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Reproductive Care Risk: Catholic Hospitals Growing

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:05:52 CST

As the Catholic Church and the Obama administration continue to grapple over birth control, a larger issue looms: Women may find themselves with less access to birth control, abortion, sterilization, and other procedures as Catholic medical centers increasingly merge with secular hospitals. About 20 mergers between larger, more financially secure...

US Charity Pays UK Addict to Get Vasectomy

Emily Rauhala — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:57:00 CDT

Here's an odd bit of international relations: An American charity has paid a British heroin addict to undergo a vasectomy. The group, called Project Prevention , paid the man about $315 dollars in the hope of preventing him from passing his addiction on to the next generation. The man, John, said...

China Forces Sterilization on 10K People

tricksy_rabbit — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:14:59 CDT

As part of a plan to control population explosion, China's health authorities plan to sterilize 10,000 people in southern China over the next four days. The campaign in Puning City calls for people who already have at least one child to be sterilized; many who decline the surgery are...

Healthy Baby Born 22 Years After Dad's Sperm Frozen

Matt Cantor — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:34:20 CDT

A North Carolina man had his sperm frozen when he was 16, before leukemia treatment rendered him sterile. A record 22 years later, Chris Biblis and his wife conceived a daughter—and now she’s been born healthy, the Times of London reports. “From my life being saved to being able...

UK Performs First 15-Minute Female 'Vasectomy'

Jess Kilby — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:41:25 CDT

A revolutionary new 15-minute female sterilization procedure has been performed for the first time in the UK, reports the Daily Mail . The procedure uses radio waves instead of incisions and in US trials most patients were able to go home within 30 minutes of receiving local anesthesia. The more invasive...

Archbishop Blasts Plan to Sterilize Poor

Harry Kimball — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:01:37 CDT

The Archbishop of New Orleans slammed a Louisiana lawmaker yesterday for a plan to sterilize the poor, the Times-Picayune reports. Archbishop Alfred Hughes called it "an egregious affront to those targeted and blatantly anti-life." State Rep. John Labruzzo floated the idea this week to fight poverty by paying men and...