WHY LIFE?

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently overruled The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement that Plan B One-Step® would be permitted for sale “over-the-counter” — no prescription required — for all ages. Based on Sebelius’s decision, the emergency contraceptive that’s commonly referred to as the “morning-after pill” will remain available for girls 16 and under by prescription only. This is the first time that any Health and Human Services secretary has overruled an FDA decision.

Reproductive health advocates were unhappy about the development while proponents of “conservative family values” hailed Secretary Sebelius.

Both Sebelius and Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA, argue they made their decisions based on scientific evidence. Let’s take a closer look:

Plan B is a single, 1.5-milligram dose of the synthetic hormone “Levonorgestrel” that can decrease the chances of becoming pregnant by an estimated 59-94% if taken within five days (120 hours) of unprotected sex. It’s manufactured by Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NASD: TEVA), which has U.S. headquarters in North Wales, PA.

Jill Adams of the Los Angeles Times reports the fairly broad percentage range stems from a combination of factors including the uncertainty around how likely a women is to get pregnant after a single sexual encounter and where she is in her monthly cycle. Also critically important is when the woman ingests the emergency contraceptive: Pregnancy-prevention rates are highest — upwards of 80% — on the first day after intercourse.

Adams quotes UCLA OB/GYN, Dr. Angela Chen, saying, “The key is to take it very early, very quickly. Once the egg is released, it’s less effective.”

The medicine essentially delays ovulation so that sperm cells have a reduced chance of finding an egg to fertilize before dying while also changing the lining of the female reproductive tract in a way that slows sperm and egg transport, reducing the chances of the two coming together. These lining changes can also inhibit implantation of a fertilized egg, which is consider abortion by anti-abortion advocates. However, Plan B does not interfere with pregnancy once implantation has taken place.

more: http://www.women.com/plan-b-pill/

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I just can’t understand how anyone could find this acceptable. Heart-breaking.

Excuse me while I go cry for three weeks. :(

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THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS
For the next 60 seconds, set aside whatever
You’re doing and take this opportunity! Let’s see if Satan
Can stop this.

… … … … THE
(SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS

At the age of 33,
Jesus was condemned to death .

At the time
Crucifixion was the “worst” death. Only the worst
Criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was
Even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike
Other criminals condemned to death by
Crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the
Cross by His hands and feet.

Each nail
Was 6 to 8 inches long.

The nails
Were driven into His wrist. Not
Into His palms as is commonly
Portrayed. There’s a tendon in the wrist that
Extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew
That when the nails were being hammered into the
Wrist that tendon would tear and
Break, forcing Jesus to use His back
Muscles to support himself so that He could
Breath.

Both of His feet
Were nailed together. Thus He was forced to
Support Himself on the single nail that
Impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could
Not support himself with His legs because of the pain
So He was forced to alternate between arching His
Back then using his legs just to continue to
Breath. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the
Suffering, the courage.

Jesus endured this
Reality for over 3 hours.

Yes,
Over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of
Suffering? A few minutes before He died,
Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water
From his wounds.

From common images
We see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound
To His side… But do we realize His wounds
Were actually made in his body. A hammer
Driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped
And an even large nail hammered through the arches, then a
Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But
Before the nails and the spear Jesus was whipped and
Beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the
Flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His
Face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The
Crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp. Most men
Would not have survived this torture.

”

He had no more blood
To bleed out, only water poured from His
Wounds.
The human adult body contains about 3.5 liters
(just less than a gallon) of blood.

Jesus poured all 3.5
Liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His
Members; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond
That, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His
Chest..

All these without
Mentioning the humiliation He suffered after carrying His own
Cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his
Face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight,
Only for its higher part, where His hands were
Nailed).

Jesus had
To endure this experience, to open the
Gates of Heaven,
So that you can have free
Access to God.

So that your sins
Could be “washed” away. All of them, with no exception!
Don’t ignore this situation.

JESUS
CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!

He died for you! It
Is easy to pass jokes or foolish photos by e-mail, but
When it comes to God, sometimes you feel ashamed to forward
To others because you are worried of what they may think
About you.

God
Has plans for you, show all your friends what He experienced
To save you. Now think about this! May God bless your
Life!

60
Seconds with God…

For the next 60
Seconds, set aside what you’re doing and take
This opportunity! Let’s see if Satan can stop
This.

All you have to do
Is:

1. Simply
Pray for the person who sent this message to
You:

2.Then, send this
Message to people.. The more the better.

3. People will
Pray for you and you will make that many people pray to God
For other people.

4. Take a
Moment to appreciate the power of God in your life, for
Doing what pleases Him.

If you are not
Ashamed to do this, please, follow Jesus’ instructions.
He said (Matthew 10:32 & 33): “Everyone therefore
Who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge
before My Father in heaven; but whosoever denies Me
before others, I will deny before my Father in heaven.