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		<title>India&#8217;s Surrogate Baby Factory &#8211; Westerners Implant Embryos in Desperate Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 02:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Carol Botha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>Above a cheap mobile phone shop in a chaotic street in north Delhi, there is a grimy apartment whose peeling walls are decorated with photographs of adoring mothers nursing their babies.
The woman cooing at her child in the biggest portrait is beautiful, white and affluent-looking — in stark contrast to the flat’s five residents, four of whom are pregnant, while the other is being pumped full of hormones in the hope she will soon conceive.  </p></p><p>Read the complete article and related information at <a href="http://holyhormones.com/iconic-woman/womens-history/indias-surrogate-baby-factory-westerners-implant-embryos-in-desperate-women/">India&#8217;s Surrogate Baby Factory &#8211; Westerners Implant Embryos in Desperate Women</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>[Holy Hormones Honey! Women using desperate women as surrogates. Wow. Wonder if the babies born from Indian women are healthier than white women.  Whatever would you tell your child? Maybe the wealthy are actually the desperate women.]</p>
<h3>The designer baby factory: Eggs from beautiful Eastern Europeans, sperm from wealthy Westerners and embryos implanted in desperate women</h3>
<p>By <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=David+Jones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Jones</a></p>
<p><strong>PUBLISHED:</strong> 16:12 EST, 4 May 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-16169" style="10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Wyzax" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Wyzax-217x300.jpg" alt="" width="217" height="300" />Above a cheap mobile phone shop in a chaotic street in north Delhi, there is a grimy apartment whose peeling walls are decorated with photographs of adoring mothers nursing their babies.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>The woman cooing at her child in the biggest portrait is beautiful, white and affluent-looking — in stark contrast to the flat’s five residents, four of whom are pregnant, while the other is being pumped full of hormones in the hope she will soon conceive.  </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>They are all uneducated, bare-footed, dirt-poor Indian women from outlying villages — and given the emotional turmoil that awaits them, one would have thought the very last thing they would wish to do is spend their enforced nine months of confinement here gazing upon images of maternal bliss.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Nominally, this forlorn place is a care home for surrogate mothers — at least that is how it is described by the company that runs it, Wyzax Surrogacy Consultancy, which is cashing in on India’s booming new babies-for-sale business. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>It boasts of being the country’s first ‘one-stop shop for outsourced pregnancy’. In truth, though, it is nothing less than a baby factory; the end of a grim production line on which children are being designed to order for wealthy couples, mainly from Western countries including Britain, as if they were custom-built cars.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Indeed, as I have discovered during an eye-opening three-week investigation into India’s burgeoning, billion-dollar surrogacy industry, the motor-manufacturing analogy is all too apt. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>For under an astonishing — and many will think nightmarishly futuristic — programme devised to make the most efficient use of resources, or ‘optimise’ their baby producing system, as they put it, Wyzax and their partner agencies now source and assemble the ‘components’ of some babies in a variety of different countries before flying the resulting embryo to India to be implanted in the surrogate.</span></p>
<p><span>According to the Delhi-based agency’s whizz-kid young bosses, Vivek Kohli and Jagatjeet Singh, they do this for a small but growing number of clients — about 15 per cent — who, for various reasons, don’t wish to use Indian eggs or an Indian fertility clinic, or even set foot in India until they take delivery of the baby they have ordered.</span></p>
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		<title>Shocking News Over IVF and Rise in Birth Abnormalities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 23:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Carol Botha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>Fertility clinics are facing demands to restrict the most popular form of IVF after a shocking new report linked it to an increased risk of birth defects.

