http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sterilization/ en-us Tue, 7 May 2013 17:25:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3016705/posts A 180-degree change in how doctors and hospital administrators think about germs is likely to almost eliminate the biggest risk of being hospitalized: getting an infection. Until now, doctors and hospital administrators routinely dismissed questions about cleanliness by saying "germs are everywhere." But at last week's meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiologists of America in Atlanta, the focus was on making patients' rooms germ-free by testing for bacteria after cleaning and using ultra-violet light and room fogging machines. Finally, the medical community is acknowledging that inadequately cleaned rooms and equipment are to blame for infections and doing something about... Creators Syndicate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3016705/posts#comment Tue, 7 May 2013 17:25:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2995879/posts March 11, 2013 (Pop.org) - Raw video footage shows unconscious women in saris being unloaded from a filthy plastic stretcher and lined up like butchers’ carcasses on the ground to recover from surgeries at a “mass sterilization camp” in India. The Indian television network, NDTV, aired the film in February, reporting that 103 women were sterilized by two doctors in a single day at the Manikchak Rural Health Center in the Malda district of West Bengal, before being dumped in a nearby field without any medical follow-up. Other reports from India said some women who were anaesthetized for invasive tubal... lsn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2995879/posts#comment Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:43:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967459/posts 'I should sterilize you': Deadbeat dad of nine agrees to judge's order to stop having kids • Corey Curtis, 44, owes about $90,000 in back child support and interest to the mothers of his children • Agrees with judge's order to curb his excessive breeding as a condition of a three-year probation term • America’s most infamous baby machine, Desmond Hatchett of Tennessee, has fathered more than 20 children with 11 women A Wisconsin father of nine who's behind on child support payments has allegedly agreed with a judge's order not to have any more children until he can show... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967459/posts#comment Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:11:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2937915/posts After Mitt Romney was captured on tape last week discussing how 47 percent of American households pay no income taxes, commentators and economists on both the left and right were quick to point that this was to a large degree driven by so-called "refundable tax credits" like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit. These credits have enjoyed a great deal of support among conservatives because they are simple, transparent, and obviate the need for expensive and cumbersome bureaucracies. And on both the left and right, there's a widespread consensus that refundable credits work: liberals like them... RCW http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2937915/posts#comment Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:43:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2934528/posts CNS News broke the story late last month: At a recent press conference held to discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a., “Obamacare”), a reporter asked former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a critical question: “One of the services that health care plans have to offer free of charge [under the HHS mandate] are sterilizations… do you agree with the federal government mandating—” At this point, Congresswoman Pelosi cut the reporter off and responded, “You know what, I told you before, let’s go to church and talk about our religion. Right here we’re talking about public policy as it... Life News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2934528/posts#comment Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:50:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2923578/posts This literally made me physically ill when I read this headline: Obamacare Begins Child Sterilization Without Parental Consent. According to the guidelines of ObamaCare, children as young as 15 years old can be sterilized at no cost, and with no parental consent. I assume this means both boys and girls. If a 15 year old wants to be sexually active, how attractive might sterilization be? No worries - forever, and who wants kids any way. I can see the 15-year-old brain processing it in a quick minute. I believe more 15 year olds, and even 16 and 17 year olds... Maggie's Notebook http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2923578/posts#comment Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:50:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2919202/posts In Oregon, a 15-year-old cannot obtain a driver's license or legally drink alcohol, but she can ask a doctor to make her infertile. ...snip... A story on CNSNews goes into detail about an Obamacare regulation that took effect on August 1 that requires health care plans in the U.S. to provide taxpayer-funded (or free, in liberal terminology) contraceptive methods that include sterilization “for women with reproductive capacity.” Because the recommendation doesn’t specify age, it theoretically could apply to any menstruating girl. CNSNews learned that Oregon allows a minor to consent to sterilization. In that state, a 15-year-old girl can give... PJ Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2919202/posts#comment Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:31:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2917086/posts Full title: Obamacare Reg Forces Health Plans to Give Free Sterilizations to 15-Year-Old Girls--Without Parental Consent HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the White House on March 23, 2010, the day Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (White House Photo/Pete Souza) (CNSNews.com) - Thanks to an Obamacare regulation that took effect on Aug. 1, health care plans in Oregon will now be required to provide free sterilizations to 15- year-old girls even if the parents of those girls do not consent to the procedure. