WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released its annual “abortion surveillance” report, showing that abortion rates are continuing to fall and are at “historic lows,” but still more than 650,000 babies are being murdered each year. “A total of 652,639 abortions were reported to CDC for 2014,” the organization wrote, outlining the latest year on […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Supreme Court of Kentucky has agreed to hear an appeal from the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission after a state appeals court ruled earlier this year that an expressly Christian screen printing business did not violate the law in declining to print t-shirts for a homosexual pride festival. According to the Courier Journal, Chief […]
SHENANGO, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with homicide after her father found a dead baby under their porch on Sunday. According to reports, Brittany Robinson, 23, gave birth in the bathtub on Friday at full term. Robinson claims that she did not know she was pregnant, and none of her family members did either. She […]
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge appointed to the bench by then-President George W. Bush has struck down a Texas ban on dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortions, also known as dismemberment abortions, finding the prohibition to be an “undue burden” on the “right of a woman” to her child. “An abortion always results in the […]
SEOUL (Reuters) – The South Korean president’s office said on Sunday that it will begin a review on the country’s 64-year-old law to ban abortion. The announcement came after more than 230,000 South Koreans filed a petition calling for the abolishment of the law. South Korea criminalized abortion in 1953 when its leaders wanted to […]
AUGUSTA, Maine — A school board in Maine has agreed to uphold the rights of a special education technician after she was initially reprimanded for telling a coworker, who is a member of her church, that she would pray for him. According to the First Liberty Institute, which represented Toni Richardson in an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) […]
(Washington Times) — The surge of illegal immigrant children crossing the border also means a surge of pregnant girls in U.S. custody, according to new government figures made public late Monday, highlighting the latest test of Trump administration policies. At least 420 pregnant Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) have been caught and put into government care […]
BLUEFIELD, W.V. — A federal judge appointed to the bench by then-President George H.W. Bush has dismissed a lawsuit against a more than 75-year-old elective Bible course offered in a school district in West Virginia after the district voted to discontinue the program. U.S. District Judge David Faber said that because the Mercer County Board of […]
(Bloomberg) — Australians have voted emphatically in support of same-sex marriage, paving the way for parliament to legalize homosexual unions before the end of the year. Some 61.6 percent of the more than 12 million people who took part in the government-run postal survey backed same-sex “marriage,” with 38.4 percent against, the Australian Bureau of […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from several California pregnancy centers that are challenging a state law requiring them to provide information on government abortion programs even though doing so goes against their mission and purpose. The court will consider the question as to “whether the Free Speech Clause […]