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An Indiana abortionist is facing a HIPAA complaint and an investigation from the state attorney general's office after publicly revealing that a raped and impregnated 10-year-old girl crossed state lines to obtain an abortion. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said his office is looking into the matter and whether Dr. Caitlan Bernard failed to report the underaged abortion of the rape victim to the proper authorities as required by law. Bernard's employer, Indiana University Health, recently filed a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) complaint against her for letting the girl's story get out in the news media. HIPAA aims "to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient's consent or knowledge."

While Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler and PJ Media's Megan Fox questioned the story's accuracy in a series of tweets, a report from The Columbus Dispatch on the arrest of a Columbus man charged with the rape of a 10-year-old girl has provided validity to the claim. Meanwhile, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has asserted that the Ohio girl could have had the abortion in the state as the state's abortion law contains a medical emergency exception. Read more.

Trending Topics

Tetsuya Yamagami, the 41-year-old man charged with the assassination of Japan's former and longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last Friday, allegedly targeted the late politician because he thought he was connected to the Unification Church, which he blamed for his mother going bankrupt. A relative of Yamagami of told The Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s four largest newspapers, that the alleged assassin "has gone through hard times ever since he was a child over a religious group that his mother joined." The relative explained that Yamagami's father died during his childhood, which left his mother to run the business. The widow became religious and donated large sums of money to an unnamed religious group. Yamagami reportedly told investigators that he "couldn’t forgive (the group) because my mother continued to pay money to it even after she underwent bankruptcy." The Unification Church, which teaches beliefs such as that The Divine Principle book, written by the organization's founder, is more authoritative than the Bible, confirmed that Yamagami’s mother is a member who "participates occasionally in church activities." Read more.

U.S. News

Dr. Meg Autry, a San Francisco-based obstetrician/gynecologist, is hoping to raise $20 million to create a "floating" facility that will offer abortion services to residents in states where the procedure is now illegal. The Protecting Reproductive Rights of Women Endangered by State Statutes (PRROWESS) clinic is expected to operate approximately three weeks out of every month in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, skirting state restrictions or bans on abortion. It will offer abortions up to 14 weeks and the morning-after pill, as well as on-site testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. The Christian Post's request for comment from Autry was not immediately returned. A spokesperson for the University of California San Francisco, where Autry is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, told CP the project is an "independent project … not sponsored by UCSF." Read more.

Albert and Anthony Saniger, a same-sex couple who wanted to have a son, are suing a Southern California fertility clinic after they say a female embryo was mistakenly implanted in the surrogate, leading to the birth of a daughter instead. The lawsuit against Pasadena-based in vitro fertilization clinic HRC Fertility and fertility specialist Dr. Bradford A. Kolb alleges breach of contract, medical malpractice, negligence, fraudulent concealment and violation of the Unfair Competition Law and the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, according to CBS News. They claim the financial impact of the "error" is staggering, saying they planned to raise two sons but will now likely raise three children to account for the addition of their unexpected daughter. "To their dissatisfaction, we have sought to address their concerns. Every child has value and limitless potential regardless of gender ... We hope the Sanigers find love and value in their healthy child while so many across the country are struggling with reproductive issues," HRC said in a statement. Read more.

UC Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges has accused Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., of being "transphobic" for saying he doesn't believe "men can get pregnant" in a heated exchange during a Senate hearing Tuesday. Bridges, an expert witness called to testify as part of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on abortion and the legal impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, used the phrase "people with the capacity for pregnancy," to which Hawley replied, "Would that be women?" The question led to Bridges declaring that "trans men" and "nonbinary people" can also get pregnant. When Bridges challenged the implication of such claims on the ability to debate abortion as an issue of "women’s rights," Bridges told Hawley his "line of questioning is transphobic and it opens up trans people to violence by not recognizing them." Hawley pushed back, asking, "You’re saying I’m opening people up to violence by asking whether or not women are the folks who have pregnancies?" Read more.

A MESSAGE FROM Alliance Defending Freedom

There’s no denying it. In recent days, conversations with friends and family about abortion have become increasingly heated and emotional.

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Alliance Defending Freedom has created a short, free guide to equip you to be a voice for the voiceless in everyday conversations and help defend life. Click here to get your free pro-life guide: Life: 3 Myths & 3 Facts.

Global Insights

In this op-ed, author and Christian Broadcasting Network columnist Arlene Bridges Samuels condemns the Presbyterian Church USA’s recent resolutions declaring that Israel is an "apartheid" state and the addition of the Palenstinian day of mourning to their calendar, declaring May 15 as Nakba Remembrance Day. Nakba, meaning "catastrophe," describes Israel’s declaration of independence on May 14, 1948, as a disaster. "We are surrounded by the results of a dramatic shift toward weakened fidelity to Jesus, Scripture, and faith. Amid rising global anti-Semitism, certain church leaders have for decades regrettably woven a thread of anti-Semitism into their congregations’ outlook," Samuels asserts. Read more.

Faith & Society

In the centuries since its inception, Americans have increasingly turned away from the valued inscribed in the Declaration of Independence, writes author and theologian Dr. Joseph Mattera. Asserting that the U.S. is now at a crossroads, Mattera concludes the nation's survival "will not ultimately depend upon which political party triumphs, but upon which god wins. It will be either a continuing embrace of the god of self-expression and autonomy or a return to a dependence upon the biblical God who claims the earth for Himself and who laughs at all rulers, nations, and people who attempt to rebel against Him (Psalm 2 and 24)." Read more.

East Jordan United Methodist Church of Sterling in Illinois has made and handed out more than 700 wooden crosses for people to place in their yards as a reminder to think about and pray for Ukrainians suffering under the Russian invasion. Pastor Jim Miller told The Christian Post, "The biggest problem we see in our human condition in this nation and for the world is that every morning, you turn on the news and you get a new crisis and our interest and our attention on the previous crisis wanes and disappears. I'm hoping that putting out the crosses will remind people of those poor people that are suffering. Just because we might turn it off in our minds, we can't turn their needs off. So this is like the biggest reason we are doing it." The church also takes up a special offering for Ukrainians each Sunday and holds a Wednesday prayer meeting. Read more.

ADF NEWS

The federal government is making bold moves to force faith-based adoption and foster-care ministries to surrender their deeply held beliefs on faith, family, and marriage. And Holston United Methodist Home for Children is one of the government's victims. Holston Home has been in operation since 1895 when Mrs. E.E. Wiley, a widow, took in her first homeless child. From that humble beginning, Holston Home has helped more than 8,000 children throughout East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. The ministry provides hope and healing for a brighter future by sharing the love of Jesus with abused and neglected children and families struggling with life's challenges. But now, the federal government is threatening to cut off critical funding for the ministry if Holston Home refuses to surrender its faith-based beliefs on family and marriage. Sign the petition.