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Prince Chunk finally gets a new home, and a clean bill of health
“A whirlwind media tour followed as more than 500 cat-lovers applied to be Chunk’s new caretakers. When they were informed the prized kitty was off the market, none agreed to accept any of the shelter’s other homeless cats, Harr said”
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Millions Who Had Abortions Don’t Know It: Ann Woolner
“t’s impossible for me to know how many abortions I’ve had. If asked last week, I would have confidently declared, none.
Now, I don’t know. It depends on what the meaning of the word “abortion” is.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has drafted a rule that would call it abortion when a contraceptive prevents a fertilized egg from embedding itself in the uterine wall.
That’s one of the ways many birth-control pills and intrauterine devices work. And if that’s abortion, millions of women who didn’t know they were pregnant — who medically weren’t pregnant — have killed their unborn children.
No joke.”
“Just more than 40 percent of the adult U.S. population has been screened at least once for HIV infection, but a quarter of a million people are infected and do not know it, government researchers said Thursday.
About 10 percent of the population receives an HIV test each year รณ a figure that has remained stable since 2000 despite efforts to increase testing, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 56,300 Americans become infected with HIV each year and between 1 million and 1.1 million are thought to be living with the virus.”
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Doctor reprimanded after secretly sterilizing patient
“The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette says a doctor was reprimanded yesterday after admitting that she secretly sterilized a patient while performing a Caesarean section last year in Berryville, Ark.”
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