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Washington D.C., Aug 24, 2016 / 08:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Following the federal government stating that doctors cannot decline performing sex reassignment surgeries, a group of states, doctors, and hospitals are suing in the name of medical ethics.“The effect is that there are doctors all across the country that are going to be asked to perform gender transition procedures, even when they believe it is going to be physically and emotionally harmful to the patient and against their best medical judgment,” Luke Goodrich, deputy general counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told CNA.“And this rule says if you follow your medical judgment, you can face massive liability.”Current health care law bans discrimination against patients on basis of sex. New regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services interpret such discrimination to include cases where requests for procedures involving gender reassignment are denied.The HHS would evaluate ...
CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. women's goalkeeper Hope Solo was suspended Wednesday for six months by U.S. Soccer for disparaging comments about Sweden following the Americans' early departure from the Rio Olympics....
SINGAPORE (AP) -- The world's first self-driving taxis will be picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An attack on the American University of Afghanistan has ended, a senior police officer said Thursday, after at least seven people were killed and more than 30 were wounded....
TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- Visiting a battleground state he can't afford to lose, Donald Trump promised Hispanics "a much better life" Wednesday in a Florida speech that continued his recent effort to soften his tone and broaden his support 11 weeks before the presidential election....
AMATRICE, Italy (AP) -- Rescue crews using bulldozers and their bare hands raced to dig out survivors Thursday from a strong earthquake that reduced three central Italian towns to rubble. The death toll stood at 159, but the number of dead and missing was uncertain given the thousands of vacationers in the area for summer's final days....
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Spoleto, Italy, Aug 24, 2016 / 04:56 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- While the number of victims of the earthquake that hit central Italy in the early hours of Wednesday climbs, the gestures of generosity and aid for those affected have multiplied.At approximately 3:30 am Aug. 24, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck roughly six miles southeast of Norcia in central Italy. Over the next several hours, nearly 200 aftershocks shook the regions of Umbria, Lazio, and Marche, leaving towns throughout the area devastated.So far, at least 159 people have been killed, according to Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. More than 360 are injured; most of the victims are from the towns of Amatrice, Accumoli, Arquata del Tronto, and Pescara del Tronto – all of which have been reduced to rubble.Among those affected by the disaster are the Benedictine monks of Norcia. They are all safe, but their buildings are damaged, and the community has announced that they will transfer to Rome for a ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, ReutersBy Ann RodgersPITTSBURGH (CNS) -- The PittsburghDiocese said Bishop David A. Zubik is making every effort to achieve a swiftnegotiated solution to the diocese's dispute with the federal government overreligious freedom in relation to the federal contraceptive mandate, as directedby the U.S. Supreme Court."We have always been willing tomeet with representatives of the government to negotiate a mutually agreeablesolution to our impasse over religious freedom," said a diocesan statementissued Aug. 10.In a May 16 unanimous decisionin Zubik v. Burwell, aconsolidated case of challenges to the contraceptive mandate filed by severalCatholic and other religious entities, the Supreme Court sent the case back tolower courts, vacated earlier judgments against those parties opposing themandate, and encouraged the plaintiffs and the federal government to resolvetheir differences.Zubik v. Burwell involves theLittle Sisters of the Poor, Priests for Life, the ...
The Army reservist who killed five Dallas police officers last month showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after returning home from Afghanistan in 2014, but doctors concluded that he presented no serious risk to himself or others, according to newly released documents from the Veterans Health Administration....
