the necessary HCG hormone.
Please, do not take the promotion to distribute HCG to the public lightly. Please, do not let a doctor inject you with this hormone.
Cathy – just awful and unjust! Thanks for sharing.
Joanna, many hormone replacement/conjugated estrogen pills are made from the urine of pregnant mares. Hence the name ‘premarin.’
That’s what I thought too, Kate. It doesn’t make sense to me that a “pregnancy hormone” would make you LOSE weight.
My niece actually tried this (the over-the-counter stuff) because she heard from some of her friends that it worked. Not only did it NOT work, she couldn’t stick to the 500 calorie a day diet, either.
It would appear that a 500 calorie a day diet (IF you could stick to it for any amount of time, but who could?) would be what made you lose weight, so the Hcg would be totally unnecessary. In other words…worthless.
How far behind is Soylent Green, really?
Ewww.
Eat less, move more, and don’t give money to abortionists.
So let me make sure I understand this correctly, in theory, the OTC liquid or pills would cause a false positive on home pregnancy test?
Where’d the rest of the post go?
Never mind
So, let’s review: we musn’t get ‘fat’ from pregnancy, because men won’t want us then, and how will we be sex objects if we’re pregnant? So we abort and then take the pregnancy hormone that we could’ve gotten naturally from the pregnancy we ended, so we can remain attractive to men and objectify ourselves and start the whole cycle over again. Nevermind that breastfeeding the baby that was killed will take off all the pregnancy weight and then some. Yeah, that makes sense. SMH. While we’re doing all that, let’s shriek about being green, eating healthy organic foods and protest for animal rights while insisting unborn human beings have no rights. Wack.
“How far behind is Soylent Green, really?”
If you folks get your way and abortion is criminalized, we will eventually experience a population overload. There will be an excess of children and not enough adoptive/foster homes for those whose parents cannot care for them. And because of austerity measures there won’t be any government run orphanages. Thus, we will have armies of street children such as the ones in Catholic countries like Brazil where contraception and abortion are unavailable. Given an increasingly poor population (but so happy with lots of babies) the churches will not be able to afford to deal with the consequences. What a fun world that will be.
And funny, the first scene in Soylent Green was in an abandoned Catholic church where a bunch of poor people were living. The message was quite clear; i.e. the policies of the Catholic Church, which opposes contraception, leads to the out of control population that the futuristic society was facing. And when the pro-life dream of criminalized abortion and contraception happens, it’s soylent green time.
if everyone on the plant is placed in only the state of Texas, they would have between 300-400 square feet PER PERSON. Considering that the Earth’s land mass is far greater than only the state of Texas, the population ‘problem’ is really non-existent. It’s the food distribution problem, which certain-in-power people have that is the problem of food – not of food production, but of distribution by entities who do not care about people, but power.
CC – as we know, much of the charitable contributions to the poor, needy and marginalized is done by the Catholic Church. Too bad you do not want to see that, or help that. In your mind, it seems that abortion is the panacea for all ills – the poor, the hungry, the homeless, women’s rights etc.
Since abortion has been around since the dawn of time, according to you, why have these ills not miraculously disappeared? And why is the only answer to difficulties is that we must end the lives of the children by abortion?
Help all humans – make a difference …
if violence is not the answer… then why support abortion? why not help education with education? why not help homelessness with housing?
we are smarter, more loving, more compassionate than offering abortion as the solution. love all humans – even the infirm and the unborn. If everyone helped, we would see the world a much better place.
“Considering that the Earth’s land mass is far greater than only the state of Texas, the population ‘problem’ is really non-existent.”
You do realize that much of the land mass is uninhabitable. And if you are suggesting that people can move into places like the Sahara desert or the Tibetan plateau, you have to have an infrastructure to provide water and other resources. There’s a reason why people are where they are and if those areas become more congested, there is a problem.
“why not help education with education? why not help homelessness with housing?”
Indeed. Tell that to conservatives who want to gut the social safety net.
CC-
something that bleak would only happen if pro-lifers succeeded in our goals in tandem with socialist/communist efforts to topple the tradition of the United States. As long as conservatives keep working towards individual prosperity, we will have the resources to contribute to charities to help any caught in the gap, and heck, maybe some sense of individual responsibility will rub off on the masses and we won’t have to worry as much about “extra children” to begin with, since the act of coitus will once again be associated with its biologically-intended purpose of procreation, instead of the public schooled sex-ed/biology dropouts we have running around now who seem mystified as to how “sex = babies” works.
Wow, cc is so bereft of arguments, she’s finally jumped on the the population control bandwagon! LOL LOL LOL!!! Tell us, is that a straw man or a wicker man? LOL!!!
