Sisters Arrested After Admitting They ‘Euthanized’ Father

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Two sisters were arrested in Florida on Tuesday for allegedly admitting to law enforcement that they killed their father as part of a “premeditated” act four years ago because he refused to enter an assisted living facility.

Mary-Beth Tomaselli, 63, and Linda Roberts, 62, were taken into custody after they detailed to a male confidant whom they befriended in recent months what they had seemingly done, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told reporters on Tuesday.

Roberts told the man — who recorded his conversations with her — that she and Tomaselli “euthanized” their father, Anthony Tomaselli, in March 2015, when he was 85 years old. The sheriff said that “Linda gave very specific details about how she and Mary-Beth killed their father.”

The women said “they had killed their father, and had, quote, ‘euthanized’ him because he had been ill” and refused to go to an assisted living facility, according to the sheriff. He added, “They knew he would die sometime in the next couple of months, so they decided to euthanize him.”

The sisters allegedly gave their father a concoction of alcohol and an “excessive” amount of sleeping pills “with the hope that it would kill him.” However, the sheriff said Tomaselli put too much alcohol in the drink, which diluted it. (Read more from “Sisters Arrested After Admitting They ‘Euthanized’ Father” HERE)

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Win: Lawsuit Dropped Against Christian Baker Her Refused Transgender Cake

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Colorado has announced they are dropping their litigation against Christian baker Jack Phillips for his refusing on religious grounds to make a transgender cake.

Soon after receiving a favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court last year on whether he could refuse to make a same-sex wedding cake, Phillips again found himself in legal trouble for refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.

In an announcement released Tuesday, the state office explained that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission will voluntarily drop its case against Phillips; in return, Phillips will end his federal lawsuit against the state. . .

Kristen Waggoner, the Alliance Defending Freedom attorney who argued on behalf of Phillips before the Supreme Court, said in a statement that she considered the mutual dropping of cases to be “great news for everyone.” . . .

Last June, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission that Colorado violated Phillips’ First Amendment rights when the state punished him for refusing to bake a custom cake for the wedding of Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig in 2012. (Read more from “Win: Lawsuit Dropped Against Christian Baker Her Refused Transgender Cake” HERE)

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LANDMARK DECISION: Court Rules Aborted Baby Is a Person With Rights

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In a landmark case, an Alabama court became the first court in the nation to recognize an aborted baby as a person with rights.

The Madison County probate court ruled that a father of a baby that was aborted by the father’s girlfriend has the right to sue the woman’s center that performed the procedure as well the employees of the center and the pharmaceutical company that made the medication used in the abortion.

On February 10, 2017, against his wishes, the girlfriend of Ryan Magers aborted the baby they had conceived. In early February 2019, Magers filed suit; the suit states that the baby (Baby Roe) was aborted at six weeks in 2017, despite the fact that Magers repeatedly begged his girlfriend to let the baby live. The girlfriend went to the Alabama Women’s Center, where she was given a pill that would abort the baby. . .

Magers recalled in February 2019, “It was just like my whole world fell apart,” saying he filed the suit because “I’m here for the men who actually want to have their baby. Even though there’s nothing I can do for the situation I was in, there is something I can do for the future situations for other people. … I believe every child from conception is a baby and deserves to live.” . . .

This week, the probate court ruled that the aborted baby was a person, and thus Magers could legally represent the baby’s estate. Helms stated, “We have already had a victory, and it was the first one of its kind, ever.” He added, “This is the first estate that I’m aware of that has ever been opened for an aborted baby.” (Read more from “LANDMARK DECISION: Court Rules Aborted Baby Is a Person With Rights” HERE)

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Massive Study Shows There Is No Link Between the MMR Vaccine and Autism

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A major new study out of Denmark demonstrates, yet again, that the measles, mumps, and rubella (or, MMR) vaccine, is not associated with an increased risk of developing autism, even “among kids who are at high risk because they have a sibling with the disorder.”

NBC News reports that the study followed an incredible 657,461 children born between 1999 and 2010, 95% of whom received the MMR vaccine through August of 2013. The researchers documented a host of characteristics alongside diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder, including proven autism risk factors like the “age of the parents, diagnosis of autism in a sibling, preterm birth and low weight at birth,” according to CNN.

Of the children studied, 6,517 kids developed some form of autism, but, the study found, “the MMR vaccine did not increase the risk of autism in children who were not considered at risk for the disorder and did not trigger it in those who were.”

In fact, the research did uncover some interesting — but yet unstudied — conclusions and correlations pertaining to autism diagnoses. Children with autistic siblings were seven times more likely to receive their own autism diagnosis, boys were more likely to be diagnosed than girls, and — perhaps most shocking of all — “children who had no childhood vaccinations were 17 percent more likely to be diagnosed with autism than kids who did get recommended vaccinations.” . . .

“Parents should not skip the vaccine out of fear for autism,” the study’s lead author told media. “The dangers of not vaccinating includes a resurgence in measles which we are seeing signs of today in the form of outbreaks.” (Read more from “Massive Study Shows There Is No Link Between the MMR Vaccine and Autism” HERE)

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Couple Launches Safe Website for Children as an Alternative to YouTube

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A few years ago, an Iowa couple became concerned about the type of online content available to children and the negative effects it can have on mood, behavior, and learning. So, they decided to do something about it.

Joseph Sines, and his wife, Bethany, decided to utilize their skills and background to create a website for kids that would entertain, educate, calm, and most importantly, be 100 percent safe for young minds.

They recently soft-launched their subscription website dubbed Bottlesodes or, as they like to call it, B-TV. The site is loaded with short videos aimed at kids ages 3 to 11. . .

Joseph has worked in the film industry for about 12 years, and Bethany studied child development in college. They’ve been married 11 years and they have an 8-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son.

