https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16039063/christian-grandmother-maid-canada-religioon-euthanized.html

Beloved grandmother, 83, was euthanized against her will, family alleges
By Emma Richter - August 9, 2026

A devout Christian grandmother, 83, was allegedly euthanized against her will and her religious beliefs by a care home in Canada, her family claims.

Brigitte Stegemann, who was better known to her family as 'GG,' died on July 10 through the country's controversial Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program.

The program sees doctors or nurse practitioners help an eligible person end their life with their consent.

Stegemann was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer about five months before she took her final breaths, and for the last two years she lived in a long-term medical facility in Ontario, a public family statement shared by Stegemann's granddaughter, Brigitte Kranendonk, said.

Kranendonk, who is named after her beloved grandmother, held the power of attorney for Stegemann and was 'the primary contact for all medical and personal care decisions,' the account detailing their experience said.

She was frequently contacted by staff at the care home to make decisions about Stegemann's care, and approximately two months before her death, the topic of assisted death was first introduced.

'At that time, GG clearly stated that she did not wish to pursue it. As a devout Christian, she explicitly expressed that MAID conflicted with her personal beliefs and faith,' the statement read. In Christianity, euthanasia is considered a sin on par with suicide.

In the weeks leading up to her death, GG was 'extremely weak and largely unresponsive' as family continued to discuss the possibility of MAID.

During one scheduled meeting, however, Stegemann suddenly became coherent and upbeat, making her and her family wonder 'why she had appeared so heavily sedated during the previous several days.'

When Kranendonk informed staff that she was her grandmother's advocate, one of the nurses suddenly became physically agitated and defensive, the family alleged.

The nurse soon left the room, and during that time, Kranendonk told the remaining administrator that she and her family did not support MAID for her grandmother.

According to the family statement, Kranendonk said she explicitly pointed to their 'serious concerns' that Stegemann 'was not mentally capable of making such a significant decision independently.'

The following day, the worried granddaughter said she attended another meeting with a physician.

The doctor stated that she needed to determine if Stegemann 'possessed the capacity to make an informed decision regarding MAID,' – but that's when 'a deeply alarming farce' occurred, the family said.

To Kranendonk's surprise, when the doctor asked Stegemann how many siblings she had, she said she only had one. Her grandmother was one of 14 children, the statement read.

Stegemann's family went on to quiz the doctor on how she thought their relative was cleared to be lethally injected, but the assessment carried on, the family said.

The doctor then explained the process to her 'in specific terms' and came out the room, allegedly telling the family: 'I have deemed her capable of making her own decisions,' the statement detailed.

Nonetheless, she and her family continued to disagree with the physician.

When Kranendonk asked her grandmother if she was sure she wanted to follow through with the end-of-life decision, Stegemann gave an alarming response, the account said.

'She responded with words to the effect of, "I'm going to die Friday? They're going to kill me Friday?"

'She wept for an extended period, repeatedly stating that she had made a mistake,' the family said.

Despite all the pushback from the family and Stegemann, the beloved mother and grandmother was set to die on July 10.

The family spent her final moments with her, and got to take her outside to enjoy the fresh air and a scoop of strawberry ice cream before she was wheeled back in and hooked up to an IV.

During that time, Kranendonk and her husband said they were asked by the care home administrator to physically assist her by handing her medical supplies' – something they found 'insensitive and deeply upsetting,' the public testimony read.

The entire family was called to the room moments later, where they witnessed 'a significant, alarming amount of blood covering GG, the bedding, and the surrounding area,' they stated.

Moments later, Stegemann took her final breath with her 'hands tightly clasped together in a fixed prayer position,' the family said.

The Daily Mail has contacted the care home for comment.

One forlorn soul expresses the hope that Henry Ford will now build a real hospital in his county. (Bless his heart.)

