[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: OC blood clots nearly kill TX woman; more....

Wed Sep 2 15:46:43 MDT 2009

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BLOOD CLOTS FROM BIRTH CONTROL NEARLY KILL TEXAS WOMAN

*Washington, DC (02 September 2009)* -- A woman in Austin, Texas,  is 
the latest victim of the deadly side effects of the birth control pill.  

Patti Kelly, 28, was diagnosed in August with multiple blood clots in 
both lungs. Her doctor told her that if she hadn't come into the 
emergency room when she did, she "could have died instantly."

Kelly's doctor named birth control as the driving factor in onslaught of 
the blood clots that could have caused Kelly's death.

Marie Hahnenberg, project director for American Life League' s "The Pill 
Kills" outreach, is not surprised.

"We are constantly hearing about problems that stem from the dangerous 
chemicals used in hormonal contraception," Hahnenberg said. "Women have 
been told for years that the birth control pill is the answer to their 
medical complications, when it is only causing more problems -- even death."

In 2008, Johnson and Johnson spent at least $68.7 million to settle 
hundreds of lawsuits filed by women who suffered blood clots, heart 
attacks or strokes after using the company's Ortho Evra birth-control 
patch. This summer, lawsuits have been filed against Bayer's dangerous 
and life-threatening Yasmin and Yaz birth control pills.

"Not only do the pill, patch, intrauterine device and similar birth 
control products cause great harm to the woman herself, but these 
products also can cause early abortions," Hahnenberg said. "The physical 
and emotional perils associated with birth control are one of the most 
closely guarded secrets in the pharmaceutical industry. It's time women 
knew the truth."

For more information on the birth control pill and other hormonal 
contraception as well as victims of the pill check out 
www.thepillkills.com <http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=352&L=396&F=H>

*FOR MORE INFORMATION:

American Life League:* The Pill Killls http://thepillkills.com/ 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=352&L=396&F=H>

*KVUE:* Austin Woman Claims Birth Control Nearly Killed Her  (29 August 
2009)
http://www.kvue.com/news/newton/stories/082809_kvue_Birth_Control_Danger-ts.127771e6f.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=352&L=2516&F=H>

*Bloomberg:* J&J Paid $68 Million to Settle Birth-Control Cases (10 
October 2008)
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=352&L=2517&F=H>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=amZT0X84_8zU&refer=home 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=352&L=2517&F=H>

*AboutLawsuits.com:* Yasmin and Yaz Birth Control Lawsuits Mount Against 
Bayer (24 July 2009)
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=352&L=2519&F=H>http://www.aboutlawsuits.com/yasmin-and-yaz-birth-control-lawsuits-mount-5062/ 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=352&L=2518&F=H>

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*EWTN's Arroyo Takes Cardinal McCarrick to Task over Kennedy & Pope Letters*
By John-Henry Westen

BOSTON, September 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com 
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/>) - EWTN News Director and host of the 
popular EWTN program 'The World Over,' Raymond Arroyo, has written a 
compelling commentary <http://www.ewtn.com/news/blog.asp?blog_ID=2>on 
retired Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's part in Saturday's 
burial of Senator Ted Kennedy.  Arroyo begins by calling McCarrick's 
reading <http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/090830a.html>of 
portions of Kennedy's letter and a Vatican response a "marvelous bit of 
political theatre (as so much of Senator Kennedy's funeral was)." 

The renowned EWTN show host, who is seen each week in more than 100 
million homes around the globe on the Catholic network, then reflects on 
McCarrick's controversial history. 

"First of all, it must be recalled that Cardinal McCarrick has a rather 
unfortunate history involving the delivery of letters, particularly 
those from a certain Vatican official by the name of Ratzinger," says 
Arroyo. "In 2004, when the Bishops of the US were anguishing over 
whether to allow communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion 
laws, Cardinal McCarrick concealed a letter 
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/apr/050419a.html>from his brother 
bishops. The missive was from the head of the Congregation for the 
Doctrine of the Faith, then Cardinal (now Pope) Joseph Ratzinger. Had 
the bishops received the letter intended to help guide their debate, 
things might have gone very differently. The contents of that letter are 
still relevant, particularly now when dissenting Catholics have made 
grandiose pronouncements about what it means to be a Catholic in public 
life."

Arroyo says that he and other faithful Catholics are "not upset about 
Chappaquiddick or the huge lapses in the Senator's long and storied 
life," knowing that forgiveness is possible. "The problem here," he 
said, "is one of public witness and appearances - the corrupting example."

Arroyo's central thesis is that the story of the Kennedy funeral had 
less to do with Kennedy than with an attempt to falsely portray what it 
means to be a Catholic and a Catholic politician. "What most in the 
media and the public fail to recognize is that this entire spectacle - 
the Catholic funeral trappings and the wall to wall coverage - was only 
partially about Ted Kennedy," he wrote. "It was truly about cementing 
the impression, indeed catechizing the faithful, that one can be a 
Catholic politician, and so long as you claim to care about the poor, 
you may licitly ignore the cause of life."

The responsibility of this corrupting example falls not so much with 
Kennedy as with the prelates who orchestrated the showcase funeral. Says 
Arroyo: "As a final desperate attempt to stamp the imprimatur of the 
Pope upon the funereal proceedings, Cardinal McCarrick read what he 
called the 'Pope's response' to Senator Kennedy. Actually it was a note, 
very likely from the Secretariat of State. This is the sort of thing any 
member of laity receives when they send a prayer request or a Christmas 
card to the Pope. Cardinal McCarrick made it seem as if it had the 
weight of a new encyclical."

See Arroyo's full commentary on EWTN here 
<http://www.ewtn.com/news/blog.asp?blog_ID=2>.  Print this Story 
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