Tag: Biden administration
U.S. Supreme Court prepare for oral arguments over state’s gender transition...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Dec. 4 a challenge to a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or...
U.S. Supreme Court declines to restore Oklahoma federal family planning funds...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 3 rejected Oklahoma’s effort to regain millions in federal family planning grants that the Biden administration rescinded...
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX rule...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court Aug. 16 declined to allow the Biden administration to enforce portions of a new regulation expanding Title IX protections...
Catholic Relief Services calls House version of spending bill ‘inconsistent with...
WASHINGTON -- Catholic Relief Services, the international relief and development agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S., criticized funding legislation recently passed by...
U.S. District Court blocks Iowa’s new immigration law that would separate...
A federal district court judge issued a preliminary injunction June 17 preventing Iowa’s new immigration law from taking effect July 1. The decision raised...
Biden administration adds to gender identity protections: ‘Enforces ideologically driven agenda,’...
WASHINGTON-- The Department of Health and Human Services announced new regulations April 26 that restore Obama-era protections for patients who identify as transgender that...
U.S. District Judge Drew B. Tipton allows Biden administration to continue...
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge March 8 dismissed a challenge from Republican-led states, allowing the Biden administration to continue operating a program permitting some...
Texas court rules emergency abortions not required by hospitals; No ‘unqualified...
The Biden administration cannot use a 1986 emergency health care law to require hospitals in Texas to perform emergency abortions, a federal appeals court...
Church ministries note pressure with increased migration in 2023: ‘The voice...
WASHINGTON -- Unauthorized border crossings increased in 2023, fueled in part by shifts in U.S. policy and global migration trends. The year saw increasingly...
‘We have to defend life,’ says Sister Norma, who ministers at...
McALLEN, Texas -- On a Saturday afternoon at the Humanitarian Respite Center in the Texas border city of McAllen, Sister Norma Pimentel greeted migrant...