(Voice of America) — Police and aid groups say more than 60 percent of illegal prostitutes in Belgium are trafficked from Nigeria. Many are only teenagers and almost all come from Benin City, a city in the south of Nigeria. Rosa was sexually exploited by Nigerian traffickers and had to prostitute herself on the streets […]
(Daily Wire) — Per Orwellian U.K. court rulings, ten-month-old baby Charlie Gard was set to have his life support removed on Friday, but due to a heartbreaking plea from the sick boy’s parents, they will now have more time, an undisclosed amount, to say goodbye to their child before his government-mandated death sentence. “Charlie suffers from a […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Over 100 people ended their lives last year after California’s assisted suicide bill went into law in June, a new report shows. The California Department of Public Health recently released its 2016 data report, which provided information on the results of California’s End of Life Option Act (EOLA). The Act went into […]
(The Christian Institute) — A pro-life group has called on the Scottish government to do more to protect the unborn after new figures revealed an all-time high in abortions of disabled babies in Scotland. The figures released by the NHS in Scotland found there were 216 abortions because of disability in 2016, a 57 per […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the State of Arkansas must allow the “spouses” of lesbian women who conceive by a male sperm donor to be recognized on birth certificates even though they are not the biological parent. “Obergefell proscribes such disparate treatment. As we explained there, a State may not ‘exclude same-sex couples from civil […]
SHEBOYGAN, Wisc. — The story of a Wisconsin mother of eight who has been caring for hospice babies in the foster system for the past five years has gone viral, generating millions of views and much support. Cori Salchert first became aware that some parents were relinquishing guardianship of their ill infants while working as a registered nurse […]
RENO, Nev. — A doctor in Nevada says that insurance companies have now twice declined to pay for patients’ life-saving treatments, but offered to cover assisted suicide. Dr. Brian Callister, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Nevada, shared his story in a recently-released video produced by the Patients Rights Action Fund. He […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that a mother may sue her OB/GYN and radiologist for “wrongful birth” after they failed to tell her that her child had birth defects so that she might be able to obtain an abortion. “The right to sue for wrongful birth belongs to parents who were […]
WASHINGTON — Following a several month delay, Planned Parenthood has released its annual report, which reveals that the number of abortions performed by the organization are the highest since 2011 while the number of women using Planned Parenthood’s services in general continues to be the lowest in a decade. The abortion and contraception giant releases the report […]
(The Independent) — Teenagers who smoke marijuana regularly achieve poorer grades at school and risk their chances of going to university, according to a major new scientific study. A longitudinal study of more than 26,400 pupils in Canada found those who started using marijuana at least once a month were around half as likely to […]