COLUMBIA, S.C. — The sexually-centered abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against the State of South Carolina for ending Medicaid funding to entities that provide abortions. “The executive order has forced PPSAT (Planned Parenthood South Atlantic) to stop providing basic preventative health services to the Medicaid patients who rely on us […]
BRUSSELS — A new report out of Belgium shows that among the 4,337 Belgians who opted to die by euthanasia in 2016-2017, three were ill children, and hundreds of other cases were listed as “polypathology,” or the suffrage of a combination of health issues commonly related to aging, such as blindness, hearing loss, incontinence, dementia […]
MADISON, Wisc. — A federal judge appointed to the bench by then-President Barack Obama has issued a preliminary injunction against a policy under the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) that excludes “transsexual surgeries” from Medicaid coverage as they are deemed to be medically unnecessary. While the state argued that “[t]here is inadequate evidence to […]
(The Christian Institute) — A young mother who rejected pressure to abort three times says her little girl is now doing “amazingly well.” Jamie Curtis found out her daughter had a large hole in her heart at 25-weeks pregnant – a discovery she described as “so devastating.” But she wanted to give her unborn baby […]
(Christian Institute) — Hormone therapy for people attempting to “transition” from male to female carries major health risks, a new study suggests. Published by the American College of Physicians, it indicated that men who took female hormones for two years were over five times more likely to develop a potentially dangerous clot than men who […]
Jahi McMath, the teenage girl who had been at the center of a five-year debate on whether or not her condition met the clinical definition of brain death, has died following complications from liver failure. According to reports, McMath was recently removed from life support after suffering internal bleeding that stemmed from her liver condition. She died […]
(The Christian Institute) — Up to 650 people died at a hospital on the south coast of England due to an institutional culture which hastened death and undermined the sanctity of life, a major report has found. The review into Gosport War Memorial Hospital, led by the former Bishop of Liverpool, found 456 patients were […]
(Cincinnati.com) — The powerhouse opioid fentanyl has drenched the drug supply in Greater Cincinnati, dwarfing the presence of heroin sold on the streets. More than 90 percent of drugs analyzed at the Hamilton County crime lab through May 3 this year have had the synthetic opiate in them. Fentanyl crept into the drug stream around […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — A state judge has ruled that the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) cannot exclude gender dysphoria-related operations from Medicaid coverage, asserting that “medical thinking and Iowa law have changed,” and that the state regulation that prohibited coverage for such operations “has not kept pace with law and medicine.” “The outdated medical evidence that […]
(Washington Post) — Diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases hit a record high in California last year—with sometimes deadly consequences, according to preliminary state data. More than 300,000 cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis—the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infections—were reported in 2017. That represents a 45 percent increase since 2013 and the highest number since […]