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The three abortion clinics in Louisiana are leaving the state following the state’s Supreme Court August 12th decision that an abortion ban will remain in effect while it is being challenged in the judiciary. It is unclear when the clinics will have finished the process of leaving and where they will relocate. Under Louisiana’s trigger laws, abortions may be provided only when "necessary in reasonable medical judgment to prevent the death or substantial risk of death due to a physical condition, or to prevent the serious, permanent impairment of a life-sustaining organ of a pregnant woman.” The laws will continue to be challenged by the state’s three abortion clinics: Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, Women’s Health Care Center in New Orleans, and Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252060/each-of-louisiana-s-abortion-clinics-are-leaving-the-state
A new report from the United Nations on modern slavery provides further documentation of China’s mistreatment of the Uyghur ethnic group, a Muslim minority that according to some human rights groups is suffering genocide. The UN’s Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Dr. Tomoya Obokata, wrote that it is “reasonable to conclude” that forced labor among ethnic minorities, including the Uyghurs, “in sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing has been occurring in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China.” Obokata identified two state-mandated systems that have contributed to the forced labor of the Uyghurs, one of which is a system that detains minorities and subjects them to work placements, while the other system shifts rural laborers into other forms of low-skilled, low-paid work. While the Chinese government claims that the programs provide work opportunities for minorities, the report found that “indicators of forced labor pointing to the involuntary nature of work rendered by affected communities have been present in many cases.” In recent years, Uyghurs — with estimates ranging as high as 1.8 million — have been detained in hundreds of “reeducation camps” in China’s Xinjiang, where they are reportedly subjected to torture and political indoctrination. China’s crackdown on Xinjiang also includes alleged coercion to have contraception devices inserted, forced abortions, and even full sterilization, along with systematic rape.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252059/un-china-s-mistreatment-of-the-uyghurs-amounts-to-modern-day-slavery
Today, the Church celebrates Saint Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine who according to tradition discovered the resting place of the true cross of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem.