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By Right to Life UK A pregnant mother has said her unborn baby “saved her life” after an ultrasound scan of her womb revealed early-stage bladder cancer. Megan McQuade from Teesside had been trying for a baby for over two years. Everything was progressing as it should...
By Dave Andrusko In April 2016, a jury in Arizona convicted Chalice Renee Zeitner of faking a cancer diagnosis in a scheme to get the state to pay for the 2010 abortion of her 22-week-old unborn baby. On Tuesday the Arizona Court of Appeals rejected her appeal, ruling...
By Dave Andrusko In a whirlwind of medical activity, Jessica Boesmiller had an eye removed just three weeks after a November diagnosis of a rare ocular cancer and then gave birth less than a month later to cancer-free twins—a boy, Mason Dare, and a girl, Piper Marie....
By Dave Andrusko Half-way through their compassionate and thoughtful story about the passing of a much beloved wife, mother, relative, and friend, the Detroit Free Press’ Ann Zaniewski and Elissa Robinson, wrote, “Nick and Carrie were married for 17 years. They met at...
By Nancy Valko Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. is an influential ethicist who recently wrote a Medscape (password protected) article titled “Don’t Tell John McCain to Fight his Cancer” after the news broke about Sen. McCain’s brain cancer and many of his colleagues and others...
Editor’s note. This is based on a post that appeared on the blog of SPUC--the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and is reposted with permission. Becky Anderson refused doctors' advice and saved her unborn twins, despite being told her cervical cancer could...
By James 'JJ' Hanson Editor’s note. This comes from Patients’ Rights Action Fund. Mr. Hanson is its president. Aggressive brain cancer is trying to end my life. The best cancer doctors in the world are trying to kill it before it kills me. My life hangs in the...
By Nancy Flanders When Kayla Gaytan called her husband Sergeant Charles Gaytan to tell him that she was pregnant, neither one could have been more excited. Kayla Gaytan had just beaten Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and had endured five months of chemotherapy. It had only been a...
By Dave Andrusko Paging through the many posts I receive daily about stem cells, I ran across a story that was published by the Associated Press earlier this week under the headline, “Cells dripped into the brain help man fight a deadly cancer.” I read these stories...
By Dave Andrusko As a father/grandfather I have been on the receiving end when family members have sprung news of a surprise pregnancy. So I know something about jaws dropping. But nothing to compare--not by a hundred miles--with Gina, the mother of Isabel Berrios....