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JUDGE BLOCKS OHIO’S HUMANE BURIAL LAW, CLAIMING IT WOULD ‘SEVERELY IMPEDE ACCESS TO ABORTION.’ Four years after the institution of a law requiring the bodies of aborted children to be buried or cremated in a humane manner, an Ohio judge has blocked it, claiming it would somehow prevent women from accessing abortions. Read more here.
NORTHEASTERN U. CLUB SUGGESTS STUDENTS DOING ‘SELF-MANAGED ABORTION’ SHOULD LIE TO DOCTORS. A student club at Northeastern University recently posted a graphic to social media telling students that they can lie to doctors if they are experiencing negative side effects from medication abortion. Read more here.
SCOTLAND POLICE STOP PRO-LIFE WOMAN FROM SILENTLY PRAYING OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINIC. Scottish police applied a “buffer zone” law, which bans pro-life people from praying or speaking outside an abortion business, to pro-life grandmother Rose Docherty outside an abortion clinic. Read more here.
UK WOMAN FACES TRIAL FOR HOLDING SIGN OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINIC SAYING, ‘HERE TO TALK IF YOU WANT.’ Livia Tossici-Bolt, a retired medical scientist from Bournemouth, will face trial March 6, following charges relating to her charitable work supporting women in crisis pregnancies and standing near an abortion clinic offering that she was “here to talk, if you want to.” Read more here.
U.S HHS ISSUES SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT CONFIRMING HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION. The Department of Health and Human Services issued its updated definition of sex for all federal agencies and the public. The guidance was issued to make it clear there are only two biological sexes, but the confirmation also makes it clear that that establishment of the sex of a human being – this the life of a human being – begins at conception. Read more here.
COLORADO SENATE COMMITTEE ADVANCES BILL PROTECTING ABORTIONISTS. The Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill that would protect abortionists who mail the abortion pill out of state by allowing them to leave their names off of pill bottles. Read more here.
ABORTIONISTS SUE TO STOP MANDATORY REPORTING TO HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Indiana Abortionists Caitlin Bernard and Caroline Rouse filed a lawsuit against Voices for Life and the state health commissioner requesting that the Marion County Superior Court enter a temporary restraining order to block the release of Termination of Pregnancy Reports. Read more here.
ABORTION PIPELINE PROJECT WILL AGAIN GRANT WRITERS MONEY TO CREATE PRO-ABORTION FILMS. The annual Abortion Pipeline Project is back as part of the Athena Film Festival’s Creative Development Program, offering five pro-abortion writers grant money to create abortion-friendly films. Read more here.
BABIES WILL BE ABORTED IN MISSOURI AGAIN AS JUDGE ALLOWS ABORTION CENTERS TO REOPEN. Judge Jerri Zhang struck down modest abortion limits that protect women’s health, including pre-abortion exams, waiting periods and hospital admitting privileges for abortionists so women can receive emergency medical care after a botched abortion. Read more here.
JUDGE RULES NEW YORK ABORTIONIST MUST STOP MAILING ABORTION PILLS TO TEXAS, ORDERS HER TO PAY FINE. Judge Bryan Gantt of North Texas has ordered New York abortionist Margaret Daley Carpenter to stop sending abortion pills into the state and to pay a hefty fine, challenging the abortion lobby’s strategy of circumventing pro-life laws by mailing abortion pills across state lines. Read more here.
KENNEDY SAYS TRUMP WANTS STUDY OF ABORTION PILLS THAT KILLED DOZENS OF WOMEN AND INJURED THOUSANDS. U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained that President Donald Trump has expressed interest in initiating a study on abortion pills, highlighting concerns over their safety. Read more here.
ABORTIONS DROP 28 PERCENT IN FLORIDA, BUT 60,000 BABIES WERE STILL ABORTED LAST YEAR. The drop in abortions is presumably attributable to the state’s six-week abortion ban, but abortion activists tried unsuccessfully to effectively wipe away any protections for preborn children during the 2024 election. Read more here.
LIBERAL UNIVERSITY ROLLS OUT PLAN B VENDING MACHINES. The University of Connecticut has placed a vending machine full of the emergency contraceptive Plan B on campus as part of a larger effort to increase access to birth control for students. Read more here.
