'Sex Change' Surgery is Toddlers' Choice: Schools

Gay/Transgender Agenda advocates advancing the government-backed "Safe Schools" program are heralding "transgender" preschoolers who choose sexual mutilation surgery prior to kindergarten as well as their doctors who perform the procedures in Australia.

“We have a number of students who are going through gender transition in our schools, with the youngest being a four-year-old at the moment.”
-- Gregory Prior, Deputy Secretary of School Operations, New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education

For background, read Transgenderism Taught to Kindergartners Across America and also read Secret School Transgender Training: Washington Edict

Click headlines below to read previous articles:

Indoctrination Works:  Poll Shows Children Now Question Their Sexuality

Parents Allow Babies to Choose Gender From Birth

Birthing Transgender Kids: Gender-Neutral Names

-- From "NSW child, 4, identifies as transgender as data reveals growing referrals for gender dysphoria" posted at Yahoo7 News 9/1/16

While the child is the youngest on Australian record to to change their gender, the New South Wales government has revealed "hundreds" of other children are being referred to the state's hospitals for gender dysphoria.

The four-year-old is reportedly being supported throughout the transition by the education department, and is part of the Safe Schools program.

According to News Corp, data from the Westmead Children Hospital stated that referrals for gender dysphoria have tripled.

The report said another major hospital in Melbourne had 250 children who were being assisted by the gender dysphoria unit. A decade ago it had just one.

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From "Child aged four receiving help to undergo sex change in Australia" by Frank Thorne (in Sydney), UK Evening Standard 9/1/16

[Some psychologists] maintain pre-school children are still at a very early stage of their development for such a major decision to be made. . . . The youngest child involved is just three years of age.

Transgender advocate and Australian of the Year finalist Catherine McGregor advised caution and said proper checks needed to be in place to ensure premature mistakes were not made.

“In my experience, kids with strong cross-gender identification tend to get it right.

"However, I can understand there would be caution on the part of the department and medical practitioners on making any irreversible decisions at that stage.”

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From "Catherine McGregor sacked for Safe Schools criticism" by Rebecca Urban, The Australian 9/6/16

Prominent transgender advocate Catherine McGregor has been sacked from a high-profile role with human rights group Kaleidoscope Australia for speaking out against the controversial Safe Schools program.

Writing for Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph in May, Ms McGregor argued the program had been compromised by radical left-wing politics and was not the most effective way of supporting transgender children. She claimed the program might lead transgender youth down a “blind alley”.

Ms McGregor, who was the world’s highest-ranking transgender military official and an Australian of the Year nominee, told The Australian she was disappointed by the reaction to her comments. It had cost her at least one speaking engagement. A Melbourne charity advised that it no longer wanted her to appear at an LGBTI event because it feared a hostile reaction.

“I’ve always been very happy to support various causes within the LGBTI community because I truly believe that, as a transgender woman who has been able to achieve a lot in my career in the military and as a writer and broadcaster, that I can contribute a lot,” Ms McGregor said.

“But it’s quite obvious that my views are more conservative than sections of the LGBTI community are happy to accept. I’ve really just had enough.”

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Also read U.S. Government Survey Shows 'Sexual Orientation' is Learned Behavior, NOT Genetic

And read Transgenderism is a 'Delusion' According to Victims and Professionals

Feminists' Anti-Babies Backfire: Girls Love Them

The Virtual Infant Parenting program uses "robot babies" (designed to simulate and exaggerate the worst aspects of caring for newborn children) that are assigned to teenage girls to discourage pregnancy, but the largest study of its kind has determined that the program actually arouses desires for motherhood in young teenage girls.

"We never went into the study thinking this would increase teen pregnancy. . . . Unfortunately that's the finding."
-- Sally Brinkman, University of Western Australia

For background, read God Created Woman to Give Birth and Breast-feed

Click headlines below to read previous articles:

Teenage Pregnancy & Birth Rates Drop to Historic Lows

Too Many Minority Babies, Obama's Feds Say of Teen Births

America Self-destructing via Feminist Childlessness: Census Reports

Government Teenage Uterine Control Success Touted

-- From "Robot baby schemes may increase teen pregnancy: study" by Madeleine Coorey, Agence France-Presse 8/26/16

Researchers found that girls between the ages of 13 and 15 who were given a simulator infant to look after were actually more likely to become pregnant early in life than those who had simple sex education.

Of those who had charge of a doll, 17 percent recorded at least one pregnancy -- whether carried to full term or terminated -- by the age of 20.

Of all the girls who fell pregnant, 53.8 percent of those who had the robot baby terminated the pregnancy compared with 60.1 percent in the control group.

The researchers said while that difference was not huge, it indicated participants who had exposure to the robot baby appeared more likely go through with the pregnancy.

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From "'Pretend Mommy' program doesn't deter teen pregnancy" by Dennis Thompson, HealthDay News 8/25/16

Australian girls given a baby simulator for a weekend were 36 percent more likely to become pregnant during their teenage years, compared to girls in a control group who only received standard health education, researchers found.

Overall, the live birth rate was double for girls who participated in the infant simulator program -- 8 percent compared with 4 percent for the control group, researchers found.

The baby simulator program also appeared to convince girls to give birth rather than seek an abortion once they became pregnant, Brinkman said.

These results run counter to the intention of the program, which has been implemented in as many as 89 countries worldwide. It should make school districts think twice about employing baby simulators in their pregnancy prevention efforts, Brinkman said.

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From "Robot babies that schools use to discourage teen pregnancy may do opposite, study finds" by Paige Cornwell, Seattle Times staff reporter 8/25/16

To help discourage teen pregnancy, many students in the Seattle area and nationally are given lifelike, robot babies that cry throughout the night. Unlike eggs or plants used to represent babies in some human-development classes, these dolls require feeding, burping and diaper changes. Like real infants, sometimes even that doesn’t stop their crying.

The Australia program was adapted from one in the United States, formerly known as “Baby Think It Over” and now called “RealCare Baby 3.” Along with Seattle, area schools districts that use RealCare Baby 3 include Highline, Everett and Kent.

