Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Take on Planed Parenthood

The billion dollar charity is working on protecting it's image has it take some heavy fire from critics. The critics say that the nation's largest abortion provider is a rogue organization that misuses federal money. Two congress men form Tennessee say the money goes all to the abortions. $542 million came from the government ans went to Planed Parenthood. The president of Planned Parenthood says that if bills are passed to cut the money they receive would harm those who rely on the nonprofit for healthcare. The whole issue is being fueled by the fact that it is the nation's largest abortion provider but it's also a major source of health care for women. The nonprofit organization preformed about about 334,00 abortions in it's 750 clinics nationwide. they also provided 10.8 million healthcare services in 2011. A third of those went to contraception, 41% were for sexually transmitted infection tests, and 3% were abortions.  And this week this week the charity is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion. A poll from laster says that 51% say pro-life and 41% say pro choice.

Talk About Heads Rolling.

Yesterday at O'Hare International Airport 18 heads were found in a crate that was discovered through routine x-ray scans. The heads were used in Italy for medical testing and were sent to Illinois to be cremated.  Apparently having body parts in crates is not an unusual thing at airports.  "Just last we transported eight heads to Rush University Medical center for an ophthalmology program," said Paul Dudek. Paul is the vice president of the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois, that supplies body parts to medical students in the state for students.He also said that last week they sent a large shipment of rains to the University of Texas in Austin via UPS. They send 450 whole corpses to medical students each year either by air or more regularly by delivery trucks. A lot of questions were raised about why the hold up, where the shipment came from, where it was headed and why. But it was all cleared up and the hold up was due to the mix up of paper work. These crates and transfers require tons of paper work because there is a black market for these shipments.

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Giant Squid Footage

For the first time researchers have caught a giant squid in it's natural habitat on video. It was discovered by one of the 100  Discovery  Channels dives in the Pacific last summer and it can be seen on its next air on January 27. The 9 foot invertebrate was found in the east waters of the Chichi Islands, 600 miles south of Tokyo. From the footage scientists found that the squid was missing the it's two longest tentacles. Not much is known about these creatures because they live on the ocean floor, and we are still unable to get down there for long periods of time. At 2,100 feet underneath the water surface the submarine that dove down left bait for whatever would come get it. And then suddenly the giant squid came out of the darkness, wrapped its long tentacles around the bait. It stayed still, feeding, for 20 minutes and then disappeared.

Overweight? Looks Like You'll Live Longer.

New research and several studies have shown that with a few extra pounds tack on a few extra years! The study found that people who were over weight were less likely to die of a premature death (by 6%) than normal weight people. But the obese participants showed that they would most likely die than the normal weight people.  Obesity is considered America's biggest health crisis with huge rising rates in the last decade.  Two-thirds of US adults are considered over weight or obese, and one-third of children or adolescents between the ages 2 and 19 are over weight of obese. Even with all these study's and developing research, researchers do not suggest that normal weighted people to go out and pack on a few pounds.