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3390.       Trudy
7887 posts
 18 Apr 2009 Sat 12:38 pm

Shanno Khan, Schoolgirl Dies After Corporal Punishment in the Sun

Shanno Khan, a little 11-year old girl in India, is dead after a teacher subjected her to severe corporal punishment by forcing her to stand outside in the hot sun.  Corporal punishment is illegal in India and Shanno Khan´s teacher and the school principal are facing possible criminal charges over her death. Little Shanno Khan was severely punished, literally left in the sun to die, after she didn´t complete a homework assignment.  For hours the 11-year old stood in the blaring New Delhi sun; her nose started to bleed, she fainted, and eventually slipped into a coma in hospital where she died. Renuka Chowdhury, India´s Minister for Women and Child Development called the incident a "terrible tragedy."  Police are awaiting the results of Shanno Khan´s autopsy before deciding whether to lay criminal charges on the educators.

 

Eleven-year-old Shanno Khan´s teacher made her stand in the baking New Delhi sun, after which she got a bloody nose and fainted. Khan slipped into a coma after being taken to the hospital and died on Friday, AFP reported. The teacher and school principal have been suspended, and criminal charges are pending after the autopsy results are released, according to local media reports. While corporal punishment is illegal in India, it is not unusual for teachers to physically abuse students.

 

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Horrible! Why aren´t practices like this not pursuid more? That teacher..... in jail for a very, very long time!

3391.       lady in red
6947 posts
 19 Apr 2009 Sun 09:55 pm

Daydreamer made the Most Active Users´ Board -  Tebrikler DD!  Flowers

3392.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 20 Apr 2009 Mon 01:49 am

 

Quoting lady in red

Daydreamer made the Most Active Users´ Board -  Tebrikler DD!  Flowers

 

Cheers Trudy told me about that hahahaha...it wasn´t that hard - just 4 year-long membership and most of the competition recently deleting their accounts lol

3393.       lessluv
1052 posts
 20 Apr 2009 Mon 04:47 am

US woman wins race to harvest dead fiance´s sperm

An American woman has won her legal battle to ´harvest´ sperm from her dead fiance so she can have a child by him.

 

Gisela Marrero´s fiance Johnny Quintana died last Thursday when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 31.

Because the couple were not married, Miss Marrero, from the Bronx in New York, had to seek permission from the courts for her fiance´s sperm to be harvested.

After hearing Miss Marrero´s plea, a judge in New York then granted a court order giving her permission to harvest her dead lover´s sperm so that she can still have the second child they both wanted.

The Bronx judge said "yes" on Friday with only four hours left until the deadline.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5183124/US-woman-wins-race-to-harvest-dead-fiances-sperm.html

 

 

 

Hmmm Not sure how I feel about this one.......... It is very very sad that she lost her fiance in such a tragic and prematurely way..... and I think I understand her need to have this child but to purposely bring a child into the world without a father and to take the sperm after his death with only her word on what his wishes might of or might not have been and the fact that she may be in severe shock due to her grief ....... I´m not sure I would have had the same clarity of thought to be able to take this action and make it stand up in a court of lawConfused

3394.       libralady
5152 posts
 20 Apr 2009 Mon 07:09 pm

 

Quoting lessluv

US woman wins race to harvest dead fiance´s sperm

An American woman has won her legal battle to ´harvest´ sperm from her dead fiance so she can have a child by him.

 

Gisela Marrero´s fiance Johnny Quintana died last Thursday when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 31.

Because the couple were not married, Miss Marrero, from the Bronx in New York, had to seek permission from the courts for her fiance´s sperm to be harvested.

After hearing Miss Marrero´s plea, a judge in New York then granted a court order giving her permission to harvest her dead lover´s sperm so that she can still have the second child they both wanted.

The Bronx judge said "yes" on Friday with only four hours left until the deadline.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5183124/US-woman-wins-race-to-harvest-dead-fiances-sperm.html

 

 

 

Hmmm Not sure how I feel about this one.......... It is very very sad that she lost her fiance in such a tragic and prematurely way..... and I think I understand her need to have this child but to purposely bring a child into the world without a father and to take the sperm after his death with only her word on what his wishes might of or might not have been and the fact that she may be in severe shock due to her grief ....... I´m not sure I would have had the same clarity of thought to be able to take this action and make it stand up in a court of lawConfused

 

Glad I am not the only one who thinks like this!  I think it would have been the last thing on my mind at a time like that ...........   Confused

 

3395.       lady in red
6947 posts
 20 Apr 2009 Mon 07:44 pm

 

Quoting Daydreamer

 

 

Cheers Trudy told me about that hahahaha...it wasn´t that hard - just 4 year-long membership and most of the competition recently deleting their accounts lol

 

 Just remember it´s quality not quantity that´s important!