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen... CNSNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2917086/posts#comment Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:58:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2865648/posts Arguments have concluded at the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's signature legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which we refer to as Obamacare. Now the anxious waiting for a ruling expected in June. We were encouraged . . .The Constitution has morphed into something the founders would have difficulty recognizing. It is our position the federal government has no authority to impose mandates, regulations, taxes or other burdens on the citizenry simply to improve someone's life. . . . The Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2865648/posts#comment Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:34:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2863815/posts JANET BAIRD writes: President Obama and the Department of Health and Inhuman Services, as you know, recently decreed that free sterilizations be available to all college-age women under Obamacare. But the truth is even more sinister. Note the wording of the HHS regulation. As reported at CNS news, ‘[a]ll Food and Drug Administration [(FDA)] approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity,’ as prescribed by a provider,” said the HHS description of the regulation. [emphasis added] This clause caught my eye, “for all women with reproductive capacity.” Have you thought about the... The Thinking Housewife http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2863815/posts#comment Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855925/posts TRENTON, Feb. 3.- Long before Chancellor Hitler initiated his plan for the improvement of the Teutonic Race through wholesale sterilization New Jersey placed on her statues a law to accomplish a somewhat similar purpose, and although declared unconstitutional before it could be put into operation, it proved to be the forerunner of many other pieces of legislation having the same end in view. New Jersey adopted a sterilization act 23 years ago. It was described officially as an act "to authorize and provide for the sterilization of feeble-minded(including idiots, imbiciles and morons) epileptics, rapists, certain criminals and other defectives." It... Miami Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855925/posts#comment Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:25:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2861152/posts (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D.-Ill.), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee which has oversight over the Affordable Care Act (AKA "Obamacare"), said Monday that a new Obamacare regulation announced on Friday afternoon that requires all student health insurance plans to offer college women free sterilizations does not mean the government is “promoting sterilization.” “This isn’t about promoting sterilization,” said Rep. Schakowsky said. “No one--there aren’t college girls lining up to become sterilized because they feel like it.” CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2861152/posts#comment Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2860833/posts (CNSNews.com) - All student health care plans covering female college students in the United States must include coverage for free voluntary sterilization surgery, the Department of Health and Human Services announced late Friday afternoon. Women of college age who do not attend school will also get free sterilization coverage whether they are insured through an employer, their parents, or some form of government-subsidized plan. CNSnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2860833/posts#comment Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:15:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2852588/posts The Justice Department will defend against any legal challenge to the new Obama administration mandate to force employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception, even if it goes against their conscience, Attorney General Eric Holder told a House subcommittee Tuesday. The Department of Health and Human Services rule, part of Obamacare, violates the freedom of conscience for Catholics and other religious groups that expressed their objections to the mandate, opponents say. Already there is litigation asserting that the rule violates the First Amendment’s guarantee to free exercise of religion. Cybercast News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2852588/posts#comment Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:56:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2834691/posts BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, January 18, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, the Massachusetts Appeals Court threw out a lower court’s ruling that would have forced a mentally ill woman to undergo an abortion and be forcibly sterilized against her will. Norfolk Family and Probate Court Judge Christina Harms had ruled on January 6 that the 32-year-old could be “coaxed, bribed, or even enticed…by ruse” until she was sedated for the procedures. The woman, who is identified only by the pseudonym “Mary Moe,” is approximately five months pregnant. Moe, who suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, had a previous abortion in her history.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2834691/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:32:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2814261/posts A stunning Planned Parenthood document that includes radical ideas such as compulsory abortion and sterilization; special "permits" to have children; penalizing parents; and encouraging homosexuality dovetails with some Obamacare mandates, according to a former Planned Parenthood director. Abby Johnson, who left her position after helping with an abortion and writing about her experience in "unPLANNED," said the document has been around for 40 years but has been virtually ignored. "When I worked at Planned Parenthood, there was something that we were not allowed to talk about," Johnson said. "If we didn't talk about it, then maybe no one else would... