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Surgery Could Give Men Wombs of Their Own Within 5 Years?

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Will men be able to give birth sooner than, well, never? 

That’s the question provoked by last week’s announcement that the Cleveland Clinic is performing uterus transplant surgery on women who were born without a womb or whose uterus is diseased or malfunctioning. Hearing the news, we, and some of you, wondered: If science can transplant a uterus into a woman, can it transplant one into a man?

The answer is yes. Theoretically, men could receive a uterus, carry a baby to term,  and give birth. But what really blew our minds is that the day of male pregnancy is closer than you’d think.

“My guess is five, 10 years away, maybe sooner,” says Dr. Karine Chung, director of the fertility preservation program at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Today, medical advances let transgender women adjust their biochemistry to suppress male and introduce female hormones, have breasts that can lactate, and obtain surgically constructed vaginas that include a “neoclitoris,” which allows sensation.

Until now, however, a place to carry the fetus — a womb of its own — was a major missing link. Uterus transplants could conceivably surmount that hurdle.

“I’d bet just about every transgender person who is female will want to do it, if it were covered by insurance,” says Dr. Christine McGinn, a New Hope, Pa., plastic surgeon who performs transgender surgeries on men and women and is a consultant to the new movie The Danish Girl, about one of the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery.

McGinn, a transgender woman and mother of twins, says the “human drive to be a mother for a woman is a very serious thing. Transgender women are no different.”

Uterus transplants are still in the research stage for women suffering from uterine factor infertility (UFI). A Swedish team already has successfully transplanted uteri harvested from live donors and achieved five pregnancies and four live births. In the coming months, the Cleveland Clinic team plans to transplant uteri from deceased donors into UFI female patients.

Transplant surgery is difficult and dangerous, requiring patients to take antirejection drugs throughout their pregnancies, putting them at risk for infection. But for many women — and presumably for many transitioning women — the risk is worth the reward.

However, biological women have a leg up on biological males when it comes to accepting and nurturing a transplanted uterus. Women already have: vasculature needed to feed the uterus with blood, pelvic ligaments designed to support a uterus, a vagina and cervix, and natural hormones that prepare the uterus for implantation and support the pregnancy.

Men have none of those support systems — naturally — but none are impossible to create. “Male and female anatomy is not that different,” says Chung. “Probably at some point, somebody will figure out how to make that work.”

In fact, medical techniques already exist to overcome many obstacles to male pregnancy.

1. Hormone therapy can shut off testosterone and introduce progesterone and estrogen needed to prepare the uterus for pregnancy.
2. Even though males do not have uterine veins and arteries needed to nurture the womb, it’s possible to attach a branch of a large vessel, like the internal iliac, to the uterus. “It’s doable, it just hasn’t been done,” Chung says.
3. Although it’s preferable for a vagina to support the uterus, it’s possible to attach a transplanted uterus to other ligaments in the pelvis.

At the moment, the thorniest problem standing between men and pregnancy is transferring an embryo grown in vitro into the transplanted womb. The usual route for women undergoing fertility treatments is through the vagina and cervix and into the uterus. But since a uterus has never been transplanted into a biological male, techniques to connect a constructed vagina to a transplanted uterus have not been attempted. But Dr. Elliot Jacobs, a Manhattan plastic surgeon, says that theoretically, “Connecting the two is not a major surgical feat.”

Perhaps the most insurmountable obstacle will be the economics: Transplants are wildly expensive, ranging from $25,000 for a corneal transplant to $1.3 million for a heart, according to the National Foundation of Transplants. We can’t even begin to guess how much a uterus transplant will cost if the surgery makes it out of the research phase, and chances are slim that insurance companies will pay for it.

“It’s a class issue; you’ll only have wealthy people able to do this,” says McGinn, who is featured in the documentary TRANS.

Also, transplanting uteri into men provokes ethical questions about long-term health outcomes for transplant recipients and subsequent children, and the benefit to society of using so many resources for men and women to experience the joy of birth.

“Are people going to want to do it? Yes,” says Dr. Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at the NYU School of Medicine. “But I don’t see making this a priority. In terms of making the best use of scarce resources, this won’t get over the threshold.”

‘Homophobia’ Is Now Considered A Mental Disorder!

