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PRO-ABORTION ACTIVISTS DISRUPT PRO-LIFE STUDENT EVENT IN ITALY WITH SMOKE BOMBS. According to the pro-life Pro Vita & Famiglia (Pro Life & Family), pro-abortion student activists in Italy interrupted an event held by a pro-life student group at the University of Milan, ultimately causing the event to be canceled. Read more here.
APPEALS COURT BACKS IDAHO LAW TO STOP TRAFFICKING TEENS FOR SECRET ABORTIONS IN OTHER STATES. A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of an Idaho law that would stop the trafficking of teenage girls for secret abortions without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Read more here.
BRITAIN JUST MADE IT ILLEGAL TO SILENTLY PRAY OUTSIDE ABORTION CENTERS. A law is now in effect making it illegal to protest against abortion, hand out leaflets or even silently pray within 150 meters of any abortion facility in England and Wales, on pain of an unlimited fine. Read more here.
MISSOURI’S GOP ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS ABORTIONS AFTER VIABILITY REMAIN ILLEGAL UNDER NEW AMENDMENT. Missouri’s Republican attorney general has pledged to enforce some laws restricting abortion despite a new constitutional amendment widely expected to undo the state’s near-total ban on the procedure. Read more here.
CDC FINDS ABORTIONS OF UNBORN BABIES FELL 2 PERCENT THE YEAR SCOTUS OVERTURNED ROE. Abortions of unborn babies fell 2 percent the year the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more here.
‘LOVELY DAY’: ARIZONA ABORTION GROUPS ‘EXCITED’ TO EXPAND THE ABORTION OF PREBORN BABIES. With the passage of a pro-abortion constitutional amendment last month, Arizona abortion advocates are signaling their readiness to start a legal fight to take down the state’s current pro-life laws, and Chris Love, a spokesperson for Arizona for Abortion Access, called the approach of legal abortion “a lovely day.” Read more here.
ARKANSAS DEMOCRATS PROPOSE BILL TO REPEAL EVERY PRO-LIFE LAW SAVING BABIES. A caucus made up of Democratic legislators serving in the Arkansas House of Representatives announced its new legislative package, which includes three bills threatening the sanctity and dignity of human life. Read more here.
FACT CHECK: IS DOCTOR’S FAILED, FATAL MISCARRIAGE TREATMENT THE FAULT OF TEXAS’ PRO-LIFE LAW? A tragic story of the death of 35-year-old Porsha Ngumezi in Texas is being exploited to claim that pro-life laws protecting preborn children from abortion are harming women, but the details don’t line up with this false narrative. Read more here.
CDC REPORT CONFIRMS ABORTIONS DECLINE AS PRO-LIFE STATES SAVE MORE BABIES. A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that abortions in America are falling as pro-life laws states are passing after Roe are saving babies from abortions. Currently, 17 states have pro-life laws protecting babies from abortion at conception or when their heartbeat can be detected. Read more here.
MEXICO DECRIMINALIZES EARLY ABORTION. Lawmakers in the Mexican state of Mexico approved by a broad cross-party majority a reform of the local criminal code to decriminalize abortion in up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, with early abortion now legalized in 18 out of 32 states of Mexico. Read more here.
ABORTIONS DROP 40 PERCENT IN IOWA AS HEARTBEAT LAW SAVES HUNDREDS OF BABIES. Iowa’s Heartbeat Law, effectively limiting abortion to the first six weeks of pregnancy, went into effect earlier this year, leading to an immediate drop from 400 per month to 250, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE LEADER: 3 WAYS DEMOCRATS ARE TURNING ABORTION INTO A ‘SACRAMENT.’ Democrats are making abortion into a “sacrament” by completely eliminating doctors from the process, glorifying the act and deregulating the procedure, according to Shawn Carney, president and CEO of the world’s largest pro-life organization, 40 Days For Life. Read more here.
ABORTION PILL REVERSAL HAS NOW SAVED MORE THAN 6,000 LIVES DESPITE PRO-ABORTION PUSHBACK. Abortion Pill Reversal, the protocol that gives women a second chance at choice, has achieved a remarkable new landmark for saving lives in spite of opposition from abortion proponents, marking more than 6,000 lives saved through the Abortion Pill Rescue Network. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE PAUSES CASE AGAINST PRO-LIFERS UNTIL TRUMP TAKES OFFICE: ‘NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN.’ A federal judge paused the Justice Department’s case against seven pro-life Christians awaiting sentencing over a peaceful protest at an abortion facility in Michigan as President Joe Biden prepares to leave office. Read more here.
FRENCH TV CHANNEL FINED FOR CALLING ABORTION THE WORLD’S LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH. During a February 2024 broadcast of the Catholic program “En quête d’esprit,” Aymeric Pourbaix showed an infographic demonstrating there are 73 million abortion deaths each year worldwide, sparking indignation among media members who claim abortion cannot be considered a “cause of death” because the fetus should not be considered a living being. Read more here.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TAKE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD. In a bicameral letter led by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and others, 112 Members of Congress today asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate and report on the amount of federal funding that has been awarded to abortion providers—including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the International Planned Parenthood Federation—over the past three years. Read more here.
SHOCK STUDY: MORE THAN 1,500 BABIES WERE BORN ALIVE AFTER LATE-TERM ABORTIONS IN QUEBEC SINCE 1989. A recent study found that 11.2 percent of second trimester abortions in Quebec between 1989 and 2021 resulted in live births – a significantly higher number than previous reports estimated. Read more here.
U.S. CONGRESSMEN CALL ON GOP TO REPEAL LAW USED TO THROW PRO-LIFERS IN PRISON. U.S. Congressman Chip Roy and Senator Mike Lee are calling for the repeal of a federal law, the FACE Act, that the federal government has used to put pro-life activists behind bars. Read more here.
INTERNATIONAL BODY TO RULE ON CASE OF CANADIAN MAN WHO SPENT TIME IN PRISON FOR HOLDING SIGN OUTSIDE ABORTION FACILITY ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO. Jim Demers was criminally convicted and spent time in prison in 1996-97 for holding a sign in public stating, “Every person has the right to have his life respected. This right shall be protected by law and, in general, from the moment of conception.” ADF International has now taken up his case. Read more here.
GOV. GORDON PLANS TO APPEAL A RULING STRIKING DOWN TWO WYOMING LAWS BANNING ABORTION. Gov. Gordon directed Attorney General Bridget Hill to review District Court Judge Melissa Owens’ ruling that the two abortion bans violate the state constitution and to prepare an appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE ORGANIZATIONS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST ILLINOIS ABORTION INSURANCE MANDATE. A coalition of pro-life and Christian organizations is suing the state of Illinois over its law requiring health insurers to cover elective abortions and abortion-inducing drugs. Read more here.
WHICH MAJOR CORPORATIONS FUND TRAVEL FOR ABORTION? At least 42 companies in the Fortune 100 pay for employees to travel for an abortion in states where it isn’t available, according to a new report from the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center. The cost of covering abortion is much cheaper for a corporation than paying for maternity leave, prenatal and maternal health care, and child care. Read more here.
WYOMING JUDGE STRIKES DOWN TWO STATE LAWS RESTRICTING ABORTION ACCESS. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens ruled that they violated protections in the state’s constitution that allow patients to determine the health care choices that are best for them. Read more here.
OREGON DEM GOV STOCKPILES ABORTION PILLS IN VOW TO PROTECT STATE’S ‘VALUES’ AFTER TRUMP WIN. Oregon Democratic Governor Tina Kotek claimed that though she represents all of Oregon, regardless of their political ideology, she is going to stockpile the abortion drug mifepristone. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP ASKS SUPREME COURT TO THROW OUT ABORTION ‘BUFFER ZONE’ LAWS. A St. Louis pro-life group has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a rural Illinois town’s now-defunct “buffer zone” law, which previously impeded the group’s peaceful protests and counseling outside the town’s abortion clinics. Read more here.
JOHNS HOPKINS ABORTION ACTIVIST SCREAMS AT PRO-LIFERS, RIPS DISPLAY. Peaceful pro-lifers were attacked by a pro-abortion vandal at Johns Hopkins University, and the victims plan to press charges. Read more here.
NEW ZEALAND STOPS PRO-LIFE DOCTORS FROM SAVING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. The New Zealand Ministry of Health released a statement earlier this year warning against the use of progesterone to reverse chemical abortions, stating it “does not support of recognize” abortion pill reversal, and calling it an “unsafe and scientifically unsupported practice.” Read more here.
BISHOP SLAMS ONE-SIDED ABORTION PANEL SET TO REVIEW LAW IN SCOTLAND. Bishop John Keenan of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paisley has condemned a “supposedly independent abortion law review” into Scotland’s abortion law for excluding all pro-life representation. Read more here.
QUEBEC PRO-LIFE GROUP CHALLENGES ABORTION CLINIC BUFFER ZONE LAW IN PROVINCIAL COURT. A Canadian pro-life group was in court for the past few days testifying before a judge in a constitutional challenge to a provincial law that bans protests in front of abortion clinics, arguing the ban is a violation of their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Read more here.
NEW STATS SHOW OREGON ABORTION CLINICS KILLED 225 VIABLE BABIES IN LATE-TERM ABORTIONS. Recently public figures announced by the Oregon Health Authority indicate that overall abortions increased statewide, the number of women traveling to Oregon from other states for abortions rose dramatically and more than two and a half times the number of abortions performed at or after 23 weeks took place in 2023 when compared with 2022. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE TEEN FIGHTS FOR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS AFTER HIGH SCHOOL SHUTS DOWN HIS PRO-LIFE CLUB. Diego Salinas, a senior at Sonia Sotomayor High School in San Antonio, Texas, continues to fight for his First Amendment rights after his school unfairly shut down his pro-life club after the organization began gaining traction and garnering backlash in the school community. Read more here.
ABORTIONIST ADMITS ABORTIONS KILL BABIES: ‘WE ARE THE EXECUTIONERS.’ Pro-choice author Magda Denes interviewed abortionists and clinic workers for her book In Necessity and Sorrow, Life and Death Inside an Abortion Hospital, and surprisingly, many of them admitted that they were terminating human life. Read more here.
VIRGINIA DELEGATE COMMITTEE ADVANCES AMENDMENT ALLOWING ABORTION TO BIRTH, FOR ANY REASON. Members of the Virginia House of Delegates committee on Privileges and Elections advanced three constitutional amendments to the full House, including an amendment that would, if adopted, enshrine abortion rights until birth for any reason. Read more here.
PENN STATE CLASS CREATES TALKING ‘REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE CYBER QUILT.’ A Penn State University gender studies class created a talking “Reproductive Justice Cyber Quilt” with patches that advocate for various issues, including abortion and the normalization of prostitution. Read more here.
NEW YORK PREGNANCY CENTER OPENS ANOTHER OFFICE DESPITE GOVERNOR THREATENING PRO-LIFE GROUPS. CompassCare, a New York-based network of pro-life medical offices, has been the target of political, legislative, legal and domestic terror attacks in recent times, but the organization announced it will open two new offices. Read more here.
THEY LEFT IDAHO TO ABORT BABIES DIAGNOSED WITH DISABILITIES. NOW THEY’RE SUING THE STATE. Four women who described their pregnancies as “dangerous” and went out of state for abortions are suing the state of Idaho over its pro-life law, which prevented them from aborting their children who had received prenatal diagnoses. Read more here.
FINLAND: 99% OF ABORTIONS PERFORMED USING MEDICATION IN 2023. Medical abortion is performed using medication without surgical intervention and in 2023, 99 percent of all terminations in Finland were done with medication, said the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS) in a press release. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP UNVEILS ‘MAKE AMERICA PRO-LIFE AGAIN’ ROADMAP TO SAVE BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. Students for Life of America announced its Make America Pro-Life Again roadmap to protect more babies from abortions, even within the confines of legalized abortion in half the nation, targeting dangerous abortion pills. Read more here.
CANADIAN PRO-LIFE GROUP RAISES CONCERNS OVER FEDERAL BILL TARGETING CHARITABLE TAX STATUS. Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Right to Life director Jean Landry said she is worried that a bill that could strip pro-life pregnancy centers of their charitable tax status will negatively affect their ability to help new moms who chose life over abortion. Read more here.
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH STUDENTS SPIT ON, STEAL FETAL MODELS FROM PRO-LIFE DISPLAY. Students spit on a pro-life leader, mobbed her display table, and stole fetal models at Virginia Commonwealth University, and one student was arrested. Read more here.
MINNESOTA ABORTION ACTIVISTS WANT SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. ERA Minnesota is calling for a special session before new lawmakers take office in January to try to push through a failed bill for a proposed Equal Rights Amendment, which would (among other controversial provisions) enshrine unlimited abortion in the state Constitution. Read more here.
WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS ON ABORTION BAN. HERE’S WHAT TO KNOW. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has heard arguments in a case that will determine the future of abortion access in the state, grounded in a challenge to a 19th century law that was thought to almost entirely ban it. Read more here.
‘BROKEN PIECES’: WOMEN WHO REGRET ABORTIONS COME ‘FACE TO FACE’ WITH ABORTION SURVIVORS. Live Action’s latest video series, “Face to Face,” pairs abortion survivors with women who regret their abortions in candid discussions. Read more here.
FACT CHECK: MEDIA USES STORY TO BLAST ALABAMA’S PRO-LIFE LAW… BUT THERE’S A BIG PROBLEM. Alabama mom Tamara Costa said she was denied a necessary, life-saving induced abortion in the state in June of 2024, but nothing in Alabama’s law prevented her from getting an induced abortion. Read more here.
CONNECTICUT LAUNCHES NEW HOTLINE TO HELP WOMEN GET ABORTIONS. Connecticut’s attorney general announced the launch of a new abortion hotline on the premise that women in the state should be “scared” that they may no longer be able to abort their preborn children following the 2024 election. Read more here.
WOMAN REVEALS SHE ABORTED HER 20-WEEK-OLD UNBORN BABY. In an interview with 60 Minutes, a Texas woman revealed that she had an abortion during her second trimester of pregnancy, when her unborn child was 20 weeks old. Read more here.
STUDY MAPS HOW NONPROFIT RELIGIOUS GROUPS SET UP FACILITIES NEAR ABORTION CLINICS. New research published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Medical Internet Research maps women’s geographic access to both crisis pregnancy centers and abortion facilities and found that in 2021 crisis pregnancy centers outnumbered abortion clinics 3-to-1 in the U.S. Read more here.
CANADA: NEW BRUNSWICK TO ALLOW MEDICARE TO PAY FOR SURGICAL ABORTIONS OUTSIDE HOSPITALS. Premier Susan Holt announced the change, reversing a controversial rule from 1984 that limited the procedure’s availability across the province. Previously, the government would only cover the cost of the surgical procedures if they were performed in one of three hospitals. Read more here.
NEVEAH CRAIN’S FAMILY BLAME HOSPITALS FOR HER DEATH, NOT TEXAS ABORTION BAN. Crain died from sepsis after visiting two different hospital and not getting proper treatment. While abortion advocates falsely claim the Texas abortion ban prevented care, Crain’s family says the case is really just medical malpractice with doctors and medical facilities that should have provided more timely and thorough medical care. Read more here.
NIGERIA RIGHTS BODY TO PRESENT FINDINGS ON ABORTION ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MILITARY. Nigeria’s human rights commission will deliver its findings from an investigation into Reuters reports, which found the military ran a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme and massacred children in its fight against Islamist insurgents in the northeast. The Nigerian military denied the findings in the news agency’s reports. Read more here.
SÁNCHEZ PARTY PROPOSES ADDING ABORTION TO SPANISH CONSTITUTION. Spain’s socialists are aiming to make their country the next in Europe to enshrine legal abortion as a constitutional right. The Partido Socialista Obrero Español has proposed adding the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy to the Spanish constitution. Read more here.
ABORTION RIGHTS MEASURE FAILS IN FLORIDA, FIRST TO LOSE FOLLOWING DOBBS DECISION. Amendment 4, prohibiting the state from restricting abortion before fetal viability, fell just short of the 60 percent threshold needed to pass. Read more here.
3 STATES REJECT PRO-ABORTION BALLOT MEASURES WHILE 7 MEASURES PASS. Voters in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota voted down major pro-abortion proposals in their states, while seven other states saw voters approve measures to expand abortion, in several cases codifying abortion access into the state constitution. Read more here.
MAN FOUND GUILTY OF FORCED ABORTION AFTER SPIKING WOMAN’S DRINK WITH ‘PILLS-BY-POST’ FROM UK ABORTION PROVIDER. Stuart Worby was found guilty at Norwich Crown Court, with the court hearing details of how the 40-year-old had crushed one set of abortion pills – mifepristone – into a glass of orange juice, which the unnamed woman unknowingly drank. Read more here.
PEOPLE PRAYING AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD SAVE PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST’S GRANDCHILD FROM ABORTION. In Columbia, South Carolina, a woman’s abortion was delayed, giving pro-lifers time to talk her out of ending the life of her child. Read more here.
ABORTION SUPPORTERS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST LOUISIANA LAW REGULATING ABORTION PILL. Abortion advocates have filed a lawsuit challenging a Louisiana law that requires the abortion pill to be labeled as a controlled substance. The state law places the abortion pill drugs mifepristone and misoprostol on a list of “Schedule IV” controlled drugs, joining other drugs like sedatives and opioids. Read more here.
FIRST CATHOLIC MEDICAL SCHOOL WILL OPEN IN THE UK, WILL TEACH DOCTORS PRO-LIFE VALUES. St. Mary’s University, located in London, announced that it is moving forward with plans to open the country’s first Catholic medical school, which will teach students to deliver holistic, compassionate, patient-centered care. Read more here.
ABORTION BUFFER ZONES TAKE EFFECT IN UK, CRIMINALIZING PEOPLE OFFERING VITAL SUPPORT TO WOMEN. Abortion buffer zones are now in force outside abortion clinics in England and Wales, criminalizing efforts to offer support to women, though there is confusion about precisely what activities are prohibited outside abortion clinics. Read more here.
PREGNANT TEENAGER IN INDIA STRANGLED TO DEATH AFTER SHE REFUSED ABORTION. Nineteen-year-old Sonia Kumari was reportedly murdered by 21-year-old Sanju alis Saleem. She was seven months pregnant, and when she refused to marry Saleem and get an abortion, she was strangled and buried in a pit. Read more here.
MARYLAND ABORTION PROPOSITION WOULD REMOVE PARENTS FROM LIFE DECISIONS. Maryland’s so-called Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment would be a vote “to kill an unborn child,” according to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, as it seeks to take parents out of the equation for life. Read more here.
ARMY VETERAN TO APPEAL SILENT PRAYER CONVICTION AFTER BUFFER ZONES GUIDANCE SAYS IT’S ‘NOT NECESSARILY’ A CRIME. Adam-Smith Connor has confirmed that he will appeal a conviction finding him guilty of silent prayer outside an abortion facility in Bournemouth. Read more here.
MISSOURI PRO-LIFERS ORGANIZE CONVOY TO PROTEST PRO-ABORTION AMENDMENT ON BALLOT. Missouri pro-life advocates held a convoy near St. Louis to protest Amendment 3, the dangerous pro-abortion amendment being voted on in this election. Read more here.
VOTERS IN AMARILLO, TEXAS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE IT A SANCTUARY CITY FOR THE UNBORN. Even though preborn children are legally protected in Texas, this local election has important policy implications because some Texas women are circumventing the state’s protective pro-life laws by obtaining chemical abortion pills through the mail. Read more here.
BBC TO AIR DOCUMENTARY ON GEN Z PRO-LIFERS ‘GROWING IN CONFIDENCE’ IN UK. BBC Factual has commissioned a documentary, titled “Young, British and Anti-Abortion,” that offers a “rare and fascinating insight” into young pro-life adults who are “growing in confidence, profile and money” in the UK. Read more here.
CAMPAIGN LIFE COALITION URGES POILIEVRE TO PROTECT PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS FROM TRUDEAU. Pro-lifers are demanding that Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, who is pro-abortion, hold to his September pledge to support pro-life pregnancy centers after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government recently introduced legislation which puts the charitable tax status of pro-life pregnancy centers at risk. Read more here.
ULTRASOUND PICTURES OF UNBORN BABIES ARE A POWERFUL REMINDER TO VOTE PRO-LIFE. A new pro-life organization called Life Cards is mailing depictions of fetal development to residents of Nebraska, where both pro-life and pro-choice referendums are on the ballot. Read more here.
FERTILITY STARTUP COMPANY IN US OFFERS EMBRYO SCREENING FOR IQ… AND EVEN ACNE. An undercover journalist has found that a U.S. fertility startup company has pushed further into the world of eugenics with its alleged offer to allow wealthy couples to weed out their children based on their projected IQ, sparking more concern about the ethics of IVF and genetic enhancement. Read more here.
‘ACT OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM’: MAN SENTENCED FOR FIREBOMBING PRO-LIFE GROUP. A Wisconsin man was sentenced to 7-1/2 years in federal prison for attempting to damage a building occupied by a pro-life organization on May 8, 2022, because he was upset that Roe v. Wade might be overturned. Read more here.
NEW PRO-LGBT PREMIER PROMISES MORE ACCESS TO ABORTION IN NEW BRUNSWICK. Pro-LGBT Premier-elect Susan Holt, only days after winning the election over the ruling Conservatives in New Brunswick, pledged to expand abortion “access” in the province. Read more here.
REPORT: GROUP FOUNDED BY ILLINOIS’ DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR DELIVERS MAJOR FUNDING IN SOUTH DAKOTA TO ENSHRINE ABORTION INTO LAW. The left-wing South Dakota Searchlight revealed that the Chicago-based Think Big America donated major funding to Dakotans for Health, a pro-abortion group behind the campaign to pass a pro-abortion amendment appearing on South Dakota’s 2024 ballot. Read more here.
57TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRITISH ABORTION ACT MARKS HEAVY TOLL OF LIVES LOST SINCE 1967. A significant rise in abortions has accompanied the second full year that at-home abortion services have been operating in England and Wales, despite opinion polls repeatedly showing that the public wants increased protections for unborn babies and more support for mothers facing unplanned pregnancies rather than the wholesale removal of legal safeguards around abortion. Read more here.
WOMEN ATHLETES FIGHT NEBRASKA’S PRO-ABORTION MEASURE 439. Protect Women and Children ads are featuring University of Nebraska athletes urging people to vote no on Measure 439 to protect Nebraska women and children from abortion. Read more here.
OHIO JUDGE PERMANENTLY BLOCKS SIX-WEEK ABORTION LAW. An Ohio judge permanently enjoined a state law blocking abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, nearly a year after voters in the state enshrined a right to an abortion in the Buckeye State’s constitution. Read more here.
SPUC CANDLELIGHT PROCESSION A ‘FLAME OF HOPE IN AN ENVELOPING PRO-ABORTION DARKNESS.’ The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children held its annual Candlelight Procession through the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, drawing nearly 500 people who marched peacefully in remembrance of the lives lost to abortion in Britain since the passing of the 1967 Abortion Act. Read more here.
HOUSE REPORT SAYS ABORTION BANS HINDER MEDICAL TRAINING, SOME OB-GYNS PUSH BACK. Some doctors are pushing back against a U.S. Congressional report that implies abortion restrictions hinder medical school training, saying it’s part of a “deceitful trend” of “scaring women and physicians into thinking they cannot get or provide necessary obstetric care.” Read more here.
FLORIDA SEEKS TO REVOKE ABORTIONIST’S LICENSE FOR VIOLATING WAITING PERIOD. Dr. Candace Cooley, who previously worked as an abortionist at the Center of Orlando for Women, has been fined for performing 193 abortions without adhering to the waiting period. Read more here.
TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL SHUTS DOWN PRO-LIFE STUDENT GROUP. The Northside Independent School District took issue with the use of the school’s name on social media, claiming that the group is not an official club, but is instead a “noncurriculum-related student group.” Read more here.
PRO-LIFE LAWS AREN’T DRIVING SURGE IN INFANT DEATHS, OB-GYN EXPERT SAYS. Refuting charges that pro-life laws are driving up infant mortality, some infants with genetic or congenital abnormalities who might otherwise have been aborted are now being born and passing away, said Dr. Ingrid Skop, an obstetrician and the vice president and director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Read more here.
16,000 MORE BABIES WERE BORN IN TEXAS THANKS TO ITS ABORTION BAN. Texas has seen increased births following the historic Texas Heartbeat Act of 2021 and the momentous overturning of Roe v. Wade. Most recent data indicates that from 2021 to 2022 over 16,000 more babies were born in Texas following the Heartbeat Act — a 2-percent increase in fertility. Read more here.
SAN FRANCISCO BALLOT AMENDMENT WOULD EXPAND ABORTION AND ATTACK PREGNANCY CENTERS. San Francisco voters are poised to decide the fate of Proposition O, also called the San Francisco Reproductive Freedom Act, which would expand abortion in the city. Read more here.
NEW HIDDEN CAMERA VIDEO SHOWS ABORTIONIST ADVISING THE BEST WAY TO ABORT AN 8-MONTH-OLD BABY. Students for Life Action released new undercover video footage of infamous, late-term abortionist Dr. Curtis Boyd at a recent Washington, D.C., book signing, capturing several exchanges showing that lack of concern for women’s survival or the fate of a viable baby would not deter the abortionists from supporting a sale. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE MEDICAL GROUPS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN AGAINST MISINFORMATION ABOUT BANS. Eleven pro-life medical and health policy organizations launched a nationwide campaign calling on other healthcare professionals, along with state and federal health agencies, to combat medical misinformation about pregnancy care following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Read more here.
LONG-TIME ABORTIONIST NOW CALLS FOR END TO ABORTION. In a powerful shift that has shocked the pro-abortion community, Dr. Forrest Smith, a longtime abortion provider, has now publicly urged voters across the country to reject all 10 state abortion amendments on the ballot this election cycle. Read more here.
AMERICANS WANT EMPLOYERS TO FUND LIFE-AFFIRMING OPTIONS, NEW POLL SHOWS. Seventy-one percent of those surveyed said that if employers provide “abortion benefits,” they should provide equal benefits to employees seeking infertility treatments, adopting a child or giving birth. Read more here.
SURVEYS SHOW ABORTION ‘COUNSELING’ JUST SELLS WOMEN ABORTIONS. Pro-life regulations in some states require abortion facilities to give accurate medical information about abortion’s risks and fetal development, but “pro-choice” advocacy groups fight these laws tooth and nail, and abortion facilities do everything they can to undermine them. Read more here.
TENNESSEE JUDGES SAY DOCTORS CAN’T BE DISCIPLINED FOR PROVIDING EMERGENCY ABORTIONS. A three-judge panel ruled that Tennessee doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother cannot have their medical licenses revoked or face other disciplinary actions while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues. Read more here.
BIG MONEY POURS INTO GROUPS SUPPORTING ABORTION. The groups supporting the ballot questions to enshrine abortion rights in the Nevada Constitution raised millions of dollars from July through September, according to new campaign finance reports. Read more here.
THREE STATES SUE FDA FOR ‘DISREGARDING THE HEALTH AND SAFETY’ OF WOMEN WITH ABORTION PILL EXPANSION. Missouri, Kansas and Idaho have filed an amended lawsuit in federal court, claiming their “sovereign” interest in protecting citizens was violated by the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to expand access to the abortion pill to mail-order dispensing. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE PRODUCERS FUNDRAISE TO SHARE ABORTION STORY HOLLYWOOD WON’T TELL. A doctor convinced Regina Block that aborting her pre-born baby was the only option, and now her touching story in the movie “He Named Him Adam” gives voice to the women who regret their abortions. Read more here.
WORST ABORTION CLINIC IN AMERICA INJURES TWO MORE WOMEN IN BOTCHED ABORTIONS. Hope Clinic, located in Granite City, Illinois, recently botched at least two abortions in just over two weeks. Read more here.
WATCHDOG GROUP DEMANDS ANSWERS TO US ARMY TRAINING LABELING PRO-LIFE GROUPS ‘TERRORISTS.’ A lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the U.S. Department of Defense is demanding answers following a U.S. Army training that labeled pro-life organizations as “terrorist groups,” citing people who counsel women outside abortion facilities or display Choose Life license plates on their cars as potential threats. Read more here.
BRITISH ARMY VETERAN FOUND GUILTY OF ‘THOUGHTCRIME’ FOR PRAYING IN HIS OWN MIND IN ABORTION BUFFER ZONE. Adam Smith-Connor was charged by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council following an interrogation by police on “the nature of his prayers” when he stopped to pray for a few minutes near an abortion facility in November 2022. Read more here.
DOCTOR URGES VOTE AGAINST ‘DANGEROUS’ FLORIDA AMENDMENT 4, ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. A Catholic ER physician with decades of experience, Dr. Anthony Pohlgeers, said Amendment 4, the proposed pro-abortion amendment on Florida’s November 5 ballot, would have serious ramifications for the health of the state’s women and children if it passes with 60 percent of the vote in less than three weeks. Read more here.
NYT POLL SHOWS SUPPORT FOR FLORIDA ABORTION AMENDMENT FALLING SHORT. A poll recently released by the New York Times and Siena College found that a ballot measure to enshrine the right to abortion into the Florida Constitution is falling short of the 60-percent support level needed for passage. Read more here.
FLORIDA DENIES NEW FACILITY LICENSE TO ABORTION BUSINESS WITH HISTORY OF VIOLATIONS. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration denied a license for the abortion organization July Medical Services, which previously was the subject of a criminal investigation over numerous health and safety violations and refusing to report child rapes. Read more here.
SATANIC TEMPLE OPENS ABORTION CLINIC IN VIRGINIA, CLAIMS PREGNANCY TERMINATION IS RELIGIOUS RITUAL. The goal of the Satanic Temple in turning abortion into a ritual is so that they can make the claim that practicing abortion is a religious liberty issue that that the termination of pregnancy is a “spiritual” undertaking. Abortion in Virginia is legal through the 27th week, or second trimester of pregnancy. Read more here.
NORTH DAKOTA JUDGE REFUSES TO REINSTATE LAW PROTECTING PREBORN CHILDREN FROM ABORTION. A state district judge has denied a request from the state to reinstate a pro-life law protecting preborn children from abortion, claiming it was “unconstitutionally void for vagueness.” Read more here.
BARNARD COLLEGE STUDENTS CREATE DO-IT-YOURSELF ABORTION GUIDE, ‘ABORTIFACIENT’ GARDEN. A “self-induced” abortion guide and a garden of “abortifacient plants” are on display in the exhibit “Abortion in Context” at Barnard College this fall as part of dual exhibits created by students, staff and professors. Read more here.
MEMBERS OF U.S. CONGRESS WARN AGENCY IT’S ‘VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW’ BY SUBSIDIZING ABORTIONS. In a letter to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, members of Congress warned the federal agency that it is in violation of a federal law that prohibits congressional health plans from subsidizing induced abortions considered elective. Read more here.
7,000 OBGYNS CONFIRM ABORTION PILLS KILLED TWO WOMEN. In an open letter to Dr. Sandra E. Brooks, CEO of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNs detailed the false narratives about state abortion laws and emphasized that the two recent deaths of women in Georgia were due to abortion pills and not state laws. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES WARN OF ‘DECEPTIVE’ ABORTION MEASURES ON THE BALLOT IN RED STATES. The ballot initiatives employ deceptive language, like saying a measure would allow abortion up to the point of “viability” — but lets pro-abortion doctors determine what “viability” means. Other ballots would permit abortions for “mental health” reasons, another broad category that could be interpreted to expand abortion. Read more here.
NEW AD SHOWS HOW MINNESOTA ALLOWS INFANTICIDE, LETS BABIES WHO SURVIVE ABORTIONS DIE. The MCCL State Victory Fund has launched a digital ad campaign spotlighting the reality of vulnerable newborns and Minnesota’s extreme policies that threaten them. The ads call out specific incumbent state lawmakers for their votes to repeal a requirement that born-alive infants receive medically appropriate care that could save their lives. Read more here.
IDAHO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION RETRACTS ANTI-PREGNANCY CENTER STATEMENT FOLLOWING POTENTIAL LAWSUIT. After debating a draft resolution to oppose public funds for crisis pregnancy centers, the Idaho Medical Association’s policymaking body adopted a more broad policy to oppose public funds for clinics that skirt medical standards. Read more here.
ABC AIRS PRO-LIFE AD SHOWING ABORTED BABIES DURING THE VIEW, COMPARING HOSTS TO NAZIS. A hard-hitting pro-life ad that aired during ABC’s popular daytime talk show The View highlighting that aborted so-called “fetuses” are actually murdered children has infuriated the broadcast world, including the show’s co-hosts, whom the ad compared to Nazis because of their pro-abortion views. Read more here.
TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL SUES AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL TO BLOCK ABORTION FUND. The Office of the Attorney General of Texas sued the City of Austin over the city council’s decision to pay for abortion travel and force taxpayers to fund the deaths of preborn babies. Read more here.
FLORIDA ALLEGES ABORTION ACTIVISTS’ ‘PETITIONING FRAUD.’ Florida’s Office of Election Crimes and Security issued a 348-page report alleging petitioners for a new amendment to unwind Florida’s 6-week abortion restriction were being paid by several abortion activist groups. Read more here.
AS ABORTION IS DECRIMINALIZED IN JALISCO, MEXICAN CARDINAL DECRIES ‘MURDER OF INNOCENTS.’ Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, archbishop of Guadalajara, the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, spoke out strongly against the recent decision of that state’s legislature to decriminalize abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation, calling it the “murder of innocents.” Read more here.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION BULLYING OF PRO-LIFE PHYSICIANS GETS SCOTUS SMACKDOWN. The U.S. Supreme Court left in place the decision by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals against the Biden administration’s attempts to weaponize federal law to force pro-life emergency physicians to perform induced abortions. Read more here.
ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH ARE LEGAL IN 11 STATES, IN COLORADO 137 BABIES WERE ABORTED LAST YEAR IN LATE-TERM ABORTIONS. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America reports that 11 states currently have no restrictions on abortion, allowing it until the ninth month of pregnancy. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE DIAPER BRAND PARTNERS WITH CHRISTIAN CREDIT UNION TO SUPPORT NEW MOMS. EveryLife, America’s fastest-growing diaper company, announced it will partner with the credit union “to champion the sanctity of life and provide meaningful support to families across the nation.” Read more here.
MIRACLE BABIES WERE BORN DURING HURRICANE HELENE, INCLUDING BABY PHOENIX AT 29 WEEKS. Baby Phoenix Crowe was born at 29 weeks in the midst of hurricane Helene, surviving both the storm and a premature birth after his mother’s “miracle” pregnancy. Read more here.
JUDGE STRIKES DOWN KENTUCKY LAW BANNING PRAYER OUTSIDE ABORTION CENTERS. In a three-year legal battle, a district court judge struck down a “buffer zone” ordinance outside a Louisville abortion facility, allowing pro-life sidewalk counselors to counsel women entering the facility about abortion alternatives. Read more here.
CAN PREBORN CHILDREN FEEL PAIN? A FORMER ABORTIONIST DESCRIBES HIS EXPERIENCE IN NEW VIDEO SERIES. Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist who appeared in the first video of Live Action’s Face to Face series, said he has felt a preborn child flinch and pull away from a needle inserted into the amniotic sac during a diagnostic amniocentesis. Read more here.
STUDY FINDS 50-PERCENT INCREASED RISK OF PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT FOLLOWING FIRST ABORTION. A new study of Denmark’s national medical records has revealed a 50-percent increased risk of first-time psychiatric treatment in the year following a first abortion, including 87 percent who suffered personality and behavioral disorders. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT REBUFFS BIDEN ADMIN. ON TEXAS’ EMERGENCY ABORTIONS. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by President Joe Biden’s administration to enforce, in Texas, federal guidance requiring hospitals to perform abortions if needed to stabilize a patient’s emergency medical condition. Read more here.
GEORGIA SUPREME COURT ISSUES ORDER REINSTATING HEARTBEAT LAW SAVING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. The Georgia Supreme Court issued an order reinstating the heartbeat law that saves unborn babies with a detectable heartbeat from abortions. Read more here.
ARIZONA RESIDENTS RALLY AGAINST RADICAL PRO-ABORTION PROP 139. Pro-life leaders are denouncing Arizona’s Prop 139 ballot initiative, which would allow abortionists to kill the unborn at any stage of pregnancy, enshrining abortion in the state constitution and upending Arizona’s current 15-week pro-life law. Read more here.
CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES FOR PROTESTING ABORTION BIZ. The state of Arkansas has chosen not to continue a case against the individuals after the Biden Administration pursued federal charges against them for blocking abortion facility entrances in other states. Read more here.
SCIENTISTS SUE OVER RETRACTION OF ABORTION PILL DANGER DATA. Ten scientists are suing an academic publishing company for retracting three key studies exposing the dangers of the nation’s most popular abortion drug regimen shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court was slated to hear arguments in a landmark mifepristone case. Read more here.
LOUISIANA LAW RESTRICTING ABORTION PILLS AS ‘CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES’ GOES INTO EFFECT. A Louisiana law classifying abortion pills as controlled substances took effect this week, prompting the mainstream press to promote claims that women’s lives will be endangered as a result. Read more here.
