(BBC) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a “global mechanism” that would use QR codes to open up international travel. “We need to further harmonize policies and standards and establish ‘fast tracks’ to facilitate the orderly flow of people,” he said. The codes will be used to help establish a traveler’s health status. […]
(CBS News) — Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said the airline is planning to require passengers traveling internationally to prove they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 after the vaccinations become available to the public. In an interview with Australian broadcaster 9 Network, Joyce said Monday that the company is looking to change its terms and conditions […]
TORONTO (CTV News) — When 90-year-old Nancy Russell died last month, she was surrounded by friends and family. They clustered around her bed, singing a song she had chosen to send her off, as a doctor helped her through a medically-assisted death. It was the exact opposite of the lonely months of lockdown Russell […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS San Francisco) — Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed regret Friday for attending a birthday party at an exclusive Wine Country restaurant last week, ignoring his own state’s advisories on gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The San Francisco Chronicle broke the news earlier Friday that the governor attended the Nov. 6 50th birthday party […]
(Yahoo News) — During the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated arguments over the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, the signal from the high court was that President Obama’s healthcare law may largely be safe. Both Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh — one of whom would almost surely be needed to strike down the entirety of […]
(The Christian Institute) — New Zealand has voted to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide, following a public referendum. The End of Life Choice Act was passed in the country’s parliament last year by 69 votes to 51, allowing doctors to administer or supply lethal doses of drugs to patients. However, it still required official public […]
(The Christian Institute) — Mothers have shared how they stood up to pressure to abort their children after they were diagnosed with Down syndrome. One said she was pressured to abort her daughter 15 times and was told at 38 weeks pregnant that she could change her mind right up until being induced. Emma Mellor […]
VOORHEES TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), a large and well-known pediatric and neonatal healthcare institution, has announced the opening of a “gender and sexuality development clinic” at its Specialty Care Center in Voorhees Township, New Jersey to “affirm” youth who allegedly struggle with confusion about their gender. CHOP already has such […]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A pastor in Tennessee with pre-existing medical conditions is crediting the Lord for saving his life after he recently ended up in the hospital on a ventilator in contracting COVID-19. “It is a miracle, me, with the age that I am, the pre-existing conditions I have, that I pulled through that, and […]
(The Christian Institute) — A woman with Down syndrome has been given permission to challenge the current law on abortion at the High Court. Heidi Crowter and fellow campaigner Máire Lea-Wilson say the law discriminates against unborn babies with the condition. In the UK, abortion is permitted up to 24 weeks for most reasons […]