British Babies

Time to put this post to bed:

"British soldier at front gives birth" September 21, 2012

LONDON — Hours after a British soldier in Afghanistan told medics she was suffering from stomach pains, the Royal Artillery gunner unexpectedly gave birth to a boy — the first child ever born to a member of Britain’s armed forces in combat.

Britain’s defense ministry said Thursday the soldier told authorities she had not been aware she was pregnant and only consulted doctors on the day that she went into labor.

The soldier, who arrived in Afghanistan in March, delivered the child Tuesday at Camp Bastion, the vast desert installation in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province where a Taliban attack killed two US Marines last week.

‘‘Mother and baby are both in a stable condition in the hospital and are receiving the best possible care,’’ the ministry said in a statement.

It said a team of doctors would fly to Afghanistan to help the soldier and her son return to Britain.

The United Kingdom does not allow female soldiers to deploy on operation if they are pregnant.

Although the soldier’s child was conceived before her tour of duty began in March, she is not likely to face censure.

Britain has sent female soldiers home from wars after they became pregnant but no servicewoman had ever gone into labor in a war zone.

The soldier, a citizen of Fiji, is one of about 500 British military women serving in Afghanistan.

Belinda Phipps, chief executive of the National Childbirth Trust, a British parenting charity, suggested the soldier’s demanding work could explain why she either didn’t know she was pregnant, or had attempted to ignore the signs.

Phipps said the pregnancy may not have been obvious to the soldier’s colleagues.

‘‘Not everyone has a very big baby bump. Some women carry their baby far inside,’’ she said.

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No word on a father?

Hopefully the kid will grow up to become gainfully employed:

"Spy Kids: UK starts secret agent apprenticeships" by Jill Lawless  |  Associated Press, October 19, 2012

LONDON — How’s this for a job title: secret agent’s apprentice?

The British government is recruiting teenage apprentice spies and codebreakers without university degrees in a bid to deepen the talent pool of its intelligence services for the era of cyberterorrism and cyberwarfare. 

The level of mind-manipulating indoctrination and inculcation aimed at the youth these days is astonishing.  

Foreign Secretary William Hague announced the program Thursday.

‘‘Young people are the key to our country’s future success, just as they were during the war,’’ Hague said.

‘‘It will be the young innovators of this generation who will help keep our country safe in years to come against threats which are every bit as serious as some of those confronted in the Second World War.’’ 

Anyone tell these kids all wars are based on lies and it is intelligence agencies like MI5 and MI6 create, fund, and direct terrorist organizations?

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Time to abort this post: 

"UK health chief backs new abortion limit" October 07, 2012

LONDON — Britain’s new health secretary has said he favors reducing the limit for women to have abortions from 24 weeks of pregnancy to 12, reigniting a divisive political debate and sparking criticism from women’s rights activists Saturday. Jeremy Hunt, who took up the job just a few weeks ago, said that after studying unspecified evidence he believed that 12 weeks was ‘‘the right point.’’ In an interview with the Times newspaper published Saturday, he said: ‘‘It is just my view about that incredibly difficult question about the moment that we should deem life to start.’’ (AP)."

A post-pregnancy abortion from Pakistan:

"Parents guilty of killing daughter" Associated Press, August 04, 2012

LONDON — The girl was murdered by her Pakistani parents for her Western ways. And it was her little sister who bravely told jurors how her mother and father suffocated the 17-year-old with a plastic bag — a gripping testimony that led to her parents’ murder conviction Friday.... 

It's getting to the point where we should just kill all the Muslims, isn't it? I mean, look at the way they treat women. Not like they are dropping drone missiles on villages or anything. 

In Britain, more than 25 women have been killed in so-called honor killings in the past decade. Families have sometimes lashed out at their children on the belief that they have brought their household shame by becoming too Westernized or refusing a marriage....

Although Shafilea Ahmed’s other siblings contradicted the testimony, the last-minute emergence of a diary convinced jurors. The diary belonged to a friend of one of Shafilea’s other sisters, Mev....

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For the record, I am opposed to honor (or other) killings regardless of the justification; however, I am a bit tired of the AmeriKan jewsmedia constantly flogging the Muslims are mean to their women theme.

Of course, we all know the We$t cares way more about their women: 

"Mammograms: For 1 life saved, 3 women overtreated" by Maria Cheng |  Associated Press, October 30, 2012

LONDON — Breast cancer screening for women age 50 and over saves lives, an independent panel in Britain has concluded, confirming US findings and other studies. But that screening comes with a cost: extensive overtreatment.

The review found that for every life saved, roughly three other women were overdiagnosed, meaning they were unnecessarily treated for a cancer that would never have threatened their lives. 

I'm $ure it was healthy for $omeone $omewhere. 

The panel was commissioned by Cancer Research UK and Britain’s department of health, and analyzed evidence from 11 trials in Canada, Sweden, the UK, and the United States. The review was published online Tuesday in the journal Lancet. In Britain, mammograms are usually offered to women aged 50 to 70 every three years as part of the state-funded breast cancer screening program. 

I noticed the Lancet is a very respected publication -- except when they claim millions of Iraqis were killed by the AmeriKan invasion and occupation. 

Scientists said the British program saves about 1,300 women every year from dying of breast cancer, while about 4,000 women are overdiagnosed. By that term, researchers mean women treated for cancers that grow too slowly to ever put their lives at risk.

This is different from another screening problem: false alarms, which occur when suspicious mammograms lead to biopsies and follow-up tests to rule out cancers that were not present. The study did not look at the false alarm rate.

‘‘It’s clear that screening saves lives,’’ said Harpal Kumar, chief executive of Cancer Research UK. ‘‘But some cancers will be treated that would never have caused any harm and unfortunately, we can’t yet tell which cancers are harmful and which are not.’’

Each year, more than 300,000 women aged 50 to 52 are offered a mammogram through the British program.

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