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Does the White House know about this?

Dr. Leroy Carhart, controversial late-term abortion doctor, was spotted at the Pelosi/Reid unveiling Thursday of the final house health care bill. Dr. Carhart, currently under investigation by the Nebraska AG for unsafe medical practices, traveled to Washington and was photographed holding a sign which read “Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice”.

He was spotted by Concerned Women for America’s Wendy Wright who also snapped the photo.

According to LifeSite News,

Carhart is currently under investigation by the Nebraska Attorney General’s office after three of his former employees came forward with sworn affidavits that told of illegal activity, unsafe conditions.

All of the women said that they did not have any medical training or licensing, yet they were instructed to perform medical duties that they were not legally qualified to do, such as starting IVs, dispensing medication, and assisting with surgeries.

They claimed that drugs often came up missing, and that…

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New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris reported this morning, with the help of St. Louis Post-Dispatch medical writer Blythe Bernhard, Wednesday’s news concerning the FDA decision to make available Plan B morning-after pills to seventeen-year-olds.

There are arguments against this FDA decision, of course, some of them outlined in the story. Harris soon reminds us, for instance, that “[s]ince November 2006, when it became widely available to women 18 and older without a prescription, Plan B has had no measurable effect on the nation’s abortion or teenage pregnancy rates.”

So, one wonders, why would seventeen-year-olds go to the trouble of getting Plan B when the eighteen-and-older crowd can’t be bothered?

Sam Lee finds it disturbing that no parental consent is needed, nor is there a prescription. No oversight, in other words. Wendy Wright (Concerned Women for America) agrees, concerned about the “safety of minors”. Minors left all alone with their rights, I…