LATEST US ABORTION FIGURES SHOW 95% ARE PROCURED FOR ‘ELECTIVE’ REASONS. Charlotte Lozier Institute Senior Research Associate Tessa Cox said that the “official state data” the organization has reviewed in the past shows less than 5% of abortions are performed because the mother or unborn baby has a physical health condition or because the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Lozier’s report noted that just 0.4 percent of abortions are done due to rape, and 0.3 percent are done due to a risk to the woman’s life or major bodily function. Read more here.
KENTUCKY JUDGE STRIKES DOWN PRO-ABORTION ‘BUFFER ZONE’ LAW IN LOUISVILLE. A district court judge in Kentucky has ruled that the “buffer zone” law outside an abortion facility in Louisville cannot be enforced, granting pro-life groups a court victory and the ability to continue counseling women. Read more here.
OREGON PRO-LIFE GROUP FIGHTS STATES’ MANDATE FORCING IT TO FUND ABORTIONS. A federal judge refused to stop Oregon from forcing Oregon Right to Life, which opposes abortion on religious grounds, to pay for abortion in its employee health-insurance plan. Read more here.
ABORTION ACTIVISTS COMPLAIN OF ALLEGED MEDICAID FUNDING ‘LOOPHOLE’ IN MARYLAND. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is trying to force Medicaid to pay for abortions, after pro-abortion lawyer Abigail Burman said the lack of such coverage is unfair. Read more here.
THE ABORTION INDUSTRY IS RENEWING ITS PUSH TO PROMOTE DEATH IN AFRICA. A new pro-abortion coalition called Catalysts made up of the Center for Reproductive Rights, International Planned Parenthood Federation-Africa Regional Office, Ipas Africa Alliance and others has been launched to promote abortion in Africa — allegedly due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. Read more here.
GEORGIA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL FIGHT FOR HEARTBEAT LAW IN COURT. A Georgia judge has struck down the state’s Living Infants and Fairness Equality (LIFE) Act, which banned abortion after six weeks. Georgia’s Attorney General Chris Carr plans to appeal the decision. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA PREGNANCY CENTERS SUE AG FOR CENSORING THEIR FREE SPEECH. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit against the California attorney general for using his power to censor pro-life pregnancy centers because they tell women about the option of taking supplemental progesterone for abortion pill reversal. Read more here.
TRUDEAU PLEDGES MILLIONS TO PUSH ABORTION, SEX ‘EDUCATION’ IN AFRICA. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is spending hundred of millions in taxpayer funds to promote abortion and “comprehensive sexual and reproductive health” in Africa, nearly one-quarter of which will go directly to the pro-abortion International Planned Parenthood Federation. Read more here.
GEORGIA JUDGE DECLARES HEARTBEAT LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney issued a decision declaring Georgia’s 2019 Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act or LIFE Act unconstitutional. McBurney’s decision comes after a 2023 Georgia Supreme Court decision that allowed Georgia’s heartbeat law to stand. Read more here.
HUNDREDS OF BABIES ARE BORN ALIVE AFTER BOTCHED ABORTIONS, SOME ARE LEFT TO DIE. National Right to Life has released a report documenting cases of infanticide of babies born alive following an attempted abortion. The report, Checking the Fact-Checkers: “After-Birth” Abortions, Modern Infanticide: Abandoning Babies to Die, was released at a congressional briefing on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Read more here.
HUNDREDS RALLY IN THE STREETS OF PARIS TO SUPPORT WORLD ABORTION RIGHTS. Hundreds of people came out in Paris marching in support of the right to abortion for women across the world, just six months after France became the first country to guarantee in its constitution a woman’s right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy. Read more here.
IRELAND: DRAFT GUIDELINES SAYING NURSES, MIDWIVES ‘MUST’ RESPECT ABORTION CRITICIZED. An organization representing nurses and midwives has slammed a new draft code for practitioners which says that the “right” to abortion “must” be respected – and has said that many of those working in the field would find the demand “abhorrent.” Read more here.
TENS OF THOUSANDS MARCH IN FOURTH NATIONAL MARCH FOR LIFE IN SLOVAKIA. The event, which drew 40,000 people, called for the protection of every human life, including unborn children. Spokesman Patrik Daniška said the law legalizing abortion deprives unborn children of the protection that is rightfully theirs. Read more here.
ABORTION BUSINESS SUES PREGNANCY CENTER FOR ‘STEALING’ ITS CUSTOMERS. Massachusetts abortion business Four Women (FW) filed a lawsuit against Abundant Hope Pregnancy Center, located adjacent to FW. The abortion business is accusing Abundant Hope of unlawful practices aimed at interfering with women seeking abortions. Read more here.
TENNESSEE JUDGE BLOCKS LAW TO STOP TAKING TEEN GIRLS OUT OF STATE FOR SECRET ABORTIONS. HB 1895 was designed to protect minors from “abortion trafficking,” but those plans came to a halt when the law was put on hold by Judge Aleta Trauger. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins pointed out the judge’s decision means “an adult abuser can impregnate a child and take her for an abortion without the parents knowing about it.” Read more here.
JUDGE BLOCKS NEW YORK AG LETITIA JAMES FROM SILENCING PRO-LIFE MINISTRIES ON ABORTION-PILL REVERSAL. A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking New York attorney general Letitia James from silencing the constitutionally protected speech of two pro-life organizations that are working to share information about the safety and efficacy of “abortion-pill reversal.” Read more here.
VATICAN SECRETARY OF STATE CALLS OUT UNITED NATIONS FOR PROMOTING ABORTION AND GENDER IDEOLOGY. In an address to the United Nations “Summit of the Future” in New York, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s secretary of state, emphasized the need for promoting the dignity of the human person and voiced the Vatican’s disapproval of the assembly’s promotion of abortion and gender ideology. Read more here.
GEORGIA DOCTORS SPEAK OUT TO CHALLENGE MISINFORMATION ON STATE’S ABORTION LAW, DEATH OF AMBER THURMAN. Two Georgia lawmakers, Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., and state Rep. Mark Newton, who are also doctors, are speaking out against media “fearmongering” about the state’s abortion laws in light of recent reporting on the tragic deaths of two women from the state. Thurman’s death resulted from complications allegedly caused by the abortion pills, not the abortion law, as doctors may have waited too long to intercede. Read more here.
NEW REPORT CONFIRMS DANGEROUS ‘ABORTION PILL DRUG CARTEL’ IS INFILTRATING THE UNITED STATES. American Life League has published a new report titled, “Beneath the Surface: Exposing the Abortion Pill Drug Cartel” alleging that “Networks of abortion providers and volunteers are working as drug dealers via the Internet and US postal system and are illegally sending these pills to customers.” Read more here.
VETERAN ON TRIAL FOR SILENTLY PRAYING FOR DEAD SON NEAR UK ABORTION FACILITY MAY BE FIRST OF MANY. Adam Smith-Connor, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, is on trial at Poole magistrates’ court for the alleged “crime” of silently praying for his dead son outside an abortion facility in Bournemouth, England. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE ADVOCATE SUES SAN DIEGO OVER ABORTION FACILITY BUFFER ZONE LAW. Roger Lopez, a pro-life California citizen who has advocated for women and preborn babies outside of abortion facilities for 15 years, is suing the city of San Diego over its buffer zone law, which prohibits free speech within 100 feet of an abortion business. Read more here.
MISSOURI SUPREME COURT SPLITS 4-3 TO ALLOW BALLOT INITIATIVE THAT ‘STRAIGHTFORWARDLY VIOLATED’ THE LAW. The Missouri Supreme Court released opinions in Coleman, et al. v. Ashcroft, revealing that the state’s high court was split 4-3 in a ruling to keep Missouri’s “Reproductive Freedom” ballot initiative on the November ballot after a lower court previously ruled the initiative petition violated state law. Read more here.
UK’S LABOUR GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE ABORTION BUFFER ZONES FROM 31 OCTOBER, CRIMINALIZING OFFERING VITAL SUPPORT OPTION TO WOMEN. Now, hundreds of women who are helped outside abortion clinics by pro-life volunteers, who provide them with practical support and make it clear to them that they have another option other than going through with the abortion, may be denied such help. Read more here.
IDAHO KEEPS FIGHTING FOR PRO-LIFE LAW AFTER SUPREME COURT SENDS CASE BACK TO LOWER COURT. The Office of the Idaho Attorney General filed its opening brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, asking it to stop the Biden-Harris administration from misusing federal law to override Idaho’s Defense of Life Act. Read more here.
NEW YORK RELIGIOUS GROUPS APPEAL TO SCOTUS OVER ABORTION COVERAGE MANDATE. A coalition of religious organizations in New York has asked the Supreme Court of the United States to intervene once again in their fight against a state law that requires them to cover abortion procedures in their health insurance policies. Read more here.
ABORTION PILLS TRAGICALLY KILL ANOTHER WOMAN. Amber Nicole Thurman was killed by abortion less than one month before her 29th birthday. Complications from an elective procedure killed three human beings that day, as Amber was pregnant with twins. The FDA label warns of the deadly complications that killed Amber: infection and sepsis. Read more here.
NEVADA TO SPEND TAXPAYER MONEY ON ABORTING PRE-BORN BABIES. An unchallenged court ruling has officially made Nevada the 18th state to start spending Medicaid funds on free abortions for low-income women. Read more here.
PRO-LIFER SUES SAN DIEGO OVER ‘BUFFER ZONE’ LAW RESTRICTING SPEECH AROUND ABORTION CENTERS. A California man who has engaged in pro-life advocacy outside of abortion facilities for the past 15 years is suing San Diego for its newly enacted “bubble zone” ordinance. Read more here.
TEXAS AG KEN PAXTON SUES BIDEN HHS OVER RULE TO HIDE ABORTION INFO FROM CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit at the Federal District Court in Lubbock against a Biden administration rule that would hide information regarding abortion or other “reproductive health” from criminal investigations — a law that disingenuously purports to protect women, but instead could end up harming them. Read more here.
ARMY ADMITS 9,000 SOLDIERS WERE TRAINED UNDER PROGRAM THAT CALLED PRO-LIFE AMERICANS ‘TERRORISTS.’ U.S. Congressman Jim Banks said the U.S. Department of Defense told nearly ten thousand soldiers stationed at Fort Liberty that “pro-life organizations, like the National Right to Life, are dangerous terrorist groups.” Read more here.
UNDERCOVER VIDEO SHOWS TOP FLORIDA DEM ENDORSING ABORTION TO BIRTH BECAUSE ‘IT’S NOT A PERSON.’ The Daily Signal has released an undercover video showing the former chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party stating that abortion should be available “all the way to the end” of pregnancy because a preborn human being “is not a person.” Read more here.
FLORIDA ABORTION RATE FALLS BY OVER 30 PERCENT AFTER SIX-WEEK BAN. Florida’s six-week abortion ban went into effect May 1, 2024, and abortions dropped from 10,000 in April to 5,630 in May and 5,200 in June – a 30 percent decline following the ban. Read more here.
DATA SHOW TEXAS DOCTORS PERFORM ABORTIONS TO SAVE LIFE OF THE MOTHER, DESPITE CLAIMS FROM POLITICIANS, MEDIA. The latest data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on induced terminations of pregnancies show that doctors in Texas performed 113 abortions to save pregnant women’s lives in the 22 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Read more here.
PRO-LIFER CONVICTED OVER PEACEFUL PROTEST SENTENCED TO NOTORIOUS FEDERAL PRISON. Calvin Zastrow, a pro-life Christian convicted for joining a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility, has been ordered to report next month to the Federal Correctional Institute Thomson in Illinois, a notoriously violent federal prison. Read more here.
IDAHO ASKS COURT TO UPHOLD FULL ABORTION BAN THAT PROTECTS BABIES. The Office of the Idaho Attorney General, with the assistance of attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom, is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to stop the Biden-Harris administration from misusing federal law to override Idaho’s Defense of Life Act. Read more here.
UN ABORTION ACTIVISTS PUBLICLY ADMIT STEALTH PLOT. Abortion advocates rarely admit to their strategies, but they have finally publicly admitted their ongoing plot to impose abortion and sexual rights on the world, during a discussion about the upcoming UN Summit of the Future. Read more here.
BURUNDI AND CHAD JOIN THE GENEVA CONSENSUS DECLARATION. The African governments of Burundi and Chad have joined the Geneva Consensus Declaration, an international agreement that says countries have a right and duty to defend the family and protect life in the womb, bringing the total number of signatures to the Geneva Consensus Declaration to 39. Read more here.
NORTH DAKOTA ABORTION BAN STRUCK DOWN BY JUDGE. A judge in North Dakota ruled the ban unconstitutional due to “vagueness” and the “fundamental right to choose abortion before viability” listed in the state constitution. Read more here.
U.S. MARCH FOR LIFE ANNOUNCES ‘LONGTIME MARCHER’ AS NEW PRESIDENT. The March for Life announced that longtime president Jeanne Mancini will pass the torch early next year to Jennie Bradley Lichter, a leading pro-life lawyer and policy expert. Read more here.
US ACTIVISTS ARE PUSHING HONDURAS TO LEGALIZE ABORTION. At the UN, Honduras has joined other nations in voting against and expressing reservations about resolutions that include language supporting abortion, but international pressure from organizations like Human Rights Watch is pushing for changes in the nation’s life-affirming laws. Read more here.
GOV. DESANTIS: FRAUDULENT PETITIONS USED TO PUT ABORTION AMENDMENT ON BALLOT. The Amendment 4 abortion ballot proposition in Florida is being investigated by state police after receiving a wide range of complaints about the names of dead people appearing on the petitions used to qualify the amendment for the election. Read more here.
MISSOURI SUPREME COURT KEEPS PRO-ABORTION AMENDMENT ON NOVEMBER BALLOT. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that a proposed constitutional amendment to dramatically expand abortion in the state will remain on the Nov. 5 ballot after a circuit judge previously blocked the measure. Read more here.
83 CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS HAVE TIES WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD, BIG ABORTION. Students For Life America is demanding that 83 Christian colleges and universities sever all connections with abortion providers immediately and fully commit to the pro-life values they were founded on. Read more here.
STUDY FINDS 75 PERCENT OF WOMEN TREATED AT EMERGENCY ROOMS AFTER TAKING ABORTION PILLS RATED ‘SEVERE OR CRITICAL.’ A peer-reviewed study of Medicaid-eligible women by researchers at the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found they were “significantly more likely to have a severe or critical acuity rating” within 30 days of using the two-drug abortion protocol than were other women seen at ERs. Read more here.
‘ABORTION ISN’T HEALTHCARE’: CHRISTIANS UNITE IN LONDON FOR MARCH FOR LIFE UK. Thousands of people gathered in central London to take part in the annual March for Life U.K., where pro-life campaigner Dawn McEvoy, of the Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland and Both Lives Matter, told the marchers, “Pro-choice, that’s a lie. Babies never choose to die.” Read more here.
ALASKA JUDGE JUST RULED THAT ANYONE CAN ABORT BABIES. Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill that would expand birth control access, while a judge on the Alaska Superior Court ruled against a state law requiring only licensed doctors to be allowed to perform abortions. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUPS WARN OF NEW KANSAS ABORTION BIZ THAT WILL TARGET OTHER STATES. A new abortion facility in Pittsburg, Kansas is located less than two miles from the campus of Pittsburg State University and only five miles from the Missouri state line, where abortion is currently banned. It is less than a one-hour drive from the abortion-free states of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Read more here.
FLORIDA’S AMENDMENT 4 BACKERS SHOW UNDERAGE GIRLS HOW TO GET ABORTIONS WITHOUT PARENTS’ PERMISSION. Some of the biggest proponents of Florida’s proposed unlimited abortion ballot measure are encouraging and helping underage girls seeking abortions to circumvent state laws requiring parental consent, and a scrubbed “Yes on 4” campaign web page also warned girls and women away from life-saving pregnancy resource centers. Read more here.
BILL TO EXPOSE TRUE RATE OF ABORTION COMPLICATIONS UNDERWAY IN UK HOUSE OF LORDS. The Complications from Abortions Bill would require the Department of Health and Social Care to issue an annual report on medical complications arising from abortions. The reported abortion complication rate for the period 2017-2021 was more than 2.6 times higher than the rate derived from abortion providers. Read more here.
OHIO JUDGE STRIKES DOWN LAWS RESTRICTING ABORTION PILL ACCESS. Two Ohio laws restricting access to abortion pills have been struck down by the courts as part of the legal fallout that pro-life advocates feared would happen following the passage of a 2023 constitutional amendment guaranteeing access to abortion. Read more here.
UK DOCTOR SAVES BABIES’ LIVES THROUGH ABORTION PILL REVERSAL. More than 62 lives have been saved in the UK, where Dr. Dermot Kearney applies the abortion pill reversal protocol for mothers seeking a second chance to choose life. Read more here.
UN COMMITTEE SAYS ABORTION IS A RACE ISSUE. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has issued a recommendation that the committee promote abortion in the name of racial equality and argues that abortion restrictions disproportionately impact women of racial minorities and directly calls for countries to “decriminalize access to abortion.” Read more here.
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY DELEGATES VOTE IN SUPPORT OF ABORTION UP TO BIRTH RESOLUTION. Delegates at the SNP National Conference have voted in favor of a resolution calling for “the right to abortion” to be enshrined in a “future constitution of an independent Scotland.” Read more here.
NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR SUIT CHALLENGING BID TO EXPAND ABORTION RIGHTS. The Nebraska Supreme Court will hear a challenge by the Thomas More Society to a ballot proposition seeking to enshrine in the state constitution the right to have an abortion until viability, or later to protect the health of the pregnant woman. Read more here.
INDIANA ABORTIONS DROP 98 PERCENT AS ABORTION BAN SAVES BABIES. Indiana’s official abortion report for the second quarter of 2024, released August 29, reveals 27 reported abortions for April, May and June – the lowest quarterly level in Indiana since before Roe vs. Wade in 1973. Read more here.
GOVERNMENT OF NORWAY ANNOUNCES PLAN TO EXPAND ABORTION LIMIT. Norway’s government announced a plan to expand the country’s abortion limit from 12 weeks to 18 weeks, and a government official admitted many women were already aborting children after 12 weeks. Read more here.
NEARLY 90 PERCENT OF BABIES DIAGNOSED WITH DOWN’S SYNDROME ABORTED IN 2021 IN ENGLAND AND WALES. National Health Service data shows that in 2021, 973 out of 1,115 unborn babies prenatally diagnosed with Down’s syndrome, 108 babies with a cleft lip/palate and 53 babies with club foot were aborted in England and Wales. Read more here.
‘PRO-CHOICE’ CHAMPION PRESIDENT WHO BROUGHT ABORTION TO ARGENTINA FORCED HIS WIFE TO HAVE ABORTION. The former president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, was responsible for the introduction of an extreme abortion law to the country, and he allegedly forced his wife, Fabiola Yáñez, to have an abortion. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE LAWS NOT LINKED TO DOCTOR SHORTAGES, ‘MATERNITY CARE DESERTS’: REPORT. Laws that protect preborn babies from being aborted are not connected to a lack of medical providers, a new Charlotte Lozier Institute brief says. Read more here.
PROFESSOR CLAIMS ABORTION BANS WILL LEAD TO ‘CANNIBALISM’ AND ‘FORCED BREEDING CAMPS.’ Jenny Irish, assistant professor of creative writing at Arizona State University, said during a public forum that she fears the dangers of forcing women into motherhood and the possibility of “forced breeding camps” and “cannibalism” driven by a lack of resources. Read more here.
ABORTION ACTIVIST CALLS FOR LEGALIZED ABORTION ACROSS CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA. Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth, a minister in the Guyana Presbyterian Church, CEO of the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation and former executive director of the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association, is calling for an increase in legalized abortion across South America and the Caribbean, despite the pro-life ideals of those nations. Read more here.
POLAND EASES ABORTION ACCESS WITH NEW GUIDELINES FOR DOCTORS UNDER A RESTRICTIVE LAW. Under the current law, abortions for health reasons are permitted, but the previous conservative government limited some other qualifying circumstances, leading to mass street protests and heightening the reluctance of doctors to expose themselves to a possible prosecution. Read more here.
QUEENSLAND SENATORS VOTE TO DENY CARE TO BABIES BORN ALIVE AFTER ABORTION. Queensland senators voted 31 to 18 against a measure which would have ensured that abortion survivors are provided with medical care rather than being left to die, a provision that exists in the states of South Australia and New South Wales. Read more here.
SCHOLARS PANEL TELLS RADIOLOGISTS: DON’T CALL FIRST-TRIMESTER BABIES ‘LIVING.’ Radiologists and students studying the practice will now be instructed to avoid referring to first-trimester babies as “living” or “live,” according to new guidelines developed by a panel of scholars. The recommendation comes from the “Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound First-Trimester US Lexicon,” a summary of which was published this week in the journal Radiology. Read more here.
BIOETHICS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DEFENDS PRO-LIFE ACADEMIC FREEDOM AGAINST ONLINE ‘OUTRAGE MACHINE.’ The editor-in-chief of a respected bioethics journal has defended the academic freedom of pro-life researchers against the online “outrage machine” that has caused several papers to be canceled. Read more here.
STATE GOV’T ATTACKS ON PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS ON THE RISE, LEGAL EXPERT SAYS. State government legal attacks on pro-life pregnancy care centers have been increasing since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, according to Daniel Schmid, associate vice president of Legal Affairs at Liberty Counsel. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN SENATE REJECTS MEASURE REQUIRING APPROPRIATE CARE FOR ABORTION SURVIVORS. A motion recognizing that preborn children who survive abortion should be provided medical care instead of being routinely left to die was defeated in Australia. Read more here.
LONDON COUNCIL ASKS RESIDENTS WHETHER TO RENEW CONTROVERSIAL ABORTION BUFFER ZONE. Richmond Council is consulting local residents on extending a buffer zone even though it admits “there have been no known breaches” of the restrictions in the current buffer zone area and there have been no further petitions, complaints or concerns raised with the Council.” Read more here.
ABORTION CENTER STAFFER ASSAULTS PRO-LIFE ADVOCATE, POLICE ARREST THE PRO-LIFE PERSON INSTEAD. John Ryan, a pro-lifer who reaches out to abortion-vulnerable women from the sidewalk at Hope Clinic in Granite City, Illinois, was arrested for battery, though he was the victim of violence, not the perpetrator. Read more here.
FEMALE CALLER TELLS HER ABORTION STORY: ‘THE MOST PAINFUL EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE.’ Recently, a woman called in to The Michael Knowles show and left a message detailing her traumatic abortion experience, presenting a reminder that though the ability to abort one’s preborn child has roundly been celebrated as “freedom,” abortion regret is real. Read more here.
EVERY ABORTION BAN ALLOWS TREATMENT FOR ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES. The National Right to Life Council and Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America are pushing back against claims that doctors are refusing to treat ectopic pregnancies out of fear of being prosecuted under state laws that prohibit abortion. Read more here.
QUARTER OF BABIES ABORTED AT 23 WEEKS ARE BORN ALIVE IN QUEBEC, SHOCKING NEW STUDY FINDS. One in four babies are born alive following abortions at 23 weeks gestation, a study published in a peer-reviewed journal has found, showing that such cases are more common than previously supposed. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY HELP CENTER IN CHICAGO IS VANDALIZED. After the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention, the pro-life pregnancy center Aid To Women in Chicago was vandalized with red paint, while doors were cemented shut and vandals spray painted the words ‘fake clinics’ and ‘the dead babies are in Gaza’ near the center’s entrance. Read more here.
FORMER AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL MEMBER SUES OVER ABORTION TRAVEL FUNDING. Former Austin, Texas city council member Don Zimmerman is suing the city for a second time over its plans to allocate taxpayer funds for its citizens to travel for abortion, arguing that it is against state law to spend taxpayer dollars on abortion-assistance activities. Read more here.
JUDGE BLOCKS OHIO ABORTION RESTRICTIONS, CITING ‘CONSTITUTIONAL’ AND ‘EMOTIONAL HARMS.’ A law requiring women to wait 24 hours before undergoing abortion – along with other restrictions put in place to protect women – has been blocked by an Ohio judge. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP SUES MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MAURA HEALEY OVER ‘CAMPAIGN OF HARASSMENT AND THREATS.’ A pro-life organization in Massachusetts filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Maura Healey, the state commissioner of public health and a “reproductive equity” foundation, claiming their “overt viewpoint-based campaign of harassment, suppression, and threats” is an attempt to deprive the organization of its rights of free expression and free exercise of religion. Read more here.
NEW SEXUAL COLONIALISM IN UN TREATY ON DEVELOPMENT. Western countries added a poison pill to a new binding international treaty on the right to development that would become the first to include an obligation related to “sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.” Read more here.
ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS REJECTION OF ABORTION RIGHTS PETITIONS, BLOCKING BALLOT MEASURE. In a 4-3 ruling, the court found that the secretary correctly refused to count the signatures collected by paid canvassers because the sponsor failed to file the paid canvasser training certification. Read more here.
ABORTION PILL USE IN ALBERTA FAR EXCEEDS OFFICIAL RECORDS, DATA SHOW. Data from Alberta Health show the number of the drug cocktail Mifegymiso doses dispensed is significantly higher than the total medical abortions reported, with 4,152 doses dispensed in 2022 and 5,850 in 2023. Read more here.
NEW POLL: FLORIDA COULD BECOME FIRST STATE TO DEFEAT ABORTION AMENDMENT. According to the Mainstreet/FUA poll, a proposed Florida ballot proposition allowing abortion past the point of viability through all nine months of pregnancy is supported by 56 percent of survey respondents, short of the 60 percent threshold required for passage. Read more here.
COURT STOPS NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES FROM SHUTTING DOWN PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS. A federal district court ruled that two nonprofit pro-life pregnancy centers and a nonprofit network of affiliated centers in New York are free to tell women about the life-saving potential of using progesterone for abortion pill reversal while their lawsuit continues. Read more here.
MSI REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES LAUNCHES PLATFORM THAT WILL HELP CHILDREN AND TEENS GET ABORTIONS WITHOUT PARENTS KNOWING. One of the world’s largest abortion providers, MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes International), has distributed untraceable phones and launched a new digital platform that will help women, including children and teens under the age of 18, to get abortions without their parents or family members knowledge. Read more here.
CONGRESSMAN CALLS FBI DIRECTOR’S BLUFF, DEMANDS EVIDENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO PRO-ABORTION VIOLENCE. U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution and limited government, is calling on FBI Director Christopher Wray to explain why the government has investigated 24 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act cases as opposed to a mere two attacks on pregnancy resource centers. Read more here.
PROTESTERS DRESSED AS ABORTION PILLS MARCH IN CHICAGO ON EVE OF DNC CONVENTION. Pro-abortion activists marched through the streets of Chicago dressed as abortion pills labeled “Mife” and “Miso” (shorthand for abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol) on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. Read more here.
EIGHTEEN RED STATES BACK NORTH CAROLINA IN LAWSUIT TO REINSTATE ABORTION PILL RESTRICTIONS. Attorneys general from Iowa, Arkansas and South Carolina headed the coalition of 18 red states that filed a brief to the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to support North Carolina’s law restricting access to mifepristone, which was struck down by a federal court in June. Read more here.
MONTANA ADDS ABORTION PROTECTION TO U.S. ELECTION BALLOT. Montana has become the latest state to add a proposition seeking to expand abortion rights to the November ballot, allowing its electorate to decide whether they back a constitutional change to protect access to the life-ending procedure. Read more here.
UK HOME OFFICE MAY BAN SILENT PRAYER OUTSIDE ABORTION FACILITIES. The Home Office is considering a ban on silent prayer within 150 meters of abortion facilities in England and Wales, a move slammed by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children as dangerous. Read more here.
EIGHT U.S. STATES TO VOTE ON ALLOWING ABORTION UP TO BIRTH. Missouri and Arizona have added pro-abortion initiatives to their Nov. 5 ballot, bringing the number of states with similar measures to eight. Meanwhile, voters in Colorado, Florida, Maryland, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota will also grapple with similar ballot initiatives. Read more here.
INDIA’S PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT ENCOURAGES LARGE FAMILIES IN RESPONSE TO PRO-ABORTION MOVEMENT. In India, more than 45,000 babies are aborted on average every day, including children who initially survive abortion, sparking a growing pro-life revival against abortion. Read more here.
IDAHO GROUP FILES FOUR DECEPTIVE AND BROAD PROPOSALS TOWARD PRO-ABORTION BALLOT MEASURE. The pro-abortion group Idahoans United for Women and Families has filed four proposals with the offices of the state attorney general and secretary of state in an effort to receive approval for a ballot initiative to allow babies to be targeted for abortion in the state. Read more here.
AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL FUNDS ABORTION TRAVEL, ABORTING BABIES WITH TAX DOLLARS. The City Council of Austin, Texas voted to pay for abortion travel, forcing taxpayers to fund the abortion of preborn babies, allocating a “Reproductive Health-Logistical Support” fund that will send tax dollars to criminal pro-abortion groups that aid and abet illegal and out-of-state abortions. Read more here.
KOREAN YOUTUBER ARRESTED FOR ABORTING 36-WEEK BABY, CLAIMS UNAWARE OF PREGNANCY UNTIL VERY LATE. A 24-year-old woman in Seoul, South Korea, has been arrested after posting a video claiming she underwent an abortion at 36 weeks gestation, and the hospital allegedly responsible for performing the abortion is under investigation as well. Read more here.
MONTANA ENDS PARENTAL CONSENT REQUIREMENT FOR MINORS GETTING ABORTIONS. The Montana Supreme Court unanimously invalidated a state law requiring minors to obtain parental consent for abortion on the grounds that the law violated the “fundamental right” to privacy guaranteed in the state constitution. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE AMERICANS CONTINUE BOYCOTTING CVS AND WALGREENS FOR SELLING ABORTION PILLS. CVS and Walgreens launched abortions by prescription in March of 2024, resulting in decreased sales, declining profits and plunging stock market values, with disastrous results: Walgreens closing 2,500 stores and CVS closing 900 stores. Read more here.
THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS IN THE USA WAS DECLINING. HERE’S WHAT REVERSED THE TREND. The latest abortion statistics from the Society of Family Planning indicate that the number of abortions increased during the first three months of 2024, with January being the first month since the Dobbs decision in which a staggering 100,000 abortions were performed. Read more here.
HOSPITALS ARE SAVING MORE PREMATURE BABIES THAN EVER BEFORE. Doctors are now able to save babies born as early as between 21 and 22 weeks with the aid of “improved techniques to help tiny lungs develop and protect fragile skin and organs.” Hospitals that developed extensive protocols for resuscitating very premature babies have reported survival rates of 67 percent for those born at 22 weeks. Read more here.
CHURCH FIGHTS WASHINGTON STATE MANDATE FORCING IT TO FUND ABORTIONS. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys have appealed a court ruling that Cedar Park Church, of Kirkland, Washington, must violate its constitutionally protected, pro-life religious beliefs and abide by the state’s mandate that most Washington employers provide abortion coverage for employees. Read more here.
FETUS CAN BE CALLED ‘UNBORN HUMAN BEING’ IN ARIZONA ABORTION MEASURE VOTER PAMPHLET. An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion can refer to a fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday. Read more here.
JUDGE TO RULE WHETHER ALABAMA CAN PROSECUTE PEOPLE WHO AID OUT-OF-STATE ABORTIONS. A federal judge is expected to soon decide whether Alabama, a state that banned abortion in 2022, can prosecute healthcare providers and advocates in the state who help pregnant patients get an abortion elsewhere. Read more here.
NEW MEXICO SPENDS MIGHTILY TO RECRUIT OUT OF STATE ABORTIONISTS. New Mexico is attempting to become a haven for abortion, and Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is trying to persuade abortionists from Texas – where abortion is illegal – to come to her state. Read more here.
INITIATIVE TO ENSHRINE ABORTION RIGHTS IN MISSOURI CONSTITUTION QUALIFIES FOR NOVEMBER BALLOT. Missouri voters will decide in November whether to guarantee a right to abortion with a constitutional amendment that would reverse the state’s near-total ban. Read more here.
PREGNANT WOMAN ATTENDS CLINIC FOR CHECK-UP, BABY ACCIDENTALLY ABORTED INSTEAD. Doctors have carried out an abortion on the wrong child after mixing up mothers in a Prague hospital. The mother was four months pregnant when she went to Bulovka University Hospital for a check-up, but doctors mistook her for another woman due to have a surgical procedure known as a curettage, which can also cause an abortion. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN PROFESSOR WINS CASE AGAINST AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY THAT TRIED TO STOP HER PRO-LIFE RESEARCH. Pro-life advocate and law professor Dr. Joanna Howe has won the anti-bullying case she brought against her employers at the University of Adelaide after they attempted to halt her pro-life research efforts through six investigations. Read more here.
SOUTH DAKOTA FIGHTS TO STOP AMENDMENT FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. The South Dakota Circuit Court signed an order to expedite Life Defense Fund (LDF)’s case – Life Defense Fund and Leslee Unruh vs. Dakotans for Health – so that the case is determined before ballot measures are published in South Dakota newspapers. Read more here.
FORMER MP RECALLS HORROR OF BABY ‘GASPING FOR BREATH’ AFTER LATE-TERM ABORTION. In an article published by the Mail Online, former British MP Nadine Dorries recalled her participation as a nurse in the abortion of a baby boy at 27 weeks gestation and witnessed in horror as a baby boy was “blinking” and “gasping for breath.” Read more here.
ALABAMA JUDGE TO RULE ON OUT-OF-STATE ABORTIONS. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, of the Middle District of Alabama, will rule on a case about whether or not the state can prosecute healthcare providers and advocates who assist pregnant women in getting an abortion elsewhere. Read more here.
PLAY PAUSED AFTER GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF ABORTION CAUSES THEATREGOERS TO FEEL FAINT. A play in London was paused for 10 minutes during a performance of “The Years” as several audience members felt faint and called for assistance after witnessing a graphic depiction of an abortion. Read more here.
INDONESIA EXPANDS ABORTION IN ATTEMPT TO LOWER MATERNAL MORTALITY… BUT THEY MIGHT GET THE OPPOSITE. Indonesia will now allow abortions to be performed through the entire first trimester in cases of rape or medical emergency, after previously limiting these abortions to six weeks gestation. Read more here.
TEXAS ABORTIONS DROP FROM THOUSANDS A MONTH TO ZERO AFTER ABORTION BAN. A recent report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has found that from June 2022, to March 2024, reported elective abortions in Texas have consistently dropped from thousands per month to zero. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA BILL WOULD INCENTIVIZE ERS TO BECOME ABORTION CENTERS. California legislators have introduced three more bills aimed at promoting abortion, including the Reproductive Health Emergency Preparedness Program, which would create an incentivized training program for emergency room medical professionals to learn how to perform abortions. Read more here.
AFTER THE END OF ROE, A NEW BEGINNING FOR U.S. MATERNITY HOMES. There has been a nationwide expansion of maternity homes in the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to abortion. Read more here.
BILLIONAIRE PRO-ABORTION GOVERNOR MANDATES INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR ABORTION. All insurers in Illinois are required to cover induced abortions, now that Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Birth Equity Initiative, which mandates that state-based health insurance, both private and Medicaid, must cover abortion with no co-pays or deductibles. Read more here.
TELEHEALTH ABORTIONS ON THE RISE IN U.S. According to UC San Francisco, telehealth abortions mean that the medication abortion pills are delivered to a pregnant woman through the mail and she takes the drugs in her home. The abortion does not occur at a clinic and could lead to serious health complications. Read more here.
OLYMPICS CEREMONY GLORIFIED WOMEN WHO FOUGHT TO ABORT BABIES. Of the “10 golden heroines of French history” to whom tribute was paid during the Olympics opening ceremony, all of the heroines born in the 20th century played a pivotal role in making abortion legal in France. Read more here.
ARIZONA JUDGE STRIKES ‘UNBORN HUMAN BEING’ FROM ABORTION BALLOT LANGUAGE. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Whitten ruled that a ballot initiative to expand abortion in Arizona will not use the phrase “unborn human being” because the language is too partisan and emotional, and the case is now headed to the state Supreme Court. Read more here.
NORTHERN IRELAND ARRESTS WOMAN FOR PRAYING OUTSIDE ABORTION BIZ. Claire Brennan, age 52, was arrested for praying outside a hospital and is being prosecuted for an alleged breach of abortion buffer zone legislation in Northern Ireland. Read more here.
STATE’S HIGHEST COURT REVERSES JUDGE’S DISMISSAL OF LAWSUIT AGAINST ABORTION RIGHTS INITIATIVE. The South Dakota Supreme Court has reversed a judge’s ruling from last month that dismissed a lawsuit aiming to remove an abortion rights initiative from the November ballot. Read more here.
UK FREE SPEECH LAW HALTED AS HARASSMENT OF PRO-LIFE STUDENTS ESCALATES. New UK Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said she would “stop further commencement” of a university free speech law just days before its implementation as cancelation and harassment of pro-lifers at university escalates. Read more here.
GROUP OF 7,500 PRO-LIFE DOCTORS PLAN TO OFFER ONLINE CLASS ON ‘ABORTION PILL REVERSAL.’ As the abortion pill becomes the most common way to abort babies in America, one group of doctors is working to ensure women know that they can seek help to potentially save their babies’ lives even after they take the first drug in the two-drug abortion pill regimen. Read more here.
