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A 10-month blockade on the promotions of hundreds of military officers came to a formal end on Tuesday after the Senate confirmed nearly a dozen four-star generals. The Senate confirmed the 11 nominees, among the most senior officials at the Pentagon, as lawmakers anxiously prepared to depart Washington for the Christmas recess. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who held up the promotions over the department's abortion travel policy, had insisted on time-consuming votes for each but ultimately relented. The generals were confirmed without objection by voice vote on Tuesday evening. Tuberville had already lifted most of his holds earlier this month,...

The FDA’s Vaccines & Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) is meeting today to discuss emergency use authorization for the mRNA COVID-19 shots for children ages 6 months to 5 years. 🚨LIVE NOW: FDA Panel on EUA products for infants and toddlers ages 6 mo.-4 years old happening now. https://t.co/D7S1SwJ8UE — Lindsay (@TexasLindsay) June 15, 2022 In the meeting, the FDA discussed the case of a 17-month-old female infant that suffered multiple seizures in the clinical trials.

Tens of thousands of members of Iraqi religious minority groups are dying of heat and thirst on Mount Sinjar, human rights groups say, after death threats from Islamic State - formerly Isis Tens of thousands of members of Iraqi religious minority groups driven from their homes for fear of the jihadist group Islamic State are dying of thirst and heat on a desert mountainside in the north of the country, according to the United Nations and human rights groups. Some 40 children have already died from the heat and dehydration, the UN children’s organisation Unicef says, while upwards of 40,000...

On Monday, Alfonso Diaz-Diaz, 26, was arraigned in Woodford District Court for the death of 5-year-old Blake Cohorn, of Lexington. The little boy's father, Rocky, was also seriously injured in the alcohol-fueled crash, and is still listed in critical condition at the University of Ketnucky (UK) Chandler Hospital. Other family members were also injured. LEX 18 reported: Police say they got a call about a black car heading the wrong way around 10 p.m. on April 21. Just a few minutes later, the report of a head-on collision at US 60 and Midway Road came in. Blake Cohorn was declared...

Now the Dem libs have gone way over the line with California Senator Diane Feinstein laying out the devil’s doctrine. She focuses especially regarding abortion.

GARDNER, Mass. - A woman who believes she was being stalked by a cult has been charged with stabbing her 2-year-old daughter 100 times with scissors, her lawyer and police have said, and can be heard yelling "Die! Die!" on a 911 call. Susan Johnson's screams can be heard on the 911 call made by a security guard who helped to subdue her in a laundry room at a Gardner apartment building Wednesday night. Johnson, 38, also used an electrical cord from a dryer to try and strangle the toddler, police said, but the security guard and two residents separated...

With due respect to the millions who adore President Barack Obama, I just don't understand what causes people to hear only his lofty rhetoric and appeals for unity while turning a deaf ear to his polarizing language and actions, for example, on the subject of abortion. In his book "The Audacity of Hope," he seemed determined to address every issue from the perspective of achieving some kind of common ground. We'll give a little bit of this to liberals and a little bit of that to conservatives and all live happily ever after. I'm sorry, but I believe Obama calculatingly...

WORRIED that crude language may hamper its world image, China has banned the use of slogans like "Raise fewer babies but more piggies" to promote family planning, The slogans are painted on walls and houses across China, but many are too coarse or even wrongly written, said the official Xinhua news agency citing a notice from the National Population and Family Planning Commission. Others judged offensive include "Houses toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected" and "One more baby means one more tomb". "Many slogans promoting the family planning policy are poorly worded, or full of strong language that leave...

Saturday, July 28, 2007 – Planned Parenthood, El Cajon “The sight of that sign, with Jesus' name on it, seemed to bring out the worst in some of the drivers passing by on East Main Street. Someone yelled ‘Psychos!’ at us, and others honked and gave us ‘middle fingers pointing toward Heaven.’ Amazing how the name of our Lord Jesus Christ incites such expressions of hatred...”News from the Trenches It was a hot, dry summer morning, and Planned Parenthood did not appear to be overly busy. We were able to speak with and give literature to a few people. One...

Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Infamous late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller was supposed to be arraigned this week on 19 criminal misdemeanor changes of allegedly illegal late-term abortions. However, in a surprise and hushed move, Tiller plead not guilty on Friday to the charges in an effort to avoid the media and pro-life protests. Tiller appeared in the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office for processing and was released on his own recognizance, which is common for misdemeanor cases. His attorney, Lee Thompson, would not tell the Associated Press why Tiller secretly went in five days early to enter his plea. “The law...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Hundreds of prominent GOP activists met in Washington over the last four days for their annual summer meeting. With a presidential race and a battle over the party's platform coming up next year, several of the partisans said they would work overtime to keep the Republican Party's official pro-life stance in place. Delegates to the Republican convention in Minneapolis next year will reconsider the party's 93-page platform that opposes abortion and supports President Bush's policy against using tax dollars to fund embryonic stem cell research. The current GOP position on abortion advocates a Human Life Amendment...

Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- Although family planning officials in China are changing the slogans in their one-child campaign, the fines offenders must pay are going up. Most of the media coverage has centered on how Chinese officials are trying a new public relations ploy to soft-sell its policy preventing families from having more than one child. As LifeNews.com reported, the slogan changes will affect the content of billboards and other advertising encouraging the Chinese people to support the controversial policy. It has come under fire for years because of forced abortions and sterilizations that have been a part of it....

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a recent news article, Newsweek writer Anna Quindlen tried to paint pro-life advocates in a negative light by asking abortion facility protesters whether they would put women in prison who had abortions. The article generated a myriad of answers but Quindlen never talked to pro-life women who had abortions themselves. Georgette Forney, who heads the pro-life group Anglicans for Life and had an abortion herself decades ago, told LifeNews.com that Quindlen's article misses the point. Forney, who also directs the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, says the Newsweek reporter should have focused on the millions...

Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- For both the old and young, walking is a great way to exercise but few people would ever envision getting on the highways and byways of America and trekking across the United States. But for pro-life college students, the opportunity to take their message against abortion to hundreds of cities and towns is exciting. Members of the college pro-life group Crossroads stopped in Boston recently as they wore their standard white shirts with the phrase "pro-life" in bright blue lettering. Erin Haakenson, a student at Iowa State University who is one of the students journeying 3,000...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- One of the top pro-life members of Congress has reintroduced a bill in the House that tells women of the pain an unborn child feels during an abortion. The bill also requires abortion practitioners to offer mothers a chance to provide the baby pain control before birth in an effort to encourage her to not have the abortion. Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican who co-chairs the pro-life caucus in Congress, is the key sponsor behind the modest bill. Smith told LifeNews.com the goal of the bill is to expand and strengthen informed consent requirements...

New Life Decisions International Boycott List Identifies Corporate Planned Parenthood Sponsors Life Decisions International (LDI) will soon release a revised edition of The Boycott List, which identifies corporations that are boycott targets due to their support of Planned Parenthood, the world's leading abortion-advocacy group. "As a direct result of the commitment, action and prayers of pro-family people, at least 153 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood," said LDI President Douglas R. Scott, Jr. It is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $35 million since the Corporate Funding Project (CFP) began some 15 years ago. "This should...

NAYAGARH, India, July 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The BBC reports that police have found 30 bags full of baby body parts outside an abortion facility in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Local forensic experts suggest the remains are the product of illegal sex-selective abortions.The owners of the abortion facility have been taken into custody. Police have said there is no way of knowing how many bodies were found in the bags recovered from a waste dump near the town of Nayagarh.Abortion, sonograms and the traditional cultural preference for boys have combined to cause a lopsided sex demographic in...

BANGALORE, July 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Unwanted girl babies in India are killed after birth by a variety of methods including being smothered with a pillow or cloth, drowned in milk, fed poisoned seeds or burned alive in sealed mud pots; but according to a recently published book, the most popular form of femicide is now abortion, with the assistance of ultrasound to determine the child's sex. "Disappearing Daughters", a new book by an Indian woman journalist, Gita Aravamudhan, published by Penguin Books, calls "female foeticide" "an organized crime." "The ultrasound machine has mutated into an instrument of murder," she...

Glasgow, Scotland (LifeNews.com) -- The abortion figures in Scotland are on the rise again even though the nation allows the morning after pill to be sold over the counter. Abortion advocates there claimed the policy move would reduce abortion rates, but the new figures reveal the number of abortions done there has increased twice since it was adopted. The Scotland government reported 13,081 abortions in 2006, up from 12,603 the previous year -- an increase of nearly 3.8 percent. The figures represent an all-time high for the number of abortions done in that part of Great Britain since abortion was...

A sharply divided appeals court on Wednesday threw out the death sentence of a woman convicted of killing her newborn son. The court upheld the woman's conviction, but it said prosecutors misstated to jurors her likelihood of being a future danger to society before deliberations began on the sentence. Lawyers for the woman, Kenisha Berry, argued that she had no previous criminal record, and defense experts testified that she posed a low risk of being a future danger. The 5-4 ruling from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals means Berry will serve a life term for the 1998 smothering death...