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HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt on Thursday announced plans to implement a regulation intended to protect health care providers and other workers from disciplinary measures if they refuse to provide abortions or denote patients to other providers for abortions because of personal, religious or moral reasons, the Washington Post reports. Under the proposed regulation, federal officials could withdraw federal funding from more than 584,000 hospitals, clinics, health plans, physicians and other entities if they do not accommodate employees who resist to participate in a procedure or medical service to which they physical object (Stein, Washington Post, 8/22).
If the proposed regularization takes effect, health institutions would have to certify in piece of writing that they are complying with the rule. The proposed regulating also would establish a system for enforcing moral sense protections in three fork federal laws (Alonzo-Zaldivar, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21). The rule could go into effect after a 30-day public comment period and could price more than $44 million to implement, the Post reports.
An sooner draft of the proposed regulation included language that defined abortion -- for the kickoff time in a federal law or regulation -- as anything that interferes with a fertilized egg after conception. That lyric was eliminated, but supporters and opponents maintain that the proposed regulation remains broad sufficiency to protect health caution providers world Health Organization decline to provide oral contraception, Plan B emergency contraception and other types of contraceptive method. The proposed rule besides would set aside health care providers to decline giving patients information about such treatments or services (Washington Post, 8/22).
Leavitt said HHS "did not feel it necessary to define abortion" in the rule, adding that the regulation "relies upon existing statutes and existing court decisions as to the meaning of the parole 'abortion.'" (Young, The Hill, 8/21). However, he added that some wellness workers mightiness want to "press the definition" of abortion and argue that some forms of contraception are tantamount to miscarriage (Wall Street Journal, 8/22). "This regulation does non seek to resolve whatever ambiguity" in regard to health concern workers world Health Organization consider contraception to be equivalent to abortion, Leavitt said, adding, "It focuses on miscarriage and focuses on physicians' conscience in relation to that" (Washington Post, 8/22).
According to the Journal, it is unclear how many women would be affected if the regulation takes effect as it is currently written. Advocates on both sides of the debate have said hospitals, insurers and HMOs could use the regulation to challenge state laws that require insurers to handle contraceptives or require pharmacists to fill contraceptive prescriptions (Wall Street Journal, 8/22). Advocates for women's health, family planning, abortion rights and former causes keep that the proposal could create obstacles to abortion, family planning services, end-of-life care and a broad range of scientific inquiry (Washington Post, 8/22).
Presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) signed a letter of the alphabet opposing an earlier draft copy of the regulation, and the Journal reports that Obama would reverse the regulation if he is elected. Presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) has non indicated his position on the proposition (Simon, Wall Street Journal, 8/22).
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Monday, 18 August 2008
Brady's catchy tribute to footy
MIKE Brady, writer of the footy anthem Up There Cazaly, has a new tribute to the game and Sunday Herald Sun readers can be the first to hear it.
How Australian's That! � Brady's tribute to footy on its 150th birthday � will be released in a compilation album of old and new material tomorrow, but you can hear it today on our website.
"It's more contemporary than Cazaly, but still has a big chorus," Brady said.
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Friday, 8 August 2008
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Quo Vadis
Artist: Quo Vadis
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Rock
Discography:
Passage In Time
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Day Into Night
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Martin Matiske
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Nas' album release date pushed back
Def Jam will release set July 15
NEW YORK -- Nas' new album has shifted on the Def Jam release schedule yet again, this time moving from July 1 to July 15. Last month, the rapper dropped the disc's original title, "N*****," and reclassified the album as an untitled project.
The first official track from the album, "Hero," was produced by Polow Da Don. It finds Nas explaining that he dropped the original controversial title so the album's message could reach his fans.
Green Lantern, DJ Toomp, Mark Ronson, Dead Prez's Stic.Man, Jay Electronica, Stargate and Cool & Dre are among the new album's producers. Green Lantern has also steered a new Nas mixtape, "The N***** Tape."
Nas' most recent album, 2006's "Hip-Hop Is Dead," has sold 758,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
NEW YORK -- Nas' new album has shifted on the Def Jam release schedule yet again, this time moving from July 1 to July 15. Last month, the rapper dropped the disc's original title, "N*****," and reclassified the album as an untitled project.
