A biological phenomenon called microchimerism happens when cells pass between mother and child through the placenta during pregnancy -- and some of the child's cells can remain in the mother's body for decades.
Draconian COVID restrictions may have forced the public to question whether the government and the healthcare system can really be trusted with powers of life and death.
The South Korean government announced plans to permit the use of abortion pills for women up to nine weeks pregnant by early 2027, with prescriptions and dispensing handled by physicians for the first two years. Christian groups in South Korea, including the Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the United Christian Churches, have strongly condemned this decision, emphasizing the abortion pill's lethal effect on unborn children and calling for social support systems for women in crisis pregnancies instead.
Emma Bonino, a former illegal abortionist and prominent left-wing activist in Italy, died at the age of 78 and was known for her advocacy of abortion rights, euthanasia, and radical individualism. She had an unusually close personal relationship with Pope Francis, who praised her work on immigration and visited her privately after a serious illness in 2024.
The Lindsay Clancy case, involving a mother who strangled her three small children, has highlighted arguments similar to those used by abortion activists and sparked debate about infanticide laws in Canada. Canadian law treats infanticide as a lesser crime than murder when a mother kills an infant under one year old due to mental disturbance related to childbirth, and experts have suggested expanding this leniency to older children, raising concerns about the implications for the value of children's lives.
'Expressing a view on abortion in a reasonable manner is not something that should allow people of faith to be victimized,' said SPUC's Michael Robinson.