A more realistic member points out the facts of Big Healthcare life from ProPublica:

"... top executive compensation for Henry Ford Health lists President and CEO Robert Riney at over $7 million, with other top leaders like the Chief Medical Officer and CFO earning between $3.3 million and $3.4 million annually.
Top Executive Pay Breakdown
Based on recent nonprofit tax filings for Henry Ford Health:
Robert G. Riney (President/CEO): $7,019,469
Adnan R. Munkarah (Chief Medical Officer): $3,373,948
Robin S. Damschroder (Treasurer/CFO): $3,345,655
Steven N. Kalkanis (CEO - Henry Ford Medical Group): $2,535,546
Denise Brooks-Williams (CEO Markets): $2,338,768
Michael A. Genord (Former CEO - HAP): $2,023,899
Paul T. Browne (SVP - CIO): $1,763,404
Antonia Maria Ramsey (EVP - Chief Human Resources): $1,665,971."

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/381357020

The consolidation continues until boardroom ambition is satisfied... or corporate chokehold on health policy is removed.

Will Henry Ford Health get sued for WARN Act violations like Sturgis?

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/henry-ford-hospital-to-end-inpatient-er-care/

Henry Ford hospital to end inpatient, ER care
By Andrew Cass - August 10, 2026

Henry Ford Health will end inpatient care, emergency department services and other hospital-based operations at Henry Ford River District Hospital in East China, Mich., a spokesperson from the Detroit based system confirmed to Becker’s.

The spokesperson said the River District building requires substantial infrastructure repairs and modernization, and that continued investment in the facility is not a sustainable long-term path to safe, high-quality care. The system is consolidating inpatient care, ER and hospital-based services to nearby Henry Ford facilities as a result.

The consolidation will take effect Sept. 1, according to the health system’s website. The ED will remain open and fully staffed through Aug. 31.

Primary care practices, infusion services and some administrative functions will remain on the River District campus, the spokesperson said. Patients will keep access to labs, pharmacy and imaging through nearby Henry Ford locations.

“We are committed to supporting everyone through this transition, including helping patients identify care options at nearby Henry Ford Health locations and connecting any impacted team members with opportunities across our health system,” the spokesperson said.

Patients will receive transition information and resources in the coming weeks.

River District joined Henry Ford Health’s network through the system’s 2024 joint venture with Ascension Michigan, which brought 13 acute care hospitals into the combined organization.

Michigan CapCon brings updated receipts.

https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/news/michigan-budget-removes-dedicated-20m-rx-kids-appropriation

Michigan budget removes dedicated $20M Rx Kids appropriation

House speaker, program founder split on how, and whether, motherhood program will be funded

Natalie Hansen   |   August 5, 2026

Michigan’s enacted 2027 budget eliminates a dedicated $20 million appropriation for Rx Kids, raising questions about how the program will be funded. Rx Kids has received state appropriations for three consecutive years.

The final budget removes a dedicated appropriation that Rx Kids has received from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF funds. According to an analysis by the House Fiscal Agency, lawmakers redistributed the $20 million to five other programs:

Coordinated children’s health care policy and support ($4.5 million)

Family Independence Program, child supplemental payments ($2 million)

Family, maternal and child health administration ($4.5 million)

Prenatal care outreach and service delivery supports ($4.5 million)

Special projects ($4.5 million).

Rx Kids, launched in Flint in 2024, provides eligible mothers a $1,500 pregnancy payment followed by $500 monthly payments after birth, for up to 12 months. The program has expanded to more than 60 Michigan communities through state appropriations and private donations.

House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, said the budget change will preserve funding for existing TANF programs serving low-income families.

“What we saw last year was that some of these other programs were running a deficit because TANF money was being diverted to this new program, Rx Kids,” Hall said during a July 7 press conference. “It’s less about the future of Rx Kids and more about the future of these other programs. We want to make sure they’re funded too.”

Hall said he personally selected the five appropriations that received the redirected TANF funding. Rx Kids, he added, is not eligible to receive money from those line items.

In an email to CapCon, Rx Kids founder Dr. Mona Hanna said the program expects to remain operational, and she believes funding is still available.