If you think there might be something wrong with homosexuality, you most likely have a mental disorder, according to a recent study by a team of Italian researchers.
Discussing the study, lead researcher Emmanuele A. Jannini, M.D., stated: “After discussing for centuries if homosexuality is to be considered a disease, for the first time we demonstrated that the real disease to be cured is homophobia, associated with potentially severe psychopathologies.”
That’s right. The research team specifically found that “psychoticism,” “immature defense mechanisms” and a “fearful attachment style” were associated with a greater “homophobic” attitude in individuals.
Award-winning journalist and author David Kupelian was not surprised by this new study, because he predicted exactly such developments in his latest book.
“In ‘The Snapping of the American Mind,’ I predicted that the current obsession of the loony left – which dominates the social sciences – with pathologizing conservatives and Christians as ‘disordered’ would only accelerate,” Kupelian said. “A generation ago, people who engaged in homosexual acts were considered ‘disordered’ by the psychiatric and psychological professions. Today, simply recognizing homosexuality as disordered makes you disordered!”
Kupelian noted the homosexual activist movement pressured the American Psychiatric Association in the 1970s to remove homosexuality from its official list of disorders. More recently, in 2012, the APA removed “gender identity disorder” from its manual of mental disorders. Gender identity disorder had been the common diagnosis for transgender people.
Meanwhile, those who oppose same-sex marriage or homosexuality in general are often labeled “homophobic,” which implies the person has an anxiety disorder (a phobia), notes Kupelian. Other pathologizing labels include “biphobia” for those who don’t like to be around bisexuals and “transphobia” for those who don’t like to be around transgender people.
Even worse, reveals Kupelian, some researchers have endeavored to prove conservatives’ brains are structured differently. A 2010 study in the United Kingdom reported conservatives have brains with larger amygdalas, the part of the brain associated with fear, anxiety, and emotion. In 2012, a University of Arkansas professor released a study linking conservative views to low brainpower, writing, “[W]hen under time pressure or otherwise cognitively impaired, people are more likely to express conservative views.”
However, Kupelian revealed that contrary to what liberal social scientists might prefer, solid research has shown that those on the political left are far more likely to suffer from mental illness than those on the right. A 2007 Gallup survey found Republicans reported much better mental health than either Democrats or Independents.

Similarly, a 2013 survey commissioned by BuzzFeed found Democrats were more likely than Republicans to suffer from a whole host of mental illnesses: ADD/ADHD, Asperger’s/autism, depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, PTSD, schizophrenia, anorexia, and bulimia.
And yet, the Obama administration seems most concerned about protecting the rest of the country from conservatives, observes Kupelian. They may not have declared conservatives mentally ill, he notes, but the Department of Homeland Security released a report in 2009 warning of a rising domestic terrorist threat from “rightwing extremism.” Potential rightwing extremists, according to the report, included returning military veterans, people concerned about illegal immigration, constitutionalists, Second Amendment supporters and pro-lifers, among others.
Kupelian pointed out that the communists of the old Soviet Union also were fond of demonizing and de-legitimizing their ideological opponents– but the Soviets went further than anything seen in America so far.
“In the Soviet Union, far-left ideology and a powerful impulse to silence dissent led to ‘diagnosing’ the most normal, clear-thinking and courageous people – ‘dissidents’ like Natan Sharansky – and incarcerating them in mental hospitals,” Kupelian explained.
“We’re not there yet in the U.S., but just ask yourself this: How different is it for the crazy left to label conservatives and Christians ‘haters,’ ‘bigots’ and ‘extremists’ – even potential ‘domestic terrorists’ – as they routinely do today, and labeling the same people as mentally ill? That day may be closer than anybody thinks.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/its-official-homophobia-now-a-mental-disorder/#WrykfoFcWMMGW0pW.99

Sex Slaves Forced to Perform 30 Times Per Day – Not In Syria or Iraq, But Georgia!

One of the largest federal investigations into the sex slave industry ever deployed was a success and busted a sex trafficking ring located in Moultrie Georgia on Oct 30. Investigators stated that the victims totaled 15 women and young girls, who were constantly rotated around nine states and forced to have sexual intercourse 30 or more times daily.

Experts concede that human sex trafficking has reached an epidemic  point and Atlanta plays a large part in the nation’s sex trafficking trade..
The youngest victim of this ring was just 14 years old.
Former U.S. Attorney Michael Moore states: “These ladies were expected to have sexual intercourse with these Johns sometimes 30 times a day, sometimes up to 70 customers in a weekend”. 
Colquitt County Sheriff’s Investigator Lt. Mike Murfin, whose office assisted with the operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations, says that the human trafficking ring, “Was disturbing.”
None of the females could speak English , could speak English and had come to America in hopes of a better life and future.
However, they were greeted with a smuggling debt to get here and they were forced to pay off the debt with their bodies.
“They’ve got no money, no family, no contacts, no place to live, no way to support themselves, and they are just forced into this life,” Moore said.
The headquarters of this ring was just a 3 hour drive up the highway from Moultrie to the world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International.

Read More here...
http://beforeitsnews.com/crime-all-stars/2015/11/sex-slaves-forced-to-perform-30-times-per-day-not-in-syria-or-iraq-but-georgia-2455336.html

 

More than 80 Radical Mosques In the US, No Plans to Shut Any Down!

