Obama risks Catholic vote with birth-control mandate (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Dr. Joe Casillas, an obstetrician in Southern California, routinely prescribes birth control for his patients. Though he's a practicing Catholic, he doesn't follow his church's stern warning that contraception is a sin. He believes women should have access.

Yet Casillas was dismayed when the Obama administration recently ruled that religious institutions had to follow the same rules as other employers and offer free contraception as part of health insurance coverage. The idea that the government would force Catholic hospitals to subsidize birth control - or, to avoid the mandate, drop health insurance for their employees - appalled him.

Now Casillas, a registered Democrat who voted for Obama in 2008, says he is not at all sure he can back the president for a second term. "It's given me pause," he said.

Similar shockwaves are reverberating across the country, as Obama's refusal to exempt religious employers from this provision of his health-care law has deeply angered many Catholics - who will make up a crucial, and unpredictable, chunk of the electorate in the November presidential election. About one in four U.S. voters is Catholic and as a group they have swung back and forth between Democrats and Republicans.

In recent days, the administration has said it is willing to work with religious institutions to find ways to cover contraception without violating principles of faith. But no concrete plans for compromise have emerged.

The protest has been led by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which encouraged parish priests from coast to coast to read aloud fiery letters denouncing the federal policy during Mass. "It is hard not to see this new mandate as a direct attack on Catholic consciences and the freedom of our Catholic institutions," Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez wrote in one such letter of protest.

The bishops also urged the faithful to bombard Congress and the White House with complaints. By Tuesday, more than 25,000 people had signed an online petition demanding that the rule be overturned.

FAIRNESS FOR WOMEN

The administration cast the decision as a matter of equity for women. The new federal health care law requires most insurance plans to cover preventive services, such as blood pressure checks and childhood immunizations, without a deductible or co-pay. An outside board of scientists and doctors recommended last summer that contraception be included as a preventive service and the administration agreed.

The mandate does not apply to insurance plans offered by churches and schools that serve and employ primarily people of one faith. Nor does it require any individual physician or pharmacist to provide a service he considers immoral.

But insurance offered by church-affiliated institutions that deal with the public at large, such as hospitals and universities, must cover contraception. The mandate takes effect for most employers August 1; religious employers can apply for a one-year extension.

Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, a group that supports access to contraception, said he's heard from hundreds of women employed by Catholic institutions who welcome the new policy - and express anger at the bishops, who they see lobbying to deny them a benefit provided to others under federal law.

"They think it would be a great injustice that they be treated differently from other workers," O'Brien said. "Why is it they should be discriminated against?" Yet many are reluctant to speak out publicly, he said, for fear of angering their employer.

A new poll released Tuesday by the Public Religion Research Institute, a non-partisan research group whose board members include a number of religious leaders who have supported progressive causes, found that a majority of Americans - including 58 percent of Catholics - support a requirement that health insurance plans provide free birth control. A slight majority of Catholic voters, 52 percent, said religiously affiliated colleges and hospitals should also have to provide that benefit.

Without insurance, contraception generally costs $15 to $80 a month, depending on the method and brand. A recent study by the Guttmacher Institute, which supports expanded access to contraception, found that even among women who are employed, one in four says she's found it tough to afford contraception. The study found 18 percent of women who are on the birth-control pill sometimes skip doses or entire months to save money.

"I believe this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services," Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services, said in announcing the policy last month.

The administration also pointed out that 28 states already require insurance plans to cover contraception if they cover other prescription drugs. In most cases, however, religious institutions can get around that requirement through exemptions and loopholes.

The new mandate offers just one loophole: Any employer, including a religious institution, can continue to offer the same health benefits it currently provides, so long as the plan is frozen exactly as is. If the employer or insurer raises costs, tweaks deductibles or changes the benefits in any way - which happens very frequently in most plans - the new rules apply.

Many Catholics - including key Catholic supporters of Obama - said the president gravely miscalculated, on both the moral issue and the political implications.

"These are questions that go to the heart of who we are as a people and as a church," said Douglas Kmiec, a conservative legal scholar who broke from his fellow Republicans to campaign for Obama in 2008 as part of an influential group called Catholics for Obama. "There's no question this will cause complications for Obama."

Obama won the Catholic vote decisively in 2008, on the strength of strong support from Hispanic Catholics. But polls show that a sizeable number of Catholics had already begun to shift allegiances to the Republican Party before this decision. While Catholics as a group still lean left, the Democrats held an edge of just six percentage points among the group last year - down from 16 percentage points in 2008, according to polling by the Pew Research Center.