The study created a major alert after revealing the ICSI treatment, used by 23,000 women in the UK every year, creates a ‘sky high’ chance of having a baby with serious abnormalities.</p></p><p>Read the complete article and related information at <a href="http://holyhormones.com/womens-health/reproductive-system/infertility/shocking-news-over-ivf-and-rise-in-birth-abnormalities/">Shocking News Over IVF and Rise in Birth Abnormalities</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>[Holy Hormones Honey! I guess the message here is loud and strong - don't mess with Mother Nature.  Sadly chronic stress, environmental toxins and lack of nutrition have raised infertility rates for women and men.  Can we really expect an artificial method to save our souls? I think we are beginning to understand they anything artificial, or synthetic actually causes more problems in the long run.  I read somewhere else that the egg and sperm become altered in a petri dish - out of their natural environment.  I would imagine that the stronger the health of the man and woman having IVF and their sperm and egg have a better chance of sustaining an artificial environment.  What does that go back to?  Nutrition.  Pure and simple.  Hmmm - also read somewhere else that nutrients increased fertility. double Hmmm.]</p>
<h3>IVF treatment used by 23,000 women in turmoil as shock report reveals that birth abnormalities have DOUBLED</h3>
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<li><span>Survey shows injections used by 20,000 British couples a year reveals one in ten babies born with abnormalities</span></li>
<li><span>Findings show all other IVF procedures are safe</span></li>
<li><span>Clinics accused of profiting from more expensive procedure</span></li>
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<p>By <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Jo+Mcfarlane" rel="nofollow">Jo Mcfarlane</a></p>
<p><strong>PUBLISHED:</strong> 16:57 EST, 5 May 2012</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16142" style="10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="sperm egg IVF" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/sperm-egg-IVF-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Fertility clinics are facing demands to restrict the most popular form of IVF after a shocking new report linked it to an increased risk of birth defects.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>The study created a major alert after revealing the ICSI treatment, used by 23,000 women in the UK every year, creates a ‘sky high’ chance of having a baby with serious abnormalities.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>The procedure, which involves injecting a single sperm into an egg, is used in both the NHS and the private sector, and now represents more than half of all IVF treatments. But it is more expensive than standard IVF, raising fears some clinics may be promoting it to increase profits. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Scientists behind the latest survey of 300,000 births found that one child in ten born following ICSI has a defect – twice the level of the general population – but that standard IVF has no extra risks compared with natural births.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Following the report, other experts called for clinics to use ICSI only when there was no medical alternative, and demanded a national database of children born from IVF be set up urgently.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Women who undergo the most popular IVF treatment in Britain are twice as likely to have babies with birth defects as the rest of the population, the shocking new survey revealed.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Women who undergo the ICSI process, in which a single sperm is injected into an egg, are more likely to have a baby with problems including cleft palate, heart and lung conditions, cerebral palsy and blood disorders.</span></p>
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		<title>Menstrual Dystopia &#8211; Margaret Atwood&#8217;s Prophecy in the Handmaids Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Carol Botha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>Atwood envisions a world in which, due to a combination of environmental disasters, most women have become incapable of conceiving, leading to the creation of a cadre of “handmaids” who still have normal menstrual cycles and who are assigned to the leaders (“Commanders”) of the nation to bear them children who are immediately turned over to their infertile wives.</p></p><p>Read the complete article and related information at <a href="http://holyhormones.com/sister_song/menstrual-dystopia-margaret-atwoods-prophecy-in-the-handmaids-tale/">Menstrual Dystopia &#8211; Margaret Atwood&#8217;s Prophecy in the Handmaids Tale</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>A must read for every woman. Atwood wrote about a generation of women going sterile 30 years ago.</p>
<p><strong>Margaret Atwood&#8217;s Menstrual Dystopia</strong></p>
<h3><strong>Society from Menstrual Cycle Research</strong><strong><br />
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<p><strong>February 27, 2012</strong><br />
<strong>by David Linton</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-15587" style="10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Atwood" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Atwood.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="280" />The menstrual cycle has been of interest to novelists from time to time and some of their work has received critical attention by scholars, most notably in Dana Medoro’s <em><a href="http://goo.gl/Sz1vQ" target="_blank">Bleeding in America</a></em>, a seminal study that assesses the menstrual elements in the novels of Faulkner, Pynchon, and Morrison (<a href="http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/02/22/blood-on-the-page-book-review/">previously reviewed here</a>).  But perhaps the novel that is devoted most completely to the social, political, religious, cultural and economic impact of disruptions in the healthy functioning of the menstrual cycle is Margaret Atwood’s 1985 depiction of a menstrual dystopia, <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, 27 years after its publication, the novel resonates with relevance to the current circumstances of our lives.  As such, it deserves recognition along with those other prescient novels of a dysfunctional future, <em>Fahrenheit 451</em>, <em>Brave New World</em>, and <em>1984</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Atwood envisions a world in which, due to a combination of environmental disasters, most women have become incapable of conceiving, leading to the creation of a cadre of “handmaids” who still have normal menstrual cycles and who are assigned to the leaders (“Commanders”) of the nation to bear them children who are immediately turned over to their infertile wives.  They enact a weird form of surrogacy patterned after the story in Genesis of Rachel’s handmaid having sex with Jacob so that Rachel can have a child.  