The doll’s creator, Realityworks, says more than half the school districts in the [U.S.] have purchased its products.

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From "Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies. In fact, they may increase abortions" by Ben Guarino, Washington Post 8/26/16

The babies, which can run about $1,000 apiece, are programmed to cry, scream and sleep. Computers tucked within the dolls register when the babies are changed, burped, fed or — in instances where everything goes drastically wrong — when they “die.”

“We’ve had midnight telephone calls from parents saying: ‘Please tell me how to turn it off, my daughter’s going crazy,’” as Janette Collins, a London-based youth counselor said to the Financial Times last October. “It’s the very few girls who score really well that you have to look out for. In my experience they’re the ones who go off and get pregnant for real — you’ve accidentally taught them they can cope.”

“Anecdotally, a lot of the students really enjoyed the program,” study author Sally Brinkman, of Australia’s Telethon Kids Institute, told the Sydney Morning Herald. “There was a lot of positivity around the program, so it didn’t really work in putting the kids off.”

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From "Teen pregnancy program had a reverse effect: study" by Kate Aubusson, Sydney Morning Herald 8/26/16

The gurgling dolls may have inadvertently made teen motherhood too appealing, with many students doting on their electronic progeny and enjoying the attention that came with it, the researchers said.

"We definitely were not saying you can't become a teenage mother. We didn't want to demonise that, but the intention was clearly behind the program to increase contraceptive use and if you were going to have a baby to do it in a healthy way, and part of doing it in a healthy way was to delay," [Dr. Brinkman] said.

"Evidence now suggests they do not have the desired long-term effect of reducing teenage pregnancy. These interventions are likely to be an ineffective use of public resources for pregnancy prevention," Dr Brinkman said.

The simulators were currently used by more than 40,000 institutions worldwide . . .

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Also read Free Condoms Cause More Student Pregnancies: Study

And read Abstinent Teens the Norm, Moral Sex-Ed Works: Study

Stem Cell Breakthrough: Embryos Needn't Be Killed

Once again, the purveyors of embryonic death have been dealt a blow by researchers developing multiple, unrelated techniques to use adult bone marrow and fat cells to regenerate and repair a variety of damaged body tissue types.

"This technique is a significant advance on many of the current unproven stem cell therapies, which have shown little or no objective evidence they contribute directly to new tissue formation."
-- John Pimanda, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Thus, countering scientists who proclaim: Embryo-killing is Essential for Life

For background, read Stem Cell Science Advances WithOUT Killing Embryos

-- From "Study Finds Stem Cells Can Help to Heal Damaged Hearts" posted at KMOX-AM1120 (St. Louis, MO) CBS News 4/5/16

The findings of this new study were just presented at a major cardiology conference in Chicago. SLU Care cardiologist Dr. Michael Lim at SSM Health SLU Hospital was there.

Stem cells from a patient’s own bone marrow were harvested, treated and then directly re-injected back into the muscle.

Lim says when they find that less people are dead with one therapy versus those who did not get the therapy, it is strong evidence. He adds that it is really great news.

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From "Stem Cell Therapy Promising Against Heart Failure" by Robert Preidt, HealthDay News Reporter, posted at WebMD News 4/4/16

The clinical trial found that end-stage heart failure patients treated with stem cells harvested from their own bone marrow had 37 percent fewer cardiac events than those who received a "dummy" placebo.

If further studies are successful, stem cell therapy may one day offer an alternative to current treatments for end-stage heart failure, such as heart transplantation and left ventricular assist device therapy, the researchers said.

The study was published online April 4 in The Lancet journal and presented simultaneously at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) in Chicago.

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From "Cell therapy could help slow decline in heart failure patients, study suggests" by Carina Storrs, Special to CNN 4/4/16

"This would be considered a huge success because this much of a reduction has not been shown with any other (cell) therapy," said Dr. Amit N. Patel, director of the clinical regenerative medicine program in the University of Utah Department of Surgery.

Here's how the therapy, which is called Ixmyelocel-T, is carried out: The researchers remove about three tablespoons of bone marrow from the hip bone while the patient is lightly sedated. The cells in the bone marrow then grow in an instrument called a bioreactor for two weeks, producing a "soup" of cells containing certain types of stem cells and immune cells that can help remodel tissue and reduce inflammation, Patel said. Finally the researchers use special catheters to identify the weakest parts of the heart and inject the soup into these areas.

In the year after the injection, 20.3% of the patients in the cell therapy group experienced an adverse event such as infection or stroke, compared with 41.8% of the placebo group. "It was surprising that the (placebo) patients did significantly worse," Patel said. This could have been because they underwent the same invasive procedures as the treatment group, but did not receive the same potentially beneficial cell therapy, which could have anti-inflammatory effects that decreased adverse events, he said.

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From "New stem cell therapy which mimics how salamanders grow new limbs raises hopes of new regenerative treatments" by John von Radowitz, UK Independent 4/4/16

Therapies based on "induced multipotent stem" (iMS) cells could be tested in human trials as early as next year, according to Australian researchers.

While ES [embryonic stem] cells are natural, obtained from early-stage embryos, iPS cells are made by reprogramming adult cells. But both run the risk of generating cancerous tumours, and iPS cells are created using genes injected by viruses, which is clinically unacceptable.

The iMS cells which are the focus of the new research reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have a more limited capacity but claimed to be safer than ES or iPS cells.

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From "Scientists develop 'game changing' stem cell repair system" posted at Phys.org Science X network 4/4/16

Stem cell therapies capable of regenerating any human tissue damaged by injury, disease or ageing could be available within a few years, following landmark research led by UNSW Australia researchers.

The repair system, similar to the method used by salamanders to regenerate limbs, could be used to repair everything from spinal discs to bone fractures, and has the potential to transform current treatment approaches to regenerative medicine.

Study lead author, haematologist and UNSW Associate Professor John Pimanda, said the new technique, which reprograms bone and fat cells into induced multipotent stem cells (iMS), has been successfully demonstrated in mice.