NEW DATA PROVE BIDEN WEAPONIZED JUSTICE SYSTEM TO TARGET PRO-LIFE AMERICANS. Despite hundreds of pro-abortion attacks on churches, pro-life groups and pregnancy centers since the 2023 Dobbs decision, 97 percent of prosecutions from the Biden-Harris administration have been targeted at pro-life Americans. Read more here.
NORTH DAKOTA TRIAL CHALLENGING STATE’S PRO-LIFE LAW ABRUPTLY CANCELED. State District Judge Bruce Romanick has issued a notice that an upcoming trial over a lawsuit challenging a North Dakota law protecting most preborn children from abortion has been canceled and removed from the calendar, and he said he would issue “full findings on summary judgment and/or a new notice of trial as soon as possible.” Read more here.
UTAH SUPREME COURT ALLOWS TEMPORARY BLOCK ON ABORTION BAN TO REMAIN IN PLACE, FOR NOW. Abortion will remain legal in Utah, for now, after the Utah Supreme Court allowed a preliminary injunction that has been blocking the legislature’s near-total abortion ban to remain in place. Read more here.
7 UK MPS PUNISHED FOR VOTING TO REMOVE CHILD BENEFIT LIMIT THAT’S COERCING WOMEN TO ABORT. The MPs in question were temporarily banned from the Scottish National Party for opposing a cap that limits Universal Credit and child tax credits to two children per family, which opponents argue pushes women into abortions and more children into poverty. Read more here.
PRO-LIFERS WARN OF ‘INJURY, INFERTILITY, DEATH’ IF DELAWARE MAKES COLLEGES DISTRIBUTE ABORTION DRUGS. Delaware may soon join a handful of states that require colleges to provide abortions, even as pro-life advocates voice concerns about women’s and children’s safety. Read more here.
SHOCKING REPORT SHOWS 137 BABIES 28 WEEKS OR OLDER ABORTED IN COLORADO LAST YEAR. Late-term abortions are more common in America than most people think, and a shocking new report shows 137 viable babies 28 weeks or older were aborted in Colorado last year. Read more here.
ABORTION ACTIVISTS WHO VANDALIZED AND THREATENED PREGNANCY CENTERS FACE 10 YEARS IN PRISON. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced a legal victory against several pro-abortion activists who are a part of “Jane’s Revenge” and vandalized pro-life pregnancy centers in Florida. Read more here.
PREGNANCY CENTER SUES CALIFORNIA AG FOR ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL’ WAR ON LIFE-SAVING ABORTION PILL REVERSAL. A pro-life pregnancy clinic sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta for carrying out a “politically motivated campaign” against pro-life organizations that offer abortion pill reversal treatments to women who change their minds about ending their unborn babies’ lives. Read more here.
THE ABORTION PILL HAS KILLED ONE WOMAN IN CANADA AND SERIOUSLY INJURED OVER 100 WOMEN. Canadian abortion activists have hailed the abortion pill as the “gold standard” method for ending the life of a preborn child, highlighting its allegedly “outstanding safety record,” but according to the Canadian government’s website that tracks adverse reactions to drugs, more than 100 Canadian women have been severely harmed by the abortion pill protocol since it first became available in Canada in 2017. Read more here.
SWISS COURT DECIDES FATHERS HAVE NO SAY IN ABORTION. Abortions are legal in Switzerland if they take place in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. A man notified the authorities that his ex-girlfriend had undergone a late-term abortion then pursued the case via the Swiss court system arguing that as the father of the aborted fetus, he was a victim under the law. Read more here.
JUDGE LETS PRO-ABORTION GROUP REPLACE ‘UNBORN HUMAN BEING’ WITH ‘FETUS’ ON ABORTION AMENDMENT GUIDE. Arizona for Abortion Access filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court in an effort to change the language on voter pamphlets about the ballot, arguing that the current term “unborn human being” is “politically charged.” Read more here.
JUDGE STRIKES DOWN A NORTH CAROLINA ABORTION RESTRICTION BUT UPHOLDS ANOTHER. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles ruled that a provision in North Carolina’s abortion laws requiring doctors to document the location of a pregnancy before prescribing abortion pills should be blocked permanently, and she restored enforcement of a provision that required abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy to be performed in hospitals. Read more here.
FRANCE CELEBRATES ABORTION IN ‘GROSS’ OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY IN PARIS. Ten golden statues were raised along the River Seine at the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics to celebrate French women, including the late Simone Veil, a French politician famous for legalizing abortion, and feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, also noted for her pro-abortion activism. Read more here.
FLORIDA PREGNANCY CENTER VANDALS FACE FINES AND POSSIBLE PRISON TIME AFTER AG’S CIVIL ACTION. The office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody released a statement revealing the details of a settlement that was reached this month with pro-abortion activists who vandalized and threatened pregnancy resource centers in the state. Read more here.
ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT ORDERS SECRETARY OF STATE TO COUNT ABORTION AMENDMENT. The Arkansas Supreme Court ordered the Secretary of State to perform an initial count of petition signatures that volunteers collected for the Arkansas Abortion Amendment of 2024. Read more here.
NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS 12-WEEK ABORTION BAN AND LIMITS TO TRANSGENDER MEDICINE. The state Supreme Court said that abortion and transgender medicine are “distinct types of medical care,” but the law combining regulations on both does not violate the single-subject rule because they both fall under the topic of healthcare. Read more here.
U.S. ARMY HAS LABELED PRO-LIFE AMERICANS “TERRORISTS” FOR OVER 7 YEARS. The Army recently came under fire for a training program that labeled pro-life Americans and pro-life groups as terrorists. But that was not the first time the training program had been used. It has been used for 7 years before national outcry finally exposed it and forced Army officials to cancel the training program. Read more here.
IOWA’S HEARTBEAT ABORTION BAN WILL FINALLY TAKE EFFECT MONDAY, JUDGE RULES. Iowa has had a heartbeat law on the books since 2018, but it took a special legislative session and a new ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court to overcome resistance from judicial activists. Read more here. Read more here.
UK PRO-ABORTION LOBBY CALLS ON HOME SECRETARY TO IMPOSE BUFFER ZONES AND BAN SILENT PRAYER. The pro-abortion lobby, including the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, has urged Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to enforce buffer zones that outlaw pro-life activity, including silent prayer, within 150 meters of abortion facilities. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE OB-GYN, RESEARCHER REACT TO CLAIM MATERNAL DEATHS HIGHER IN STATES RESTRICTING ABORTION. A study claiming maternal deaths are higher in states where abortion is nearly banned or those that have gestational limits on terminating preborn babies is misleading, according to a report released by the Commonwealth Fund, a private health research foundation that evaluated states based on 32 measures, including health outcomes and access to abortion. Read more here.
YOUNG MOTHER SHARES POWERFUL STORY OF KEEPING BABY AFTER RAPE, DEFYING PLANNED PARENTHOOD. A Students for Life video explains how a young woman named Angela was raped, phoned Planned Parenthood to discuss abortion and then changed her mind after receiving support from a pro-life pregnancy center. Read more here.
ANOTHER STATE IN MEXICO HAS DECRIMINALIZED ABORTION. By a 29-7 vote in its state Congress, Puebla has become the 14th of 31 states to decriminalize abortion in Mexico, meaning abortions can now be performed there within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Read more here.
BILLS ON ABORTION COMPLICATIONS REPORTING AND SUPPORT FOR INFANTS AND PARENTS TO BE INTRODUCED TO UK HOUSE OF LORDS. Lord Moylan’s Complications from Abortions Bill was selected as the tenth to receive a First Reading on September 3. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE SIDEWALK COUNSELORS APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT FOR STRONGER FREE SPEECH PROTECTIONS. The counselors who work to deter women from getting abortions and then connect them with life-affirming pregnancy care — are appealing to the United States Supreme Court for stronger free speech protections outside of abortion clinics. Read more here.
BILLS COULD BE HIJACKED TO LEGALIZE ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH IN UK. In his Oral statement to Parliament, King Charles III outlined the new British government’s intention to introduce legislation to reduce violent crime against women and girls, and there is a risk that, if abortion amendments are allowed to be added to this bill, some MPs will attempt to include extreme abortion amendments. Read more here.
97% OF WOMEN WHO VISIT PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS HAVE A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE. Recent research by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, gathered in collaboration with Heartbeat International, the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, Care-Net, and Focus on the Family, found this astounding statistic by reviewing self-reported exit surveys from pregnancy centers. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION GROUP MAKES LAST-MINUTE ATTEMPT TO STOP IOWA’S ‘HEARTBEAT LAW.’ The Iowa Supreme Court supported the Iowa law in June, but the ACLU asked it to rehear a case against a law that will protect preborn children from abortion once their heartbeat is detectable, usually at about six weeks. Read more here.
COLORADO OFFICIALS FACE POTENTIAL LEGAL ACTION AFTER FORCING PRO-LIFER TO LEAVE SENATE GALLERY. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent a complaint letter to officials over the forced removal of Jeffrey Hunt from the Colorado Senate gallery because he wore a shirt that read “Pro-Life U,” a nickname of the private academic institution Colorado Christian College. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE SOUTH DAKOTA GROUP APPEALS RULING THAT DISMISSED ITS LAWSUIT OVER BALLOT INITIATIVE. The South Dakota pro-life group Life Defense Fund is appealing to the state’s Supreme Court after a judge dismissed its lawsuit to take an abortion rights initiative off the November ballot, asking for an expedited order from the court “because there are absolutely no legal grounds for this dismissal.” Read more here.
ALASKA ABORTIONS DECLINE AS MORE BABIES ARE SAVED. A report from the Department of Health on abortions in Alaska shows that while the use of abortion drugs increased by 14 percent, total abortions decreased 2 percent from 2022. Read more here.
FACT CHECK: THE SUPREME COURT NEVER ‘APPROVED’ ABORTION PILL OR RULED ON ‘ACCESS’ TO IT. The U.S. Supreme Court did not approve the abortion pill, it merely made the “decision” that the plaintiff doctors who brought the lawsuit did not have standing to sue. Read more here.
KOREA’S ABORTION LAW IN LIMBO FOR OVER 5 YEARS. The legal question of whether an abortion can be performed on a nine-month-old fetus is currently under intense scrutiny in Korea, as the country examines and potentially reforms its abortion legislation. Read more here.
OHIO 24-HOUR ABORTION WAITING PERIOD UNDER LEGAL ATTACK AS FEARED BY AMENDMENT OPPONENTS. The fears of pro-life advocates in Ohio are being realized as abortion rights supporters challenge the state’s 24-hour waiting period rule as at odds with the abortion rights amendment enshrined into the state constitution last fall. Read more here.
NYC COMPTROLLER PRESSURES PHARMACIES TO DISPENSE ABORTION PILL, THREATENING DIVESTMENT. New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is pressuring several major pharmaceutical retailers to dispense the abortion pill mifepristone or run the risk of divestment from the New York City pension fund. Read more here.
NYC PLANS TO STOP TREATING BODIES OF 2ND AND 3RD TRIMESTER ABORTED BABIES AS ‘HUMAN REMAINS.’ The New York City Department of Health is solidifying its erroneous stance that preborn babies are not human beings, as it plans to toss a requirement on how their bodies should be handled. Read more here.
POLAND REJECTS BILL TO LEGALIZE ABORTION. In a huge pro-life victory, the Polish parliament has rejected a measure to legalize the abortion of babies, keeping Poland as one of the few nations in Europe that protects the lives of unborn children. Read more here.
88 CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS PROBE ARMY FOR LABELING PRO-LIFE ORGANIZATIONS AS ‘TERRORIST GROUPS.’ The legislators are demanding answers from the U.S. Army after one of its bases got caught referring to pro-life organizations as “terrorist groups.” “The American public expects the Department of Defense and its personnel to defend the homeland from actual terrorists, not Americans who seek protections for children in the womb,” a letter sent to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth reads. Read more here.
FLORIDA TO LAUNCH NEW PREGNANCY AND PARENTING RESOURCES WEBSITE. The site will include educational materials on pregnancy and parenting, mentorship programs for fathers, adoption services and financial assistance, along with other information. Read more here.
POLISH PRESIDENT VOWS TO VETO BILL SOFTENING ABORTION LAW. Poland’s conservative president, Andrzej Duda, has vowed to veto a bill softening the country’s strict abortion laws that have been proposed by the more liberal governing coalition. Read more here.
SENATE DEMS’ PRO-ABORTION MEASURE FAILS AMID ATTEMPTS TO PAINT THE GOP AS ‘EXTREMIST.’ A test vote in the U.S. Senate on a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law by expressing the “sense of Congress” that Roe “should be restored, moving towards a future where there is reproductive freedom for all,” failed to gain the 60 votes needed to continue. Read more here.
U.S. ARMY PRESENTATION LISTS PRO-LIFE ORGANIZATIONS AS TERRORIST GROUPS BUT WALK IT BACK AFTER MASSIVE CRITICISM. The U.S. Army is coming under fire for a presentation that labeled major pro-life organizations as “terrorist organizations,” citing the activities of being pro-life, opposing Roe v. Wade, demonstrating and protesting as terrorist activities. Read more here.
GERMAN LAWMAKERS APPROVE ABORTION FACILITY ‘BUFFER ZONE’ TO KEEP PRO-LIFERS AWAY. The “Pregnancy Conflict Act” will establish a radius of 100 meters around the nation’s abortion facilities, and anyone caught praying or counseling on behalf of preborn children within that area will be subject to a fine of 5,000 euros. Read more here.
ARKANSAS SECRETARY OF STATE REJECTS ABORTION BALLOT MEASURE. ArkansasSecretary of State John Thurston rejected a ballot measure for November that could have legalized abortion through 18 weeks. Read more here.
ITALIAN GOVERNMENT PROPOSES MONTHLY FINANCIAL AID FOR MOTHERS WHO TURN DOWN ABORTION. The proposal would award monthly payments for five years to women who would have terminated their pregnancies due to financial hardship. Read more here.
RADICAL PRO-ABORTION MP APPOINTED HOME OFFICE MINISTER IN BRITAIN. Pro-abortion extremist MP Diana Johnson, who attempted to introduce abortion up to birth and legalize sex-selective abortion, has been appointed as a Minister of State in the Home Office. Read more here.
PROPOSED ARKANSAS ABORTION BALLOT MEASURE IS ‘EXTREME,’ ‘UNSAFE,’ CRITICS WARN. Pro-life advocates are calling a proposed Arkansas abortion measure “extreme,” saying it would nullify parental consent laws and other safeguards if passed, giving abortionists “free rein” into the second trimester of pregnancy. Read more here.
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL BILL WOULD PERMANENTLY BAN FEDERAL FUNDING OF ABORTION. Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) has introduced a bill that would protect American taxpayers from funding abortion — and potentially save most unborn children’s lives. Read more here.
KEY PRO-LIFE MPS LOSE RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGNS IN UK ELECTIONS. Many good pro-life MPs have lost their seats, but a number of pro-life MPs will be returning to Parliament, including Carla Lockhart, the most recent leader of the All Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, and Danny Kruger, who until the election headed up the APPG on Dying Well. Read more here.
KANSAS TOP COURT STRIKES DOWN PRO-LIFE PROTECTIONS AGAINST DISMEMBERMENT ABORTIONS. The court overturned a 2015 ban on dilation and evacuation, also known as dismemberment abortions, and it struck down a 2011 law that detailed safety regulations and licensing requirements for facilities that provided second- or third-trimester abortions. Read more here.
DELAWARE SENATE PASSES BILL MANDATING INSURANCE AND MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR ABORTION. House Bill 10 covers a maximum benefit annually, which lawmakers say will cover the cost of a chemical abortion, more commonly known as the abortion pill. Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS IS GROUND ZERO FOR POLITICAL ATTACKS AGAINST PREGNANCY CENTERS. Massachusetts has become the first state in the nation to launch a taxpayer-funded smear campaign against pregnancy care centers and the expectant mothers they serve. Read more here.
NEBRASKA PRO-LIFE MEASURE GETS OVER 200,000 SIGNATURES FOR NOVEMBER BALLOT. Supporters of the “Protect Women & Children” ballot initiative submitted more than 205,000 signatures to the Nebraska Secretary of State, including at least 5 percent of registered voters in over 90 counties. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUPS BACK NEW U.S. CONGRESSIONAL BILL TO ‘OUTLAW ABORTION AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL.’ New congressional legislation introduced by Virginia Republican Bob Good would outlaw abortion at the federal level by making it a federal crime for a licensed medical professional who accepts federal funds to perform or prescribe an abortion at any point after fertilization. Read more here.
ARKANSAS AWARDS FUNDS TO PREGNANCY CENTERS THAT HELP MOMS AND SAVE BABIES FROM ABORTION. The state-funded grants will go to crisis pregnancy centers, maternity homes, adoption agencies and social services agencies that support women with unplanned pregnancies, providing women and families with pro-life alternatives to abortion. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION UK POLITICIAN ADMITS HE’S ‘UNCOMFORTABLE’ WITH DOWN SYNDROME ABORTIONS TO BIRTH. Elliot Colburn, a member of the British Parliament, said it does not “sit right with him” that parents are expected to abort their preborn children after a Down syndrome diagnosis, expressing his horror when he had parents tell him they were “thrust a leaflet on abortion without any discussion or offer of support when their baby had been found to have Down syndrome.” Read more here.
VOTE NO ON 4 LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO STOP FLORIDA AMENDMENT FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Pro-lifers have formally launched a multilingual campaign to defeat Amendment 4 on the upcoming November ballot with the unveiling of new websites in both English and Spanish and the rollout of its first campaign video entitled “Not What it Seems,” which exposes the deceptive nature and extreme ramifications of Amendment 4. Read more here.
GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN VETOES BILL TO REPLACE ‘MOTHERS’ WITH ‘BIRTHING PEOPLE.’ The ideological left’s attempt to erase women through legal terminology met resistance from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who vetoed a bill that would have outlawed the term “mother.” Read more here.
IRELAND SEES HUGE 250% INCREASE IN ABORTIONS. 1 IN 6 BABIES ARE NOW ABORTED. Ireland’s Department of Health released the total number of notifications received last year for abortions carried out in that nation, which numbered 10,033 – the highest number on record since the law changed in 2019. Read more here.
MICHIGAN JUDGE BLOCKS ABORTION-RELATED INFORMED CONSENT AND DOCTOR REQUIREMENTS. Judge Sima Patel, of the Court of Claims, placed a preliminary injunction on the state’s 24-hour waiting period for abortion, a requirement that only physicians can perform abortions, and she also blocked a portion of a law that requires abortion businesses to give their clients information about adoption and depictions of the fetus. Read more here.
ABORTION ACTIVISTS WHO VANDALIZED MIAMI PREGNANCY CENTER WILL BE FORCED TO PAY SETTLEMENT. The First Liberty law firm has reached a favorable settlement for its clients at Heartbeat of Miami, a faith-based ministry that provides life-affirming services and support to women and couples facing unplanned pregnancies in Hialeah, Florida. Read more here.
IOWA’S SUPREME COURT TELLS LOWER COURT TO LET STRICT ABORTION LAW GO INTO EFFECT. The Iowa Supreme Court said Friday the state’s strict abortion law is legal, telling a lower court to dissolve a temporary block on the law and allowing Iowa to ban most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT ALLOWS FOR EMERGENCY ABORTIONS IN IDAHO. The U.S. Supreme Court said it would allow emergency rooms in Idaho to carry out abortion procedures despite the state’s ban and marks a blow to the six states that enacted near-total abortion bans with narrow exceptions for life-threatening circumstances for the mother. Read more here.
‘LIFE ACT’ WOULD OUTLAW FEDERAL DOLLARS GOING TO ABORTIONS. Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) introduced the legislation that outlaws abortions of unborn babies “to the fullest extent at the federal level” by prohibiting federal dollars from being used for abortions. Read more here.
NORTHERN IRELAND’S DUP MANIFESTO 2024 – ‘UNASHAMEDLY PRO-LIFE,’ OPPOSES ABORTION AND ASSISTED SUICIDE. In its manifesto released ahead of the General Election next month, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has said it is “unashamedly pro-life and continues to oppose the radical abortion laws foisted on communities in Northern Ireland.” Read more here.
FLORIDA’S PRO-ABORTION AMENDMENT WOULD MEAN ‘NO LIMITS, NO DOCTORS, NO PARENTS, NO LAWS.’ On the ballot this November, Florida Amendment 4, entitled “Amendment to Limit Government Interference in Abortion” would, through its loopholes, essentially allow unrestricted abortion in Florida through all nine months, eliminating parental consent and all existing abortion laws and regulations, including the requirement that only a physician can perform an abortion. Read more here.
PRO-LIFERS SEEK TO BLOCK PRO-LGBT, PRO-ABORTION PROPOSALS TO ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES. As the Western Hemisphere’s lead policymaking body gathers for its 54th General Assembly, a coalition led by Human Life International seeks to block resolutions that put minor children and the preborn at risk. Read more here.
SOUTH DAKOTA PRO-LIFE GROUP SUES TO STRIP ABORTION AMENDMENT OFF BALLOT. A pro-life group in South Dakota filed a lawsuit to block an amendment enshrining abortion in the state constitution from appearing on the November ballot, alleging the initiative contained fraudulent signatures. Read more here.
COURT RULES VERMONT PREGNANCY CENTERS CAN CHALLENGE NEW LAW TRYING TO SHUT THEM DOWN. In the case, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Clark, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys are representing NIFLA, Aspire Now, and Branches Pregnancy Resource Center alleging Vermont officials unconstitutionally restricted the speech of the organizations. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION LAWMAKERS MOVE TO REPEAL COMSTOCK ACT, PROTECT MAIL-ORDER ABORTION PILLS. Out of fear of a potential future Donald Trump presidency, pro-abortion Democrats announced they will introduce a bill to protect mail-order abortion pills by repealing the federal Comstock Act, an anti-obscenity law that has been in place for 150 years and prevents abortion items and drugs from being shipped through the U.S. Postal Service. Read more here.
CONSERVATIVE MARCHES AROUND POLAND OPPOSE GOVERNMENT’S ABORTION AND LGBT+ POLICIES. Marches have been held in 16 Polish cities, including the capital Warsaw, to express opposition to the government’s plans to liberalize the abortion law, introduce same-sex civil partnerships and expand hate-speech rules. Read more here.
OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE IS SAVING APPROXIMATELY 200,000 BABIES FROM ABORTIONS EACH YEAR. Pro-Life Americans across the U.S. are celebrating the Dobbs anniversary, as pro-life laws in multiple states are protecting as many as 200,000 babies from abortions annually. Read more here.
POLISH HOSPITAL FINED FOR REFUSING TO PERFORM AN ABORTION. A hospital in Poland has been fined for refusing to perform an abortion, and two other medical facilities are also under investigation. Read more here.
THOUSANDS TAKE PART IN ITALY’S PRO-LIFE MARCH. Life advocates from across Italy braved summer heat to join the national Demonstration for Life in Rome, themed “Let’s Choose Life.” Read more here.
GOP SENATORS CALL FOR RENEWAL OF PRO-LIFE BUDGET AMENDMENTS. Protections for the unborn belong at the forefront of the federal budget, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., wrote in a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Read more here.
NEW YORK COURT PUTS PRO-ABORTION AMENDMENT BACK ON NOVEMBER BALLOT. A New York court unanimously ruled in favor of putting a proposed amendment to enshrine a right to abortion in the state constitution back on the November 5 ballot, but Republicans plan to take the fight to appeal. Read more here.
NORTHERN IRELAND ABORTIONS INCREASE BY ALMOST 25% IN 12 MONTHS, RECORD 2,168 LIVES LOST. The statistics also show a 26.32% increase in late-term abortions at 20 weeks and over, with 24 babies being aborted at 20 weeks and over, up from 19 for the year ending 31 March 2022. Read more here.
THE MOST POPULAR ABORTION FACILITY IN WEST MICHIGAN HAS CLOSED AND IS NOW UP FOR SALE. The former Heritage Women’s Center in downtown Grand Rapids, where Dr. Thomas Gordon performed an estimated 2,000 abortions annually at the location from 1987 to 2023, is up for sale. Read more here.
FEDERAL COURT RULES BIDEN CAN’T FORCE CHRISTIAN GROUPS TO FUND ABORTIONS. A federal judge has sided with Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issuing a preliminary injunction against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s attempt to hijack the protections of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Read more here.
ON SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF OVERTURNING OF ROE, PRO-LIFERS COME TO DC TO ‘CELEBRATE LIFE.’ With the second anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision by the U.S. Supreme Court approaching, thousands are expected to travel to the nation’s capital to partake in the second annual Celebrate Life Conference. Read more here.
SPAIN LEGALIZES ABORTION FOR TEENS WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. More than a year after it was originally passed and after a lengthy appeals process, Spain’s Constitutional Court has endorsed the reform of the abortion law which will allow 16- and 17-year-old girls to terminate pregnancies without parental consent. Read more here.
MORE THAN 171,000 WOMEN WENT OUT OF STATE FOR ABORTIONS IN 2023. The Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study project — which estimates the number of abortions between January 2023 and March 2024 in states without total abortion restrictions — found that out-of-state travel for abortion has more than doubled since 2019, when 73,100 women crossed state lines for abortions. Read more here.
FIRST HOSPITAL FINED FOR REFUSING TO PROVIDE ABORTION UNDER NEW POLISH GOVERNMENT RULES. A hospital has been fined 550,000 zloty (€126,300) for refusing to provide a legal abortion in the first such case since the government recently introduced a requirement for publicly funded medical centers to offer such procedures. Read more here.
ARIZONA’S 1864 ABORTION BAN NO LONGER EXPECTED TO TAKE EFFECT. Arizona‘s Civil War-era abortion ban is no longer expected to take effect in the state after looming questions about when the ban would be enacted, though the state Supreme Court previously ruled that an 1864 near-total abortion ban was enforceable, creating chaos among lawmakers and residents. Read more here.
200 MP CANDIDATES SIGN PRO-LIFE PLEDGE IN BIGGEST RESPONSE TO RIGHT TO LIFE UK ELECTION CAMPAIGN EVER. Candidates who signed the Both Lives Pledge have committed to stopping discrimination against baby girls by supporting a law change to clarify that sex-selective abortion is illegal, bringing UK law closer to the laws in the majority of EU countries by voting to lower the gestational time limit for abortion and supporting women in the workplace by backing policies designed to stop pregnancy and maternity discrimination. Read more here.
ABORTIONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA DROP NEARLY 80% THANKS TO NEW HEARTBEAT LAW. In a recent eight-month time period, there were about 198 abortions per month, marking a decline of 79 percent compared to a previous time span. Read more here.
ITALIAN PRO-LIFE OFFICES VANDALIZED FOR THE THIRD TIME IN A YEAR. The Italian pro-life organization Pro Life and Family has been attacked for the third time in less than a year and the 13th time in less than three years. Read more here.
WASHINGTON GOVERNOR TO FORCE HOSPITALS TO PERFORM ‘EMERGENCY’ ABORTIONS FOR ‘HEALTH.’ Washington Governor Jay Inslee has announced that state law will require hospitals to perform abortions in emergency situations, in advance of an upcoming Supreme Court decision on an Idaho case that will determine if emergency room doctors can intentionally end the lives of preborn children by abortion for allegedly “medically necessary” reasons. Read more here.
U.S. HOUSE APPROVES AMENDMENT TO STOP BIDEN FROM FUNDING ABORTIONS IN THE MILITARY. The House of Representatives approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act barring the Biden Administration from funding or reimbursing service members for costs associated with abortions. Read more here.
ILLINOIS ABORTION BIZ INJURES YET ANOTHER WOMAN IN BOTCHED ABORTION. The Hope Clinic in Illinois, which sends more women to the emergency room than any other clinic in the state, recently sent a 31-year-old woman to the hospital with “heavier than normal bleeding” after an abortion procedure and tried to downplay the seriousness of the patient’s condition. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT HANDS DOWN DECISION ON ABORTION PILL ACCESS. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge from doctors on the use of the abortion pill, Mifepristone, unanimously declaring that the doctors who went after the Food and Drug Administration for making the pill easier to access did not have standing, and thus, the case was dismissed. Read more here.
WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND POISONED HER WITH ABORTION PILL SPEAKS OUT. As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Biden administration’s loosening of abortion pill regulations, Catherine Herring publicly explained how her husband was imprisoned for slipping abortion drugs into her drinks, causing her to get violently ill. Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS LAUNCHES MASSIVE ASSAULT ON PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS. Massachusetts has launched what it calls a “public education campaign” against pro-life organizations, a campaign that targets pregnancy resource centers and is funded by a grant from the state legislature. Read more here.
DUO JAILED FOR FRAUD IN PRO-ABORTION FLORIDA BALLOT MEASURE INITIATIVE. Jamie Johnson and George Andrews III have been incarcerated for their roles in forging signatures during a petition drive related to a pro-abortion ballot measure, each on 20 felony charges. Read more here.
TEACHER CALLS IN SICK, TAKES STUDENT FOR SECRET ABORTION WITHOUT PARENTS KNOWING. A public school teacher in New Hampshire was fired for taking a fake sick day to bring a student to an abortion clinic without her parents knowing, according to an investigative report from the New Hampshire Department of Education. Read more here.
‘DARK DAY’ AS BUFFER ZONES IMPOSED ON SCOTS AFTER ‘DISGRACEFUL’ HOLYROOD VOTE. MSP Gillian Mackay’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill has been approved at stage three, meaning that buffer zones will be imposed on Scots around all abortion facilities, prompting the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children to slam the vote as “disgraceful” and a “dark day” for Scotland. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP BLASTS NEW MANITOBA LAW BANNING PRO-LIFE ACTIVISM NEAR ABORTION MILLS. Canada’s top pro-life group, the Campaign Life Coalition, has blasted the recently elected New Democratic Party premier of Manitoba for passing a law prohibiting pro-life activism outside of abortion mills, saying the measure makes it easier to take human lives. Read more here.
ARKANSAS AG GETS NY COMPANY TO STOP ADVERTISING ABORTION PILLS THERE. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has forced a New York abortion facility to stop advertising abortion pills in Arkansas, which is prohibited in the state, except to save the life of the mother. Read more here.
COLORADO EXPANDS ASSISTED SUICIDE LAW, ALLOWING NURSES TO END PEOPLE’S LIVES. Signed by Colorado Governor Gary Polis, Senate Bill 24-068 will allow advanced practice registered nurses to approve and prescribe lethal poison and reduce the waiting period from 15 days to 7 days. Read more here.
MICHIGAN SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER: TEACHERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO REFER STUDENTS FOR SECRET ABORTIONS. While debating the role schools play in their students’ abortions, Caledonia, Michigan school board member Jason Saidoo said teachers should be able to refer students for abortions. Read more here.
PARAGUAY NOT WELCOMING UN SUGGESTION TO LEGALIZE ABORTION. Paraguay’s Minister of Childhood and Adolescence, Walter Gutiérrez, said that a suggestion from the United Nations to legalize abortion in the South American country collided with the Constitution and other national laws. The National Constitution recognizes life from conception. Read more here.
INDIAN WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER HUSBAND AND HIS PARENTS COERCE HER TO ABORT SECOND DAUGHTER. Sandu Kavya Sri, the mother of a young child, took her own life after her husband and his parents pressured her to abort the child because it was a female. Read more here.
CHILE’S BISHOPS PUSH BACK AGAINST PRESIDENT’S ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA ADVOCACY. The Chilean Bishops’ Conference issued a statement in response to President Gabriel Boric’s announcement that he will push for the legalization of abortion and euthanasia, calling it an attack on the sacred and “inviolable value of human life” and called for “promoting and defending life for a shared future as a country.” Read more here.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS TO CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO ABORTION. The executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, Stephen Bowen, has asserted that conscientious objection to abortion should not be allowed. Read more here.
ARKANSAS REPORTS ZERO ABORTIONS IN 2023, DOWN FROM 3,000+ THREE YEARS AGO. Abortion has been almost completely banned in the state since its trigger law went into effect after the reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. The only exceptions are when “necessary to preserve the life of a pregnant woman whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury.” Read more here.
IN TITLE IX LAWSUIT, TEXAS PROFESSORS SAY THEY WON’T ACCOMMODATE STUDENTS WHO GET ABORTIONS. Two university professors in Texas are suing the federal government over its recently revised Title IX rules, stating that they would refuse to abide by the government’s order to offer excused absences and other accommodations to female students who obtain abortions. Read more here.
U.S. REPUBLICANS BLOCK “RIGHT TO CONTRACEPTION” BILL THAT PROMOTES ABORTION, TRANS SURGERIES ON KIDS. Democrats claimed the measure was for a right to contraception – which already exists under the Griswald ruling the Supreme Court handed down before Roe. Instead, the measure was filled with funding for Planned Parenthood, America’s biggest abortion company. Read more here.
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES DEFENDS FIRING STEWARDESS FOR HER PRO-LIFE BELIEFS. Southwest Airlines is challenging a judge’s decision that it must award a huge sum to flight attendant Charlene Carter, who said she was fired from her job due to her criticism of the union’s decision to participate in the 2017 Women’s March, due to its association with Planned Parenthood. Read more here.
WASHINGTON AG FORCED TO DROP INVESTIGATION INTO PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS. After launching an investigation into pregnancy resource centers described as illegal and unconstitutional, the state of Washington has dropped the investigation after it caused the centers’ demonstrable harm. Read more here.
TENNESSEE BANS ‘ABORTION TRAFFICKING’ OF UNDERAGE GIRLS. The new Class C felony “abortion trafficking of a minor” law applies to an adult who “recruits, harbors, or transports” a pregnant girl 17 or younger within the state for the purpose of procuring an abortion. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PUTS ELDERLY WOMAN IN PRISON FOR 25 MONTHS FOR PROTESTING ABORTION. Paulette Harlow, 73, is one of a dozen pro-life Americans the Biden administration has targeted with prosecution for protesting abortions while it ignores hundreds of pro-abortion crimes committed across America. Read more here.
UK: REPEAT ABORTIONS ACCOUNTED FOR OVER 40% OF ALL ABORTIONS IN 2022. According to the 2022 annual abortion statistics for England and Wales, repeat abortions in 2022, in which the woman undergoing the abortion had had one or more previous abortions, increased by 11,376 or 12.46 percent compared with the previous year. Read more here.
FACT SHEET: REASONS FOR ABORTION. The Charlotte Lozier Institute compiled publicly available data from the eight states that collected and reported 2021 data on women’s reasons for choosing abortion and concluded that common exceptions – including rape, incest and risk to the woman’s life – are estimated to account for less than 5 percent of all abortions. Read more here.
DELAWARE HOUSE VOTES FOR MEDICAID AND PRIVATE INSURANCE TO PAY FOR ABORTION TO ALLEVIATE ‘STIGMA.’ The Delaware House of Representatives passed a resolution that would require all health plans for Medicaid, private health insurance plans and state employee insurance plans to cover abortion-related services to help alleviate “constraints and stigma” associated with abortion. Read more here.
ABORTION PILLS ARE RELEASING DANGEROUS CHEMICALS, REMAINS OF ABORTED BABIES IN OUR WATER. U.S. lawmakers asked the Environmental Protection Agency to specify how it “plan[s] to ensure the safety of our waterways and drinking water,” and “[t]o what extent” the agency has “studied the impact of mifepristone on water systems” in the country. Read more here.
NEW POLL CLAIMS HALF OF AMERICANS SUPPORT IN-PERSON DOCTOR VISIT BEFORE ABORTION PILL. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found that 50 percent of Americans support a required in-person doctor visit before a woman can get an abortion pill prescription, while only 33 percent oppose. Read more here.
NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL SUED FOR ‘TARGETING’ PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS. The nonprofit law firm Alliance Defending Freedom and others are suing New York Attorney General Letitia James for allegedly using her power to censor pro-life pregnancy centers because they promote abortion pill reversal. Read more here.
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR SIGNS LAW CLASSIFYING ABORTION PILLS AS CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law a new measure to classify abortion pills as controlled substances, making possession without a prescription a criminal offense. Read more here.
TEXAS TOP COURT WON’T GUARANTEE RIGHT TO ABORTION IN COMPLICATED PREGNANCIES. Texas’ highest court has refused to ensure that doctors in the state are not prosecuted for abortions they believe are necessary in medically complicated pregnancies, rejecting a lawsuit by 22 patients and physicians. Read more here.
PROPOSED WHO PANDEMIC AGREEMENT COULD THREATEN PRO-LIFE LEGAL PROTECTIONS. Although the latest draft of the pandemic agreement does not specifically mention abortion, opponents argue that its ambiguous language essentially provides a back door for pro-abortion actors to meddle with individual nations’ abortion-related policies through its focus on “equity” – a term that is used repeatedly throughout the document without ever being specifically defined. Read more here.
HUGE KANSAS ABORTION BIZ STOPS ABORTING BABIES AFTER 10 OF 16 ABORTIONISTS RESIGN. The infamous late-term abortion mill, Trust Women in Wichita, Kansas has halted abortions after a series of scandals and the resignations of more than half of its abortionists. Read more here.
