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A young boy who has required hospitalization since his birth five years ago has been discharged and is now home after 1,909 days in the hospital. Key Takeaways: Theo Chatham was born prematurely in 2021. At three weeks old, he contracted necrotizing enterocolitis, which led to a number of significant health problems. He required hospitalization for five years, and was discharged for the very first time in June.

According to Fox News, the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights is sending a letter to Children's Medical Center of Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center reminding them that they are required under federal law to provide treatment to baby Gabriel. Key Takeaways: HHS is sending a letter to two Texas hospitals, reminding them that they are required to provide care to persons with disabilities such as Baby Gabriel.

Skip to main content Photo: City Council of Seminole, Texas (Mark Lee Dickson) Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the author. On Monday, August 10, the City Council of Seminole, Texas (pop. 7,952) – located on the Texas-New Mexico border – considered a Sanctuary City for the Unborn (SCFTU) ordinance outlawing abortion trafficking.

Skip to main content Photo: krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images Issues·By Nancy Flanders Federal court dismisses Planned Parenthood's appeal in Medicaid fraud case On Wednesday, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed an appeal by Planned Parenthood in a whistleblower lawsuit regarding the abortion giant's alleged Medicaid fraud and attorney immunity. The case has been returned to the district court.

Hereditary Prince Alois, the regent of Liechtenstein, promised in a June interview to block attempts to legalize abortion in the small European nation. Key Takeaways: Abortion is illegal in Liechtenstein, a small European nation. A pro-abortion committee has launched a petition initiative to legalize abortion, hoping for enough signatures to launch a referendum. Even if the referendum passes, Hereditary Prince Alois has promised to veto it and uphold pro-life protections.

Illinois abortionist Keith Reisinger-Kindle has settled a lawsuit in which he horrifically botched a second-trimester abortion. Key Takeaways: Reisinger-Kindle was working at the Equity Clinic in Champaign, Illinois, in 2023 when he committed an abortion at 22 or 23 weeks on a mother of four. After a dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion, the woman said she was in excruciating pain, but the facility reportedly told her to take Tylenol.

Abortion pill manufacturers do not appear to be properly policing or decertifying prescribers who are out of compliance with the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)'s safety requirements for mifepristone (200 mg)/Mifeprex. And according to the FDA, they are required to do so. The FDA has specific requirements for prescribers of the abortion pill, listed under its safety requirements, known as REMS.

Photo: Whole Woman's Health, Albuquerque (Mark Lee Dickson, Facebook) Guest Column·By Bud Shaver 'Bad breakup': New Mexico abortion clinic director loses job of two decades (Abortion Free New Mexico) Marva Sadler, a longtime Whole Woman’s Health senior clinical director who became a key figure in the abortion provider’s expansion from Texas into New Mexico, says she has lost her job after 18 years and does not intend to return to the same line of work.

Skip to main content Screenshot: Rusty Martin/Facebook Analysis·By Cassy Cooke Former senate staffer plans to be euthanized in Europe Rusty Martin, a former senate staffer from Iowa, recently announced that he has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease and plans to travel to Switzerland to be euthanized. He is also calling for assisted suicide and euthanasia to be more widely legalized in the United States.

Skip to main content Photo: Mary Ellen Lukezich and son, Joseph Laedtke Heider (TMJ4/YouTube) Issues·By Nancy Flanders Donor-conceived man learns fertility doctor is his biological father A man and his mother have filed a lawsuit against her fertility doctor after discovering that the man used his own sperm to impregnate her instead of the anonymous medical student she had been promised. Key Takeaways: In 1982, Mary Ellen Lukezich (then Laedtke) went to Dr. Frederick Dettmann for fertility help.