New Federal Protections for Healthcare Workers Opposed to Abortion

Abortion has always been a controversial issue, with many members of the medical community opting out of performing them because of reasons moral, personal, or religious. Refusing to perform these procedures can lead to professional repercussions that leave many healthcare workers weighing the odds of their careers against their personal beliefs. To safeguard the jobs of these medical professionals, the US Health and Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday its plan to implement new regulations that will protect jobs even when members of the medical community refuse to perform these procedures. Read more

Pro-Life Drugstores

America’s pharmacists are facing an ever-expanding pharmacopeia from which to dispense the medications that ease pain, cure infection, and help people everywhere maintain a standard of living unsurpassed by previous generations.  Some of the drugs in that mind-boggling array of medications are cause for much concern among a growing number of pharmacists who do not feel religiously or morally comfortable dispensing birth control prescription drugs, condoms, and contraceptives.  More and more of them are opting out of the traditional drugstore setting and they’re developing their own “pro-life” drugstores, where contraceptives in any form are, quite simply, not in stock. Read more

Abortion Pills Fail, Kill British Student

At a coroner’s inquest in Wales, a narrative verdict has been handed down in the death of Manon Jones, an 18-year-old City of Bristol College student often described as A-level and bubbly, who died in 2005 because of complications associated with the incomplete abortion induced by pills approved for pregnancy termination in Great Britain.  The Avon deputy coroner in charge, Brian Whitehouse, describes it as the “saddest case” he’d encountered in 40 years. Read more

Miracle Baby Survives, Thrives After Abortion

An English mother’s anger turned to love at first sight when she gave birth to a son who was born a mere three weeks early, even after she’d undergone an abortion during the eighth week of pregnancy. Read more