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Many tune in nationwide as President Cretella speaks out on behalf of children
Monday, July 24th, ACPeds president Dr. Michelle Cretella was interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News. Concerned that transgender ideology has infiltrated her field and is producing large-scale child abuse, she tells Tucker why in the video below.
Please email positive comments to
foxnewscomment.com, thank Fox News for Dr. Cretalla's urgent warning about using puberty-blocking drugs on physically normal children and teens, and ask them for more information like this. Please also share this link
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5524002302001/ via s
ocial media to keep it going viral!
Dr. Cretella hit a raw nerve. Many agree with what she has to say but many are afraid to say so.
It is not medical science, but rather a philosphical ideology that is encouraging children with gender dysphoria to destroy their natural, healthy bodies by experimenting with hormonal therapies followed by mutilating surgeries.
Dr. Cretella was also interviewed by Dennis Prager on his radio show last month. To listen to the interview,
click here
.
A California bill (Senate Bill 18) that would fast track parents registering a gender identity change with the state for their child has stalled in the committee and it can't come up again until December. Dr. Cretella and Dr. Laura Haynes, an adult psychologist and consultant to the College, partnered on lobbying and testifying for the first time on this bill. To take a look at the bill, click here.
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*CME Approval for ACPeds 2017 National Meeting*
Come experience camaraderie with like-minded colleagues, terrific speakers
and 17.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Registration is now open
:
Click here
for details and to register
.
Contact Lisa at ACPeds with any questions: 352-376-1877
Don't miss it!
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Call for Nominations
 In the fall, ACPeds will hold elections for the 2-year term beginning in 2018. The ACPeds nominations committee is seeking candidates for the elections.
Serving as a board member does not require special qualifications.
All Member Fellows, Specialty Fellows, Retired Fellows, and Emeritus Fellows are eligible.
Board members are
- expected to attend two annual board meetings,
- called upon to comment or vote on activities in which the College engages, and
- are encouraged to serve on one or more committees within the College.
Board members may elect also to participate in teleconferenced executive committee meetings on a monthly basis. The total time commitment involved in addition to the two weekends is about 5 or 6 hours per month.
Board members generally pay their own expenses to attend the meetings; however, financial assistance is available.
If you or someone you know is interested in serving on the College Board, please contact the College office
. If you have questions about what is involved with serving on the Board, you may email your questions to
[email protected]
, or call the College office at
352-376-1877
and Lisa can have a board member get back to you.
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August at a glance...
The month of August commemorates the following
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Innovative online course to support children with autism
Parents and teachers are being encouraged to sign up for a free,
four-week course run by the
University of Bath's Department of Psychology, which is aimed at improving the support available for children with autism.
Click here for more information on the course.
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Special Interest News, Articles and Studies
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Member Benefit: Big discount for reception room magazines
To enjoy the discount subscription,
No waiting for the subscription to start and one fee yearly. It's that easy.
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Harvard Legal Journal Argues Against Legal Abortion
Law student Joshua Craddock argues for life in his paper, Protecting Prenatal Persons: Does The Fourteenth Amendment Prohibit Abortion?, published in the
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
According to the article, "unborn babies are constitutional persons" and t
he Fourteenth Amendment holds that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The American College of Pediatricians, being truly dedicated to all children, affirms the health and lives of all pediatric patients equally, beginning at conception.
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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The SPLC: A smear group who's become exactly what they set out to fight
Once a group dedicated to fighting actual hate groups, the
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has now turned to slandering and demonizing Christian and conservative organizations, labeling them "hate groups."
These groups are placed in the same category as the KKK on the SLPC's "hate map" for merely upholding traditional standards of marriage and sexual morality.
The SPLC has enlisted in the culture wars on the side of the radical Left, and raised a huge amount of money from misled followers in doing so. Their false designations and demonization of Christians and conservatives has even led to violence.
Click here
to listen to Profit$ of Hate, a special program that exposes the fraudulent and dangerous work of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
ACPeds member Dr. Felipe Vizcarrondo is featured on another program on this site.
Click here to view his interview. That particular part of the video starts at 1:53 minutes and ends at 7:15 minutes.
