ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The city council of St. Louis has approved a proposal that adds women who’ve had an abortion to the city’s non-discrimination ordinance. Board Bill 203 was presented by Alderman Megan Green, who said that the protections were necessary to keep employers and landlords from acting adversely when a mother chooses to end the […]
Pro-life Americans nationwide took to the streets on Saturday to call on Congress to defund the abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood. Demonstrations took place in a reported 45 states and at over 200 Planned Parenthood locations, from California to Alabama, to New York and Florida, with some gatherings drawing dozens and others drawing hundreds. […]
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Associated Press) – A Canadian man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus has been granted his freedom. Manitoba’s Criminal Code Review Board announced Friday it has given Will Baker, formerly known as Vince Li, an absolute discharge, meaning he is longer subject […]
COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WCMH) — A national sex trafficking sting ended in the arrests of 552 would-be sex buyers or sex traffickers. The National Johns Suppression Initiative began three weeks ago, ending on Super Bowl Sunday. 23 law enforcement agencies in 14 states took part in the crackdown. “Sex trafficking continues to destroy countless lives, and […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A committee of the Oklahoma House of Representatives has advanced a bill that would allow for the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings and on the grounds of such facilities. H.B. 2177, introduced by Rep. John Bennett, R-Sallisaw, passed the House General Government, Oversight and Accountability nearly unanimously with a […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Democratic governor of Pennsylvania has vowed to veto a bill banning abortions past 20 weeks—legislation that will could soon be heading to his desk after clearing the Senate on Wednesday. Gov. Tom Wolf has called S.B. 3, which also bans dismemberment abortions on the unborn—or tearing them apart limb from limb—as being “radical […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. — A Muslim man from Arizona who is accused of aiding in a plot to attack a Mohammed drawing contest in Texas, as well as conspiring with friends about other potential attacks on the United States, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. “The sentencing of Kareem is significant and sends a strong […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Lawmakers in Virginia have passed a bill that prohibits the government from punishing those who believe in biblical marriage and conduct their public lives in accordance with that conviction. S.B. 1324 passed the Senate on Tuesday 21-19, and now moves on to the House for consideration. The vote was along party lines. […]
BELLE PLAINE, Minn. — The city council of a Minnesota city voted narrowly on Monday to return a memorial featuring a soldier kneeling before a cross tombstone to a public park after veterans reluctantly agreed to cut the cross off the display due to a complaint from a prominent professing atheist organization. Council members in Belle […]
(The Christian Institute) — Since abortion was first legalized in the former Soviet Union in 1920, there have been over one billion babies killed worldwide. The appalling figure was presented in a new report by the Global Life Campaign (GLC). The report’s authors called it “the Greatest Genocide in history.” The report is the first […]