The coalition of clergy sent a letter to interim Kroger CEO Ronald Sargent with an ultimatum: Drop the LGBTQ+ agenda or face a boycott. Kroger is already closing 60 stores over the next year and a half, so it’s bad timing for the grocer.
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Imagine lying on an operating table – not in a hospital – but in an outpatient building, totally unequipped to handle emergency situations. A doctor hovers over you explaining the procedure has somehow gone wrong and you’re bleeding. Bleeding enough that you need an ambulance. You’re alone – no one was allowed to come back with you. You’re groggy from sedatives, maybe distracted by pain from the procedure – or is the pain from the complications? You aren’t sure, but you understand that you’re bleeding and need emergency care.
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Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani said Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funds amid a legal battle over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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A Christian mother will be able to begin the adoption process and continue her lawsuit against the state of Oregon after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in her favor on Thursday. Jessica Bates said that she was inspired to become a foster mother to two children after her husband died in a car crash in 2017. She is a single mom to five biological children.
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Following a complaint, HHS opened an investigation into “disturbing practices” in organ donation that led to the procurement (or attempted procurement) of organs from patients who were not brain dead. The practice, known as circulatory death donation, began to increase in 2021 after HHS began grading procurement organizations on how many transplants they arranged and planned to end contracts with organizations that failed to meet the national average. Organ procurement organization workers then began pressuring families and doctors to give them organs from patients who were still responsive — even from a woman whose heart was still beating and a man who cried and moved. HHS has now mandated that corrective actions must be taken with safeguards improved to protect patients.
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