“Our understanding is that the funding is there, and the program will continue to be operational,” Hanna said. “I think we need more time to figure this out.”

Lawmakers have approved more than $291 million in state funding for Rx Kids since its launch.

Hanna told the House Government Oversight Committee on June 2 that the program received $16.5 million in one-time TANF funding for its Flint pilot in fiscal year 2024, followed by $20 million annually in fiscal years 2025 and 2026. It also received a one-time $250 million appropriation from the Healthy Michigan Fund to help fund benefits for families with babies born over a three-year period.

As of June 2, the program had spent about $10.8 million, including about $5.2 million from the original Flint TANF appropriation, $5.4 million from the 2025 TANF expansion and about $236,000 from the Healthy Michigan Fund appropriation.

Hanna said federal TANF dollars reimburse Rx Kids benefits for participants who meet Medicaid eligibility requirements, while private donations and other funds cover those who do not qualify for public funding. Hanna told Bridge Michigan in early July that the program can continue receiving TANF reimbursements under the new budget.

State Rep. Denise Mener, D-Mount Clemens, told the Mount Clemens City Commission that Rx Kids ”hasn't gone away” and that lawmakers ”just moved it to another line item in the budget.”

Hall did not respond to a request for comment, nor did the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6021511-aap-blasts-trump-vaccine-directive/

American Academy of Pediatrics calls Trump vaccine order ‘dangerous’
By Max Rego - August 10, 2026

The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted President Trump’s Monday executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines.

“As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today’s executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,” Dr. Andrew Racine said in a release.

“Instead of ensuring every family can access life-saving vaccines for measles, influenza, RSV and more, federal leaders are once again spreading misleading claims,” he added.

Earlier Monday, Trump signed an executive order recommending pediatricians split up the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot across three separate visits for children.

The “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations” order divides vaccines into three categories: those recommended for all children, recommended for children at high risk of infection or recommended after consultation with a physician.

Under Trump’s guidelines, all children should receive separate vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib, pneumococcal disease, HPV and varicella, commonly known as chicken pox.

But only high-risk children should receive respiratory syncytial virus monoclonal antibodies, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal B, meningococcal ACWY and dengue vaccines, according to the president’s order.

While states set their own childhood vaccination schedules, federal policy typically guides them. Echoing the name of his executive order, Trump said in the Oval Office his recommendations recognize “gold standard vaccine recommendations.”

The president added, “Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today. In those times, people were much , and of course, the high rates of autism now observed did not exist.

“So there’s a reason for such epidemic rates of autism, and we’re going to bring it back to where it was.”

But Racine pushed back against Trump’s claims, noting there is no scientifically proven link between childhood vaccines and autism.

“There is no new evidence to justify significant changes to childhood immunization guidance,” he said. “Dozens of studies involving millions of people show there is no link between vaccines and autism, and yet federal leaders continue to promote this outdated, disproven idea to scare families.”

Racine argued the executive order “will do nothing to support families of children with autism or advance understanding” of the condition. Instead, he said the new recommendations are intended to “sow confusion so that more people doubt the importance of vaccines.”

Racine later added, “On-time immunization keeps our kids and our communities healthy and thriving. If parents have questions about vaccines, I encourage them to talk with their child’s pediatrician or clinician.”

Outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a medical doctor, decried Trump’s executive order as “wrong” and said the president “does not have the expertise to make these changes.”

Cassidy wrote on social media, “Breaking up vaccines will mean children have to get more shots to get the same protection, not fewer shots. It will increase hesitancy and make children less safe.

“Parents should listen to their child’s pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order. This is so wrong.”