Political analysts say even before this decision, Obama faced a tough challenge holding on to support from white, working-class Catholics in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio. It was votes from that bloc that helped propel Republican George W. Bush to victory in 2004.

Another crucial group for the president: Hispanic Catholics in swing states such as Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado. Polls show many Latino voters are already upset at Obama for deporting a record number of illegal immigrants during his presidency; for some, this could be the final blow.

"I don't know what to tell you except that everyone's still stunned," said Robert Aguirre, president of the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders, a nonprofit group of business owners and civic leaders.

Obama could take an especially big hit on the issue politically if the Republicans pick Florida Senator Marco Rubio as a vice presidential nominee, political analysts said. Rubio, who is Catholic, has filed a bill to overturn the contraception mandate and could keep the issue alive.

A POLITICAL MISCALCULATION?

Catholics who have worked closely with the White House on various issues said they believe the administration misjudged the response for several reasons.

Polls show that as many as 98 percent of Catholic women in the United States have used birth control, despite the church's teachings.

And Obama received important support from Catholics in his grueling health-care fight; though the bishops opposed his overhaul, other prominent voices in the church supported him on the grounds that extending coverage to more Americans furthered social justice.

So the administration may well have believed that opposition to expanded contraceptive coverage would be muted, said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a national Catholic social-justice lobbying group. "You could say they miscalculated," she said.

Indeed, several groups that supported Obama's general health-care goals have issued biting statements opposing the new mandate. "The administration got focused on the substance and missed the higher-level issue of conscience," said Campbell.

For Casillas, the ob/gyn in southern California, that issue of conscience is paramount. It doesn't violate his conscience to prescribe birth control - but he knows other Catholics have a different take. "I want to preserve their ability to maintain their moral compass," he said.

Catholics who continue to back Obama despite their dismay at the contraception mandate say they'll urge voters to consider all of the president's policies, not just this one ruling.

That tactic worked in 2008, when Catholics for Obama put out radio ads and booklets arguing that Obama's policies on aiding the poor and ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were in line with Catholic social justice teachings - and made him a moral choice for president, despite his support for legal abortion.

The president seemed to be laying the groundwork for a repeat of that campaign when he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast last week. He told the crowd of religious leaders that many of his policies, including his call for the wealthy to pay more in taxes, sprang from Biblical teaching. "For me as a Christian," Obama said, the proposed tax hike "coincides with Jesus's teaching that 'for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.'"

It's unclear how well that tactic will play in this election, after the latest furor. "The Obama campaign went out of its way in 2008 to court Catholics," said Stephen Schneck, a political scientist at the Catholic University of America who has advised the president on outreach. "This could be messing all that up."

(Reporting By Stephanie Simon in Denver; Additional reporting by Lily Kuo in Washington; Editing by Claudia Parsons)

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Mexico party picks woman as presidential candidate (AP)

MEXICO CITY ? A major political party in Mexico has chosen a female presidential candidate for the first time, as the ruling party bet that a charismatic former congresswoman will help it erode the lead held by its powerful rival.

After easily winning the National Action Party's primary Sunday night, Josefina Vazquez Mota vowed to unite a party battered by a bloody drug war and help it defeat the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled Mexico for 71 years before being ousted by National Action in 2000.

"I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history," Vazquez Mota, 51, told cheering supporters.

The party's vote for Vazquez Mota over two other candidates sets the race for Mexico's July 1 presidential election. The two other major parties had already selected their candidates.

Vazquez Mota faces an uphill climb against former Mexico State Gov. Enrique Pena Nieto, the front-runner in the polls who could return Mexico's PRI to power after a 12-year hiatus.

The leftist Democratic Revolution Party chose Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is making his second run after a razor-thin loss in 2006 to President Felipe Calderon. Mexico limits its presidents to a single six-year term.

The personable, cheerful Vazquez Mota invited party members to help her beat the telegenic and handsome Pena Nieto, who is married to a glamorous telenovela star.

"We begin a new road," said Vazquez Mota. "A road to defeat the real adversary of Mexico, who embodies authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practices; who represents the way back to corruption and offers impunity as a conviction. The adversary is Pena Nieto and his party."

