A divided federal appeals court has temporarily barred the U.S. government from requiring an Illinois company to obtain insurance coverage for contraceptives, as mandated under the 2010 healthcare overhaul, after the owners objected on religious grounds. More than 40 lawsuits are challenging a requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires most […]
(AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientation of homosexual minors, but he limited the scope of his order to just the three providers who have appealed to him to overturn the measure. U.S. District Court Judge William […]
Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’. Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults. But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being […]
Time Magazine has announced its candidates for 2012 Person of the Year, and among its 40 nominees this year is feminist birth control pill activist Sandra Fluke. Sandra Fluke, a 31-year old attorney and daughter of Richard Fluke of Tatesville United Methodist Church in Everett, Pennsylvania, came into the spotlight this year when she was […]
The United States Supreme Court has cleared the way for a new challenge to the nation’s newly-enforced healthcare law, also known as Obamacare. The court, in opening its new term today, agreed to allow the evangelical Christian college Liberty University of Lynchburg, Virginia to contest the law in the nation’s highest court as it pertains […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is coming under criticism after recently releasing a new manual that urges worldwide abortion-on-demand and the subsequent disposal of babies as “waste,” which includes flushing their blood into the sewer. The manual, the second of its kind, entitled Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems, explains that the […]
Researchers in England have been using 4D ultrasound technology to study developing babies as they yawn in the womb. Nadja Reissland of Durham University’s Department of Psychology has been spearheading the research efforts, along with professors from Lancaster University. While there is a consensus that babies hiccup and swallow in the womb, there has been […]
Hobby Lobby has appealed a federal judge’s decision denying the craft supply chain’s request to not provide employees with insurance that covers morning-after and week-after birth control pills, as mandated by the Obamacare law. The Christian-owned company asked for relief in the face of fines they say could reach $1 million a day for not […]
A high school senior in West Virginia is fighting for what she believes is her right to refuse to be vaccinated. Seventeen-year-old Olivia Hudok is poised to be the valedictorian of her class, but was told this past September that because she did not obtain the required vaccinations, she cannot come back to school. Her […]
A federal judge appointed by former president George W. Bush has ruled against the Christian-owned craft chain Hobby Lobby, mandating it to provide coverage for abortion pills to its over 13,000 employees under Obamacare. Oklahoma U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton released a 28-page ruling yesterday, opining that Hobby Lobby and its bookstore chain Mardel are […]