MELINDA GATES SPENDING SPREE TO PUSH ABORTION WORLDWIDE. Melinda French Gates is dedicating major grants over the next two years to bolster what she calls women’s rights, and among the recipients will be groups and initiatives promoting abortion. Read more here.
CANADIAN PRO-LIFER LINDA GIBBONS TO BE RELEASED FROM JAIL FOLLOWING LAST WEEK’S ARREST. Linda Gibbons will be released from jail after appearing at a bail hearing following her arrest and subsequent jailing for witnessing in front of an abortion clinic in Toronto. Read more here.
29% SURGE IN UNDER-16 GIRLS HAVING ABORTIONS IN SCOTLAND IN 2023. There were 18,207 abortions in Scotland in 2023, a record high, according to data released by Public Health Scotland, and the largest increase was among under-16 girls, up by 29 percent. Read more here.
REPORT: PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS PROVIDED INCREASED SERVICES IN 2022. The report, published by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, estimates a huge increase in the value of funding by centers for diapers, baby formula, ultrasounds, health care services and education, from 2019 to 2022. Read more here.
RED STATE VOTES TO MAKE ABORTION PILLS CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AS ACTIVISTS DEFY PRO-LIFE PROTECTIONS. Louisiana Republicans advanced a measure that would criminalize possession without a valid prescription of two drugs commonly used for illegal abortions, declaring mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances. Read more here.
RECORD HIGH 252,122 BABIES ABORTED IN UK. Abortion statistics released by the Department of Health and Social Care show the highest number of abortions ever recorded in England and Wales, with 252,122 taking place in 2022, an increase of 37,253 (17.34%) from 2021. Read more here.
KENTUCKY REPORTS 0 ABORTIONS AS ABORTION BAN SAVES BABIES. The state of Kentucky is now saving thousands of babies from abortions as the state has officially recorded 0 abortions for 2024. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMIN CONTINUES CRACKDOWN ON PRO-LIFE PROTESTERS WITH NEW LAWSUIT. The Biden administration continued its crackdown on pro-life protesters as it announced a lawsuit against two pro-life organizations and seven pro-life activists. Read more here.
LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE PASSES BILL TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM FORCED ABORTIONS. The Louisiana House passed a bill which adds abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol to the state’s controlled substance list. Read more here.
ARKANSAS AG TELLS COMPANIES TO STOP ILLEGALLY SELLING ABORTION PILLS. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued cease-and-desist letters to two companies advertising abortion pills in Arkansas. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA SENATE PASSES BILL ALLOWING ARIZONA ABORTIONISTS TO COMMIT ABORTIONS IN THE STATE. The California Senate passed a bill that would allow Arizona abortionists to temporarily commit abortions on Arizona residents in California. Read more here.
ABORTION RIGHTS AMENDMENTS QUALIFY FOR THE BALLOT IN COLORADO AND SOUTH DAKOTA. Officials in Colorado and South Dakota have certified proposed amendments that would enshrine abortion access in their states’ constitutions to appear on the November ballot. Read more here.
KANSAS GOVERNOR VETOES BILL ALLOWING CHILD SUPPORT TO APPLY TO UNBORN CHILDREN. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill which would have recognized unborn children as fitting the legal definition of “child” and would have allowed child support payments to apply to preborn children. Read more here.
BIDEN USES 100-YEAR-OLD LAW TO PUT PRO-LIFE AMERICANS IN PRISON. Lawmakers, legal experts, and analysts are decrying the nearly five-year prison sentence levied on pro-life activist Lauren Handy as an example of the weaponization of the federal government against citizens with disfavored political views. Read more here.
MINNESOTA AMENDMENT DIES THAT WOULD HAVE MADE ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. The Minnesota legislature failed to approve a measure that would have put unlimited abortion on the ballot in 2026. Read more here.
THREE EMERGENCIES AT NEW JERSEY ABORTION BUSINESS IN A MONTH. Cherry Hill Women’s Center in New Jersey has had three emergencies occur in the span of about a month, adding to a history of complications at this location that required women to be transported to the hospital. Read more here.
SOUTH CAROLINA JUDGE REJECTS PLANNED PARENTHOOD DEMAND TO STRIKE DOWN HEARTBEAT LAW. Circuit Court Judge Daniel Coble denied a motion to pause a pro-life law despite false claims from Planned Parenthood that it doesn’t give a specific timeline when an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected. Read more here.
U.S. MAY ‘WITHHOLD ALL FUNDING’ IF WHO PARTNERS WITH RADICAL ABORTION GROUP: HOUSE GOP. House Republicans have warned the World Health Organization that the U.S. may withhold all funding to the organization if it goes forward with plans to grant special partnership status to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT DENIES PREGNANCY CENTER APPEAL TO KEEP DONOR INFORMATION PRIVATE. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a New Jersey pro-life pregnancy center’s appeal to keep its donor list and other correspondence private. Read more here.
46 BRITISH MPS PUSH AMENDMENT TO STOP AT-HOME ABORTIONS. A large cross-party group of MPs have tabled an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill that would reinstate in-person consultations with a medical professional prior to an abortion taking place at home. Read more here.
NEW DUTCH COALITION DOESN’T LIBERALIZE ABORTION BUT IS NOT PRO-LIFE EITHER. The coalition government will not liberalize policies around abortion, embryo research and euthanasia, though members of parliament are free to support initiatives from the opposition. Read more here.
NEW STUDY SHOWS ABORTION LINKED TO MORE MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS FOR WOMEN. There is a 50-percent increased risk of a first-time psychiatric treatment in the year following a first abortion and an 87-percent risk of personality and behavioral disorders, according to a newly published reanalysis of Danish medical records. Read more here.
FDA USED FLAWED STUDIES, BAD DATA TO ALLOW ABORTION PILLS BY MAIL: REPORT. According to the journal Issues in Law & Medicine, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) resorted to selective data and misleading claims to justify lifting the requirement that abortion pills be administered in person. Read more here.
SURVEY FINDS 8,000 WOMEN A MONTH GOT ABORTION PILLS DESPITE THEIR STATES’ BANS OR RESTRICTIONS. A #WeCount survey shows about 8,000 women a month in states that severely restrict abortion or place limits on having one through telehealth were getting the pills by mail by the end of 2023. An additional 8,000 women in states without bans or major restrictions on telehealth abortion were receiving pills each month through virtual appointments. Read more here.
POLL: MORE THAN HALF OF REPUBLICANS AGREE ‘AN EMBRYO IS A PERSON WITH RIGHTS.’ A Pew Research Center survey showed 53 percent of Republicans and Republican leaners agree extremely or very much with the statement, “Human life begins at conception, so an embryo is a person with rights.” Read more here.
HIGH SCHOOL BLOCKS PRO-LIFE CLUB; ADMINISTRATORS SAID FLYERS WERE TOO ‘POLITICAL.’ A Noblesville, Indiana High School student identified in court documents as “E.D.” is asking the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court decision upholding the school’s derecognition of its Students for Life of America chapter. Read more here.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ATTEND RALLY TO DEFEAT UK BILL FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. MPs will soon be given the opportunity to vote on two pro-life changes to the law: one amendment to lower the abortion time limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks; and another that would bring the abortion time limit for babies with Down syndrome in line with the time limit for babies that do not have disabilities. Read more here.
HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON SAYS NO TO FEDERAL ABORTION RESTRICTIONS. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he does not anticipate Republicans passing a federal abortion restriction, should Republicans gain control of both chambers of Congress and the White House. Read more here.
LIMITED AVAILABILITY OF LATE-TERM ABORTION IN WALES MAKES IT ‘EASIER TO CONTINUE THE PREGNANCY’ THAN TRAVEL FOR ABORTION. The largest abortion provider in Britain has suggested the limited availability of late-term abortion in Wales means that some women choose to give birth to their baby instead because it is “easier to continue the pregnancy than to travel to London.” Read more here.
NEW STUDY REVEALS FDA RELIED ON CHERRYPICKED DATA TO APPROVE DANGEROUS MAIL-ORDER ABORTION DRUGS. A new peer-reviewed article highlights major flaws in the data used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remove medical safeguards and in-person administering of abortion drugs, illustrating the ongoing problem of lack of quality reporting data on abortion in the U.S., as well as in the United Kingdom. Read more here.
HOW PRO-ABORTION STATES ARE BLOCKING OTHER STATES FROM PROTECTING THE UNBORN. Since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, pro-abortion states have begun devising abortion shield laws to shelter abortionists whose operations were hampered by states that chose to protect unborn life. Read more here.
U.S. PERMISSIVE ABORTION LAWS HIGHLIGHT NEED FOR FEDERAL PROTECTIONS, STUDY FINDS. In its 2024 report on “Gestational Limits on Abortion in the United States Compared to International Norms,” the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the U.S. is one of only eight countries in the United Nations that allows abortion on demand without any gestational limits, and one of only 15 countries in the UN to allow abortion on demand past 15 weeks of pregnancy. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE PARTIALLY BLOCKS NORTH CAROLINA’S ABORTION PILL REGULATIONS. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles overturned the portion of the law mandating that mifepristone be prescribed only by doctors and only in person, as well as a requirement that patients have an in-person follow-up appointment. Read more here.
ENGLAND BISHOP EXPRESSES ‘CONCERN’ OVER PROPOSED AMENDMENTS ON ABORTION. Bishop John Sherrington, who heads the bishops’ conference on life issues, is concerned that four proposed amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill in the British Parliament will liberalize the country’s abortion laws. Read more here.
39,000 BRITISH WOMEN HAVE BEEN INJURED BY ABORTION PILLS IN JUST FIVE YEARS. In the last five years across England and Wales, at least 39,000 women have been treated at NHS hospitals for complications arising from failed or incomplete DIY medical abortions at home. Read more here.
BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION ISSUES NEW ‘PRIVACY’ RULE TO PROTECT ABORTIONISTS. Pro-life groups, including Florida Right to Life, are warning that the new rule will specifically protect abortion businesses and abortionists who deliberately interfere with state laws aimed at protecting the lives of preborn children from abortion. Read more here.
JUDGE RULES NEW YORK MEASURE FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH WON’T APPEAR ON NOVEMBER BALLOT. State Supreme Court Justice Daniel J. Doyle said that lawmakers approved the language of the amendment before state Democratic Attorney General Letitia James was able to issue a written opinion on the proposal and therefore determined that the amendment could not be placed on the ballot. Read more here.
BOTH NORWAY AND DENMARK ON THE PATH TO LIBERALIZE ABORTION. The two European countries want to extend abortion from 12 weeks to 18 weeks, and Norway plans to do so this fall. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE STRIKES DOWN INDIANA LAW MEANT TO PROTECT MINORS FROM COERCED ABORTIONS. A federal judge has struck down an Indiana law which had prohibited healthcare providers from giving information to minors about how to obtain an abortion out of state without parental consent. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP URGES ALBERTA TO BAN TELEMEDICINE ABORTIONS AFTER FAR-LEFT POLITICIAN RAISES CONCERNS. Canada’s top pro-life group, Campaign Life Coalition, has urged Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to introduce legislation to ban mail-order telemedicine abortions after a pro-abortion former mayor suggested there needs to be caution concerning the at-home procedures. Read more here.
NEW YORK STATE BUDGET FUNNELS MONEY TO ABORTION BUSINESSES AS AG SUES PREGNANCY CENTERS. Included in the Empire State’s 2025 fiscal year budget is a substantial increase in money earmarked for abortion businesses to increase abortion access in the state. Read more here.
FLORIDA ISSUES EMERGENCY RULES TO COMBAT BIDEN ABORTION ‘MISINFORMATION.’ The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration released a pair of emergency rules that it said are aimed at combating “misinformation” and a “deeply dishonest scare campaign” by the Biden administration about the state’s new six-week pro-life law. Read more here.
NGOS DEMAND BRUSSELS BYPASS NATIONAL ABORTION RESTRICTIONS. NGOs from eight European Union member states have launched a European Citizens’ Initiative asking the European Commission to pass legislation that would force countries with laws against abortion to pay for abortions in other EU countries. Read more here.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT WILL VOTE ON MEASURE TO SAVE BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. Members of the British Parliament will vote on a proposal seeking to lower the abortion time limit from 24 weeks to 22. Read more here.
‘UNTRUTHS AND GROSS DISTORTIONS’ USED TO JUSTIFY ABORTION ZONES LAW, SAYS IRISH GROUP. Life Institute said a new law imposing 100-meter exclusion zones around all hospitals, GP practices and family planning clinics offering abortion is “an act of spite and malice” which was “introduced without necessity and based on false foundations.” Read more here.
NEW YORK’S PRCS RESPOND BY SUING STATE’S AG OVER ‘ABORTION PILL REVERSAL.’ A coalition of pregnancy resource centers in New York preemptively filed a lawsuit against the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, just days after she sent a letter to the centers noting that she would be suing them for “misleading statements” regarding the so-called “abortion pill reversal.” Read more here.
ARIZONA LEGISLATURE PASSES REPEAL OF 1864 ABORTION BAN. The Arizona Senate voted 16-14 to repeal the 1864 near-total abortion ban that the state Supreme Court greenlighted last month. Read more here.
17 STATES FIGHT JOE BIDEN’S PLAN TO FORCE EMPLOYERS TO FUND ABORTIONS. The Biden administration made yet another move to ensure that abortion remains front and center by moving to insert the issue into the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act earlier this month — a move that earned a strong rebuke and lawsuit from a group of 17 Republican state attorneys general. Read more here.
SCOTLAND VOTES FOR RADICAL BILL THAT CRIMINALIZES SILENT PRAYER OUTSIDE ABORTION CENTERS. Despite little public support, the Scottish Parliament has voted in favor of abortion buffer zone legislation that would make it illegal to offer assistance to women seeking an abortion within 200 meters of any facility that performs abortions, and could even result in a fine for people who display pro-life signs in their own homes. Read more here.
EU VOTE TO MAKE ABORTION A RIGHT A ‘RADICAL ATTACK’ ON LIFE, SAYS VATICAN. The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has condemned a recent European Union vote to make abortion a fundamental right as a “radical attack” on life. Read more here.
CANADIAN DOCTOR COULD LOSE HIS LICENSE FOR ADVISING PREGNANT WOMAN NOT TO ABORT HER CHILD. Dr. Terence Davids, a physician in Saskatoon, faces charges of “unprofessional conduct” for advising a pregnant woman against abortion. Read more here.
DOCTOR RELEASED AFTER SERVING TIME IN ARGENTINA FOR HALTING A CHEMICAL ABORTION. OB/GYN Leandro Rodríguez Lastra stabilized the condition of a 19-year-old female patient who was suffering severe pain after ingesting misoprostol, part of the abortion pill regimen. Read more here.
TENNESSEE PASSES ‘BABY OLIVIA ACT’ REQUIRING PUBLIC SCHOOLS SHOW DEVELOPMENT OF UNBORN BABIES. Governor Bill Lee signed the ‘Baby Olivia Act’ into law, requiring public schools to show school children a “high-quality, computer-generated animation or high-definition ultrasound” of unborn babies developing in the womb. Read more here.
KANSAS HOUSE OVERRIDES GOV. LAURA KELLY’S VETOES OF TWO PRO-LIFE BILLS. The lower chamber of the legislature voted to override vetoes of two pro-life bills: one measure that promotes adoption by establishing adoption savings accounts, increasing tax credits for adoptive families, eliminating sales tax burden for pregnancy resource centers, and creating tax credits for donors to those organizations, while the other bill would protect women from coerced abortions. Read more here.
SIDEWALK ADVOCATES FOR LIFE CELEBRATES OVER 22,000 LIVES SAVED FROM ABORTION. Sidewalk Advocates for Life, a national organization that gives women information outside abortion clinics about their other options, is celebrating more than 22,000 lives saved this month during its 10th anniversary. Read more here.
FLORIDA HEARTBEAT LAW TAKES EFFECT WEDNESDAY, WILL SAVE THOUSANDS OF BABIES FROM ABORTION. The new law will prohibit abortions of unborn babies who have a detectable heartbeat at six weeks and protect the unborn from feeling pain. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE SPEAKER MET WITH ‘BLOODY BABY DOLLS,’ ARSON THREATS AT UNC GREENSBORO. Students at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro threw what looked like blood-covered baby dolls and threatened to light a display table on fire during a recent Students for Life event. Read more here.
ARIZONA HOUSE VOTES TO REPEAL LAW PROTECTING LIFE FROM MOMENT OF CONCEPTION. With three Republicans crossing party lines, Arizona’s House of Representatives passed an “abortion ban repeal” bill designed to overturn the state’s pro-life law, by a 32-28 vote. Read more here.
DIVIDED SUPREME COURT HEARS EMERGENCY ROOM ABORTION CASE: DOJ VS. IDAHO’S PRO-LIFE LAW. According to the Department Of Justice, Idaho’s threshold for when it permits abortion is too strict because it only permits abortions when necessary to prevent the death of the mother and does not include any exceptions that would cover the other health risks considered in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Read more here.
U. MARYLAND REMOVES ‘TERRORIST’ LABEL FROM PRO-LIFE GROUP AFTER MEDIA ATTENTION, LEGAL DEMAND. A University of Maryland center had previously placed a pro-life group in its terrorism database along with white supremacists, Islamic terrorist groups and other threats based on an incident in which students were arrested at a peaceful protest. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA TEACHER ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RAPING 15-YEAR-OLD, COERCING HER INTO ABORTION. A teacher in San Jose, California has been arrested on a rape allegation of a student 20 years ago and then coercing her to have an abortion. Read more here.
MAINE LAWMAKERS PASS BILL PROTECTING ABORTION, CHILD ‘SEX CHANGE’ TOURISM. The controversial measure, which passed the State Senate with a 21-13 vote and a 76-67 in the House, would also protect those who provide or who travel to the state for “gender reassignment” surgery or hormone injections. Read more here.
TWO POLLS SHOW FLORIDA AMENDMENT FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH WILL FAIL. Florida pro-lifers have a good chance to prevail at the ballot box against a proposition that would expand abortion, because ballot propositions to amend the state constitution need more than 60 percent of the vote to take effect. Read more here.
UK GOVT. PLEDGES MILLIONS FOR SEXUAL HEALTH PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTED BY ORGANISATIONS INTENDING TO ‘EXPAND ACCESS’ TO ABORTIONS IN TANZANIA. The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said it would be providing the money for a two-year extension of a family planning and sexual and reproductive health (abortion) program in the country, despite the fact abortion is illegal in Tanzania. Read more here.
ITALY SET TO PASS AMENDMENT ALLOWING PRO-LIFE GROUPS INTO FAMILY PLANNING CLINICS. An amendment to a health care law that permits “nonprofits with experience providing maternity support” in family planning clinics, including pro-life groups, will be voted on by the Italian Senate. Read more here.
NO, ABORTION BANS DON’T STOP PREGNANT WOMEN FROM GETTING MEDICAL CARE AT ERS. An Associated Press article implied that pro-life laws in states such as Texas and Florida are causing women to be turned away from emergency rooms, and pro-abortion activists quickly began to circulate the article in order to attack so-called abortion “bans.” Read more here.
77% OF SCOTS IN CONSULTATION OPPOSE BUFFER ZONES AROUND ABORTION FACILITIES. A Scottish consultation on Gillian MacKay MSP’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) bill received nearly 6,000 responses, the majority of which opposed the bill. Read more here.
ABORTION A FACTOR IN SHARP DROP IN NUMBER OF IRISH CHILDREN STARTING SCHOOL, SAYS TD. Peadar Tóibín, party leader of Aontú in Ireland, claimed that the decline of children starting primary school is linked to Ireland’s rising abortion rate – an estimate of more than 10,000 abortions alone last year. Read more here.
TENS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR LIFE IN POLAND AS LAWMAKERS ATTEMPT TO END PREBORN LIVES. In response to certain Polish lawmakers’ recent attempts to expand the country’s law to allow for more abortions, tens of thousands of pro-life protesters marched in downtown Warsaw. Read more here.
‘ILLIBERAL’ SCOTTISH BUFFER ZONES LAW BACKED BY MSPS DESPITE BREACHING HUMAN RIGHTS. A cross-party committee of MSPs has unanimously approved buffer zones legislation that would outlaw all pro-life activity (including silent prayer) considered to “influence” women attending abortion facilities in Scotland. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA SUPERVISORS FAIL TO PASS MEASURE TO SECURE EMERGENCY STOCKPILE OF ABORTION PILLS. With only three members present, a California county board of supervisors failed to pass a measure that would allow the county to secure its emergency stockpile of medication-based abortion treatments Misoprostol and Mifepristone, ahead of a pending U.S. Supreme Court decision on the drugs. Read more here.
IN UK AT LEAST 39,000 WOMEN TREATED FOR DIY ABORTION COMPLICATIONS IN FIVE YEARS. In the last five years across England and Wales, at least 39,000 women have been treated at NHS hospitals for complications arising from failed or incomplete DIY medical abortions at home. In the past, these complications would have been treated at the abortion providers’ facilities. Read more here.
HONDURAN WOMAN FILES UN COMPLAINT OVER COUNTRY’S PRO-LIFE LAWS. A Honduran woman has filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee saying the country’s pro-life laws forced her into motherhood and serious mental suffering by preventing her from getting an abortion after she was raped. Read more here.
POLL: MOST AMERICAN VOTERS DO NOT SUPPORT ABORTION THROUGHOUT PREGNANCY. Sixty-six percent of American voters believe abortion should not be legal past three months, according to Rasmussen Reports. Read more here.
ARIZONA LEGISLATURE DEFEATS MEASURE TO REPEAL PRO-LIFE LAW PROTECTING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. Following two attempts to advance a pro-abortion bill that would repeal the state’s ban on abortion, lawmakers defeated the measure. Read more here.
NEVADA SUPREME COURT APPROVES BALLOT AMENDMENT FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously approved the pro-abortion language and reversed a district court judge’s ruling stating that the language was misleading. Read more here.
ABORTIONS IN FIRST 12 WEEKS SHOULD BE FULLY LEGALIZED IN GERMANY, COMMISSION SAYS. Germany should lift all restrictions on abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy but keep its ban on the procedure after fetal viability, around 22 weeks, a government-appointed commission said. Read more here.
FACT CHECKER FAILS TO TELL THE TRUTH ON ABORTION SURVIVORS AND INFANTICIDE. Abortion advocates often deny that actively killing an infant after birth is abhorrent, and a new article from the fact-checking Poynter Institute for Media Studies falsely claims that infanticide is illegal in every state and it never happens. Read more here.
IDAHO FIGHTS BACK AGAINST BIDEN’S ATTEMPT TO TURN ERS INTO ABORTION CLINICS. Idaho is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Biden administration’s attempt to twist a federal law into a mandate that emergency rooms must double as abortion clinics. Read more here.
UK MP TABLES EXTREME ABORTION AMENDMENT THAT WOULD REMOVE PRISON TIME FOR INFANTICIDE. UK Labor MP Stella Creasy announced that she was tabling an amendment that would decriminalize abortion up to 24 weeks, and she responded angrily on social media to claims that she was in favor of abortion up to birth. Read more here.
ABORTION CLINIC INJURES THREE WOMEN IN BOTCHED ABORTIONS IN 10 DAYS. Three emergency transfers, each involving a woman with post-abortion hemorrhaging, took place in less than two weeks from the notoriously dangerous Access Health Center in Downers Grove, Ill. Read more here.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO MAKE ABORTING BABIES A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT. The European Parliament voted by a margin of 336-163 for a resolution “on the inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.” Read more here.
GERMANY: GOVERNMENT ADVISORY PANEL RECOMMENDS LIBERALIZING ABORTION. A panel of 18 people with backgrounds in medicine, psychology, ethics and law was set up by Olaf Scholz’s left-wing traffic light coalition last year, and now says lawmakers should legalize abortions within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Read more here.
UK: CROSS-PARTY MPS URGE HOME OFFICE TO PROTECT PRO-LIFE FREE SPEECH OUTSIDE ABORTION FACILITIES. Cross-party MPs have called on the Home Office to protect the free speech of pro-life activists put on trial for allegedly breaching buffer zones around abortion facilities in England. Read more here.
NATIONAL MARCH FOR LIFE WILL RALLY CANADIANS IN DEFENSE OF THE RIGHT TO LIFE FOR ALL. The 27th National March for Life is set to take place May 9, when Canadians of all ages will gather to defend and celebrate life in all its stages. Read more here.
MAINE AMENDMENT TO ENSHRINE ABORTION-ON-DEMAND FAILS IN STATE LEGISLATURE. A proposal to amend the Maine Constitution to establish a “right” to abortion failed to gain the necessary votes in the state legislature, effectively killing the effort for the time being. Read more here.
CITY OF MUENSTER IN TEXAS BECOMES 69TH ‘SANCTUARY CITY FOR THE UNBORN’ IN US. By a 5-0 vote, the City Council of Muenster passed an “Ordinance Outlawing Abortion, Declaring Muenster a Safe Haven for the Unborn.” Read more here.
NEW STUDY: ABORTION INCREASES RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES. A new longitudinal peer-reviewed study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute published in the International Journal of Cardiology Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention has shown that abortions are an independent risk factor for increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death among women. Read more here.
ARIZONA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LAW BANNING ABORTION IN NEARLY ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that an 1864 law banning all circumstances except when the mother’s life is at risk, and which mandates two to five years prison for anyone performing an abortion, can go into effect. Read more here.
KANSAS LAWMAKERS APPROVE BILL OUTLAWING ABORTION COERCION, SEND TO DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR’S DESK. Under House Bill 2436, it would be a felony to coerce a pregnant woman to have an abortion, and it defines coercion as the use of physical or financial threats to the woman’s well-being if she says she does not want to abort her child. Read more here.
COURT ALLOWS PRO-LIFE NURSE TO FIGHT FOR ABORTION PILL REVERSALS THAT SAVE BABIES. A federal district court in Colorado issued an order that allows Chelsea Mynyk, a licensed nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife, to intervene in a lawsuit defending her use of providing patients with abortion pill reversal. Read more here.
PREGNANCY CENTER SLAMS FBI FOR FAILURE TO ARREST PRO-ABORTION FIREBOMBERS. Staffers at a pro-life pregnancy resource center in Rochester, New York are criticizing the FBI for failing to provide any kind of status update on investigations into pro-abortion vandals’ attacks on the pregnancy center. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION ARIZONA GROUP HAS GATHERED ENOUGH SIGNATURES TO PUT ABORTION ON THE BALLOT. Pro-abortion groups behind Arizona for Abortion Access have announced they have gathered more than the necessary amount of petition signatures required to put a pro-abortion measure on the ballot for voters in November. Read more here.
OHIO ABORTION BUSINESS WITH DANGEROUS HISTORY INJURES TWO WOMEN IN 10 DAYS. According to the pro-life watchdog group Operation Rescue, two women suffered serious injuries at the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, Ohio in a 10-day period. Read more here.
NURSE WHO FORCED HIS PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND TO TAKE ABORTION DRUG LOSES HIS LICENSE. The Washington State Board of Nursing suspended the license of David Benjamin Coots, a nurse who had been arrested for trying to force an unwanted chemical abortion on his pregnant girlfriend. Read more here.
THOUSANDS JOIN ROMANIA MARCH FOR LIFE TO STAND AGAINST ABORTION. Romania’s celebration of human life took place in 1,500 locations with the theme of ” We build bridges together for LIFE” in support of pregnant women. Read more here.
BRITISH ‘CONSERVATIVE’ SUPPORTS KILLING OLD PEOPLE TO SAVE MONEY. Matthew Parris is a former Tory MP who wrote in the Times newspaper that “it will be a healthy development” for the old and infirm not just to consider undergoing assisted suicide but to be “urged” to do so. Read more here.
ABORTION INDUSTRY LASHES OUT AS NEBRASKA ADVANCES BILL SUPPORTING PREGNANCY HELP CENTERS. Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill last week that would allow a tax credit for people who donate to pregnancy resource centers in the state. Read more here.
FORMER TERRORISM OFFICIALS QUESTION ‘RADICALIZATION’ STUDY THAT LISTS PEACEFUL PRO-LIFERS. Created by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, the project purportedly tracks “ideologically motivated criminal activity” and known “extremists,” including the peaceful group Students For Life of America. Read more here.
HOW A LEFTIST NETWORK OF WEBSITES FLOODS RED STATES WITH ABORTION PILLS WITH NO CONSEQUENCES. Facilitated by Left-wing activist groups, a network of websites has emerged to ship unregulated foreign abortion pills across the country with no age verification, no prescription, and no concern about state laws that may ban medication-induced abortions. Read more here.
NORWAY BISHOPS ISSUE WARNING THAT EXPANDING ABORTION WOULD BE UNJUST. In its letter to Norway’s Ministry of Health and Care, the bishops’ council highlights why it believes changing the abortion law would be “highly problematic.” Read more here.
MICHIGAN ABORTION INDUSTRY SETS SIGHTS ON ERASING PARENTAL CONSENT LAW. A coalition of pro-abortion organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, Human Rights Watch, and the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health are attempting to undermine a state law designed to keep minors safe. Read more here.
OREGON WEBSITE LIES ABOUT ABORTION AND DIRECTS WOMEN TO HAVE THEIR BABIES KILLED. The Oregon Health Authority’s Reproductive Health Program announced the launch of an abortion access webpage, one that contains vague content that could have dangerous consequences by failing to accurately describe what actually happens during abortions. Read more here.
RECORD 59% OF AMERICAN VOTERS BELIEVE ABORTION SHOULD BE LEGAL IN ALL OR MOST CASES: POLL. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (65 percent) support a “nationwide law guaranteeing access to legal abortion,” and 32 percent said they believe abortion should be illegal except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. Read more here.
SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM SIGNS NATION’S FIRST ‘MED ED’ BILL TO COMBAT ABORTION MISINFORMATION. The bill establishes materials for medical professionals on the ability and necessity of providing emergency care to pregnant women under the state’s life at conception law, which bars abortion throughout pregnancy except to save the life of the mother. Read more here.
FLORIDA’S SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS STATE ABORTION LIMITS, PAVING WAY FOR SIX-WEEK BAN. While the ruling most immediately dealt with a 15-week ban that took effect in 2022, it has implications for a six-week version — with exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal anomalies, and medical emergencies. Read more here.
IN SCOTLAND 4 OUT OF 10 WOMEN CHOOSE ABORTION BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD CHILDCARE. Research by a lobby group for ending the motherhood penalty has revealed “heartbreaking” consequences of childcare costs on parents in Scotland. Read more here.
WOMAN SAYS ABORTION PILL ALMOST KILLED HER: ‘I WAS COVERED IN A POOL OF BLOOD WONDERING IF I WAS GOING TO SURVIVE.’ Elizabeth Gillette is a survivor of chemical abortion who said she “was not prepared for how severe and devastating” the abortion-inducing drugs she took would be, and she now deeply regrets her abortion. Read more here.
AMENDMENT TO STOP ABORTION TO BIRTH FOR DOWN’S SYNDROME TABLED BY SIR LIAM FOX MP. The British MP tabled the amendment that, though supported by 40 MPs, would bring an end to the current situation where abortion is available between 24 weeks and birth for babies with Down’s syndrome. Read more here.
90% OF BABIES IN THE UK DIAGNOSED WITH DOWN SYNDROME WERE ABORTED. Statistics released by NHS England reveal that 87.26 percent of all babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome in England and the Crown Dependencies had their lives ended by abortion in 2021. Read more here.
WYOMING GOVERNOR VETOES INFORMED CONSENT AND ABORTION SAFETY MEASURES. Republican Governor Mark Gordon rejected a bill last week that would have required abortion facilities to meet the same facility regulations as ambulatory surgical centers while also mandating that women receive an ultrasound before an abortion. Read more here.
FOUR SHOCKING ADMISSIONS FROM THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTION PILL CASE ORAL ARGUMENTS. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) v. Food and Drug Administration, and the FDA portrayed tens of thousands of women taking the drugs going to emergency rooms as a small number.Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE MAN FIRST TO BE CHARGED UNDER FETAL HOMICIDE LAW. William Kelly was charged with second-degree murder for causing the death of Christine Falzone, who was 35 to 37 weeks pregnant at the time. Read more here.
NBC PROMOTES ABORTION PILL MILL THAT ILLEGALLY SENDS DANGEROUS ABORTION DRUGS TO PRO-LIFE STATES. Ahead of oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the FDA violated the law when it issued emergency approval for Mifepristone, NBC reporter Dana Burns produced reports aiming to portray the drug’s legality as a matter of “access.” Read more here.
IRISH WOMAN NEARLY DIES FROM ECTOPIC PREGNANCY THREE DAYS AFTER HAVING ABORTION. The absence of an ultrasound led to a 24-year-old Limerick woman being hospitalized for an ectopic pregnancy suffered during a medical abortion. Read more here.
MIFEPRISTONE ACCESS IS COMING BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. HOW SAFE IS THIS ABORTION PILL? The central dispute in the case is whether the Food and Drug Administration overlooked serious safety problems when it made mifepristone easier to obtain, including through mail-order pharmacies. Read more here.
PERU LAWMAKERS JUST TOOK A CRUCIAL STAND FOR PREBORN HUMAN BEINGS. Lawmakers in Peru have passed a bill that guarantees protection for pregnant women and preborn children, a marked difference in Latin America where abortion advocacy has been growing. Read more here.
CROSS-PARTY UK MPS SUPPORT STOPPING DOWN’S SYNDROME ABORTIONS UP UNTIL BIRTH. Sir Liam Fox MP gained support by proposing to stop abortions of unborn babies with Down’s syndrome after 24 weeks, as current law treats disabled children like “second-class citizens”. Read more here.
NEVADA JUDGE RULES STATE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT FORCES MEDICAID TO FUND ABORTIONS. Clark County District Court Judge Erika Ballou ruled that the state’s Medicaid program must subsidize abortions, accepting an argument that a state-level version of the Equal Rights Amendment Nevada enacted in 2022 mandates it. Read more here.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DEPUTIES CALL FOR ABORTION TO BE MADE A ‘FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT.’ France’s decision to include a right to abortion in its constitution has revived moves to include it in the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, which would require unanimous support. Read more here.
JAILED PROTESTER IN CUBA CLAIMS AUTHORITIES HAVE TRIED TO PRESSURE HER TO ABORT HER BABY. Lisdany Rodriguez Isaac was imprisoned for peacefully protesting in Cuba, was impregnated by her husband during a conjugal visit, and now prison doctors are pressuring her to abort her child. Read more here.
PROFESSORS CALL FOR MORE RETRACTIONS OF PRO-LIFE SCHOLARS’ RESEARCH. One journal retracted three papers about complications due to abortion drugs last month – prompting the researchers to take legal action, and another journal put on hold a philosopher’s article making a moral case against abortion after the abstract was met with “racism” complaints online. Read more here.
HARVARD LAW JOURNAL ARTICLE CONCLUDES UNBORN BABIES HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. An article recently published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has been submitted as a supplemental authority to the Florida Supreme Court in response to the recent oral argument on whether a proposed amendment that would codify unrestricted abortion as a right in the state constitution should be put on Florida’s November 2024 ballot. Read more here.
UK GOVT PROVIDES MAJOR FUNDING FOR ABORTION FOR UKRAINE. The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced it will give taxpayer funding to the abortion giant, International Planned Parenthood Federation, for “sexual and reproductive health services” including abortions in Ukraine. Read more here.
PHARMACIST CONDEMNS CHEMICAL ABORTION PILL: ‘ISN’T A MEDICATION AT ALL.’ A clinical pharmacist recently wrote an op-ed detailing “the dark history” of the chemical abortion pill mifepristone, and explained that the drug “isn’t a medication at all” because of its direct “intent to actively take life.” Read more here.
BEING ANTI-ABORTION COULD LEAD TO TERRORISM, UK GOVT. TRAINING WARNS. As part of “Prevent” training, an aspect of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy aimed at people working in education, health, local authorities, police and criminal justice, the UK lists having “anti-abortion” views as among single-issue ideologies that can lead to terrorism. Read more here.
REPORT SHOWS 63% OF ABORTIONS USE PILLS THAT STARVE BABIES TO DEATH AND KILL OR INJURE WOMEN. Abortion statistics 10-20 years ago showed that a majority of abortions were surgical abortions done at freestanding abortion centers like Planned Parenthood, but now, a majority of abortions involve the pill that slowly staves a little unborn baby to death and has the potential to kill or injure women. Read more here.
WILL THE TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD CREATE A BROAD LOOPHOLE FOR ABORTION ‘EXCEPTIONS’? This week, the Texas Medical Board will begin its 30-day rule-making process to craft guidance regarding what the legal ‘exceptions’ are to the state’s pro-life law protecting most preborn children from abortion. Read more here.
UK PETITION OF 102,573 CALLING FOR LOWER ABORTION LIMIT DELIVERED TO NO. 10 BY PARENTS OF CHILDREN BORN AT 22 AND 23 WEEKS. Parents of children who were born at 22 and 23 weeks gestation along with a large group of MPs have delivered a petition, signed by 102,573 people, to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street calling for a reduction to the abortion time limit. Read more here.
