TORONTO, Ont. — A Canadian woman who had been arrested last December after she refused to stop reaching mothers inside of an abortion facility, and who faced possible jail time as prosecutors had recommended an 18-month sentence, has instead been placed on probation after hundreds of pro-lifers around the world submitted letters of support. Justice Rick Libman of […]
IJAMSVILLE, Md. — A controversial Maryland couple that had been investigated by authorities following outcry from viewers of their “DaddyOFive” YouTube channel, in which they cursed at and tormented their children to a point of tears, has been sentenced to five years probation for child neglect. According to reports, Michael and Heather Martin of Ijamsville were […]
WASHINGTON — 20 state attorneys general have joined a brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court that encourages the nine justices on the bench to hear a case surrounding a pro-life advocate who was banned from releasing video footage recorded undercover at National Abortion Federation (NAF) conventions. “Amici attorneys general (and the justice system) will be […]
NEOSHO, Mo. — A prominent professing atheist organization has expressed its skepticism after a Missouri city recently transferred a section of land surrounding an 80-year-old cross display to a private foundation in an effort to assuage the organization’s concerns about government endorsement of Christianity. “If the intent is to save the religious display, the purpose of the transfer is […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California secretary of state has cleared a proposed initiative that would criminalize abortion in the state as murder, allowing supporters to begin collecting signatures in an effort to have the proposal placed on the 2018 ballot. Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced on Friday that the initiative had been given the green […]
JACKSON, Mich. — The full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a board of county commissioners in Michigan is not violating the Constitution by solely presenting Christian prayers simply because all the commissioners identify as Christian. “Since the founding of our Republic, Congress, state legislatures, and many municipal bodies have commenced legislative sessions with a […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a Colorado baker who was ordered to make a cake for an event celebrating the union of two homosexual men. “The department filed an amicus brief in this case today because the First Amendment protects the […]
CARLISLE, Ohio — An Ohio teenager is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter, endangering children, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse after it is now alleged that she burned her newborn baby before burying the child’s remains in her parents’ back yard. Brooke “Skylar” Richardson, 18, of Carlisle will go on trial on Nov. […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s highest court has unanimously upheld the state’s ban on physician-assisted suicide, concluding that it does not violate New York’s Constitution. The New York Court of Appeals ruled 5-0 that there is no “fundamental right to die,” and that the provision of lethal pills from a physician falls within the state’s prohibition on […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A candidate for the attorney general of Alabama outlined in a recent online video that he believes that those who murder unborn children should be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” Sam McLure, the founder of The Adoption Law Firm, which seeks to place orphaned children in loving homes, made the declaration […]