“since the act of coitus will once again be associated with its biologically-intended purpose of procreation.”
Can’t have sex for pleasure now, can we?! LOL. If abortion is criminalized then those evil sluts will stop sleeping around.
“As long as conservatives keep working towards individual prosperity, we will have the resources to contribute to charities to help any caught in the gap.”
During the 8 years of the Bush administration, lots of folks got caught in the gap and still haven’t come out. And if you seriously think that “charities” will be able to provide the kind of assistance that is provided by government, you’re seriously deluded. Once again, the misogyny and selfishness of the forced birth movement is demonstrated. Poor women are expected to have their babies and from that point, they’re on their own. Nice. And funny, the most conservative states (like Mississippi) have high poverty rates, high unemployment, high levels of teen pregnancy, and high infant mortality. So yeah, lets have lots more babies.
“individual responsibility will rub off on the masses.”
Margaret Sanger, is that you!
LOL LOL LOL!!! Tell us, is that a straw man or a wicker man? LOL!!
LOL, LOL,LOL – You claim to believe in science yet you don’t believe in the dangers of overpopulation? LOL, even the CIA does studies on the impact of overpopulation and global security. Tell me, do you also believe that the world was created 6,000 years ago and there was actually an Adam and Eve?
I guess the forced birth movement loves the idea of families, like those in many third world countries, living in garbage dumps. Hey Ninek, every hear of the favelas? Ninek obviously thinks Haiti is a cool place cuz it has lots of babies.
Did I read wrong or did it say it’s made from urine byproducts?
I’ve driven through the continental US many times. There’s still plenty of uninhabited land available. Maybe if you could free your head from your posterior long enough to do a little traveling out of your “enlightened East Coast”, you’d be able to go see for yourself.
Can’t have sex for pleasure now, can we?!
Sure you can. You just have to also keep in mind that that sex for pleasure might also yield a new human being. It’s not a hard thing to do, or a difficult concept to grasp. Don’t worry, you might finally get it one of these days before you die, grandma.
Yes, I do believe that private charities can do it. I used to work for a non-profit, and they got sh!t done, as opposed to the government when I used to be an army wife staring in absolute horror as the DoD screwed up everything they could get their grubby little hands upon.
Just because conservatives feel that the disadvantaged would be better served using methods besides the government doesn’t mean we feel they shouldn’t be aided AT ALL.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html
Hey, you know, maybe I’m not giving cc enough credit for finally commenting in a way that is much closer to Margaret Sanger’s mission.
Why keep on about women’s rights, when what you really want to do is kill of great swaths of the human race? I’m glad the masks are coming off the abortion advocates. It’s not about what’s best for a mother’s health or her childrens’ health, but what’s best for Margaret Sanger and the Ku Klux Klan! Kudos to cc for finally being consistent. I’m so proud of her!
We poor Christians, we took Jesus at his word when he said that the poor we would always have with us. Those lucky abortion priestesses aren’t constrained by such a belief: they think we can kill the poor out of existence. Woo-hoo, isn’t genocide liberating?
By the wombful, by the dumpsterfull, ain’t you got fun?
By the suction, by the poison, ain’t you got fun?
‘We gots to kill them pesky children, each and every day,
So won’t you join us at the mill so they don’t get away!
Genocide now, genocide now, Ain’t we got fun!’
Thanks for the link, xalisae.
I found this particularly interesting: “The single biggest predictor of someone’s altruism, Willett says, is religion.”
CC says:
“Tell that to conservatives who want to gut the social safety net. ”
Hmmm. You mean the conservatives that are giving 30% more to charity than liberals? When you say “social safety net”, are you referring only to government funded programs, or charitable organizations too?
LOL! And prochoice is doing SO much for the poor, besides taxing them to death and demanding they pay for everyone else’s healthcare. The poor are only a means to an end to libs, a political tool they can trot out when it’s convenient. There are SO many prochoice charities feeding the poor-still 0 at last count. Let’s defund PP and take that million a day in Title X funds we’re wasting on PP and use it to feed the poor-prochoice won’t mind if they really ‘care’, now will they? Shits and giggles. Oh, wait, I forgot, abortion was gonna end poverty, and crime, and overpopulation…it’s only been 40 years, maybe we’re just not giving it a chance to suceed? LOL. The taxpayer you kill today could well be the one putting food in your mouth tomorrow. oops…
Exactly, MPQ. It was promised that abortion would end poverty and crime. We already have 50 million dead children…how many more, exactly, until this plan starts working??
ew.
I’ve driven through the continental US many times. There’s still plenty of uninhabited land available.
Much like insane religionists persecuted Galileo for talking about the scientific facts of this world, insane religionists today scoff at scientists talking about the facts of what the earth’s surface can and cannot do and can and cannot produce.
