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This week in Washington: President Joe Biden begins his term and Congress begins work to confirm cabinet secretaries.
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HHS Delays Trump Administration Final Rule on Health Clinics’ 340B Drug Discounts
CMS Releases an Informational Bulletin on the Extension of Grace Period Related to the Four Walls Requirement for IHS/Tribal Facilities
CMS: Part D Senior Savings Model – CY 2022 Pharmaceutical Manufacturer RFA Released
CMS: Applications for MIPS Exceptions Due to COVID-19 Now Due Feb. 1
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HHS: Final Rule Sets Term Limits for Agency Policy Directors
Washington D.C., Apr 9, 2019 / 03:30 pm (CNA).- The U.S. bishops have urged support for legislation to limit abortion on the same day as abortion survivor Melissa Ohden appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Ohden testified before the committee Tuesday during hearings on the Pain-Capable Child Protection Act, telling senators that “abortion doesn’t spare a child from suffering, it causes suffering.”
“I have lived every day since discovering the truth about my survival at the age of 14 knowing that, sadly, children just like me are being subjected to similarly horrific, painful abortion procedures that lead to their death,” she said.
Last year President Trump halted US funding to the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO). On his first day in office President Biden reinstated US funding for the WHO. Here are five reasons this is a very bad news:
1. The WHO advocates for decriminalizing prostitution. The WHO publication “Sexual Health, Human Rights and the Law” says, “All countries should work toward decriminalization of sex work.” Additionally, at DecriminalizeSex.Work, the WHO is listed as a proud partner in the decriminalization cause. The WHO’s push to make the world into a giant Las Vegas strip downplays the myriad risks to “sex workers” including assault, traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and death as documented by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. The WHO’s enthusiasm for prostitution also ignores the fact that there are no independent studies showing that decriminalizing the sex trade makes it safer.
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BUENOS AIRES (ChurchMilitant.com) - Just hours after the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the Argentine Congress approved one of the broadest abortion measures in the world.
The new law in Pope Francis native land establishes infanticide ( voluntary pregnancy interruption ) as a right at any time during the first 14 weeks of growth, but largely allows the practice throughout all nine months of pregnancy if the comprehensive health of the gestating person is at stake. Abortion is thus allowed for girls as young as 14 without parental consent. Health professionals, furthermore, who refuse to conduct abortions must refer women to clinics that provide the service.
Remembering Dr Mahinder Watsa: Beyond witty sexpert persona, a generous, compassionate physician and educator Dr Mahinder Watsa never shied away from answering the many generic and repeated questions asked of him. He said, “Every generation has these questions somebody has to answer them.” | Filmmaker Vaishali Sinha, director of Ask the Sexpert , writes. Vaishali Sinha December 30, 2020 12:42:27 IST Dr Mahinder Watsa in a still from Vaishali Sinha s film, Ask the Sexpert
“So I think now you should have everything you need for your film?” said Dr Mahinder Watsa, as a way of wrapping up our very first meeting in early 2013. But my feature length documentary titled