3396.       alameda
3499 posts
 21 Apr 2009 Tue 08:24 pm

 

Quoting libralady

 

 

Glad I am not the only one who thinks like this!  I think it would have been the last thing on my mind at a time like that ...........   Confused

 

 

 Sounds really creepy to me! I understand people wanting something living after a loved one departs, but I also wonder about the general health of the harvest...so to speak.

3397.       alameda
3499 posts
 21 Apr 2009 Tue 08:26 pm

 

Quoting Daydreamer

 

 

Cheers Trudy told me about that hahahaha...it wasn´t that hard - just 4 year-long membership and most of the competition recently deleting their accounts lol

 

 Although, we have not always agreed..Smile..I must say most of your posts are thoughtful, substanstive and meaningful, unlike a lot of  "me too" type posts that have boosted stats of some.

3398.       bydand
755 posts
 21 Apr 2009 Tue 10:49 pm

Just found the Translation Lounge has been closed without warning. What the hell! Is this just temporary or permanent? Unsure



Edited (4/21/2009) by bydand

3399.       lessluv
1052 posts
 22 Apr 2009 Wed 03:37 am

Fertility expert: ´I can clone a human being´

 

 

Controversial doctor filmed creating embryos before injecting them into wombs of women wanting cloned babies

By Steve Connor, Science Editor

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Dr Panayiotis Zavos will be online from 10am BST to answer questions about his controversial work

Dr Panayiotis Zavos will be online from 10am BST to answer questions about his controversial work

A controversial fertility doctor claimed yesterday to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women who had been prepared to give birth to cloned babies.

 

The cloning was recorded by an independent documentary film-maker who has testified to The Independent that the cloning had taken place and that the women were genuinely hoping to become pregnant with the first cloned embryos specifically created for the purposes of human reproduction.

Panayiotis Zavos has broken the ultimate taboo of transferring cloned embryos into the human womb, a procedure that is a criminal offence in Britain and illegal in many other countries. He carried out the work at a secret lab-oratory, probably located in the Middle East where there is no cloning ban. Dr Zavos, a naturalised American, also has fertility clinics in Kentucky and Cyprus, where he was born. His patients – three married couples and a single woman – came from Britain, the United States and an unspecified country in the Middle East.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fertility-expert-i-can-clone-a-human-being-1672095.html

 

 

The end of ´life´ as we know it? ........whatever happened to the old fashioned way of making babies!! Satisfied nod



Edited (4/22/2009) by lessluv [oooops forgot the link]

3400.       libralady
5152 posts
 22 Apr 2009 Wed 11:15 am

 

Quoting lessluv

Fertility expert: ´I can clone a human being´

 

 

Controversial doctor filmed creating embryos before injecting them into wombs of women wanting cloned babies

By Steve Connor, Science Editor

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Dr Panayiotis Zavos will be online from 10am BST to answer questions about his controversial work

Dr Panayiotis Zavos will be online from 10am BST to answer questions about his controversial work

A controversial fertility doctor claimed yesterday to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women who had been prepared to give birth to cloned babies.

 

The cloning was recorded by an independent documentary film-maker who has testified to The Independent that the cloning had taken place and that the women were genuinely hoping to become pregnant with the first cloned embryos specifically created for the purposes of human reproduction.

Panayiotis Zavos has broken the ultimate taboo of transferring cloned embryos into the human womb, a procedure that is a criminal offence in Britain and illegal in many other countries. He carried out the work at a secret lab-oratory, probably located in the Middle East where there is no cloning ban. Dr Zavos, a naturalised American, also has fertility clinics in Kentucky and Cyprus, where he was born. His patients – three married couples and a single woman – came from Britain, the United States and an unspecified country in the Middle East.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fertility-expert-i-can-clone-a-human-being-1672095.html

 

 

The end of ´life´ as we know it? ........whatever happened to the old fashioned way of making babies!! Satisfied nod

 

 Too right Less - can´t beat a bit of good old fashioned pratice can you??  Anyway the thought of this cloning makes me feel sick......... Puking

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