Note that AAP fails to mention the far worse measles statistics in Canada, where AAP approved vaccine recommendations are ruthlessly enforced against the population.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-delivers-gold-standard-childhood-vaccine-recommendations-for-americans/

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Delivers Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans
The White House
August 10, 2026

• The Order provides recommendations that give parents more information and options when making immunization decisions for their children.
• The Order recommends all children get immunizations to provide protection for 11 diseases – a decrease from the 18 diseases recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2024. Immunizations no longer recommended for all children are now recommended for shared clinical decision-making, ensuring that parents have all options available to them.
• The Order recommends separating out the combined MMR vaccine into three single-disease shots and recommends administering all vaccines during separate medical visits to give parents more options regarding the timing and frequency of this vaccine administration.
• States that enact school vaccine requirements are advised to consider the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and consider updating their laws to reflect the recommendations.
• All Federal agencies are advised to advance the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations based on their relevant authorities to ensure Americans have the best scientific information.
• The Order maximizes parental choice over childhood vaccines by promoting State compliance with constitutional and Federal law related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirement.
• The Order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, to present plans to the President to improve vaccine research and options for American parents, including continuous evaluation of the risk and benefit profiles of all childhood vaccines based on U.S. and international data.

• In 1980, American children following the CDC immunization schedule received 23 vaccine doses in 7 shots against 7 different diseases. In 2024, the recommended number of routine vaccines had risen to at least 84 vaccine doses in at least 57 shots for 17 diseases, plus the RSV monoclonal antibody immunization for a total of 18 diseases. This is more than other developed nations.
• The scientific assessment recommends prioritizing 11 routine childhood vaccines, while preserving flexibility for parents and doctors to make individualized decisions for higher-risk children through shared clinical decision-making.
• The scientific assessment also found that, instead of implementing vaccination mandates, most peer nations maintain high childhood vaccination rates through public trust and education.
• The U.S. is among a minority of peer nations with childhood vaccine mandates (enacted by individual U.S. states) for school entry.
• By signing today’s Executive Order, President Trump is reaffirming his commitment to gold standard science, ensuring Americans receive the best possible medical advice, and empowering patients and doctors with maximum flexibility.

• In February 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the President’s MAHA Commission, tasking the Commission with investigating and addressing the root causes of America’s escalating health crisis, with an initial focus on childhood chronic diseases.
• The Trump Administration ended the blanket recommendation for all children to get the COVID-19 vaccine, updating its recommendation to be based on shared clinical decision-making between patients and clinicians.
• In May 2025, the MAHA Commission released the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment, summarizing what is known and what questions remain regarding the childhood chronic disease crisis.
• In September 2025, the MAHA Commission released the Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy, a sweeping plan with more than 120 initiatives to reverse the failed policies that fueled America’s childhood chronic disease epidemic. The strategy prioritized development of a vaccine framework that ensures America has the best childhood vaccine schedule.
• In December 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum beginning the process to align U.S. core childhood vaccine recommendations with best practices from peer, developed countries.
• At President Trump’s direction, HHS conducted the aforementioned scientific assessment on childhood vaccination recommendations.
• In May, President Trump signed an Executive Order realigning United States core childhood vaccine recommendations with best practices from peer, developed countries.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/delivering-gold-standard-childhood-vaccine-recommendations-for-americans/

DELIVERING GOLD STANDARD CHILDHOOD VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AMERICANS
Executive Orders
August 10, 2026

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Pursuant to the Presidential Memorandum of December 5, 2025 (Aligning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) completed a scientific assessment, which identified a set of consensus vaccines that are consistently recommended in all peer countries and found that the United States currently recommends more childhood vaccines than any peer nation, including more than twice as many vaccine doses as some European nations (scientific assessment). The scientific assessment also found that, instead of implementing vaccination mandates, most peer nations maintain high childhood vaccination rates through public trust and education. In the United States, by contrast, individual States set mandatory vaccination requirements that children must meet to attend school.

Executive Order 14407 of May 29, 2026 (Realigning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations With Best Practices From Peer, Developed Countries), committed the Federal Government to ensuring that Americans are receiving the best scientifically supported medical advice in the world, as well as to protecting religious liberty and parental authority. However, implementation of my Administration’s prior directives regarding childhood vaccines has been delayed due to litigation over the composition of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and separate updates to the Federal vaccine schedule. Therefore, I am taking further action to reaffirm that it is the policy of the United States that the core childhood vaccine recommendations should be aligned with scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries while preserving access to vaccines currently available to Americans. Further, it is the policy of my Administration that Federal programs and funding should support maximal parental choice over childhood vaccines, consistent with the Federal Government’s constitutional and statutory obligations and the fundamental principles of personal autonomy and informed consent.

