Category: Sanctity of Life

All 50 states have Safe Haven laws that help prevent infant abandonment by allowing a mother to safely surrender her child while remaining anonymous. Now, many states are expanding those laws to protect even more newborns. Texas was the first state to pass a Safe Haven law, also known as the Baby Moses law, in 1999, as the Charlotte Lozier Institute recently reported.

This weekend’s dramatic and harrowing rescue of a downed United States Air Force Officer deep in the mountains of Iran will undoubtedly be recreated and featured one day in a movie or documentary. But the incident also drove home an immediate foundational and long held principle and mantra of the American military: No man or woman is ever left behind.

Euthanasia cases involving dementia patients in the Netherlands have risen sharply, nearly tripling since 2020 and reigniting moral and legal concerns about the country’s increasingly permissive end-of-life regime.

The agency issued a notice of funding opportunity Friday with new guidelines for grant recipients under the Title X family planning program. The notice prohibits awardees from spending the grants on abortion and abortion-related services.
The guidelines instead incentivize applicants to address root causes of infertility, such as chronic diseases, reduce “overmedicalization” in fertility treatments, promote body literacy, and support family formation.

A woman in Canada seeking treatment for severe back pain at an emergency room was reportedly offered assisted dying instead of proper medical care. According to reports, medical staff suggested Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) as a solution to her chronic pain rather than exploring further treatment options or providing adequate pain management.