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In the United States, it is against the law to intentionally destroy the egg of a bald eagle. It’s true. Under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940, deliberately destroying – or even disturbing – a bald eagle’s egg is punishable by a maximum $5,000 fine and up to a year in prison. […]
Gregory Koukl wrote, “If the unborn is not a human person, no justification for abortion is necessary. If the unborn is a human person, then no justification for abortion is adequate.” We often hear that abortion is a complex and complicated issue. But although sometimes the circumstances surrounding abortion can be complex, abortion itself is […]
Xavier Symons, writing for BioEdge, a news website that focuses on bioethics, wrote an article about ectogenesis. Ectogenesis refers to a human embryo or fetus developing in an artificial environment outside of the woman’s uterus. Scientists recently kept premature lamb fetuses alive in an artificial environment, so hopes are high that they can eventually develop artificial […]
The New York Times wrote an incredibly life-affirming, beautiful story a couple of weeks ago. A pediatric neurosurgeon operated on a spina bifida patient … who was still inside his mother’s uterus! Lexi Royer and her husband, Joshuwa, were high school sweethearts who’d always longed for children, but Mrs. Royer had health issues that made […]
Live Action News — In 1999, photographer Michael Clancy snapped a photo of then 21-week-old preborn Samuel Armas, who was grasping his surgeon’s hand through a hole in his mother’s uterus during a fetal surgery to correct his spina bifida. The photo, known as the “Hand of Hope,” became famous, because it confirmed the undeniable truth: the baby boy […]
Live Action News — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of its new strategic plan for 2018-2022, and with the addition of a few small words, it’s clear that there is a major change. Formerly, the document stated the following in its introductory information: HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover […]
Live Action News — Science is constantly advancing, revealing to us what’s been going on behind the scenes in the extraordinary human journey of pregnancy. The details have always been real, but now, with these scientific discoveries, we can actually explain some of life’s earliest realities. And a few of them can even be witnessed with our […]
Jeff Cimmino — Jerry Coyne, a professor in the department of ecology and human evolution at the University of Chicago, recently posted a defense of killing disabled infants on his Why Evolution Is True blog– “If you are allowed to abort a fetus that has a severe genetic defect, microcephaly, spina bifida, or so on, […]
Gregory Koukl wrote, “If the unborn is not a human person, no justification for abortion is necessary. If the unborn is a human person, then no justification for abortion is adequate.” We often hear that abortion is a complex and complicated issue. But although sometimes the circumstances surrounding abortion can be complex, abortion itself is […]