The handmaids (who do not have names of their own but instead are referred to as possessions of their Commanders with the prefix “of,” as in OfFred) have sex by lying between the legs of the Commander’s wife so as to pretend that the congress is “normal.”  The fiction is continued when a birth occurs with the wife simulating labor surrounded by other wives while the handmaid delivers the child elsewhere.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The novel is prescient on many levels.  Our own concerns with the potential effects of environmental contamination on reproduction are strikingly anticipated:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The air got too full, once, of chemicals, rays, radiation, the water swarmed with toxic molecules, all of that takes years to clean up, and meanwhile they creep into your body, camp out in your fatty cells. . . . Women took medicines, pills, men sprayed trees, cows ate grass, all that souped-up piss flowed into the rivers.  Not to mention the exploding atomic power plants. . . and the mutant strain of syphilis no mold could touch.” (143-144)</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a result, the birth rate plummets far below replacement level, schools are closed for lack of children and fertility becomes a rare commodity that is carefully controlled as women still capable of conceiving are doled out as special benefits to the rulers of the state.  All of this occurs in the context of a culture of religious fanaticism with a full complement of hypocrisy and brutality common to extremes of any stripe.</p>
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		<title>Science Fiction Eerily Depicts the Future of Reproductive Rights</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leslie Carol Botha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>If everything from technology to politics will be different in the future, then so will human reproduction. That's why so much science fiction deals with the question of how humans make babies — or don't make them — in alternate worlds that are often quite close to our own. It's also why reproduction is a political issue. After all, a political campaign represents the promise of a new kind of future. What will happen if the state takes control of human reproduction? The answers could be weirder than you think — and might terrify pro-life politicians as much as pro-choice advocates. Here are some of the scenarios supplied by science fiction.</p></p><p>Read the complete article and related information at <a href="http://holyhormones.com/holy-hormones-honey-the-greatest-story-never-told/science-fiction-eerily-depicts-the-future-of-reproductive-rights/">Science Fiction Eerily Depicts the Future of Reproductive Rights</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>Science fiction does portray the future of women&#8217;s wombs&#8230;.. Margaret Atwood&#8217;s book, <em>Handmaids Tale</em> caught my attention in the 1980&#8242;s.  Although she portrayed a generation of women gone sterile from nuclear fallout&#8230;. it could be depicted that we will have a generation of sterile women from environmental toxins, extended use of hormone suppressants in birth control and Bill Gates favorite for population control &#8211; vaccinations.</p>
<h3>What does science fiction tell us about the future of reproductive rights?</h3>
<p><a href="http://io9.com/5887139/what-does-science-fiction-tell-us-about-the-future-of-reproductive-rights?utm_source=io9+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=163b7f3803-UA-142218-29&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank"><strong>109 &#8211; Welcome from the future</strong></a><strong><br />
February 22, 2012</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-15516" style="10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="109" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/109.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="191" />If everything from technology to politics will be different in the future, then so will human reproduction. That&#8217;s why so much science fiction deals with the question of how humans make babies — or don&#8217;t make them — in alternate worlds that are often quite close to our own. It&#8217;s also why reproduction is a political issue. After all, a political campaign represents the promise of a new kind of future. What will happen if the state takes control of human reproduction? The answers could be weirder than you think — and might terrify pro-life politicians as much as pro-choice advocates. Here are some of the scenarios supplied by science fiction.</p>
<p><strong>State-controlled reproduction is a nightmare</strong></p>
<p>Perhaps the best known work of science fiction about state-controlled reproduction is Margaret Atwood&#8217;s Christian fundamentalist nightmare, <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale</em>. Written in the 1980s (and adapted into a film in the 1990s), it&#8217;s about what would happen if right wing Christian politicians took control of North America in the wake of a nuclear disaster that&#8217;s left most of the population sterile. Women who are fertile become &#8220;handmaids&#8221; in the homes of wealthy patriarchs whose wives cannot bear children. Handmaids undergo a humiliating ritual where the patriarch tries to get them pregnant while their barren wives watch &#8211; the idea is that God will approve of this because it emulates an Old Testament scenario and the wives are participating &#8220;willingly.&#8221; In reality, the system turns women into property and also sets them against each other. Atwood imagines state-regulated reproduction as a horrific combination of authoritarianism in the public sphere, and spousal abuse and rape in the domestic one.</p>
<p>Other works imagine the state regulating reproduction using the carrot rather than the stick. <em>Brave New World</em>, published in the early 1930s during the height of the eugenics craze in the United States, imagines a future where the government breeds humans for specialized tasks. Some are designed to be strong but stupid low-caste workers, while others (the Alphas) are given perfect minds and physiques in order to take their places as societal leaders. Every child is also put through years of behavioral conditioning to reinforce their genetic predilections. The result is a society where everybody is content with their positions and sex is purely recreational. Similarly, the movie <em>GATTACA</em> imagines a future where everyone is genetically engineered for various class positions. Both stories include &#8220;wild type&#8221; characters, non-GMO people whose perspectives cast doubt on the justice of a system where the state determines who you are from conception onward.</p>
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		<title>Fertility Planning Now Part of Cancer Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Carol Botha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>A young woman raised her hand at the end of a seminar for young cancer survivors.

It was last spring, during an I[2]Y (or "I'm Too Young for This!") meeting, and the seminar was on post-cancer family planning.

