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- General declares war on pregnancy - Sydney Morning Herald
- Tila Tequila Announces Pregnancy on Twitter - AceShowbiz
- Antiabortion pregnancy center figures in state Senate race - Washington Post
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- General declares war on pregnancy - Sydney Morning Herald
| General declares war on pregnancy - Sydney Morning Herald Posted: 20 Dec 2009 01:32 PM PST WASHINGTON: A US Army general in Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of reasons a soldier under his command could be court-martialled. The policy, outlined last month by Major-General Anthony Cucolo, would apply to female soldiers who become pregnant while deployed in combat zones and the male soldiers who impregnate them. Civilians reporting to General Cucolo also could face criminal prosecution under the guidelines. General Cucolo told the BBC: ''I've got a mission to do; I'm given a finite number of soldiers with which to do it and I need every one of them.'' An army spokesman, George Wright, said the service typically sends home from the battlefield soldiers who become pregnant. It is not an army-wide policy to punish them under the military's legal code, he said. However, division commanders, such as General Cucolo, have the authority to impose restrictions on personnel under their command, Mr Wright said. General Cucolo oversees forces in northern Iraq, an area that includes the cities of Kirkuk, Tikrit and Mosul. General Cucolo's order outlines about 20 barred activities. Most are aimed at keeping order and preventing criminal activity, such as selling a weapon or taking drugs. But others seem aimed at preventing soldiers from leaving their unit short-handed, including becoming pregnant or undergoing elective surgery that would prevent deployment. They are also prohibited from ''sexual contact of any kind'' with Iraqis or spending the night with a member of the opposite sex, unless married to them or expressly permitted to do so. Associated Press Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Tila Tequila Announces Pregnancy on Twitter - AceShowbiz Posted: 20 Dec 2009 07:59 PM PST "I am going to become a SURROGATE MOTHER for my brother & his Wife!!! That is my xmas present to them. Im pregnant!!!!" she tweeted. No stranger to creating media headlines, Tila Tequila made what she called as "BIG ANNOUNCEMENT" on her Twitter account on Sunday, December 20 that she is pregnant. "I am going to become a SURROGATE MOTHER for my brother & his Wife!!! That is my xmas present to them. Im pregnant!!!!" she tweeted. The pregnancy confirmation was made less than two weeks after the Internet pin-up announced her engagement to Johnson & Johnson heiress Casey Johnson. Prior to bringing her pregnancy news to attention, Tila teased about giving her brother a present that would "CHANGE HIS LIFE" forever. Nevertheless, additional information was not provided by Tila on the event that led her to make the decision to become a surrogate mother. She also didn't disclose on how many months she's been pregnant and when she is due to give birth. Back on December 9, Tila Tequila made a shocking announcement in a video posted on Ustream.com that she already got engaged to Casey Johnson. She, moreover, also showed off her engagement ring, which she claimed was a "17-carat diamond" sparkle. Also in the same video, Tila revealed that she and Casey had "a lot of work to do to plan a wedding" and that they're "very happy." She raved, "We're what you call U-Haul lesbians, where you meet and fall in love and move in the next day and have kids."
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| Antiabortion pregnancy center figures in state Senate race - Washington Post Posted: 20 Dec 2009 10:08 PM PST The literature, until recently circulated by a church-affiliated pregnancy center in Annandale, has become political fodder in the closely watched contest for Virginia's 37th Senate District between Stephen M. "Steve" Hunt, a Republican and former Fairfax County School Board member, and Del. Dave W. Marsden, a first-term Democrat. Abortion rights and antiabortion groups agree that the information in the fliers is misleading and outdated. Jane P. Fuller, executive director of the Assist Pregnancy Center on Backlick Road, said the pamphlets have been removed. But NARAL Pro-Choice America and other abortion rights groups are using the brochures as part of a broader attempt to attack so-called crisis pregnancy centers and locally to paint Hunt, a former official of the pregnancy center, as an out-of-touch extremist, said Emily Polak, a NARAL spokeswoman. Hunt served as president of the center's board of directors from 2001 to 2006. In the volunteer position, Hunt said, he provided guidance on issues including fiscal oversight and outreach. The center is a 20-year-old, faith-based nonprofit group that provides free parenting classes and childbirth counseling to women, one of dozens in Virginia that abortion rights groups accuse of giving wrong information about the potential dangers of abortion. NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia says the fliers and brochures distributed by the center and collected by NARAL volunteers in May show that much of the center's medical information is "dangerously incorrect," Polak said. The group has endorsed Marsden in a special election set for Jan. 12 -- a race political observers say could tilt the balance of power in the state Senate. The criticism of the center's literature also comes as abortion rights groups nationwide step up efforts to discredit some of the statistics and information passed out at antiabortion clinics. Last month, Baltimore passed a law requiring such clinics to post signs indicating that they do not provide abortions or refer people for birth control, and Montgomery County officials are considering a similar policy. But abortion rights groups say the root of the problem is the information given out by counselors. One flier that was circulated by the Annandale pregnancy center claims that "condoms fail one third of the time . . . Safe sex teachers won't tell you that!" It goes on to warn: "Then don't buy the 'safe sex' lie -- it can kill you." It cites a 1987 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, but that study dealt with 10 couples in which one spouse had AIDS. Three of the spouses of AIDS patients developed positive blood tests despite regular condom use -- although improper use, not condom failure, was the chief culprit for the spread of the infection, according to the study. Many peer-reviewed studies released since then have found condom failure rates at far lower levels. "The latest information is much more accurate" than a paper published 22 years ago, said Lisa Lecas, an American Medical Association spokeswoman. Another flier describes abortions as the "most preventable cause of breast cancer," but the National Cancer Institute, a part of the National Institutes of Health, states that "having an abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman's subsequent risk of developing breast cancer." The AMA and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have said that no association has been found between breast cancer and abortions. While not addressing specific brochures from the clinic, Hunt said that links between breast cancer and abortion have been documented and that the new attention paid to his connection to the center is part of a "highly politicized effort" to paint him as a right-wing ideologue. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Flu vaccine during pregnancy protects newborns, too - Earthtimes Posted: 20 Dec 2009 07:09 PM PST
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| General declares war on pregnancy - Sydney Morning Herald Posted: 20 Dec 2009 01:32 PM PST WASHINGTON: A US Army general in Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of reasons a soldier under his command could be court-martialled. The policy, outlined last month by Major-General Anthony Cucolo, would apply to female soldiers who become pregnant while deployed in combat zones and the male soldiers who impregnate them. Civilians reporting to General Cucolo also could face criminal prosecution under the guidelines. General Cucolo told the BBC: ''I've got a mission to do; I'm given a finite number of soldiers with which to do it and I need every one of them.'' An army spokesman, George Wright, said the service typically sends home from the battlefield soldiers who become pregnant. It is not an army-wide policy to punish them under the military's legal code, he said. However, division commanders, such as General Cucolo, have the authority to impose restrictions on personnel under their command, Mr Wright said. General Cucolo oversees forces in northern Iraq, an area that includes the cities of Kirkuk, Tikrit and Mosul. General Cucolo's order outlines about 20 barred activities. Most are aimed at keeping order and preventing criminal activity, such as selling a weapon or taking drugs. But others seem aimed at preventing soldiers from leaving their unit short-handed, including becoming pregnant or undergoing elective surgery that would prevent deployment. They are also prohibited from ''sexual contact of any kind'' with Iraqis or spending the night with a member of the opposite sex, unless married to them or expressly permitted to do so. Associated Press Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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