Religion & Law

Recession Might Lower Birth Rate in U.S.
From AP: The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a...

CDC Reports Drop in Premature Birth Rate for Second Year in a Row
USA Today: Premature birth rate drops 2nd year in a row, CDC finds, by Rita Rubin: For the first time in nearly three decades, the U.S. rate of premature birth declined two years in a row, the government reported Tuesday...

Germany's Birth Rate Reaches Historic Low
Time Magazine: Baby Gap: Germany's Birth Rate Hits Historic Low, by Tristana Moore: Germany is shrinking ? and fast. New figures released on May 17 show the birth rate in Europe's biggest economy has plummeted to a historic low, dropping...

Vatican Bank Officials Targeted In Money Laundering Investigation
AP reported yesterday that top officials of the Vatican's Institute for the Works of Religion-- the Vatican Bank-- are under investigation by Italian financial police in an investigation of money laundering...

Vatican Will End Automatic Adoption of Italian Law
ANSA and the Times Online of London report that starting today, the Vatican will end the practice adopted under a Vatican statute signed in 1929 of automatically incorporating laws passed by Italy's Parliament into the Vatican's legal code (except in cases of radical incompatibility with canon law)...

Vaticans ploy to thwart criticism of its nefarious Bank is yet another scam
In a desperate attempt to pre-empt the findings of an investigation by Italian authorities, the Vatican has rushed through new procedures which it claims will make its notoriously opaque banking activities 'more transparent'.

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Bailout Bill HR124

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Ortho Evra Patch Risk
Ortho Evra Side Effects

Have you or a loved one suffered from Ortho Evra side effects?
Ortho Evra Side Effects

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

Birth Injury - Birth Injury Malpractice, Birth Injury Lawyer, Birth Injury Claims
Birth Injury alleging injuries resulting at birth from medical malpractice or negligence.

Paxil Birth Defects
alleging link to the birth defect persistant pulmonary hypertention in the newborn (PPHN) and infant death.

SSRI Birth Defects
allegedly causing birth defects, including heart defects and PPHN.

Michelin hit with $11.9M verdict for fatal head on crash
Michelin Settles Lawsuit for $11.6 Million

Air Pollution
Directly Linked to High Blood Pressure

Chevy Chase Bank
lawsuit claims the bank is in violation of the Truth in Lending Act