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First principles - the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness must be stressed. And it's so easy to be positive while teaching these truths. True happiness, health and success, as well as a stable society and government result from those same principles. We have no reason to be shy, apologetic, or to hesitate when confronted with straw men and circular logic. It is vital that the pro-life advocate repeat that the fight to eliminate elective abortion is about the inalienable rights of each and every human, especially the right to life, and that the only legitimate function of...

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_10158.html Oral sex isn't safe sex, especially for women, Montreal conference told Canadian Press Thursday, October 31, 2002 MONTREAL (CP) - Engaging in oral sex doesn't mean practising safe sex - and that's especially true for women, a Montreal public-health physician warned Thursday at a national conference. Dr. Marc Steben, an expert on infectious diseases, said that women are at heightened risk of contracting the human papilloma virus through oral sex. There are different strains of the virus, HPV for short, and they are considered the most common of sexually transmitted diseases. One strain causes genital warts, while HPV 16...

Robert George, the author of "The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis" is on CSPAN2, Book TV, now and will be repeated tonite at 3 AM (Daylight Eastern). Dr. George (I think he's a lawyer and teaches philosophy) has been involved in the President's Council on Bioethics and debating Cloning and Embryonic Stem cell research with Ronald Bailey on Reason Magazine. He is very clear and informative.

B>Sample pre-natal care agreement 2001 Simple Prenatal Obstetric Care Contract for Natural Pregnancies (Please note, this contract is not sufficient for pregnancies where more than 2 parents are involved, both parents are female, the host is not a biological female, or for those pregnancies which are entered into by contract with any party other than the female in question and male spouse, if any. For these more complicated situations, the Obstetric care provider will provide legal consultation as well as specialized counseling on the options available to the uterine-host and any other parties who have an interest under law.) I, ...

Sat, Jul 28, 2001 Winston-Salem Journal Christians, others split on 2 issues, survey finds RELIGION NEWS SERVICE Christians and non-Christians remain divided in their opinions about abortion and homosexuality, a Barna Research Group survey shows. Researchers found that 23 percent of born-again Christians think that abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances while 69 percent of people of non-Christian faiths think that the procedure should be legal all or most of the time. Sixty-eight percent of atheists, 50 percent of people attending mainline Protestant churches, 33 percent of Catholics and 29 percent of people attending non-mainline Protestant churches ...

Reason, Science, & Stem Cells Why killing embryonic human beings is wrong. By Patrick Lee & Robert P. George. Mr. Lee is associate professor of philosophy at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Mr. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University July 20, 2001 11:40 a.m. At the heart of the debate over federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research is the question whether human embryos are human beings. Perhaps the most plausible argument that they are not takes the form of a reductio ad absurdum. Ronald Bailey, science editor of Reason magazine, argues that the possibility of cloning ...

www.jewishworldreview.com -- THE insistent advocates of embryonic stem cell research are giving many Americans an offer they cannot imagine refusing. The stem cells from human embryos have the potential to turn into any kind of cell or tissue in the body. Therefore, as Joe Palca reported on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," these remarkably adaptable embryonic stem cells "might someday be used to replace nerve cells, heart cells or pancreas cells destroyed or damaged by disease." Such dread conditions as Alzheimer's, strokes or muscular dystrophy might, in time, be treated by these embryonic stem cells if enough federal research funds ...

Stem cell simplicities Jewish World Review -- LET'S use the bodies of condemned criminals for medical research! We could donate the eyes and heart of a Timothy McVeigh-type to some worthy medical experiment, and the lungs and livers of other murderers for similar purposes. Well, after all, the bodies are only going to be buried anyway, at least this way some good will come of them. Why do you squirm? Probably for the same reason that no one stood in line to receive "fresh" organs from Dr. Jack Kevorkian when he offered them. We flinch from using the organs from ...

Here is a copy of the letter that I sent to my Senators and Representative: I am writing about the debate concerning the Patient's Bill of Rights as well as the Medical Records Privacy Act. I am also asking that you do every thing in your power to block the implementation of the OASIS data gathering by HCFA. 1) Please push for Medical Records privacy as the primary right of patients. Medical information is a delicate issue that should be confidential. I have had many patients ask me not to enter pertinent information in their records. I cannot ethically do ...

July 2, 1999 Web posted at: 12:30 a.m. EDT (0430 GMT) WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, July 2) -- The House voted Thursday to give consumers the right to block banks and other financial companies from sharing their personal data with outside firms. The vote on the privacy measure, proposed by House Republican leaders, was 427-1. It was attached to sweeping legislation that would allow banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge. The bill was passed, 343-86. "These are strong new protections for consumer privacy," said Rep. Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, who sponsored the amendment with Rep. Deborah Pryce, R-Ohio. Disgruntled Democrats, who ...