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In doing so, the court rejected a rare challenge by the state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, whose office normally represents county prosecutors when their cases are appealed... Becerra, tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...said that fear of prosecution may prevent pregnant women from seeking addiction services. The case could also prompt extra scrutiny by law enforcement on miscarriages and stillbirths, he said. Chelsea Becker of Hanford has been in jail on $2 million bail since the September 2019 stillbirth. Police say methamphetamine was found in the fetus and that Becker, who...

August 24, 2017 (SPUC) — All too often, parents are pressured by doctors to undergo genetic screening, and even to abort their babies if it is thought they have a disability. Now a video where an actress hilariously relates how she resisted this pressure is going viral. When actress Lynn Fergusson (most famous for voicing Mac in Chicken Run) became pregnant with her first child at the age of 37, she was surprised to find that her pregnancy was labeled "geriatric." However, she was even more surprised by the relentless pressure doctors put on her first to undergo an amniocentesis,...

So have any of you had the chance discuss the Gosnell trial with people who are not pro-life? Shared with them gruesome details like shrieking like a little space alien, or cutting necks with scissors? If so, I'm curious to hear what responses you've heard.

"Paulo Melo, 29, has been in a coma at the Royal Darwin Hospital for two weeks, after severing his spinal cord in a car crash." - read more below: doctor requested, family objected, court granted

Jeff Grolig ordered a "large lobster" for the tank of his Potomac seafood store three weeks ago, confident he could sell it quickly, and for a handsome profit. What he got from the seafood distributor was a gargantuan lobster and an outpouring of sentiment from customers who felt sorry for the 15-pound animal crammed into a tank alongside an assortment of its two- and three-pound cousins. After Grolig spent days kibitzing over the ethics of his trade, the oversized crustacean, estimated to be between 35 and 40 years old, yesterday began a 400-mile journey back to its home waters off...

The jury's sentence of death for Scott Peterson may have grabbed the most media attention but another issue related to the celebrated case may have a lasting legal effect: abortion. The case "put the unborn child on the map for everyone to see," Randy Thomasson of the Campaign for California Families told USA Today. He was right. The killing of Connor Peterson was a key factor in the jury's decision to impose the death penalty on his killer, and the state law that allowed an unborn child to be deemed a murder victim created a serious legal problem for the...