PLANO, Texas — A mother in Texas is thanking God for what she calls her “miracle baby” after being diagnosed with a malignant brain cancer this past May. Julie Prater is a 32-year-old nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Plano and has also been studying at Baylor University to become a nurse practitioner. In the […]
MANILA, Philippines — Football great and college football analyst Tim Tebow opened a children’s hospital in the Philippines on Wednesday through his non-profit charitable organization known as the Tim Tebow Foundation. “From a very early age, my parents instilled in me the importance of God’s word, the salvation we have in His Son Jesus and […]
LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House of Representatives has approved a state version of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) despite opposition from those who claim that the bill will give license to people of faith to “discriminate.” HB 5958 cleared the House Judiciary Committee 7-4 on Thursday, and then moved on to the full House, […]
WASHINGTON — A new report released by the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Division of Reproductive Health shows that over 200 babies are aborted for every 1,000 live births in America. The report, released on Friday, analyzed information provided by nearly all 50 states for the year 2011. The information is broken down into various […]
France is celebrating its first successful fetal surgery after a baby girl was born Nov. 9 at full term and in good health. Nearly four months earlier, in July, doctors at Armand Trousseau Hospital in Paris operated on the 20-week-old fetus with spina bifida while inside her mother’s womb. To prevent brain damage, doctors recommended […]
ENGLAND — An ultrasound image showing a seven month old baby smiling in the womb is drawing amazement as it clearly captures the child’s distinct and happy grin. The ultrasound was taken when mother Amy Cregg, 24, went to Babybond Ultrasound Direct in Burnley for a 4D scan at 31 weeks. The increasingly popular form […]
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey state Assembly approved a bill to legalize assisted suicide on Thursday, leaving the matter now in the hands of the Senate and Governor Chris Christie as to whether or not the proposed legislation will become law. The “Aid in Dying for the Terminally Il Act” cleared the assembly by […]
TOLEDO, Ohio — Over twenty years after pleading guilty to sex crimes against teenage girls, an Ohio abortionist has been indicted on federal child pornography charges. Thomas Michaelis, 69, of the Capital Care Network in Toledo has been charged with possession of child pornography in both receiving and distributing pornographic material. According to local television […]
Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn’t want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly has, on average, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex, a region that is a key node in the brain’s […]
The case of a mother who petitioned a United Kingdom judge to allow her to kill her 12-year-old daughter by depriving her of hydration and nutrition is raising international concerns from disability advocates and others around the world. Nancy Fitzmaurice, who was killed in August, was born blind with hydrocephalus, meningitis and septicaemia. Nancy was […]