So I'm trying to get my IBCLC ( International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) certificate...  well  to DO that..  its like a BA in Breastfeeding..  I also need "time in service" well I have taken my first course, completed it .. and i have 24 hours accrued..  only 1176 more to go...  wow...  this is going to take for ever.. LOL..

I am also officially a volunteer Breastfeeding peer counselor, in Mohave county, az..  but if you need help somewhere else or know someone who does.. feel free to call.. (or PM) me.. 

Now I'm Not Catholic, But I AM Pro-Life... Not Pro Choice.

Immunity From Evil?: Vaccines Derived from Abortion

While most parents are shocked to learn that their children have been injected with vaccines cultured on and containing residual components of aborted fetal tissue, anger turns to anxiety once physicians and school officials point out that the vaccines are necessary for children to attend school. Religious and philosophical exemptions are, however, available.

Discovering that several common vaccines are derived from baby body parts may not be quite as bad as eating Soylent Green, but for many pro-lifers it's a close second. While most parents are shocked to learn that their children have been injected with vaccines cultured on and containing residual components of aborted fetal tissue, anger turns to anxiety once physicians and school officials point out that the vaccines are necessary for children to attend school. Religious and philosophical exemptions are, however, available for those who cannot reconcile the use of these vaccines with either their Christian faith or firmly held moral belief in the sanctity of life.

Scandalous Origins

In the United States, 10 different vaccines for chicken pox, hepatitis A, polio, rabies, and rubella are cultured ..ed tissue from two fetal cell lines known as WI-38 and MRC-5. These vaccines are Varivax (chicken pox), Havrix (hep-A), Vaqta (hep-A), Twinrix (hep-A/hep-B), Poliovax (polio), Imovax (rabies), Meruvax II (rubella), MR-VAX (measles/rubella), Biavax II (mumps/rubella), and MMR II (measles/mumps/rubella). Alternative, pro-life vaccines are available in this country for all but the chicken pox, hepatitis A, and rubella inoculations.

The WI-38 "human-diploid" cell culture was developed in July 1962 from a "therapeutically aborted" three-month-old girl. "WI" is an acronym used by the Wistar Institute, an aggressive proponent of embryonic stem cell research. The August 1969 issue of the American Journal of Diseases of Children explains WI-38 was taken from a voluntary abortion performed in Sweden: "This fetus was chosen by Dr. Sven Gard, specifically for this purpose [use as a vaccine culture]. Both parents are known, and unfortunately for the story, they are married to each other, still alive and well, and living in Stockholm, presumably. The abortion was done because they felt they had too many children."

MRC-5 is derived from the lung tissue of a 14-week-old baby boy. MRC stands for Medical Research Council, a research center funded by British taxpayers. According to Coriell Cell Repositories, "The MRC-5 cell line was developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14-week fetus aborted for psychiatric reasons from a 27-year-old physically healthy woman."

Development of the rubella vaccine actually involved not one, but 28 abortions. Twenty-seven abortions were performed to isolate the virus and one abortion (WI-38) to culture the vaccine. The vaccine's strain is called RA 27/3 (R=Rubella, A=Abortus, 27=27th fetus tested, 3=3rd tissue explanted). Rubella, or "German measles," is usually a harmless childhood disease. Ironically, rubella is most dangerous for preborn infants, who have a 20 to 25 percent chance of contracting congenital rubella syndrome if their mothers catch rubella during the first trimester. Scientists at the Wistar Institute took advantage of the 1964-65 rubella epidemic to legally acquire fetal tissue from at least 27 so-called therapeutic abortions conducted on women at risk for rubella. Since the live virus was not detected until the 27th abortion, the preceding 26 abortions were apparently performed on perfectly healthy babies. By contrast, Japanese researchers obtained a live virus by swabbing the throat of an infected child.

Cooperation with Abortion

In ethical parlance, using vaccines manufactured from fetal tissue entails "material cooperation" with abortion. Material cooperation may or may not be sinful depending on the circumstances surrounding the act. Four conditions determine whether using such vaccines is licit: the seriousness of the sin of abortion, the necessity of vaccination, the possibility of causing scandal, and the vaccines' role in encouraging additional abortions. Many pro-life ethicists believe using these vaccines constitutes "remote material cooperation" with abortion — cooperation excused by the distance of the consumer from the original abortions, the necessity of vaccine use, and the unlikelihood that purchasing the vaccines will cause future abortions. In August 2001, the U.S. bishops issued a statement allowing that parents "when they have no practical alternative, may use vaccines to protect their health and the health of their loved ones without serious sin, even if the vaccines were cultured in fetal cells that ultimately came from an elective abortion." The bishops were forced to address the question when President Bush used the abortion-tainted chicken pox vaccine to justify federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

But "practical alternatives" do exist for these vaccines. No medical necessity requires the vaccines to be cultured ..ed fetal tissue. Safe and effective inoculations grown on animal cells or chick embryos are available for all but chicken pox, hepatitis A, and rubella — diseases mild enough to allow for the acquisition of natural immunity. Eighty-five to 90 percent of children develop immunity to chicken pox and rubella by the sixth grade. Hepatitis A is almost completely unknown in the United States — not because of the vaccine, which was introduced only in 1995 — but as a result of public sanitation systems. In countries where hepatitis A is prevalent, 70 percent of preschoolers who contract the disease don't even exhibit symptoms. Most children's chances of being harmed by chicken pox, hepatitis A, or rubella are arguably equal to risks associated with adverse reactions to the vaccines themselves.

