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Washington, D.C. – As businesses across America close down and events are cancelled in an attempt to control the spread of the Chinese Coronavirus, abortion businesses are bucking the system and are staying open. Abortion clinics and hospitals where some abortions are done are ignoring the U.S. Surgeon General’s guidelines to halt elective surgical procedures, and are booking elective abortion appointments despite the threat of accelerating the spread of the disease. Now, at least three abortionists have admitted that they are in self-quarantine after exhibiting symptoms consistent with the Chinese Coronavirus. Jen Villacicencio, a Planned Parenthood abortionist in Ann Arbor,...

Could a drug already in existence turn out to be the gamechanger countries around the world are searching for to defeat coronavirus? This is what researchers at US drug firm Gilead are currently investigating, spurred by reports of the apparent recovery of an Italian patient who had tested positive for the virus. On Tuesday evening, reports emerged that a 79-year-old man from Italy’s Liguria region represented “the first real case of coronavirus cured” and that the man would soon be discharged from hospital. The man was treated with a drug called remdesivir, a broad-spectrum antiviral that was originally developed by...

Has anyone heard any rumblings about a lock down in Houston? I just got a phone call from my sister who has a job affiliated with the Fed. They were given "travelling" papers, if you will, earlier this week just in case. Tonight they were told to keep that letter with them at all times. I've seen the letter. I know it sounds paranoid, but I was asked about a lock down from someone at work. It reminds me of this line: The Baroness: You're far away. Where are you? Captain von Trapp: In a world that's disappearing, I'm afraid.

NEW YORK - Vatican Cardinal João Braz Cardinal de Aviz has penned a letter to the women and men religious around the world encouraging them to obey both civil and ecclesial authorities as the Covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc around the globe. In a two-page letter dated March 16, Aviz, who is the prefect for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, said that the “most effective witness we can give is first of all a serene and committed obedience to what is demanded by those who govern us, both at the state and ecclesial level,...

Pensacola, FL – A disturbing incident at one of Florida’s most notorious abortion facilities highlights the dangers women face, especially when the abortionist flies in from another community to conduct the procedures. Dr. Tom Messe, a pro-life activist, was at the American Family Planning abortion facility in Pensacola, Florida, on Sunday, March 15, 2020, to offer assistance to pregnant women. He and about ten other pro-life activists witnessed events as they transpired. “A young black woman staggered out the clinic via the back door — the door they never use for patients. They were trying to conceal her illness from...

The Trump administration, moving quickly to halt the spread of the coronavirus, is seriously considering grounding all passenger air traffic for up to 30 days, temporarily halting stock trading on Wall Street, and imposing a shelter-in-place rule, according to officials. Key officials have begun alerting industry leaders, Capitol Hill, and agencies that the “radical” plan could come early next week if the warlike efforts to stop the spread of the virus fail. On Thursday, the administration began to prepare the nation for 9/11-style moves when the State Department issued a “Level Four” warning against traveling overseas. The warning is the...

<p>President Donald Trump is pushing the Food and Drug Administration to speed up approval of antiviral therapies that could combat the coronavirus, despite warnings that untested treatments could harm Americans infected with COVID-19.</p> <p>In the short-term, Trump has directed the FDA to “slash red tape like nobody’s ever done before” in order to make treatments already approved for other uses available for COVID-19 patients.</p>

OLYMPIA – Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib, who presided over the Senate for the last three years as part of his duties as the state’s No. 2 elected official, will not seek re-election, his office announced this morning. Habib said he will be joining the Jesuits. “This decisions follows two years of careful and prayerful discernment,” Habib said in a news release. “But since that process has been almost entirely private, I realize this will come as a major surprise to my constituents and supporters.” Habib, who has been blind since age 8 because of cancer, managed his duties as president...

You know, the coronavirus “social distancing” measures don’t have to be all bad. There are silver linings to some of this limbo, one being that the LGBTQ community has to slow down its offenses against our sensibilities. Both the Hollywood gay lobby (GLAAD) and drag queens have reported hits to their respective lines of work. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation had to cancel its annual awards show because of coronavirus and famous drag queens are lamenting the lack of people coming to their shows because of quarantine. Hey, at least kids all over the country can be safe...