Vazquez Mota is considered the PRI's strongest challenger, though Mexican voters seem weary of the ruling National Action Party which has governed for 11 years. Delegates are betting that a woman candidate could boost party appeal.

"It injects a certain new note of uncertainty. There's never been a strong female presidential candidate for any other major party before," said Eric Olson, a senior associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. "It adds that historical element and maybe some excitement."

Others argue that the party, known as the PAN, is tainted by a crackdown on drug cartels that has seen violence soar, stalled reforms and corruption.

"Josefina arrives with a weakened party," said Soledad Loaeza, a political science professor in Colegio de Mexico who has studied the evolution of the PAN. "The electorate is not willing to see her as an alternative."

Jose Espina, president of the party's election commission, says Vazquez Mota obtained 54 percent in Sunday's primary, with 96 percent of the polling stations counted. The party's president, Gustavo Madero, confirmed her nomination.

She was not Calderon's choice to compete for the party, though he appointed her education secretary after she served as his campaign manager in 2006. The party establishment had supported former Finance Secretary Ernesto Cordero.

But the party's rank-and-file membership handed her a victory from the polls. Her two opponents showed their support after the results were announced. More than 400,000 people voted in the primary

Calderon was not the choice of his predecessor, Vicente Fox, whose election in 2000 booted the PRI out of office after 71 years of single-party rule.

The fact that Calderon still won the party nomination and went on to surprise everyone and defeat Lopez Obrador provides a template for Vazquez Mota to pull an upset, even though she now trails Pena Nieto by nearly 20 points in the polls.

Cordero obtained 39 percent of votes, and the third candidate Santiago Creel, a former senator who also ran in the 2006 primaries against Calderon, got 6 percent of the votes.

Women have run for president in Mexico before, but not representing any of the three major parties.

The PAN's choice of Vazquez Mota may have been the wisest, according to political analysts.

"A PRI victory is still the most likely outcome, but it's almost inevitable the race will tighten," said Pamela Starr, a professor at the University of Southern California who writes on Mexican politics. "It will be an interesting campaign, regardless."

Vazquez Mota's party opponents had complained she was a weak lawmaker and couldn't push through an educational reform as secretary.

A married mother of three, Vazquez Mota has used her family life on the campaign trail to garner the support of Mexican mothers and young voters.

"Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine," she said Sunday. "I want to make Mexico the best country to live in."

Some say Mexico isn't prepared for a woman president, unlike other Latin American countries, but analysts disagree.

"I don't think Mexico is any less ready for a female president than Chile for example," Starr said.

Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Costa Rica are among the nations in Latin America that have recently elected women to their higher posts.

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A 50- something year old white woman arrived at her seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn't want the seat. The seat was next to a black man. Disgusted, the woman immediately summoned the flight attendant and demanded a new seat. The woman said "I cannot sit here next to this black man." The fight attendant said "Let me see if I can find another seat." After checking, the flight attendant returned and stated "Ma'am, there are no more seats in economy, but I will check with the captain and see if there is something in first class." About 10 minutes went by and the flight attendant returned and stated "The captain has confirmed that there are no more seats in economy, but there is one in first class. It is our company policy to never move a person from economy to first class, but being that it would be some sort of scandal to force a person to sit next to an UNPLEASANT person, the captain agreed to make the switch to first class." Before the woman could say anything, the attendant gestured to the black man and said, "Therefore sir, if you would so kindly retrieve your personal items, we would like to move you to the comfort of first class as the captain doesn't want you to sit next to an unpleasant person." Passengers in the seats nearby began to applause while some gave a standing ovation.
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Ovarian cancer screening popular despite guidelines (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Despite expert guidelines and scientific evidence to the contrary, a third of U.S. primary care physicians believe ovarian cancer screening is effective and many would offer it to patients, according to a new survey.

Although the results don't necessarily translate into real practice, that means more than a million women might be offered the tests, which come with a hefty price tag and possible hazards, researchers say.

"Currently the evidence suggests that the harms of ovarian cancer screening exceed the benefits," said Dr. Laura-Mae Baldwin of the University of Washington in Seattle.

"That's why it is not being recommended."

Baldwin and her colleagues surveyed more than 1,000 doctors across the country, asking them questions about a hypothetical case of a woman presenting for her annual exam.

The details varied, but the risk of ovarian cancer never went beyond medium. That covers about 95 percent of American women, for whom guidelines unanimously advise against screening.