Sec. 2. Recommendations for Childhood and Adolescent Vaccines. (a) Based on consultation with my advisors and review of available scientific evidence, it is hereby declared that the United States recognizes Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations informed by the three distinct categories of childhood immunization recommendations identified in the scientific assessment, as specified below:

(i) immunizations recommended for all children: measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus, and varicella;

(ii) immunizations recommended for certain high-risk groups or populations: respiratory syncytial virus monoclonal antibodies, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal B, meningococcal ACWY, and dengue; and

(iii) immunizations based on shared clinical decision-making: hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rotavirus, meningococcal disease, influenza, and COVID-19.

(b) The Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations also recognize that the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine should be administered in three separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available and that, to the maximum extent feasible, all childhood immunizations should be administered at separate medical visits.

(c) Each executive department and agency shall review the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and take any appropriate steps to advance them, to the fullest extent allowable by law.

(d) States and territories are advised to review the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and consider updating relevant laws and regulations that define the scope of immunization requirements for contexts such as school enrollment and attendance based on the scientific assessment and best practices from peer, developed countries.

(e) The United States will routinely reassess the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations according to the findings of the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines as specified in section 3 of this order.

Sec. 3. Improving Vaccine Research and Options for American Parents. The Secretary of HHS, through the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, shall, within 90 days of the date of this order, present plans to the President through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to, to the extent appropriate and consistent with applicable law:

(a) offer options to administer core childhood vaccines, starting with MMR, as single vaccines rather than combination products/doses, including by working with the private sector and other countries as appropriate, while guaranteeing continued availability of combination vaccines and those vaccines recommended for shared clinical decision-making;

(b) assess the ideal timing and sequencing of all core childhood vaccines and adjust the Federal childhood and adolescent vaccine schedule as appropriate based on gold‑standard science;

(c) develop additional alternative adjuvants to aluminum and conduct comparative safety and efficacy studies;

(d) ensure continuous evaluation of the risk/benefit profiles of all childhood vaccines based on United States and international data; and

(e) improve vaccine safety monitoring, transparency, and research.

Sec. 4. Maximizing Parental Choice over Childhood Vaccines. (a) The Attorney General shall take appropriate measures to further meritorious legal actions challenging State laws that conflict with States’ constitutional and Federal statutory obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including, to the extent applicable under Federal law, States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirements.

(b) The Departments of Justice, Education, and HHS shall take appropriate action to ensure that their contractors and grantees, including States and localities, are compliant with their constitutional and Federal statutory obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including, to the extent applicable under Federal law, their obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirements.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Health and Human Services.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 10, 2026.

https://answersingenesis.org/sanctity-of-life/study-finds-abortion-drugs-in-us-drinking-water/

Study Finds Abortion Drugs in US Drinking Water

Ken Ham    |    August 4, 2026

Well, this is truly horrifying.

In 2025, 25 Republican lawmakers “signed a letter calling on the Trump administration to determine whether the abortion pill mifepristone has an environmental impact on the U.S. water system.”

Mifepristone is the first in a set of two drugs that end the life (are used to murder) of an unborn child, typically early in pregnancy (up to about 10 weeks gestational age). This drug is basically an antiprogestin, blocking the woman’s body from receiving the hormone progesterone that allows the uterine lining to accept the baby’s placenta. Unable to receive nourishment from mom due to the lack of progesterone, the baby dies and a second drug induces contractions to deliver the dead baby’s tiny body.

