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- Halle Berry: Pregnant? - The Celebrity Cafe.com
- Acne, Pregnancy Among Disqualifying Conditions - Washington Post
- Berry dispels pregnancy rumours - Jam! Showbiz
- States With Most Born Again Christians Have Highest Teen Pregnancy ... - Chattahbox.com
- Jennifer Hudson talks motherhood, pregnancy - Sioux City Journal
| Halle Berry: Pregnant? - The Celebrity Cafe.com Posted: 18 Sep 2009 02:50 PM PDT  Home : Features : News : Halle Berry: Pregnant?  Halle Berry: Pregnant? Halle Berry appeared on The Jay Leno Show Thursday night and quickly set a rumor to rest. She proclaimed to Leno that she is definitely not pregnant. Berry wore knee-high boots and a fitted little black dress, which showed off her slim figure. Berry joked to Leno, "All of these pregnancy rumors can be put to bed. I was getting a complex. I was like, 'I have to stop with the burgers or something.'" The Oscar winner hasnt denied wanting a large family. In the February issue of People magazine, she says her daughter, Nahla Aubry, needs a sibling and she believes in families. The actress and model herself comes from a family of eight. Berry, 43, and husband Gabriel Aubry, 34, have been together since 2005. The couple met during the shoot of a Versace ad. In March of 2008, Berry gave birth to their first child, Nahla Ariela Aubry.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Acne, Pregnancy Among Disqualifying Conditions - Washington Post Posted: 18 Sep 2009 07:58 PM PDT Health insurers have issued guidelines saying they could deny coverage to people suffering from such conditions as acne, hemorrhoids and bunions. One big insurer refused to issue individual policies to police officers and firefighters, along with people in other hazardous occupations. Some treated pregnancy or the intention to adopt as a reason for rejection. As Congress and President Obama work on legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system, one of their main objectives is to stop insurers from denying coverage on the basis of health status. Proposed legislation would prohibit insurers from denying coverage to individuals with preexisting conditions or charging them higher premiums because of their medical history -- practices known as medical underwriting. Even the insurance lobby has endorsed that goal as part of a larger reform package in which the government would extend coverage to the uninsured, greatly expanding the market for insurance. Guidelines that insurance companies have written for professionals involved in selling policies offer a glimpse inside the underwriting process. "What these documents show is the lengths to which insurance companies are willing to go to make a profit," said Jerry Flanagan, health-care policy director of the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which distributed the documents Friday. "What it shows is that insurance companies want premiums without any risk." Consumer Watchdog argues that consumers should be given the option of enrolling in a government-run health plan. It obtained the documents from a California insurance broker, Flanagan said. A PacifiCare "Medical Underwriting Guidelines" document from 2003 lists under "Ineligible Occupations" such risk-takers as stunt people, test pilots and circus workers -- along with police officers, firefighters and migrant workers. Uninsurable conditions included pregnancy, and being an "expectant father" was grounds for "automatic rejection." So was having received "therapy/counseling" within six months of the application. There was also this more general disqualifier: "currently experiencing/experienced within the last 12 months symptoms for which a physician has not been consulted." The PacifiCare document "is completely outdated and predates the acquisition of PacifiCare by United Healthcare," Cheryl J. Randolph, a spokeswoman for the parent company, said by e-mail. She declined to provide current underwriting documents. "Underwriting enables insurers to adequately assess risks, keeping premium costs lower for more consumers," she added. Health Net guidelines for 2006 say that people could be denied coverage or charged higher premiums if they were taking certain medications, including Zyrtec, an allergy remedy, and Lamisil, which is widely advertised as a treatment for toenail fungus. Pregnant women could be rejected, as could expectant fathers, the document said. A Health Net spokeswoman did not respond to requests to comment. Blue Cross of California guidelines for 2004 said potential disqualifiers included chronic tonsillitis and, under certain circumstances, varicose veins. Kristin E. Binns, a spokeswoman for parent company WellPoint, said by e-mail that she could not comment on the guidelines because they are from years ago.
