If women are raped in Honduras they now have no legal way to keep from becoming pregnant without fear of imprisonment. In February 2012, the Honduran Supreme Court voted to uphold the strictest ban on emergency contraception in the world.  This ban criminalizes the sale, distribution and use of emergency contraception known as the “morning-after [...]

Virginia Bill  Bans Same-Sex Couples from Adopting A bill that would enable state-funded private adoption agencies in Virginia to refuse placements on the basis of their religious or moral beliefs, including banning placements with same-sex couples passed the state House of Delegates by a vote of 71 to 28. Leslie Cooper, an attorney at the [...]

Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush’s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush [...]

An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services. Authors Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman note that their estimate of 14,000 [...]

“AquAdvantage” salmon, a genetically modified (GM) salmon altered to secrete growth hormone year round resulting in twice the size of a normal salmon, have tested positive for infectious salmon anemia (ISA) according to the Cohen Commission of Canada. ISA, a viral disease that causes severe anemia in fish, has been reported to have a devastating [...]

It’s clear that sixteen unarmed Afghan civilians, nine of whom were children, were murdered recently but what is unclear is whether it was done by one U.S. solider acting alone, as U.S. sources are claiming, or by multiple U.S. soldiers, as Afghan witnesses and the Afghan president is declaring. American officials have stated that a [...]

October 6, 2011 marked the ten-year anniversary of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan. On this day, hundreds of members of The Solidarity Party of Afghanistan gathered in protest, demanding immediate removal of all foreign troops. They believe the U.S. entered their country under false pretenses, touting “reconstruction,” “human rights,” and “war on terror”.  In [...]

Spain’s new government has proposed changes to the country’s current abortion law to require that girls younger than 18 receive parental consent to get an abortion. The changes would require women to justify their need for an abortion. The government has also proposed to limit emergency contraception, which is currently available in pharmacies without a [...]

The shifting demographics of America’s aging population are changing the historic ethnic mix in rest homes. Health care administrators have reported that the increase in minority clients in rest homes has been further influenced by the so-called “white flight” phenomenon, in which more affluent white seniors choose to move into alternative living facilities other than [...]

The teenage birthrate reached a 40 year low in 2008.  Although the number of pregnancies, births, and abortions has decreased among all teenagers, there is still a large gap in the pregnancy rates among Hispanics, African Americans, and non-Hispanic whites. The African American and Hispanic teenage pregnancy rate is still two to three times higher [...]