About 63% of abortions today are these chemical abortions (642,700 babies killed in 2023), and an increasing number take place at home. But what happens to the mifepristone after the woman takes it and kills her baby? The baby and the mifepristone leave the woman’s body and are flushed down the toilet to presumably be removed by the wastewater treatment plant—except no one was testing if conventional water treatment removed drugs like mifepristone from drinking water. Turns out, according to a new study, it doesn’t.

This study published in Issues in Law & Medicine found “a statistically significant amount of mifepristone was found in all but one of the nine water sources” that were tested (water came from Austin, TX; Blacksburg, VA; and Carbondale, IL). The study authors write:

"Conventional water treatment was not effective for removing this EDC from water in all cities we tested. Two cities showed significant mean concentrations even in tap water."

What impact does this have on the health and fertility of the people drinking the water or the plants and animals that live in or around the water? No one knows because it’s never been studied! But the study summarizes what we do know about these kinds of compounds that disrupt the endocrine (hormone) system:

"Past research has shown that endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs), including steroid hormones, synthetic estrogens and progestins found in oral contraceptives, are present in water supplies. This problem remains an environmental and health concern, especially given the widespread use of contraceptives and the increased prevalence of medication abortion in recent years. These compounds have a number of deleterious effects on human and animal biology, particularly aquatic animals. Small amounts of these chemicals (parts per trillion) can affect the endocrine system of animals and humans. Progestins, including specifically the anti-progesterone synthetic steroid hormone mifepristone, have been found to have disruptive effects on the fertility and reproduction of fish. Moreover, further highlighting the potential for environmental toxicity and contamination, the FDA recommends treating any unused mifepristone pills as hazardous waste."

In other words, we don’t know the effect on human and environmental health yet for sure, but it’s probably not good!

According to an article reporting on this story:

“The EPA relied on studies that were done . . . in 1996 . . . to make sure that the excreted chemicals in the wastewater and the thrown away pills . . . would not reach a level that would hinder U.S. fertility rates,” Bryce said. “Since then . . . up to 63% or more of abortions are done by chemical abortions. Maybe—who knows—a million a year. And so the levels of mifepristone in our wastewater have grown dramatically.”

Infertility has skyrocketed . . . 84% between 1990 and 2021 globally. . . . The abortion pill was first approved in the U.S. in 2000 and approved in many European countries in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. In 2021, the study found that more than 110 million women faced infertility, and one in 10 women within the reproductive age range were infertile.

Bryce . . . is calling for a study to be done that analyzes infertility in light of mifepristone in the U.S. water system.

“ study that was done about a year ago on female frogs when they were exposed to mifepristone that is considered the level that is in our drinking water today, they had half as many babies,” he said. “And so we’re looking at fertility rates that are very low in the United States and in the Western civilization. . . . It’s either environmental factors or it’s behavioral factors. It’s probably a combination of the two. . . . We really need to get to the bottom of the environmental factors that might be contributing to this, and it’s just obvious that we need to look at the levels of mifepristone in our water.”

Abortion harms everyone, babies first and foremost, but also men and women—even those not involved in any way with abortion.
Abortion advocates love to say that what a woman does with “her body” (but really, we’re talking about a woman’s body and a totally separate body, her unborn child, which is not part of her body but has his or her own DNA—a unique combination of information different to any other human being) is a medical decision between her and her doctor. But abortion doesn’t just impact a woman and her baby, who loses his or her life. This new study highlights yet another way abortion impacts everyone as millions of un-consenting Americans ingest harmful compounds that may wreak havoc on their own endocrine system and their future fertility (not to mention the environmental considerations that also impact everyone in one way or another!).

Abortion harms everyone, babies first and foremost, but also men and women—even those not involved in any way with abortion. This new study is just another example of the consequences of a culture that has abandoned God’s Word as the foundation for morality and has legalized and commercialized the slaughter of the unborn.

Oh, and it’s a good reminder to filter your tap water! The study suggests, “Maximum removal requires tertiary treatment, such as membrane bioreactors , oxidation, or ozonation.”

