WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that it has decided to allow its contract with the University of California San Francisco to expire, a project that utilized the remains of aborted babies to make “humanized mice” in order to study potential HIV cures. The government entity has also discontinued […]
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Post-Gazette) — A new type of fetal surgery to repair the most common and severe type of spina bifida has been done for the first time in Pittsburgh and now three months after being born, the little patient is showing almost completely normal leg function. Surgery was done by a team of specialists […]
(New York Post) — A Dutch teen who was sexually assaulted at age 11 and raped at 14 chose to end her life because she couldn’t deal with the anguish anymore. Noa Pothoven, 17, who lived in the Netherlands, wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post about her heartbreaking decision to stop eating — leading to […]
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (PEOPLE) — The world’s smallest baby is finally heading home! Saybie, who was born at just 8.6 ounces, or 254 grams, is the tiniest baby ever to survive, according to the official Tiniest Baby Registry, maintained by the University of Iowa. She was born at 23 weeks and 3 days, weighing […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Senate advanced a bill on Thursday that prohibits abortions at eight weeks or later, based on the machine-detectable presence of a heartbeat and brain waves at that stage, as well as other factors. According to the latest data on file with the state Department of Health, more than half […]
ATLANTA, Ga. — Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law on Tuesday that requires abortionists to first check for a heartbeat before being permitted to kill an unborn child, but with the stated “compromise” exceptions of rape, incest, the life of the mother or when the pregnancy is deemed “medically futile.” House […]
(The Christian Institute) — The UK’s smallest baby since 2003 has returned home after defying medical expectations. Isabella Evans was born at only 24 weeks – the legal limit for abortion – when doctors warned parents Kym and Ryan that they only gave her a five percent chance of survival. Grateful dad Ryan said medics […]
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced the issuance of a final rule that is meant to ensure the protection of the conscience rights of medical professionals and others who have objections to abortion or physician-assisted suicide. “Finally, laws prohibiting government-funded discrimination against conscience and […]
(Yahoo News/National Review) — Five employees of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) have quit a controversial NHS transgender-therapy clinic, citing fears that children are being misdiagnosed as transgender and given harmful and irreversible hormone treatments. The five former clinicians at the Gender Identity Development Service, which is based in London and Leeds, expressed their concerns […]
SALEM, Ore. — An Oregon man who has Parkinson’s disease and memory loss is seeking to expand the state’s physician-assisted suicide law as he believes that current allowances limited to terminally ill patients with six months or less to live exclude some residents who would prefer to end their lives before their condition becomes that […]