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| Berry dispels pregnancy rumours - Jam! Showbiz Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:54 PM PDT
Halle Berry shot down pregnancy rumours with a stunning new look on TV in America on Thursday night. The sexy actress graced The Jay Leno Show stage in a revealing black mini-dress and thigh-length boots and hoped the outfit would be enough to end speculation she's expecting a second child. Berry told host Leno the pregnancy talk is beginning to give her a "complex". She explained, "I was like, 'I gotta stop with the burgers, or something'."  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| States With Most Born Again Christians Have Highest Teen Pregnancy ... - Chattahbox.com Posted: 18 Sep 2009 04:08 PM PDT September 18, 2009
The higher teen pregnancies are attributed to the promotion of abstinence-only sex education, by conservative Christian states combined with the failure to discourage teens from having sex. The study entitled, "Religiosity and teen birth rate in the United States," is published in the current issue of the journal Reproductive Health, and shows a direct correlation between religiosity and higher rates of teen pregnancies. The researchers, Joseph M Strayhorn and Jillian C Strayhorn, analyzed several sources of publicly available data. The data on teen birth rates and abortion originated from the Center for Disease Control; on income, from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and on religious beliefs, from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey carried out by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The researchers used eight questions on religion for their study, asked by the Pew survey, breaking down the positive answers affirming religious beliefs by state. The survey asked participants such questions, as whether Scripture should be taken literally, word for word, whether they often experienced answers to their prayers and the importance of God in their life. The researchers concluded that, accounting for differnt income levels and abortion rates, conservative Christian beliefs are strongly linked to higher teen pregnancy rates. "At the level of states in the U.S., conservative religious beliefs predict teen birth rates highly and significantly; the correlation remains high and significant after controlling for income and estimated rates of abortion," said the authors of the study. The study found that teen pregnancy had far reaching and long term consequences. The social and cultural stigma associated with teen mothers extends to their children who have higher rates of several unfavorable mental health outcomes. Additionally, teen pregnancy becomes a vicious cycle, with daughters of teen mothers more likely to become teen mothers themselves. The children of teen mothers are also more likely to do poorly in school, suffer from poor physical health, become victims of abuse and neglect, and are almost three times more likely to be incarcerated during adolescence. This study provides more evidence that the eight years of abstinence-only sex education for teens under the Bush administration, was not only a dismal failure, but also contributed towards a new generation of teen mothers. The full article can be found here. Comments4 Responses to "States With Most Born Again Christians Have Highest Teen Pregnancy Rates" Got something to say? **Please Note** - Comments may be edited for clarity or obscenity, and all comments are published at the discretion of ChattahBox.com - Comments are the opinions of the individuals leaving them, and not of ChattahBox.com or its partners. - Please do not spam or submit comments that use copyright materials, hearsay or are based on reports where the supposed fact or quote is not a matter of public knowledge are also not permitted.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jennifer Hudson talks motherhood, pregnancy - Sioux City Journal Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:04 PM PDT Jennifer Hudson performs at the VH1 Divas show, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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I believe this because they don't abort[murder} their babies!
Johnny - Actually, it might have something to do with the pregnancies to begin with. Considering there is an 'abstinence only' approach to contraception.
I would also like to point out that the statistics of teen abortions are actually rather low, with significant decline over the last two decades. There are now around 26 abortions per 1000 teen girls in the overall US. That seems to kind of blow that theory out of the water, don't you think?
This is especially true since several conservative states have the highest abortion rates in the country, and also some of the highest rates of Christians.
Don't believe me?
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/27TeenAbortions.cfm
http://womensissues.about.com/od/datingandsex/a/TeenAbortRates.htm
You can make as many baseless accusations to try to turn it another way, but the fact is abstinence-only sex education does more harm then good, and just as many Christian teens are having sex as any other teens. The difference is, the other teens are more likely to use proper protection.
Thank you for the informative comment Olivia!
Johnny if you read my piece, as well as the linked study, you would have noticed that the study accounted for disparities in both abortion rates and income levels.
Sue