JD VANCE CALLS OUT ‘CRAZY’ BRITISH ARRESTS OF PRO-LIFERS PRAYING TO END ABORTION. While delivering a major address in Germany, U.S. Vice President JD Vance called out European leaders for not only attacking free speech but for targeting pro-lifers in particular, expressing dismay over the United Kingdom’s decision to arrest a man who was silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth in 2022. Read more here.
REPUBLICANS LOOK TO REDIRECT GLOBAL AIDS RELIEF FUNDING DIVERTED BY BIDEN TO SUPPORT ABORTION PROMOTION. Republicans in Congress are seeking to remove the PEPFAR promotion of abortion through its sponsorship of organizations that support the procedure abroad and through greater safeguards to prevent the funding from illegally going to abortion. Read more here.
CANADIAN PRO-ABORTION GROUP SAYS IT IS ‘LIKELY’ TO CLOSE WITHOUT RENEWED GOVERNMENT FUNDING. Abortion Care Canada has lost 77 percent of its operating budget after the federal government failed to renew its pledge from the Sexual and Reproductive Health Fund. Read more here.
KENNEDY SAYS TRUMP WANTS STUDY OF ABORTION PILLS, WHICH HAVE KILLED DOZENS OF WOMEN AND INJURED THOUSANDS. U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said President Donald Trump has expressed interest in initiating a study on abortion pills, highlighting concerns over their safety because the drugs have killed dozens of women and injured countless thousands. Read more here.
DELAWARE UNLAWFULLY TARGETS PREGNANCY CENTERS. On behalf of a nonprofit pregnancy center and a nonprofit network of affiliated centers, attorneys with Simms Showers and Alliance Defending Freedom filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Delaware law that unconstitutionally restricts the centers’ ability to communicate freely and also forces them to speak messages that undermine their mission and mislead the public. Read more here.
UK POLICE CONTINUE TO HARASS PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES PRAYING NEAR ABORTION CLINICS. Police in Birmingham, England reprimanded a pro-life advocate for praying silently near an abortion clinic, just months after a judge ruled police must pay her compensation for wrongly arresting her twice for the same activity. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN ABORTION PROPONENTS WANT NON-PHYSICIANS TO DISPENSE ABORTION PILL. An abortion review in New South Wales, Australia, is recommending a change to the law that would allow non-physicians like nurse practitioners and midwives to prescribe the abortion pill, because many doctors in rural areas have conscientious objections to abortion. Read more here.
BARNARD LIBRARY SUPPORTS ABORTIFACIENT ‘GARDEN’ AND ‘SELF-MANAGED ABORTION’ EVENT. An exhibit at Barnard College about the “changing conditions of reproductive rights in the United States” includes dried herbs and an outdoor garden with plants historically used to induce abortions. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RESEARCH PROJECT AGGRESSIVELY PROMOTES ABORTION. UW-Madison’s Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE) envisions “a Wisconsin with policies, programs, and structures that enable people to access abortion and contraception, maximize their sexual and reproductive health, and govern their own reproductive lives.” Read more here.
UK PRO-LIFER AGAIN HARASSED BY POLICE WHILE SILENTLY PRAYING NEAR ABORTION CENTER. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, who previously won a settlement for being wrongly arrested by British police for praying silently outside an abortion business, was accosted by West Midlands police who claimed she was “causing people harassment.” Read more here.
CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION THAT FUNDS PRO-ABORTION GROUPS LAYS OFF 50 PERCENT OF ITS STAFF AFTER LOSING USAID FUNDS. Catholic Relief Services was the top recipient of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). It cut half of its workforce after the Trump administration’s freeze on funding for USAID, and CRS President and CEO Sean Callahan said its staff will get even smaller in the future. Read more here.
RESTORED CDC WEBSITE SUGGESTS ‘ADOPTION’ AS ADDITIONAL SEARCH OPTION TO ‘ABORTION.’ Less than a week after the Trump administration took several federal agency websites offline for updates, some of those pages have been restored, including the site for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which now supplements “abortion” searches with “also try adoption.” Read more here.
THE NAACP KEEPS PROMOTING ABORTION, EVEN THOUGH IT HAS KILLED MILLIONS OF BLACK BABIES. This past January, the NAACP X account said it “will continue to advocate for policies that dismantle systemic injustices and strive to improve the lives of Black people and all Americans,” but the organization did not have a word to say about Human Life Month, though abortion erased an estimated 409,615 black lives. Read more here.
