A panel of federal judges has ruled that New York violated the First Amendment rights of car owners who want their tags to declare “Choose Life.” The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals had already ruled in 2006 that a lawsuit between anti-abortion activists and New York’s Department of Motor Vehicles could move forward. However,…

In the Philippines, newborn Danica May Camacho was greeted with cheers and an explosion of photographers’ flashbulbs at Manila’s Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital. She arrived two minutes before midnight Sunday at 5 pounds, 8 ounces and was declared by the United Nations to be the world’s 7 billionth citizen. However, other countries around the world marked…

Hundreds of pregnant mothers in Britain have been given faulty information that prompted them to approve post-miscarriage procedures, in effect aborting healthy babies. “Around a third of the 500,000 miscarriages a year in the UK are confirmed via ultrasound scans of the fetus and the sac that envelops it in the womb,” reports Fiona MacRae…

President Barack Obama says he will veto the Protect Life Act if it reaches his desk. The measure would amend ObamaCare to reflect the 45-year-old Hyde Amendment which prohibits taxpayer dollars being spent on any health plan that includes elective abortions. The Protect Life Act, scheduled to be debated in the House of Representatives Thursday,…

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