GHENT, Belgium — Three doctors are on trial in Belgium for unlawfully helping a woman end her life as her sisters note that she was dealing with ongoing psychiatric issues and had been depressed from a broken relationship. Tine Nys, then 38, died in 2010 after she received a lethal injection. According to the BBC, […]
(The Christian Institute) — Children are unable to give informed consent to medical interventions for gender dysphoria, a former psychiatric nurse has said, as she launches a landmark legal challenge. Susan Evans says the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) is rushing children into life-altering decisions. Many of these are often […]
MONMOUTH, Ore. — A mother in Oregon says that her twin daughters are blessings after ignoring advice to obtain genetic testing and a subsequent abortion as doctors feared both had Down syndrome. Rachael Prescott’s girls are now over a year old, but she well remembers being offered testing for Down syndrome and receiving condolences about […]
NORWICH, England — A mother in England is thankful that her daughter, now one, is defying expectations after being advised to abort her child in the womb because of a heart condition that “wouldn’t be compatible with life.” “When I was pregnant, they told me to have an abortion over 10 times because they said […]
SCOTLAND (The Christian Institute) — New NHS guidelines in Scotland say that women who complain about sharing a ward with biological men are “transphobic” and should be treated like racists. Staff will be expected to say that there are “no men present” in response to a complaint from a female patient sharing a ward with […]
BRISBANE — A mother in Australia is crying tears of joy as her newborn baby girl was born perfectly healthy after medical tests had previously shown that the child had a terminal brain condition, resulting in doctors recommending an abortion. Brisbane Birth Photography shared Dinah DeRegt’s story on Dec. 3, stating that everyone was in […]
(The Christian Institute) — New Zealand’s parliament has voted in favor of introducing assisted suicide, and the public will vote in a referendum to decide the issue next year. The bill would give people with a terminal illness, and believed to have less than six months to live, the option of requesting assisted suicide. It […]
(The Christian Institute) — Twins believed to be the UK’s smallest ever surviving babies are now seven months old. Born at 23 weeks, Joe and Ashley Keates weighed less than one pound and were each as small as their mother’s hand. After more than four months in intensive care, they are now at home with […]
MANHATTAN — A federal judge nominated to the bench by then-President Barack Obama has struck down a rule recently issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that sought to protect the conscience rights of medical professionals and others who have objections to abortion or physician-assisted suicide. Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District […]
(CTV News) — A Montreal couple is calling for disciplinary measures against a psychologist they say counseled one of them to kill the terminally ill other. When Miranda Edwards was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, she said she was determined to fight it. “I want to live. I want every medical intervention possible,” […]