Get ready for your wedding night with the University of Utah’s Department of OB/GYN! Say what??? Let me set the scene. There was a Reddit post two weeks ago from a woman whose fiancée insisted she have some kind of premarital exam checking her hymen to be performed by her father-in-law and witnessed by other …
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If Trump is the most pro life President he should ban breastfeeding
Hot of the heels of restricting federal funds for contraception for clinics that also offer abortion or refer women for abortions Donald Trump delivered the keynote address at the Susan B. Anthony List’s Campaign for “Life” (a.k.a forcing women to carry fetuses to term without providing them with any assistance to have a healthy pregnancy) Gag …
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What does the life of a mother mean to you Governor Bryant?
Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi signed the Gestational Age Act into law on March 19, 2018. This is a law that bans abortion after 15 weeks unless there is a “medical emergency” or a “severe fetal anomaly.” The law was placed on temporary hold March 20, 2018, how long the stay will last is not …
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Are there too many women in OB/GYN?
The LA Times recently published a piece on the lack of men in OB/GYN. Only 17% of new trainees (residents) in OB/GYN are men and the male OB/GYN physicians who weighed in worried that this “lack of diversity could weaken the field.” Apparently it sends a “horrible message to men” and with the lack of …
Health and Human Services wants to define life as beginning at conception
The draft of the 2018-2022 strategic plan of the department of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just dropped. The mission of HHS is “to enhance the health and well-being of Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, …
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HR 36 is a 22 week abortion ban not a 20 week ban. Why the lie?
H.R. 36 the supposed “20 weeks ban” based on ignoring the scientific literature about fetal pain does not ban abortion at 20 weeks it bans abortion at 22 weeks. Why has no one made a big deal about this? It’s pretty important. Here is the relevant passage from the bill: Medicine does not use fertilization …
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Trump appoints Charmaine Yoest, our index Aunt Lydia, to Health and Human Services
Trump has appointed Dr. Charmaine Yoest as Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at Health and Human Services (HHS). This is why you should care. Who is Dr. Charmaine Yoest. Let’s start with what she is not, a doctor. She has a Ph.D. in political science and is as science-abhorring-pro-life crazy as they come. Regarding abortion …
Carly Fiorina lied about the Planned Parenthood video – an OB/GYN calls her out
Carly Fiorina said this about Planned Parenthood on Wednesday, September 16th during the 2nd GOP debate: Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, “We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.” Either she didn’t watch the video and is claiming she did, she …
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Ben Carson says a 22 week fetus can feel pain. Science says Carson is wrong.
Dr. Ben Carson, neurosurgeon and GOP hopeful, recently asked his supporters on Facebook to sign a petition to urge congress to pass H.R. 36 The Pain-Capable Child Protection Act. This bill seeks to ban abortion after 22 weeks gestational age based on the lie that a fetus can feel pain at that gestation. The bill …
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Ben Carson mansplains there is only a war on what’s inside of women not actually on women
This is what Dr. Ben Carson said about the GOP war on women: “There may be a war on what’s inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country.” Ben Carson: There a ‘war on what’s inside of women, but not a war on women’ http://t.co/s8OhF9psUq pic.twitter.com/Bop6NAYqIg — Raw Story (@RawStory) …
Dr. Jen Gunter 