MONTANA SUPREME COURT ALLOWS BALLOT MEASURE FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH TO PROCEED. Following two months of legal proceedings and deliberation, the Montana Supreme Court issued a decision overturning the state attorney general’s January determination that the ballot proposal was “legally insufficient.” Read more here.
STUDY SHOWS TEENS WHO HAD ABORTIONS 40% MORE LIKELY TO DIE PREMATURELY THAN TEENS WHO NEVER GOT PREGNANT. A study published in JAMA Network Open using data from Ontario’s health registry from over two million Canadian females found that Canadian teenagers who became pregnant were more likely to die before reaching their 31st birthday. Read more here.
WISCONSIN ATTORNEY GENERAL THREATENS LAWSUIT TO PROMOTE ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Attorney General Josh Kaul has stated he will seek a broader state ruling on “women’s right to choose” if the state’s Supreme Court agrees to hear a highly anticipated case. Read more here.
BELGIUM EUTHANASIA DEATHS REACH RECORD HIGH IN 2024. Belgium is well-known for its liberal laws on assisted suicide and euthanasia, and its latest report indicates that euthanasia increased 15 percent from 2022 to 2023 in the country, reaching a record high. Read more here.
68 CITIES ARE NOW ‘SANCTUARY CITIES FOR THE UNBORN’ THAT PROTECT BABIES FROM ABORTION. Midlothian, Texas – population 38,635 – became the 68th city to adopt an enforceable ordinance that protects babies from abortion within its limits. Read more here.
NEW CALIFORNIA LAW RESULTS IN 400 ABORTIONS ON CAMPUS. California pro-life leaders are raising concerns about coercion and a lack of family support after a report showed more than 400 abortions resulted from a new state law requiring public colleges and universities to provide chemical abortions, or abortion pills, in their student health centers. Read more here.
LEVI STRAUSS FOUNDATION DONATES MILLIONS TO SUPPORT ABORTION. Levi Strauss’s philanthropic arm made substantial donations to groups like the Abortion Care Network and the International Planned Parenthood Federation between December 2021 and December 2023, according to tax filings and charity documents. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION SINGER LILY ALLEN SAYS DAUGHTERS ‘TOTALLY RUINED’ HER CAREER. Singer and outspoken abortion advocate Lily Allen appeared on the Radio Times podcast, where she stated that “having an abortion is such fun,” but when she eventually did have children, “yes, my children ruined my career.” Read more here.
BRITAIN’S LARGEST ABORTION PROVIDER ATTEMPTS TO HIJACK MOTHER’S DAY BY ‘CELEBRATING’ ABORTION PROVIDERS INSTEAD. Attempting to hijack Mother’s Day, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service published a post on X (formerly Twitter) in celebration of “Abortion Providers Appreciation Day.” Read more here.
YES TO LIFE: 35,000 MARCH AGAINST ABORTION IN MADRID. Under the motto ‘Yes to Life,’ tens of thousands marched through the streets of Madrid to proclaim that “there are no people who have less value due to their health or capacity.” Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP BLASTS MANITOBA BILL SEEKING ‘BUFFER ZONES’ AROUND ABORTION MILLS. A proposed bill by the socialist New Democratic Party provincial government of Manitoba would ban pro-life speech around abortuaries by mandating buffer zones. Read more here.
UK WOMAN CHARGED FOR OFFERING HELP TO WOMEN IN CRISIS PREGNANCIES OUTSIDE ABORTION CENTER. Retired medical scientist Livia Tossici-Bolt is facing trial following charges relating to holding a sign saying “here to talk, if you want to” near an abortion facility in Bournemouth. Read more here.
JOE BIDEN’S NEW BUDGET WOULD FORCE TAXPAYERS TO FUND ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. President Joe Biden’s FY 2025 budget proposal once again calls for eliminating the Hyde Amendment, which has protected unborn babies and their mothers for over 40 years by ensuring that federal tax dollars don’t fund elective abortion. Read more here.
BUSINESSES MASQUERADE AS HEALTH CENTERS IN K-12 SCHOOLS TO PREY ON KIDS. A trend of installing “health centers” in K-12 public schools has led to students being offered disturbing services without parental knowledge or consent, an investigation by a leading parental rights group has found. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY GROUP APPEALS TO SCOTUS IN CLASH WITH NEW JERSEY AG OVER ‘UNLAWFUL’ SUBPOENA. First Choice Women’s Resource Center is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving what the center calls an “improper” and “unlawful” subpoena by state Attorney General Matthew Platkin. Read more here.
SCOTLAND MAY BAN PEOPLE FROM PRAYING OUTSIDE ABORTION CENTERS. The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee has been gathering evidence for and against the implementation of buffer zones in Scotland, as proposed by the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill. Read more here.
WYOMING LAWMAKERS TIGHTEN STATE’S PRO-LIFE PROTECTIONS. Lawmakers in both the Wyoming House and Senate passed a bill that will require abortion facilities to meet the same facility regulations as ambulatory surgical centers, as well as provide regulations that women receive an ultrasound 48 hours before any abortion procedure. Read more here.
HUNDREDS OF PRO-LIFE PEOPLE IN MAINE PROTEST BILL TO ALLOW ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Hundreds of pro-life and conservative Maine citizens showed up in Augusta at a public hearing to express opposition to a radical Democrat-led bill that seeks to create new legal protections for both late-term abortions and the application of “transgender” hormones and surgical procedures to minors. Read more here.
BECOMING ‘HIT MEN’: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS OFFICIALLY ADOPTS NEW PRO-ABORTION POLICY. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs changed its policy to include abortions for veterans and their beneficiaries in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger, even in states with pro-life protections. Read more here.
MICHIGAN WOMAN HEMORRHAGES BADLY AFTER ABORTION BIZ BOTCHES ANOTHER ABORTION. Commenting on botched abortions at Michigan abortion clinics, Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said, “The injuries to moms are just a byproduct of the abortion cartel’s unquenchable thirst for the death of vulnerable children and the blood money that accompanies it.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA EXPANDS ALLOWANCES FOR NON-DOCTORS TO PROVIDE ABORTIONS WITHOUT SUPERVISION. One of the most pro-abortion states in the country, California is expanding abortion by allowing physician assistants, licensed nurses/midwives and nurse practitioners to provide abortions without a physician supervising. Read more here.
CATHOLIC BISHOP CONDEMNS ARKANSAS AMENDMENT CREATING ‘RIGHT’ TO ABORT BABIES. Arkansans for Limited Government is collecting petition signatures to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the November ballot, and if it passes election, the amendment would write abortion into the state constitution, and it would prevent the Arkansas Legislature from restricting abortion during the first five months of pregnancy. Read more here.
‘ABORTION IS NOT A FREEDOM’: REACTION TO FRANCE MAKING ABORTION A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. France has become the first country to enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution, after MPs voted 780-72 to do so, but pro-life campaigners, the Church and France’s Former Secretary of State for Culture have spoken out in criticism, with impassioned protests taking place in Versailles. Read more here.
NEW POLISH GOVERNMENT GETS HEADWINDS IN LIBERALIZING ABORTION. Poland’s opposition party, the Civic Coalition, introduced new regulations for parliamentary review, including the decriminalization of abortion and allowing the practice up to 12 weeks during pregnancy. Read more here.
BIDEN TURNED VA CLINICS INTO ABORTION CENTERS, NOW HE’S MAKING THE POLICY PERMANENT. Since September 2022, the Biden administration has ignored a longstanding prohibition against Veterans’ Administration clinic abortions and this week issued a new rule that requires taxpayers to fund abortions for undefined and presumably broad “health” reasons. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND TERRORISM CENTER DATABASE INCLUDES PEACEFUL PRO-LIFERS. A pro-life group said its attorneys would review the research to consider legal action. Read more here.
16 AGS ORDER YOUTUBE TO REMOVE ‘MISLEADING’ PRO-ABORTION NOTICES ON ABORTION VIDEOS. A coalition of 16 state attorneys general is calling out YouTube for “misleading” informational posts on abortion videos, warning that the platform is putting women in danger by minimizing the risks of chemical abortions. Read more here.
CAMPAIGN LIFE COALITION WARNS TRUDEAU’S ONLINE HARMS ACT WOULD CRUSH FREE SPEECH, PRO-LIFE ACTIVISM. Campaign Life Coalition has warned that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s online harms bill targets pro-life advocacy and Canadians’ freedom of speech. Read more here.
500 MEDICS SIGN LETTER OPPOSING DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION. Nearly 500 medics have signed an open letter opposing the proposed decriminalization of abortion in anticipation of the French Parliamentary debate on Dame Diana Johnson’s pro-abortion amendment. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUPS SLAM CVS AND WALGREENS FOR SELLING ABORTION PILLS. CVS and Walgreens announced that they received certification to dispense abortion drugs in a small group of states, even though it has taken the lives of millions of babies and injured countless thousands of women. Read more here.
FOUR STUDIES SHOW PRO-LIFE LAWS ARE SAVING THOUSANDS OF BABIES FROM ABORTION. The Society of Family Planning has released updated abortion estimates from their #WeCount project, finding that through September 2023, U.S. abortions numbered between 81,000 and 89,000. Read more here.
TEXAS CITY BECOMES LATEST SANCTUARY FOR THE UNBORN IN THE U.S. The City Council of Midlothian, Texas passed an “Ordinance Outlawing Abortion, Declaring Midlothian a Sanctuary City for the Unborn” in a 5-2 vote. Read more here.
SCOTLAND: SILENT PRAYER DEEMED “UNACCEPTABLE” IN HEARING ON WORLD’S MOST EXTREME ABORTION BUFFER ZONE LAW. The Scottish Parliament has begun hearing evidence on a bill which, if it becomes law, will introduce the world’s most extreme buffer zone law. Read more here.
UK: SHOCKING SCENES AS MANCHESTER PRO-LIFE SOCIETY STUDENTS ESCORTED AWAY FROM VIOLENT MOB. Members of the Manchester Pro-Life Society had to be given a police escort out of a meeting held inside the Students’ Union building that was surrounded by aggressive demonstrators. Read more here.
MICHIGAN PSYCH CLASS WANTS ‘QUEER,’ ‘TRANS’ ABORTION STORIES. A “queer” abortion stories event in March at Kalamazoo College will encourage students to take action on “abortion rights and reproductive justice,” according to the event description. Read more here.
22 STATES SUPPORT IDAHO’S ABORTION BAN THAT PROTECTS UNBORN CHILDREN. Twenty-two states, 121 members of Congress, doctors and a broad coalition of policy and advocacy groups filed friend-of-the-court briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Idaho’s law that protects the lives of women and their unborn children, preventing doctors from performing abortions unless necessary to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest. Read more here.
MONTANA JUDGE DECLARES 3 LAWS RESTRICTING ABORTION UNCONSTITUTIONAL, INCLUDING A 20-WEEK LIMIT. The 20-week ban and the two other laws — one that banned telehealth prescriptions of abortion medication and required a 24-hour waiting period after giving informed consent, and another that required providers to offer patients the option of viewing an ultrasound or listen to the fetal heart tone — had been blocked by a preliminary injunction. Read more here.
‘ENSHRINING ABORTION IN THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION BRINGS EUROPE TO THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE.’ The French National Assembly adopted a bill in January aimed at enshrining abortion in the Constitution, and now the French Senate is expected to do the same. Read more here.
SIDEWALK COUNSELORS REPORT REPEATED HARASSMENT AGAINST THEM IN NORTH CAROLINA. According to pro-life watchdog group Operation Rescue, there has been an uptick in violent acts against peaceful pro-life sidewalk counselors in front of the Planned Parenthood facility in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Read more here.
CONSERVATIVE UK MPS FIGHT POSSIBLE MEASURE TO LEGALIZE ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. A number of Conservative British MPs are threatening to derail the government’s flagship Criminal Justice Bill next month if it includes a law change that could be introduced via an extreme abortion amendment to the Bill, which will remove offenses that make it illegal for a woman to perform her own abortion at any point right up to birth. Read more here.
40 PRO-LIFE GROUPS DEMAND EPA TRACK CHEMICALS FROM ABORTION PILLS THAT WIND UP IN AMERICA’S WATER. A coalition of pro-family leaders signed onto a letter drafted by Students for Life Action and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America calling on Congress to demand that the EPA track the “forever chemicals” in the first of the two drugs used to cause an abortion with pills. Read more here.
THERE ARE 200 SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES IN AMERICA, THEY’VE SAVED 6 BABIES FROM INFANTICIDE THIS YEAR. In early February, Safe Haven Baby Boxes celebrated the 200th installation of a baby box, helping birth parents keep their infants safe and keeping them anonymous. Read more here.
COULD THIS WYOMING BILL SHUT DOWN THE STATE’S ONE SURGICAL ABORTION BUSINESS? A bill making its way through the Wyoming legislature could cause the state’s only surgical abortion business to shut its doors for a time, by requiring that surgical abortion facilities be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers and that abortionists be licensed physicians. Read more here.
DEMOCRAT STATES IMPLEMENT ‘SHIELD LAWS’ TO ENSURE ABORTIONISTS ARE NEVER PROSECUTED. The New York Times released two articles highlighting efforts in six blue states to promote chemical abortion in pro-life states through “shield laws,” and the effort has been characterized as “A New Abortion Access Strategy” and “A New War Between the States.” Read more here.
SPUC CONDEMNS ‘INTOLERANT‘ PETITION SEEKING TO CANCEL MANCHESTER PRO-LIFE SOCIETY. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned a petition seeking to cancel the Manchester Pro-Life Society, founded last month to create a pro-life culture on campus. Read more here.
SOUTH DAKOTA HOUSE PASSES ‘MED ED BILL’ TO ENSURE PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF STATE’S PRO-LIFE LAW. The South Dakota House of Representatives passed a bill known as the “Med Ed Bill” aimed at educating doctors and women on what the state’s law allows regarding abortion during pregnancies in which the mother’s health is in danger. Read more here.
NEW U.S. POLL SHOWS THAT A 16-WEEK ABORTION BAN HAS PLURALITY SUPPORT. The poll of over 1,500 adults, conducted by the Economist and YouGov, shows that 48 percent of adults would support such a ban, with only 36 percent opposed. Read more here.
NEW REPORT SHOWS 89,000 BABIES SAVED FROM ABORTIONS SINCE ROE V. WADE OVERTURNED. A National Right to Life report notes that the annual number of abortions was on the increase in the years leading up to Dobbs, largely due to the promotion of the abortion pill, but 89,000 preborn children have been saved since Dobbs due to new protective state laws. Read more here.
ACTIVISTS INFILTRATE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO ADVANCE PRO-ABORTION, PRO-TRANSGENDER ‘BLUEPRINT.’ Abortion activists have been strategically infiltrating government agencies through a somewhat secret program called the “Blueprint Appointments Project,” a recruitment scheme to expand abortion. Read more here.
UK SURVEY FINDS OVER HALF OF MOTHERS WHO HAD AN ABORTION SAY IT WAS DUE TO THE COST OF CHILDCARE. According to the findings of this survey, 52.5 percent of UK mothers who have had an abortion somewhat agree or absolutely agree with the statement, “I believe that the cost of childcare was the primary reason for me to terminate a pregnancy.” Read more here.
CHRISTIANS PROTEST GERMAN BILL TO CRACK DOWN ON PRO-LIFE PRAYERS. Christians in Germany are expressing their concerns over a proposed bill that aims to establish censorship zones around abortion facilities, potentially penalizing pro-life prayers and offers of help, with major fines. Read more here.
A RECORD OF OVER 10,000 ABORTIONS IN IRELAND IN 2023, NEW FIGURES SUGGEST. The Republic of Ireland experienced the highest number of abortions since it was made legal in the country, with the latest figures suggesting there were over 10,000 abortions in 2023. Read more here.
VIOLENT ABORTION ACTIVISTS ATTACK PEACEFUL PRO-LIFE AMERICANS. The Planned Parenthood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina has sent four women to the hospital for hemorrhaging in recent months, drawing several groups and churches who offer women compassionate support and life-affirming options – but not without harassment from violent abortion supporters. Read more here.
OKLAHOMA LAWMAKERS ADVANCE BILLS REGULATING ABORTION DRUGS AND MORE. Two bills that would further strengthen protections for preborn children passed through an Oklahoma House committee, one that would make it a felony to share or traffic chemical abortion drugs, punishable by a hefty fine and/or 10 years in prison. Read more here.
BOGUS STUDY FALSELY CLAIMS ABORTION PILL IS NOT DANGEROUS FOR WOMEN. The journal Nature published a study purportedly showing that telemed chemical abortions pose few health risks, but the study relies on survey data and therefore fails to track health outcomes from all of the women who had obtained chemical abortions. Read more here.
MARYLAND GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES MAJOR FUNDING FOR ABORTION. Governor Wes Moore announced massive new funding to advance abortion in the state, including a grant for Maryland’s Abortion Care Clinical Training Program at the University of Maryland. Read more here.
FIRST PRO-LIFE ‘MED ED’ BILL IN THE U.S. PASSES SOUTH DAKOTA HOUSE. A bill designed to give doctors information about the state’s pro-life law and how it applies to other members of the medical community is one step closer to becoming law as pro-lifers continue to combat what they view as efforts to deliberately mislead voters about their state’s abortion laws. Read more here.
WEST VIRGINIA SENATE PASSES TWO CRUCIAL LIFE-AFFIRMING BILLS. Currently, nearly all preborn children in the state are protected from abortion, though there are exceptions if the abortion is considered necessary to protect the life of the mother, if the pregnancy is no longer viable, or in cases of rape. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION VALENTINE’S DAY CARDS CLAIM ABORTING BABIES IS LOVING. Though the left agrees that Valentine’s Day is all about love, many outlets and groups are using the holiday to promote something that’s completely antithetical to the idea of love – abortion. Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE DEFEATS AMENDMENT TO MAKE ABORTION A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. The state of New Hampshire will not be the next to declare that aborting babies is a right under the state Constitution, because the state Senate voted against an attempt to do so. Read more here.
DEMOCRAT WANTS TO GIVE ABORTIONISTS TAX CREDITS TO MOVE TO ILLINOIS TO ABORT BABIES. State Representative Kelly Cassidy filed House Bill 5152, which would give a $500 tax credit to any abortionist who moves to the state to abort babies. Read more here.
UK NEUROLOGIST – INVESTIGATED AND PUT ON TRIAL FOR HIS PRO-LIFE BELIEFS – WINS BIG VICTORY. The United Kingdom’s General Medical Council has exonerated the Rev. Dr. Patrick Pullicino, an experienced consultant neurologist and ordained Catholic priest who was investigated for three years after giving a pro-life medical opinion in an end-of-life court case. Read more here.
ATTORNEY GETS 180 DAYS IN JAIL FOR DRUGGING WIFE TO ABORT CHILD. Mason Herring, a Texas attorney who secretly laced his pregnant wife’s drinks multiple times in a failed attempt to abort their unborn daughter, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and another 10 years on probation for his crimes. Read more here.
VIRGINIA LAWMAKERS PASS BILLS TO PROTECT LAW-BREAKING ABORTIONISTS. Virginia lawmakers passed several rounds of legislation that would prohibit the state from extraditing a woman or abortionist who has violated pro-life laws in another state, as well as preventing the Board of Medicine from investigating out-of-state abortion violations. Read more here.
EXTREME ‘SELF-ABORTION TO BIRTH’ AMENDMENT REVIVED IN UK. MP Diana Johnson’s pro-abortion amendment would make it legal for a woman to self-abort at any point in pregnancy in the UK. Read more here.
A TENNESSEE HOUSE PANEL ADVANCES A BILL THAT WOULD CRIMINALIZE HELPING MINORS GET ABORTION. Tennessee would become the latest state to make it illegal for an adult to help a minor get an abortion without parental consent under legislation that advanced inside the GOP-controlled statehouse. Read more here.
ARKANSAS PRO-LIFE GROUPS LAUNCH EFFORTS TO DEFEAT RADICAL ABORTION AMENDMENT. Pro-life organizations in the state are pushing back and launching campaigns against an amendment that would legalize abortion by writing it into the Arkansas Constitution. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION GROUPS SUE MICHIGAN AG TO UNDO REMAINING SAFEGUARDS FOR ABORTION SEEKERS. Due to a relatively new pro-abortion amendment in the state, pro-abortion groups in Michigan are now suing to undo even the most basic informed consent and safety measures for women seeking abortions. Read more here.
BABY BORN AT 24 WEEKS IS THE SMALLEST EVER TO SURVIVE AT NEBRASKA HOSPITAL. John McClinton, nicknamed “Buddy” by his parents, was born weighing only 14.1 ounces, though he stopped growing at around 20 weeks’ gestation. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE ATTORNEYS BLOCK DC FROM DESTROYING FULL-TERM BABIES IN POTENTIALLY ILLEGAL ABORTIONS. In an 11th-hour victory, pro-life attorneys have stopped Washington D.C., from destroying the bodies of five full-term aborted babies who were victims of infanticide at a late-term abortion facility. Read more here.
IOWA PRO-LIFERS CELEBRATE CLOSING OF LARGEST ABORTION CENTER IN STATE CAPITOL. Maggie DeWitte, executive director of Pulse Life Advocates, founded in 1972 and now one of the longest standing pro-life organizations in Iowa, celebrated the closure and called for renewed efforts to end all abortions in the state. Read more here.
ECUADOR’S TOP COURT AUTHORIZES BOTH VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA. Under the terms of the 79-page ruling, doctors who euthanize their patient will not suffer the penalty for voluntary homicide laid down in the Ecuadorian penal code if the person concerned expresses “unequivocal, free and informed consent” to an active euthanasia procedure. Read more here.
MAN GETS PROBATION FOR ATTEMPTING TO TAKE LIFE OF PREGNANT WOMAN’S PREBORN BABY. A Texas man who assaulted his pregnant girlfriend in an attempt to cause their preborn child’s death has pled guilty to the charges against him and was sentenced only to probation. Read more here.
RESEARCH SHOWS INCREASED FERTILITY RATE IN TEXAS THE YEAR ROE WAS OVERTURNED. The University of Houston’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality released a report on the Texas Heartbeat Act and found that the Texas fertility rate increased by 2 percentage points in 2022, in large part because of the Heartbeat Act. Read more here.
14-YEAR-OLD GIRL SUFFERS PERFORATION DURING BOTCHED ABORTION. The Access Health Center in Downers Grove, Illinois downplayed the girl’s abortion injury in a 911 call for help, claiming the person only needed to be transferred for “monitoring.” Read more here.
HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL FIGHTS BACK AGAINST CALIFORNIA’S ATTEMPT TO FORCE WOMEN TO ABORT THEIR BABIES. Thomas More Society attorneys asked a California Superior Court to throw out a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta against Heartbeat International and RealOptions Obria Medical Clinics, over their advocacy for Abortion Pill Reversal. Read more here.
ABORTION ACTIVISTS ARRESTED IN FLORIDA FOR SUBMITTING FAKE SIGNATURES FOR RADICAL ABORTION AMENDMENT. Inspectors with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement have arrested one paid petition circulator and issued an arrest warrant for a second individual for submitting fraudulent signatures in their drive to enshrine late-term abortion in the state. Read more here.
DOJ ADVISED D.C. MEDICAL EXAMINER TO DISPOSE OF ABORTED BABY BODIES, LAWYER SAYS. The remains are from an abortion clinic in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood of D.C., and pro-life activists believe the baby bodies are evidence that a D.C. abortionist was performing illegal abortions. Read more here.
‘COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED’: MEDICAL JOURNAL RETRACTS MAJOR STUDIES CRITICAL OF ABORTION PILL AHEAD OF SUPREME COURT CLASH. Three studies, including two on the potential harms of the abortion pill were retracted by Sage Publishing, an independent academic publishing company. Read more here.
PROHIBITION AGAINST ‘THE DELIBERATE KILLING OF A PATIENT’ REMOVED FROM IRISH MEDICAL COUNCIL ETHICAL GUIDANCE. The most recent General Medical Council in the UK has specific guidance for end-of-life care, which states, “This guidance takes account of, and is consistent with, current law across the UK, including … the law prohibiting killing (including euthanasia) and assisted suicide.” Read more here.
‘MISSING’ GIRLS: SELECTIVE ABORTION IN ALBANIA FUELS GENDER GAP. By even the most modest estimates, Albania is “missing” thousands of girls, following years of sex-selective abortions that led to the termination of pregnancies by families hoping for male children. Read more here.
KATELYNN TOOK THE ABORTION PILL AND IMMEDIATELY REGRETTED IT. THANKFULLY BABY AUBREY’S LIFE WAS SAVED. After taking the first abortion pill at Planned Parenthood, Katelynn Perry was instructed to go to her local pharmacy to pick up the other pills to complete the abortion, but she decided she wouldn’t do that because it was possible that her baby was still alive and could be saved. Read more here.
THE FUTURE OF THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT: MEET 6 GEN-Z LEADERS. About one-third of Generation Z is missing because of abortion, so it’s understandable why nearly 9 out of 10 millennials and Gen Z-ers have expressed support for limitations on abortion. Read more here.
INDIA COURT REJECTS REQUEST TO ABORT 28-WEEK-OLD UNBORN BABY. Abortion is legal in India, with court approval needed for late-term abortions. The Delhi High Court has rejected a late-term abortion of a 28-week-old baby who is viable and in perfect health. Read more here.
MISSISSIPPI EYES QUICKER MEDICAID COVERAGE IN PREGNANCY TO TRY TO REDUCE DEATHS OF MOMS AND BABIES. Mississippi could allow Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the nation’s worst rate of infant mortality. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS ABORTION PILL SAFETY STANDARDS ARE ‘DAMAGING FOR WOMEN.’ The U.S. Justice Department and Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of mifepristone, have submitted filings to the Supreme Court urging a reversal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s ruling to reinstate safety measures on the abortion pill. Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATURE STOPS BILL TO MAKE ABORTION A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. A constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights through 24 weeks of pregnancy gained narrow majority support on a vote of 193-184, but it fell short of the necessary three-fifths of the house to advance. Read more here.
LIVE ACTION’S ‘BABY OLIVIA’ FETAL DEVELOPMENT VIDEO IS MEDICALLY ACCURATE DESPITE MEDIA CLAIMS. Live Action’s Baby Olivia video, a medically accurate, animated glimpse of human life from the moment of fertilization, has come under fire from media sources as pro-life legislators draft state bills to ensure accurate fetal development is taught in schools. Read more here.
OVERLOOKED FINDINGS OF THE TURNAWAY STUDY. The Turnaway Study conducted by Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health claims women do not regret their abortions, but the findings actually show the opposite is true. Read more here.
SINGAPORE’S YOUNGEST SURVIVING PREEMIE IS NOW FIVE … AND THRIVING. A premature baby girl from Singapore, born at 22 weeks, is now five years old and is considered a miraculous milestone because she is the only known surviving child to be born so early in gestation in the country. Read more here.
FRENCH LEGISLATORS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTE TO ENSHRINE ‘FREEDOM’ OF ABORTION IN CONSTITUTION. An overwhelming majority of members of the French National Assembly approved a government-proposed revision of the Constitution enshrining the “freedom” of women to have an abortion: 493 members voted in favor, while only 30 voted against and 23 abstained. Read more here.
CANADIAN ABORTION BIZ CLOSES DOWN. Clinic 554, a Canadian abortion business that was formerly owned and operated by the infamous Henry Morgentaler, is closing down. Read more here.
TEXAS SAW OVER 16,000 MORE BIRTHS YEAR AFTER PASSING SIX-WEEK ABORTION BAN. The birth surge in 2022 came after Texas implemented its six-week abortion ban the year prior, according to a report from the University of Houston. Read more here.
NEW UK POLL INDICATES VERY LITTLE SUPPORT FOR MP’S RADICAL ABORTION UP TO BIRTH PROPOSAL. The poll revealed that only 16 percent of the general population disagree that it should remain the case that a woman is breaking the law if she has an abortion of a healthy baby after the current 24-week legal time limit up until birth. Read more here.
ABORTION COMPARED TO PROSTATE EXAM IN WESTMINSTER, UK DEBATE. During a debate on removing abortion from the criminal law, an MP argued that abortion has no more moral importance than a prostate exam. Read more here.
ABORTION BUFFER ZONE CASE RAISES IMPORTANT ISSUES FOR U.S. SUPREME COURT. Liberty Counsel filed a reply brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Reilly v. City of Harrisburg, where a buffer zone ordinance restricts only pro-life speech outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility. Read more here.
ABORTION PILL REVERSAL HAS SAVED 5,000 BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. With estimates indicating that more than half of all abortions conducted in the United States are chemical abortion, abortion pill reversal has become increasingly crucial for moms who take the chemical abortion pill and experience regret. Read more here.
POLISH LAWMAKERS INTRODUCE BILL TO LEGALIZE ABORTION THROUGH FIRST TRIMESTER AND BEYOND. Lawmakers associated with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk have introduced legislation that would undo the country’s widespread preborn protections and allow abortion on demand up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. Read more here.
ABORTION DRUGS KILL BABIES AND HURT WOMEN, BUT THEY CAN BE REVERSED AND SAVE A CHILD’S LIFE. In a Congressional briefing, the pro-life organization Heartbeat International warned of chemical abortion dangers and highlighted Heartbeat’s life-saving work of offering women abortion pill reversal resources. Read more here.
TULANE PROFESSOR: SCHOOLS SHOULD TRAIN STUDENTS TO BE ABORTION ACTIVISTS. Clare Daniel, an administrative associate professor of women’s leadership at Tulane, wrote in Ms. Magazine that universities should be actively involved in training students to advocate for abortion and other reproductive rights issues. Read more here.
ABORTION HURTS WOMEN: 1 IN 25 WOMEN WHO TAKE THE ABORTION PILL WILL WIND UP IN THE ER. The U.S. Supreme Court has set March 26 as the date it will hear oral arguments in a highly anticipated case regarding the legality of the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone. Read more here.
PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT MAKES KEY DECISION ON ABORTION RIGHTS. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling instructing a lower court to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a decades-old state law barring the use of Medicaid dollars for abortion costs. Read more here.
WISCONSIN GOVERNOR VOWS TO VETO BILL PROTECTING PREBORN CHILDREN AFTER 14 WEEKS. Assembly Bill 975 was narrowly approved in a 53-46 vote though some Republicans refused to vote in its favor because they felt 14 weeks was too late in the pregnancy. The bill now needs to pass the Wisconsin Senate before heading to Gov. Evers’ desk. Read more here.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY FIRES PROFESSOR WHO BROUGHT IN ‘ABORTION DOULA.’ Catholic University has terminated the contract of the professor who invited a self-declared “abortion doula” (someone who provides non-judgmental, emotional or physical support and care before, during and after a medical or surgical abortion) to speak to students about coaching women through abortions and “pregnant men” through a “seahorse birth.” Read more here.
GERMAN LAWMAKERS PUSH FOR ABORTION FACILITY BUFFER ZONES DESPITE HIGH COURT RULING. German Family Minister Lisa Paus announced legislation that would establish a buffer zone of 100 meters around the country’s abortion facilities, as well as counseling centers that promote abortion. Read more here.
RED STATES PUSHING TO BLOCK ABORTION MEASURES FROM STATEWIDE BALLOTS AHEAD OF 2024 ELECTION. Republican-led legislatures are pushing to block statewide ballot measures on abortion in 2024, following a series of defeats on the issue. Read more here.
137 U.S. ABORTION BUSINESSES HAVE CLOSED SINCE OVERTURN OF ROE V. WADE. The clinic closures occurred between 2022 and 2023, and cities that once had abortion mills in full operation are now abortion-free. Read more here.
PROPOSED ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW MAY PROVE MEANINGLESS IN PRO-ABORTION WASHINGTON. A new bill, SB 6006, would address trafficking by making state law more consistent with the federal Justice for Victims Trafficking Act, and would “improve how the state identifies and responds to victims, provides them with continued care, and brings justice.” Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION STUDY CLAIMING PRO-LIFE LAWS CAUSE THOUSANDS OF PREGNANCIES FROM RAPE IS TOTALLY FALSE. The academic journal JAMA Internal Medicine published a study claiming that 519,981 pregnancies resulted from 64,565 rape in states that enacted strong post-Dobbs pro-life laws, but multiple sources make those figures highly suspect. Read more here.
INSTITUTE TEACHES PRO-LIFE STUDENTS TO CULTIVATE PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE WITH PRO-CHOICERS. A pro-life organization called the Equal Rights Institute is helping college students to pursue fruitful, civil dialogues about abortion in an increasingly divisive political culture. Read more here.
NORTH DAKOTA JUDGE REFUSES TO BLOCK PRO-LIFE LAW … FOR NOW. The lawsuit will continue to move forward, with a jury trial set to take place in August. Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD DIRECTOR ADMITS: WE TAKE TEENS TO OTHER STATES FOR SECRET ABORTIONS ‘EVERY DAY.’ Parents are not told about their underage daughter’s abortion at Planned Parenthood in some U.S. states, and the abortion giant is also involved in trafficking the minors across state lines according to an investigative journalism group’s recent undercover probe. Read more here.
U.S. HOUSE PASSES LEGISLATION SUPPORTING WOMEN EXPERIENCING UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES. The House of Representatives passed two bills aimed at supporting women and families who are experiencing unplanned pregnancies. The Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act and The Pregnant Students’ Rights Act would provide protection for women from feeling like they have no choice but to abort their preborn children. Read more here.
RADICAL ARKANSAS AMENDMENT WOULD LEGALIZE ABORTIONS, OVERTURN PRO-LIFE LAWS. In addition to legalizing abortion, the measure would also overturn virtually every pro-life law in the state that protects babies from abortions – including the state’s abortion ban protecting unborn children and laws designed to protect the health and safety of women. Read more here.
EL SALVADOR WOMAN FREED AFTER ABORTION CONVICTION. A Salvadoran woman serving a 30-year sentence for aborting her child has been freed from prison after serving seven years, in a nation where abortion is illegal. Read more here.
DESPITE RISE IN COMPLICATIONS, PENNSYLVANIA LAWMAKERS WANT TO END ABORTION FACILITY SAFEGUARDS. Pennsylvania Democrats have introduced legislation that would revoke the state’s “target restrictions on abortion providers” — a move that would further endanger women in the state by removing common-sense safety measures. Read more here.
INFAMOUS MARIE STOPES DIRECTOR AUTHORED ROYAL COLLEGE ADVICE NOT TO REPORT ILLEGAL ABORTIONS. Abortion idealogue Dr. Jonathan Lord, the medical director at Marie Stopes International Reproductive Choices, authored guidelines that told its members not to report illegal abortions to the police, even if an unborn baby’s life is at risk. Read more here.
‘ROE CANADA’ CO-STAR SAYS PRO-LIFERS MUST BE ‘WILLING TO MAKE SACRIFICES TO SEE CHANGE.’ Josie Luetke, the director of Education and Advocacy for Campaign Life Coalition and one who appeared in the new pro-life documentary Roe Canada: The True North in a Post-Roe World, is calling on all pro-lifers to join the fight for life, whatever the personal cost. Read more here.
NEW YORK MAKES IT EASIER TO GET AN ABORTION THAN TO ADOPT A BABY THANKS TO HOCHUL ADMIN, EDICT CRITICS SAY. Adoptive and would-be adoptive parents and their lawyers are blasting a rule recently evoked by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Office of Children and Family Services that limits the financial support adoptive families can give to out-of-state birth mothers. Read more here.
CHICAGO ABORTION BIZ SENDS WOMAN TO ER, HIDES BOTCHED ABORTION DETAILS FROM 911. Operation Rescue reported that since Illinois became an abortion destination state after the reversal of Roe V. Wade, there has been a marked increase in medical emergencies arising after failed abortions. Read more here.
DO NOT REPORT ILLEGAL LATE-TERM ABORTIONS, UK RCOG TELLS HEALTH WORKERS, EVEN WHEN BABY’S LIFE IS AT RISK. The UK’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidance statement advised its members, “In considering whether there is a valid justification for breaching confidentiality to protect the safety of others, the ‘safety of the fetus’ is not a valid reason because in law the fetus does not have personhood status.” Read more here.
ABORTIONS DROP 3.3% IN WASHINGTON STATE AS MORE BABIES ARE SAVED. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, there were 16,349 abortions performed in Washington in 2021, down 3 percent from 2020, but chemical abortions increased in 2021 by 4 percent. Read more here.
ARGENTINA PRESIDENT JAVIER MILEI SLAMS THE ‘BLOODY AGENDA’ OF ABORTION. Argentina President Javier Milei slammed abortion and radical feminism in an address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Read more here.
THREE MORE STATES ALLOWED TO JOIN TEXAS AS PLAINTIFFS IN ABORTION PILL LAWSUIT AGAINST FDA. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk granted a motion allowing Idaho, Missouri and Kansas to join Texas as plaintiffs in the lawsuit Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read more here.
FRANCE MOVES TO ENSHRINE ABORTION IN CONSTITUTION. The Parliament’s laws committee approved draft language that would offer women a “guaranteed freedom” to end pregnancies. Read more here.
NEW POLL SHOWS 65% OF YOUNG VOTERS SUPPORT ABORTION LIMITS. The Students for Life of America & Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement 2024 YouGov Poll contained results coming from Gen Z and Millennials showing that more than 6 in 10 (65 percent) of the Youth Vote support limits on abortion. Read more here.
WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS INTRODUCE BILL TO PROTECT BABIES FROM ABORTION. Wisconsin has a 20-week legal ban on abortion, and Republican state legislators introduced a bill that would shorten it to 14 weeks. Read more here.
STUDENT LEADER’S ‘SIMPLE WORDS OF ENCOURAGMENT’ SAVE BABY’S LIFE. Carrena Falls, president of the Eagles for Life club at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul in Minnesota, influenced a young mother who had been heavily pressured to abort her unborn child to consider a pregnancy resource center as an alternative, resulting in the birth of baby Luke. Read more here.
ABORTION RIGHTS CLASHES WITH NIMBYISM IN CALIFORNIA. There would seem to be no place friendlier to abortion rights than Beverly Hills, where the city council voted unanimously on a resolution supporting access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which is why not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) boards in the wealthy city are such a surprise. Read more here.
IRISH MEDICAL COUNCIL REMOVES DIRECTIVE AGAINST EUTHANASIA BY DOCTORS. Only five years after the legalization of abortion in Ireland, protections against euthanasia — the intentional ending of patients’ lives by doctors — have been removed from the latest Irish Medical Council’s Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Medical Practitioners. The new guide took effect on January 1, 2024. Read more here.
MAGAZINE CALLS FOR ABORTIONISTS TO BE HAILED AS ‘HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS.’ Ms. Magazine, which is openly pro-abortion, has sunk to a new low with a new op-ed calling for abortionists to be deified as “human rights defenders.” Read more here.
KRISTI NOEM DECLARES 2024 TO BE ‘FREEDOM FOR LIFE’ YEAR IN SOUTH DAKOTA. Gov. Kristi Noem has declared 2024 to be “Freedom for Life” year for the state, affirming that residents must “have the Freedom to get off to the right start,” a right that “extends to every single South Dakotan – before they are born; after they are born; until the day they die.” Read more here.
UNTIL NOW, ABORTION WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE AT THE FAROE ISLANDS; NOW THIS MIGHT CHANGE. The bill proposed by the government earlier this week aims to give women on the Danish Islands unrestricted access to abortion on demand up to and including the 12th week of pregnancy. Read more here.
SHOCK: ABORTION COMPLICATIONS TRIPLE IN PRO-ABORTION PENNSYLVANIA. A recent report released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health shows that abortions are up in the pro-abortion state, and along with the rise, abortion complications in the state have tripled in the last five years. Read more here.
AMERICAN RED CROSS, OTHER TOP CHARITIES EXPOSED FOR PROMOTING ABORTION. American Life League’s Charity Watchlist has assigned negative ratings to the American Red Cross, United Way and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for supporting the abortion industry. Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS DEPT. OF HEALTH THREATENS HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS OVER ABORTION PILL REVERSAL. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health recently sent a memo to all licensed healthcare professionals, warning them against practicing “in violation of good and accepted care practice,” citing Abortion Pill Reversal as an unacceptable healthcare practice. Read more here.
IDAHO LAWMAKERS PASS A BILL TO PREVENT MINORS FROM LEAVING THE STATE FOR ABORTION. After clearing both legislative chambers, Idaho could become the first state in the country, according to Planned Parenthood, to criminally charge those who help pregnant minors get an abortion across state lines without parental consent. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS HELP RECORD NUMBER OF WOMEN AFTER DOBSS OVERTURNED ROE. The report, “Hope for a New Generation,” shows that pregnancy centers responded to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022 with flying colors, as 2,750 pregnancy centers increased the number of clients seen, services provided and material resources distributed as compared to data collected for 2019. Read more here.
PILLS BY POST TO BLAME FOR ARRESTS OF WOMEN, PRO-ABORTION RIGHTS ‘EXPERT’ ADMITS. Dr. Claire Pierson, a so-called “abortion rights expert,” has admitted that DIY home abortion, otherwise known as pills by post, is to blame for the recent arrest and prosecution of Carla Foster and several other women, and that “it’s a stretch” to hold the pro-life movement responsible. Read more here.
MINNESOTA GOVERNOR TIM WALZ WANTS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORT BABIES. Governor Walz defended the call for a pro-abortion amendment by calling abortion “health care,” even though legitimate health care doesn’t end the lives of patients. Read more here.
INDIANA JUDGE DISMISSES PRO-ABORTION NOTRE DAME PROFESSOR’S DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST STUDENT JOURNALISTS. Tamara Kay, a sociology and global-affairs professor, claimed the Irish Rover, the school’s independent conservative student newspaper, published two articles containing “defamatory and false statements,” but the judge dismissed it as a frivolous lawsuit. Read more here.
MOM REFUSES ABORTION WHEN TOLD HER SON WOULD HAVE DOWN SYNDROME: ‘HE’S A GIFT FROM GOD.’ Marsha Weigum was told that there was a 99-percent chance her son would be born with Down’s syndrome, and while her immediate response was to ask what this meant for her child’s prenatal care, her doctor’s reply was “you can terminate if you choose.” Read more here.
WOMAN INJURED AT CHICAGO ABORTION BUSINESS, BUT CITY REFUSES TO RELEASE 911 AUDIO. Watchdog group Operation Rescue has learned that that the Chicago abortion facility Family Planning Associates Medical Group had injured many women during abortions. Read more here.
‘SPA-LIKE’ ABORTION BUSINESS PARTNERS WITH CLOSED VIRTUAL ABORTION PILL DISPENSARY. Carafem, the abortion business that built its brand on being a “spa-like” experience and once marketed abortion pills as “missed period” pills, is partnering with the now-closed virtual abortion pill dispensary Choix, Inc. Read more here.
NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CONFIRMS ‘ABORTION IS NOT HEALTH CARE.’ In State of Texas v. Becerra, Christian Medical & Dental Associations joined the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from attempting to employ the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to force physicians capable of performing elective abortions to provide them in the emergency room. Read more here.
MAINE CITIZENS WITH PRIVATE INSURANCE CAN NOW GET ABORTIONS FOR ‘FREE’ AND WITHOUT LIMIT. A new pro-abortion law took effect in Maine January 1 – An Act to Remove Barriers to Abortion Coverage in Private Insurance – preventing private health insurance companies in the state from carrying deductibles or co-pays for abortions. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE COMPANY RAISES FUNDS FOR PREGNANCY CENTERS. Seven Weeks Coffee, a pro-life coffee company has made a major donation to pregnancy resource centers nationwide to enable them to continue serving as a “shield and protector” to pregnant women, as centers in some states face threats to their funding and ability to operate. Read more here.
ARKANSAS AG AGAIN REJECTS ‘MISLEADING’ ABORTION AMENDMENT BALLOT WORDING. Attorney General Tim Griffin has, for the second time, rejected the wording of a proposed constitutional amendment which, if passed, would make abortion a right within the state constitution. Read more here.
JUDGE SAYS FEDERAL LAW ‘DOES NOT PROVIDE AN UNQUALIFIED RIGHT’ TO ABORTION. A federal appeals court ruled this week that Texas can uphold its pro-life laws and is not legally required to adhere to a pro-abortion federal law issued by President Joe Biden in 2022. Read more here.
FLORIDA ABORTION PROPOSAL HAS ENOUGH SUPPORT TO GET ON THE BALLOT. Floridians Protecting Freedom, the organization behind the push to make abortion a constitutional right in the Sunshine State, announced it submitted more than 900,000 petition signatures, and the Florida Division of Elections verified them. Read more here.
APPEALS COURT BLOCKS BIDEN FROM FORCING EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTORS TO PERFORM ABORTIONS. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously ruled to continue an injunction against the Biden administration’s federal guidance requiring emergency room medical staff to perform abortions. Read more here.
JUDGE ALLOWS PORTION OF LAWSUIT CHALLENGING IDAHO’S PRO-LIFE LAW TO CONTINUE. A judge has refused to dismiss an abortion industry lawsuit challenging an Idaho law protecting nearly all preborn children from abortion, though he agreed with several of pro-life Attorney General Raul Labrador’s other motions. Read more here.
COMMANDER OF ARKANSAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD RESIGNS TO PROTEST BIDEN’S POLICY FUNDING ABORTION TRAVEL. Colonel Dillon Patterson has resigned as commander of the 188th Wing of Ebbing Air National Guard Base because of a policy President Joe Biden implemented forcing the military to fund abortion travel. Read more here.
NEW ZEALAND STUDY FINDS THAT BECOMING A PARENT IMPACTS SUPPORT FOR ABORTION. A nine-year study conducted in New Zealand and published in 2023 found that support for abortion slowed after the study participants became parents themselves. Read more here.
ABORTION WAS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH WORLDWIDE IN 2023, KILLING 73 MILLION PEOPLE. Worldometers bases its daily abortion figures on a fact sheet from the World Health Organization, which estimates an even higher figure for abortions per year than Worldometers – around 73 million last year. Read more here.
HALF OF PENNSYLVANIA ABORTION FACILITIES FAILED HEALTH INSPECTIONS LAST YEAR. Recent reporting from PA Family reveals that half of all abortion facilities in Pennsylvania failed a state health inspection in 2023, which may put the majority of women receiving an elective abortion in the state at risk. Read more here.
FULL LIST: EVENTS SURROUNDING THE 2024 MARCH FOR LIFE. The annual U.S. March for Life – the second one since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturned Roe v. Wade – takes place January 19 in Washington, D.C. Read more here.
ARKANSAS GOV. SARAH SANDERS ISSUES PROCLAMATION TO LOWER ITS FLAGS, MOURN 65 MILLION BABIES ABORTED. In 2021 the Arkansas General Assembly passed H.C.R. 1007 recognizing January 22 — the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Roe v. Wade abortion decision — as The Day of Tears in Arkansas and encouraging Arkansans to lower their flags to half-staff every year on that day. Read more here.
UN ATTACKS AFRICAN ATTITUDES ABOUT ABORTION. The United Nations Population Fund and the World Health Organization released a report committed to coupling health services and abortion in Southeast Africa and said that no country in that region, such as Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda among others, will be able to attain universal health care without universal sexual and reproductive care. Read more here.
BRAZIL’S CONGRESS NIXES GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF ABORTIONS, ‘SEX CHANGES’ FOR MINORS. The National Congress of Brazil passed an amendment to the Budgetary Guidelines Law of 2024 that prohibits the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions and “sex-change” surgeries for minors, but socialist President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva is expected to veto it. Read more here.
STATES GIVE MONEY TO PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS AFTER DOBBS. Public funds have been allocated for distribution between 2023 and 2025, and will increase to a nine-figure amount according to data from the pro-legal abortion groups Guttmacher Institute and Equity Forward. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE VISITORS TARGETED BY NATIONAL ARCHIVES WIN MAJOR SETTLEMENT. The National Archives and Records Administration settled a lawsuit with visitors who were asked to remove or cover up pro-life attire at the facility. Read more here.
KENTUCKY MUSIC FESTIVAL RAISES FUNDING FOR PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS. The funds raised will be donated to various pro-life pregnancy centers across the state, which provide a variety of services, including ultrasounds, adoption referrals, financial and material aid to mothers and therapy for mothers who have had an abortion or a miscarriage. Read more here.
PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO IS CUTTING FUNDING TO PREGNANCY CENTERS THAT HELP WOMEN. The Real Alternatives pregnancy resource center is scrambling to raise funds after the governor re-directed its state funding to Planned Parenthood. Read more here.
ABORTION CLINIC OWNER BRAGS SHE KILLS BABIES UP TO 34 WEEKS OLD. Morgan Nuzzo is the co-owner of an abortion business in Maryland, and she aborts preborn babies up to the age of 34 weeks when a child is well past viability. Read more here.
RUSSIA MOVES TO BAN ABORTION IN PRIVATE CLINICS. Deputies of the Nizhny Novgorod region say private clinics should not be allowed to perform abortions because they do not provide women with sufficient counselling before an abortion and also do not always comply with the rule that a woman has a consideration period of at least a week between the consultation and the actual abortion. Read more here.
AUL RELEASES ANNUAL STATE PRO-LIFE RANKINGS. Americans United For Life ranks Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Indiana as the top five most pro-life states and Vermont, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii in the bottom five. Read more here.
WISCONSIN DA APPEALS JUDGE’S RULING, FIGHTS FOR PRO-LIFE LAW TO SAVE BABIES FROM ABORTION. Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski is challenging a Dane County judge’s ruling that essentially ended the Wisconsin abortion ban that had saved thousands of babies after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Read more here.
FIFTH TEXAS COUNTY OUTLAWS ABORTION AND USE OF ROADS FOR ‘ABORTION TRAFFICKING.’ The Commissioners’ Court of Dawson County, Texas, passed an ordinance outlawing abortion and abortion trafficking within the unincorporated area of Dawson County. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION GROUPS PUSH FOR U.S. TAXPAYERS TO FUND ABORTIONS IN OTHER NATIONS. In a new op-ed for The Hill, abortion advocates Akila Radhakrishnan and Anu Kumar urged the Biden administration to put an end to the Helms Amendment, which prevents taxpayer dollars from funding abortions in other countries around the world. Read more here.
OHIO SUPREME COURT DISMISSES YOST’S APPEAL IN ABORTION HEARTBEAT LAW CASE. The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed an appeal from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost that challenged a preliminary injunction on Ohio’s Heartbeat Law. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTER SUES NJ ATTORNEY GENERAL OVER ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL SUBPOENA.’ The Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit on behalf of First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a Christian, pro-life, medical nonprofit, to block a subpoena issued by Attorney General Matthew Platkin that requires the organization to produce extensive documentation or face judicial sanctions. Read more here.
IDAHO ASKS JUDGE TO DISMISS PRO-ABORTION LAWSUIT SO IT CAN KEEP PROTECTING BABIES. An Idaho county judge said last week he would likely rule on a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the State of Idaho by pro-abortion plaintiffs who aim to challenge the “limited scope of the medical exceptions” in Idaho’s pro-life laws. Read more here.
EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS RULES AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PREBORN CHILDREN. The European Court of Human Rights ruled a Polish court that prevented a woman from aborting her preborn child with Down syndrome had violated her right to privacy. Read more here.
COMPLICATION RATES 160 TIMES HIGHER FOR MEDICAL ABORTIONS AT 20 WEEKS AND AFTER. A UK government review of abortion statistics for England and Wales revealed that abortion complication rates for medical abortions at 20 weeks was more than 160 times higher than complication rates for medical abortions at 2 to 9 weeks gestation. Read more here.
BRITISH NEONATAL UNITS ARE HALF EMPTY AS MORE BABIES ARE ABORTED. Half of the neonatal cots in a North London hospital are empty as birth rates continue to plummet, says the NHS, as data released in Scotland reveals a 7.5 percent drop in births, while abortion reaches unprecedented levels around the UK. Read more here.
U.S. STATE SUPREME COURTS TO DECIDE THE FATE OF MULTIPLE PRO-LIFE LAWS. Three state Supreme Courts heard oral arguments on abortion cases this week and are expected to weigh in on several pieces of pro-life legislation that were passed after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Read more here.
SCOTUS DECLINES TO REVIEW NEW YORK ABORTION BUFFER ZONE LAW, LEAVING IT IN PLACE. The United States Supreme Court declined to review New York’s abortion facility buffer zone law, missing an opportunity to uphold the First Amendment rights of sidewalk counselors engaging in compassionate conversations with pregnant women on public sidewalks. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP TO SUBMIT THOUSANDS OF ABORTION PILL HORROR STORIES FOR SUPREME COURT CASE. A legal brief to be submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming review of federal abortion pill rules will present the experiences of thousands of women injured by the very drugs that the Biden administration wants distributed with virtually no medical oversight. Read more here.
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION OPENED INTO UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OVER FETAL TISSUE EXPERIMENTS. The inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services opened up an investigation into the University of Pittsburgh after it was accused of illegally harvesting fetal tissue from aborted babies for experimentation. Read more here.
WISCONSIN ABORTION BAN HAS SAVED AT LEAST 4,500 BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. Over 1,500 babies are alive today who would have otherwise been aborted in Wisconsin during the first 6 months of 2023. That means approximately 4,500 babies have been saved from abortions overall since Wisconsin’s pre-Roe abortion law. Read more here.
OB-GYN SAYS ABORTION PILL INJURES 20% OF WOMEN WHO TAKE IT, SOME WOMEN HAVE DIED. Dr. Ingrid Skop, a board-certified OB-GYN who serves as vice president and director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, says the abortion pill is so dangerous that 20 percent of women who take the abortion drug will be injured by it or deal with complications. Read more here.
MICHIGAN GOVERNOR SIGNS EVEN MORE PRO-ABORTION LEGISLATION. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed more pro-abortion legislation into law marking the final stage of an expansive abortion package championed by Whitmer throughout the legislative year. Read more here.
BOWLING GREEN STUDENT PLEADS GUILTY TO VANDALIZING PRO-LIFE CENTER. The student pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which prohibits a person from intentionally damaging or destroying the property of a facility because that facility provides reproductive health services. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION ACTIVISTS GET OFF WITH COMMUNITY SERVICE AFTER DISRUPTING PRO-LIFE SPEECH. Pro-abortion activists Natalie Hoskins and Anthony Marvin disrupted a pro-life speech at Virginia Commonwealth University, but they will not have criminal records and must only perform community service for the crimes of assault and disorderly conduct. Read more here.
U.S. SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON ACCESS TO ABORTION PILL. The Court will hear the Biden administration’s appeal of an August decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which held that the FDA acted illegally when it lowered safety standards around the prescription of the popular abortifacient mifepristone. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE ATTORNEYS TELL NEW MEXICO SUPREME COURT THERE’S NO RIGHT TO ABORT BABIES. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the Roosevelt County Board of Commissioners and three pro-life organizations in New Mexico will ask the state Supreme Court to safeguard maternal health and unborn lives by refusing to find a never-before-recognized, so-called “right” to abortion in the state’s constitution. Read more here.
VIETNAM GRAPPLES WITH AN EPIDEMIC OF SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION. The three major factors that influence the high abortion rate in Vietnam – a cultural preference for sons, below replacement rates of fertility and easy access to abortion – make it an especially lethal place for preborn baby girls. Read more here.
SCOTTISH CONSULTATION ON EXTREME BUFFER ZONE BILL CLOSES NEXT WEEK. The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee in Scotland is currently undertaking a consultation on a new bill introducing buffer zone legislation that would make it illegal to offer assistance to women seeking an abortion within 200 meters of any facility that performs abortions and could even fine people for displaying pro-life signs in their own homes. Read more here.
TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE AGREES TO STOP CENSORING PRO-LIFE STUDENT. Pro-life student Madison Evans is free to criticize Planned Parenthood events on campus following intervention from the free speech legal group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Read more here.
CARRYING WATER FOR THE ABORTION INDUSTRY: 16 STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL SEEK TO QUASH COMPASSIONATE CARE FOR WOMEN. The top law enforcement officers from 16 U.S. states used their offices to do the bidding of the abortion lobby by falsely claiming that pregnancy centers are deceptive and harmful to women and denouncing the fact the centers do not refer clients for abortion. Read more here.
ILLINOIS WON’T PROSECUTE PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS UNDER ‘DECEPTIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES LAW. State Attorney General Kwame Raoul has agreed to a permanent injunction against a law that aimed to bar pro-life clinics from using any “deceptive business practice” to counsel clients and defined the sharing of certain information about the risks of abortion as “consumer fraud.” Read more here.
OUT-OF-STATE TRAVEL FOR ABORTIONS DOUBLED IN LAST 3 YEARS: REPORT. The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research organization, released a report examining the magnitude of interstate abortion travel following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision and found that it doubled in the past three years. Read more here.
RADICAL PRO-ABORTION GROUPS WERE WELL-FUNDED WITH TAX DOLLARS AND GETTING MORE UNDER BIDEN. Abortion advocacy groups in the U.S. received a considerable amount of federal taxpayer funding from 2019 to 2021, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. Read more here.
BATTLE OVER SANCTITY OF LIFE HITS THREE U.S. STATE SUPREME COURTS ALL AT ONCE. The debate over abortion will take center stage next week at the Arizona Supreme Court, Wyoming Supreme Court and New Mexico Supreme Court, where each of those states’ highest courts will decide the fate of hundreds of children for years to come. Read more here.
ABORTION INDUSTRY HOPES TO LURE WOMEN TO CANCUN FOR NEW ABORTION BUSINESS. The opening of a new Marie Stopes International abortion facility in Mexico reveals what may be a new strategy for the abortion industry: “abortion tourism,” in which women are lured by the idea of a luxury vacation while their preborn child is aborted. Read more here.
TEXAS SUPREME COURT BLOCKS ORDER ALLOWING WOMAN’S ABORTION AT 20 WEEKS. The state’s high court halted a lower court ruling that allowed a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant to have her unborn baby aborted. Read more here.
HALF OF PA ABORTION FACILITIES FAILED A HEALTH INSPECTION IN 2023. This year, the majority of women who had an elective abortion in Pennsylvania did so at a facility that failed at least one state health inspection conducted this year, an alarming yet all-too-common pattern for the state’s abortion industry that has faced no fines or penalties by state agencies as a result of failed inspections. Read more here.
BARNARD COLLEGE LAUNCHES MOVIE CONTEST TO ‘CELEBRATE’ ABORTION. Winners of Barnard College’s Athena Film Festival will receive mentorship on how to better promote the abortions of innocent preborn babies. Read more here.
‘THE VIEW’ HOST SARA HAINES: IT’S GOD’S WILL THAT PRO-LIFE PEOPLE DIE FROM CANCER. Sara Haines suggested that pro-lifers should stop receiving life-saving medical treatments because it was “God’s will” that they die, and that they were hypocrites for doing so. Read more here.
SOUTH CAROLINA CITY COUNCIL MEMBER CALLS FOR CLOSURE OF ‘NUISANCE’ ABORTION BUSINESS. City Council member Stan Tzouvelekas of Greenville, South Carolina, introduced a resolution in an attempt to shut down the city’s only abortion facility, the Greenville Women’s Clinic. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA TO SPEND TENS OF MILLIONS BOOSTING NUMBER OF ABORTIONISTS. California is putting significant resources into abortion to both increase the state’s “reproductive healthcare workforce” and to train pharmacists to “provide comprehensive reproductive health services.” Read more here.
SINCE DOBBS, 100 PRO-LIFE GROUPS AND 218 CHURCHES HAVE BEEN ATTACKED. BIDEN HAS PROSECUTED ONLY FOUR PEOPLE. U.S. lawmakers confronted Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke over her department’s allegedly discriminatory practices during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. Read more here.
TEXAS JUDGE GRANTS WOMAN WITH FATAL FETAL CONDITION PERMISSION TO HAVE ABORTION. A Texas judge granted a pregnant woman whose fetus has a lethal diagnosis permission to get an abortion despite Texas’s strict ban, but it’s unclear just how quickly Kate Cox, will be able to obtain an abortion. Read more here.
WILL MISSOURI VOTE ON ABORTION RIGHTS IN 2024? AS DEADLINE LOOMS, IT’S GETTING COMPLICATED. With the clock ticking to get a measure enshrining the right to an abortion on a statewide ballot in 2024, Missouri abortion rights supporters appear to be split on strategy and have not unified behind one version of the proposal. Read more here.
WEST VIRGINIA PRO-LIFE GROUP TO RUN MATERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAM. West Virginia has awarded a pro-life group management of a grant program to support families with infant children and pregnant women through pregnancy resource centers. Read more here.
UK ABORTION BILL TO RECEIVE FIRST READING IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. As babies born before the abortion limit increasingly survive, a member of the House of Lords is launching a bill that intends to reduce the abortion limit from 24 to 22 weeks. Read more here.
3,900 BRITISH WOMEN WERE HOSPITALIZED AFTER BOTCHED ABORTIONS IN 2021. The rate of abortion complications in England for 2021 was 19.3 hospital admissions related to incomplete abortions per 1,000 abortions according to government data. Read more here.
TEXAS SUPREME COURT HEARS PRO-ABORTION ARGUMENTS TO EXPAND ‘HEALTH’ EXCEPTIONS IN PRO-LIFE LAWS. The Texas Supreme Court ushered in December by hearing oral arguments by the abortion lobby as to whether the exceptions in the Lone Star State’s strong pro-life laws should be loosened. Read more here.
ABORTION ADVOCATES INEXPLICABLY BLAME PRO-LIFE LAWS FOR POLAND’S PLUMMETING BIRTH RATE. Poland’s birth rate has decreased by 40 percent over the last 30 years, and abortion advocates are blaming the nation’s three-year-old pro-life law for the decline. Read more here.
ILLINOIS ABORTION CLINIC RUSHES THREE WOMEN TO HOSPITAL IN ONE WEEK AFTER BOTCHED ABORTIONS. In early November, an abortion facility in Granite City, Illinois called for emergency help for three women, and it used ambiguous language to downplay the seriousness of their suffering. Read more here.
UK PARLIAMENTARY MOTION LAUNCHED TO REINSTATE IN-PERSON ABORTION APPOINTMENTS. Carla Lockhart, a member of the UK Parliament from Upper Bann, introduced the Early Day Motion to reinstate in-person appointments before a medical abortion as an important safeguard for the safety of women and to help prevent abortion coercion. Read more here.
OHIO WINS INJUNCTION IN LAWSUIT CHALLENGING BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S RULES ON TITLE X FUNDING. In a 2-1 opinion in Ohio et al. v. Becerra et al., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the state an injunction against a significant part of the HHS rules, concluding the rules run contrary to Title X law because they “impermissibly permit” taxpayer funding for family planning programming that provides abortion. Read more here.
NORTHERN IRELAND DEPARTMENT OF ED TO DECIDE IF PARENTS CAN KEEP CHILDREN FROM LESSONS PROMOTING ABORTION. The Department of Education has launched a consultation on the circumstances under which a parent or caregiver may excuse a child from being taught about abortion, after the introduction of government regulations that will force schools in Northern Ireland to teach secondary school pupils about abortion. Read more here.
FLORIDA PRO-LIFERS LAUNCH ‘DECLINE TO SIGN’ CAMPAIGN TO DERAIL PROPOSED ABORTION AMENDMENT. Pro-abortion activists are still more than a quarter million signatures short of the threshold they need to collect by February to get a proposed constitutional amendment that would embed abortion on demand into the Florida Constitution on the November 2024 ballot. Read more here.
NEW HAMPSHIRE COUNCIL REFUSES FOR FIFTH TIME TO FUND ABORTION BUSINESSES. The Concord Executive Council voted to reject a proposal that would have given Title X subsidies to abortion businesses. Read more here.
WA ATTORNEY GENERAL UNLAWFULLY TARGETS PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS. Alliance Defending Freedom is representing two faith-based, pro-life nonprofits against the attorney general of Washington state for conducting an unconstitutional and unlawful investigation into the organizations’ privileged records and materials, singling out the nonprofits because of their life-affirming views. Read more here.
REPORT: UK ABORTIONISTS ARE GROSSLY UNDERREPORTING ABOTION COMPLICATIONS. Abortionists reported an average complication rate of 1.52 per 1,000 abortions for the years 2017-2021, but the English Hospital Episode Statistics reported a rate of nearly three times that amount. Read more here.
IRISH GOVERNMENT SPENDS TENS OF MILLIONS PROMOTING ABORTION … AND ZERO TOWARD ALTERNATIVES. The Irish Government has spent vast amounts of money on the provision of abortion since it was made legal in Ireland “and not a single cent on promoting alternatives to abortion,” according to research by the Pro-Life Campaign in Ireland. Read more here.
TWO UK MPS ATTEMPT TO HIJACK GOV. BILL WITH EXTREME ABORTION UP TO BIRTH AMENDMENTS. Pro-abortion MPs, Stella Creasy and Diana Johnson, have hijacked a government bill by tabling amendments that propose removing offences that make it illegal to perform a self-abortion at any point right through to birth. Read more here.
ARKANSAS ATTORNEY GENERAL BLOCKS EXTREME ABORTION BALLOT MEASURE PUSHED BY FAR-LEFT ACTIVISTS. Republican Attorney General Tim Griffin said he could not approve the popular name and ballot title for a proposed constitutional “Arkansas Reproductive Healthcare Amendment” because of internal contradictions and “ambiguities.” Read more here.
UNMARRIED WOMEN HAVE 87% OF ABORTIONS, 10X HIGHER ABORTION RATE THAN MARRIED WOMEN. Newly released U.S. government figures show that, in the year before the Dobbs decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, the number of abortions had climbed by thousands — including more than 1,200 abortions on girls under the age of 15. Read more here.
DOCTOR IN INDIA ARRESTED FOR 900 ILLEGAL SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTIONS. Dr. Chandan Ballal was arrested by Bengaluru, India police, along with a receptionist, and Ballal’s assistant Nisar, the manager of the hospital where they performed the abortions. Read more here.
TEXAS GOV. ABBOTT DEFENDS NEW ABORTION LAW, VOWS TO ‘ELIMINATE ALL RAPISTS.’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defended the state’s restrictive new abortion law by saying it doesn’t force victims of rape to give birth, and he vowed to “eliminate all rapists.” Read more here.
CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND AMONG ORGANIZATIONS RED-LIGHTED ON CHARITY WATCH LIST FOR ABORTION SUPPORT. American Life League’s Charity Watchlist is an online tool using stoplight green-yellow-red color coding to allow donors to know if they “go ahead” and donate to a nonprofit without reservations, “proceed with caution” after being fully informed of the potential risks, or “stop” any support of an organization that endorses abortion. Read more here.
49 U.S. ABORTION CENTERS CLOSED THIS YEAR, NOW 14 STATES ARE ABORTION FREE. Operation Rescue’s 2022 annual survey revealed 88 abortion clinic closures, along with 49 this year, bringing the two-year total to 137 clinic closures. Read more here.
GOOGLE MAPS REMOVED DC PREGNANCY CENTER. Google Maps removed directions to a Washington, D.C., pro-life pregnancy center and instead offered searchers options that included a local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. Read more here.
NORTH DAKOTA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY PROGRAM GIVES PREGNANT STUDENTS SUPPORT TO GET THEIR DEGREE … WITHOUT ABORTION. The St. Teresa of Calcutta Community for Mothers provides housing and support for pregnant and parenting students on campus, as well as room and board and assistance with arranging childcare. Read more here.
REVIEW OF 600 STUDIES CONFIRMS ABORTION CAUSES DEPRESSION, MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS FOR WOMEN. A team of Ethiopian medical researchers reported in BMC Psychiatry that their review of 600 studies from all over the world found that 34.5 percent of women reported post-abortion depression. Read more here.
FETAL SENTIENCE COMMITTEE BILL RECEIVES FIRST READING IN THE UK HOUSE OF LORDS. Lord Moylan introduced the Fetal Sentience Committee Bill in the House, and if it becomes law, it will create a committee that operates as a source of evidence-based, scientific expertise on the sentience of unborn babies in the light of developments in scientific and medical knowledge. Read more here.
LILA ROSE SLAMS ABORTION AT THE UN. American pro-life advocate Lila Rose slammed abortion at the United Nations, calling it a violation of human rights because it undermines the human rights of people before birth. Read more here.
SEVEN MORE WOMEN JOIN PRO-ABORTION LAWSUIT AGAINST TEXAS. Filed previously by The Center for Reproductive Rights, the lawsuit acknowledges that a Texas’ pro-life law provides exceptions for abortion in cases of medical emergency but also attacks what it calls “extreme abortion bans.” Read more here.
SEVENTH INFANT SURRENDERED TO A BABY BOX IN INDIANA THIS YEAR. Safe Haven Baby Boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns, potentially leaving them to die. The children are taken to a hospital for evaluation and then placed for adoption. Read more here.
ITALIAN PRO-LIFE OFFICES VANDALIZED, ATTACKED WITH MOLOTOV COCKTAIL. Tens of thousands of people rallied in Rome to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women — but the rally quickly turned violent toward the headquarters of an Italian pro-life office. Read more here.
CANADA SEES 31% INCREASE IN EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE IN ONE YEAR. According to the latest report on assisted suicide and euthanasia from Health Canada, 13,241 people ended their lives by euthanasia or assisted suicide in 2022, an increase of 3,149 compared to 2021. Read more here.
U.S. LEFT-WING GROUPS SEEKING ABORTION BALLOT MEASURES IN 9 STATES FOR 2024. Pro-abortion organizations and activists backed by the affiliates of large left-wing organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have stealthily turned to ballot measures in the hopes of shoring up and even growing the abortion complex in the shift from federal to state power. Read more here.
ARGENTINA ELECTS PRO-LIFE PRESIDENT WHO PLEDGED TO HOLD ABORTION REFERENDUM. The new president Javier Milei said his pro-life view is based on scientific justification, and he wants to determine if abortion will remain legal. Read more here.
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ASKS U.S. SUPREME COURT TO INTERVENE IN IDAHO ABORTION CASE. Attorneys for two national law firms have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a federal case in Idaho regarding whether emergency room physicians can continue to be shielded from prosecution under the state’s abortion ban. Read more here.
STUDY CLAIMS PRO-LIFE STATE PROTECTIONS FOR PREBORN CHILDREN HAVE LED TO 32,000 MORE BIRTHS. In the first six months of 2023, births rose by an average of 2.3 percent in states enforcing complete protections for preborn children compared to a control group of states where the abortions of preborn children remained protected. Read more here.
UK GOVERNMENT REVIEWS SHOW ABORTION COMPLICATION RATES LIKELY MUCH HIGHER THAN BEING REPORTED BY ABORTION PROVIDERS. Data analysis in the United Kingdom demonstrates that the abortion complication rate is more than 11.9 times higher than abortion providers have claimed. Read more here.
ABORTIONS INCREASED 5% IN 2021 THANKS TO THE PANDEMIC AND JOE BIDEN’S PRO-ABORTION AGENDA. The abortion increase is not a surprise given how 2020 was an incredibly tumultuous year because of the pandemic, and the economic and overall uncertainty likely drove up abortion figures. Read more here.
SWING STATE JUDGE DISMISSES ‘MISLEADING’ BID TO MAKE ABORTION A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. A Nevada judge ruled against a “misleading” petition to enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution claiming that it violates the “single subject rule.” Read more here.
MAN WHO FIREBOMBED PRO-LIFE ORGANIZATION PLEADS GUILTY. It is believed that at least two people participated in the attack, which took place May 8, 2022, but Hridindu Roychowdhury is the only culprit who will serve 20 years in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail through an office window of a pro-life organization. Read more here.
ABORTION EXTREMISTS COMPLAIN TO ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES. Astrid Ackerman of the Center for Reproductive Rights told the OAS the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision removed a so-called fundamental right to abortion, paving the way for a regime of forced birth. Read more here.
TEXAS CITIES AND COUNTIES PASS PRO-LIFE MEASURES TO STOP ABORTION TRAFFICKING. Since abortion is now illegal in Texas, clinics that were once located in the Lone Star State have crossed the border to perform abortions on Texas residents in New Mexico, raising concerns about abortion trafficking. Read more here.
OHIO LEGISLATURE CONSIDERS TAX CREDITS FOR DONATIONS TO CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS. State Sen. Sandra O’Brien proposed legislation to add donations to “qualifying pregnancy resource centers” to the list of eligible credits for taxpayers. Read more here.
SEVERAL STATES MAY HAVE MEASURES NEXT YEAR FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Ohio’s Issue 1 vote legalized abortion with no gestational limit, and now Maryland and New York have qualified pro-abortion initiatives for their respective ballots. The pro-abortion lobby is planning to put similar referendums on the ballots of many other states. Read more here.
UK: PLANS TO REMOVE 14-DAY LIMIT FOR EXPERIMENTING ON EMBRYOS REJECTED BY 97 PERCENT OF SUBMISSIONS FROM GENERAL PUBLIC TO HFEA CONSULTATION. The UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority plans to remove a 14-day limit for experimenting on human embryos, even though 97 percent of public commenters opposed the change. Read more here.
TOP OBGYN CONFIRMS ABORTION PILL IS DANGEROUS: THEY’RE LYING TO WOMEN. During a panel discussion sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Christina Francis said the level of misinformation on chemical abortion coming from pro-abortion physicians is “astounding.” Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION EXTREMIST JOINS THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE. Law professor and abortion absolutist Sarah Cleveland gained large support from the UN General Assembly and the Security Council to serve a nine-year term on the International Court of Justice, despite major opposition by pro-life advocates. Read more here.
100+ PRO-ABORTION GROUPS ENDORSE BLUEPRINT DEMANDING ABORTION AND TRANSGENDER ‘CARE’ FOR CHILDREN. The 2023 Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Policy Agenda has been endorsed by more than 100 pro-abortion organizations, such as Planned Parenthood and its former special affiliate, the Guttmacher Institute, and other organizations. Read more here.
12,000 LATE-TERM BABIES ARE ABORTED EVERY YEAR, MORE THAN ALL LIVES LOST BY GUNFIRE. Pro-abortion Democrats have long since slid right past President Clinton’s 1992 insincere, but effective, pronouncement that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” Read more here.
IRELAND: SAFE ACCESS ABORTION ZONES BILL PASSES BY 117 VOTES TO 10. The Safe Access Zones Bill, which creates a buffer zone around abortion businesses, now goes to the Irish Senate. Read more here.
