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…A month later Charlie was born. Charlie changed my world. From the moment i found out about him, he began to save me. Charlie transformed me from a directionless fuck up to a man with a purpose…
An Oklahoma man is hoping to change the law after he was ordered to pay child support for a baby that’s not his. … When Thomas' high school girlfriend got pregnant, he married her. Five months later she had a little boy and he believed he had a son, but, as happens to a lot of young marriages, theirs fell apart. The boy was three when Thomas decided to take a paternity test.… At first, the judge ruled Thomas was off the hook financially, but then reversed that decision because Oklahoma law says men must question paternity within two years of the child's birth.…
Scientists say the first baby has been born from a new technique that combines DNA from three people.
The goal is to prevent the child from inheriting a fatal genetic disease from the mother.…
…1. The court’s interpretation of “undue burden” is confusing as hell.
Today’s opinion does resemble Casey in one respect: After disregarding significant aspects of the Court’s prior jurisprudence, the majority applies the undue-burden standard in a way that will surely mystify lower courts for years to come.…
…Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU), which evolved out of the Wesleyan Church, is holding the course ‘Pro-Life Training and Applied Bioethics’ which, according to its site, hopes to equip students with the tools “to answer pro-choice arguments compellingly and winsomely in any setting.”…
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has signed into law a bill that will ban most abortions in the state after 20 weeks of pregnancy.… only exceptions to the law are in the rare situation in which the mother’s life is in jeopardy and if a physician determines the baby cannot survive outside the womb…
…Andrea's friends, the baby's future parents, were no longer excited. They didn't want the hassle and potential heartbreak that accompanied this child, and even told her to terminate the pregnancy. It took a lot of soul-searching for her, but ultimately, she decided that she was going to keep the baby and raise it herself.…
Mississippi is the latest state to approve legislation that would ban dismemberment abortions tearing unborn babies limb from limb. Today, pro-life Governor Phil Bryant signed the bill into law.…
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky and the ACLU are suing the state of Indiana over its new law that bans abortions sought for genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome, or for undesirable sex or race. …
Friday, Florida became another state to cut abortion funding when Governor Rick Scott signed into law a bill that would cut state funding to clinics that perform abortion.…
After the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) sent out a series of angry tweets during the Super Bowl, attacking with special animus a Doritos commercial for “humanizing the fetus,” the abortion group received a taste of its own medicine as a flurry of tweets on the group’s own account taunted NARAL while defending Frito-Lay.… “Humanizing”? Is it a lobster?…
… @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses … -NARAL
Amidst the controversy over the possible link between the Zika virus and microcephaly in unborn babies, El Salvador’s Ministry of Health reported this week that 13 women infected with the disease had given birth to healthy babies with no signs of microcephaly. …
An Oklahoma judge has rejected an abortion rights group's legal challenge to a new state law opponents claim restricts abortions and abortion providers.… The law encompasses four abortion-related topics: minors and parental consent; tissue preservation; inspection of clinics and legal liability for abortion providers.…
…The New York-based Center for Reproductive rights asked Oklahoma County District Judge Thomas Prince on Friday to prevent the [Oklahoma] law from going into effect. …law encompasses four abortion-related topics: minors and parental consent; tissue preservation; inspection of clinics and legal liability for abortion providers. …
…Father saw a text on his daughter’s cell phone from a boy asking her to send a bra pic.
This is how he handled it…
…Now, she is looking for a family to call her own.
“I’ve never been with a real family so I don’t know how one acts or is or anything,” she said.
She has lived in foster homes since 2010.
“I live with 16 girls,” Sarah said.
She wants to be adopted before she turns 18-years-old, and she hopes a family will show her how to love and be loved.
“I really don’t know because I don’t know how a true family is,” Sarah said.
If she had a choice, she says she’d like to have a brother or sister.…
…The doctor’s plan went into action on July 8th. The twins underwent a separation and reconstruction surgery with a team of around twenty physicians, nurses, and staff. After four hours, the separation was a success. … still face surgeries to repair the organ systems they once shared.
On Thursday, Kansas District Court Judge Larry Hendricks blocked a Kansas law that that would have banned all dismemberment abortions, ruling that the law presented too big an obstacle for women looking to kill their children.
The law, which would have taken effect on July 1, was the first of its kind by banning an abortion procedure used in approximately 95 percent of all second-trimester abortions nationwide. Opponents to the law argued that it would force women to undergo riskier procedures.…
A new decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals holds that New York’s state government has the right to ban “Choose Life” license plates on the grounds that such a statement is “patently offensive.” …
Voting 242-184 and largely along party lines, the U.S. House approved the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act on Wednesday…
A protective dad has devised a creative way to keep the boys away from his young daughter - by printing his muscly torso on a t-shirt and making her wear it. …
…Because fertility declines significantly for women in their 40s… demographers carefully watch these women to get a sense of how many children Americans are having, or not. … With more women having their first child in their mid 30s, late 30s and early 40s, American families may be shrinking: The number of women aged 40 to 44 who had only one child roughly doubled between 1976 and 2014…
In a press release, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that she did not support any government restrictions on abortion: “period. [citing Daily Caller]
Oklahoma lawmakers have approved a ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus. …now goes to Republican Gov. Mary Fallin… Under the bill, doctors cannot use forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces… would ban the procedure except when necessary to save a woman's life or a serious health risk to the mother…
…Kayli Rene’ Photography posted the photo on Wednesday. Sierra asked Kayli to help capture her 6-month-old’s first family photos by photoshopping in the baby’s father.
Sierra wrote on the page that she and Lane found out they were having a baby at the beginning of 2014. When she was 8 months pregnant, there was an accident and Lane tragically died.…
Kyesha was upset when her son told her what had happened, as any decent parent would be. But most parents would likely reprimand their daughters and move on.
Not Kyesha. She posted this on Facebook….
"At our 14 week ultrasound our baby was clapping, so I sang a song with our doctor as my husband filmed…"
"The Oklahoma House has passed a bill that would prohibit abortions in which doctors use clamps, forceps or similar instruments to dismember a fetus in the womb. … House members voted 84-2 on Thursday. The bill … now goes to the Senate."
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