Plenty of people have driven through the continental US, except unlike you they didn’t do it with their eyes closed. I myself have not only driven through it several times at several different latitudes, I’ve lived in all four quadrants of the country for extended periods of time. Land that is uninhabited is uninhabited for a good reason. It’s either owned by the Catholic church (LOL) or it’s desert, tundra, Bandland, salt flat, lacking minerals, lacking water, straight up and down, or generally not hospitable to human existence. The rest is used for farming to feed people, as each human needs between 2 and 20 acres of land for survival. The problem with out of control broodmares with a degree from the School of the Dining Room Table is that you all don’t have the foggiest clue that plants and animals need food, vitamins, shelter, water, waste removal, processing, light, and the infrastructures that make all of this possible in order to provide food for humans. Billions of people on this planet don’t have anything close to the resources you have, and your dinner didn’t come from nowhere. When someone makes the insanely ignorant argument about stuffing everyone into Texas because there each person could have a whopping 400 square feet of living space, I wonder how in the world that person manages to both breathe and walk at the same time – gee, I’d love to have a 400 square foot block of living space with no room to travel and live right on top of my neighbors like we’re hamsters stacked inside a giant child’s bedroom. What kind of idiocy is that???
Perhaps you should take a break from beating yourself about the head and breast with a rosary and go drive through India. A third of the world’s population lives in grinding poverty, and another third lives in abject starvation and suffering. Between 15,000 and 30,000 children starve to death every day. That’s starving to death. Every day. Meanwhile Randall Terry is trying to waste 4 million dollars that could be spent saving these children and providing them clothing, food, water, shelter, vaccines, shoes, and education, just for the chance to show an audience of MEN a collection of stillborn pictures. It’s like he totally didn’t notice when Sally Struthers was doing her commercials to adopt a child from Africa – maybe those children from Africa weren’t worthy of consideration. Yet everyone is supposed to run right out and grab a sign and stand in a driveway somewhere when he shows his commercials.
And then you have the pope and his virginal minions of kiddie diddler closet cases living in a castle that is worth another set of untold billions, like any tin pot dictator that lives in an obscenely huge castle while the people of his country starve to death. Why anyone thinks this particular person is a source of knowledge or can provide life planning advice I do NOT know.
Millions in Japan and Indonesia are still suffering and homeless from tsunamis, and millions in Chile and Haiti are suffering and homeless from earthquakes. New Orleans never really recovered from Katrina and people are still homeless there. But the real tragedy is women taking pills to bring their periods.
Two thirds of the population of this earth have little to nothing and are dying from lack of food and disease at a an absolutely staggering rate. Only a completely heartless idiot would think that in conditions like this MORE humans should be brought at any expense. Even Mother Teresa treated the crisis of the poor, suffering, and disease like it was a blessing and did nothing to help them. It only makes sense that her followers would busy themselves trying to make sure that women’s uteruses are federal government property to be used for the cultivation of more humans that will only grow up to suffer and die as their parents did. When PL people talk about charity the only reaction a thinking person should have is to tell them to their faces that there is no bigger fraud on earth than they.
Readers, not to respond to the tinfoil hat behind the curtain, but overpopulation is a myth.
Please also note that so far no one has been able to measure the known universe and last time I checked we have plenty of room to spread out in. If population extremists don’t want to join us, they can sit this one out. But it would be nice if they would stop hating on the human race. I assure you, we can fix our problems just fine without resorting to genocide through abortion or any other means. It’s never too late to choose Life!
Readers, not to respond to the tinfoil hat behind the curtain, but overpopulation is a myth.
(Reuters) – The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. report warned on Monday.
As the world’s population looks set to grow to nearly 9 billion by 2040 from 7 billion now, and the number of middle-class consumers increases by 3 billion over the next 20 years, the demand for resources will rise exponentially.
Even by 2030, the world will need at least 50 percent more food, 45 percent more energy and 30 percent more water, according to U.N. estimates, at a time when a changing environment is creating new limits to supply.
And if the world fails to tackle these problems, it risks condemning up to 3 billion people into poverty, the report said.
Efforts towards sustainable development are neither fast enough nor deep enough, as well as suffering from a lack of political will, the United Nations’ high-level panel on global sustainability said.
“The current global development model is unsustainable. To achieve sustainability, a transformation of the global economy is required,” the report said.
“Tinkering on the margins will not do the job. The current global economic crisis … offers an opportunity for significant reforms.”
Although the number of people living in absolute poverty has been reduced to 27 percent of world population from 46 percent in 1990 and the global economy has grown 75 percent since 1992, improved lifestyles and changing consumer habits have put natural resources under increasing strain.