The technique developed by UNSW researchers involves extracting adult human fat cells and treating them with the compound 5-Azacytidine (AZA), along with platelet-derived growth factor-AB (PDGF-AB) for approximately two days. The cells are then treated with the growth factor alone for a further two-three weeks.

AZA is known to induce cell plasticity, which is crucial for reprogramming cells. The AZA compound relaxes the hard-wiring of the cell, which is expanded by the growth factor, transforming the bone and fat cells into iMS cells. When the stem cells are inserted into the damaged tissue site, they multiply, promoting growth and healing.

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Judge Says Incest OK; It's the New Gay

As judges force same-sex "marriage" down the throats of Americans, it comes as no surprise for a judge to say that society needs to accept men having sex with their sisters, or for that matter, men having sex with children.

He also said the “only reason” that incest is still a crime is because of the high risk of genetic abnormalities in children born from consanguineous relationships “but even that falls away to an extent [because] there is such ease of contraception and readily access to abortion.”

UPDATE 5/21/15: Father & Son 'Marry' Legally in Pennsylvania

UPDATE 7/30/14: U.S. 4th Circuit Judge Says Incest 'Marriage' Will Follow Appeals Court Ruling for 'Gay Marriage'

UPDATE 11/1/14: New York Incestuous Marriage OKd by Unanimous Appeals Court

UPDATE 1/18/15: Teen Girl to Marry Father in New Jersey—Adult Incest is Legal

UPDATE 2/27/16: Legalize Incest, Post-death Sex, Say Young Liberals

For background, click headlines below to read previous articles:

Supreme Court's New Morality Means Justice for Polygamy

U.S. District Court Judge OKs Polygamy

'Civil Union' Joins a Man & Two Women in Brazil

Pedophiles Win in 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Pedophilia is Sexual Orientation, Like 'Being Gay'

Normalization of Pedophilia Urged by Psychiatrists

Democrat Senate Legalizes Bestiality in Military

Arizona School OKs Teacher: Pedophilia, Bestiality

Gay Pedophile Teacher Defended by Michigan School

-- From "Judge compares incest and paedophilia to past attitudes towards homosexuality, claiming they might not be taboo anymore" by Louise Hall, Court Reporter, Sydney Morning Herald 7/9/14

A Sydney judge has compared incest and paedophilia to homosexuality, saying the community may no longer see sexual contact between siblings and between adults and children as “unnatural” or “taboo”.

District Court Judge Garry Neilson said just as gay sex was socially unacceptable and criminal in the 1950s and 1960s but is now widely accepted, “a jury might find nothing untoward in the advance of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual relationships with other men and was now ‘available’, not having [a] sexual partner”.

“If this was the 50s and you had a jury of 12 men there, which is what you’d invariably have, they would say it’s unnatural for a man to be interested in another man or a man being interested in a boy. Those things have gone.”

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From "Is incest gaining acceptance? An Australian judge says it is" by Estelle Vosloo, Australian Times 7/14/14

Reported on Friday, Judge Neilson’s comment on incest becoming socially acceptable is being investigated.

Attorney-general for NSW, Brad Hazzard has said that judge Nielson’s comments are appalling and caused extreme concern.

“Incest is completely reprehensible, unacceptable, disgusting and criminal.”

Hazard has reported judge Neilson’s comments to the Judicial Commission of New South Wales for investigation. He also requested the District Court suspend the judge from criminal trials until the investigation into Neilson was completed.

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From "Australian judge says incest may no longer be a taboo" by Jonathan Pearlman in Sydney, UK Telegraph 7/10/14

Judge Neilson made the comments during the trial of a brother charged with raping his younger sister. The man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his sister when she was 10 or 11 years old in 1973 or 1974 but has pleaded not guilty to charges relating to sex they had in 1981, when she was 18 and he was 26.

"By that stage they are both mature adults," the judge said.

"The complainant has been sexually awoken, shall we say, by having two relationships with men and she had become 'free' when the second relationship broke down. The only thing that might change that is the fact that they were a brother and sister but we've come a long way from the 1950s – when the position of the English Common Law was that sex outside marriage was not lawful."

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Also read Homosexual Predator, Honored by Obama, Arrested

Relax Parents, Sexting Simply How Kids Flirt Today

Even though American teenagers risk prison time under child pornography laws for trading nude photographs of each other, too many adults want to excuse the dangerous behavior saying that it's just how kids date these days.

"It’s a social, online world kids live in and sending these images and messages is part of their sexual relationships so it’s really a new form of courtship."
-- Anne Mitchell of La Trobe University’s Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society

UPDATE 12/19/14: Teen Students Across America Learn to Produce & Distribute Child Pornography

UPDATE 2/28/16: Sexting so Common, New Mexico Legalizes Self-produced Child Pornography

For background, click headlines below to read previous articles:

Vermont May Legalize Child Porn Among Children

Education Experts Say Use Porn in Teaching Sex Ed

Homosexual Teacher Jailed: Paying Boys to Sext Him

Gay Teacher Sexting Boy Resigns, Media Silent

Sex in New Jersey Kindergarten, Nobody Blames Culture

Pornography Creates 5-year-old Sex Offenders



-- From "'Sexting' is new courtship', parents are told" by Miranda Prynne, News Reporter, UK Telegraph 5/5/14

Nearly three quarters of 15 to 18-year-olds have sent sexually explicit text messages while half have sent naked or semi-naked photos and videos of themselves, the research for the Australian government found.

In a separate study it emerged that one in five iPhone owners have ‘sexted’ the wrong person with one admitted sending a “lusty” text meant for her husband to her business partner while another sent an explicit photo to his mother-in-law rather than his wife.

Some 84 per cent of the teenagers questioned said they have received explicit messages by phone or email.

The survey, which quizzed more than 2,100 students across Australia, found that 70 per cent were sexually active . . .

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From "Sexting among kids a modern day courtship: Survey" posted at India Today 5/6/14

Peer pressure drives young people to share sexual images through mobile phones - a new phenomenon described as sexting

"It appears to be happening universally and, while we need to be aware of the harm that can come if those messages are sent out far and wide or misused, it does not appear to be doing harm for the majority of kids," Mitchell noted in a Sydney Morning Herald report.

