South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told a public meeting yesterday that more the one in every four schoolgirls, 28% of the age group, is HIV positive.
By comparison, the rate of infection among the full population is just 10%. The rate among schoolboys is just 4%. Continue reading
The Virginia Board of Health is considering a new set of regulations that have infuriated those who promote abortion.
The new regulations would require abortion clinics to meet the same building standards as newly constructed hospitals. All abortion locations, whether new or previously built, will need to meet the same level of safety for patients regardless of location and size. Continue reading
Arkansas is being called “ground zero” in the fight to protect the lives of unborn babies.
Last week, lawmakers overrode a veto by Governor Mike Beebe to put in place a law that would prohibit most abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy. The law, called the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act, mandates that an abortion is no longer legal if a heartbeat is detected during an ultrasound at the 12th week of pregnancy. Continue reading
Members of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland are debating an amendment that would ban abortions at private clinics in the nation.
The amendment is being attached to a criminal justice bill.
Opponents of the measure say the bill will keep women from being able to obtain abortions as prescribed by current law but the author of the bill says those claims have no basis. Continue reading
Three women were the first jurors seated for the trial of a Pennsylvania abortion provider facing multiple murder charges.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell is charged with third-degree murder in the botched abortion of a woman in 2009. He is also facing the death penalty because of first-degree murder charges in the killing of seven babies that were born alive but killed in Gosnell’s care. Continue reading
The Alabama state house has passed legislation that would toughen restrictions for abortion clinics in a move that pro-abortion advocates have screamed is unfair.
The bill would require abortion clinics to have the same standards as any other location in the state that performs a surgical procedure. Continue reading
A pregnant teenager who sued her parents to stop them from forcing her into an abortion has won the right to keep her baby.
An agreement was reached with her parents where she can have the child and the parents cannot physically force her to have the abortion or impose any other kind of physical force on the 16-year-old. Continue reading
A 16-year-old Texas girl is suing her parents to stop them from forcing her to have an abortion.
The girl is claiming in court documents that her parents are coercing her to abort her 9-week-old baby through verbal threats and harassment & physical threats. Continue reading
A 29-year-old woman died as a result of complications from a late-term abortion in Germantown, Maryland Thursday.
The woman was under the medical care of Dr. LeRoy Carhart who has been connected to previous deaths including the 2005 death of Christin Gilbert in Wichita, Kansas. Continue reading
Arkansas senators advanced a proposal Wednesday to ban most abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected, a move that would prohibit the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, despite a warning from opponents that it would open the state up to legal challenges. Continue reading