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IAEA officials: US intelligence on Iran "is incorrect"

Fri Feb 23, 2007 at 01:24:04 AM PDT

From the Guardian:

Much of the intelligence on Iran's nuclear facilities provided to UN inspectors by US spy agencies has turned out to be unfounded, diplomatic sources in Vienna said today.

Here we go again. You'd think these guys would have learned a lesson by now, but apparently not.

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Abortion Drug may Prevent Breast Cancer

Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 06:25:32 PM PDT

I hope noone has diaried this already - a search of the recent diaries didn't turn up anything, so I'm going to go ahead and post this.

From Reuters

WASHINGTON - The chemical compound in the abortion pill RU-486 blocked formation in mice of breast tumors caused by a mutant gene blamed in many women’s breast and ovarian cancers, researchers found.

 

I just find this rather ironic given all right wing anti-abortion propoganda claiming that abortion causes breast cancer.

Abortions More Common Than You Think

Wed Jul 20, 2005 at 07:23:31 AM PDT

There's a pretty interesting article up on MSNBC right now:

Abortion rate at lowest point since 1976

I think the author misses the point, though. Yes abortions are down from 1976. However, it's important to note that

...for every 1,000 pregnancies that did not result in miscarriage in 2002, there were 242 abortions. This figure was 245 in 2000 and 280 in 1990.

242 out of every 1000. That's almost a quarter of all (non-miscarried) pregnancies that ended in an abortion. Anyone still claiming that abortion is not that common or that banning abortions will not adversely affect a HUGE number of women clearly has no idea what they're talking about


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