She said she received radiation to her abdomen during treatment for cancer in her teens and, as a result, was being told that her eggs were most likely not viable, though she is well within child-bearing age. She was upset that fertility issues were not discussed with her and her family at the time of her treatment.

Until recently, standard cancer treatments have not included female fertility preservation as a joint concern.

If cancer was discovered, regardless of the patient's age, it was treated as quickly and as aggressively as deemed necessary (chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation being the primary tools), and that was that; fertility was not generally a part of the conversation.

But as awareness grows about the potential effects of treatments on female fertility, and as fertility-preservation techniques become more sophisticated, these discussions are changing.</p></p><p>Read the complete article and related information at <a href="http://holyhormones.com/womens-health/reproductive-system/pregnancy-reproductive-health/fertility-planning-now-part-of-cancer-treatment/">Fertility Planning Now Part of Cancer Treatment</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>Chemo can cause infertility&#8230;.. chemo kills everything&#8230;. just like antibiotics&#8230;. so much for advanced medicine &#8211; but true of a male medical policy&#8230;. similar to their war policy <em>&#8216;go in for the kill and take no prisoners.&#8217;</em></p>
<h3>Cancer Treatment Now Includes Fertility Planning</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.womensenews.org/story/medicine/120221/cancer-treatment-now-includes-fertility-planning?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=email" target="_blank"><strong>Women&#8217;s eNews</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>By Pamela Grossman</strong><br />
<strong>WeNews correspondent</strong><br />
<strong>Wednesday, February 22, 2012</strong></p>
<p><em>Young women facing cancer treatments have fertility-preservation options to consider. Egg freezing is a newer technique, and expensive, but some programs are free of charge. Embryo freezing is more advanced but requires legal safeguards.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-15500" style="10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Fertility" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Fertility.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="295" />A young woman raised her hand at the end of a seminar for young cancer survivors.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was last spring, during an I[2]Y (or &#8220;I&#8217;m Too Young for This!&#8221;) meeting, and the seminar was on post-cancer family planning.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">She said she received radiation to her abdomen during treatment for cancer in her teens and, as a result, was being told that her eggs were most likely not viable, though she is well within child-bearing age. She was upset that fertility issues were not discussed with her and her family at the time of her treatment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Until recently, standard cancer treatments have not included female fertility preservation as a joint concern.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If cancer was discovered, regardless of the patient&#8217;s age, it was treated as quickly and as aggressively as deemed necessary (chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation being the primary tools), and that was that; fertility was not generally a part of the conversation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But as awareness grows about the potential effects of treatments on female fertility, and as fertility-preservation techniques become more sophisticated, these discussions are changing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Several programs now help girls and women who are facing cancer treatments to retain their fertility options for the future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One of them, the &#8220;Fertility Rescue&#8221; program of the Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine (with locations in Illinois, Texas, Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and California), offers free egg-retrieval cycles for women of childbearing age who are facing treatments that might compromise their fertility.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The eggs are then frozen and stored, to be thawed at the time that a pregnancy is desired. This is an important resource given that each egg-retrieval effort can cost $10,000 and few insurers offer coverage.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;The main costs are our fees, which we waive,&#8221; says Sher&#8217;s Dr. Drew Tortoriello. &#8220;The medications are being donated by the pharmaceutical companies. We also do not charge for storage for the first two years.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Increase Your Fertility by Decreasing Your Exposure to Chemicals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Carol Botha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>With rates of infertility on the rise and testosterone levels in decline, we may need to factor in chemical exposures to the future of our love lives. Infertility affects one in eight couples in the United States—that’s 7.3 million people who have trouble with pregnancy, according to the CDC. And although it was once thought that infertility was a “female problem,” medical evidence shows that infertility is an equal opportunity problem: One-third of infertility is attributed to the female, one-third to the male and one-third to combined factors from both male and female.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>If the body is a wondrous organism&#8230; then it would make sense that it would protect its progeny from chemical exposure that would threaten the &#8216;survival of the fittest&#8217; theory.</p>
<p>In other words&#8230;.. it the brain/body senses that it is being threatened by a chemical onslaught it will trigger the reproductive system to shut down.</p>
