Bush Forces His Religious Beliefs On The American People
“Go forth and multiply” or so the bible says, and President Bush has found another way to force woman to do just that.
He is redefining some birth control methods as abortions, among those methods is the pill and IUD’s.
He is saying that any termination of life between the moment of conception and birth is abortion. Now understand that it usually takes between 3 or 4 days, after the sperm meets the egg for implantation to occur. The birth control methods that he mentions all interfere with that implantation.
This redefinition is important because it means that federal funding for hospitals and states that are obligated to supply birth control, will have that funding cut off. It will also protect those doctors that will not give birth control to patients that ask or need it.
His proposed actions are an outrage! As much as I do not care for Clinton, she has vowed to fight this and has some kind of petition on her website where you can go and help to stop this.
Why do the Bush’s only have two daughters from one birth? Why haven’t they bred like the cattle he is treating the American woman as. Is he also going to propose more programs so that women can pay to support all these babies he wants them to have? Or are we doomed to become like some third world countries that spew out baby after baby with no way to even feed them?
It’s fine it you don’t support a woman’s right to have an abortion. Remember, this is about the definition of abortion. I guess women that have ectopic pregnancies must just carry them till they burst and both die. This guy has gone way too far with this and for our health, protection, and personal freedom of choice ( even his God gives us free will ), this must be stopped.
Another Pitch For Wellness Clinics
A new study had determined that hundreds of millions could be saved in health care costs if clinics started including preventative and wellness care into their programs.
A nonprofit advocacy group called the Trust for America’s Health discovered that clinics that encouraged quitting smoking, proper eating, and exercise, proved to be a better investment than those that didn’t.
The results were better than expected because they showed savings immediately and not just 20 years down the line.
They suggest that if you make it easy for people to make better and healthier choices they will.
Diabetes is one disease that can involve many complications and can eventually lead to death. For a lot of type 2 diabetics, if they just get more exercise and good nutrition they can live a healthy life without insulin injections or other diabetes medication.
They say the focus needs to be on maintaining good health, and I agree with them.
Surgeon Tatoos His Patient
Elizabeth Mateo is suing Dr. Steven Kirshner over a temporary tattoo he place below her panty line on her stomach after surgery.
The doctor operated on a disc in her back and had to have placed the red rose tattoo on her afterwards. There were no witnesses.
He fully admits to putting the tattoo there and he says he meant no harm, that he did it to make her feel better. He goes on to say that he’s done this with other patients and no one has complained till now, in fact they seemed to like it.
Elizabeth discovered the tattoo when her husband was helping her to get dressed to leave the hospital, and became very upset.
The doctors lawyer is ridiculous in saying he did nothing wrong. This so called doctor is a whack job and I hope she wins this case.
Why did he put it below the panty line on her abdomen, and what else might he have done while she was unaware and he was in the area. If it was as he said, why didn’t he put it on her arm, which in my opinion is still not OK. He should have just left it by her bedside if his intent truly was to make her feel better.
I believe he is assuming his other patients didn’t mind because they were probably too embarrassed or ashamed to say anything. Furthermore, how many male patients is he tattooing in this manner?
I think this doctor needs a doctor himself. He abused her trust and his power over her while she was unable to protest. How dare he!
Eight Year Old Hailed As A Hero
This is part of what’s wrong in our society, and I’m sure some people are going to blast me for this but here it goes…
An eight year old boy is being honored as a hero, complete with being on TV, a news press, and a plaque. What he did was call 911 when his mother started having seizures. He also got his younger siblings dressed and ready to go to the hospital and called family members to let them know what happened. Dispatchers said he was calm and gave critical information.
Good boy! He did a great job, but a hero? The mom started having these seizures after his younger sibling was born a few years ago. The parents wisely had him practice on a broken phone if it should happen while he was alone with mom during one of these episodes. She has had many seizures over the years and he has had to do this more times than anyone can count.
I’m guessing that an 8 year old is in about third grade. By third grade or the age of 8 I would expect the boy to remember a few important numbers, but the public and press act like he just walked on water. Do they think most kids his age are retarded or something? If he had done this so many times before I would expect him to be calm and not panic. I would expect him to do just what he was trained to do.
Kids are not as dumb as most people think and he did what he was supposed to do, I don’t believe it was above and beyond. His behavior should be considered average.
Thank the boy? Yes! Treat the boy? Yes! However being hailed as a hero for doing what is expected of anyone his age is ridiculous. The article I read on this, ended with his mom showing off to the press that he knew her cell phone number. I would expect this from any first grader, but that’s just my opinion.
Cholesterol Drugs For Eight Year Olds?
I’m sure there are cases where young children who are genetically predisposed to having high cholesterol, need the intervention of a statin, a cholesterol lowering drug. My own mother, while not a child has had a big problem with high cholesterol despite both my parents efforts to only buying and preparing low cholesterol and cholesterol lowering foods. The point is that I know sometimes eating right does not solve the problem in all cases.
