The Greatest Story Never Told
IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim January 30, 2012 KARACHI, Jan 30, 2012 (IPS) – “It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain,” recalls Alefia Mustansir, 40, Continue Reading …
In the January 1970 Senate testimony on the safety and effectiveness of the first birth control pills – women were not only not allowed to testify – but they were forced to sit in the Senate balcony….far removed from the discussion. 40 years later and women are still ‘not allowed’ to participate in testimony and Continue Reading …
Many development organisations see empowering girls – and enabling them to delay childbearing – as a powerful means to tackle poverty, but the evidence so far doesn’t bear this out.
The call to invest in adolescent girls has been sweeping the development field in recent years. Among the supporters of this policy are key stakeholders such as the UK Department for International Development (DfID), the World Bank and several UN agencies.
Grasping the power of social media—along with the need to decisively move forward—playwright, activist, and feminist Eve Ensler has revitalized the terrain with her announcement on February 14 outlining the launch of the ONE BILLION WOMEN initiative. The yearlong action will culminate on February 14th, 2013, the fifteenth anniversary of V-Day. The goal is to have one billion women and men “dancing, striking, rising” across borders to demonstrate their demand to end the global violence against women.
Ibu Robin Lim is a world-renowned gentle-birth midwife, and the creator of the Bumi Sehat Birth Clinic in Bali (www.bumisehatbali.org). There, Lim offers guidance and midwifery services that result in the birth of over 600 babies each year.
Known as “Mother Robin,” she was granted CNN’s coveted “Hero of the Year” award on December 27, 2011 (http://us.cnn.com/2011/12/11/living/cnn-heroes/index.html?hpt=hp_t1). After granting her the award, CNN wrote “This is the fifth year that CNN, with the help of entertainers and other celebrities, have honored everyday people changing the world.”
According to government health authorities, medical ‘experts,’ and the pharmaceutical industry adverse events after vaccinations are extremely rare. The attitude of these organizations toward individuals who do experience an adverse reaction to vaccines was recently summed up quite clearly in an article titled, The Value of Life, Statistically Speaking by Rick Jones, CFO magazine which stated:
“Inoculating children to prevent infectious disease transmission is good for society from both health and financial perspectives, but some initially healthy children may suffer adverse reactions, injury, or even death. For vaccines, the enormous societal benefits trump the tragedies of the few.”
In other words, those who suffer adverse reactions, injury and even death are viewed as acceptable collateral damage, nothing more than statistics.
Allow us to introduce you to a small sample of the statistically ‘rare’ adverse events after receiving the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.
Last week, before the great contraception compromise, as the “old boys club” attacked President Barack Obama for daring to require religiously affiliated hospitals, universities, and social service agencies—but not churches—to provide birth control coverage free of charge to their employees, Rachel Maddow had a question.
Given that 28 states have birth control mandates with which Catholic institutions comply, that some major Catholic institutions provide contraceptive coverage, and that new polling shows that the majority of Catholics agree that female Catholic hospital and university employees should have the same right to contraceptive coverage as other women, Maddow asked: How does the Beltway media narrative get so entirely captured by the other side?
The best, surest way to fund those causes in which you believe, is to fund them personally. What if the One Million Strong For Women website was being used as a direct funding channel for Planned Parenthood to carry out its mission? Lets look at the numbers, shall we. One Million Strong Women donating an average $25 would garner $25,000,000 for Planned Parenthood to use as in any manner they saw fit. These donations would have no strings, no restrictions, and more importantly, no sticky fingered Senators making a grab for the cash in exchange for “fighting” for your reproductive health. What if One Million Strong Women, felt passionately enough about organization’s mission, to bust out $25 a month, $300 a year, for Planned Parenthood? What could Planned Parenthood accomplish with $300,000,000 annually?
With an annual budget of $1,029,700,000, Planned Parenthood provided services for 3,000,000 clients in the United States and extended services to approximately 1,000,000 clients in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. That rounds out to $257.43 per client served. With direct contributions of $300,000,000 donated by women, who believe in, and more importantly support, the mission of Planned Parenthood, the organization could offer services to 1,165,365 women.
In the summer of 1518, in Strasbourg, France, a woman known as Frau Troffea suddenly began dancing in the middle of a street. Her mortified husband commanded her to stop, but she didn’t, or couldn’t, and within seven days, Frau Troffea was joined by 34 more villagers. By the end of the month, 400 townspeople were frenzied with dance, unable to stop even for sleep, and some of them died from stroke, heart attack, broken ribs, or literal exhaustion.
“The Dancing Plague” remains a medical mystery. Some believe the outbreak was caused by ergotism, a hallucinogenic illness that can result from eating moldy bread. Chorea, a disorder of the nervous system that presents much like epilepsy, is another possibility.
Hospital-based registered nurses, who are members of National Nurses United, will make a statement before the Health and Human Services National Vaccine Advisory Committee in a public forum on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. NNU, with 170,000 RN members, is the largest professional association and union of direct-care registered nurses in the United States, with more than 95 percent of the nurses working in acute-care hospitals.
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