According to researchers, "Parents need to stop panicking about the use of technology and trust their kids - talk to them about their relationships, treating others well, having the kind of sex they want and being safe".

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From "I wanna sext you up: teens shun bedroom for online romance" by Jill Stark, Senior writer for The Sunday Age (Australia) 5/2/14

More than half (54 per cent) of all those surveyed have received sexually explicit written text messages, 42 per cent have received explicit, nude or nearly nude photos or videos, and a quarter have sent such images or videos. Among sexually active students, more than two-thirds are engaging in sexting.

More than 70 per cent of those surveyed said they had no regrets after having sex, while 54 per cent of those who were not sexually active were "proud to say no", and half wanted to be in love before losing their virginity.

Erin Filan,18, finished year 12 at a Catholic girls school in Northern Sydney last year, and is a member of the Youth Brains Trust at Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre – a not-for-profit group exploring the role of technology in young people’s lives. She says older generations often misunderstand the way teenagers interact online and argues sexting is just another form of sexual expression.

Matthew Church, an 18-year-old from Melbourne, and also a Brains Trust member, said sexting was "intimacy on-the-go" for a mobilised generation.

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From "Barrington students face child porn charges in sexting case" by Doug T. Graham, Daily Herald (Chicago suburbs) 5/1/14

Two Barrington middle school students face possession of child pornography charges alleging they texted sexually explicit photos and video of a fellow student to a "large group of classmates," according to police.

According to a statement released by Barrington Unit District 220 Superintendent Tom Leonard, the allegations could lead to felony dispositions against the boys.

"These students and their parents find themselves in a severe situation," Leonard writes. "Their futures may be forever stamped by the careless use of an app, the tease of a text message, the unthinking post of an indecent photo."

Jeff Arnett, the chief communications officer for the school district, said the boys obtained the images from a student who self-shot the photos and video.

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From "No charges will be filed in Rotolo 'sexting' incident" by Eric Schelkopf, Kane County (Illinois) Chronicle 5/6/14

Batavia Police Detective Kevin Bretz on Monday said the department decided that educating the students on the proper and improper use of social media was a better idea than charging them.

Police had been investigating the case of inappropriate nude images that police said were taken by Rotolo Middle School students of themselves and shared with other students.

Six or seven students sent photos of themselves through cellphone text messages, Bretz said. Between 20 to 24 students received the photos.

Under state law, it is illegal for those younger than the age of 18 to distribute lewd photos using their cellphones or computers.

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Media Embrace Science Lies, Reject Science Truth

A tale of two advertising campaigns . . .

While TV and myriad other forms of media embrace an ad depicting a prenatal ultrasound examination proclaiming the unborn is a lesbian (a scientific impossibility), the largest print media reject an ad showing a living baby after twenty weeks gestation because it promotes pro-life legislation against late-term abortion.

For background, read Lesbianism NOT Genetic: Study as well as Choosing Lesbian Sex in College: Federal Study

In addition, read Pro-lifers Prevail: More Abortion Restriction Laws and also read Florida Law Protects Infants that Obama Would NOT



-- From "New Australian commercial: ‘You’re having a lesbian’" by Mike Krumboltz, The Sideshow – Yahoo News 6/7/13

The Australian commercial was created to promote awareness of and support for gay marriage . . . There is also a similar billboard that features the tagline, "Congratulations, you're having a lesbian."

The campaign was thought up by Steve Minon, a freelance advertising creative director, according to news.com.au. "It is designed to get people thinking, and challenge them a little," he told the paper. "We're trying to point out to any family that marriage equality can be your number one priority, without your knowing about it."

Lawmakers in Australia voted against a bill to legalize same-sex marriage last September. Neighboring country New Zealand legalized same-sex marriage earlier this year

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From "Provocative Australian Commercial Pushes Lesbian Agenda" by Krystina Skurk, Liberty News 6/11/13

This is a common message purported continually by homosexual activists. If one is born gay then there is no question of whether homosexuality is moral or not. Instead, behavior and choice are replaced with a morally neutral sexual orientation. This perspective ignores common patterns that lead to the formation of a homosexual identity. Additionally, progressive myth that homosexuality has a genetic root lacks scientific evidence, but this is ignored because it is essential to their message.

Although unable to provide clear answers to their message regarding gays at birth, the homosexual rights movement has dominated the public arena. Media, entertainment, much of corporate America, the educational system, and many high profile politicians have effectively begun to change the hearts and minds of Americans.

To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Most Homosexuals Who Want to Convert Report Change as well as Homosexuality NOT Fixed, Change Possible: Study

In addition, read 'Gay Gene' Advocates Say Pedophilia is Inborn 

From "Major Newspapers Turn Down Pro-Life Ad, Baby Image 'Too Controversial'" by Randy Hall, NewsBusters 7/6/13

. . . three major papers -- USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune -- rejected an ad from a pro-life organization that showed an infant at roughly 20 weeks' gestation because it's “too controversial.”

Heroic Media, a non-profit organization whose mission “is to educate the public in general and reach women facing unplanned pregnancies with life-affirming alternatives through the use of mass media, such as television commercials, Internet outreach, and billboards, expressed outrage that the newspapers were willing to talk about the issue but not to show the reality of life at 20 weeks.”

The ad was produced a week after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which “prevents an abortionist from performing an abortion at or after 20 weeks, based on empirical scientific medical evidence that proves that unborn babies can feel pain.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Major Newspapers Reject Pro-Life Ad, Image of Baby 'Too Controversial'" by Caleb Parke, LiveActionNews 7/5/13

Heroic Media Executive Director Joe Young said he was shocked and angered that the media outlets were willing to talk about the issue but were unwilling to show the reality of life at 20 weeks.

“I am disturbed that these papers would run article after article promoting the notion that abortion is a victimless act without consequences,” Young said. “The fact remains, children who are unique individuals – never again to be duplicated – are being killed in the most violent way imaginable and they feel the excruciating pain of that death.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Study: Media Bias FOR "Gay Marriage" is Christians' Fault as well as Media Admit Propaganda Overstating Gay Population

Kids Choose Porn as Better Teacher than School

Child sexualization "experts" lament that there's not enough explicit sexual technique instruction in public schools, suggesting that children are justified to turn to pornography for "adequate sex education."