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called for the “dissolution” of radical mosques following last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Belgium’s Prime Minister, Charles Michel threatened similar action in his country where the attacks were staged.
Neither President Obama nor other officials in his administration, however, have spoken of shutting down radical mosques in the U.S. But U.S. reticence about taking actions now being implemented by France and Belgium isn’t for a lack of mosques in this country in which hatred for American values and support for jihad terrorism are regularly heard.
There are more than 80 radical mosques in the U.S., according to the Clarion Project, a non-profit group that describes itself as “dedicated to exposing the dangers of Islamist extremism.”
Using Clarion’s definitions, The Daily Caller News Foundation has mapped these radical mosques in an effort to aid readers seeking to understand the extent of radical Islamic voices in this country.
These mosques or their leading clerics have radicalized attendees to become terrorists, supported terrorist organizations, made radical Islamist remarks or hosted others that have, or are financially backed by radical individuals or organizations.
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“Islamist extremists have developed a sophisticated network of interconnected organizations across America,” according to Clarion. “The common thread among these organizations is their ideology of political Islam, which aspires to implement Shariah governance and to establish a global Islamic caliphate.”
The FBI declined to tell TheDCNF if the nation’s top law enforcement agency has a similar list.
The map includes 83 – or nearly 4 percent – of the 2,106 mosques in the United States as of 2010.
Mosques from Clarion Project’s list were excluded if TheDCNF could not verify their addresses. These include Islamist communes like Islamberg in New York.
Several mosques on the Clarion Project’s list stand out.
Dar al-Hijrah, located just outside Washington in Falls Church, Virginia, for example, was the place of worship for two of the 9/11 hijackers. This mosque’s present Imam, Shaker Elsayed, described Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna’s teachings as “the closest reflection of how Islam should be in this life.” The Brotherhood “seeks to implement Shariah-based governance globally,” according to the Clarion Project.
Multiple terrorists have come from the Islamic Society of Boston, including the Boston Bombers and al-Qaeda terrorists Aafia Siddiqui, Tarek Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra.
The Islamic Center of Tucson was “basically the first cell of al-Qaeda in the United States,” terrorism expert Rita Katz told The Washington Post in 2002. “At least a dozen terror-linked individuals have been tied to the” center, according to the Clarion Project.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/sophisticated-network-of-radical-mosques-in-u-s/#lg98KzFcfYAyhVpj.99

Teacher Assigns 9th Grade Students To Create ISIS Recruitment Poster

What could possibly have prompted this assignment?

A ninth grade teacher in Utah gave students a homework assignment this week that had parents outraged and has caused a stir online. Just days after the horrific terror attacks in Paris, the unnamed teacher sent kids home to research and create propaganda posters for terror group ISIS. The assignment was eventually canceled, and the school has issued an apology.
What could possibly have prompted this assignment? Here is what the school said in their statement, via Fox 13 in Salt Lake City, which broke the story and sent it viral on Facebook:

“Salem Junior High recently learned from concerned parents of an assignment regarding extremists use of propaganda to spread untruths and misunderstandings. Upon learning of this assignment, the administration reviewed the concerns with parents and teachers. After consultation, the assignment was immediately withdrawn. If parents have any concerns, please call the administration at Salem Junior High.”

To call the assignment a dumb move would be a colossal understatement. Perverse might be better. Utterly moronic. Sickening. Those are words that come to mind.
Students researching their posters would be searching the internet for actual ISIS propaganda, putting themselves at risk in addition to being exposed to the very propaganda that has polluted other teens too young to yet understand the full implications of what they are seeing. This assignment would be bad enough in class under supervision. But to send the kids home to work on it perhaps alone goes beyond irresponsible and into downright negligent. Just hear what this parent said:

To complete her assignment, 9th grade Mikalia ended up on the Internet, where she typed in, ‘how to recruit for ISIS’ into Google. Her mother thinks it’s an inappropriate topic for her teenager to explore while the world remains on high alert after recent threats from the deadly terrorist organization. She decided to write a letter to the teacher and the principal, asking for an explanation.
Langston said: “In light of what happened in Paris, is that the reason for this assignment? I feel a different assignment or report could’ve been chosen or a discussion in class about the tragic events.”

The school took ‘action” by “sitting down” with the teacher to discuss it. “The assignments that have already been turned in,” said the principal. “They have been shredded.”
The carelessness here screams “liberal thinking”, and it is hard to imagine that there was not a bias in this. Leftist teachers have a long history of trying to see “the other side” on political, social, or international issues. And by “other side” they mean “not American.” It’s not hard to imagine exactly what this teacher was hoping the kids would bring away from their assignment.  But it is possible the teacher actually somehow crazily thought that this was a good way to understand how extremists use lies. But even granting that, the colossal lapse of judgment seems to be grossly understated by the school.
At Liberty Unyielding, Howard Portnoy tried the research portion himself. His first result was another example of the liberal outlook on terror. What a surprise.

Nighttime Military Exercise Startles Phoenix Residents

Mysterious figures descend on federal building from low flying choppers

Residents of Phoenix were startled last night when multiple low-flying choppers soared through the city and dropped black-clad figures onto the roof of a downtown structure.

Unbeknownst to Phoenicians, some of whom feared the incident was related to the Paris terror attacks, the actions were part of a military exercise carried out with the blessing of the Phoenix Police Department.
Claiming they received “a lot of calls” from confused and concerned people questioning helicopter noise, ABC15 reports the aircraft were part of a covert military drill centered around the Sandra Day O’Connor federal courthouse in central Phoenix.

Read and Watch it here!
http://www.infowars.com/nighttime-military-exercise-startles-phoenix-residents/