This week in the news: May 6th- May 10th

Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp signed a conservative abortion bill, which added Georgia to the list of states adopting a heartbeat abortion bill. The new bill bans abortions as soon as a heartbeat is detected, and this occurs around six weeks into the pregnancy often before a woman is even aware that she is pregnant. Exceptions are allowed in cases where continuing the pregnancy would seriously harm...

Pope Francis issued new global rules mandating all congregations put a system in place for reporting abuse and cover-ups. The new rules follow a global meeting on sex abuse at the Vatican in February where Pope Francis promised to establish concrete measures to combat sexual abuse in the Church. There has not previously been an effective and efficient system for reporting and investigating sexual abuse...

The African Union announced its efforts to broaden the exclusive AU passport to average citizens within the membered countries. When implemented, the passport will substitute individual nation’s passports and visas so anybody with proper paperwork can travel to different regions more easily. The passport is supposed to come into effect after ratification by the parliaments of at least 15 African...

Attorney General William Barr was voted to be held in contempt of Congress by The House Judiciary Committee after the Trump Administration enacted executive privilege over the full contents of the Mueller report. The statement came one day after the White House threatened to do so after former White House counsel Don McGahn was subpoenaed to turn over the documents. Robert Mueller’s report into...

Five years after the ISIS genocide against the Yazidi religious group in northern Iraq, roughly 3,500 captured women are being freed to their home country of Iraq. However, the conservative religious Yazidi leaders refuse to welcome the children who were born as a result of ISIS soldiers raping captured women. Officials have estimated upwards of 1,000 children under the age of four have been born to...

Within the last week, North Korea has carried out two weapons tests, which has been seen as an attempt to increase pressure on the U.S. over its failure to make concessions. The United States has seized a North Korean coal ship on the grounds that North Korea was attempting to export tons of high-grade coal to foreign buyers, which would violate sanctions set by the United Nations. Since August...