MARCH FOR LIFE 2024 THEME: ‘WITH EVERY WOMAN FOR EVERY CHILD.’ The U.S. March for Life 2024 will be held in Washington, D.C. in January and will focus on supporting both babies and their moms. Read more here.
RADICAL BRITISH MP WILL PUSH BILL FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Pro-abortion British MP Stella Creasy has signaled her intention to hijack government legislation and introduce abortion up to birth in the UK. Read more here.
REGIONS IN RUSSIA STARTED TO BAN ABORTION. IS A NATIONAL BAN REALISTIC? Patriarch Kirill, of Moscow, has called for a nationwide ban on abortion in the wake of abortion restrictions imposed at the nation’s regional level. Read more here.
PERU CONGRESS PASSES LAW AFFIRMING UNBORN BABIES HAVE A RIGHT TO LIFE. By a vote of 72-26 with six abstentions, Peru’s Congress passed a bill that expressly recognizes the rights granted in its constitution to unborn children. Read more here.
SENATE REPUBLICANS DEMAND BIDEN RESCIND POLICY FORCING AMERICANS TO FUND MILITARY ABORTIONS. Twenty-seven U.S. Senate Republicans sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, demanding that he rescind an abortion travel policy that they claim violates U.S. law by circumventing Congress. Read more here.
OHIO ABORTION ADVOCATES ANNOUNCE PLANS TO REPEAL ALL ABORTION LAWS. The Ohio pro-abortion movement revealed it will use the recent passage of Issue 1 to focus on actively stripping all preborn protections in the state. Read more here.
POLAND’S EXPECTED NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT COULD STRIP PROTECTIONS FROM PREBORN CHILDREN. Three opposition Polish political parties – the Civic Platform, Third Way and The Left – all signed an agreement committing to reform certain aspects of current Polish law, including a pledge to overturn the nation’s near-total legal protections for preborn children. Read more here.
MARTIN: IRISH HOSPITALS REQUIRED TO OFFER ABORTION, NOT DOING SO IS ‘UNACCEPTABLE.’ Ireland’s Tánaiste Micheál Martin said that the government is considering the ongoing review of the abortion legislation, published this year, which recommended that the three-day wait be made optional. Read more here.
JACKSON, WYOMING’S ONLY ABORTION PROVIDER SHUTTING ITS DOORS DUE TO HIGH COSTS. After 30 years of aborting babies, the Women’s Health and Family Care clinic in Jackson, Wyoming, is closing down next month due to rising costs. Read more here.
CATHOLIC TRUSTEES CONCERNED NEW LAW IMPOSES ABORTION IDEOLOGY ON SCHOOLS IN NORTHERN IRELAND. The Catholic Schools Trustee Service has called on parents in Northern Ireland to express their concerns by responding to the Department of Education’s Relationships and Sexuality Education Consultation, saying it seeks to impose an abortion ideology on schools. Read more here.
BOXER GETS TWO LIFE SENTENCES FOR MURDER OF GIRLFRIEND AND PREBORN CHILD. Félix Verdejo-Sánchez, a boxer who competed for the United States in the 2012 Olympics, has been sentenced to two life sentences after brutally murdering his pregnant girlfriend who had refused to have an abortion. Read more here.
WHY DENMARK’S COUNCIL OF ETHICS ADVISED AGAINST LEGALIZING EUTHANASIA. An overwhelming majority of the Danish Council of Ethics – 16 of 17 members – has advised against the legalization of euthanasia in Denmark, according to a recently released report. Read more here.
ABORTION ACTIVISTS OUT-SPENT PRO-LIFE MESSAGES BY 3-TO-1 MARGIN TO BUY OHIO VOTE. The incredible level of spending, with significant amounts of dark money coming into Ohio from out of state and out of the country raises questions about whether the Issue 1 vote accurately depicts the will of Ohio voters or merely reflects an inordinate amount of leftist spending to buy votes. Read more here.
STUDY FINDS THREEFOLD INCREASE IN NUMBER OF BABIES BORN AT 22 WEEKS WHO SURVIVE. In their study published in the journal BMJ Medicine, the researchers found a threefold increase in 2020-21 compared to 2018-19, in the number of babies born at 22 weeks who received “survival focused care,” as well as a tripling in the number of babies surviving to discharge from neonatal care. Read more here.
THREE IMPORTANT PRO-LIFE BILLS TO BE INTRODUCED TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS. No pro-abortion bills or pro-assisted suicide bills were introduced in the UK’s House of Lords this week, but three pro-life bills were announced. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUPS RESPOND TO OHIO VOTE: WE WILL KEEP FIGHTING TO PROTECT BABIES. After suffering a defeat this week with the passage of Issue 1, Ohio pro-lifers vowed to keep fighting to protect babies from abortion and to work hard at changing hearts and minds in the pro-life direction. Read more here.
PHILADELPHIA CITY WEBSITE OMITS REFERENCES TO MOTHERS, CALLS ABORTION A ‘HUMAN RIGHT.’ This week, the official website for the city of Philadelphia published a pro-abortion page titled “Philadelphians have access to safe, legal abortion services,” that includes the use of gender-neutral language to suggest that men can get pregnant. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE PUTS IDAHO’S ‘ABORTION TRAFFICKING’ LAW ON HOLD DURING LAWSUIT. U.S. District Magistrate Debora Grasham wrote in a ruling, “This lawsuit is not about the right to an abortion. It is about much more.” Read more here.
GENERIC ABORTION PILL MAKER GENBIOPRO DROPS REMAINING CHALLENGE TO WEST VIRGINIA LAW. After ending nearly 6 million lives since 2000, abortion pill sales will be restricted in West Virginia, where GenBioPro dropped its remaining challenge to state law. Read more here.
COURT STOPS NEW YORK STATE FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE NUNS WHO HELP PREGNANT WOMEN. New York passed a law last year targeting life-affirming pregnancy centers for government investigation, but now a federal judge is forbidding the state from punishing the Sisters of Life, a community of Catholic women who have given their lives to serve pregnant women in need. Read more here.
GOP ATTORNEYS GENERAL SUE FDA OVER APPROVAL OF RISKY, UNTESTED MAIL-ORDER ABORTION PILLS. The attorneys general of Missouri, Idaho and Kansas announced they are suing the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Health, alleging that they did not have the legal right to approve abortion pills more than 20 years ago, and did not have the right to authorize the delivery of the pills through the mail during the pandemic. Read more here.
ABORTIONS IN EUROPE ON THE RISE. Abortion rates in the Netherlands, Germany, France and other parts of Europe have increased, but experts disagree on the cause. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE HANDS PARTIAL VICTORY TO PRO-LIFERS IN ALLOWING BUFFER ZONE LAWSUIT. In 2022, the city of Minneapolis enacted a “safety zone” policy, which creates a buffer zone prohibiting free speech activity in certain areas outside abortion facilities, but Pro-Life Action Ministries filed a lawsuit claiming it violates freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Read more here.
IOWA ABORTIONS INCREASE AS HEARTBEAT LAW IS TIED UP IN COURT AND CAN’T SAVE BABIES. The Charlotte Lozier Institute estimates that Iowa’s abortion rate increased by 8 percent to 6.7 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, a return to the 2020 rate after a decline in 2021. Read more here.
INFANT MORTALITY IS UP THE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS. IS INCENTIVIZING ABORTION TO BLAME? Following a 22-percent decline from 2002 to 2021, U.S. infant mortality rate rose three percent from 2021 to 2022. Read more here.
JOE BIDEN FIGHTS IN COURT TO TURN EMERGENCY ROOMS INTO ABORTION CENTERS. Texas and other plaintiffs argued the Biden administration’s mandate unlawfully requires abortions in situations where Texas outlaws them under its own law, the Texas Human Life Protection Act. Read more here.
MICHIGAN GOV. WHITMER POISED TO REMOVE PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN, WOMEN’S HEALTH PROTECTIONS. A suite of pro-abortion bills will soon be on their way to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer following House approval votes to enact the radical promises established by the passage of Prop 3, including removal of the partial birth abortion ban, elimination of health and safety standards for abortion facilities, and the allowing of abortion facilities to conceal information from women about risks and complications. Read more here.
VERMONT ABORTIONS DROP TO HISTORIC LOW AS MORE BABIES ARE BEING SAVED. Vermont’s 2021 abortion statistics have been published online by the Vermont Department of Health, and abortions decreased by 16 percent from the prior year. Read more here.
RECORD NUMBERS OF CANADIANS DIED THROUGH EUTHANASIA IN 2022. Since euthanasia and assisted suicide were legalized in 2016, there have been 44,958 euthanasia deaths in Canada, and about one Canadian in 25 dies from lethal injection. Read more here.
FEDERAL COURT RULES ABORTIONISTS CAN SUE ARIZONA TO OVERTURN EUGENICS LAW. A federal appeals court has ruled that a group of abortionists can move forward with a lawsuit challenging a law that protects preborn children with disabilities from eugenics-based abortions. Read more here.
ABORTION RATE HAS ‘ALMOST DOUBLED’ IN NORTHERN IRELAND SINCE LAW CHANGE. The abortion rate in Northern Ireland has nearly doubled – to 5,648 abortions – in the last three years since the abortion law was changed in 2020. Read more here.
WOMEN EXPLAIN WHY THEY’RE VOTING NO ON OHIO’S ISSUE 1. Ohio voters will vote on Issue 1 on Nov. 7, when many human lives hang in the balance, and right to life groups are exposing the dangers of the ballot proposition that Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are pushing. Read more here.
MEDICAL STUDENTS FACE PRESSURE TO PARTICIPATE IN ELECTIVE ABORTIONS. Leftist politics are trumping the science of healing at medical schools throughout the U.S., and to remain accredited, osteopathic medical schools now must show they support “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Read more here.
IDAHO MOTHER, SON CHARGED FOR TAKING 15-YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM TO OREGON FOR SECRET ABORTION. A mother and son in Idaho are being charged with kidnapping for taking the son’s 15-year-old statutory rape victim out of state for an abortion, in what is being considered in the media a test case for the state’s abortion trafficking law. Read more here.
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT ASKS TOUGH QUESTIONS DURING ORAL ARGUMENTS IN CASE ABOUT 15-WEEK ABORTION LAW. The state’s high court has heard oral arguments in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, et al., v. State of Florida, et al., regarding the 15-week abortion ban which prohibits all abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. Read more here.
TEXAS ABORTIONS DROP TO ALMOST 0, SAVING OVER 5,000 BABIES PER MONTH. Texas’ 2022 abortion report was released by Texas Health and Human Services and showed a significant drop in abortions from 2021. Read more here.
REPUBLICAN SENATOR BLASTS BIDN ADMIN: ‘NO JUSTIFICATION’ FOR MAKING AMERICANS FUND ABORTION TRAVEL. Republicans have opposed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s measures to counteract state abortion restrictions implemented since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Supreme Court decision in 2022, including the payments for women to travel for abortions. Read more here.
JUDGE RULES KANSAS CAN’T ENFORCE NEW LAW ON ABORTION PILLS. A Kansas judge put a new state law regulating medication abortions on hold and blocked older restrictions that for years have spelled out what providers must tell patients and required patients to wait 24 hours to end their pregnancies. Read more here.
‘ROOTED IN EUGENICS’: CANADA PLANS ASSISTED SUICIDE EXPANSION FOR DRUG-ADDICTED PERSONS. Akin to the brand of eugenics promulgated by Margaret Sanger and her contemporaries at the turn of the last century, Canada now plans to expand its medical aid in dying program in 2024 to include people afflicted with drug addiction. Read more here.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UUNIVERSITY DENIES REQUEST TO PROVIDE ABORTION DRUGS ON CAMPUS. Abortion drugs that intentionally end the life of a preborn human baby will not be available at George Washington University, despite a demand from campus feminists. Read more here.
56 YEARS OF ABORTION IN THE UK: 10,256,050 LIVES LOST SINCE 1967. Since the start of the Abortion Act in 1967, a staggering 10,256,050 unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion across England, Wales and Scotland — more than one baby every two and a half minutes. Read more here.
MACRON ANNOUNCES BILL TO ENSHRINE ‘FREEDOM OF ABORTION’ IN FRENCH CONSTITUTION. Vowing to introduce legislation with the hopes of presenting a bill to the Council of Ministers by the end of the year, French President Emmanuel Macron declared on social media, “In 2024, the freedom of women to have an abortion will be irreversible.” Read more here.
HARD-HITTING NEW COMMERCIAL EXPOSES HOW ABORTIONS TAKE WOMEN’S LIVES. Pro-abortion advocates are lying in their campaign ads telling voters that Ohio’s Issue 1 will protect “women’s lives,” but the ads are filled with propaganda that “doctors need to be able to make life-saving decisions that protect their patients.” Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP TO PROMOTE PRO-LIFE LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES PUSHING FOR 15-WEEK ABORTION BAN. The national pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and its partner organization Women Speak Out Virginia launched a new campaign to support pro-life General Assembly candidates and expose those favoring unlimited abortions in Virginia. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE WIN: FEDERAL COURT LIFTS COLORADO BAN ON ABORTION PILL REVERSALS. A federal court in Colorado ruled in favor of a Catholic health care clinic, Bella Health and Wellness, to allow them to continue offering abortion pill reversal services. Read more here.
MOM FIGHTS FOR BABY WITH LIFE-LIMITING DIAGNOSIS, WHO IS NOW THRIVING: ‘I DIDN’T THINK TWICE.’ When Florida mom Andi Mahoney was 20 weeks pregnant, she was told her preborn daughter, Emmie, didn’t have kidneys and would not survive past birth, but the child is now alive and thriving. Read more here.
WARREN BUFFET FUNDS FAKE ‘CATHOLIC’ GROUP PROMOTING ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. “Catholics for Choice,” an anti-Catholic and pro-abortion organization aided by the funding of Warren Buffet, is sponsoring 30 billboards promoting abortion in Ohio ahead of the November 7 vote on a pro-abortion amendment. Read more here.
ACLU, GEORGE SOROS AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD POUR MILLIONS INTO OHIO FOR ISSUE 1. In the wake of Roe v. Wade’s defeat in the Supreme Court last year, leftist groups are clamoring to dramatically expand abortion up to the day of birth in red states, including Ohio, where the potential passage of the Issue 1 ballot proposition would establish a right to abort babies long past the point of “fetal viability,” the limit established under Roe. Read more here.
FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES FILM CONTEST IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ABORTION INDUSTRY POWER PLAYERS. The Athena Film Festival has launched the Abortion Pipeline Project, a new fund aiming to celebrate and support abortion stories, beginning at Barnard College in New York. Read more here.
ROE REVERSAL HASN’T CHANGED MED STUDENT POST-GRAD PLANS: STUDY. A recent study purported to “demonstrate reduced desire of residents in obstetrics and gynecology to practice or pursue fellowship in [abortion] restrictive states after residency,” but interviews with medical students in an abortion training program found that an overwhelming majority had not changed their plans. Read more here.
VA WON’T EXPLAIN WHAT IT MEANS TO SAVE THE ‘HEALTH’ OF THE MOTHER IN ABORTION. A year since it began performing abortions, the Department of Veterans Affairs reported to the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee that 64 of the 88 abortions it provided were said to have been performed under undefined circumstances of threats to the mother’s health. Read more here.
JOE BIDEN’S NIH NOMINEE MONICA BERTAGNOLLI SUPPORTS RESEARCH WITH ABORTED BABY PARTS. President Joe Biden’s pick to head the National Institutes of Health supports research using the body parts of aborted babies, and Monica Bertagnolli’s nomination is drawing substantial opposition from pro-lifers. Read more here.
GEORGIA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS HEARTBEAT LAW THAT HAS SAVED THOUSANDS OF BABIES FROM ABORTION. In a major victory for life, the Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act – heartbeat protections signed into law in 2019 by Governor Brian Kemp. Read more here.
PROPOSAL TO REGULATE PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS FAILS IN MASSACHUSETTS CITY. After more than a year of debate, the Worcester, Massachusetts city council voted 7-4 to permanently drop a proposed ordinance that would regulate pro-life pregnancy resource centers in the city. Read more here.
CANADA SET TO ALLOW ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AS MP WARNS OF ‘CULTURE OF DEATH.’ Conservative MP Ed Fast, who tried and failed to repeal “medical assistance in dying” for those suffering exclusively mental afflictions, lamented the increased acceptance of assisted suicide, asking: “Will we evolve into a culture of death as the preferred option for those who suffer from mental illness or will we choose life?” Read more here.
ABORTIONS DROP ALMOST 100% IN STATES THAT BAN ABORTIONS, THOUSANDS OF BABIES SAVED. The WeCount project obtains monthly abortion data from abortion facilities, and it found that states with the largest drop in abortions include Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and Louisiana. Read more here.
MEXICAN LAWMAKERS CONSIDER STRIPPING PARENTAL RIGHTS, ALLOWING ABORTION UNTIL BIRTH. A draft opinion would allow women to “freely request safe abortion services to terminate their pregnancy during the first full 12 weeks of the gestation process,” allow abortion “at any time” in cases such as “when it has been diagnosed that the product has genetic or congenital defects” and allow anyone age 13 or older to get an abortion without her parents’ permission. Read more here.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS BANS ABORTIONS, BECOMES ‘SANCTUARY COUNTY FOR THE UNBORN.’ The Lubbock, Texas County has passed an ordinance banning abortions and becoming a “Sanctuary County for the Unborn” that bans the sale of dangerous abortion drugs. Read more here.
JUDGE BLOCKS COLORADO LAW THAT STOPPED PREGNANCY CENTERS FROM SAVING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. A federal court in Colorado has protected a Catholic healthcare clinic’s ability to help women reverse the effects of the first abortion pill in a court challenge to a new Colorado law that forbids doctors and nurses from giving progesterone to help women who took the first abortion pill, even if they were tricked or forced into taking it. Read more here.
OHIO CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ON ABORTION GOES ‘WAY, WAY TOO FAR,’ EVEN FARTHER THAN ROE: GOV. DEWINE. Gov. Mike DeWine said that if passed, the Ohio Issue 1 ballot proposition “would allow abortion at any point in the pregnancy” and “would negate Ohio’s law that we’ve had on the books for many, many years that prohibits partial-birth abortion.” Read more here.
LOUISIANA ABORTIONS DROP 39% AS ABORTION BAN BEGINS SAVING BABIES. In 2022, there were 4,570 abortions reported in Louisiana, down 39 percent from the previous year, to an abortion rate of 5.0 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44. Read more here.
OREGON COUNTY FORCED TO PAY FOR EMPLOYEE ABORTIONS WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS. Deschutes County commissioners voted 3-0 to approve changes to the county’s Employee Benefits Plan that will force taxpayers to fund the abortions of county workers and their dependents. Read more here.
MEXICAN HIGH COURT DECLARES ARTICLES THAT CRIMINALIZE ABORTION IN CHIHUAHUA UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Pro-life leaders called it a “great blow” against the “fundamental and inalienable right to life” when the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation declared three articles that criminalize abortion in the penal code of Chihuahua state to be unconstitutional. Read more here.
UN REPORT SAYS YOUNG GIRLS CANNOT SUCCEED WITHOUT ABORTION. To commemorate the International Day of the Girl Child, a UN treaty body has released a statement mentioning abortion 27 times as the most important factor for the well-being and development of young girls. Read more here.
NEBRASKA ABORTION BIZ IS STILL ABORTING 30 BABIES EVERY DAY AFTER ABORTIONIST DIED, BUT WHO’S RUNNING IT IS A MYSTERY. Though abortionist LeRoy Carhart has died, and his daughter is not a registered agent of the Bellevue Health Clinic in Nebraska, chemical abortions are still being administered there. Read more here.
ABORTIONIST WHO RAN OVER PRO-LIFER TWICE IS NOW BEING SUED. Michigan abortionist Theodore Roumell ran over an individual’s leg twice but the charges were dropped. He is now being sued by the victim. Read more here.
U.S. BLITZED WITH ABORTION QUESTIONS AT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE. Though abortion is not a part of the Human Rights Treaty, its guiding committee grilled the U.S. about the status of abortion in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and it wanted to know how the U.S. is implementing a 2022 abortion guideline. Read more here.
RADICAL ABORTION ACTIVISTS HAVE SPENT LOADS OF MONEY PROMOTING ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH IN OHIO. The Issue 1 ballot proposition in Ohio proposes to allow abortions throughout pregnancy, including late-term abortions, and has been described as one of the most radical abortion laws in the country. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN GROUP CHALLENGES UK LAW THAT COULD MAKE IT A CRIME TO HAVE A PRO-LIFE SIGN ON YOUR HOME. A local abortion buffer zone, implemented through the use of a Public Space Protection Order that criminalizes offers of help, as well as prayer outside an abortion clinic, may be found unlawful after it was challenged in the High Court on the grounds that it restricts otherwise lawful activity within private dwellings. Read more here.
WASTE COMPANY THAT GENERATES ELECTRICITY BY BURNING ABORTED BABIES PAYS HUGE FINE. Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services, a Baltimore-based company that works in 10 U.S. states along the east coast, pleaded guilty to more than 40 charges related to environmental violations. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE STUDENT GROUP WINS OFFICIAL STATUS AFTER TWO-YEAR BATTLE. The new Students for Life chapter at the New Jersey Institute of Technology has officially been recognized and approved. Read more here.
MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS PASS BILLS IMPLEMENTING ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Pro-abortion Democrats in the Michigan State Senate attempted to push their counterparts in the House to pass the dangerous Reproductive Health Act. Read more here.
NEW POLL SHOWS WOMEN SUPPORT ENDING ‘DIY’ HOME ABORTION SCHEMES. According to the latest YouGov polling, when asked whether the two pills used in a medical abortion should be taken at home without medical supervision or in a clinic with medical supervision, 51 percent thought medical abortions should only happen in a clinic under medical supervision. Read more here.
CITY COUNCIL IN ILLINOIS TO ALLOW PRO-LIFE FLAG TO BE FLOWN AT CITY HALL. Galesburg City Councilman Brent Zorne said “Life is sacred — that is something precious and we need to protect it,” and the council agreed by a vote of 5-2. Read more here.
NEW TO NEW YORK CAMPUSES THIS FALL: ABORTION PILLS. Students at New York public universities have access to abortion pills on campus for the first time this fall, a change that pro-life leaders say puts lives at risk and lacks support for families. Read more here.
BOURNEMOUTH, UK LOCAL ABORTION BUFFER ZONE FACES LEGAL CHALLENGE. Livia Tossici-Bolt and Christian Concern sought to challenge the local Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) that creates the buffer zone, on the grounds that Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council did not have the power to enact a PSPO that restricts lawful activity conducted in private dwellings. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUPS SUE SAN ANTONIO AFTER IT FORCES RESIDENTS TO FUND ABORTIONS. The San Antonio Family Association and Texas Right to Life have sued the City of San Antonio over its decision to allocate taxpayer money to abortion-trafficking organizations that violate Texas law. Read more here.
PRO-LIFERS CHALLENGE ABORTION HOSPITAL BOARD DURING FIRST PUBLIC MEETING IN FOUR YEARS. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Magee-Women’s Hospital Board of Directors were forced to meet in public for the first time after a University of Pittsburgh study revealed aborted baby body parts were used on mice and rats. Read more here.
NEW ZEALAND LABOR GOVERNMENT THAT INTRODUCED EXTREME ABORTION LAW LOSES ELECTION. New Zealand’s Labor Government, which in 2020 introduced an extreme abortion law allowing de-facto abortion on demand for any reason up to birth, has been voted out of power. Read more here.
AMERICANS OVERWHELMINGLY OPPOSE JOE BIDEN’S PROPOSED MANDATE TO FORCE EMPLOYERS TO FUND ABORTIONS. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported receiving 63,330 comments on its regulation establishing a national mandate for employers to accommodate workers’ abortions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, with 75 percent of those remarks coming from Catholics and their allies. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUPS ASK GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO BLOCK PRO-ABORTION NOMINEE TO INTERNATIONAL COURT. More than 360 pro-life groups have asked the UN General Assembly to block President Joe Biden’s nominee to the International Court of Justice, Sarah Cleveland, because of her support of abortion. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CALLS UPON UN TO STOP PRO-LIFE CONSERVATIVES. With support from Belgium and Macedonia, the Biden administration has asked UN agencies and other governments to ramp up efforts against what they have called “anti-rights” and “anti-gender” movements. Read more here.
BILL PROPOSES EXTREME EUTHANASIA REGIME FOR ISLE OF MAN. An assisted suicide and euthanasia bill, more radical than any similar legislation in the U.S. or recently proposed in the UK, will be debated later this month in the Isle of Man. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE ATTORNEYS TELL SUPREME COURT TO LET RULING STAND THAT BANS DANGEROUS MAIL-ORDER ABORTIONS. The pro-life legal group Alliance Defending Freedom is asking the Supreme Court to let an appeals court ruling stand that bans dangerous mail-order abortions. Read more here.
LIBERAL NJ LAWMAKER SLAMS PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS AS ‘BRAINWASHING CULT CLINICS,’ ATTEMPTS TO CLOSE THEM. Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., a liberal New Jersey lawmaker, is labeling pro-life pregnancy centers as “brainwashing cult clinics” and attempting to shut them down. Read more here.
WOMAN WANTS TO ABORT HER 26-WEEK-OLD BABY, COURT TELLS HER TO ‘CONSIDER THE RIGHTS OF THE UNBORN CHILD.’ Abortion is legal in India but exceptions to the abortion law such as late-term abortions require legal justification. The Supreme Court of India ruled that the “rights of the unborn child” had to be considered. Read more here.
ABORTIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS INCREASED BY NEARLY 15% IN 2022. The number of abortions increased to 35,606, the Dutch healthcare and youth care inspectorate reported in an annual report, with an increase of 13 percent among teenagers. Read more here.
PHARMACY DISPENSING OF ABORTION PILL HAS BEGUN, SAYS DRUG’S GENERIC MANUFACTURER. Large pharmacy chains confirmed they are selling the abortion pill mifepristone (Mifeprex), and they have not been deterred by the “threat of a future national rollback of the drugs.” Read more here.
PRO-LIFE LAWS IN NORTH CAROLINA REDUCED ABORTIONS BY 31 PERCENT. The Guttmacher Institute estimates the decline of abortion in North Carolina followed new laws taking effect protecting preborn children after 12 weeks’ gestation with a 72-hour waiting period. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SLAPS UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEE ON PRO-LIFE STUDENT GROUP. Alliance Defending Freedom informed the University of New Mexico that the security fee it charged to the university’s Students for Life chapter and Students for Life of America violated the student groups’ First Amendment rights. Read more here.
TAXPAYER-FUNDED NPR PROMOTES BILLBOARD: ‘GOD’S PLAN INCLUDES ABORTION.’ Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio enthusiastically advocates for abortion, and on a recent morning show, a hairdresser guest named “Queen” stated, “I will forever aid and abet abortions” and gushed over a billboard saying: “Yes! God’s plan includes abortion!” Read more here.
PROTESTANT CHURCH OF GERMANY IN FAVOR OF LIBERALIZING THE ABORTION LAW. The governing board of the Protestant church in Germany wants some abortions removed from the criminal code, and the church opposes the complete removal of abortion from the German penal code, running counter to the state’s duty to protect unborn life. Read more here.
‘PERSONALLY PRO-LIFE’ COUNCIL MEMBERS VOTE TO REJECT ‘SANCTUARY CITY FOR THE UNBORN’ ORDINANCE IN ILLINOIS. The city council of Quincy, Illinois voted 7-5 against an attempt to make the city a sanctuary for the unborn by defeating a motion requiring compliance with federal prohibition on the mailing and the receiving of abortion-inducing drugs and abortion paraphernalia. Read more here.
RUSSIA MAKES STARTLING CHANGE TO ITS ABORTION PILL DISTRIBUTION. Russia’s Ministry of Health announced that a doctor’s prescription will be required to obtain the abortion pill drugs mifepristone and misoprostol at a pharmacy that has a special license, and they must report how many pills they have sold. Read more here.
MICHIGAN GOV. WANTS TO IMPLEMENT ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH: ‘ENSHRINE THAT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.’ Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is pushing for a package of bills that would remove every pro-life law from the books and implement abortions up to birth, a move drawing heavy criticism from pro-life advocates and one Democrat legislator who thinks it’s too extreme. Read more here.
ABORTION MAY BE A GAME CHANGER IN SLOVAKIAN COALITION FORMATION. Several media report that the Slovakian Christian Democrats are open to cooperation with the Social Democratic Party in exchange for restrictions on abortion access. Read more here.
PRO-LIFERS ARRESTED IN NORTHERN IRELAND FOR VIOLATING NEW ANTI-FREE SPEECH BUFFER ZONE. Less than a week after the passage of an an anti-free speech bill, two pro-lifers have been arrested for standing outside Causeway Hospital near Coleraine, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Read more here.
FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL TRIES TO BLOCK ABORTION RIGHTS AMENDMENT. Republican Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody asked the state Supreme Court to review the wording of a proposed amendment that would enshrine abortion into the Florida Constitution. Read more here.
CHILE MOVES CLOSER TO CONSTITUTION PROTECTING ALL PREBORN CHILDREN. The Chilean Constitutional Council approved language ensuring “the right to life of those who are about to be born.” Read more here.
RADICAL OHIO ABORTION AMENDMENT WOULD ALLOW PARTIAL-BIRTH, DISMEMBERMENT: ATTORNEY GENERAL. The proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution enshrining a “right” to effectively unlimited abortion would go far beyond Roe v. Wade and block prohibitions on partial-birth and dismemberment abortions, allow abortionists to target disabled babies and end parental consent requirements. Read more here.
ABORTIONS DROP 43% IN KENTUCKY AS ABORTION BAN SAVES THOUSANDS OF BABIES. In 2022, the number of abortions in Kentucky fell almost 43%, according to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ Office of Vital Statistics report. Read more here.
AZ GOV KATIE HOBBS: ABORTING BABIES IS ‘FREEDOM.’ Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has asked the state Supreme Court to keep abortions legal in the southwestern state, arguing that abortion is “freedom” for women, in the case Planned Parenthood Arizona v. Mayes. Read more here.
SCOTLAND: PRO-LIFE GROUPS RAISE CONCERNS OVER BILL CRIMINALIZING PRO-LIFE ADVOCACY. Concerns have been raised over new legislation – the Abortion Services Safe Access Zones – that aims to criminalize pro-life advocacy outside abortion clinics. Read more here.
WHO DIRECTOR GENERAL SAYS SUPPORTING ABORTION IS ‘SIDING WITH SCIENCE.’ When asked during a press conference about its credibility, the director general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said his group is “siding with science” in supporting abortion. Read more here.
NORTHERN IRELAND LAW RESCTRICTING PRO-LIFE FREE SPEECH TAKES EFFECT. A new buffer zone law in Northern Ireland makes it a criminal offense to hold pro-life protests within 100-150 meters from entrances or exits of abortion facilities, punishable by a £500 fine. Read more here.
THOUSANDS MARCH IN OHIO AGAINST ISSUE 1, WHICH ALLOWS ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Thousands of pro-life activists marched in downtown Columbus, Ohio calling for protection for the unborn and urging their fellow Ohioans to vote against an upcoming pro-abortion ballot measure. Read more here.
CVS PHARMACISTS ACCIDENTALLY ABORT TWINS BY GIVING MOM WRONG PRESCRIPTION. CVS pharmacists unintentionally gave Las Vegas mother Timika Thomas a drug that terminated the lives of her twins in utero instead of a medication that would help her pregnancy. Read more here.
ABORTIONS DECLINING IN OHIO – FOR NOW. Between 2022 and 2021, the number of abortions performed in the Buckeye State fell by more than 3,300, representing a decline of more than 15 percent. Read more here.
MACRON PUSHES ABORTION FURTHER INTO FRENCH CONSTITUTION. French President Emmanuel Macron aims to change his country’s Constitution by establishing abortion as a human right. Read more here.
IN ARGENTINA, ELECTION FIGHT BREWS OVER LIFE AND ABORTION. Argentina’s presidential election race is putting abortion access and women’s rights in the spotlight, sparking fierce debate. Read more here.
INDIANA ABORTIONS DECLINE, SAVING HUNDREDS OF BABIES. ABORTION BAN WILL SAVE THOUSANDS MORE. According to the state health department, abortions performed in the second quarter of 2022 dropped by 700, the lowest level since 2019. Read more here.
BINGHAMTON U. PROFESSOR TAKES ‘ACTIVISM’ CLASS TO ‘CONFRONT’ PRO-LIFE STUDENTS. Dara Silberstein, the professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at Binghamton University, took her Activism, Feminism and Social Justice class to confront a pro-life table manned by members of Students for Life of America and the College Republicans. Read more here.
NYC BECOMES FIRST U.S. CITY TO OFFER ‘ON DEMAND’ ABORTION KITS. Beginning this week, patients in New York City seeking abortions can schedule a Virtual ExpressCare appointment to speak with a state-licensed health care professional by video or phone, on-demand, for an assessment and counseling. Read more here.
OBGYN CONFIRMS: OVER 10,000 BABIES A YEAR ABORTED LATE IN TERM, MOST BABIES ARE HEALTHY. Over the past 10 years, the CDC reports that between 7.5 and 9.2 percent of abortions performed annually were after 13 weeks’ gestation, and approximately 1 percent were performed after 21 weeks of gestation, when the child can often survive if separated from his or her mother. Read more here.
POLISH MAN PROSECUTED FOR HELPING HIS PARTNER WITH AN ABORTION. Helping someone have an abortion is a criminal offence in Poland punishable by up to three years in prison. Read more here.
THE GLARING ISSUES WITH CALIFORNIA’S ATTACK AGAINST PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS OVER ABORTION PILL REVERSAL. Announcing his lawsuit against pregnancy resource centers, California Attorney General Rob Bonta showed his disdain for offering women life-affirming choices by saying, “The horrifying reality is that right now there are more crisis pregnancy centers in California than abortion care clinics.” Read more here.
HOUSE PASSES 1-YEAR AFRICA AIDS RELIEF EXTENSION WITH SAFEGUARD GOP REP SAYS STOPS BIDEN ABORTION ‘HIJACKING.’ House Republicans passed a one-year extension of funding for the Bush era PEPFAR program providing AIDS relief to Africa but with guardrails to stop what one GOP congressman told Fox News Digital is a Biden administration push to fund abortions on the continent through the program. Read more here.
APPEALS COURT REVERSES PREVIOUS RULING THAT HALTED IDAHO ABORTION BANS. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel overruled a lower court decision to block Idaho’s abortion ban and determined that the ban is likely to succeed because it serves the “public interest.” Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS ABORTION GROUP LOOKS TO MAKE NEW ENGLAND AN ABORTION HAVEN. Reproductive Equity Now is merging with Pro-Choice Connecticut and will cover Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire in an effort to make New England an abortion haven. Read more here.
IRISH LEGISLATORS DENIED CONSCIENCE VOTE ON ABORTION ZONES LAW. Fine Gael TDs Ciarán Cannon and John Paul Phelan were denied the right to vote according to their conscience on the abortion zones bill by Taoiseach and party leader Leo Varadkar. Read more here.
THIRD TEXAS COUNTY OUTLAWS ABORTION AND USE OF ROADS FOR ‘ABORTION TRAFFICKING.’ By a 4-0 vote of the commissioners, Cochran County became the third Texas county to prohibit abortion and abortion trafficking. Read more here.
STUDIES CONFIRM MANY WOMEN REGRET THEIR ABORTIONS, EXPERIENCE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. Recent studies have shown that each exposure to abortion increases the risk of mental disorders by 23 percent and that pressure to undergo an abortion is associated with poorer mental and emotional outcomes. Read more here.
FLORIDA STUDENT NEWSPAPER DRAWS IRE OF ABORTION SUPPORTERS AFTER REJECTING ONLINE ABORTION PILL AD. On the advice of attorneys, an independent University of Florida newspaper refused to run an ad from Mayday Health for abortion pills because it would violate state law. Read more here.
GAVIN NEWSOM SIGNS BILL PROMOTING ABORTION DRUGS DAYS AFTER ABORTION PILL KILLS WOMAN. California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill promoting dangerous abortion drugs just days after news surfaced that a woman died after taking the abortion pill. Read more here.
IL LAW FORCES PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS TO PROMOTE ABORTION, NOW THEIR CASE IS FINALLY IN COURT. An Illinois law mandating that pro-life doctors and pregnancy centers must refer patients for abortions and talk about alleged benefits of abortion has been challenged in court, and a decision is expected early in 2024. Read more here.
TEXAS SUES YELP OVER NOTICES ABOUT CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Yelp for allegedly misleading consumers by posting notices on its business review website stating that crisis pregnancy centers provide limited medical services. Read more here.
HIV GROUPS SUPPORT ABORTION WHILE PROMOTING PEPFAR. A debate over funding for PEPFAR— the President’s Emergency Program for Aids Relief—is underway in the U.S. House of Representatives with pro-life lawmakers supported by pro-life groups working to ensure that the funds are not used for abortion by international NGOs who perform or promote abortion. Read more here.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA DECRIMINALIZES AND EXPANDS ABORTION. The newly passed Abortion Legislation Reform Bill 2023 removes abortion from the criminal code and also eliminates a requirement that women undergo mandatory counseling prior to receiving an abortion. Read more here.