Still, 65 percent of doctors said they "sometimes" or "almost always" offered or ordered ovarian cancer screening for women at medium risk. For women at low risk, the number dropped to 29 percent.

Screening is done either as an ultrasound scan or a blood test called CA-125.

Although these tests have never been shown to save lives, a third of doctors in the survey nonetheless believed they work.

"There are some critical knowledge gaps related to ovarian cancer screening among physicians," said Baldwin, whose findings are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. "I would suggest that women educate themselves about the risks and the benefits of the tests."

HARM BUT NO BENEFIT

According to the largest clinical trial published so far -- known as the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian, or PLCO, trial -- women screened annually for ovarian cancer were just as likely to die from the disease as those who didn't have regular screening.

Of some 34,000 women who got screened in that trial, 212 were diagnosed with ovarian cancer -- and less than half of those cases were picked up by screening, according to Dr. Saundra Buys, who worked on the findings.

Meanwhile, the test had a false-positive rate of 8.4 percent, causing more than 3,000 false alarms -- a third of which led to surgery.

"People get referred to tests they don't need. A lot of women end up getting surgery," said Buys, a cancer expert at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City.

"It's concerning that doctors believe ovarian cancer screening is beneficial, because there is plenty of data to show that it isn't," she told Reuters Health.

But she also cautioned that based on data from the PLCO trial, which was published after the new survey was done, only a few percent of women say they've actually had a CA-125 screening test or an ultrasound.

"I don't think there is a lot of ovarian cancer screening going on," Buys said. "Despite what they are saying they are not ordering the tests."

A woman's lifetime risk of getting invasive ovarian cancer is just over one percent, with half of women diagnosed at age 60 or older, according to the American Cancer Society.

Baldwin and her colleagues estimate that about 1.2 million women might be offered one of the two screening tests for the disease. A CA-125 test costs about $80, while an ultrasound runs at $600.

EVIDENCE 'CRUCIAL'

Even if the survey doesn't reflect real practice, Baldwin told Reuters Health doctors often adopt new screening tests before evidence is available on whether or not they work.

Dr. Usha Menon, who runs the Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre at University College London, pointed out that physicians who listed the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) as a major source of influence were more likely to stick to the guidelines.

The USPTF is a government-funded advisory agency that assesses the evidence for medical practices. It finds no evidence that routine ovarian cancer screening saves lives, but points to a "significant potential for harms."

"By identifying critical knowledge gaps and the positive impact of the USPSTF guideline, the authors set out the first steps to promoting adherence to screening recommendations," Menon told Reuters Health by email.

"The practice of evidence based medicine is crucial both for the wellbeing of our individual patients and for the appropriate use of available resources," she added. "There is currently no evidence that ovarian cancer screening can save lives and it should not be offered outside clinical trials."

Menon coordinates the massive UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening, which involves more than 200,000 women. She said results from that trial can be expected in 2014.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/an7XRm Annals of Internal Medicine, February 6, 2012.

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Nyaya Health ? Blog Archive ? Cancer and a Call to Action

Posted by Duncan Maru

A middle-aged woman presented with abdominal pain, bloating, and vaginal bleeding.??A few years ago, she had had some gynecologic surgery in India where her son was working.??They had no records of the procedure, nor did they know of what

Mass detected on transabdominal ultrasound

precisely the surgery had entailed.??She had suffered no fever or weight loss.??Our Health Assistant, Uday Kshatriya, performed an internal exam and assessed her uterus/cervix, which had a hard mass.??Upon exam, her abdomen was quite tender with some fullness of the lower quadrants.??She had no lymphadenopathy, she was not pregnant, and she was HIV negative.??He called me to view a transabdominal ultrasound of her cervix and uterus (shown aside).?He saw the large fluid-filled mass shown in the image, within her uterus, near her cervix.??Neither Udayji nor I were particularly qualified to assess gynecologic masses, but we both felt that her case was most consistent with some form of endometrial, cervical, or ovarian cancer.??The nearest gynecologic surgeon is fifteen hours away in Nepalgunj; it would be best for her to go back to the original hospital she had visited in India, but she did not have the funds for that.??Even in Nepalgunj, care for women with cancer of the reproductive system is quite minimal and modest.??I doubt, at this juncture, that a cure is possible, but she will make the long trip south with the hope that something can be done.???As she and her husband left, I looked down at our cold, dark concrete floors, feeling the shame of yet another patient for whom our services are so inadequate: no screening for cervical cancer, no gynecologist, no operating room, no chemotherapy.??When people tell us that such necessities are too bold and advanced for the Far West, let her story be a call to action, and let us together fight for a better hospital.

