I remember being told that this debate would never happen

At Secondhand Smoke, Wesley J. Smith notes the tragic case of a mother who murdered her newly-born infant: no one answering the poll he includes at this point defends the act in any way whatever but we all know that there are in fact those among our fellow citizens who would...

Women - What Does the Future Hold for Them?

"IN West Africa a businessman buys a nine-year-old child. In Asia a newborn baby is buried alive in the desert sand. In an Oriental country, a toddler starves to death in an orphanage—unwanted and unattended. One common denominator linked these tragedies: All the victims...

Branson's New Virgin Business To Store Stem Cells

"On Thursday, February 1, 2007, English entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, chairman of The Virgin Group Ltd, opens a bio-tech business to cold-store stem cells for parents in the form of umbilical blood from newborn children."

The value of an Asian girl

"Nature, left to its own devices, produces roughly an even split between newborn baby boys and girls - for obvious reasons. Tragically, however, human intervention has skewed those numbers in many Asian countries. The result? Experts say that tens of millions of females are...

US baby 'murdered in microwave'

"A US woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn baby by burning her in a microwave oven. China Arnold's daughter had high-heat internal burns, but no outside marks, Ken Betz from the county coroner's office in Montgomery, Ohio, said."

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CEREBRAL PALSY - What You Should Know

"We do not know the cause of most cases of cerebral palsy. That is, we are unable to determine what caused cerebral palsy in most children who have congenital CP. We do know that the child who is at highest risk for developing CP is the premature, very small baby who does not...

Smith's lawyer says he's newborn's dad (AP)

" 22 minutes ago NASSAU, Bahamas - A lawyer for Anna Nicole Smith " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Anna Nicole Smith said Tuesday that he was the father of the reality TV star's newborn girl, who has been the couple's one "ray of hope" as they have grieved...

Abducted newborn found; Woman arrested (AP)

" UNION, Mo. - A newborn abducted after her mother was slashed was found alive Tuesday in excellent condition, and a woman who had recently miscarried was arrested, officials said. Dr. Peter McCarthy, an emergency room physician at St. John's Hospital in Washington, Mo.,...

Family begs attacker to return Mo. baby

"A grandmother of a newborn girl stolen from a rural home pleaded Saturday for the baby's safe return, as authorities searched for an abductor who stabbed and seriously injured the infant's mother before fleeing with the child. "The family's in agony," Raylene Ochsenbine said...

Panda Inconsolable After Crushing Newborn

"Pandas who lose their young tend to be depressed for a month or so," Guo said, adding that the zoo would assign people to care for her and provide special food to improve her mood.