WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to abortion rights advocates, striking down a Texas law imposing strict regulations on abortion doctors and facilities that its critics contended were specifically designed to shut down clinics. The 5-3 ruling held that the Republican-backed 2013 law placed an undue burden on women […]
Continue reading …An online video has gone viral that features a “gender non-conforming” lesbian woman and her partner who explain how they have tried to force their toddler son to be gender neutral and blur the lines between male and female. The video, entitled “I Am a Gender Non-Conforming Parent,” centers on Dashiell and Michelle, and a two-year-old […]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON — A Congressional panel sent a criminal referral to the attorney general of New Mexico this past week as it outlined concerns over the University of New Mexico’s work with a local abortion facility, including the transfer of the bodily organs of aborted babies for research, which is a violation of state law. The Congressional Select […]
Continue reading …NEW YORK — James Dobson, the founder of the renown Colorado-based organization Focus on the Family, asserted this week after gathering with nearly 1,000 evangelical leaders to listen to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that he believes Trump is a “baby Christian” who needs to be “cut some slack.” Dobson was interviewed by Michael Anthony […]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense plans to soon lift the nation’s ban on openly transgendered persons serving in the military, according to reports. “[Defense Secretary Ash Carter] has indicated that he expects to make a final decision soon, and that’s exactly where we are,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told reporters this past week. […]
Continue reading …SYDNEY — An Australian couple whose son was diagnosed with Down syndrome is expressing their relief that they walked out of an abortion facility instead of ending the life of their unborn child. “I’d made an appointment to have a termination, and we were sitting there, but then my husband dragged me outside,” Claire Martin recalled […]
Continue reading …RICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge in Virginia has ordered a local school board to allow a female student who identifies as male to use the the boys’ restroom at her public high school. As previously reported, Gavin Grimm, now 17, told reporters in December 2014 that she began using the boys’ restroom after obtaining […]
Continue reading …CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard professor who made headlines in 2012 when she unveiled a papyrus scrap that she touted as potential evidence that Jesus was married, now believes that the inscription on the papyrus is likely fake. “If you ask me today which direction am I leaning more toward—ancient text or a modern forgery—based on this […]
Continue reading …PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania congressman who has received the backing of Philadelphia’s African American clergy throughout his 11 terms in office has been convicted of 22 corruption counts and has subsequently resigned from his seat in Congress. U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Philadelphia) submitted his resignation on Thursday after a jury found him guilty of all […]
Continue reading …A seven month-old baby boy is defying the odds after his parents backed out of their initial plans to abort the child, who had been diagnosed with a rare condition in which his brain was growing outside of his skull. Doctors had advised Dustin and Sierra Yoder to consider abortion after diagnosing their 22-week-old son with encephalocele, an abnormality […]
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