by Susan Brinkmann OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 7, 2008) Lauren Marie Richardson was only 21 years old when she overdosed on heroin in August, 2006, fell into a coma and was put on life support. Because she was three months pregnant, doctors kept her alive until her daughter was born in February of 2007, then withdrew life support, at which time everyone expected her to die.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 7, 2008) Angry parents in Virginia Beach were unable to convince authorities to permanently remove posters of scantily clad teens on display at an Abercrombie & Fitch store in a local mall because the risque photos do not meet local obscenity standards.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 7, 2008) The husband of an Oregon woman suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease shot his wife in the head after she asked him to kill her.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 5, 2008) A years-long effort to convince government agencies to provide medical classification codes for natural family planning has resulted in the establishment of two new codes.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 5, 2008) In the same week that Pope Benedict XVI warned against allowing reproductive technology to trump human dignity, British scientists announced the formation of an embryo with three parents and claim to have found a way to enable lesbian couples to have their own
biological children.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 5, 2008) It’s been talked about for years, but mobile porn is about to come one step closer to your child’s iPod and cell phone.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 3, 2008) Recent statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are showing no slowdown in the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases that have been plaguing the U.S. population since the advent of the sexual revolution.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Jan. 31, 2008) A Dutch pediatrician along with peers from several countries published an article in this months issue of the international medical journal, Childs Nervous System, criticizing the practice of euthanizing babies born with spina bifida (an incompletely formed spinal chord) in the Netherlands and around the world.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Jan. 31, 2008) Parents worried about too much violence on television need to make sure their children stay away from CBS on Sunday evenings at 10:00 p.m. Beginning on Feb. 17, the station will air Dexter, a series whose “hero” is a serial killer who stalks and kills his victims after tranquilizing them and stabbing or dismembering them.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Jan. 29, 2008) Reports about a new British study linking long-term use of oral contraceptives with reduced risks of ovarian cancer may be giving women a false sense of security.
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