The first official track from the album, "Hero," was produced by Polow Da Don. It finds Nas explaining that he dropped the original controversial title so the album's message could reach his fans.
Green Lantern, DJ Toomp, Mark Ronson, Dead Prez's Stic.Man, Jay Electronica, Stargate and Cool & Dre are among the new album's producers. Green Lantern has also steered a new Nas mixtape, "The N***** Tape."
Nas' most recent album, 2006's "Hip-Hop Is Dead," has sold 758,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Monday, 9 June 2008
Hundreds flock to Bo Diddley's funeral
Hundreds flocked to the funeral of music legend Bo Diddley on Saturday, paying tribute with tears and songs to one of the founders of rock'n'roll. A gospel band struck up his namesake tune as family members passed the casket - and a crowd of several hundred joined in for the chorus, singing "Hey, Bo Diddley!"
"In 1955 he used to keep the crowds rocking and rolling way before Elvis Presley," said Diddley's grandson, Garry Mitchell. Like his music, the tone of Diddley's funeral was celebratory. Mitchell kicked up his heels in the air, as Diddley used to do, and mourners cheered. "I'm just telling it the way it is," he said.
Diddley was a major influence on the likes of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and the Rolling Stones, and his signature beat has become an essential component of rock'n'roll. Jerry Lee Lewis and Tom Petty were among those who sent flowers to the service, and the Animals' Eric Burdon was in attendance. "I've been a fan of his since I was 16. Probably one of the first records I ever owned," Burdon said. "I call it bone music, because it goes to your bone."
Friends and family tributes to Diddley continued for more than four hours - not only speaking of his Diddley's musical accomplishments but also his kindness. His brother, the Reverend Kenneth Haynes, said that Diddley was always asking how he could help and what more he could give. "There was one thing he wouldn't give me. That's his hat," Haynes said, referring to Diddley's famous black hat.
Though Diddley grew tired of relentless touring, he understood it as the role he had been given in life, Haynes said. "'This is what God gave me to feed my family,'" Haynes recalled Diddley saying. "'I have to keep doing it until God says it's enough.'"
Diddley was born Ellas Othar Bates, later taking the name Ellas McDaniel in honour of the cousin who raised him. At the time of his death, Diddley had four children, 15 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. His business manager, Faith Fusillo, addressed these relatives on Saturday. "Please know this, because I know Diddley," she said. "As much as you loved him, he loved you more."
Diddley's friend Roosevelt Hutchinson remembered how he would wake up early to play to the roosters at his rural Mississippi home. "He just enjoyed playing that thing under those trees," he said.
Diddley died of heart failure on Monday, June 2. He was 79.
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Angelina Jolie Tortured Her Pets
Angelina Jolie reveals how she used to torture her pets in footage taken at a New York drug den during her youthful days.
In the video obtained by The Sun, the reformed actress discusses the amount of different drugs she’s tried and how she loves having sado-masochist sex.
She also admits how a pet mouse ended up meeting it’s maker after she dyed it blue.
Let's hope Amy & Pete's mice don't suffer the same misfortune.
Angelina also killed a hamster by taking it into a shower and giving it pneumonia. A pet lizard met a tragic fate too after it was left in the sun too long.
She continues: “My snake I had – I tried killing him.” She recalls how at 12 she was “a bad girl – beating up my friends.”
It’s tough to believe she now has four children with two more on the way.
In the video obtained by The Sun, the reformed actress discusses the amount of different drugs she’s tried and how she loves having sado-masochist sex.
She also admits how a pet mouse ended up meeting it’s maker after she dyed it blue.
Let's hope Amy & Pete's mice don't suffer the same misfortune.
Angelina also killed a hamster by taking it into a shower and giving it pneumonia. A pet lizard met a tragic fate too after it was left in the sun too long.
She continues: “My snake I had – I tried killing him.” She recalls how at 12 she was “a bad girl – beating up my friends.”
It’s tough to believe she now has four children with two more on the way.
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