Heroic News: “Taiwan upholds first public transgender 'marriage'” plus 4 more

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• Taiwan upholds first public transgender 'marriage'
• In China, one-child policy compounds loss of child for parents
• Pentagon plans benefits for same-sex 'spouses'
• Will the Next Attorney General Defend Constitutional Ban on Gay 'Marriage'
• Pro-Life Doctors Barred From Presenting Academic Slideshow on Abortion

Taiwan upholds first public transgender 'marriage' Posted: 08 Aug 2013 09:39 AM PDT Taiwanese authorities have agreed to uphold the marriage status of a local transgender couple, reversing a previous official decision in a ruling activists said would help the bid to legalise same sex 'marriage.'

In China, one-child policy compounds loss of child for parents Posted: 08 Aug 2013 03:55 AM PDT For more than three decades, debate has raged over China's one-child policy, imposed in 1979 to rein in 'runaway' population growth. It has reshaped Chinese society — with birthrates plunging and the gender gap widening.

Pentagon plans benefits for same-sex 'spouses' Posted: 08 Aug 2013 03:50 AM PDT Same-sex 'spouses' of military members could get health care, housing and other benefits by the end of August under a proposal being considered by the Pentagon. But earlier plans to provide benefits to gay partners who are not 'married' may be reversed.

Will the Next Attorney General Defend Constitutional Ban on Gay 'Marriage' Posted: 08 Aug 2013 02:43 AM PDT Virginia's next attorney general will have to stand in a courtroom and make a decision about whether or not the commonwealth's constitutional ban on gay 'marriage' should be defended.

Pro-Life Doctors Barred From Presenting Academic Slideshow on Abortion Posted: 08 Aug 2013 02:17 AM PDT Several pro-life OB/GYN doctors were barred from presenting a slideshow last minute at the International Conference for Women in Medicine in South Korea last week after panelists politicized the strictly scientific information.