"Growing up, watching porn – that's sort of where you get your grasp of what's normal and what's not."
-- Child in study

UPDATE 3/17/15: Pornography Belongs in Classroom, More Experts Say

UPDATE 7/22/13: 'Pornography' substituting sex education in Australia

-- From "Pornography is replacing sex education" by Donna Bowater, UK Telegraph 12/16/11

Australian researchers Maree Crabbe and David Corlett said children were turning to adult films because schools were not handling the positive aspects of sex.

The researchers presented their findings at a conference at London University's Institute of Education.

Mary Clegg, chair of the British Association of Sexual Educators, agreed there was a shortfall in sex education at schools.

"But young people are hungry for more explicit information. They're curious and they're hormone-driven."

"Government needs to respond to spiralling under-age sex, not with pointless schemes to teach abstinence, but with better PSHE [Personal, Social and Health Education] teaching in schools for both girls and boys.” [said Diane Abbott, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister.]

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From "Kids turning to porn for sex education: study" by Dave McGinn, Globe and Mail Blog 12/16/11

In a recent New York Times Magazine story on sex education, the vice-president of education for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said, “There is abstinence-only sex education, and there’s abstinence-based sex ed. There’s almost nothing else left in public schools.”

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Also read Boston Teen Girls Mimic Porn Group Sex: Study

RU-486 Pill Higher Risk than Surgical Abortion

A new Australian study has found strong evidence that chemical RU-486 abortions have a far higher rate of serious complications than surgical abortion, undercutting a major selling point of the abortion drug regimen.

-- From "Abortion pill 'less safe than surgery'" by Jamie Walker, The Australian 5/7/11

The "audit" of nearly 7000 abortions performed in South Australia in 2009 and last year found that 3.3 per cent of women who used mifepristone in the first trimester of pregnancy - when most elective terminations occur - later turned up at hospital emergency departments, against 2.2 per cent who had undergone surgery.

And the rate of hospital admission jumped to 5.7 per cent for recipients of early "medical" abortions - using drugs - compared with 0.4 per cent for surgical patients re-admitted for post-operative treatment.

Use of the controversial drug, which was introduced to Australia only five years ago, is growing fast as proponents cite its safety, ease and cost-effectiveness against surgery, as well as the option it gives women to have an induced miscarriage in the privacy of their own home.

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From "Study finds RU-486 much more dangerous than surgical abortion" by Peter J. Smith, LifeSiteNews.com 5/10/11

Pro-life advocates in the United States and elsewhere around the world have also noted the severe complications that may occur with RU-486 abortions.

RU-486 was made legal in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000, and since then at least six American women have died of complications from medically induced abortion. Abroad, the Italian Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics in 2008 reported 16 maternal deaths associated with RU-486, leading the Italian Senate to delay sale of the chemical abortion regimen.

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From "New Study Undermines Case for RU486 in Australia" by Dave Andrusko, National Right to Life News 5/10/11

National Right to Life News has run many, many stories about complications associated with the use of RU486. For example, a 2009 study from Finland found that 20% of the women using the abortion pill suffer at least one significant complication and that nearly 4% reported two or more complications or “adverse events.”

More than a fifth of abortions in South Australia are done using RU486. Looking to the future the most revealing line in the story [above] is, “The findings will undermine a selling point of medical abortion–that the risk of complication is less than or equivalent to an operation–and play into the hands of opponents of the rollout of mifepristone, or RU486.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Outlawing On-line (RU-486) Abortion: Nebraska, Iowa as well as On-line (RU-486) Abortions by Planned Parenthood Going Nationwide

Christians Becoming Extinct in 9 Western Nations

Researchers of the American Physical Society have released a census study of over 100 years of data showing that Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland will be void of Christians.

UPDATE 12/30/12: Christians, Extinct in Middle East, as Islam Wins

-- From "Faith no more! From New Zealand to Canada, religion 'to become extinct' in nine countries" by U.K. Daily Mail Reporter 3/22/11

The study was carried out by Northwestern University and the University of Arizona.

Richard Wiener, of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, led the scientific survey.

He said: 'In a large number of modern secular democracies, there's been a trend that folk are identifying themselves as non-affiliated with religion.

'In the Netherlands the number was 40%, and the highest we saw was in the Czech Republic, where the number was 60%.'

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From "Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says" by Jason Palmer, Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Dallas 3/22/11

The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.

Nonlinear dynamics is invoked to explain a wide range of physical phenomena in which a number of factors play a part.

[Richard Wiener said,] "It posits that social groups that have more members are going to be more attractive to join, and it posits that social groups have a social status or utility.

"For example in languages, there can be greater utility or status in speaking Spanish instead of [the dying language] Quechuan in Peru, and similarly there's some kind of status or utility in being a member of a religion or not."

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From "God keep our land? The numbers raise doubts" by Frank Appleyard, Postmedia News, posted at the Montreal Gazette 3/22/11

The study attempted to link these countries' religious identities with the social motives behind belonging to particular groups. Researchers said that as the masses who claim religious non-affiliation swell, it becomes more appealing to join the ranks of that group.

Weiner speculated that social pressures are contributing to the decline in religious identification in these countries. "People no longer see the slate of benefits as being as great as they probably did 100 years ago. It's become less socially useful."

In the Netherlands, where close to 50 per cent of the population identifies as not belonging to a religion, Weiner said they found that by mid-century close to 70 per cent of the country will be made up of non-believers.

"That's very substantial growth over four decades," Weiner said. "It's not saying that religion will not exist, but it will very strongly change the makeup of society. Maybe in 100 years in some of these countries if this trend continues, there will be a very small percentage of people that still identify themselves as belonging to a religion."

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Pope Welcomes Christians Leaving Anglicanism over Liberalism

Disillusioned by the pro-homosexual, feminist trend within pockets of Anglicanism, clergy and laity of the Church of England, and the Anglican Church in Australia, are joining the Ordinariate - a special structure established by the Pope - while the liberal insurgents within the Catholic Church grumble.