Thank you Dr. Vizcarrondo for speaking out for children
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When a human egg is fertilized is the result ever a newborn platypus?
ACPeds member and neonatologist, Dr. Robin Pierucci responded to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine last month titled, "Alternative Science and Human Reproduction."
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Why we need Simon's Law passed in every state
 ACPeds was instrumental in getting
Simon's Law
passed in the state of Kansas.
Simon's law is designed to guarantee parents their inalienable right to participate in the healthcare decisions of their disabled or severely ill children.
See
this article
in
The Federalist
about why we need this law passed in every state to prevent cases similar, though possibly not as extreme, as the one about
Charlie Gard
happening here in our country.
Charlie Gard's parents recently ended their fight to save his life as it is now too late for experimental treatment. To read more on Charlie Gard, click here.
Thank you to everyone who signed petitions in an effort to help baby Charlie and support his family.
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Thank you to member Dr. Jane Hamner for help editing Parent Talk,
and Dr. Leah Willson for her help in editing the Newsletter.
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Norton Antivirus bans pro-family website
Liberty Counsel's website has been blocked by
Symantec's Norton™ AntiVirus software on the grounds that it is a "Hate" website!
The seriousness of this threat cannot be overstated--not just to Liberty Counsel, but to every pro-faith and pro-family organization and citizen.
If Symantec is allowed to BAN Liberty Counsel and other pro-family groups as "Hate" groups, then any far-left Internet company can block any individual or organization that stands for faith and marriage!
Liberty Counsel needs your help to combat this outrageous attack on the pro-family movement.
Click here for more information.
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Campaign for Truth
ACPeds along with 35 other organizations co-signed a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
expressing concern about advice from The Pew Charitable Trusts and several co-signing organizations regarding advance care planning policy.
We believe the controversial Advance Care Planning promoted by Pew Trusts will lead to premature deaths and outrage by surviving families.
There is strong reason for concern that, motivated by cost concerns, promotion of advance directives and advance care planning frequently
deviates from a neutral effort to elicit and implement patients' genuine wishes in the direction of influencing them, subtly or not too subtly, to reject lifepreserving treatment (1).
Instead we advocate that people plan for the future by having a legal surrogate with power of attorney and prepare the patient and their surrogate to make the best possible in the moment decision medical decisions when the time comes (2). For more information, click here.
(2) Appendix F - Redefining the "Planning" in Advance Care Planning: Preparing for End-of-Life Decision Making, Sudore, Rebecca MD and Fried, Terri MD. Ann Intern Med 2010; 153: 256-261, Aug 2010.
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Support for the Conscience Protection Act of 2017 (H.R. 644
)
The Conscience Protection Act of 2017 (H.R. 644) has been introduced in the House of Representatives
by Reps. Diane Black (R-TN) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) and in the Senate (S. 301) by Sen. James
Lankford (R-OK). This much-needed, common-sense legislation addresses several "loopholes" in current
federal laws that have allowed violations of conscience rights to continue and would ensure that those
who provide health care and health coverage can continue to do so without being forced by government
to help destroy innocent unborn children. For more information, click here.
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Pro-life talk at Google headquarters is a hit
Meet Stephanie Gray, the dynamic Canadian full time pro-life activist/speaker in this
YouTube video of her talk at Google headquarters.
It's long but she hits some major points.
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CROWDFUNDING OPPORTUNITY TO SEND STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS TO OUR 2017 NATIONAL
CONFERENCE!
Pro-life medical students, physici
ans and healthcare professionals are
marginalized, discriminated against and increasingly pressured to violate their moral conscience.
CLICK HERE to help send future doctors to the conference, equipping them with the skills they will need to address some of the most difficult life and death decisions they will face professionally.
Please share with pro-life family and friends.
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Patient handouts are available for download free of charge
on the
Handouts
page of the
Health Professionals
(and
Parents
) section of the ACPeds website. Available In t
he members' section of the website are
patient handouts
shared by other ACPeds practitioners
, some of which may be helpful to your own patients and practice. Contact the office to get the username and password for access to the
Member Hub
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Like ACPeds on Facebook and follow on Twitter to interact with members and to stay up to date with the College's latest news. Every week the College publishes a new blog on its website and a link to the blog is posted on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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