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Landmark Medical Journal publication for Irish fertility treatment
A Galway fertility clinic is the first in the world to successfully publish a paper on NaProTechnology, an exciting new fertility treatment that has been developed in the USA. NaProTechnology (NPT) treatment has been available in Ireland for the last 10 years. It is a system of treatment that can solve the problem of infertility and miscarriage for many couples, allowing them to conceive through natural intercourse once the underlying cause is identified and treated. A textbook "The Medical and Surgical Practice of NaProTechnology" was published in 2004 containing numerous studies see www.naprotechnology.comHowever this paper is the first publication of outcomes of treatment published in a peer reviewed medical journal. The paper, entitled "Outcomes from Treatment of Infertility with Natural Procreative Technology (NPT) in an Irish General Practice," is the lead article for original research in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. The article is now available on line at www.jabfm.org |
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Unborn babies can feel pain
SPUC's annual conference opened this on Friday evening (September 5th) with a superb presentation on foetal sentience by Jeronima Teixeira, professor and consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She presented her groundbreaking research into foetal sentience, specifically the capacity of the unborn baby to experience pain. Her research is the first of its kind and provides compelling evidence that the unborn baby is capable of feeling pain from as early as six weeks gestation.
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Isn't it amazing how quickly things can change, there is clearly truth in the adage that a week is a long time in politics. The US presidential election has taken on a new impetus, in the space of one week, with the choice of Alaskan Governor, Sarah Palin as vice presidential running mate by Senator John Mc. Cain. There is no doubt that this choice and the resulting increased popularity of the republican team is seen as a real and present danger by the democrats, the liberal media and the pro-abortionists. There were immediate and sustained attempts by liberal media at character assassination Governor Palin, all of which seemed to rebound on those who spread the stories, and a promise by major pro-abortion organisations to pump millions of extra dollars into the campain to elect the pro-abortion democratic team of Obama and Biden. Despite all of this, recent opinion polls show a huge swing in favour of the Mc. Cain and Palin team.
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USA Today Poll shows McCain With 4% Lead over Obama and 10% among likely voters
LifeNews.com report A US national poll conducted by Gallup for USA Today shows Senator John McCain leading pro-abortion Barack Obama by five percentage points. More interesting however is the finding in respect of voters who are most likely to vote in November among whom the survey indicates McCain has a lead of 10 percent reflecting a substantial post-convention, post-Sarah Palin bounce.
LifeNews.com also report that three pro-abortion groups are renewing their pledge to spend $30 million collectively bashing John McCain. The organizations upped their commitment to the attack ads and get-out-the-vote efforts with the addition of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to McCain's ticket. NARAL, Planned Parenthood and Emily's List are the long-time heavy hitters of the pro-abortion movement and they each previously announced multi-million dollar campaigns targeting the presidential election. |
From abortion to human embryonic stem cell research: a vacation of reason
The 2008 SPUC annual conference ended on Sunday with a talk by Dr James Sherley entitled: From abortion to human embryonic stem cell research: a vacation of reason. Dr Sherley is a senior scientist and leader of the human adult stem cell research laboratory in the Programs in Cancer and Regenerative Biology, at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute.
One of the central points of Dr Sherley's talk was that life is 'one continuum' from conception to natural death and that it is only through a 'vacation of reason' that unborn human life is not protected in either the US or the UK. He clarified what pro-lifers have been saying for years, that embryo research will never produce the cures promised in the media, unlike adult stem cell research which is already producing results.
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Conscientious Objection: Right or Duty
Day two of the SPUC conference saw Dr Jakob Cornides, a lawyer and author of a recent paper on human rights and conscientious objection, delivering a scholarly talk on the question of whether conscientious objection is a right or a duty. He looked at the areas of the law where conscientious objection is sometimes permitted, namely matters of religion, involvement in the armed forces and participation in abortion.
He looked at the potential conflict between freedom of conscience and the duty to obey national laws, stating that it would not be possible or desirable for citizens to exercise complete freedom over which laws they chose to obey, for obvious reasons, but that just laws, rooted in natural law should not place a citizen in a situation where his own conscience would conflict with the law. The fact that the abortion lobby attacks the right to conscientious objection (ironically in the name of choice) is less motivated by a fear that abortion will not be so readily available if physicians can choose not to perform them, but because conscientious objection clauses draw attention to the inherently unjust nature of legal abortion - a just law does not need such provisions.
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IVF triplets born to 59 year old mother
A French woman has become the oldest-known mother of triplets after giving birth at 59, reigniting the debate about late pregnancy and so-called fertility tourism according to an Irish Times reportThe woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, is of Asian origin and had fertility treatment in Vietnam. She gave birth by Caesarean section at the weekend according to the Cochin maternity hospital in Paris. | |
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