In an interview with TheBlaze, the couple said that, after having kids, they noticed that children — their own as well as those of their friends — would sometimes have meltdowns after watching TV or videos online. (Read more from “Couple Launches Safe Website for Children as an Alternative to YouTube” HERE)

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University Bans Chick-Fil-A

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Last month, a dean from Rider University in New Jersey announced her resignation over the school’s decision to ban Chick-fil-A from becoming an on-campus restaurant.

In November, the university removed Chick-Fil-A from a list of possible new restaurant franchises to bring to campus, claiming that the fast food chain is “perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community.”

Cynthia Newman, the dean of the College of Business announced her resignation — which will become effective on August, 31 — in a statement that reflected on the handling of the situation, Campus Reform reports.

“As some of you already know, I am a committed follower of Jesus Christ. As such I endeavor every day to do exactly what Chick-fil-A puts forwards as its overarching corporate value: to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to me and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with me,” Newman said in the announcement. “During my initial conversations, I expressed how disappointed I was, not that the decision has been made to not have Chick-fil-A on campus … but rather that the University leadership had made such a judgemental statement about Chick-fil-A’s values — values that reflect the essence of the Christian as well as other faiths.” . . .

“Unfortunately, that did not happen,” Newman said. “Instead a second email was issued without any type of an apology and I, along with other campus leaders, was given a set of talking points about the Chick-fil-A decision that we were to use to respond to those who were critical of the decision. I could not, in a good conscience as a committed Christian, adhere to those talking points.” (Read more from “University Bans Chick-Fil-A” HERE)

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Born at Just 24 Weeks, World’s ‘Tiniest Baby’ Boy Goes Home

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As the debate escalates in the U.S. over late-term abortion, the world’s “tiniest baby” boy ever recorded to have survived, who was born at just 24 weeks and weighing under 10 ounces, has just gone home healthy.

The boy, whose name has not been released, was born by Caesarean-section weighing just 9.45 ounces, which is lighter than the previous all-time recorded low for a baby boy set a decade ago.

The child spent several months at the Keio University Hospital in Tokyo after being born three months early in August. While his mother said she at times doubted that he would survive, the boy was finally released to go home on Feb. 20 — and made history in the process. . .

World Health News tweeted out a photo of the tiny baby in celebration of his full release from the hospital. “A baby boy weighing just 268 grams (9.45 oz) at birth was sent home after months in a Tokyo hospital, the smallest surviving male baby in the world, Keio University hospital said,” World Health News tweeted. . .

The baby’s weight breaks the previous record for a boy: 9.67 ounces, recorded in Germany in 2009. (Read more from “Born at Just 24 Weeks, World’s ‘Tiniest Baby’ Boy Goes Home” HERE)

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Transgender Decides She Is Now an Alien

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[Jareth] Nebula spent the first 29 years of [her] life as a woman before transitioning into a male. . .

Nebula has had [her] nipples removed in order to be more authentic, and regularly shaves [her] eyebrows.

“After coming out as transgender and believing I had finally found myself, I realized I was wrong. I wasn’t male or female, or even human,” Nebula told The Sun. “I don’t think or feel like humans. I can’t really explain it to others. I’m simply otherworldly.”

Nebula, who was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare condition affecting connective tissues in the body, said that [she] felt different from other people even as a child. [She] later said that [she] discovered [she] was agender, having no gender in particular.

“I’d always been obsessed with aliens, too, and what it means to be extraterrestrial, so the idea of being an agender alien fit perfectly as an identity for me,” [she] added.

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Abortionist: ‘Nobody Likes Black Babies’

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“Nobody wants black babies.”

These disgusting words have been uttered to me repeatedly by a man that I meet on a sidewalk. A man of influence. His name is Jacob Kalo. My husband can corroborate, Scott also heard him say it.

Kalo took the Hippocratic oath more than three decades ago as he became an obstetrician focused on caring for pregnant women. Somewhere along the way, he switched gears, choosing pregnancy termination over pregnancy care.

Kalo’s intention is not to deliver living babies anymore. He provides gynecological services at three clinics in southeast Michigan: East Detroit, Sterling Heights and West Bloomfield.

I became acquainted with Kalo while standing on the public sidewalk in front of the West Bloomfield, MI, clinic that he owns. In order to show moms, dads, Kalo and the whole community that people care about them and what’s going on at 6765 Orchard Lake Road, I regularly do outreach in front of the Women’s Center. (Read more from “Abortionist: ‘Nobody Likes Black Babies'” HERE)

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United Methodist Church Reaffirms Teaching on Homosexuality

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Despite internal pressure, the United Methodist Church (UMC) has resisted calls to reform its teachings on homosexuality.

According to Catholic News Agency (CNA), the UMC gathered over 800 ministers and lay leader delegates in St. Louis earlier this month at the Special Session of the General Conference of the UMC, where debates ensued over how the church will address pressing issues like homosexuality, same-sex unions, and active homosexuals serving in the clergy.

“The debate drew out different approaches to the authority of Scripture, marriage, and sexuality, but ultimately left the ecclesial community’s official teaching unchanged,” reports CNA.

The UMC’s decision to keep its tradition intact may cause a splinter, with more progressive groups splitting off to form their own denomination, similar to what has happened with the Lutheran and Presbyterian churches. The UMC is the largest mainline Protestant ecclesial community in the United States, comprising six million members. . .

“We will continue to welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer persons to our churches and affirm their sacred worth,” said Jones. “I pray we, as a denomination, can now move forward, working with each other in the spirit of Christian love and joining together as one. We are stronger together in serving God’s mission as a diverse body of Christ.” (Read more from “United Methodist Church Reaffirms Teaching on Homosexuality” HERE)

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