CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Republican governor of South Carolina has announced that he has ordered state agencies to discontinue providing funds to abortion facilities, and has also directed the state Department of Health and Human Services to request a waiver from the federal government to end Medicaid funding to such locations. “There are a variety of […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — An Ohio mother is thanking God for protecting her and unborn son after she refused an abortion last year following a cancer diagnosis. Aleks Patete, 28, even believes that her pregnancy was a gift from God to save her life. Last November, she went to University Hospital Cleveland for an ultrasound, and was […]
(The Christian Institute) — A couple has shared the incredible story of how they rejected abortion and chose life for their son after he was diagnosed with spina bifida. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, Catherine and Paul Harper were told that their son Benjamin was unlikely to be able to walk, and may be born […]
SANTIAGO, Chile — The Constitutional Court of Chile has ruled that a bill easing the country’s total ban on abortion does not violate the Chile’s Constitution. The 6-4 ruling now allows the bill to be signed into law, which will permit unborn children up to 12 weeks in gestation (three months) to be killed in […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A pregnant mother with an aggressive form of brain cancer has refused recommendations that she abort her unborn child and has instead decided to forgo treatment in order to save her baby. Carrie DeKlyen, a mother of five, was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme in April and and was accepted for a clinic trial at […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that officials in Arkansas may exclude the abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program, overturning a lower court ruling issued nearly a year ago. “We conclude … that Congress did not unambiguously confer the particular right asserted by the patients […]
REYKJAVIK — A new report by CBS is raising concern as it highlights the fact that nearly all women in the Nordic nation of Iceland who receive a Down syndrome diagnosis obtain an abortion—to the point that children with Down syndrome have been nearly eradicated. “We don’t look at abortion as a murder,” Helga Sol […]
(The Christian Institute) — Transsexual athletes who compete against women are “feminized males rather than true females,” an American professor has warned. Speaking to Fox News, Dr. Paul Hruz cautioned that “there are many aspects of fundamental biology that don’t change” when athletes take hormone-suppressing drugs. Transsexual people often take these drugs or have hormone […]
(The Christian Institute) — Twins born just after the abortion limit of 24 weeks have overcome all medical forecasts and are now doing well. Mom Caroline Wirt said doctors thought it was “very unlikely” that both the twins would survive. At 23 weeks into her pregnancy, her water broke and she was rushed to the […]
A report from the Associated Press notes that syringes discarded by heroin users are showing up in parks, playgrounds, baseball dugouts, trails, and alongside beaches and rivers, creating a national public health threat due to the risk of passersby and small children accidentally being stuck. “We started seeing it last year here and there. But now, it’s […]