(SRN NEWS) – A resolution introduced by Congressional Democrats states that hospital emergency rooms must provide emergency abortions when a woman’s health or life is at risk, overriding state abortion bans. The resolution has no weight of law and has little chance of passing a Republican-controlled House in an election year. Democrats say they will introduce a Senate […]
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(SRN NEWS) – A resolution introduced by Congressional Democrats states that hospital emergency rooms must provide emergency abortions when a woman’s health or life is at risk, overriding state abortion bans. The resolution has no weight of law and has little chance of passing a Republican-controlled House in an election year. Democrats say they will introduce a Senate version of the resolution soon. Federal law already requires that patients who show up at emergency rooms receive stabilizing treatment for medical emergencies.
A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement with students and parents. The agreement settles a lawsuit that argued that the district unlawfully decided to limit access to dozens of titles containing LGBT content. Florida recently passed a law that allows parents to get pornographic and obscene books out of school libraries. The plaintiffs in this case argued that some of the books that were removed were not actually pornographic.
A Christian pastor from California has been freed from China after nearly 20 years behind bars and is back home in the U.S. David Lin, who is 68-years-old, was detained after he entered China in 2006, convicted of contract fraud and sentenced to life in prison. That charge is frequently used by China against leaders in the house church movement, which operates outside state-sponsored faith groups. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says there had been reports recently that Lin was in declining health.
Vice President Kamala Harris is touting her support for the LGBT agenda in her run for the White House. The Democratic nominee is reminding voters that in February of 2004, when she was San Francisco’s newly elected district attorney, she officiated at one of the first gay marriage ceremonies in the United States. All the same-sex marriages performed during that month in San Francisco were invalidated later that year, a move that Harris has described as “devastating”. LGBT activists continue to campaign hard for the vice president.