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Drop In Access To Abortion Would Reward Antiabortion-Rights Violence, Opinion Piece Says
After the murder last month of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, "there is a very real danger" that the availability of abortion later in pregnancy "will end in this country -- not after public deliberation, legislative debate and majority vote, but because antiabortion absolutists on the fringe have intimidated and blacklisted doctors and successfully threatened violence against them," Jim Buie, author of the blog The Buie Knife, writes in a Newsweek.com opinion piece. Buie writes that his parents in the early 1950s chose to institutionalize his three-year-old-brother, who was born with severe Down syndrome, after their attempts to care for him left them with "severe emotional distress" and unable "to meet the needs of their healthy children."Buie continues that he "cannot say that the option of a late-term abortion would have been the right one for my parents." However, "some of the arguments advanced by pro-life forces disturb me," he says, especially a "tendency to romanticize, sentimentalize and idealize life with a cute, forever-young Down-syndrome "angel child."" Buie adds, "It"s an argument I find off-putting, especially when it"s espoused by people who have never been through the wringer trying to care for a child whose disability level is on the most severe end of the scale." He continues, "At the same time, it is very disturbing that until recently, the majority of Down-syndrome fetuses were aborted without expectant mothers receiving proper information or support."Because of Tiller"s murder, it is "possible there won"t be any doctors in the country willing to perform" abortion later in pregnancy, "even if prenatal tests indicate severe retardation," according to Buie, who adds that this would mean that "domestic terrorism could win." He concludes, "It would mean that parents like my own would no longer have a choice, and would instead be forced to endure the same harsh realities that were present in the 1950s" (Buie, Newsweek.com, 6/17).
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U.S. Vaccine Advisory Committee Considers Response To H1N1 Spread

The CDC convened a national vaccine advisory committee Friday to discuss the best response to the spread of H1N1 (swine flu) with an estimated 6,000 new cases in the U.S. last week alone, Reuters reports. "The key point is this new infectious disease is not going away," despite the fact the flu season in North America has passed, Dr. Anne Schuchat of the CDC said. "In the U.S., we"re still experiencing a steady increase in the number of reported cases." Though Schuchat said the CDC has not decided whether or not it will recommend the public receive an H1N1 vaccine after its development is complete and when the North American flu season returns in the fall, the agency is requesting that local health departments "draw up plans for how to handle distribution of the vaccines," Reuters writes (Steenhuysen, Reuters, 6/26). The AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports: "A potential fall swine flu immunization campaign may involve an unprecedented 600 million doses of vaccine" - two doses for each person living in the U.S. - "but health officials are still trying to figure out how to find enough workers to administer all those shots" (Stobbe, AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6/26). First Batches Of Chinese Version Of Tamiflu Produced The first batches of the Chinese version of the antiviral Tamiflu - the drug shown to be effective in reducing the severity and spread of H1N1- "came off the production line in Shanghai" on Friday, Xinhua/Shanghai Daily reports. The drugs have passed the appropriate quality tests and will begin to be administered in an effort to control the spread of the virus, the newspaper reports (Xinhua/Shanghai Daily, 6/27). Guatemala , Brazil Report First Deaths From H1N1 Guatemala on Thursday reported the country"s first death from H1N1 - a 35-year-old man, the Times of India reports. The WHO previously reported that H1N1 caused the death of a 12-year-old, however the Health Minister Celzo Cerezo said the 12-year-old died from renal failure (Times of India, 6/26). Brazil"s health ministry on Sunday reported a 50-year-old man died from H1N1, becoming the country"s first fatality from the virus, Reuters reports (Ewing, Reuters, 6/28). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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