PASADENA, Calif. — A new video released this week by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) captures a Planned Parenthood abortionist, known for her “I want a Lamborghini” jesting in a previous recording discussing payment for baby body parts, now telling a prospective buyer that “$50 is on the low end.” The footage features Mary […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A California woman who identifies as a man has filed a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital and its parent company for prohibiting her surgeon from performing a sex change-related hysterectomy at the facility because of the organization’s religious convictions. The 35-year-old woman, who goes by the name Evan Minton, had been scheduled to […]
JÖNKÖPING, Sweden – A Swedish labor court has upheld a ruling against a midwife who filed suit after being denied employment by several medical facilities because of her convictions not to assist with performing abortions. The court ruled on Wednesday that there is no reason to believe that Ellinor Grimmark’s “freedom of opinion and expression […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A federal judge appointed to the bench by then-President Barack Obama has dismissed a lawsuit from two medical groups that challenged language in Vermont’s assisted suicide law that they believe requires physicians to counsel patients about ending their lives. “The court concludes that Plaintiffs lack jurisdictional standing to challenge the constitutionality of Act 39 in […]
HONOLULU — A bill that would have permitted physician-assisted suicide in Hawaii has been unanimously deferred by a House committee following hours of what has been described as “intense debate.” S.B. 1129, also known as the “Medical Aid in Dying” bill, initially passed the Senate on March 7, with only three votes of opposition. But the […]
ONTARIO, Canada (BP) — A recent push in Canada to encourage euthanasia patients to donate their organs appears to be working. In Ontario, the first province to report data, 26 people who died by lethal injection decided to donate tissue or organs since the Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAID) came into effect last June, […]
WASHINGTON — 75 technology companies recently joined an open letter to the leaders of Congress in support of the abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood out of their concern that the organization could be defunded. The correspondence, addressed to majority and minority leaders Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, asserts that Planned Parenthood […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Senate has narrowly stopped the furtherance of a proposed bill that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide in the state. Senate Bill 252 was voted down 22-20 as seven Democrats joined the Republicans who opposed the measure. “A health care provider may provide medical aid in dying to an adult patient […]
(Christian Institute) — More very premature babies are surviving, and with less neurological problems, a new US study has found. The study found an increase in survival rate for babies born between 22 and 24 weeks over a three-year period. It was conducted by Duke Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. […]
(Christian Concern) — Healthcare workers should do more to talk to dying patients about faith, experts have said. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has advised health workers and care workers to do more to discuss patients’ social, cultural and religious preferences. It comes as a 2016 report showed that spiritual wishes […]