Pope Francis kisses a wooden statuette of the infant Jesus at the end of a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican on New Year's Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with a renewed appeal for the faithful to...
If the reader, like the former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson, feels like vomiting after reading the piece by piece killing of the baby being aborted in the account of Bishop Robert Baron, let me say that such a horrible scene was never contemplated even by the most...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has formally sent a letter to the Senate declaring its opposition to decriminalizing abortion. In his letter to Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, CHR chairperson Richard Palpal-Latoc said the CHR strictly adheres to the 1987 Constitution that specifically...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Wednesday, November 15 threatened to give the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) a zero budget for next year if they refuse to withdraw their stand on decriminalizing abortion. Estrada, who is sponsoring the CHR’s proposed budget for 2024,...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to clarify its stand on abortion warning that their executive director’s stand pushing for its decriminalization, is dangerous. Cayetano pointed this out during the Senate’s plenary debate on the proposed...
CITY OF SANTO TOMAS, Batangas – A five-month-old fetus was found in Barangay San Joaquin here on Tuesday, July 4. Police received a call from the Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) desk of the barangay informing them that a male fetus was found inside a green eco-bag. Women and...
US President Joe Biden speaks during an Emily's List discussion on reproductive rights one year after the Dobbs decision, at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2023. Brendan Smialowski / AFP WASHINGTON, United States -- Republicans and Democrats offered competing visions for...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily preserved access to a widely used abortion pill, freezing rulings by lower courts that would have banned or severely restricted availability of the drug. Two conservative justices disagreed with the decision in the most...
WASHINGTON, United States- The US Supreme Court was poised Friday to wade into the legal battle over the abortion drug mifepristone with a ruling on lower court-ordered restrictions on the widely used pill. The nation's highest court has until midnight Friday (0400 GMT Saturday) to decide how it...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The US Justice Department said Thursday that it will go to the Supreme Court to appeal restrictions imposed on a widely used abortion pill in the latest round of a fierce battle over reproductive rights. The decision by President Joe Biden's administration came hours...
WASHINGTON, United States --Â A federal judge in Texas overturned the two-decade-old approval of a safe and effective abortion pill on Friday, the latest volley in a conservative battle against reproductive rights in the United States. If it stands, the ruling by a Donald Trump appointee would...
TOKYO, Japan - Japan's health ministry will soon decide whether to make abortion pills available for the first time after the proposal cleared a major hurdle with endorsement by a government panel on Friday. Abortion is legal in Japan up to 22 weeks, but a surgical procedure is currently the only...