<h3><strong>Reduce Chemicals to Increase Fertility</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://healthychild.org/blog/comments/021412_reduce_chemicals_to_increase_fertility/" target="_blank"><strong>Healthy Child &#8211; Healthy World</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>February 14, 2102</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://healthychild.org/about/team/C134/" target="_blank">by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director, Healthy Child Healthy World</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-15490" style="10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="CoupleInLove_CC_300" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CoupleInLove_CC_300.jpg" alt="" width="185" height="185" />On Valentine’s Day, the last thing you want to think about is whether toxic chemicals will prevent you from starting a family. But with rates of infertility on the rise and testosterone levels in decline, we may need to factor in <a href="http://healthychild.org/blog/comments/chemical_impacts_on_reproductive_health/#ixzz1mH84h1zz" target="_blank">chemical exposures</a> to the future of our love lives. Infertility affects one in eight couples in the United States—that’s <strong>7.3 million people who have trouble with pregnancy</strong>, according to the CDC. And although it was once thought that infertility was a “female problem,” medical evidence shows that <a href="http://www.resolve.org/about/fast-facts-about-fertility.html" target="_blank">infertility is an equal opportunity problem</a>: One-third of infertility is attributed to the female, one-third to the male and one-third to combined factors from both male and female.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>This post is for the guys.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Last week, drugstore chains Walgreens and CVS announced they would begin stocking a male infertility test as of April, marking the first time men can get an over-the-counter test of their sperm production. Rising rates of male infertility has created a $440 million market for male fertility tests, according to <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-07/sperm-test-at-walgreen-seen-plugging-infertility-gap-retail.html" target="_blank">Bloomberg News</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Scientists such as Dr. Shanna Swan, Professor and Vice-Chair of Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, have found <strong>chemicals play a role in the increase of male infertility in the population</strong>. “There is no question that pesticides reduce sperm count,” Swan recently told <a href="http://www.globalnews.ca/16x9/6442574548/story.html" target="_blank">Global News Canada</a>. “The question is how much do you need to do the damage?”<br />
Because we now know that chemicals in every day products can lead to low sperm counts, there are simple steps that men can take to avoid them. These include:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. Using safer pans:</strong> <a href="http://healthychild.org/blog/comments/help_how_can_i_cook_without_teflon/" target="_blank">Teflon</a>, the most common non-stick coating, is made from perfluorinated compounds (PFCs). Research shows that men with higher levels of PFCs had fewer normal sperm and lower sperm concentrations. (PFCs are also used in fast food packaging and microwave popcorn bags, so avoid those as well.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. Avoid contaminated fish:</strong> Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) were banned in the US in 1979, but they are so persistent, they are still contaminating our food today. Among other things, they have been linked to decreased sperm quality, sperm DNA damage, and lowered testosterone levels. The highest concentrations are found in animal fats, some farmed fish, and freshwater fish from contaminated waters. Use the Environmental Defense Fund’s <a href="http://apps.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521" target="_blank">Seafood Selecto</a>r to help you choose safer fish.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3. Cut the fat:</strong> Because <a href="http://watoxics.org/chemicals-of-concern/pcbs-and-ddt" target="_blank">PCBs</a> are also found in animal fats, reducing meat consumption can help lower your exposure. If you do eat meat, opt for low-fat cuts, and cut off visible fat before cooking. Use lower-fat cooking methods such as broiling, grilling, roasting or pressure-cooking.</p>
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		<title>Is Gardasil Causing Infertility?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leslie Carol Botha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>INFERTILITY CONCERN WITH GARDASIL HPV VACCINE Off the Radar Does the HPV Vaccine LITERALLY Mean “One Less”? Marketing geniuses are known to play on words and create slogans with quirky double meanings, and if you’ve been tracking the concerns raised about the potential hazards of Gardasil and Cervarix, the potential for these HPV vaccines to<a class="more-link" href="http://holyhormones.com/vaccinations/is-gardasil-causing-infertility/" rel="nofollow"> Continue Reading &#x2026;</a></p></p><p>Read the complete article and related information at <a href="http://holyhormones.com/vaccinations/is-gardasil-causing-infertility/">Is Gardasil Causing Infertility?</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><h3><strong>INFERTILITY CONCERN WITH GARDASIL HPV VACCINE</strong></h3>
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<p><strong>Does the HPV Vaccine LITERALLY Mean “One Less”?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15347" style="10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Doctor-preparing-a-vaccin-007" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Doctor-preparing-a-vaccin-007-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Marketing geniuses are known to play on words and create slogans with quirky double meanings, and if you’ve been tracking the concerns raised about the potential hazards of Gardasil and Cervarix, the potential for these HPV vaccines to cause infertility – whether purposely or inadvertently – is being heard with ever increasing frequency.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The federal government&#8217;s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) has received over 9,000 reports of problems since the vaccine&#8217;s introduction in 2006, which include at least 28 spontaneous abortions, and 27 deaths.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Is it possible that Gardasil’s cry to fame, ‘One Less’, is turning out to be nothing but a sick, ironic play on words?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Anti-Fertility Vaccines</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The World Health Organization (WHO) and its subsidiaries have been actively researching and funding the development of contraceptive / anti-fertility vaccines that prevent full-term pregnancies to take place, for over 20 years. There’s even a Task Force on Birth Control Vaccines of the WHO!