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GENDER

A Family Court judge's take-down of one of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts threatens to break open the debate on the treatment of gender dysphoric children

US Politics

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the NIH and Dr. Marty Makary to lead the FDA, concluding a smooth confirmation process for both. Both nominees distinguished themselves in the medical and public health arenas by their willingness to voice dissenting opinions.

ABORTION
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Thousands gather outside NSW Parliament House on 19 March 2025 to protest against an extreme bill to allow the NSW Health Minister to force hospitals to provide abortions and remove conscientious objection rights from health care practitioners. Photo: Alphonsus Fok

Debate on the Greens bill to broaden the state’s already extreme abortion laws began in NSW Parliament on 26 March.

ABORTION
Catholic Weekly

Thousands gathered outside NSW Parliament House on Wednesday evening to protest against an extreme bill that would – among other things – allow the NSW Health Minister to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortions and remove conscientious objection rights from health care practitioners.

COVID

In his new memoir, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says COVID-19 resulted from scientists “splicing bits of virus together like the witches in Macbeth,” YouTube commentator John Campbell, Ph.D, reported. During the pandemic, Johnson said the virus came from a wet market in Wuhan, China.

EUTHANASIA

The BMA Consultants Conference has voted through a strongly worded motion that states that Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill raises “serious potential moral hazards for consultants and serious potential adverse impacts on health services” and that assisted suicide is “not a health activity”.

IVF

The Catholic Medical Association (CMA), the largest association of Catholic medical professionals, is calling on the Trump Administration to reconsider its promotion of IVF in favor of a medically sound and morally ethical alternative to couple infertility known as Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM). RRM also has a much better track record of success than IVF.

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This is a contrast enhanced facial image from the Shroud of Turin that is on display as part of an exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington. “Mystery and Faith: The Shroud of Turin” opened at the museum Feb. 26, 2022, and it runs through July 31. (CNS photo/Barrie M. Schwortz, courtesy Museum of the Bible)

Holy Shroud expert to visit Sydney

US Politics

The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary. Kennedy, founder and former chairman of Children’s Health Defense, has vowed to end the epidemic of chronic disease in children.

Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), a presidential spokesperson said on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump's executive order last month to pull the United States out of the global health group.