Using abortion-tainted vaccines encourages abortion just as does purchasing any other product derived from fetal tissue. Indeed, these vaccines were the first fetal tissue therapies to gain widespread acceptance, and their popularity is frequently cited to promote fetal tissue research agendas. Over the past 10 years, numerous congressmen have referred to the vaccines to garner support for federally subsidized research on fetal tissue. The University of Nebraska likewise excused its fetal tissue program by invoking both the vaccines and the Church's toleration of their use. In Forbes v. Napolitano (2001), the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals used the polio vaccine, among other things, to strike down an Arizona law banning experimentation ..ed fetal tissue. The court specifically ruled fetal tissue research must be legal to guarantee women the fullest possible range of "reproductive decisions."

Your Rights as a Parent

Many ethicists, including the bishops, believe these vaccines are distinguishable from other types of fetal tissue research because they "use self-perpetuating cell lines." The cultures that produce these vaccines, however, are not immortal. All normal cells possess a finite lifespan known as the "Hayflick limit." After about 50 divisions, WI-38 and MRC-5 will be exhausted. If, when this day comes, pharmaceutical companies know they can create new cultures from aborted tissue without loss of profit, they will certainly do so because aborted fetal tissue is easier to use and more economical to obtain than other culture mediums. The pharmaceutical industry, in fact, has already developed an additional vaccine culture derived from the "socially indicated," elective abortion of an 18-week-old baby. PER.C6, as the culture is called, is currently being tested for use with at least seven new vaccines.

Absent definitive guidance from the Vatican, parents must determine for themselves — after much prayer and study — whether they can conscientiously use these vaccines. While most public and private schools require chicken pox and rubella immunizations, the courts have repeatedly affirmed that pro-lifers have a First Amendment right to refuse abortion-tainted vaccines. State public health officials and/or school administrators cannot lawfully second-guess sincere religious or moral objections to vaccine use. In addition to honoring parents' constitutional rights, Catholic school administrators must heed the Church's magisterial teaching regarding the inalienable right and duty of parents to make decisions affecting the welfare of their children.

Parents who object in conscience to abortion-derived vaccines may apply for religious or philosophical exemptions by contacting their state department of health.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Jameson Taylor. "Immunity From Evil?: Vaccines Derived from Abortion." Lay Witness (Jan/Feb. 2003).

This article is reprinted with permission from Lay Witness magazine. Lay Witness is a publication of Catholic United for the Faith, Inc., an international lay apostolate founded in 1968 to support, defend, and advance the efforts of the teaching Church.

THE AUTHOR

Jameson Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in political philosophy at the University of Dallas. Mr. Taylor's work spans a broad range of topics including bioethics, personalist philosophy, life and family issues, and American politics. Mr. Taylor writes from Front Royal, VA, where he resides with his wife, Jennifer. He is the author of America's Drug Deal: Vaccines Corruption. For more information go to jamesontaylor.com.

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0044.html

Part I.

For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse

Martine Powers

Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, April 17, 2008

Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts' project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock . saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for "shock value."

"I hope it inspires some sort of discourse," Shvarts said. "Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone."

The "fabricators," or donors, of the sperm were not paid for their services, but Shvarts required them to periodically take tests for sexually transmitted diseases. She said she was not concerned about any medical effects the forced miscarriages may have had on her body. The abortifacient drugs she took were legal and herbal, she said, and she did not feel the need to consult a doctor about her repeated miscarriages.

Shvarts declined to specify the number of sperm donors she used, as well as the number of times she inseminated herself.

Art major Juan Castillo '08 said that although he was intrigued by the creativity and beauty of her senior project, not everyone was as thrilled as he was by the concept and the means by which she attained the result.

"I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn't," Castillo said. "I think that most people were very resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work itself."

Although Shvarts said she does not remember the class being quite as hostile as Castillo described, she said she believes it is the nature of her piece to "provoke inquiry."

"I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity," Shvarts said. "I think that I'm creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."

The display of Schvarts' project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts' self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.

Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathrooom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.

School of Art lecturer Pia Lindman, Schvarts' senior-project advisor, could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.

Few people outside of Yale's undergraduate art department have heard about Shvarts' exhibition. Members of two campus abortion-activist groups . Choose Life at Yale, a pro-life group, and the Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, a pro-choice group . said they were not previously aware of Schvarts' project.

Alice Buttrick '10, an officer of RALY, said the group was in no way involved with the art exhibition and had no official opinion on the matter.

Sara Rahman '09 said, in her opinion, Shvarts is abusing her constitutional right to do what she chooses with her body.

"[Shvarts' exhibit] turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism," Rahman said. "It discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion."

