http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic_pregnancy
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An ectopic pregnancy, or eccysis, is a complication of pregnancy in which the pregnancy implants outside the uterine cavity.^[1] With rare exceptions, ectopic pregnancies are not viable. Furthermore, they are dangerous for the mother, internal bleeding being a common complication. Most ectopic pregnancies occur in the Fallopian tube (so-called tubal pregnancies), but implantation can also occur in the cervix, ovaries, and abdomen. An ectopic pregnancy is a potential medical emergency, and, if not treated properly, can lead to death.
In a normal pregnancy, the fertilized egg enters the uterus and settles into the uterine lining where it has plenty of room to divide and grow. About 1% of pregnancies are in an ectopic location with implantation not occurring inside of the womb, and of these 98% occur in the Fallopian tubes.
Detection of ectopic pregnancy in early gestation has been achieved mainly due to enhanced diagnostic capability. Despite all these notable successes in diagnostics and detection techniques ectopic pregnancy remains a source of serious maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially in countries with poor prenatal care.^[2]
In a typical ectopic pregnancy, the embryo adheres to the lining of the fallopian tube and burrows into the tubal lining. Most commonly this invades vessels and will cause bleeding. This intratubal bleeding hematosalpinx expels the implantation out of the tubal end as a tubal abortion. Tubal abortion is a common type of miscarriage. There is no inflammation of the tube in ectopic pregnancy. The pain is caused by prostaglandins released at the implantation site, and by free blood in the peritoneal cavity, which is a local irritant. Sometimes the bleeding might be heavy enough to threaten the health or life of the woman. Usually this degree of bleeding is due to delay in diagnosis, but sometimes, especially if the implantation is in the proximal tube (just before it enters the uterus), it may invade into the nearby Sampson artery, causing heavy bleeding earlier than usual.
If left untreated, about half of ectopic pregnancies will resolve without treatment. These are the tubal abortions. The advent of methotrexate treatment for ectopic pregnancy has reduced the need for surgery; however, surgical intervention is still required in cases where the Fallopian tube has ruptured or is in danger of doing so. This intervention may be laparoscopic or through a larger incision, known as a laparotomy.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923637,00.html

The Catholic View

Monday, Sep. 24, 1984

Opposition to abortion is one of the clearest and oldest moral preachings of the Roman Catholic Church; it dates back to the 1st century. The destruction of the fetus, the church teaches, is a morally indefensible attack on human life. The only exception is "indirect abortion," or abortion as an incidental byproduct of a necessary attempt to save the mother's life. Ectopic pregnancy and cancer of the uterus are grounds for indirect abortion. Rape and incest are not exceptions, because the fetus conceived has the same right to life as any other fetus.
The Catholic view is based on a general respect for all human life, but it does not depend exclusively on the belief that a separate human being appears at the instant of conception. The teaching is that precisely because no one knows when the soul enters the body (or in secular terms, when the fetus becomes a person), the baby-to-be should be given the benefit of the doubt and be fully protected. One blunt analogy: no one would think it morally correct to heave a grenade into a room that is probably empty but just might have a human being in it, so why destroy a fetus that might be a person?
Some dissenters within the church, however, have zeroed in on this element of doubt. For these Catholics, including a few theologians, the primary questions are: When is a fetus a person, and how do we know it? The implication, that there may be a brief period during which abortion is licit, is not new in the church, though it has been a minor refrain in Catholic theology and explicitly rejected many times by the Vatican. An influential 17th century theologian named Torreblanca taught that before the fetus is animated by the soul, a woman may have an abortion if she is in danger of death or in danger of losing her reputation. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval theologian-philosophers, had opened the same door in the 13th century with his view that the soul does not enter the body immediately upon conception. On the basis of the sketchy biology of the era, theologians estimated that the soul joined the body at the 40th day of pregnancy. Church law, for a long period, offered different penalties for abortions before and after the entry of the soul, though both kinds of abortion were considered wrong. Citing these examples, the Rev. Charles Curran, professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America, argues that there is room for the church to modify its stance on abortion, at least concerning the first few weeks of life. That possibility, however, is unlikely.
For the past two hundred years, the view that the embryo may not be fully human has been in near total eclipse. All modern Popes have opposed abortion from the instant of conception, and the Second Vatican Council termed abortion "an unspeakable crime." In recent years the church has shown a willingness to cast a fresh eye at the morality of nuclear war and capital punishment, a trend that may reinforce its desire to protect embryonic life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curran_(theologian)
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Charles Curran (theologian)

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The Rev. Charles E. Curran (born March 30, 1934) is a moral theologian. He currently serves at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, as the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values.

Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 Education 3 Selected publications 4 External links 5 References

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Charles Curran was ordained in Rome in 1958 for the Diocese of Rochester, New York. As a young priest, he was a peritus at the Second Vatican Council. Curran was previously removed from his tenured faculty position at Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1967 for his views on birth control, but was reinstated after a five-day faculty-led strike.^[1] Curran then returned to prominence, however, in 1968 when he, along with a group of some 600 theologians, authored a response to Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI's encyclical affirming the traditional ban on artificial contraception. Curran continued to teach and write on the Church's teaching in various moral issues, including premarital sex, masturbation, contraception, abortion, homosexual acts, divorce, euthanasia, and in vitro fertilization throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Curran was removed from the faculty of Catholic University of America in 1986 as a dissident against the Church's moral teaching. He maintains in his 1986 "Faithful Dissent" that Catholics who may dissent nevertheless accept the teaching authority of the Pope, bishops and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
In 1986, the Vatican declared that although a tenured professor, Curran could no longer teach theology at Catholic University of America schools, because "clashes with church authorities finally culminated in a decision by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by then-Cardinal Josef Ratzinger [now Pope Benedict XVI], that Curran was neither suitable nor eligible to be a professor of Catholic theology."^[2] The areas of dispute included publishing articles that debated theological and ethical views regarding divorce, "artificial contraception", "masturbation, pre-marital intercourse and homosexual acts."^[3]
As noted in an American Association of University Professors (AAUP) report, "Had it not been for the intervention of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Professor Curran would undoubtedly still be active in the [Catholic University's] Department of Theology, a popular teacher, honored theologian, and respected colleague."^[4] Curran's attorneys argued that CUA did not follow proper procedures or its own policy statements in handling the case. In essence, CUA claimed that the Vatican's actions against Curran trumped any campus-based policy or tenure rules.
In 1989, he filed suit against Catholic University, and the court determined that the University had the right to fire him for teaching views in contradiction to the school's religion.^[5]
While the controversy was unfolding, Curran taught as a visiting professor at Cornell University and Auburn University. Since then, Curran has taken a full tenured professorship at Southern Methodist University and has published personal accounts about his experience with the Roman Catholic Church and his viewpoint on the actions of Roman Catholic Church authorities. Although Curran has been deemed, by the Vatican, unfit to teach Catholic theology, a recent 2008 survey^[which?] showed that a plurality of SMU students are Catholics, surmounting Methodists by about 2,000 respondents. Curran is a major financial benefactor of SMU's Catholic organization. As of May 8^[update], CUA remains on the list of AAUP censured institutions.^[4]
He has remained a controversial figure. His invitation to speak at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth in 2006, was controversial, with College President, Mgr. Dermot Farrell forced to deny any involvement, though without actually preventing his speaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostaglandin
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A prostaglandin is any member of a group of lipid compounds that are derived enzymatically from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body. Every prostaglandin contains 20 carbon atoms, including a 5-carbon ring.
They are mediators and have a variety of strong physiological effects, such as regulating the contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle tissue.^[1] Prostaglandins are not hormones, but autocrine or paracrine, which are locally acting messenger molecules. They differ from hormones in that they are not produced at a discrete site but in many places throughout the human body. Also, their target cells are present in the immediate vicinity of the site of their secretion (of which there are many).
The prostaglandins, together with the thromboxanes and prostacyclins, form the prostanoid class of fatty acid derivatives, a subclass of eicosanoids.

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Remember we are all in this together as 'WE' the people and the bad guys run the show as in the following photo.  ...cal

Don't give to the usual places as they are a farce.  (I saw splashlife.com on 'The View' today and think I'll do more research to see if they are the good guys and girls in the world that wanna help.)

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March 31, 2011

'Prayers work -- now I'm a Lakers fan'

Now this is fun:
Gracing the Los Angeles Lakers' court during morning practice yesterday were Archbishop José Gomez and his friend, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru. Whispers in the Loggia has the scoop, reporting that Cardinal Cipriani's basketball roots go back to his six years on the Peruvian national team before he entered seminary. As for the City of Angel's new archbishop, the San Antonio transplant admitted that he's had to change loyalties from the Spurs to the Lakers.
People have praying for his conversion in that regard, Archbishop Gomez told an interviewer from the Los Angeles Times after the morning practice session. "And you know, prayers work," he said with a smile. "Now I'm a Lakers fan."
"I'm also praying for the Spurs," he confessed, when discussing the coming NBA championships. "But a sign from God is that the Lakers are playing much better."
-- Elizabeth Hansen

2) April 01, 2011

The ad that's getting under Planned Parenthood's skin

CatholicVote.org is at it again with another powerful ad -- this time on the battle over Planned Parenthood's federal funding.
Launched in partnership with the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, the new TV ad campaign features Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood clinic director who walked away from her job in Houston after assisting in an ultrasound-guided abortion. In the ad, Johnson refutes her former employer's claims of being dedicated to women's health.
"Their primary profit center and entire corporate culture is about abortion," Johnson says. She later adds, "My superiors actually instructed me to increase the number of abortions at my facility."
Planned Parenthood spokesman Tait Sye blasted Johnson's statements as "entirely false and baseless," adding that the ad's claim that 98% of Planned Parenthood's services for pregnant women are abortions is misleading.
In an email blast today, CatholicVote.org president Brian Burch responded to Sye, writing:

According to their own fact sheet, Planned Parenthood helped 7,021 patients with prenatal care and logged only 977 adoption referrals in 2009. Those combined services account for just 2% of their services to pregnant women.

So for every adoption referral, Planned Parenthood performs 340 abortions. They don't care about helping low-income pregnant women unless those low income women want an abortion!

That’s why they’re running scared over our ad featuring Abby Johnson.

-- Elizabeth Hansen

So what accounts for the other 98%? You guessed it: Abortion. Planned Parenthood performed 332,278 abortions in 2009 — in fact, Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider.

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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_21_37/ai_72960577/
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Peru's controversial new cardinal, Juan Luis Cipriani, longtime opponent of human rights activists in Peru, got a cool reception at his first Mass as cardinal here. The Mass was punctuated by shouts of "The church yes, Cipriani no," and "Christ is justice, not complicity."

http://www.blythe.org/peru-pcp/intro/mrta-e.htm
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1. The Peruvian regime and the MRTA were comfortably seated at the negotiating table. All protagonists in the hostage crisis, including the MRTA had free access to the media. MRTA's demands were basically the following: the appointment of "guarantors of peace," release of their prisoners, changes of the government's economic policy, a war tax, and that the assaulting commando would be taken to the jungle. The first demand was quickly complied with by the government when it appointed (with MRTA's endorsement) two sworn enemies of the Peruvian people as "guarantors of peace." Those appointed were the priest
Juan Luis Cipriani and the Canadian intelligence expert Anthony Vincent. Besides, the regime had the participation of Domingo Palermo (an individual close to SIN). The three of them have been heavily involved in the counterinsurgency war in Perú on behalf of the regime for years. The apprentice of Pinochet Hermoza Ríos, chief of the reactionary armed forces, candidly admits the participation of these three individuals on behalf of the government: "the information they gave us was fundamental to evaluate the psychological profile of each of the terrorists, their daily routine and their lack of confidence. Also, SIN utilized secret technical procedures -planting of devices to monitor inside, including their daily schedule to play soccer." (Pg. 99, Nicolás Hermoza Ríos, Mamotreto "Operation Chavin de Huantar.")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley
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Under Wesley's direction, Methodists became leaders in many social issues of the day, including the prison reform and abolitionism movements. Wesley's contribution as a theologian was to propose a system of opposing theological stances. His greatest theological achievement was his promotion of what he termed "Christian Perfection", or holiness of heart and life. Wesley held that, in this life, Christians could come to a state in which the love of God, or perfect love, reigned supreme in their hearts.