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Complex Family Planning and the assault on conscience
No full textIn January 2019, the American Council for Graduate Medical Education [ACGME] approved a new subspecialty, Complex Family Planning [CFP], for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology [ABOG]. “Complex Family Planning” is a euphemism for late-term abortion. Since all obstetricians and gynecologists have been trained to manage miscarriage and fetal demise at all gestational ages, there is no scientific purpose to mandate training in induced abortion of a viable fetus. Instituting the new ABOG abortion subspecialty, Complex Family Planning, will further violate the conscience rights of medical students and resident physicians by forcing them to participate in performing abortions. Taking advantage of the Blütkeit phenomenon, elite academic abortionists violate the innocence of young professionals. They force them to be complicit in committing atrocities, victimizing vulnerable girls and women. This rite of initiation ensures their shared responsibility and diminishes the possibility of subsequent moral dissent.Post-printMarmion P. (2020). Complex Family Planning and the assault on conscience. [Post-print]. Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics 36(1):19-26.
https://doi.org/10.7273/v738-sv1
Induced Abortion and the Increased Risk of Maternal Mortality
No full textAfter years of failure to obtain accurate statistics on maternal mortality, the United States noted a sharp increase in its maternal mortality rate with widening racial and ethnic disparities. The 2016 report shocked the nation by documenting a 26 percent increase in maternal mortality from 18.8/100,000 live births in 2000 to 23.8 in 2014. Suggested etiologies of this increase included artifact as a result of improved maternal death surveillance, incorrect use of ICD-10 codes, healthcare disparities, lack of family support and other social barriers, substance abuse and violence, depression and suicide, inadequate preconception care, patient noncompliance, lack of standardized protocols for handling obstetric emergencies, failure to meet expected standards of care, aging of the pregnant patient cohort with associated increase in chronic diseases and cardiovascular complications, and lack of a comprehensive national plan. While some of the increase in maternal mortality may be a result of improved data collection, pregnancy-related deaths are occurring at a higher rate in the United States than in other developed countries. Some have suggested that the increased maternal mortality is due to limiting women’s access to legal abortion. In order to discover effective strategies to improve pregnancy outcomes, maternal mortality must be investigated in an unbiased manner. This review explores the relationship between legal-induced abortion and maternal mortality.Post-printMarmion, P. & Skop, I. (2020). Induced abortion and the increased risk of maternal mortality. Linacre Quarterly. 87(3). https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/6EHC2AD9QHAFETD8NACZ/full
Integrated management of downy brome in winter wheat
No full textDowny brome (Bromus tectorum L.), also known as cheatgrass, is especially troublesome in low precipitation production areas where crop rotations are mostly limited to winter wheat followed by a year of summer fallow. The invasive weed is best controlled with a combination of management tools to reduce a plant population to an acceptable level while preserving the quality of natural resources
WSU Organic Farm Newsletter, August 26, 2020
No full textFarm News, August 26, 2020: New this week will be the arrival of the Huckleberry Gold potato!! We've grown this for a few year and it's one of the favorites. Well, it must be, as we only grow two varieties now...Huckleberry Gold and Elfe. Elfe is is the yellow potato on the left and is very similar to Yukon Gold. Huckleberry Gold has a thin purple skin with yellow flesh. It's a great all round potato but is a real treat roasted. We'll have both now at the farm stand and online store