Donald Trump told reporters at his White House press conference Thursday that the FDA will soon undergo testing on a drug known as either chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine to see its effectiveness in treating coronavirus. It has previously been used to treat malaria and autoimmune diseases, per CNN. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said Trump instructed them to take a closer look at the effectiveness of chloroquine on coronavirus patients since the drug has already been approved for use. “It's been around for a long time so we know if things don't go as planned it's not going to kill anybody,” Trump...

Two Oahu residents were cited by DLNR conservation officers after they were allegedly caught picking hundreds of opihi from rocks in a marine life conservation area. The DLNR said 53-year-old Raymond Agsalda of Waialua and 53-year-old Ronsin Rosa of Haleiwa were caught Tuesday. In their possession were 784 opihi which were allegedly taken from the Pupukea Marine Life Conservation District on Oahu’s North Shore. Hawaii law prohibits taking any kind of sea life from the area, with the exception of in-season fishing at Waimea Bay. Even then, the DLNR says species restrictions and bag limits are in place. The two...

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (nyse and tase:TEVA) announced today the immediate donation of more than 6 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets through wholesalers to hospitals across the U.S. to meet the urgent demand for the medicine as an investigational target to treat COVID-19. The company is also looking at additional ways to address the global need. “We are committed to helping to supply as many tablets as possible as demand for this treatment accelerates at no cost,” said Brendan O’Grady, Teva Executive Vice President, North America Commercial. “Immediately upon learning of the potential benefit of hyroxychloroquine, Teva began to...

Mylan (NASDAQ:MYL) has restarted production of its hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets at its West Virginia manufacturing facility as a potential treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The company plans to have product available by mid-April and thinks it can ramp up to 50 million tablets, which could treat more than 1.5 million people. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, a less toxic metabolite of chloroquine, are antiviral medications that are approved to treat malaria. Because it's less toxic and has anti-inflammatory properties, hydroxychloroquine is also approved to treat a pair of auto-immune disorders, lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. An article...

Coffins awaiting burial are lining up in churches and the corpses of those who died at home are being kept in sealed-off rooms for days as funeral services struggle to cope in Bergamo, the Italian province hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. As of Wednesday, Covid-19 had killed 2,978 across Italy, all buried or cremated without ceremony. Those who die in hospital do so alone, with their belongings left in bags beside coffins before being collected by funeral workers. ...There are about 80 funeral companies across Bergamo, each receiving dozens of calls an hour. A shortage of coffins as providers...

ROME — The Vatican is dragging its feet in the beatification of Chinese Catholic hero Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-mei due to “diplomatic sensitivity,” according to a report from UCANews. Cardinal Kung was the Catholic Bishop of Shanghai who was arrested by the communist regime in 1955 and thrown into jail for 30 years for refusing to renounce his loyalty to Rome. Revered as a hero of the Christian resistance by Chinese Catholics, Kung has served as an inspiration to all those who suffer persecution for their faith under Chinese communist rule. March 12, 2020 marked the 20th anniversary of Kung’s...

DENVER – Colorado hair and nail salons, along with spas, tattoo and massage parlors were ordered Thursday to be closed through April 30 by Gov. Jared Polis as he expanded his public health order that shut down restaurants, bars and casinos statewide earlier this week.

Effective as of yesterday through the end of March, all services and events in churches of the Patriarchate of Constantinople throughout the world have been suspended. A statement published by the Chief Secretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople yesterday notes that the Patriarchate is carefully monitoring the situation “with an urgent sense of responsibility towards its faithful and all people without exception” as the coronavirus crisis continues to spread. In the statement, the Patriarchate reiterates its appeal for everyone to limit their outings and travels and to follow the instructions of the responsible health...

A man in his 50s from Fond du Lac County and a man in his 90s from Ozaukee County both have died from COVID-19, Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday

Fed up with his bishop's heterodoxy 's-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands (ChurchMilitant.com) - An orthodox bishop who slammed the Amazon Synod for making "a mockery of the Faith" has resigned as auxiliary to an ultra-progressive diocesan bishop who opened his cathedral for a "Pink Saturday" LGBT event. Auxiliary bishop of the diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch Rob Mutsaerts released a letter signed jointly with his diocesan prelate Gerard de Korte, stating differences "in our view of developments within the Church." "We prefer other accents when it comes to the administration of the diocese," the two bishops noted, as Msgr. Mutsaerts announced he was resigning "some...

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