-- From "Vatican Welcomes First Anglicans Converting Under New Rules" by Rachel Donadio, New York Times 1/25/11

The Vatican angered many Anglicans, including the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, when it announced the new structure in October 2009, because it appeared to upend decades of interfaith dialogue by implying that the Roman Catholic Church sought to encourage the conversion of Anglicans, especially those uncomfortable with the Church of England’s ordination of women and openly gay priests.

In the first concrete result of the Vatican’s offer, the archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, presided . . . over the conversions of three traditionalist Anglican bishops at Westminster Cathedral in London, the Vatican said in a statement.

The new structure, called a Personal Ordinariate, allows groups of Anglicans to convert while preserving some elements of Anglican liturgy and other traditions, including in some cases married clergy.

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From "The faithful lose in this victory for misogyny" editorial posted at U.K. Guardian 1/16/11

The [British] Catholic leader Archbishop Vincent Nichols tried at the [recent ordination of three former Anglican bishops as Catholic priests] to make the best of an arrangement with which he is privately thought to be uncomfortable. But however it is dressed up, this was the Catholic church fixated on stealing a march on Anglicanism. It is as if the Reformation was a recent score to be settled.

The establishment of a special ordinariate where former Anglicans who reject women's ordination can carry on much as before, but within the Catholic fold, can only cause tension between the two churches. That in its turn will focus attention once again on disputes between different branches of Christianity, and make religion look out of touch with the real world.

. . . Many British Catholics who want no part of this game of ecclesiastical power politics are left despairing. Those of other faiths or none, and of even moderately enlightened disposition, will be more inclined to turn their backs in anger.

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From "Former Anglicans could share old churches, says head of Ordinariate" posted at London Telegraph 1/18/11

In some of his first comments since being appointed “Ordinary” – the leader of the world’s first Personal Ordinariate – Fr [Keith] Newton said he hoped his group could share properties with the Church of England in “specific places”.

His suggestion is likely to be controversial because, while old churches in England belonged to Rome before the Reformation, many Anglicans believe that those who “cross the Tiber” have given up all right to use them. In most cases, the Catholic Church is expected to have to provide new buildings for the Ordinariate to use.

The possibility of church-sharing in London, where many Anglo-Catholics live and worship, has already been ruled out by the city’s powerful bishop, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said that “working out shared use of churches” will be a “challenge” of the new scheme.

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From "Dissident Anglicans step closer to Rome" by Leesha McKenny, The Sydney Morning Herald 1/29/11

Up to 50 clergy and laity will gather for the first time nationally at St Stephen's College at Coomera for three days from Tuesday to discuss the Australian Anglican ordinariate - the local framework which will allow them to keep their married clergy, liturgy and church structures within Catholicism.

The prominent Sydney barrister John McCarthy, QC, has been briefed to advise the main dissident group of conservatives, the breakaway Traditional Anglican Communion, on constitutional and legal issues arising from the historic move.

The world Traditional Anglican Communion Primate, Adelaide-based Archbishop John Hepworth, was confident the group's assets, such as properties or trust funds, would not be forfeited once the ordinariate becomes official later this year. But he conceded in the case of assets owned by the mainstream Anglican communion it would be a question of "goodwill".

The re-ordination of four Australian Traditional Anglican Communion bishops, a retired Anglican bishop, a Japanese bishop and 24 Anglican priests is expected to be finalised by June 12.

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From "Benedict the Ecumenist" by John Gerardi, The Daily Caller 1/30/11

. . . liberalism infected the Church of England so much that its teachings changed at exactly the same pace as the dominant culture changed. It was the first Christian body to accept the morality of contraception, at the 1930 Lambeth Conference. It shifted its positions on the all-male priesthood, and then (in the Episcopal Church, and soon in the Church of England) on the all-male episcopate, breaking with nearly 2,000 years of Christian practice. Many Anglicans have even come to accept the morality of abortion and the blessing of homosexual unions; the Episcopal Church even went so far as to embrace the openly homosexual Eugene Robinson as a bishop in good standing.

For the past 45 years, Catholics have been involved in ecumenical discussions with this increasingly liberal group through the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), in attempts to foster greater “unity” between the two bodies. . . .

Cardinal Ratzinger was not very enthusiastic about these fake shows. He put a stop to the worst of these “joint statements,” a ludicrous betrayal of the Catholic faith known as the ARCIC Final Report. . . .

Fast-forward to 2009. At the urging of sizable groups of Anglicans who truly desired unity with the Catholic Church but wished to preserve some aspects of their Anglican identity, Pope Benedict issued Anglicanorum Coetibus, a legislative document that would facilitate the conversion of Anglicans to the Church on a corporate level.

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Episcopal Church: Ordaining and 'Marrying' Homosexuals

As Homosexualists Enter, the Sacred Leave Episcopal Church

American Anglicans Ratify Constitution

Who Owns Church Property in ECUSA?

Episcopal Diocese Boots Christian Congregation from Building in Favor of Muslims

Grieving Daughter's Death, Parents Abort Twins

An unnamed woman in Australia aborted twin boys conceived using IVF as she has three sons. Her first daughter died shortly after birth and she wants a girl

-- From "Couple with three sons abort twin boys conceived with IVF - and they will try again for a girl as their first daughter died" by Alex Marunchak, UK Daily Mail 1/7/11

[The married parents] are both aged in their 30s and have taken their case to a legal tribunal after an independent medical body known as the Patient Review Panel rejected their bid to choose the gender of their next child using IVF.

The couple said they had made the decision to terminate the twin boys but could not continue to have unlimited numbers of children.

And they warned that If their bid to have a daughter fails, they said they would go to America for IVF treatment in a bid to conceive a girl.

The case, in Australia, is to be reviewed by the State of Victoria's Civil and Administrative Tribunal which has the power to reverse the earlier decision and will hear the case in March.

