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Idaho prepares to execute a death row prisoner
In the US, 73-year-old death row inmate John Creech has been given a sedative before his scheduled execution on Wednesday. Creech was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the murder of a 22-year-old man in 1994. Creech’s spiritual adviser will be allowed to stand next to him with a hand on his shoulder during the execution.
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In Arizona, abortion politics are playing out on the Senate campaign trail
Arizona Republicankari Lake said she thinks Alabama lawmakers “covering their butts” by considering a bill to protect in vitro fertilization (IVF) after the Alabama court ruled that frozen embryos are children. The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a memo warning candidates to “clearly and reject” efforts to enshrine in vitro fertilization, a treatment that some clinics have paused in the wake of the ruling.
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The Alabama court ruled in favor of the ‘children’ rule when it came to abortion
The US Supreme Court has upheld the right of foetuses to have live birth in a case that could lead to restrictions on abortion. The court ruled that foetuses are “persons” under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore have the right to “unborn life”. The lawsuit was filed by an Alabama IVF centre against the state’s laws.
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The Alabama court ruled that embryos are ‘children’
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that women in the US’ largest state can’t be prosecuted for attempting to get pregnant by taking abortion-causing drugs. Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote that destroying life would “incur the wrath of a holy God”. Nine court justices disagreed, stating that it would “incur the wrath of a holy God”.
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The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryo are children in state law
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the use of frozen embryos in IVF and surrogacy. Alabama’s Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling which had allowed the use of frozen embryos to fertilise a baby but barred them from being used to create children. It ruled that the fertilized egg has “an intrinsic right to life” and cannot be used to create a child.
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Two hospitals in Southern Gaza are not functioning
Israel has reduced one of Gaza’s biggest hospitals to a shelter for terrified patients and medical staff, the WHO said on Monday. The hospital had been under siege for nearly a month. The WHO added that 14 patients were evacuated from the hospital on Sunday, adding that there are more than 150 patients that need to be evacuated by the Israeli military.
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His team confirms his death
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who was sentenced to prison earlier this year, was found dead in his prison cell on Friday. A spokesperson for Navalny’s foundation, Kira Yarmysh, said that a note had been handed to Navalny’s mother. “They’re driving us around in circles and covering their tracks,” Yarmysh added.
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Smoking ruins the immune system for a long time
A geneticist at a Dutch hospital has said that the effect of smoking on the immune system during the COVID-19 pandemic has been found to be as large as those of age, sex, genetics and sex. She said that the data on cigarette consumption were particularly striking, as the effect of smoking on cytokine responses was as large as the effects of sex and genetics.
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Recent gaffes by Biden and Trump may be signs of normal aging
During his presidential campaign, US President Donald Trump had said he had taken a cognitive test in Montreal,Quebec, to check for dementia and Alzheimer’s. However, a Stanford University neurology professor said that the 10-minute screening test is not in-depth look at cognitive function, adding that it’s important to measure a person’s cognitive performance against their performance earlier in life.
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The way the baby was cared for helped shape her approach to nursing
JoAnne Foley, who was working as a nurse in the US in 1980 when she saw a baby with a congenital condition, told Hidden Brain that she felt so sorry for her. “I said, ‘I’m so sorry…What we don’t know now’,” she said. “But in that moment what they need is compassion. And Nancy taught me that,” JoAnne added.
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