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">However, no anti-fertility vaccine has ever been placed on the market and promoted as such as of yet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Instead, as described in a 1993 journal paper published in The British Medical Bulletin, anti-fertility vaccines were being engineered “incorporating tetanus or diphtheria toxoid linked to a variety of hCG-based peptides.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The authors of this article state,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;The fundamental principle behind this approach to contraceptive vaccine development is to prevent the maternal recognition of pregnancy by inducing a state of immunity against hGC, the hormone that signals the presence of the embryo to the maternal endocrine system.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Free tetanus vaccines that were offered to young women of childbearing age for years in countries such as Tanzania, Nigeria, Mexico, and the Philippines, were found to contain human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG), which causes spontaneous abortions if the woman becomes pregnant.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">While the woman is not technically sterilized, once injected with hCG, she may never be able to carry a child full term thereafter.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">HCG-containing anti-fertility vaccines have also been pursued for more than two decades by the Indian National Institute of Immunology, and The Population Council of the Rockefeller University, among others.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In fact, there are no less than 50 research papers detailing research on “contraceptive vaccines” in the PubMed database.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One disturbing paper published in the FASEB Journal in 1993 states:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“… we initiated studies relating to possible mechanisms of action and potential side effects of this vaccine, which should be relevant to world-wide regulation of population growth.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So again, why the frantic push for the HPV vaccine, created for young, fertile women, when there’s NO solid, rational basis for its use?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Massive Brazilian Vaccination Program Raises Suspicions of Covert Sterilization Plans</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A much more recent case of illogical mass vaccinations against a minor health problem is that of the massive, mandatory vaccination program in Brazil, which has raised suspicions among international pro-life activists, who note that the program is similar to other vaccination programs in recent years that have included a hidden sterilizing agent in the vaccines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The campaign to “annihilate rubella” began in early August this year, mandating rubella vaccinations for all women ages 12 to 49, and 12 to 39 for men; a total of 70 million people, despite the fact that only 17 Brazilian children per year suffer birth defects from the disease.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Adolfo Castañeda of Human Life International notes that just two years ago, researchers found that the rubella vaccine used in a similar campaign in Argentina was laced with human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The suspicion that brought about the investigation [into the rubella vaccine] was caused by the fact that there were very few cases of the disease in Argentina, which didn’t merit a large-scale campaign,” Castañeda said, adding, “The ages for women are the same as those who received the vaccines in Nicaragua, where they included a hormone that sterilizes the woman who receives it, and similar to the age of those who received another sterilizing hormone in the Philippines.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Polysorbate-80 – One Less Mouse, Researchers Found</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, let me state clearly that there’s no proof of hCG being present in any of the current HPV vaccines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I am merely playing devil’s advocate as I examine the similarities between these other irrational vaccination programs in other countries for relatively minor public health concerns &#8212; that turn out to have far more sinister agendas than mere greed – compared to the fervent, irrational push behind the HPV vaccine here in the U.S.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">However, Gardasil does contain Polysorbate-80 – a surfactant used in pharmacology to deliver certain drugs or chemical agents across the blood-brain barrier &#8212; which has been linked to infertility in mice.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Researchers Gajdova et.al. found that administration of Polysorbate-80 decreased the weight of the uterus and ovaries, and caused chronic estrogenic stimulation. The ovaries of the mice were also without corpora lutea (a mass of progesterone-secreting endocrine tissue that forms immediately after ovulation) and had degenerative follicles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So what might the estrogenic effects of Polysorbate-80 be on pre-adolescent girls and pregnant women?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Anti-Fertility Vaccine Ingredient Also Has Clinical Application in Cancer Vaccines…</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A potential coincidence I find most disturbing is some of the more recent research detailing the use of hCG, and other molecules, in vaccines against hCG-producing cancers, such as – certain cervical cancers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One 2005 paper titled, Recent advances in contraceptive vaccine development: a mini-review published in the journal Human Reproduction concludes:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“At the present time, studies are focused on increasing the immunogenicity and efficacy of the birth control vaccine, and examining its clinical applications in various HCG-producing cancers.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But research published just a few months ago in the journal Molecular Cancer states that the free ?-subunit of hCG (hCG?) – which was originally considered biologically non-functional &#8212; has recently been shown to stimulate tumor growth, and lead to more aggressive tumors that are more resistant to therapy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Again, I’m mentioning all of this because it just goes to show that pharmaceutical companies have little or no clue of the extent of harm these vaccines might cause, especially long-term. Something believed to be completely non-functional or harmless can turn out to be a MAJOR cause for concern after more thorough investigation.