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From "We want nothing but a girl" by Shelley Hadfield, Melbourne Herald Sun 1/8/11

The man said: "After what we have been through we are due for a bit of luck. We want to be given the opportunity to have a girl."

The woman, who is consumed by grief over the daughter who died soon after birth, admits she has become obsessed with having a daughter and it has become vital to her psychological health.

Victoria's Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008 bans sex selection unless it is necessary to avoid the risk of transmission of a genetic abnormality or genetic disease to a child.

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Suicidal Boy to Become Girl: Judge

An Australian judge rules in favor of the child's parents, and several experts, who say the best treatment for an autistic 16-year-old boy who likes to cross dress would be hormone therapy and genital mutilation to yield an appearance of a girl. The 14-year-old sister also agrees with the judge's decision.

From "Autistic boy, 16, allowed to become a woman but judge orders he freeze his sperm in case he wants to be a dad" by Richard Shears, UK Daily Mail 12/28/10

A schoolboy has been given permission to start changing into a woman - provided he has his sperm frozen in case he decides to 'father' children some time in the future.

The extraordinary case has emerged in Australia where a female judge in the Family Court has given the 16-year-old boy the go-ahead to start drug treatment in the first steps to his conversion into womanhood.

Judge Linda Dessau said the teenager, who is mildly autistic, was mature enough to know what he wanted - and he had the support of his parents, six specialists and a lawyer.

He also had the support of his 14-year-old sister, whose clothes he has been secretly dressing up in.

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From "Teenage boy to swap gender" by Janet Fife-Yeomans, Sydney Daily Telegraph 12/29/10

The judge said the boy had so desperately wanted to be a girl he'd become suicidal, once ingesting lead solder at school.

"There is no doubt, on the evidence, that he is struggling and suffering enough with the momentous issues he has had to face," Justice Dessau said.

At age 14, he told his parents he was revolted by his body and wanted to become female.

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2010 Christmas Messiah: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

As millions of Christians give praise to the man-god they consider to be "the way and the truth and the life", so radicals, who are normally so sniffy about anything that looks or sounds like religion, are bending their collective knee to that "truth teller" Assange.

-- From "Left bows down to false WikiLeaks prophet" by Brendan O'Neill posted at The Australian 12/21/10

"Truth in chains" is how one WikiLeaks-loving hack described Assange's temporary imprisonment in Britain for alleged sexual offences committed in Sweden, as if Assange himself is truth, the physical embodiment of all that is right and real.

The pursuit of Assange by law enforcers represents the "persecution of truth itself", an American journalist says.

A contributor to the Huffington Post in the US says, "For our sake, he's being crucified to satisfy right-wingers' bloodlust."

The liberal worship of Assange is speedily becoming embarrassing and creepy.

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Australia’s New Prime Minister is an Atheist

Julia Gillard told ABC radio in Melbourne . . . "I am, of course, a great respecter of religious beliefs, but they are not my beliefs."

-- From "'I don't believe in God,' says Australia's first female PM" by (UK) Daily Mail, Foreign Service 6/30/10

[The Prime Minister said,] "For people of faith, I think the greatest compliment I could pay them is to respect their genuinely-held beliefs and not to engage in some pretence about mine."

Ms Gillard’s views are in contrast with those of former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who was a regular at Canberra church services and opposition leader Tony Abbot, who is a devout Catholic.

Ms Gillard, who was born in the Welsh town of Barry, revealed she had been raised as a Baptist, before converting to Atheism.

The Australian Christian Lobby has since warned Australia’s first female Prime Minister that she may have turned off some of her Christian voters with her comments.

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Surgical 'Miracle:' First Genderless Person

Born a man . . . after surgery, claimed to be a woman . . . been there, done that . . . now claims to be without any sexual classification

UPDATE 9/16/11: Australia introduces a third gender option on passports - "indeterminate"

UPDATE 4/1/10: Australia Rescinds Special Status for "Non-Specific" Sex

-- From "Briton is recognised as world's first officially genderless person" by Heidi Blake, London Telegraph 3/15/10

Norrie May-Welby, 48, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990, at the age of 28.

After becoming unhappy as a woman, May-Welby decided to become a “neuter”. The 48-year-old is now officially recognised as a person of no specific gender.

May-Welby said: “The concepts of man or woman don’t fit me. The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification.”

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From "I’m not a man... or a woman" by Kenny Angove, The Scottish Sun 3/15/10

Norrie May-Welby has been registered on a birth certificate as sex "Not Specified".

. . . Norrie wasn't happy as a woman and stopped taking female hormones to become a "neuter".

Doctors admitted they were unable to determine whether Norrie is male or female.

Now Norrie is thought to be the first gender non-specific person in the world.

The legal landmark was welcomed by the UK's Gender Trust, which said it didn't know of anyone else who'd successfully requested a genderless birth document.

Spokesman Rory Smith said: "It is unusual, but there are many people here who like the idea of being genderless and will welcome this."

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Obama, Reid, other Congressmen Push Homosexuals in Military

To liberal Americans, who worship Europe and other nations, the world's greatest defense establishment (the American military) is seen as just a playground for their sexualization experiments.

UPDATE 9/30/09: Boston Globe implies Pentagon wants to rescind ban on homosexuals in military

-- From "Reid Backs Plan to Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy" by Carl Hulse, posted at The New York Times 7/14/09

With a possible fight brewing in Congress over repeal of the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, came down . . . solidly in favor of eliminating the ban.

“We’re having trouble getting people into the military,” Mr. Reid told reporters when questioned about whether he could support an 18-month moratorium on enforcing a prohibition on gays in the armed forces. “And I think that we shouldn’t turn down anybody that’s willing to fight for our country, certainly based on sexual orientation.”

Mr. Reid said he would go the proposal, being considered by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, one better and support a permanent repeal of the ban.

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From "Allies' stance cited in US gays-in-military debate" by David Crary, The Associated Press 7/13/09

When it comes to dealing with gay personnel in the ranks, the contrasts are stark among some of the world's proudest, toughest militaries - and these differing approaches are invoked by both sides as Americans renew debate over the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

In the United States, more than 12,000 service members - including dozens of highly trained Arabic linguists - have been dismissed since 1994 because it became known they were gay. . . .

