For many women facing an unexpected or difficult pregnancy, having an ultrasound is a moment that changes their lives forever. Hearing their unborn baby’s beating heart and seeing their child moving and even making faces on the screen is enough to remind them that their child is a wonderful and precious human being deserving of…
The Belgian authorities considered that medicine could not respond to the psychological suffering of the 23-year-old Shanti de Corte, a 23-year-old Belgian woman, a survivor of the 2016 Brussels airport jihadist attack, was legally euthanized last May, as her relatives have now confirmed. Death caused by medical reasons is an increasingly frequent resource in Belgium…
The new 40 Days for Life campaign starts all over the world thanks to volunteers like William Haag, who has been praying for 6 years in front of an abortion center in Spain. During this time, he has become friends with the director of an abortion center, who today recognizes him to be “less atheist…
The 64-year-old woman had been diagnosed with “incurable depression”, although her psychiatrist doubted that she met the requirements to request her death. His son, who has taken the case to court, was only informed of his mother’s intentions when he was called from the hospital to remove the body. The European Court of Human Rights…
Chloe Cole is an 18-year-old transgender teenager who underwent a gender transition and double mastectomy between the ages of 12 and 16, and now, after regretting her decision, she leads the defense of children and families that they are going through the same process to protect them from the existing misinformation about the irreversible consequences…
Nathan Treff, chief scientific officer at Genomic Prediction in North Brunswick, New Jersey, along with a few other companies, have been using “polygenic risk scores,” which calculate the probability that someone will get a disease based on contributions genetics of hundreds, thousands or even millions of unique DNA. These are changes in the “letters” of…
Uganda has joined several other African countries to oppose the contentious United Nations Human Rights Committee’s definition of abortion as a human right. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines abortion as termination of pregnancy prior to 20 weeks gestation. Dr Jesca Nsungwa, the Commissioner for Maternal and Child Health at the Ministry of Health, declared…
54 members of Colombia’s Congress, including representatives and senators, joined the new pro-life caucus created to defend life, family, and religious freedom. The announcement of the formation of the new multiparty caucus was made in a statement posted on social media Sept. 21 by several parliamentarians and by the United for Life organization. Its…
No matter how severe their disability is, people with intellectual disabilities have the same status as people who do not have intellectual disabilities and who need support to live a full life. Therefore, the recognition of the person with intellectual disability is an essential condition to make the dignity of that person a reality. To…
On Tuesday, September 15th it ruled that there is “an ethical application of active assistance in dying” under strict conditions. The ruling means that the French government can go ahead with the drafting of new legislation concerning the end of life. The CCNE writes in its report on the issue that it sees no objections against the…