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

Answers in Genesis provides links and (actual) Christian perspective.

https://answersingenesis.org/sanctity-of-life/euthanasia/anglican-church-canada-assisted-suicide-liturgy/

Anglican Church of Canada Releases Assisted Suicide Liturgy

Ken Ham    |    August 6, 2026

As Canada allows more and more people to opt for “MAiD”—Medical Assistance in Dying, their government euthanasia program—churches are faced with a pastoral problem: What do you do if someone in your church decides to end their own life at the hand of a doctor? Well, according to the Anglican Church of Canada, you go to their bedside with a liturgy ready to go.

Now the document doesn’t appear to celebrate MAiD. Read what it says in the introduction to this 60-page Pastoral Liturgies at the Time of Death in Contexts of Medically Assisted Dying document:

Many of the conversations around what constitutes a good death seek to enshrine dignity of the dying person as the highest value. Very often, the understanding of dignity is tied to one’s autonomy in agency—being able to think, act, and make decisions on one’s own. Human dignity, however, rests in our being created by a loving God. It is not something to be tied to a question of worth to be determined according to standards that place autonomy as the highest value of dignity. God has given us dignity and worth as part of who we are as God’s creatures. Our agency in health care decisions is, furthermore, something that we need to entrust to God in our discernment. We do not make decisions alone, but in the presence of God.
Of course, we would agree with much of that—autonomy is not what gives us dignity, rather God endowed us with dignity when He created us in His very image (interestingly they say “God’s creatures,” rather than being made in God’s image. That’s not surprising given that, by and large, this liberal denomination accepts evolutionary ideas). But instead of stopping there and denouncing euthanasia as to what it is—the intentional killing of a human being (murder)—and urging people to start their thinking with Scripture on this issue, they say:

It is not our intent to enter into the ethical arguments regarding MAiD, nor to provide a moral argument for or against MAiD. This resource is about responding to pastoral needs of those who are dying.
In other words: “It might be right; it might be wrong. Who are we to say? But here’s a resource to give you prayers and Scripture readings at the bedside of someone ending their own life.” They go on to suggest some pastors might not be okay with seeming to bless MAiD, but don’t worry, you can “walk the challenging path” of choosing and adapting prayers so as not to imply God blesses the procedure:

A critical consideration for some pastors will be the question of whether or not in pronouncing God’s blessing on the person who is dying, they are blessing the act of the decision towards or blessing the procedure itself. To some following some Dioceses’ guidance or their own consciences, it will be important to walk the challenging path in choosing and adapting prayers in this resource that do not imply that the procedure, the medical assistance in dying itself, and the decision to employ MAiD, are not being given God’s blessing. It is, however, a normal part of pastoral care to be praying for and to offer God’s and the Church’s blessing on the person who is dying.
However, after all these careful caveats, the introduction then says this:

People who choose MAiD freely and without coercion may indeed be ready to go. They have been living with and suffering through complex health challenges and they want the pain to stop. They want to be able to sleep. They desperately do not want their families and loved ones to watch and wait, wondering how much longer? They have exhausted all medical options, and they know, everyone knows, that there is no cure. Some wish, most of all, not to be alone at the time of their death, and to die well. Some, who are Christian, also desire not to be alone at the time of their death, and to die well, and with the grace and blessing of God and with the presence of the Church at their side.
That reads an awful lot like a stamp of approval on MAiD from the writers of this liturgical guide!

The guide then gives prayers, confessions, and Scripture readings, along with instructions for communion, to be administered before and after the physician gives the lethal injection and the person’s life ends.

This guidance is an example of someone using the Bible and very Christian-sounding language without actually believing the Bible or having their worldview shaped by Scripture. They have an “appearance of godliness” in their Christianized language, but in reality, they are claiming that it is a person’s choice whether or not to end their own life and pastors have a duty to be there when that person dies to walk them through it—not to persuade them otherwise or show them from God’s Word that murder is wrong but to participate in their death through the liturgy.

