BOSTON — The Republican governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, who supports the so-called “right” to abortion, has vetoed abortion legislation that would have allowed minors ages 16 and 17 to end the life of their unborn child without their parents’ consent. “As I said in my amendment letter, I strongly support a woman’s right to access […]
WHIPPANY, N.J — As part of an effort to increase access to contraceptives, the pharmaceutical company Bayer and the organization Direct Relief have announced the selection of four entities to receive $40,000 each in grants, including two offices of the abortion and birth control giant Planned Parenthood. The grants are part of a Bayer initiative […]
ROME — The Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary has issued a decree granting special plenary indulgences, that is, full elimination of temporal punishment in Purgatory for a forgiven sin, during the “Year of St. Joseph.” The practice, which dates back to medieval times, has been deemed unbiblical by evangelicals. On Dec. 8, Jorge Bergoglio, also known as “Pope […]
LONDON (Premier Christian News/Press Association) — A [widowed] mother whose five-year-old daughter is in a vegetative state and at the center of a life-support treatment dispute has told a High Court judge that she will not give up. Doctors treating Pippa Knight at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London say life-support treatment should end and […]
During a congressional hearing this week on “abortion affordability,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who will lead the House Appropriations Committee beginning next year, argued that the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits using taxpayer dollars for elective abortions, is “discriminatory” because it places a financial obstacle in front of low income mothers seeking an abortion. “The Hyde Amendment […]
FORT MITCHELL, Ala. (CBS News) — A 5-year-old Alabama boy was hit and killed by traffic after he was forced to exit a car at a church parking lot near a busy highway as punishment for “acting up,” Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor told CBS News. Taylor said the child, Austin Birdseye, was in […]
ROME — A baby born at 23 weeks is now home with her family after her mother gave her a fighting chance to survive instead of agreeing to a recommended abortion. The site Avvenire tells the story of a 27-year-old mother named Jessica, whose daughter, Nicol Vittoria, overcame a number of obstacles after she had […]
NAPLES — A mother in Italy has happily given birth to her daughter after rejecting recommendations to abort due to a breast cancer diagnosis. Consiglia Varriale, 42, discovered in March that there was a lump in her breast. She was advised to abort so she could proceed with surgery and chemotherapy. “They all told me […]
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its annual “Abortion Surveillance Report” on Wednesday, which shows that the number of abortions took a slight increase in 2018, compared to data from 2017. However, the figure is still down 22% from 2009, when an uninterrupted downward trend began as observed by federal […]
Former New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson, a Christian who has been a voice for the unborn, recently pushed back against a tweet posted by congressional candidate Raphael Warnock, a “pastor” in Georgia who believes that abortion is “consistent with” Christianity. “I will always fight for reproductive justice,” Warnock, who will be facing a […]