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Austin, Texas, Jul 29, 2017 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Texas Senate passed a bill which would ban general insurance policies from covering abortions for private citizens, government employees, and those insured under the Affordable Care Act.The bill, SB8, would still allow for coverage of abortions that are considered medically necessary to save a woman’s life.Senate Republicans defeated a series of amendments to the bill July 26 that would have expanded exceptions to include fatal fetal health conditions, serious mental health impairment, and pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or incest.Women who desire abortion coverage for other reasons would need to purchase a separate, supplemental plan, estimated to cost $12-$80 a year.“I believe the majority of Texans prefer not to subsidize the elective abortion coverage of others,” said Republican Sen. Brandon Creighton, the bill’s author, according the Statesman.According to 2016 statistics...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Police disrupted a terrorist plot to bring down an airplane and arrested four men on Saturday in raids on homes in several Sydney suburbs, the prime minister said....
London, England, Jul 28, 2017 / 11:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A spokesperson for the parents of terminally ill British infant Charlie Gard has reported that their “beautiful little boy” has died.He had been taken into hospice care on July 27, a day before the announcement of his death. In a statement, his mother said: “Our beautiful little boy has gone, we are so proud of you Charlie.”Gard, 11 months old, and his parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, had been at the center of a months-long legal debate regarding parental rights and human life. They had been denied the chance to take him to the U.S. for experimental treatment as well as their wish to spend a week with him in hospice care at home.Charlie had been baptized earlier this week. His parents shared a photo of him clutching a medal of St. Jude, patron of hopeless causes.The case garnered international attention and support, with President Donald Trump and Pope Francis both weighing in via twitter in earl...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Caeleb Dressel knows the comparisons are coming....
YPRES, Belgium (AP) -- Dismembered soldiers sucked into cesspools of mud. Shattered tree trunks and the waft of poison gas hovering over the wounded who were awaiting their fates on the scarred soil of Flanders Fields....
A "steady stream" of tourists left a North Carolina island Saturday under evacuation orders prompted by a widespread power outage, wiping out a significant chunk of the lucrative summer months for local businesses....
NUUK, Greenland (AP) -- After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles), the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened once more to end required payments to insurance companies unless lawmakers repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law....
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic Church’s 7th Asian Youth Day (AYD) kicks off in Indonesia on Sunday with the preliminary event “Days in Dioceses”, where over 2000 Catholic youth from 21 Asian countries will be hosted in 11 Indonesian dioceses from July 30 to Aug 2. They will then converge in Yogyakarta city, in Semarang Archdiocese, for the main AYD event, August 2-6. Each of the AYDs held since 1999 in intervals of 2, 3 or 5 years, in various cities of Asia, had a specific theme. The theme this time - “Joyful Asian Youth: Living the Gospel in Multicultural Asia!” - intends to underscore the need for Asian youth to follow Christs amidst the immense variety of Asia’s cultural and natural diversity of which Indonesia is a prime model. Model of unity amidst diversityWith some 17,000 islands dotting its vast expanse of some 1,9 million sq.kms., Indonesia is the largest archipelagic nation...