In Britain, on the other hand, gay and lesbian service members marched in crisp uniforms in the annual Pride London parade July 4. Gay Australian soldiers and sailors had their own float in Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras parade. In Israel, the army magazine earlier this year featured two male soldiers on the cover, hugging one another.

America's "don't ask, don't tell" policy - which prohibits gays from serving openly in the armed forces - is the target of intensifying opposition, and President Barack Obama says he favors lifting the ban. But he wants to win over skeptics in Congress and the Pentagon, and a fierce debate lies ahead that will inevitably touch on the experiences of allied nations that have no bans.

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, the first Iraq war veteran elected to Congress, has just launched a campaign for a bill to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." He observed British troops in Iraq operating smoothly with a serve-openly policy and bristles at the contention that America's armed forces would suffer morale and recruiting problems if they followed suit.

"We are the military leaders in the world - everybody wants to be like us," said Brian Jones, a retired sergeant major who served in the Army Rangers. "Why in the world would we try to adjust our military model to be like them?"

To read this very lengthy review of homosexuals in militaries around the world, CLICK HERE.

Australian Government to Filter Internet Content

Officials say that "illegal and unwanted content" will be barred from citizens, but refuse to identify what may be deemed "unwanted" -- critics concerned that may include Scripture and Christian content.

-- From "Australia planning to block 10,000 websites" by Bonnie Malkin, The Telegraph in Sydney 11/14/08

The websites will be blocked as part of a government-sponsored trial of its filter technology that will start before Christmas and last six weeks.

The government has already identified 1300 websites that it wants to black list as part of the clean feeds scheme.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the sites mostly contained child pornography and other unwanted content, including images and videos.

Colin Jacobs, board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia said he was concerned at what would be deemed "unwanted content".

"Conroy said the list would contain illegal and unwanted content but we still have to see what would end up on that list."

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Lesbians' Common Sperm Donor Limits Gene Pool

Unregulated sperm donation is leading to unusual situations in which the children of lesbians in Adelaide are mixing socially - creating a risk of incest.

-- From "30 South Australian lesbian mums 'impregnated by same man'" by Tory Shepherd, Adelaide Now (Australia) 10/8/08

One of South Australia's foremost experts in reproductive technology - Reverend Dr Andrew Dutney - says that in one reported case, about 30 lesbians were impregnated by sperm from one man.

The mothers then organised picnics with all the children, raising the fear they might socialise with their half-siblings without realising they are related.

In another case, a man's sperm was used to produce 29 children, most of whom are living in Adelaide. They do not know who their half-siblings are, raising concerns that in a "big country town" like Adelaide, they could accidentally commit incest.

In South Australia it has become standard practice to identify sperm donors, which has put men off donating through reproductive clinics.

Fertility treatments do not generally cater to homosexuals, because the law says it is only for infertile couples or those at risk of transmitting a serious defect.

These factors combine to push many people wanting children to seek help elsewhere - either through "turkey basters" or casual sex with friends or willing participants found online.

To read the entire article, CLICK HERE.

To the average "straight person" the point of this story is elusive, so here's a summary: Because the government regulations require affixing a man's name to his donated sperm, the article claims that men are less likely to want to donate sperm, AND because the fertility treatment centers aren't impregnating the lesbians, the lesbians are being impregnated by anonymous "professional sperm donors" in town, thus resulting in many lesbians birthing children from the same father, AND since the lesbians in town "hang around together," their common children are getting to know each other, and in the event the children don't follow their mothers' homosexuality, the offspring, being half brothers/sisters could produce children of incest. Conclusion: living outside of God's plan gets really complicated!

Archbishop: Abortion Law would Close Catholic Hospitals

The Roman Catholic Church in Australia is playing hardball with the legislature by threatening to close Catholic hospital wards if a new abortion measure becomes law.

-- From "Support for abortion bill looking shaky" posted at The Age 9/23/08

Victoria's controversial abortion legislation is at risk of being defeated in the upper house after the Catholic Church threatened to close some hospital wards if the bill is passed.

Archbishop Denis Hart has threatened to withdraw the maternity and emergency departments from Catholic hospitals if the bill is passed through the Legislative Council next month.

Key to the church's concerns is a clause in the Abortion Law Reform Bill requiring doctors with a conscientious objection to abortion to refer their patient to another doctor who doesn't have the same objection.

The bill, which passed through the lower house earlier this month, seeks to legalise abortion up to 24 weeks gestation, removing it as a crime from Victoria's Crimes Act.

"If, based on their religious beliefs, they don't want to perform an abortion that's fine, they shouldn't be compelled to," Liberty Victoria vice-president Anne O'Rourke told AAP.

"However, to then say they shouldn't be compelled to refer that woman on is taking it to an unnecessary degree."

The Catholic Church has 15 hospitals in Victoria, accounting for about a third of all births in the state.

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Judge Rules Sex Change for 12-year-old Girl

A judge has provoked controversy in Australia by ruling that an unnamed girl may began hormone treatment to block puberty, per an application from her mother for her to begin to reassign her gender.

-- From "Judge gives girl, 12, go-ahead to change sex" by Nick Squires in Sydney, posted at the Telegraph 5/26/08

A family court judgment said it was important to act quickly to prevent the onset of puberty as the girl dreaded the prospect of menstruation and developing breasts, and had threatened self-harm.

It was reported yesterday that during a hearing in December, the court heard that the girl from Victoria had thought of herself as a boy since the age of four. Several medical experts, including a psychiatrist, backed her application for a sex change.

"In my view, and on all the evidence, the treatment is in [the child's] best interests," the judgment said.

Further court applications will have to be made if the child wants to take the process further. Surgery to remove her womb and ovaries or construct a penis cannot be performed before the age of 18.

But the child's father bitterly opposed the decision, in part because of his daughter's young age, the court was told.

A medical ethicist, Dr. Nicholas Tonti-Filippini, said the decision was astounding. "Twelve is a time of great uncertainty for a young person ... I would question whether the medical evidence supports treating [her] in this way."

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