CLAY member Jonathan Serrato '09 said he does not think CLAY has an official response to Schvarts' exhibition. But personally, Serrato said he found the concept of the senior art project "surprising" and unethical.

"I feel that she's manipulating life for the benefit of her art, and I definitely don't support it," Serrato said. "I think it's morally wrong."

Shvarts emphasized that she is not ashamed of her exhibition, and she has become increasingly comfortable discussing her miscarriage experiences with her peers.

"It was a private and personal endeavor, but also a transparent one for the most part," Shvarts said. "This isn't something I've been hiding."

The official reception for the Undergraduate Senior Art Show will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 25. The exhibition will be on public display from April 22 to May 1. The art exhibition is set to premiere alongside the projects of other art seniors this Tuesday, April 22 at the gallery of Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall on Chapel Street.

18 month old baby FORCED to smoke pot and IDIOTS caught on tape they sold!

10tv.com - Teens force 18 month old baby to smoke pot against her will. She is choking, trying to speak, and struggling to get away. How they got caught will blow your mind! They sold their camcorder to a pawn shop with the video evidence without removing the footage. Shop turns it over to police.

Here is a link to the video:
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080414/VIDEO/80414023/1002

Anissia... was born with a small hole in her back..

The pediatrician has a daughter wih Spinal Bifida, that was everyones first thought, was she paralized.. she was moving her legs so no one was completely paniced..

Except me..
I dont know much about the disease so.. some one says she may have a disease she will be paralised for the rest of her life.. I panic

They said it wasnt so bad we should worry and we would be discahrged as if everything were normal.. and sent with a conceltation to St. Josephes in Pheonix..
The day we were discharged we drove to Phx., we tok her to the NICU and she was admitted..  I wasnt handling it well.. Alan was my strong hold. They informed us she would be here for a minimum of 24 hours..  so did we need a place to stay.. They arranged for us to stay at the Ronald Mc Donald House.. we had to check in by 5pm so we couldnt stay with Nissi any longer.. He took me from my baby..  made me leave her..  not even 2 days old, and I had to leave her with strangers..  I wasnt in the room with her, I wasnt under the same roof as her, I was MILES from her.. she was there alone....  no one but nurses..  

We checkd in.... and he took me back to the hospital.. we stayed until 11pm when I finally conseeded to defeat, we went back to go to bed, He was there for me while I cryed..  I wasnt alone...  I wasnt just mom alone with  "broken baby"... WE were a family..  who was dealing with our child who was in need... We were there for one another, able to comfort each other and be supportive for each other.
I felt so bad keeping him up.. he was on the phone most of the night before with Heather.. she was telling him about how horribul of a person he was because he wasnt back with her..  when HIS OWN DAUGHTER was in need of SUGERY..  *bah*
and then had to wake up at 6 am to get us to Phx on time .. he was so tired, so fatiuged from the nights phone call that he had needed to just sleep .. there was so much stress... so much drama..

To be Finished On a later Date......

( when I can find some Spare time )

yea.. that was what he said..  Mid-labor..  stop everything..  cause you peed on me ..

"Umm No Hunny..  thats not pee..  I'm Kinda.. HAVING A BABY!!"

January 21st.. had some pressure was a little nervous..  So.. I went in to be checked..

they checked me said i was still 80% & 2cm, -1 station but she was low..  I'm not sure how I can be at a -1 and be lower than I was last week.. when I was -1 last week.. but.. OK..
So Doc came in and said "So, whats going on"..  
I said "I'm hopeing to have a baby"
he said "Alright then.. lets have a baby".. and broke my water..  I called alan.. He was enjoying breakfast with..friends..  that didnt last..  I told him he should get on the road..  I was having a baby..  he panicked and replyed..

"Are you serous? Now?.. Right now?" ( it was so cute I can only imagine his face )

Once he got on the road and I began to progress and things got painful.. I began to call him, and ask how far away he was... when things got pretty bad..  and I was Really feelin' the need to push and he still wasnt there..  I called him and he was in Barstow.. 
I finally.. asked for some pain meds.. I thought I could do it "oh-Natural" Like before but.. well I still had 2.5 hours to hold her in.. they gave me IV stadol..

I was sucessful in holding her in.. 
Finally he Showed up, he was there, I could have her..  FINALLY...   He kissed me and I almost felt alright..  the meds really weren't doing much any more..  I had to push... I COULD push.. I got to let him hold me..  I was able to hold on to him..  He saw me struggling to give him his daughter, his baby..
....maybe that was what made everything between us.. better.. maybe that was what it took..  to make everything finally fall into place...

He was there He was able to see HIS baby born..he had seen ohers but this was HIS..   he was able to be the FIRST to see HIS baby... His Second Daughter..  Here Finally... Here

He got to see her hair..  her eyes.. her lips.. got to hold her, He got to be Papa.. from the start..  he ddnt have to wait 10 days to see her, he didnt have to wait nine MORE months to Be..  FULL TIME Papa!!

It was Amazing..  something I can't wait to gve him again... ( though..  we will be waiting for another 2 years.. *hehe THEN..  its all happening again!! )

We welcome..  Anissia Luna Arnesto... to the World..