The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the conviction and death sentence of Stephon Lindsay, who confessed to brutally murdering his 21-month-old daughter with a hatchet. He claimed he killed his child because his god told him to. The court rejected his argument that he lacked the capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct.
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A baby in China’s epidemic-hit Wuhan city has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus just 30 hours after being born, Chinese state media reported Wednesday.
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The mother of a 1-year-old baby and Texas’ Republican attorney general and governor implored a state appeals court Tuesday to halt a hospital’s plans to take her off life support.
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The Kentucky Senate passed a bill on Monday that would require doctors to provide life-saving care to infants who survive failed abortions, with the bill now destined for the state’s House of Representatives.
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The plight of baby kangaroos and koalas orphaned by Australia’s bushfires has prompted a sewing frenzy in France, where an appeal for cloth pouches for the animals has reaped thousands of contributions.
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Texas’ governor and attorney general asked a state appeals court Friday to stop a hospital from removing an 11-month-old girl from life support over the objections of her mother, arguing the state’s 10-day rule is unconstitutional.
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A former nurse who spent the last three decades in prison for the murder of a 15-month-old girl was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to killing another young child in 1981.
Read moreIndian police have sealed a private hospital and charged staff for manslaughter after a newborn baby was mauled to death by dogs inside an operating theatre, an investigator said Tuesday.
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A Texas judge ruled Thursday a hospital can remove an 11-month-old girl from life support over the objections of her mother, based on the state’s 10-day rule.
Read moreThe past year’s population growth rate in the United States was the slowest in a century due to declining births, increasing deaths and the slowdown of international migration, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his research, state media said.
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Charlie McMillan is no ordinary city official — he’s only 7 months old and a new face of the anti-abortion movement in America.
Read moreA federal judge sentenced a Chinese national to time served in federal prison Monday for running a multimillion-dollar operation that helped wealthy Chinese women cheat on visa applications in order to give birth to their babies in the United States, netting the babies U.S. citizenship.
Read moreA judge newly assigned to decide if a Texas hospital can remove a 10-month-old girl from life support against her mother’s wishes said Thursday she was allowing more time for a facility to be found that would take Tinslee Lewis, even as a doctor said the most basic activity “causes pain.”
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An American woman who took her newborn out of Italy at 8 weeks fought at the Supreme Court on Wednesday to upend the standards of what constitutes habitual residence in custody battles over infants.
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While incredible progress has been made in the field of genetic engineering for embryos over the past 25 years – discovering how to screen them for inherited diseases caused by genetic mutations – researchers revealed Thursday it will be a long time before would-be parents will be able to order designer babies.
Read moreA consumer watchdog group said Thursday that testing had discovered traces of potentially carcinogenic mineral oils in several brands of powdered baby formula in France, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Indiana’s attorney general said Friday that 165 sets of fetal remains have been found in the Chicago area inside a car owned by a late Indiana abortion doctor, boosting the total number of abandoned sets of fetal remains discovered at properties linked to him to more than 2,400.
Read moreA Texas appeals court upheld termination of a 17-year-old’s parental rights, for, among other things, not feeding her baby properly and smoking indoors in its presence
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