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Alabama’s Senate Passes a Bill to Ban Almost All Abortions in the State

16 May 2019
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WRN Editorial Staff

The ACLU and Planned Parenthood will mount a legal challenge in the southern U.S. state. If the bill becomes a law, then the state will have the notorious distinction of having the most conservative...

Trump’s Faith-based Rule Allows Health Workers to Deny LGBTQ Patients

07 May 2019
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Alison Lesley

Conscience protections U.S. President Donald J. Trump during his speech before faith leaders on May 2 National Day of Prayer announced a brand new 440-page long rule which would allow employers, providers,...

Hail Satan? Examines the Rise of The Satanic Temple

28 Apr 2019
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Gary Nguyen

A recent movement in the United States has begun championing Satan and all that he stands for. Satanic iconography and imagery have for long been associated with the dark arts. Conservative Christians...

Illinois Billboard Invites Missouri Women Who Want a “Safe, Legal Abortion”

20 Apr 2019
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Elisa Meyer

The state allows Medicaid to finance abortions In Missouri, women who want an abortion must overcome a series of obstacles, including a waiting period comprising 72 hours. Women "who don’t want...

Abortions in Ohio Are Now Illegal After a Heartbeat is Detected

12 Apr 2019
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Elisa Meyer

The ACLU has branded the "heartbeat abortion bill" as unconstitutional. The ban on abortion after six weeks of conception makes the state sixth in the United States to ban abortions from the point...

TN ‘Secular Humanism’ Abortion Bill Moves Forward

10 Apr 2019
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C Barnett

Proposal argues that state subsidies offered for conducting abortions violate the First Amendment Oak Ridge Republican The Tennessee House on April 8 advanced the debate on the argument that tax-funded...

Pope Francis Assigned the First African-American Bishop to Head the D.C. Church

05 Apr 2019
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C Barnett

Archbishop Wilton Gregory may also become the first African-American Cardinal eligible to vote for the next pope. The 71-year-old will be the first African-American to hold the senior-most U.S. position...

Catholic Hospitals are Not Disclosing Restrictions They Place on Care Due to Religious Beliefs

30 Mar 2019
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Elisa Meyer

Patients are kept in the dark regarding abortion and suicide among others A newly released research letter in Journal of the American Medical Association disclosed how a significant proportion of Catholic...

Abortions Past 18 Weeks are Now Banned in Utah

28 Mar 2019
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Kelly Frazier

Planned Parenthood and ACLU will challenge the bill in court. On March 25 Gary Herbert, the Governor of Utah, signed HB136, a bill which forbids abortions post 18 weeks. The new law changes the existing...

Fetal Heartbeat Abortion Ban Blocked by Kentucky Judge

19 Mar 2019
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Kelly Frazier

The ACLU challenged the ban on behalf of the EMW Women's Surgical Center A heartbeat can generally be detected at six weeks after conception. The ruling came a mere hours after Matt Bevin, the Republican...