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2814261/posts#comment Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:41:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2771084/posts A few days ago in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune Fr. Peter Laird, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, had a good piece about the mandate from the Obama Administration (HHS) requiring that “contraception” and sterilizations be paid for by tax-payers. CounterpointThe Star Tribune’s editorial “Benefits outweigh birth control costs” (Aug. 1) drew attention to an Institute of Medicine recommendation adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.It requires health care plans to cover contraceptives and sterilizations [Remember: some "contraceptives" are abortifacients.] under regulations for preventive care created in response to the health care reform legislation... WDTPRS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2771084/posts#comment Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:23:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2768091/posts Population: The vice president gives a thumbs up to Beijing's policy of sustainable growth through forced population control. This is no gaffe. The White House endorses this policy. Just ask the president's science adviser. We are used to the "mouth that roared" putting his foot in it. But Vice President Joe Biden's remarks at Sichuan University in China clearly embrace the progressive belief that people are a plague on the Earth — not its greatest resource. "Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I'm not second-guessing — of one child per family. The result being that you're... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2768091/posts#comment Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:48:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2742938/posts JODHPUR, India — A district in northern India is offering prizes including television sets, food processors and even a Tata Nano car for people who agree to undergo sterilisation, a doctor told AFP on Friday. "We want to promote sterilisation," Pratap Singh Dutter, the deputy chief medical officer of Jhunjhunu district in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, told AFP. "Everyone who gets sterilised between today and 30 September will be entered into a lottery to win prizes." The first prize is a Tata Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car at about $3,000, but other rewards up for grabs... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2742938/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:34:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2741286/posts June 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Even when confronted with the deaths of 160 million children in the womb simply because they were girls, the father of the modern population control movement doesnÂ’t bat an eyelash. The problem of sex-selective abortion has been receiving increased scrutiny in the media recently, following the release of Maria Hvistendahl’s book “Unnatural Selection,” which was reviewed last week in the Wall Street Journal. In that book the author documents the devastation wrought by widespread female gendercide in countries that favor sons over daughters.  She also records a discussion about prenatal gendercide with Paul Ehrlich, the... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2741286/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:56:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2714605/posts METAIRIE, Louisiana, May 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Controversial Louisiana state Representative John LaBruzzo filed legislation recently that would ban all abortions in the state. House Bill 587 redefines feticide as the “killing of an unborn child by the act, procurement, or culpable omission of a person… including the mother of the unborn child.” Under the bill, doctors and even the mother of the child could face prison sentences for between 5 and 10 years for their involvement in an abortion procedure, although LaBruzzo has said the inclusion of the mother was an error that will be corrected. He maintains his... LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2714605/posts#comment Wed, 4 May 2011 02:37:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2708685/posts Eight years ago, Nial Cox Ramirez stood up in a Raleigh conference room and bared her soul about the pain she endured after North Carolina forcibly sterilized her in 1965. "I tried so hard to bury this, but it just won't go away. It's like a cancer that eats you and eats you and eats you," she said on that March afternoon. On another afternoon 38 years before, in a building just a few miles away, five strangers had voted to have her sterilized. The Eugenics Board of North Carolina, a bureaucracy oblivious to the pain it caused its victims,... Winston-Salem Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2708685/posts#comment Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:36:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2694297/posts Many of us know the warnings that have been put out regarding second hand smoke. We know that if you are in the same room with a smoker that youÂ’re being exposed to the risks of lung cancer just like the smoker.This is also true with the water supply. Water filtration systems are effective in many regards but they are not filtering all dangers from our water.An article in a last yearÂ’s National Catholic Register discussed what is happening to the fish in our waterways because of the birth controls being used are then seeping into our water.With all the... Priests for Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2694297/posts#comment Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:09:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2691137/posts On March 22 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will hold a hearing to investigate the allegations of a Slovakian woman of Romani ethnic origin (also known as gypsy) who claims she was the victim of a forced sterilization during the delivery of her second child by caesarean section, in 2000 at the Prešov Public Hospital. The applicant, known only as Ms V.C., claims she was given the sterilization consent form to sign while in pain and neither understood what she was signing nor the consequences of the procedure. She further alleges that her Romani ethnicity was a deciding... LifeSite News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2691137/posts#comment Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:51:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2680584/posts A British court still needs to decide whether to authorize the sterilization, at her mother’s own request, of a mentally disabled woman (see e.g. here and here). Reading only the headlines and initial paragraphs of the news entries devoted to the case, one might become worried that we are seeing here a resurgence of an abhorrent practice that gained much favour in the first half of the 20th-Century, in countries like Germany or the United States: i.e. the compulsory sterilization of the mentally retarded for eugenic purposes. However, it is important to look at the particulars of this case in... University of Oxford Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2680584/posts#comment Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:53:34 GMT