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>Hey guys &#8211; this buds&#8217; is for you&#8230;welcome to our world&#8230; Natural News Wednesday, February 01, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer Mass vaccination is apparently not the only depopulation strategy being employed by the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation, as new research funded by the organization has developed a way to deliberately destroy<a class="more-link" href="http://holyhormones.com/birth-control/bill-gates-funds-technology-to-destroy-your-sperm/" rel="nofollow"> Continue Reading &#x2026;</a></p></p><p>Read the complete article and related information at <a href="http://holyhormones.com/birth-control/bill-gates-funds-technology-to-destroy-your-sperm/">Bill Gates funds technology to destroy your sperm</a></p>]]></description>
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<p><strong>Wednesday, February 01, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-14887" style="10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Chart-LowSpermCount" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Chart-LowSpermCount.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="130" />Mass vaccination is apparently not the only depopulation strategy being employed by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, as new research funded by the organization has developed a way to deliberately destroy sperm using ultrasound technology. <em>BBC News</em> reports that the Gates Foundation awarded a grant to researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) to develop this new method of contraception.</p>
<p>For their study, the UNC team tested ultrasound on lab rats and found that two 15-minute doses &#8220;significantly reduced&#8221; both sperm counts and sperm integrity. When administered two days apart through warm salt water, ultrasound caused the rats&#8217; sperm counts to drop below ten million sperm per milliliter, which is five million less than the &#8220;sub-fertile&#8221; range, and stay that way for up to six months.</p>
<p>The report claims the technology is for contraceptive purposes only and not for causing sterility. However, Dr. James Tsuruta, who led the research, told reporters that it is unclear whether or not the technology can cause long-term damage, and that more research is needed to determine whether or not repeated ultrasounds cause permanent damage.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Gates Foundation awarded 78 different research projects with $100,000 grants each as part of its &#8220;Grand Challenges in Global Health Program.&#8221; Ten of these projects specifically addressed new technologies for contraception, according to <em>TIME</em>, including one for a pill that inhibits the growth and maturation of sperm, and another for creating chemical compounds that prevent sperm from reaching the egg (<a href="http://healthland.time.com/2010/05/14/male-birth-control-stopping-sperm-with-ultrasound/" target="_blank">http://healthland.time.com/2010/05/14/male-birth-control-stopping-sperm-with-ultrasound/</a>).</p>
<p>&#8220;We think this could provide men with up to six months of reliable, low-cost, non-hormonal contraception from a single round of treatment,&#8221; wrote the researchers in their report. &#8220;Our long-term goal is to use ultrasound &#8230; as an inexpensive, long-term, reversible male contraceptive suitable for use in developing to first world countries.&#8221;</p>
<p>Back in 2010, Bill Gates explained to attendees at the TED Conference that year his ideas for culling the world population, one of which involved increasing vaccination rates (<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html</a>). Now, his organization is actively funding research into advanced contraceptive methods that could render individuals infertile. Coincidence?</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16756381" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16756381</a></p>
<p><a href="http://healthland.time.com/2010/05/14/male-birth-control-stopping-sperm-with-ultrasound/" target="_blank">http://healthland.time.com/2010/05/14/male-birth-control-stopping-sperm-with-ultrasound/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html</a></p>
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		<title>Pfizer Recalls 1M Birth Control Packs After Mix-Up</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>National Public Radio INDIANAPOLIS February 1, 2012, 06:20 pm ET INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Birth control pills are known to be nearly 100 percent effective when taken properly, but a recall of the drugs could send a shudder through women of childbearing age. A manufacturing mix-up by Pfizer Inc., the world&#8217;s largest drug maker, led to<a class="more-link" href="http://holyhormones.com/birth-control/birth-control-pillsbcps/pfizer-recalls-1m-birth-control-packs-after-mix-up/" rel="nofollow"> Continue Reading &#x2026;</a></p></p><p>Read the complete article and related information at <a href="http://holyhormones.com/birth-control/birth-control-pillsbcps/pfizer-recalls-1m-birth-control-packs-after-mix-up/">Pfizer Recalls 1M Birth Control Packs After Mix-Up</a></p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>INDIANAPOLIS<em> February 1, 2012, 06:20 pm ET</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><img class="alignleft  wp-image-14863" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="pfizer_birth_control_0" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/pfizer_birth_control_0-235x300.jpg" alt="" width="156" height="200" />INDIANAPOLIS (AP)</strong> — Birth control pills are known to be nearly 100 percent effective when taken properly, but a recall of the drugs could send a shudder through women of childbearing age.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A manufacturing mix-up by Pfizer Inc., the world&#8217;s largest drug maker, led to some packets being distributed with the pills out of order. That means a patient could have unknowingly skipped a dose and raised her risk of an accidental pregnancy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pfizer has recalled about 1 million packets of Lo/Ovral-28 and its generic equivalent, but the company estimates that only about 30 packets were flawed. The pills were made and shipped last year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Each packet contains 28 days&#8217; worth of the prescription, with 21 pills containing the active ingredient that prevents pregnancy and seven placebo pills. The pills are normally color-coded to note the difference.