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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie beings you nine things you need know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #ROADS: A young man is in a critical condition in Cork University Hospital this morning after receiving serious injuries in a car crash on the Kanturk to Mallow Road.
2. #ALABAMA: Efforts to free a five-year-old boy from his six-day hostage ordeal continue in Midland City, Alabama today. According to CNN, the gunman who took Ethan into the underground bunker has been identified by the Dale County sheriff.
3. #MYSTERY: RTÉ is reporting that Gardaí plan to interview Kevin Michael McGeever in the coming days about his disappearance. The property developer, who had been missing since May 2012, was found on a roadside near Ballinamore on Tuesday. He was reportedly disoriented, had no shoes and the word ‘thief’ had been etched into his forehead.
4. #IRAQ: Thirty people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack in central Kirkuk, a disputed city in north Iraq today. The vehicle, which was made to look like a police car, was detonated outside police headquarters.
5. #SYRIA: Talks have taken place between Syria’s opposition leader and the Russian foreign minister, a move that provides a flicker of hope for the end of the bloody conflict in Syria. Moscow, which has so far been an ally of the embattled President Bashar, says it wants to keep in regular contact with the opposition.
6. #HEALTH: Tallaght Hospital has told the HSE of its concerns that a north Dublin clinic has performed circumcisions on a number of children who went on to present at emergency departments with excessive bleeding. The Sunday Business Post reports that two patients were in serious conditions, requiring blood transfusions.
7. #ABORTION: Citing data compiled by Eurocat, a European network of registers for congenital anomalies, the Sunday Times reports that dozens of abortions are carried out in Britain each year on foetuses with minor abnormalities such as cleft lip and palate or club foot.
8. #ECONOMY: The government is currently looking for a deal to avoid paying back a €3.06 billion promissory note next month. So for the next few weeks, there will be a lot of talk about the debt…here’s everything you need to know on the topic.
9. #SUPER SUNDAY: We’ve seen the ads, we’ve heard the anthem but now it’s time for some football. Super Bowl XLVII kicks off at 11.30pm Irish time tonight. Will you be staying up? If so, TheScore.ie has you covered for everything from venue choice to Bingo, as well as this guide to staying awake but still being a productive member of society on Monday.
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Re: abortions for cleft-lip, you don’t think that will happen here? Of course it will. Once abortion is justified, for whatever reason, it’s only a matter of time before it’s being justified for any reason.
Stop telling the truth it’s not allowed,feminists are the only ones that tell the truth ,your just a man be quiet .
Who’s to presume its not already happening here? You have to presume that if we send 4,500 women to the UK for termination that some of them have terminated pregnancies as a result of the above. But of course, you’d rather keep termination where it belongs… You know… In the UK.
Also, good dodging of the real issues… This effects “dozens” of pregnancies. How many dozens? There are 200,000 terminations carried out in the UK a year, is this going to be yet another diversion from the central debate?
#Abortion: My question would be of the women who opted for an abortion due to birth defects, were any of these women on prescribed Psychoactive medication at the time, particularly “anti-depressants” or other medication?
I came across what seems like a good law firm in America called Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman. Between 2005 and 2008 I was prescribed a drug called Ciprager for Panic attacks. Also called Citalopram, Cipramil and in America is is called Celexa. I went on to develop “Bipolar disorder” from taking the drug (in Summer 2008). There is a Yale study to back me up on that.
A woman may be on these drugs before or during pregnancy (especially if it is an unplanned pregnancy). Luckily I did not become pregnant while on the drug.
This is one of the pages belonging to the law firm I mentioned.
http://www.celexa-birthdefects.com/
Abdominal Birth Defects / Omphalocele
Anal atresia (complete or partial closure of the anus)
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Cardiac (heart) defects
Cleft lip and cleft palate
Clubfoot (one or both feet turn downward and inward)
Craniosynostosis (skull defect)
Limb Defects
Neural-tube defects (brain and spinal cord, spina bifida)
PPHN (Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn)
[Never stop or change medication without talking to a good doctor, due to the dangers of withdrawal. As stopping any drug needs to be managed. This is only one SSRI/"anti-depressant" of many. Professor David Healy in Wales and Dr Peter Breggin in America does a lot of good, honest work in this area]
Plus I found it a bit ironic during the abortion debate that Psychiatrists were used as “mental health experts”, considering they can have a person on damaging drugs before or during pregnancy. If I was pregnant and suicidal I wouldn’t go near a Psychiatrist. They lock people away and over prescribe drugs, some of which have lawsuits against the maker. And there is a lawsuit which I would love to post the details about here but will refrain. It involved a Psychiatrist and the drugs Lithium and sodium valproate.
I would see clinical Psychologists as experts on mental health or Psychotherapists. As for Psychiatrists, with a few notable exceptions, they can potentially damage your mental health. And a question I would pose to Consultant Psychiatrists, what % of ye are actually trained in Psychotherapy? According to Psychiatrist Dr Michael Corry RIP only 10% are trained therapists (listen 20 mins in). Not forgetting that this man was bullied before this death by “the regime”:
Super Bowl Sunday – it’s all we’re hearing about here in the States. Oh Lord………
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