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Duncan Maru, MD, PhD is the co-founder of?Nyaya Health. He is currently a resident in the?Internal Medicine ? Pediatrics program?and?fellow in Global Health Equity?at?Brigham and Women?s Hospital?and?Children?s Hospital of Boston.

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My organization is inspecting and valuing classic and uncommon vehicles on behalf of potential purchasers. Scams and fraud are an on a daily basis discomfort we?ve to put up with. Most are observed a mile off as they usually repeat themselves, and as I see them most days they develop into less difficult to spot.

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India airs edgier TV shows _ but cuts out the edge

(AP) ? Would the sex, drugs and rock-n-roll fueled TV show "Californication" be worth watching without the sex, drugs and rock-n- roll? What about serial killer series "Dexter" without the gore?

In an effort to attract younger viewers without offending the older ones, Indian TV is now showing some of America's edgiest shows ? but cutting out the edge.

As India urbanizes and its middle class grows, a delicate dilemma has hit a media culture long dominated by local TV shows aimed at rural audiences, such as the soap opera "Baalika Vadhu" or "Child Bride," about a girl married off at age 10. While the young and hip audiences that attract advertising dollars want foreign imports, no broadcaster wants to upset conservative viewers or attract government ire.

"This is a very sensitive time for the media in India," said TV critic Shailaja Bajpai. "Many stations are afraid of government banning orders," but at the same time, output needs refreshing to bring in audiences."

So TV channels resort to inconsistent and clumsy self-censorship, snipping scenes that are central to a show's plot with abandon. While they bleep out profanities, they will also cut a reference to the drug "crack" from one part of a show, while letting it slide a few minutes later.

Even more absurd are the imports that have English subtitles to assist those with a shaky grasp of the language. Censors often let the spoken word slide through, but change it or strike it completely from the subtitles. So while a character on "The Big Bang Theory" is allowed to say the word "intimate," the subtitles only showed "int ------."

One incident turned an episode of "Friends" into a legend of unwatchable TV. The show hinged on the gag that two pages in a cookbook got stuck together and the character Rachel mistakenly made a fruit pastry with beef. The station bleeped out the word "beef," a show of sensitivity for Hindus' reverence for cows, leaving viewers to guess why her diners were so disgusted.

It's just as perplexing for the suddenly chaste vampires of HBO's lusty "True Blood" and for the serial killer star of "Dexter," who is constantly changing blood-splattered clothes for no apparent reason on Indian TV. Or for David Duchovny's "Californication" lech Hank Moody, who disappears into a bedroom with a beautiful women and then suddenly appears in a disjointed scene from later in the episode.

Nevertheless, young Indians, who have embraced Levis, McDonalds and MTV, are hungering for Western television.

"I no longer want to watch the stupid shows I watched with my family growing up, I want entertainment and there is very little on Hindi-language television," said Abhinav Mohan, a 22-year-old mass-communication student, who watches the disjointed imports instead. "Though heavily censored, I can still follow them."

Broadcasting the shows, while editing them into confusion, underscores the fine line entertainment companies like the NewsCorp-owned Star and FX are trying to walk to attract urban youth while not angering their more traditional parents.

Bollywood actors only began kissing onscreen in the last decade. As recently as 2007, an arrest warrant was briefly issued for Hollywood star Richard Gere after he kissed the cheek of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness rally.

"Indian produced movies and TV are very formulaic, you always know what you are going to get," said Rahul Gupta, a media company owner in New Delhi. "Today's youth are more likely to get what they want from Hollywood than Bollywood and TV companies are starting to realize it and hope to cash in."

In an effort to head off government interference, the industry created its own regulatory body in June to deal with complaints. Now, in addition to the odd censoring, viewers must also suffer a banner that repeatedly scrolls across the screen, advising viewers how to complain to the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council. More than 3,000 have.

The complaints range from "scantily and vulgarly dressed women" on MTV's "Grind" to a scene "misguiding children to kill," on the southern Indian family melodrama "Muddu Bidda," or "Cute Girl."

So far, only six channels have been called in for a hearing. Their apologies have been enough to satisfy the council and prevent it from referring the cases to the government, which has the power to ban shows.

Associated Press

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