TAMPA, Fla. — A petition drive is underway in Florida in an effort to place a measure on the 2018 ballot that would amend the state constitution to criminalize abortion as murder. “Inasmuch as abortion deprives an innocent human being of the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, any person who performs […]
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — A county circuit court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the nation’s largest medical waste provider in an effort stop a pro-life group from distributing information about the company’s disposal of aborted babies for Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities nationwide. All three of Stericycle’s charges against the Ohio-based group Created Equal—defamation, […]
WASHINGTON — Nearly 9,000 people added their names to a legal brief this past week in support of a Virginia school board’s appeal of a ruling requiring that it allow a female student who identifies as male to use the boys’ restroom. 8,914 students, parents and other residents from across the country included their name in the friend […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Three pregnancy care centers in Illinois have filed suit to challenge a medical religious refusals law, as it raises concerns that pro-life doctors might be forced to provide referrals to women seeking to obtain an abortion. “Medical professionals and pregnancy care centers shouldn’t be forced to speak a message completely at odds with […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. — An American missionary to Nicaragua is expected to stand trial in the coming weeks as the third man being indicted on charges of conspiracy and international parental kidnapping for helping an ex-lesbian flee the U.S. with her child seven years ago. Mennonite pastor Timothy Miller, also known as Timo, lives in Crossville, Tennessee, […]
WASHINGTON — Over a dozen Democratic senators have proposed a resolution in celebration of the 100th year of the birth control and abortion giant Planned Parenthood, stating that the organization is an “essential thread in the fabric of society,” in part by helping to grow the economy by keeping women in the workforce instead of raising […]
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Attorneys general from 13 states joined in an amicus brief this week in support of a Washington florist who was found guilty last year of discrimination for providing a referral for a regular customer’s request for the creation of floral arrangements for his same-sex ceremony rather than fulfilling the order herself. Lead by […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Virginia man who was accused of helping an ex-lesbian flee the country with her daughter has been declared guilty of international parental kidnapping and conspiracy. A jury handed down the verdict on Thursday after a nearly two-week trial, which centered not on whether businessman Philip Zodhiates of Waynesboro helped Lisa Miller seven […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Court of the Judiciary (COJ), led by a chief judge who also serves as an elder in his church, has declared Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore guilty of all six charges of ethics violations surrounding allegations that he ordered judges in the state not to issue same-sex “marriage” licenses […]
WASHINGTON — 19 state attorneys general have signed a joint legal brief backing a Virginia school district’s appeal of a ruling requiring that it allow a female student who identifies as male to use the boys’ restroom. “The attorneys general are again stepping forward to protect children by asking the United States Supreme Court to […]