(The Christian Institute) — An Australian couple who chose life for their unborn child, after she was diagnosed with Down syndrome, have criticized doctors who repeatedly urged them to have an abortion. Mr. and Mrs. Simpkins spoke out on an Australian TV show, which included several mothers sharing how they were pressurized to abort their […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico woman who had an abortion in 2012 and recently discovered that her baby’s body parts had been sent for research without her knowledge has filed suit. Jessica Duran, then 21, had been advised by the father of her child and her parents to have an abortion when she found […]
WINDSOR, Ont. — A Canadian man who struggles with dissociative depersonalization disorder, mood disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, and who says he suffers debilitating pain, is seeking the right to die and is expressing his objection that a newly-passed assisted suicide law does not allow those with mental illness to end their life. “Non-existence is […]
WASHINGTON — A congressional panel has referred its investigation surrounding Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for possible criminal prosecution. Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, outlined the development, among others, on the House floor on Thursday as she discussed information uncovered by the Select Panel on Infant Lives. “There is so much […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Health officials in Texas have announced that they will move forward with implementing a rule requiring the burial or cremation of aborted babies instead of the current allowance under the law to dispose of the dead children as medical waste. According to the Texas Tribune, the rule was finalized on Monday and […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Dayton Daily News) — Ohio has revoked the operating license of one of the state’s few remaining abortion clinics on the grounds that it failed to obtain a required transfer agreement with a nearby hospital for emergencies. Women’s Med Center of Dayton has 15 days to appeal the order, which was signed Wednesday […]
(The Christian Institute) — Expectant mothers may soon be able to view their unborn baby in virtual reality (VR), after the announcement of ground-breaking new scanning technology. Scientists in Brazil have merged ultrasound images with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to build a 3D model of a baby in the womb, which can be brought to […]
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released its annual “abortion surveillance” report, showing that abortion rates are falling and are at their lowest in decades, but with at least 600,000 babies still losing their lives each year. “A total of 664,435 abortions were reported to CDC for 2013,” the organization wrote, outlining the […]
LOS ANGELES — A refugee woman who wants to transition to a man recently had her eggs frozen prior to beginning hormonal therapy treatments as she plans on converting to a male, marrying a woman someday and having the woman carry her preserved eggs. “I need to do this to be happy,” the woman, who […]
LONDON – A judge in the U.K. has granted a dying teenager’s wish to have her body preserved at a facility in Michigan, in hopes that scientists will eventually be able to restore her to life and health. A 14-year-old cancer victim, whose name has not been released, died last month in a hospital in […]