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Black mothers who were told babies had died at St. Louis hospital now wonder if they are alive

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Eighteen black women who were told decades ago that their babies had died soon after birth at a St. Louis hospital now wonder if the infants were taken away by hospital officials to be raised by other families. The suspicions arose from the story of Zella Jackson Price, who said she was 26 in 1965 when she gave birth at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis. Hours later, she was told that her daughter had died, but she never saw a body or a death certificate. No one is sure who was responsible, but Price's daughter ended up in foster care, only to resurface almost 50 years later. Melan

Tetanus Vaccines Spiked With Sterilization Chemical in Kenya

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Tetanus vaccines given to millions of young women in Kenya have been confirmed by laboratories to contain a sterilization chemical that causes miscarriages, reports the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, a pro-vaccine organization. A whopping 2.3 million young girls and women are in the process of being given the vaccine, pushed by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. “We sent six samples from around Kenya to laboratories in South Africa. They tested positive for the HCG antigen,” Dr. Muhame Ngare of the Mercy Medical Centre in Nairobi told LifeSiteNews. “They were all laced

Nashville Prosecutors Reportedly Offered Women Plea Bargains in Exchange For Sterilization

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The district attorney in Nashville, Tennessee recently had to take an unusual action: banning prosecutors from offering women plea deals in exchange for sterilization. The Associated Press reports that Nashville prosecutors have used sterilization as a "bargaining chip" four times in the last five years. The latest case was the tipping point. Jasmine Randers, 36, woke up in the Nashville motel bed she was sharing with her five-day-old baby "only to find the child unresponsive," the AP reports. The infant died overnight, with no cause of death reported. Randers has serious mental-

Mothers Watch Your Children: More than 260 charged in online child abuse operation

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Teachers, civil servants and police are among 264 people that have been charged following an probe targeting those accessing child abuse images online. A total of 745 suspected paedophiles have been arrested in the National Crime Agency's Operation Notarise, launched just over a year ago. The agency said 518 children had been protected as a result. Of those charged, 47 were employed in positions of trust or voluntary roles with access to children, the NCA said. NCA director general Keith Bristow said the volume of work related to online paedophile cases had placed a strain on invest

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