Birth control

Birth control for bison aims to reduce size of Santa Catalina Island herd

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday

Island's bison given birth control to control herd

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday

AVALON, Calif. -- Birth control for bison?

Island's bison given birth control to control herd

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Birth control for bison?

Catalina bison going on birth control

L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Catalina Island Conservancy has been rounding up the herd so females can get a reversible contraceptive vaccine. The goal: Control the size of the herd to keep it and the environment healthier. Half a dozen men with walkie-talkies and cattle prods set out on foot at sunrise Thursday to coax a herd of 10 feral bison into a corral a mile away at the bottom of a Santa Catalina Island valley.

Ohio Mother Charges Yaz Birth Control Drug Caused Life-Threatening Blood Clot

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

NEW YORK - (Business Wire) of the national plaintiffs’ law firm announced that Mae Walker today filed a personal injury lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for severe and lasting injuries caused by Bayer’s birth control drug Yaz. Walker’s complaint charges that Yaz is a dangerous prescription drug sold without adequate warnings about the risk of serious injuries....

Birth control pill use seen growing in Asia: Bayer Schering

The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

The Asia-Pacific market for contraceptives should post strong growth in the next decade as women shed their fears and new products are introduced, drugs giant Bayer Schering Pharma said Wednesday.

• Use of Birth Control Pills on Rise in Asia - Medindia Health News

Sally Quinn Says Sarah Palin's a Rotten Christian (Unlike Reverend Wright)

NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday

Last year, Sally Quinn of the Washington Post found it "devastating " on PBS that Barack Obama would abandon his sulfurous religious mentor Jeremiah Wright, a man "lionized by some of the great white theologians in this country." Quinn questioned how Wright’s allegedly racist opponents can call themselves Christians: They "go to their white churches, and you wonder how...

Jesse Jackson: "You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man"

jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Before I get to the story, the healthcare debate has stirred interesting stats re: black women: "The infant mortality rate for black babies is about 2-1/2 times greater than it is for white babies; an African-American woman is twice as likely to give birth prematurely as a white woman; a black infant is nearly 4 times more likely to die as a result of being too early and/or too small than a white...

"This Is Politics at its Very Worst."

Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Last Saturday night Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) forced through a vote on her 2,032 page health care bill only a few days after releasing it to the public. Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is poised for another Saturday night cram down, forcing a Senate cloture vote mere days before his 2,074 page bill was given to Senators. Yet again, Congress will be forced to vote on a bill that none...

Senate Readies for HCR Debate

Daily Kos (Free subscription) | yesterday

The first floor vote on the Senate HCR bill will happen Saturday evening, after a long day of speechifying, but without having to hear bill read aloud. Chances are pretty good the 60 will be there to at least allow the bill to be considered. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has agreed to relent on his demand for Senate clerks to read aloud the 2,074-page bill and allow the chamber to take a critical test...

Michael Tomasky: The war on Christmas starts early

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Some of you may not be aware, but here in the states we have a fine Christmas tradition, of fairly recent vintage, called the war on Christmas . This war, as you might guess, is being waged by secular liberals, who insist on saying things like "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" rather than the more straightforward and American "Merry Christmas." Logically, such...

The Right's New Manhattan Project

Right Wing Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

It seems that Chuck Colson has gathered together a group of right-wing activists and clergy for something called the "Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience" in order to create a unified front in fighting the culture war : The manifesto, to be released on Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, is an effort to rejuvenate the political alliance of conservative Catholics...

Christian Leaders to Present Anti-Gay, Anti-Abortion 'Manifesto'

Towleroad (Free subscription) | yesterday

A group of 145 Roman Catholic, evangelical, and Orthodox Christian leaders will present a document today at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. today saying they are in solidarity against abortions and same-sex marriage. The NYT reports: "The manifesto,...

Reid stripped Stupak language from Senate ObamaCare bill

Hot Air (Free subscription) | yesterday

Let the games begin: The Senate healthcare reform bill includes new language designed to prevent taxpayer money from financing abortions, an anti-abortion-rights Democrat said Wednesday. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who was briefed on the healthcare bill by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in advance of a Wednesday meeting of all Senate Democrats, ...

Barbara Kay, Freedom of speech has been aborted by McGill University's Student Society

Full Comment (Free subscription) | yesterday

In what has now become a familiar scenario on Canadian campuses, the Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) has suspended the official club status of Choose Life, a barely nascent pro-life club of about 30 members. The presenting explanation is that Choose Life's advocacy presentations are offensive to many students. One article in the McGill Tribune referred to the group's initiatives as motivated...

MPs Have Lost Their Morals & Ethics on Abortion & IVF

news rage uk | 21/05/2008

I think it is now official. Our MPs on both sides of the house are stark raving mad and wholly removed from the society the represent. This has been confirmed by the results of voting on the various life topics covered by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill which has gone through Parliament this week. I was surprised when they allowed human/animal stem cell research. This was always a contentious...