There are 20 million more undernourished people now than in 2000; 5.2 million hectares of forest are lost per year – an area the size of Costa Rica; 85 percent of all fish stocks are over-exploited or depleted; and carbon dioxide emissions have risen 38 percent between 1990 and 2009, which heightens the risk of sea level rise and more extreme weather.
The panel, which made 56 recommendations for sustainable development to be included in economic policy as quickly as possible, said a “new political economy” was needed.
“Let’s use the upcoming Rio+20 summit to kick off this global transition towards a sustainable growth model for the 21st century that the world so badly needs,” EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said in response to the report, referring to a U.N. sustainable development summit this June in Brazil.
ACTION
Among the panel’s recommendations, it urged governments to agree on a set of sustainable development goals which would complement the eight Millennium Development Goals to 2015 and create a framework for action after 2015.
They should work with international organizations to create an “evergreen revolution,” which would at least double productivity while reducing resource use and avoiding further biodiversity losses, the report said.
Water and marine ecosystems should be managed more efficiently and there should be universal access to affordable sustainable energy by 2030.
To make the economy more sustainable, carbon and natural resource pricing should be established through taxation, regulation or emissions trading schemes by 2020 and fossil fuel subsidies should also be phased out by that time.
National fiscal and credit systems should be reformed to provide long-term incentives for sustainable practices as well as disincentives for unsustainable ones.
Sovereign wealth and public pension funds, as well as development banks and export credit agencies should apply sustainable development criteria to their investment decisions, and governments or stock market watchdogs should revise regulations to encourage their use.
Governments and scientists should also strengthen the relationship between policy and science by regularly examining the science behind environmental thresholds or “tipping points” and the United Nations should consider naming a chief scientific adviser or board to advise the organization, the report said.
The report is available at http://www.un.org/gsp/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/30/us-un-development-idUSTRE80T10520120130
Law,
The reason so many are starving is not because there is not enough food, it’s that the food is distributed unequally. In fact, people from the US send food and medication overseas, only to have it stolen by terrorist soldiers, like what is happening in Uganda and Somalia. In fact, the the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] and the World Food Programme [WFP] have both stated that there is enough food to support everybody on this planet.
In fact, there is now more food being grown on less land. According to USDA figures, the world was producing 1.9 million metric tons of grain from 579.1 hectares of land in 1976. In 2004, we got 3.1 million metric tons of grain from only 517.9 hectares of land. Recently, it’s been found that, through hydroponics and aeroponics, food can be grown indoors, in a stable environment, with much less soil and much less water. Berkeley even has a program that is working on this, using LEDs to give the plants the types of light they specifically need to grow.
As for uninhabitable land, people have been able to turn such land into habitable land. The aqueducts made the Roman Empire – an area that consisted of the Middle East and a great portion of Europe – habitable. Before that, people could only live near water sources. Modern pluming expanded on the invention of the aqueduct. Guyana used to be uninhabitable, but was made habitable through cultivation – granted, it was on the backs of slaves, but non-slaves could have done the same work. California used to be entirely a desert, now we feed the world, literally – most of your food comes from farms in California (and people keep saying how they wish Cali would drop off the map – if they only knew). New Orleans was swamp land, but was made habitable through an electric pump that drained the swamp in 1917. Before windmills and the railroad, Texas was uninhabitable. Places like Brazil and Thailand used to be inhospitable for farming, and they fixed those areas. As recently as 2003, 25 million hectares of land was made habitable in Africa, by removal of a parasite from the river. As for climate, well, it is possible to use cloudbusting – yes, that’s a real thing. For water, we have chemistry: add two hydrogen atoms to an oxygen atom, and you’ve got water. Otherwise, we could possibly collect it from the moon, Mars, or maybe just from the rivers that were recently found under Antarctica. Yes, it was recently found that we have more water than we originally thought.
In all actuality, population doesn’t lead to the problem of poverty. Poverty is created by problems such as lack of infrastructure, and unequal distribution of resources. India isn’t poor because they have a lot of people. They’re poor because of a lack of medical and other technological advancements that we have here in the US, the people who are hogging all the wealth, and the fact that the higher classes won’t go near the lowest classes, those they call “the untouchables”. It’s more of a lack of compassion in the caste system, their social structure, that has lead to their problems.
Reduction of population would worsen the problem of poverty, as the economic structure would collapse under the weight of too few people supporting too many people. That’s one of the problems in Japan right now – there aren’t enough people working to support those who have retired. The earthquakes actually added to an already existing problem. Their economy was already collapsing, the earthquakes just made it collapse faster.
The actual problems at hand, unequal food distribution, war, disease, famine, lack of medical technology, lack of jobs, etc. should be addressed for the problems they are, instead of killing people. Abortion is not the answer.