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A federal judge has ruled that the US state of Indiana must list the names of both mothers on the birth certificates of their children.
US District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt issued the judgement in favour of eight lesbian couples, saying it was intended to end the "discriminatory" practice of previously only naming the birth mother on the certificates.
The Pentagon said Thursday it was ending the ban on transgender people being able to serve openly in the U.S. military.
The announcement -- which removes one of the last barriers to military service by any individual -- was made by Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who had been studying the issue for almost a year.
A gay couple paid a trio of surrogate mothers more than £40,000 to give birth to three babies in less than six months before lying to social workers about the set-up, a court has heard.
The civil partners created an instant family of five by going on a Facebook surrogacy forum and finding three women who were willing to have their children.
But the couple then went on to orchestrate a 'dishonest and reprehensible' cover-up, lying to a judge and social workers when quizzed about the payments.
Has Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of Britain’s biggest abortion provider, BPAS, just admitted being responsible for killing 66,000 human beings in the last year? Judging by a comment she makes in her new book, I would say that absolutely she has.
In The Moral Case for Abortion, Mrs Furedi has written that there is nothing morally wrong with destroying a "foetus" because:
"it kills a being that has no sense of life or death."
There are two parts to this statement. The second is the idea that the baby in the womb has no sense of life or death, and I’ll come on to that in a moment. But to begin with let’s just look at the first part of her statement.
A federal judge blocked an Indiana law Thursday that would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, saying that the state does not have the authority to limit a woman's reasons for ending a pregnancy.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction requested by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which argued that the law was unconstitutional and violated women's privacy rights. The law was set to take effect Friday.
The criminalisation of sex workers in England and Wales should come to an end, a cross-party committee of influential MPs has recommended.
In an interim report published on Friday, the home affairs select committee, which launched an inquiry into prostitution earlier this year, said the Home Office should immediately change existing legislation so that soliciting is no longer an offence and brothel-keeping laws allow sex workers to share premises. While prostitution is in itself legal in the UK, such related activities currently are not.
A woman who wants to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild has won a Court of Appeal battle.
The 60-year-old woman was appealing against the UK regulator's refusal to allow her to take her only child's eggs to a US clinic.
Many, many Christians believe they are subject to religious discrimination in the United States. A new report from the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings offers evidence: Almost half of Americans say discrimination against Christians is as big of a problem as discrimination against other groups, including blacks and minorities. Three-quarters of Republicans and Trump supporters said this, and so did nearly eight out of 10 white evangelical Protestants. Of the latter group, six in 10 believe that although America once was a Christian nation, it is no longer—a huge jump from 2012.
Women who regularly attend religious services are five times less likely to commit suicide in comparison to those who never attend services, researchers have found.
A study published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry found that among more than 89,000 women, "attendance at religious services once per week or more was associated with an approximately 5-fold lower rate of suicide compared with never attending services"
The controversial Belfast pastor cleared of broadcasting hate speech after a sermon in which he branded Islam 'satanic' has said he forgives the BBC interviewer whose interviews with him brought him widespread negative publicity.
Pastor James McConnell was tried after a sermon in which he said: "Islam is heathen, Islam is satanic, Islam is a doctrine spawned in hell" was broadcast online. He was charged with contravening the law against causing a grossly offensive message to be sent by means of a public electronic communications network.