According to reports, Esther Ramirez, Linette Alcantarra, and Guillermo Corona-Huizar are charged with attempted murder, child cruelty, assault, false imprisonment with violence, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor; the last charge is due to the fact that a teenage boy was also involved in the incident.

The pregnant victim from Boron, California, told police that earlier in the day, her live-in-boyfriend had been arrested for suspected spousal battery. After that incident, her boyfriend’s mother arrived at her home with the two other individuals charged with the assault, as well as a teen boy.

The boy waved what appeared to be a gun at her, while the others involved choked her, kicked her in the face, and punched and kicked her in the ribs and stomach until she was almost unconscious. One of the attackers attempted to rip the child from her womb; she told police her assailant “applied all of her body weight on top of her while trying to grab her unborn baby through her stomach.” […]

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Lewis, who also once penned an op-ed for The Nation titled “Abortion involves killing — and that’s ok!” in which she justified mothers murdering their born children as “necessary violence,” argued that the desire to protect children’s sexual innocence is nothing more than a conservative moral panic.

“The fear that comes with the suggestion of sort of, you know, sexual threat to children, a weaponization of the sexual innocence of the child, is something that back then in the early 80s and still today we do not have a brave, united, kind of left response to, right?” she said. “So when someone gets called a groomer in this weaponized, organized way — the template for which was laid by Anita Bryant in the 80s of the sort of Reaganite campaign of sort of organized homophobia and sort of Christian Evangelical capitalism on steroids, you know, yeah — we lose an enormous amount of movement memory about where the location of sexual violence actually is in the world, right, and in the fabric of capsular social reproduction where the threat to children actually is is the private patriarchal immediate household, right? And when we set up capitulate the sorts of moves that make a kind of threat and a social, you know, terror out of the figure of the queer, we throw out an indispensable component of utopian wisdom.” […]

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The Kentucky Safe Infants Act allows parents to leave newborn infants younger than 30 days old at a staffed police station, fire station, hospital, or participating place of worship without fear of criminal prosecution or allegation of neglect. Safe Haven Baby Boxes are safe, temperature-controlled boxes installed in hospitals or fire stations throughout the country; to date, they are available in 17 states. When a child is placed inside, a silent alarm is triggered and emergency personnel respond within minutes. The baby is given medical […]

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Baby Kamerie’s mother Anitra was initially not worried during her pregnancy when she was told that her baby was measuring a little small, because her eldest daughter had been the same. But a scan at around 22 weeks revealed that Kamerie had stopped growing and her heart rate was dropping.

“The sonographer checked her growth and I could tell something was wrong. She said ‘I’m going to get a doctor’. The doctor said ‘it’s go time’”, Anitra said .

Kamerie was born by emergency Caesarean section weighing just 1lb 5oz.Anitra said “We didn’t hear her cry. We got to see her an hour later when the nurse took a picture. She had a head full […]

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As euthanasia continues to skyrocket across Canada, figures recently released from one province show just how serious the problem has become.

The Alberta Health Services statistics show a staggering rise in assisted suicide deaths, with an over 40% increase from 2021 to 2022. 594 deaths were attributed to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in 2021, and 836 in 2022. But even more drastic is the increase since MAiD was legalized in 2016; that year, there were just 63 deaths in Alberta. Since then, MAiD deaths have increased by a whopping 1226% .

Conversely, in Manitoba, there has been a slight decrease […]

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Eleven children will be celebrating Christmas with their forever families, thanks to an adoption ceremony recently held in Mississippi.

The Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services held a “home for the holidays” campaign, with a goal of finalizing 250 adoptions between October and January. 129 children have been adopted in December alone so far.

One family had been fostering their daughter and said it was a big relief to finalize the adoption. “Izzy was actually our very first foster placement after getting our license and she’s been with us a little over a year now, and we got termination rights about […]

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After the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade , the prospect of Roe being overturned has put the abortion industry and its defenders in hysterics; violence against those in the pro-life movement has skyrocketed, and Democrats have been begging President Biden to do something to protect abortion.

Last week, a group of Democrats published a letter to Biden demanding that he issue an executive order to ensure abortion is legal, according to federal law. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Elizabeth Warren, and Patty Murray wrote the letter, with 22 other Democrats signing on.

“Abortion access is under attack in the United States and already completely eliminated in swaths of the country,” the letter read. “After decades of activism by Republican extremists, the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, reversing nearly 50 years of settled law and eviscerating the right to a legal abortion.”

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