God is our Creator, and He holds our lives in His hands and has sovereignly written in our book the number of our days.
It certainly appears compassionate, but only because they use euphemisms to obscure what is really happening: A physician is murdering a patient. Just because the patient has requested to be murdered doesn’t make murder okay!

In a fallen world, we will all suffer, but we do not hold the authority of life and death over our own bodies. We are not autonomous. God is our Creator, and He holds our lives in His hands and has sovereignly written in our book the number of our days. We look to Him, not our own fallible human wisdom, for what is right and good.

Whether they want to admit it or not, a euthanasia liturgy is the church blessing the choice of self-murder. It is the church condoning evil. Those who are suffering need palliative care from the medical profession—not a lethal injection—and compassion, kindness, and love from the church (and the gospel if they don’t know Christ!). What they don’t need is approval of a sinful choice that takes control into our own hands instead of trusting in the Creator who numbers our days.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

The ailing Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky championed restoration of hemp products containing THC to the Controlled Substances Act.  A revocation of the November 12th illegalization was incorporated into the Senate's short-term spending bill which will keep the government funded through December 11, 2026.  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz opposed the amendment because he believes it could interfere with the CMS Substance Access Beneficiary Engagement Incentive pilot program which allows access to certain hemp-derived products.

This issue apparently locked up the spending bill, so a delay of one month was substituted allowing the Senators to go on recess:

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6017926-senate-delays-hemp-thc-ban/

Senate tables hemp amendment at center of funding fight, allowing one-month delay of ban
By Nathaniel Weixel - August 8, 2026

A federal ban on most hemp-derived THC products is set to be delayed for a month after a last-minute effort to keep the original timeline failed.

The Senate voted 61-32 to table a bipartisan amendment from Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and about a dozen other senators to strip the delay from a stopgap government funding bill.

Opponents of the delay had been holding up consideration of the funding bill until GOP leadership allowed a vote on the amendment.

The provision at the heart of the controversy was inserted into the underlying legislation at the behest of the White House, which has made delaying or otherwise fixing the hemp ban a priority.

Hemp industry groups and their allies are touting the provision as a significant win that will give them more time to convince lawmakers to regulate their products, rather than ban them.

”The next chapter begins today. The Hemp Beverage Alliance stands ready to work with Congress, the White House and stakeholders throughout the country to pass federal legislation that is strong, sensible, reliable, and prioritizes public safety,” Christopher Lackner, founder and president of the Hemp Beverage Alliance said in a statement.

But the fight isn’t over, and Budd and the other supporters of his effort have indicated they will try again in the fall and winter. The funding bill lasts through Dec. 11, and White House officials have reportedly told senators they will not ask for another delay.

“I am disappointed that the Senate chose to protect an industry that insists on selling dangerous intoxicants marketed toward children by delaying the hemp loophole,” Budd wrote on social media after the early morning vote.

“We agreed to ban these drugs nearly 9 months ago, but clearly our fight to stop this scourge is just beginning,” he added.

Trump signed the ban into law last year as part of a broader spending bill to reopen the government after a record-long shutdown. It was set to take effect Nov. 12.

The legislation redefined hemp to close what critics called the “hemp loophole” brought about by the 2018 Farm Bill, which removed hemp from the controlled substances list. The fix was championed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

The hemp industry has been lobbying furiously against it ever since, arguing the law would collapse a multi-billion-dollar industry.

Budd and other supporters say they are trying to protect children from illicit products that are intentionally marketed to children. The products are labeled as hemp, but contain extremely high levels of synthetic THC, the psychedelic compound in marijuana responsible for a high.

On Friday, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Mehmet Oz urged senators to oppose the amendment because it could interfere with an agency pilot program allowing access to certain hemp-derived products.

Budd said getting rid of unregulated products won’t do the damage Oz alleges.

“Why do unregulated intoxicating edibles need to be available at gas stations for CMS to continue studying hemp-derived pain relief?” Budd wrote on social media.

“Why should we allow these products on shelves for one more day when someone could make a decision that will alter their future by buying them?”