Having said all that we come to the recent debate about young children and teens who follow such poor eating habits and inactivity that they have cholesterol readings that are so high their doctors are prescribing pills to lower it. It’s to this segment of our population that I speak to now. Young children don’t have jobs so where are they getting the money to buy fast food and junk food? How are they getting there? I assume they are not driving themselves. I doubt very much that they are doing the cooking and grocery shopping in the home as well. So who is responsible for their poor nutrition and eating habits and their inactivity? Could it be their parents?
It seems a real shame that a child has to take the same kind of drugs some elderly people take because they have parents who not only cannot set a good example but that can’t say no to treats being regular meals.
Is the attitude of the American people really “just take another pill”? If so we have a lot of parents that need some parenting themselves, before their children grow up to pay the price with their lives.
New Study Reveals That…
Mark Purdue from the National Cancer Institute discovered from government data on white men and woman from the ages of 15 to 39 that between the years of 1980 and 2004, yearly cases of melanoma increased in the young woman only, by about 50%. The numbers went from 9.4 cases to 13.9 cases per 100,000.
They also determined that the melanomas themselves were thicker and tended to be metastic which means it easily spreads to other parts of the body. Once a cancer does that it’s extremely difficult to treat or cure.
Young men did not show an increase in the skin cancer. The researchers right now don’t have an answer for why this occurred other than the suspicion that young woman do more sunbathing to get summer tans and also frequent tanning booths which are both risks for the deadly cancer.
Health Care For America Now!
has started a nationwide 40 million dollar campaign to begin a coalition for change in our health care system. They hope to be able to pressure lawmakers and insurance companies to hold them accountable and fill in the present gaps in our system. They want to change policies that affect people who are denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions and who otherwise fall through the cracks in the system. They hope to be able to drive costs down, encourage competition between insurance companies, and recruit many more supporters to force these badly needed changes.
Gardasil, Safe Or Not?
The makers of Gardasil have been pushing this product heavily since it hit the market a couple years ago. Gardasil is the vaccine that we are supposed to be giving our daughters as young as age 9, to prevent the virus that causes one type of cervix cancer. We’ve all seen the commercials drumming the term “one less” into our heads. Now, reports are coming out that say over 8000 girls have developed serious side effects. These include warts, rashes, seizures, and paralysis, some of which are permanent.
I have had serious misgivings about this vaccine since it came out. It only prevents one type of cancer as I understand it and I wondered why the heavy push to give it to young girls and not older women. I did not encourage my daughter to get it as I felt a new drug needs some time in use before we can know fully whether it’s safe or not.
The drug company Merck of course, says it’s safe and effective and that the side effects are minimal. You have to understand that the few thousand who are really hurt by the product, to the drug company, are so small a number that they are almost considered just to be acceptable damage. The thing is that even if it only harms one in a billion, who wants to be that one?
Protect Your Skin From The Sun
We’ve all been told for the past thirty years or so that the sun can be very damaging to our skin. Most of us have heeded those warnings and have stopped laying in the sun to get our tans. We use sunblocks when we go outside and believe what ever the label on the bottle says, but how do we know we are really being protected from those harmful rays?
A non-profit organization called the Environmental Working Group investigated almost one thousand sunscreens and has concluded that four out of five do not protect as they claim and even may contain some unsafe chemicals.
Go to the Skin Deep site to see a list of the sunscreens and how they were rated for protection and safety. Your skin will be glad you did!
I have noticed for the last ten or so years that sunlight feels different to me than I remember from my youth. It could be because I’m getting older, or maybe I’m just noticing it more. Whatever the reason it seems that when the sunlight is hitting me it burns. It’s not a nice warm feeling and it’s not just hot. It burns and when I’m driving a few miles in the car and the sun is shining in on half my body I can feel it burning through my shirt to a point that it becomes painful. I don’t remember it causing pain so I’m wondering if there isn’t another reason it hurts so much these days. Anyone else experience this, or is it just me?
Mom Charged With Withholding Sons Chemotherapy
So once again we have a case where a parent plays Russian roulette with her child’s life. A little boy has non hodgkins lymphoma which the doctor say is highly curable. He get treated and goes into remission, however he must still continue chemo for up to a year after that to make sure the cancer won’t return and is completely gone.
This poor child’s parents are not together and the boy was in moms custody. After the doctor found out that mom had not been picking up the chemo from the pharmacy, he called the father to tell him the boy was sick again and in the hospital. The father had no idea what was going on and the mom was arrested and charged.
Dad has the boy now and says he is very ill and only has a 10% chance of making it.
I don’t even know where to begin with this story. Why would a mother do that to her own child? I realize that chemo is very difficult especially for a child, but if it’s a choice between her child dying and feeling ill for a while, I’ll take the ill child. What a shame.