FINES OF UP TO £2,500 TO BEGIN FOR OFFERS OF HELP OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINICS IN NORTHERN IRELAND. The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill establishes censorship zones where it will be illegal for members of staff and people using abortion services “to be impeded, recorded, influenced or to be caused harassment, alarm or distress.” Read more here.
U.S. CONGRESSMAN INTRODUCES PRO-LIFE BILL TO BAN DANGEROUS ABORTION PILL NATIONWIDE. Rep. Andy Ogles (Rep-Tenn.) is set to introduce a bill that would prohibit chemical abortions and penalize the selling or distribution of abortion pills. Read more here.
‘TREMENDOUS VICTORY’: HOBBS BABY BOX BECOMES FIRST IN NEW MEXICO TO SAVE NEWBORN’S LIFE. Hobbs, New Mexico’s Fire Station 1 received a notification indicating an object was placed in the town’s new baby box, leading firefighters to the scene where they found a baby boy safely tucked into the incubator. Read more here.
POLICE DROP INVESTIGATION INTO WOMAN PRAYING OUTSIDE UK ABORTION CENTER. Six months after her arrest for praying silently outside an abortion clinic, West Midlands Police confirmed that they will not file charges against Isabel Vaughan-Spruce. Read more here.
WOMAN SAYS ABORTION FACILITY LIED, WOULDN’T SHOW ULTRASOUND AND HELD HER DOWN DURING ABORTION. At the age of 16, Nichole Bryson changed her mind about having an abortion, but she was pinned down by four employees at an abortion clinic, told to be quiet, and threatened with violence until her child was aborted. Read more here.
LEAKED VETERANS AFFAIRS TRAINING VIDEO PROMOTES ABORTION, SUGGESTS MEN CAN GET PREGNANT. A leaked U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs training video promotes abortions and claims that not all pregnant persons are women. Read more here.
‘EUTHANASIA HOUSES’ TO BE SET UP ACROSS CANADA UNDER PLANS PROPOSED BY EUTHANASIA GROUP. A euthanasia group that set up Canada’s first “euthanasia house” is aiming to open similar facilities where people can go to end their life through euthanasia throughout Canada. Read more here.
TENNESSEE ABORTION BAN HAS SAVED OVER 10,000 BABIES FROM ABORTION. Tennessee has one of the nation’s strongest pro-life laws, which took effect after the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, and it has resulted in an estimated 10,000 lives saved. Read more here.
BRAZIL’S TOP COURT OPENS VOTE ON DECRIMINALIZING ABORTION UP TO 12TH WEEK OF PREGNANCY. Brazil’s top court opened a session that will decide whether abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy will be decriminalized nationwide. The South American nation currently allows abortions only in cases of rape, an evident risk to the mother’s health or if the fetus has no functioning brain. Read more here.
NEW JERSEY HEALTH INSURANCE ABORTION MANDATE FOR LARGER COMPANIES TAKES EFFECT. The law requires employer health insurance markets with 50 or more employees to provide comprehensive abortion coverage and was a was a result of the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act passed last year. Read more here.
AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE URGES PRO-LIFE PROTECTIONS IN HUMANITARIAN PROGRAM. A dozen pro-life organizations are urging U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell to reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with pro-life protections. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA SUES ORGANIZATIONS FOR TOUTING ABORTION PILL REVERSAL. A complaint filed in Alameda County Superior Court accused Heartbeat International and RealOptions Obria of violating a state law against fraudulent business practices for claiming they can help reverse the effects of the abortion pill mifepristone. Read more here.
NEBRASKA MOTHER WHO GAVE ABORTION PILLS TO TEEN DAUGHTER GETS 2 YEARS IN PRISON. Jessica Burgess ordered the pills online and gave them to her daughter in the third trimester of the 17-year-old’s pregnancy. They later buried the fetal remains. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE MARCH CAUSES UNREST IN GERMANY. Some 7,000 Germans took to the streets in Cologne to show their support for the pro-life movement, drawing protests from queer feminists. Read more here.
FINNISH GYNECOLOGIST WRONGLY PRESCRIBES ABORTION PILLS: ‘TODAY I REGRET THAT I TRUSTED HIM.’ A gynecologist in Finland is under investigation for telling pregnant women that there was no life in their wombs, and he recommended they take abortion pills. Read more here. Read more here.
RADICAL PRO-ABORTION GROUP NARAL CHANGES ITS NAME, BUT STILL SUPPORTS ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. The National Abortion Rights Action League is changing its name to Reproductive Freedom for All, but the goal remains the same – keeping abortions legal across America up to birth. Read more here.
MICHIGAN LAWMAKERS SEEK TO END PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN, PROTECTION FOR ABORTION SURVIVORS, AND MORE. Lawmakers in Michigan are aiming to expand the state’s pro-abortion policies even further with the introduction of a pro-abortion package that would repeal a number of informed consent measures and protections for women — including the removal of mandatory waiting periods, eliminating safety regulations for abortion facilities and requiring Medicaid to pay for abortions. Read more here.
AS DOJ TARGETS PRO-LIFERS, LEGISLATORS MOVE TO REPEAL FACE ACT. As pro-life activists face prison time brought on by Department of Justice charges, Republican members of Congress are introducing legislation targeting the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP DESCRIBES TREMENDOUS GROWTH POST-ROE. When Roe v. Wade was finally overturned in 2022—a victory that pro-life advocates had been striving toward for decades—40 Days for Life President Shawn Carney expected that his organization would probably shrink considerably, but it has expanded into 681 cities worldwide. Read more here.
AI CHATBOT HELPS USERS GET ABORTION. A new AI chatbot developed by two former Planned Parenthood officials provides information to pregnant women and teens on where and how to obtain abortions while discouraging them from visiting “crisis pregnancy centers,” where they will be counseled to keep their babies. Read more here.
‘TIME TO THINK’: 2,623 WOMEN DID NOT RETURN FOR ABORTION AFTER 3-DAY WAIT IN 2022: The period of reflection has been described as “life-saving” and as giving women “time to think” before undergoing an abortion, leading abortionists to campaign for the wait period to be scrapped. Read more here.
NEVADA AMENDMENT WOULD MAKE ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. A deep pockets conglomerate of abortion groups including Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice Nevada, and the ACLU of Nevada have filed a petition with the state of Nevada to allow abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Read more here.
TEXAS DATA: AT LEAST FOUR BABIES SURVIVED ABORTIONS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2023. The data reveal that in January of 2023, there were at least three infants who survived abortions performed on Texas residents, along with one more in April of this year, but it is not known if those abortions took place in Texas or outside of Texas on Texas residents. Read more here.
PREGNANT GOLF PRO ‘VERY SHOCKED’ AT CENSORSHIP OF HER PRO-LIFE VIEWS. American golf pro Amy Olson was shocked to learn that Global Golf Post did not post her interview by Steve Eubanks because of her pro-life remarks, leading the writer to resign. Read more here.
NEW ZEALAND IMPLEMENTS ‘SAFE AREAS’ TO SILENCE PRO-LIFE ACTIVITY NEAR ABORTION FACILITIES. In an effort to curtail free speech and stop pro-life activity, New Zealand implemented “safe area” buffer zones around six of the country’s abortion facilities. Read more here.
DOCTORS TOLD WOMAN TO ABORT HER BABY SO SHE COULD TREAT HER AGGRESSIVE BRAIN CANCER. SHE SAID NO. After doctors found an aggressive malignant tumor in Tasha Kann’s brain, the medical team advised her to abort her unborn child and immediately start cancer treatments, but she refused.” Read more here.
MAINE CHURCH VANDALIZED: ‘ABORTION IS OUR HUMAN RIGHT.’ The Second Baptist Church was vandalized with the words “Abortion Is Our Human Right” and “Queer Love 4 Eva.” The vandals also covered a sign in red paint that hangs on the side of church, which previously read, “Abortion is Murder.” Read more here.
EDUARDO VERÁSTEGUI: BECAUSE OF ABORTION, ‘MOST DANGEROUS PLACE ON THE PLANET’ IS A MOTHER’S WOMB. Producer, actor and pro-life advocate Eduardo Verástegui, who starred in the 2006 movie “Bella” and produced “The Sound of Freedom, launched his campaign for president of Mexico by announcing his fight is for life and for freedom. Read more here.
JOE BIDEN ASKS SUPREME COURT TO ALLOW DANGEROUS MAIL-ORDER ABORTION DRUGS TO ABORT MORE BABIES. The Biden Administration asked the Supreme Court to review a 5th District Court of Appeals opinion that kept the abortion pill mifepristone available but also placed significant restrictions on its distribution. Read more here.
ABORTIONISTS FIGHT TO ABORT BABIES IN ARIZONA JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE DOWN SYNDROME. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments from lawyers representing two abortionists and three organizations who seek to block a state law that forbids aborting a child because he or she has a genetic abnormality. Read more here.
ABORTION BUSINESS AT ‘CRISIS POINT’ WITHOUT ABORTION REVENUE. With the loss of abortion income, an Austin, Texas abortion center is struggling financially and resorted to using a GoFundMe campaign. Read more here.
LATE-TERM ABORTIONS ARE NOT RARE, CDC SHOWS 5,582 BABIES ABORTED AFTER 21 WEEKS IN 2020. Planned Parenthood recently tweeted that “late-term abortion” is a completely “made-up phrase that has no basis in medicine,” but thousands of lives have been taken in the second and third trimesters, and it is not at all “rare.” Read more here.
ABORTION NUMBERS RISE SHARPLY IN COLORADO, DRIVEN BY OUT-OF-STATE PATIENTS. Colorado has recorded more than 3,100 out-of-state patients coming in for an abortion so far in 2023. The number was about 2,000 as of the same time last year. A third of all terminated pregnancies in 2023 so far have been for non-Colorado patients compared to nearly 28 percent for all of 2022. Read more here.
FLORIDA DEFENDS PRO-LIFE LAW SAVING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. The Florida Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, et al., v. State of Florida, et al., regarding the 15-week abortion ban which prohibits all abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. Read more here.
ASSISTED SUICIDE RATES RISING IN AUSTRALIAN STATE OF VICTORIA – BUT ADVOCATES WANT MORE. Recent reporting shows that a growing number of people are dying by assisted suicide and euthanasia in the state of Victoria, but some officials say they’d like to see even more people die by these methods. Read more here.
LEAKED BIDEN ADMIN MEMO SHOWS VA PROMOTING ABORTION AS BIRTH CONTROL TO VETERANS. A leaked internal memo obtained by CatholicVote from the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has exposed the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs for promoting extensive abortion propaganda to veterans and staff. Read more here.
ALABAMA AG FILES MOTION TO DISMISS LAWSUIT REGARDING PROSECUTION OF OUT-OF-STATE ABORTIONS. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit against the state by the Yellowhammer Fund, an organization that funds abortions for women and which claims that prosecuting women for out-of-state abortions is unconstitutional. Read more here.
MOTHER OF TWO VOLUNTEERS TO SAVE ABANDONED PREMATURE BABIES. Mariam Mwakabunga, of Tanzania, discovered the plight of premature babies who had been abandoned, and now she provides care for them. Read more here.
KANSAS AWARDS MILLIONS IN CONTRACT TO LIFE-AFFIRMING PREGNANCY RESOURCE NETWORK. Kansas has begun the implementation of its state-funded Alternatives to Abortion program, which will serve as a way to increase resources that promote life-affirming options for women and their babies. Read more here.
DEMOCRAT STATES THAT ALLOW ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH ABORT RECORD NUMBER OF BABIES. A new report from the Guttmacher Institute indicates blue states where abortions are legal up to birth are aborting more babies, but states protecting life are saving a greater number of children’s lives. Read more here.
MICHIGAN LEGISLATORS INTRODUCE BILLS REPEALING STATE’S PRO-LIFE LAWS. Newly introduced legislation in Michigan includes 11 bills that, if passed, would remove some of the current barriers to abortion, like removing the 24-hour waiting period to receive an abortion and allowing Medicaid to cover abortion. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE LEADERS SLAM FACE ACT CONVICTIONS: ‘EMBARRASSMENT TO OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM.’ Three prominent American pro-life groups issued statements condemning the Biden Department of Justice’s prosecution and conviction of five activists who now face more than a decade in prison for blocking access to a late-term abortion facility. Read more here.
OHIO ISSUE 1 FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH ALSO ALLOWS TRANS SURGERIES ON KIDS WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. An LGBT pressure group that advocates teaching transgender ideology to children in preschool has endorsed an abortion-related state constitutional amendment that could also create a constitutional “right” for minors to have transgender surgeries without their parents’ knowledge or approval. Read more here.
WOMAN SUFFERED FOR 25 YEARS AFTER ABORTION, ‘NOT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT WAS WRONG’ WITH HER. In her book, From Trauma to Triumph: My Journey after Abortion, Noemi Morales describes her decades-long heartache after two abortions, stating, “With abortion comes lifelong trauma, whether you realize it or not.” Read more here.
ABORTION FACILITY WITH ‘PATTERN OF DEFICIENT PRACTICE’ DENIED LICENSE IN FLORIDA. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has denied a Pensacola abortion clinic its application for an abortion facility license in the state, after failing to monitor patients’ level of consciousness, respiratory status and cardiovascular status during abortion procedures, along with other failings. Read more here.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS HEAD CALLS FOR ABORTION ‘WITHOUT LIMITATIONS.’ Christopher Zahn, interim chief executive of ACOG, and Jenni Villavicencio, the interim director of advocacy and public affairs for the Society of Family Planning, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post which is tantamount to allowing abortion up until the point of birth. Read more here.
THOUSANDS MARCH IN DEFENSE OF UNBORN BABIES AT THE 2023 MARCH FOR LIFE UK IN LONDON. Police estimated that 7,000 pro-life attendees of all ages, including a large contingent of youth, filled Parliament Square in London to show their support for the 2023 theme of the event, “Freedom to Live.” Read more here.
CALIFORNIA TRIES TO SILENCE PRO-LIFERS, AND NOW HAS TO PAY MASSIVE AMOUNT. A state censorship scheme that targeted the pro-life message of the members of Right to Life of Central California has backfired, and now the state has agreed to pay significant lawyers’ fees for a court case that challenged the discriminatory law. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP SUES OREGON TO STOP MANDATE FORCING IT TO FUND ABORTION. Oregon Right to Life has sued for relief from Oregon’s mandate to provide coverage in its employee health insurance plan for abortion because it violates religious liberty protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Read more here.
UK: DOCTORS WARN ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA LINK TO ABORTION RISE. Social media misinformation about contraception may be contributing to Scotland’s record high abortion figures. Read more here.
THREE ‘SIGNIFICANT’ PRO-LIFE LAWS GO INTO EFFECT IN TEXAS. This month, the Lone Star State began enforcing a new law that forbids academic institutions from restricting the academic options of a student on the basis of being pregnant or parenting and requires them to make “reasonable accommodations” for a student to care for her child. Read more here.
SPECIALIZED INCUBATORS HAVE SAVED 1,500 UKRAINIAN PREEMIES. British inventor James Roberts is being hailed as a “hero” for creating a lightweight, battery-powered incubator to save the lives of babies born prematurely in Ukraine. Read more here.
SECOND TEXAS COUNTY OUTLAWS ABORTION AND USE OF ROADS FOR ‘ABORTION TRAFFICKING.’ Goliad County, Texas has outlawed abortion and abortion trafficking within the unincorporated area of the county, becoming the second Texas county to pass such an ordinance. Read more here.
EMERGENCY PETITION FILED TO GET PRO-LIFE ADVOCATE OUT OF PRISON FOR RESCUING BABIES. Thomas More Society attorneys filed an emergency motion with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to reconsider its order detaining pro-life advocate Lauren Handy while she awaits sentencing following her conviction of rescuing babies. Read more here.
MEXICAN STATE OF AGUASCALIENTES BECOMES 12TH TO DECRIMINALIZE ABORTION. Though Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled penalizing abortion unconstitutional in 2021, most of the country’s 32 states have yet to amend their local legislation. Read more here.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SPENDS 11 PERCENT OF ITS BUDGET PROMOTING ABORTION. This money has been spent on lobbying governments around the world to introduce do-it-yourself home abortions. Read more here.
ARIZONA SUPREME COURT AGREES TO HEAR ABORTION CASE. A lower appellate court had ruled that abortion doctors can perform elective abortions up through 15 weeks of gestation, and a state Supreme Court reversal of that decision would save many lives. Read more here.
LEGAL BATTLE ERUPTS OVER THE TERM ‘UNBORN CHILD’ IN OHIO ABORTION AMENDMENT. Pro-life advocates in Ohio have condemned a lawsuit filed by abortion-rights proponents objecting to the inclusion of the phrase “unborn child” in a proposed abortion ballot proposition. Read more here.
POLICE INVESTIGATE ABORTIONIST CAUGHT SAYING HE WOULD LET BABIES DIE IF THEY SURVIVED ABORTIONS. District of Columbia police are investigating Cesare Santangelo and his Foggy Bottom abortion clinic, after telling a Live Action reporter he attempts to sever umbilical cords and prevent pre-born children from surviving abortions. Read more here.
AT LEAST 12 CANADIAN ‘SUICIDE KITS’ SENT TO BUYERS IN IRELAND. The news sparked concern in Ireland because UK investigators linked at least 88 deaths there to the kits, prompting an investigation by the National Crime Agency. Read more here.
FINLAND TO LOOSEN ABORTION LAWS. Beginning in September, getting an abortion in Finland will become easier and faster as a law reform approved last year comes into force. Read more here.
WARREN BUFFET HAS SPENT A HUGE FORTUNE PROMOTING ABORTIONS. Billionaire Warren Buffet deserves the title “secret patron of Abortion Inc., for having, since 2000, donated enough money to cover an estimated 10 million abortions. Read more here.
REPORT: TELEHEALTH ABORTIONS IN COLORADO ARE SKYROCKETING. The share of abortion pills provided via telehealth in Colorado increased to 20 percent in March 2023, which is three times the national average, according to the Society of Family Planning. Read more here.
U.S. PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS FOUND GUILTY OF VIOLATING FACE ACT. A jury handed five pro-life activists guilty verdicts on charges of conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act stemming from a 2020 “rescue action” at a D.C.-based abortion clinic. Read more here.
NORWAY ABORTION BOARD CONSIDERS RAISING 12-WEEK ABORTION LIMIT. The abortion limit is 12 weeks in Norway, but the government has set up a special committee to investigate the current limitation. Read more here.
KANSAS ABORTION FACILITY SERIOUSLY INJURES WOMAN IN BOTCHED ABORTION. Trust Women in Wichita called 911 to request an ambulance transfer just three weeks after causing another injury. Read more here.
TEXAS COUNTY PASSES LAW BANNING ABORTIONS, PROTECTING WOMEN AND UNBORN CHILDREN. In a unanimous vote, the County Commission of Goliad County, Texas voted in favor of adopting an ordinance “Outlawing Abortion Within the Unincorporated Area of Goliad County.” Read more here.
NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE ON SEPTEMBER 9 WILL REMEMBER 65 MILLION BABIES KILLED IN ABORTION. Pro-life advocates will mark September 9 as a day of both celebration and mourning as they remember the 65 million unborn babies who were aborted under Roe v. Wade. Read more here.
YOUTUBE TO SILENCE ABORTION DISSENT IN NEW ‘MISINFORMATION’ POLICY. YouTube’s new medical misinformation policy will censor any video that runs against the guidelines of the World Health Organization on abortion. Read more here.
BIRTH RATES IN ENGLAND AND WALES PLUMMET AS ABORTIONS RISE. Abortions in England and Wales have been on the rise, and data recently released from the Office for National Statistics revealed that the birth rate in both countries has plummeted. Read more here.
UK ABORTION COMEDY PLAY LABELS EXPERIENCE OF MULTIPLE ABORTIONS ‘FUN.’ The abortion comedy play All Aboard! At Termination Station has been running at the Edinburgh Fringe festival this summer, and writer/performer Lilly Burton described the morbid show as “my campaign to normalize and destigmatize abortion” and laugh about aborting pre-born children. Read more here.
POST-ROE NORTH DAKOTA PUTS RESOURCES INTO ALTERNATIVES IN ABORTION. Although abortion-rights advocates haven’t given up the fight, abortion opponents are moving ahead with the restrictions and placing a heavier emphasis on supporting new mothers through legislation and services, such as maternity homes for pregnant women and teens. Read more here.
FEDERAL COURT BACKS PRO-LIFE LAWS IN WEST VIRGINIA, BUT WILL HEAR CASE AGAINST ABORTION TELEMED RESTRICTIONS. A federal district court partially sided with West Virginia’s attorney general in a lawsuit filed by an abortion pill manufacturer, permitting the state to restrict the sale of the abortion drug mifepristone. Read more here.
SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT BACKS SIX-WEEK ABORTION BAN. South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled that the state’s ban on abortions after six weeks did not violate the state’s constitution, voting 4-1 to uphold the ban in the suit brought by Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. Read more here.
CHURCH FIGHTS BACK AFTER WASHINGTON STATE FORCES IT TO FUND ABORTIONS. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Seattle-area church filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit after a lower court ruled that the church must violate its constitutionally protected pro-life religious beliefs and abide by the state’s mandate that all Washington employers provide abortion coverage for employees. Read more here.
ABORTION CLINIC EMPLOYEE OFFERS UNDERCOVER REPORTER ILLEGAL ABORTION AT HER HOME. An employee for the Indianapolis-based Clinic for Women abortion facility offered to give an undercover reporter with REAL News Michiana an illegal abortion at her home for $500, just a day after the state’s total abortion ban took effect. Read more here.
UN DEMANDS COSTA RICA LEGALIZE ABORTION. The Costa Rican Evangelical Alliance Federation strongly rejects “globalist tendencies of the UN” and other international organizations’ attempts to “put an end to the sovereignty of the nation and go against the life of the most defenseless.” Read more here.
NEW U.S. CDC DIRECTOR MANDY COHEN: PRIORITY IS ABORTION. Dr. Mandy Cohen touted her experience as a mother while defending access to abortion and making it a high priority. Read more here.
NURSE WHO KILLED SEVEN PREMATURE BABIES SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON. British nurse Lucy Letby was found guilty on 14 counts of murdering seven premature babies in a neonatal unit and will spend life in prison. Read more here.
IRELAND’S ABORTION FIGURES ‘OUT OF CONTROL’ AS NEW DATA SUGGEST UP TO 10,000 TERMINATIONS IN 2023. Abortion figures are now ‘out of control,’ according to the Life Institute, as new data released for the first six months of the year suggest that up to 10,000 terminations may take place in 2023 if the trend continues. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY EVENT CALLS ABORTING UNBORN BABIES ‘HAPPY ABORTIONS.’ An event at Ulster University in Belfast was staged by a pro-abortion activist group that promoted what they describe as “the happy abortion.” Read more here.
ABORTION INDUSTRY SUES AFTER HALTING OF BEVERLY HILLS ALL-TRIMESTER ABORTION BUSINESS. The DuPont Clinic was planning to open an abortion facility in the wealthy Beverly Hills neighborhood, but the property owner canceled that, and the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust said their efforts helped get the lease dropped. Read more here.
C-FAM CALLS ON UN RACISM COMMITTEE TO AVOID ABORTION. The UN’s oldest core human rights treaty on ending racial discrimination is planning, for the first time, to use race in promoting access to abortion. Read more here.
MORE FROM AP/NORC POLL: 73% OPPOSE UNRESTRICTED ABORTION. A recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research further cements what previous data has already revealed: most Americans think there should be at least some limits on abortion. Read more here.
COLORADO MAY DISCIPLINE DOCTORS WHO SAVE BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. The Colorado medical boards want to prohibit the medically valid abortion pill reversal procedure that has saved thousands of babies from abortions and helps moms who have made the decision to keep their baby after taking the first part of the abortion pill. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA GOP SEEKS TO REVERSE PARTY PLATFORM ON ABORTION AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. The California Republican Party is set to make major changes to its statewide platform, including a reversal of its long-held opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage as a way to court voters in the Golden State. Read more here.
GROUP TRIES TO AWARD ABORTIONIST WHO EXPLOITED RAPE SURVIVOR, GETS SHUT DOWN. Approximately 60 women were nominated for Indiana’s Torchbearer awards, which recognizes women who are “true beacons of light,” and abortionist Dr. Caitlin Bernard was one of them. Read more here.
LOUISIANA COURT RULES ABORTION BAN CAN KEEP SAVING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. A Louisiana court has permanently reversed a judge’s injunction that temporarily blocked the state’s abortion ban. Read more here.
LAWSUIT CLAIMS ‘ABORTION HELPERS’ ARE LIKE ‘CIVIL-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS.’ A lawsuit filed by the Yellowhammer Fund, an abortion funding group in Alabama, has compared individuals who help others abort their preborn children to civil rights activists of decades past — referring to those who assist women in obtaining an abortion as “unsung heroes.” Read more here.
FLORIDA ABORTION BUSINESS HEAVILY FINED FOR IGNORING 24-HOUR WAITING PERIOD. The Agency for Health Care Administration issued an order fining the Center for Orlando Women for 193 abortions performed by the facility without observing the legal waiting period. Read more here.
GIRLS UNDER 16 WILL GET ABORTIONS WITHOUT PARENTS KNOWING, IF WESTERN AUSTRALIA CHANGES LAW. Current law in Western Australia requires parents or guardians to discuss abortion with girls 16 and under living in the home, but the state parliament is considering a bill that will make extreme changes to abortion legislation, including removing these requirements from law. Read more here.
NEW STUDY INDICATES ABORTION PILL REVERSAL COULD BE SUCCESSFUL 81 PERCENT OF TIME. Doctors who provide abortion pill reversal say they began to offer the treatment in response to demand from women who had taken a first abortion pill and then regretted their decision. Read more here.
BIDEN ADMIN REFUSES TO SCRAP ABORTION TOURISM POLICY SO MILITARY NOMINEES CAN BE APPROVED. When President Joe Biden announced the new policy to make Americans fund abortion tourism, Senator Tommy Tuberville blocked all military nominations until the policy was reversed, but the president continues forcing Americans to fund abortion. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE MAN BANNED FROM SIDEWALK COUNSELING IN NEW YORK WINS IN COURT. Jim Havens of Rochester, N.Y. sued the city and the state for preventing his organization from sidewalk counseling women near a Planned Parenthood location. He challenged them in court and won. Read more here.
OREGON GOVERNOR HOLDS CEREMONIAL SIGNING TO CELEBRATE NEW BILL PROMOTING ABORTIONS. Oregon’s pro-abortion Gov. Tina Kotek celebrated her signing of an abortion bill that makes it easier for young girls to have abortions – or be coerced by an abuser – without their parents’ knowledge. Read more here.
COURT RULING STOPPING MAIL-ORDER ABORTIONS COULD CUT ABORTIONS 15 PERCENT, SAVE 140,000 BABIES. While the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals did not take the dangerous abortion pill off the market, one aspect of its decision could result in saving the lives of tens of thousands of unborn children. Read more here.
FEDERAL APPEALS COURT STOPS MAIL-ORDER ABORTIONS, BLOCKS JOE BIDEN’S ILLEGAL SCHEME. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling requiring the Food and Drug Administration to restore the safeguards it recently removed on the dangerous abortion pill that has killed dozens of women and injured thousands. Read more here.
ABORTION CLINIC FINED FOR VIOLATING LAW PROTECTING WOMEN’S HEALTH 193 TIMES. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration ordered a clinic to pay penalty fees for violating a rule preventing women from receiving an abortion within 24 hours of requesting the procedure. Read more here.
REPORT: OUTSIDE GROUPS SEND ABORTION PILLS TO PRO-LIFE STATES. Despite abortion restrictions in states like Idaho and Texas, women are allegedly able to obtain abortion pills through the mail with the complicity of the U.S. Postal Service and the help of various pro-abortion organizations that benefit from shield laws in other states. Read more here.
ATTORNEYS DEFEND PRO-LIFE PHARMACIST SUED FOR REFUSING TO FILL PRESCRIPTION FOR ABORTION-CAUSING DRUG. Alliance Defending Freedom filed a brief with the Minnesota Court of Appeals in Anderson v. Thrifty White Pharmacy, in defense of pro-life pharmacist George Badeaux, who declined to fill a prescription for the morning after pill because it can occasionally cause an abortion. Read more here.
CHEMICAL ABORTION INCREASES AT STATE LEVEL WHILE UNREGULATED VIRTUAL CLINICS EXPAND. State abortion data confirm that chemical abortion use is on the rise as unregulated virtual abortion pill dispensaries also increased since the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to weaken safety regulations for the abortion pill mifepristone. Read more here.
D.C. ‘SELECTIVELY ENFORCED’ DEFACEMENT LAWS AGAINST BLM, PRO-LIFE GROUP, FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULES. A federal appeals court ruled the city of Washington, D.C., unevenly enforced its “defacement” ordinances against pro-life groups, reversing a lower court’s dismissal of a complaint filed by the Frederick Douglass Foundation. Read more here.
NEW ABORTION CASE SPARKS RENEWED CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT TO REINSTATE IN-PERSON ABORTION APPOINTMENTS. Right To Life UK has called on the government to reinstate in-person appointments before all abortions take place to ensure that the gestation of babies can be accurately assessed, following a woman appearing in court after being charged with procuring an abortion. Read more here.
REPORT: NUMBER OF ABORTION FACILITIES CUT NEARLY IN HALF SINCE THE 1980S. Abortion-providing facilities—which include hospitals, specialized and nonspecialized abortion facilities, as well as physician offices—have reportedly declined nearly 45 percent after increasing by 212 percent following the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Read more here.
NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR’S HOTLINE STILL REFERRING WOMEN TO SATANIC TEMPLE FOR ABORTIONS. Because of an overwhelming number of responses and concerns, pro-life groups followed up and have confirmed that Gov. Lujan-Grisham’s taxpayer-funded abortion hotline is still referring women to the Satanic Temple Health (TST Health) ritual abortion clinic. Read more here.
AFTER OHIO, PRO-ABORTION ACTIVISTS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON ARIZONA. A ballot initiative in Arizona is spearheaded by several major pro-abortion organizations, including the ACLU of Arizona, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, NARAL Arizona, Affirm Sexual and Reproductive Health, Arizona List, and Healthcare Rising Arizona. Read more here.
ILLINOIS ABORTION BUSINESS INJURES 14TH WOMAN IN JUST OVER A YEAR. Operation Rescue reported another abortion injury at Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois, where abortionist Erin King made the 911 call for a 35-year-old patient who was hemorrhaging after a second-trimester dilation and evacuation abortion. Read more here.
NEBRASKA JUDGE UPHOLDS 12-WEEK ABORTION BAN SAVING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. The judge ruled against a request from the abortion industry to stop the 12-week abortion ban that can save thousands of babies from abortions, allowing the “Let Them Grow Act” to remain in effect. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN GROUP SUES QUEBEC GOV’T FOR CANCELING EVENT PRESUMED TO PROMOTE PRO-LIFE STANCE. Harvest Ministries International is suing the Ministry of Tourism and the Quebec City Convention Centre for suddenly canceling a contract for the Faith, Fire, Freedom Rally that had been scheduled to take place in Quebec City this summer. Read more here.
QUEBEC COMMISSION WARNS SOME EUTHANASIA DEATHS DON’T COMPLY WITH THE LAW. The Quebec Commission on End-of-Life Care has issued a warning that some of the province’s euthanasia deaths aren’t in compliance with the law, and it reminded people that gaining a confirming opinion from a second doctor is a requirement, not a suggestion. Read more here.
NEW YORK COUNTY VOTES TO REPEAL LAW BANNING PRO-LIFE FREE SPEECH OUTSIDE ABORTION CENTERS. Pro-life advocates are declaring a victory in Westchester County, New York after the County Board of Legislators voted to repeal an unconstitutional 8-foot “floating bubble zone” around persons entering or leaving abortion facilities to “protect” them from the “approaches” of pro-life sidewalk counselors. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE MAN CHARGED WITH ‘THOUGHT CRIME’ FOR PRAYING OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINIC PLEADS NOT GUILTY. Army veteran Adam Smith-Connor is facing criminal charges in the UK for a “thought crime” for praying outside an abortion business and has pleaded not guilty. Read more here.
OPPONENTS OF MAINE’S NEW ABORTION LAW WON’T SEEK TO NULLIFY IT THROUGH A REFERENDUM. Groups opposed to Maine’s new law expanding abortion access decided that rather than incur the costs of an opposition campaign, they will instead focus on electing candidates who are opposed to abortions. Read more here.
GERMAN DOCTOR CANNOT IMPORT SUICIDE DRUGS. The Higher Administrative Court of Cologne ruled that the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices in Germany does not have to give a doctor permission to import suicide drugs from Switzerland and give them to his patients who request them. Read more here.
ARIZONA GOV. WON’T CONDEMN ABORTION AFTER FETAL VIABILITY. Gov. Katie Hobbs said she supported a proposed measure that would raise Arizona’s current 15-week ban to the point of fetal viability. However, she did not rule out going further. Read more here.
CANADA WANTS TO ALLOW DOCTORS TO EUTHANIZE CHILDREN. A report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying called for a further expansion of euthanasia in Canada with the report recommending, among other things, that euthanasia be expanded to include “mature minors.” Read more here.
ABORTION TRAFFICKING: BIG ABORTION’S PREDATORY LURING OF TEENS OUT OF STATE AND AWAY FROM PARENTS. Abortion organizations, businesses and funding groups are taking part in what has been dubbed “abortion trafficking” by openly enticing minors to cross state lines to obtain an abortion. Read more here.
ABORTION ACTIVISTS TURN TO LEGISLATION TO TARGET PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS, PRO-LIFE ADVOCATE WARNS. Pro-abortion forces have moved from physically attacking pro-life pregnancy care centers to weaponizing legislation against them, according to the Rev. Jim Harden. Read more here.
UTAH WILL FIGHT IN COURT TO UPHOLD LAW PROTECTING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. Utah officials are asking the state’s Supreme Court to end an injunction on Utah’s abortion trigger law, which was passed before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade to protect babies from abortions. Read more here.
NARAL USES CLIP OF DISNEY’S BABY MOANA TO PROMOTE ABORTION. NARAL Pro-Choice America recently promoted abortion on its social media account using a scene from a Disney animated movie in which a cartoon toddler appears to scream at the thought of pro-life policies. Read more here.
WYOMING LAWMAKERS DEFEND ABORTION BAN IN COURT TO PROTECT BABIES. Right to Life of Wyoming and two state legislators notified a state trial court that they are appealing that court’s decision to block them from defending a state pro-life law that pro-abortion activists are challenging. Read more here.
BIDEN ISSUES MANDATE TRYING TO FORCE EVERY EMPLOYER IN AMERICA TO FUND ABORTIONS. The Biden administration announced implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a mandate that would attempt to force every employer in America to fund abortions. Read more here.
JUDGE EXEMPTS COMPLICATED PREGNANCIES FROM TEXAS ABORTION BAN. Women in Texas with complicated pregnancies will be exempted from a state abortion ban under a temporary injunction issued by Travis County District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum. Read more here.
THE NY TIMES PUBLISHED A PRO-LIFE STORY. In India and China, it is common for rural people to prefer baby boys to baby girls, resulting in the abortion of females, and now The New York Times is presenting the case of a man who led a successful campaign against this practice. Read more here.
POPE FRANCIS TELLS WORLD YOUTH DAY PARTICIPANTS TO OPPOSE ABORTION, YOU MUST ‘DEFEND LIFE.’ The pope urged young Catholics to “defend life” from the threats of abortion and euthanasia during an appearance in Lisbon, Portugal with representatives from around the world present. Read more here.
NEW YORK LIMITS AMMO THAT COULD KILL PEOPLE, MAILS ABORTION DRUGS THAT WILL KILL PEOPLE. New York Democrat leaders just banned mailing ammunition through the mail – supposedly in the name of protecting children’s lives – while at the same time allowing state medical professionals to mail deadly abortion drugs to women anywhere in the country. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS INTERPRETATION OF IDAHO LAW THAT PROHIBITS OUT-OF-STATE ABORTION REFERRALS. A federal judge in Idaho has granted a preliminary injunction to block an opinion from the state’s attorney general prohibiting referrals from physicians for out-of-state abortions, even though the opinion had already been withdrawn. Read more here.
BILL GATES FUNDS A GROUP THAT SELLS CHEAP ABORTION DRUGS. A major new investigation by Bloomberg News exposes how Bill Gates and other wealthy Americans are spending massive amounts of money funding a group that sells low-quality abortion drugs to women across the world. Read more here.
DEMAND FOR ABORTION PILLS IN RUSSIA HITS RECORD HIGH. A total of 1.4 million drugs that induce abortions and 2.2 million emergency contraception drugs were sold in Russia last year, marking a 60-percent and 53-percent increase from 2021 respectively. Read more here.
UK £40 ONLINE TRAINING COURSE ON ‘FETICIDE’ SLAMMED AS ‘HORRIFIC.’ The pro-life group, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, condemned the offering of an online training course on feticide by Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Read more here
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