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Women are supposed to take the pills in order and not mix the placebos with the active pills. Doctors say taking three placebos or more in a row negates the pregnancy protection.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Women who are potentially on this particular product need to be aware of (the recall) and take this quite seriously,&#8221; said Dr. Steven R. Goldstein, a New York University professor of obstetrics and gynecology.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The packaging mistake worries Kendra Mifflin even though she takes a different brand of the pill.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;You take it for a reason, and if that gets messed up &#8230; it could change your life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It has a big impact, just a simple mistake like that.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The student at Butler University in Indianapolis said her pills change color as she gets closer to the placebo. Mifflin, who has been taking them for about six months, said she thinks she would notice if the color were out of order, but she&#8217;ll probably pay closer attention now.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The drug is not among the more commonly prescribed brands of birth control. The brand Lo/Ovral ranked 64th in U.S. birth control sales last year. The generic version, called norgestrel and ethinyl estradiol, ranked 30th, according to data firm IMS Health.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Doctors and pharmacists say Lo/Ovral is an older version of the pill that is not as widely prescribed anymore. They do not expect many panicked calls about the mix-up.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Patients are pretty savvy,&#8221; said Dr. Adam R. Jacobs, division director of family planning at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He said most women taking the pill would notice that the colors are out of order.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Company spokeswoman Kristen Neese said the drug maker learned about the problem when a customer called late last year to report finding a pink placebo tablet in the middle of her white birth control pills. The company found a manufacturing problem and fixed it immediately.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It issued a nationwide recall in late December asking pharmacies to pull the affected lots from their shelves. It then announced the recall Tuesday to consumers and the media after the Food and Drug Administration requested that.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Please visit <a href="http://holyhormones.com">Holy Hormones Journal - The Greatest Story Never Told</a> for similar articles.</p><p>Gender Across Borders January 23, 2012 This post is by Aphra Behn of Guerilla Girls On Tour! While on tour this year, I felt an uncomfortable cramping near my crotch. It was somewhere between Arkansas and Oklahoma that I realized what it was.  The government was tightening its grip on my uterus. In Kansas, my uterus signed<a class="more-link" href="http://holyhormones.com/womens-health/cancer-womens-health/breast-cancer/the-state-of-my-union-is-the-state-of-my-uterus/" rel="nofollow"> Continue Reading &#x2026;</a></p></p><p>Read the complete article and related information at <a href="http://holyhormones.com/womens-health/cancer-womens-health/breast-cancer/the-state-of-my-union-is-the-state-of-my-uterus/">The State of My Union is the State of My Uterus</a></p>]]></description>
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<p><strong>January 23, 2012</strong></p>
<p><em>This post is by Aphra Behn of Guerilla Girls On Tour!</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-14795" style="10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="state of my uterus" src="http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/state-of-my-uterus.png" alt="" width="200" height="403" />While on tour this year, I felt an uncomfortable cramping near my crotch. It was somewhere between Arkansas and Oklahoma that I realized what it was.  The government was tightening its grip on my uterus.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In Kansas, my uterus signed up for a sex education class but the only subject taught was abstinence.  In West Virginia, my uterus got tired of abstinence and got a prescription for birth control, but my health insurance company wouldn’t pay for it. As a result, by Texas my uterus was pregnant and sought pre-natal care, but there wasn’t any because state legislators decimated Planned Parenthood’s funds.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Conservatives proclaim to detest government interference in one’s life. Republicans make careers out of repealing regulations.  Yet, both groups seem obsessed with restricting what goes on inside my uterus. It got so bad this year that at one point, I think Congress believed that controlling my uterus would create more jobs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, my uterus may not see ovary to ovary with other uteruses across the land. But no matter where we reside, we are all American uteri and as such are guaranteed a fundamental human right, the right to privacy.  But without much outcry, my uterine rights are shriveling away.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the first half of last year, 80 abortion restrictions were enacted in male-dominated legislatures across my country,  more than tripling the 23 enacted in 2010.  The last half of the year was gloomier yet, marked by Mississippi voters pondering an initiative that would have declared a fertilized egg a legal person and Health and Human Services Secretary Katheleen Sebelius overruling the FDA’s decision to make Plan B emergency contraception available over the counter for all women.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In Missouri and eight other states, my uterus is required to receive counseling in person before waiting 24 hours for an abortion, necessitating two separate trips to any clinic.   In Georgia and ten other states, my body must receive verbal information about the ability of a fetus to feel pain. In North Carolina and four other states, it has to be given written materials that show medically inaccurate connections between abortion and infertility and between abortion and the possibility of developing breast cancer.</p>
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