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By David Knowles - AOL News(April 13) -- State officials have revoked the medical license of a Sarasota, Fla., doctor who aborted the wrong fetus of a woman who was carrying a healthy girl and a boy with congenital defects. The woman at the center of the case conceived via in vitro fertilization, the St. Petersburg Times reports. In the first trimester, the newspaper said, doctors at Tampa's Florida Perinatal Associates informed the unidentified woman that her male fetus suffered from a variety of congenital defects, including heart problems and Down syndrome, while the female fetus appeared perfectly healthy. The ...
Sarah Palin: 'Family Guy' Cartoon Was a 'Kick in the Gut'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIt's only a cartoon, but still . . . Sarah Palin is angry at Fox Broadcasting Co. because its saucy cartoon show "Family Guy" portrayed a teenage girl with Down syndrome telling another character that her mom is the former governor of Alaska. A song and dance routine followed, with language ridiculing people with disabilities, CNN said. Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, has a 22-month-old son with Down syndrome. She said she was too ticked off to respond personally --"felt like another kick in the gut," she said -- so on Palin's Facebook page ...
Sarah Palin Tells the Angry Mob to Calm Down
By David Knowles - Politics DailySarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and the former candidate for vice president of the United States, has a message for the incensed protesters of President Obama's proposed health care reform: Chill out. After witnessing a spate of confrontational, sometimes violent, exchanges at town-hall meetings, Palin posted the following statement on her Facebook page (Via Ben Smith): "There are many disturbing details in the current bill that Washington is trying to run through Congress, but we must stick to a discussion of the issues and not get sidetracked by tactics that can be accused of ...
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