Christianity, Culture, Vocation
In Philadelphia, the abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial for capital murder, having killed a patient through his ineptitude and babies born alive through his cruelty. The major media has up-to-now pretty much ignored this trial, but is now giving it some attention, thanks in part to a twitter campaign started by Lutheran journalist Mollie Hemingway. [Read more...]
Did you know that you don’t own your DNA? Different companies hold the patent to about 41% of your genes. That means whenever those DNA strands are tested by a doctor, the company collects a royalty. Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear a case that will potentially rule on whether human DNA can be patented. [Read more...]
More bad news for the coming Obamacare trainwreck. From the Associated Press:
Medical claims costs — the biggest driver of health insurance premiums — will jump an average 32 percent for Americans’ individual policies under President Barack Obama’s overhaul, according to a study by the nation’s leading group of financial risk analysts.
The report could turn into a big headache for the Obama administration at a time when many parts of the country remain skeptical about the Affordable Care Act. The estimates were recently released by the Society of Actuaries to its members.
While some states will see medical claims costs per person decline, the report concluded the overwhelming majority will see double-digit increases in their individual health insurance markets, where people purchase coverage directly from insurers. [Read more...]
Couples seeking egg donors have been placing ads in Ivy League student newspapers, seeking the perfect blonde, blue-eyed Aryan with a high IQ to sell one of her eggs for $20,000. Nothing is said about what the ovary-manipulating drugs may do to her. [Read more...]
C. Everett Koop, the Surgeon General under President Reagan, has died at age 96. The mainstream obituaries are hailing his work to battle smoking and the AIDS epidemic. But he was also a devout Christian and a crusader against abortion. Koop collaborated with Francis Schaeffer on the book and video series Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, a work that helped mobilize Christians for the pro-life cause. [Read more...]
The cost of health insurance will go up dramatically under Obamacare, people are starting to realize. This will be true especially for the young healthy types that aren’t buying insurance now but will soon have to; that is to say, the currently uninsured, the ones Obamacare is supposed to help!
What a surprise! Who knew? Who could have guessed that would happen? How could forcing insurance companies to take everybody, charge everyone the same, and provide free services possibly raise insurance rates? I thought Obamacare was the way we were going to rein in health care costs. After all, the program is called “The Affordable Health Care Act”!
Yet more reason to wonder, how can Obamacare possibly–even theoretically– work? [Read more...]
Now we must staff the bureaucracy required to run Obamacare. This may at least put a dent in unemployment, but at untold costs, not just to the federal government but to states and insurance companies. For example, the law requires the hiring of thousands of “navigators,” whose purpose is to help people pick out an insurance company. [Read more...]
The Obama administration released new guidelines meant to resolve the issue of religious institutions having to provide free contraceptive and abortifacient coverage under Obamacare. This will have no effect on businesses run by pro-life individuals, who will still have to provide the coverage. Read details after the jump. So is this a solution? [Read more...]
George Will reports on an article by Thomas A. Lambert, a University of Missouri law professor, who argues that the Supreme Court decision to approve Obamacare by defining its penalty for not having insurance as a “tax” may, in fact, ensure its failure:
[Chief Justice John] Roberts invoked what Lambert calls “a longstanding interpretive canon that calls for the court, if possible, to interpret statutes in a way that preserves their constitutionality.” Roberts did this by ruling that what Congress called a “penalty” for not obeying the mandate was really a tax on noncompliance.
This must, Lambert thinks, have momentous — and deleterious — implications for the functioning of the ACA. The problems arise from the interplay of two ACA provisions — “guaranteed issue” and “community rating.” [Read more...]
A Harvard geneticist is seeking a woman to be the surrogate mother of a Neanderthal baby. From the London Daily Mail:
They’re usually thought of as a brutish, primitive species.
So what woman would want to give birth to a Neanderthal baby?
Yet this incredible scenario is the plan of one of the world’s leading geneticists, who is seeking a volunteer to help bring man’s long-extinct close relative back to life.
Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School believes he can reconstruct Neanderthal DNA and resurrect the species which became extinct 33,000 years ago. [Read more...]
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