- State investigating Oakland hospital after girl declared brain dead
- First abortion clinic closes in 2014 after record number closed in 2013
- Couple who are just friends allowed to adopt, judge says in landmark ruling
- Pope Francis: Same-sex couples pose new educational challenges
The
last hope for Jahi McMath to be kept on a ventilator may come from a
former Long Island, N.Y., hairdresser who runs a brain-injury treatment
center dedicated to Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose case sparked a
fierce nationwide end-of-life debate.
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The
Ft. Wayne Women’s Health Center in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, is the first
surgical abortion clinic to officially shut down in 2014 following a
record-breaking year where 87 surgical abortion clinics permanently
closed.
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The
couple, who are not identified in the court papers, became friends in
2000. Later, they decided to adopt a child from Ethiopia but had to
petition a court to put the man's name on legal papers as the second
parent.
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From
an educational point of view, same-sex unions “provide us with new
challenges which sometimes are difficult for us to understand,” Francis
said. We must be careful not to administer a vaccine against faith to
the children of same-sax couples.
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