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The words of a mother are strong. And they are powerful.
"Next month, our son will be born. And in our joy over this new baby, my husband, my daughters and I will remember our first son, and how the way his short life ended made it possible for this new baby to be born."
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An activist court steps in
Vicki Stella is one of the thousands of women in the United States who have had to face the same heartbreaking circumstances. Women like Vicki were offered hope through the medical options available.
The new, activist Supreme Court took those options away. The court has criminalized a rare procedure that medical groups including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Nurses Association say can be medically necessary.
In this ruling, the court unraveled and reversed more than 30 years of precedent — judicial decisions that gave due respect to the health of women involved in these horrible circumstances. If she were facing this tragedy again today, Vicki's ability to have a future child — her chance for her second son — may well be destroyed.
With this 5-4 ruling, a sharply divided Supreme Court has permitted the government to intrude on the doctor/patient relationship. Now, instead of the woman and her doctor deciding the best, safest, most hopeful course of action, politicians who know nothing about her condition will decide. This gross intrusion into private family medical decisions mirrors the government's attempt to interfere in the case of Terri Schiavo. Do we want politicians telling doctors how to practice medicine, taking decisions away from individuals and families?
Court just took away a woman's option
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Ending an investigation that clouded the tenure of former Senate majority leader Bill Frist, federal prosecutors have decided not to file insider-trading charges against the Tennessee Republican for his sales of stock in a family-owned chain of hospitals.
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Although the probes are over, it is unclear whether they will take a long-term toll. Frist suffered for his role in the political furor over Terri Schiavo, a comatose Florida woman who died in 2005 after her feeding tube was removed, when he gave a medical opinion, based on videotapes of her, that she had not suffered irreversible brain damage. He also lost ground when Democrats seized control of Congress in January in what was seen as a rebuke to Republican leadership.
The former lawmaker has been back in the news of late. Frist recently issued statements of support for former senator Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.), his friend who has been mulling a bid for the White House in 2008. Frist also garnered news coverage in February when he spent a month in the Darfur region of Sudan on a medical mission, which was similar to trips the surgeon-turned-senator took to Africa throughout his tenure in Washington.
Frist Not Charged as Investigators Close Probe of His Hospital Stock Sales
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Next thing you know, this evil 5-judge majority will take away women’s privacy rights for roasting and devouring babies.
The state tortured before they eliminated Terri. Jeb Bush's career is over, folks. He wasn't man enough to give an innocent woman even one ice chip as she died at the hands of a duplicitous judicial system.