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- Breaking: Victory in HHS mandate battle
- Iowa judge rules government docs must list lesbian couples as 'parents'
- Russia moving towards ban on US adoption of Russian orphans
- France takes first step toward medically-assisted suicide
- Mexico's abortion rate rises with legalization
- Human cloning 'withing 50 years' says Nobel scientist
- Legalizing abortion in Ireland will harm moms, says bishop
- Belgium considers euthanasia for minors
- 1 in 6 Babies in Denmark Survive Failed Abortions
- Pizza mogel sues feds over birth control mandate
- Scissors save preemie's life
| Breaking: Victory in HHS mandate battle
Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:58 AM PST Today, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. handed Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College a major victory in their challenges to the HHS mandate. Last summer, two lower courts had dismissed the Colleges’ cases as premature. |
| Iowa judge rules government docs must list lesbian couples as 'parents'
Posted: 19 Dec 2012 07:57 AM PST A district judge in Iowa has ordered the state to list a lesbian couple as the parents of a stillborn child on his death certificate. |
| Russia moving towards ban on US adoption of Russian orphans
Posted: 19 Dec 2012 06:45 AM PST Russia's parliament on Wednesday gave overwhelming preliminary approval to a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a harsh retaliatory move against U.S. human rights legislation. |
| France takes first step toward medically-assisted suicide
Posted: 19 Dec 2012 06:35 AM PST A report commissioned by French President François Hollande has started the ball rolling towards possible legislation that would allow for medically-assisted suicide in France. |
| Mexico's abortion rate rises with legalization [[posterous-content:zGiDomifuntCnkvzdFJI]] Posted: 19 Dec 2012 05:29 AM PST Mexico City's abortion rate has risen following the legalization of abortion-on-demand during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, according to a new study published in this month's International Journal. |
| Human cloning 'withing 50 years' says Nobel scientist [[posterous-content:JysfCjDthIDDJodcAGxx]] Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:31 PM PST Parents who lose children in accidents may be able to clone "copies" to replace them within 50 years, a British scientist who won this year's Nobel prize for medicine has predicted. |
| Legalizing abortion in Ireland will harm moms, says bishop [[posterous-content:xxrrsHaswflAcjjBiEso]] Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:30 PM PST The archbishops of Ireland say the government's consideration of legalizing abortion would harm the country's world-renowned health care practices for mothers. |
| Belgium considers euthanasia for minors
Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:29 PM PST Belgium is considering a significant change to its decade-old euthanasia law that would allow minors and Alzheimer's sufferers to seek permission to die. |
| 1 in 6 Babies in Denmark Survive Failed Abortions
Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:43 PM PST A report out of Denmark says that 1 in 6 aborted late term babies there show signs of life after temporarily escaping death and being born. |
| Pizza mogel sues feds over birth control mandate
Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:04 PM PST om Monaghan, the founder and former owner of Domino's Pizza, is suing the federal government over a controversial mandate that requires him to violate his Catholic faith in his business decisions. |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2012 01:50 PM PST Maddalena Douse is one of the smallest premature babies ever to survive in the U.K. — thanks to a pair of scissors. |
