MADISON, Wisc. — A federal appeals court has struck down a Wisconsin law requiring abortionists to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital, with a judge nominated to the bench by then-President Ronald Reagan writing the opinion on behalf of the majority. As previously reported, Gov. Scott Walker approved Senate Bill 206 (SB206) in July […]
AUSTIN, Texas — The abortion giant Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas for terminating its Medicaid contract effective Dec. 8. “By cancelling Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid contract, these politicians are telling women where they can and cannot go for reproductive healthcare,” Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s Gang and Violent Crime Unit, along with U.S. marshals, arrested a teenager on Sunday in the death of Indiana pastor’s wife Amanda Blackburn. The suspect has been identified as 18-year-old Larry Taylor of Indianapolis, who neighbors state they saw in the area the morning that Blackburn was killed. […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The governor of Oklahoma is calling for the state’s Health Care Authority Board to cancel its contract with the abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Gov. Mary Fallin sent a letter on Wednesday to Director Nico Gomez to outline her reasons for pulling the funding. “Research strongly suggests that Planned Parenthood and its Oklahoma and […]
LONDON — A judge in the UK has granted a request to pull the clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) of a woman who is stated to be “minimally conscious” as her daughter believes that keeping her alive in her current condition brings her “indignity.” The 68-year-old woman, only identified as Mrs. N, suffers from […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — An Indiana pastor’s wife who died last week after being declared brain dead when she was shot in the head during a home invasion was raped and her bank cards were used after the attack, reports state. WTHR-TV reports that not only did Amanda Blackburn fight her attacker last week, but she […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A judge in California has ruled that the frozen embryos of a divorced couple must be “thawed and discarded,” after the wife said she wanted them but the husband did not. Dr. Mimi Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer the day before her marriage to Stephen Findley in 2010, and so the couple […]
PORT NECHES, Texas — Residents in a Texas city are pushing back after a prominent professing atheist group recently sent a letter demanding the removal of a cross monument from a public park. The cross at issue, a 10-foot cement monument, sits in Riverfront Park in Port Neches, and has done so for the past […]
SAINT-DENIS, France — A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Tuesday as French police conducted a pre-dawn raid on an apartment building in an operation to locate the mastermind associated with Friday’s massacre in Paris. Police closed in on an apartment building in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, and according to reports, a woman detonated […]
JÖNKÖPING, Sweden – A Swedish court has ruled against a woman who was denied employment by three medical facilities over her convictions not to assist with abortion procedures, declaring that facilities have a right to require midwives to perform abortions. In November 2013, Höglandssjukhuset women’s clinic rescinded a job offer to new midwifery graduate Ellinor Grimmark […]