Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program has grown so rapidly that practitioners are struggling to meet demand, with 2023 statistics showing euthanasia accounted for 4.7% of all deaths nationwide—second only to the Netherlands. In Quebec, the rate topped 7%, making it the highest in the world. The program’s expansion since legalization in 2016, and particularly since 2021 when eligibility extended beyond the terminally ill, has prompted mounting concerns over the nation’s moral and medical trajectory.
Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, announced this week it will discontinue prescribing gender-affirming medications to minors under its “Gender Development Program.” The hospital cited “escalating legal and regulatory risks” as the primary reason, and said the new policy takes effect August 30, 2025.
Thirty-four hospitals across 13 Nevada counties are bracing for nearly $232 million in losses as federal Medicaid reductions take effect under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The cuts follow the disenrollment of approximately 115,000 Nevadans from the state’s Medicaid program, a move Republicans say is aimed at reining in decades of explosive entitlement growth.
In a new book, former Congressman Jason Chaffetz alleges that the non-profit group VOT-ER partnered with hospitals across the country to register sedated and even psychiatric patients to vote ahead of the 2024 election. Speaking on The Drill Down podcast, Chaffetz called it a “dark money-driven” effort bankrolled by the Tides Foundation, Open Society Foundation, and the Gates Foundation.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined 21 other Democratic attorneys general in a coordinated push to ensure hospitals perform emergency abortions. The group sent a letter Tuesday to the American Hospital Association, emphasizing that hospitals remain legally obligated to provide abortion care under federal law in certain emergency situations.
The FBI has launched criminal investigations into three children's hospitals after they offered gender transition surgeries for minors in violation of federal law.
A widely cited study suggesting black newborns are more likely to survive when treated by black doctors is now under scrutiny after evidence emerged that a key data point was deliberately omitted. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2020, has been used to justify affirmative action policies and the push for racial diversity in medical training.
New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a warning to hospitals, stating that discontinuing gender-affirming care for individuals under 19 in response to President Donald Trump's executive order would violate state law. Trump's directive aims to curtail federal funding for hospitals that provide such treatments, calling them "chemical and surgical mutilation of children."
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced a pair of bills that would require each U.S. state to provide information about the number of abortions that occur within them and end federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
He sat next to George Washington in the pew at St. Paul's Chapel in New York during the religious service following Washington's Presidential Inauguration.
He helped ratify the U.S. Constitution.
His...