THE FIGHT TO PROTECT PREBORN HUMANS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS FOUND AN UNEXPECTED FOE. The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 340-15 to withdraw House Bill 476, which would have protected preborn children from abortion beginning at 15 weeks rather than 24 weeks, as the current law allows. Read more here.
PRESIDENT TRUMP WITHDRAWS U.S. FROM UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL THAT PUSHED RIGHT TO ABORTION. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council, a so-called human rights organization that pushes for a global right to abort unborn children. Read more here.
DOCTORS WHO PROVIDE ABORTION, TRANSGENDER CARE COULD GET LEGAL PROTECTIONS UNDER VIRGINIA BILL. Virginia has moved closer to shielding doctors from extradition if they provide reproductive or “gender-affirming healthcare” to out-of-state patients, narrowly advancing legislation that underscores the deepening divide over healthcare access and state sovereignty. Read more here.
SOUTH CAROLINA ASKS SUPREME COURT FOR FREEDOM TO DIRECT FUNDING AWAY FROM ABORTION FACILITIES. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed their opening brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case which could decide whether pro-life states like South Carolina can direct Medicaid funds intended to help low-income individuals obtain necessary medical assistance away from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. Read more here.
MEMBERS OF UK PARLIAMENT WANT TO CLOSE ABORTION LOOPHOLE THAT LETS PREDATORS HIDE CRIMES. In light of the recent media coverage of grooming gangs, MPs have written to the secretary of state for health and social care explaining that, in cases in which grooming gang victims aged 15 or younger have become pregnant, these crimes can more easily be hidden because there is no requirement for abortion providers to notify a parent or guardian before performing an abortion on a child. Read more here.
PREGNANCY CENTER FILES DEFAMATION LAWSUIT AGAINST PRO-ABORTION GROUP. Bethlehem House’s complaint alleges that the pro-abortion group Reproductive Equity Now launched a “politically-motivated attack” that attempts “to undermine and discredit these organizations [pregnancy resource centers] because they disagree with their religious and moral stances on abortion.” Read more here.
ABORTIONIST INDICTED FOR ILLEGALLY MAILING ABORTION PILLS TO KILL BABIES IN PRO-LIFE STATE. In a first of its kind case, New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter has been indicted for illegally selling abortion pills to people in the pro-life state of Louisiana, where babies are legally protected from abortions. Read more here.
WYOMING HOUSE PASSES BILLS REQUIRING INFORMED CONSENT AND ABORTION FACILITY SAFETY STANDARDS. Lawmakers in the Wyoming House of Representatives have passed a bill aiming to require women to receive an ultrasound before taking the abortion pill and another to regulate abortion facilities. Read more here.
ABORTIONIST WHO BROKE STATE LAW AND HAS MULTIPLE DUIS IS STILL LICENSED TO ABORT BABIES. Despite the Florida Department of Health requesting a revocation of her license by the state medical board, abortionist Candace Cooley recently walked away with only a fine and a few hours of continuing education after ignoring Florida’s 24-hour waiting period for 193 separate abortions in 2022. Read more here.
ENVIRONMENTAL HARM OF CHEMICAL ABORTIONS RAISES CONCERNS. New legislation in Arizona, Idaho, Maine, West Virginia and Wyoming would require abortion providers to have their patients collect expelled medical waste from at-home abortions. Read more here.
PENTAGON SCRAPS BIDEN-ERA ABORTION TRAVEL POLICY. The Pentagon has scrapped a controversial Biden administration directive that allowed service members to be reimbursed for travel if they or a family member needed to go to another state for an abortion. Read more here.
VICTORY: LAWFARE AGAINST DALEIDEN AND MERRITT, WHO EXPOSED PLANNED PARENTHOOD, IS OVER. David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, and journalist Sandra Merritt, announced that the criminal cases against them have ended, with the California Attorney General’s office agreeing to a plea deal that includes no prison time or fines for the journalists. Read more here.
POLL CONFIRMS MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT PRO-LIFE POLICIES. A Knights of Columbus/Marist poll revealed that, among more than 1,387 adults surveyed, clear majorities opposed taxpayer funding of abortion both at home and overseas, 62 percent say medical professionals should not be legally required to perform abortions and 83 percent support the work of pro-life pregnancy resource centers. Read more here.
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS WANT TO LOCK UP PEACEFUL ABORTION PROTESTERS. The Virginia Senate Courts Committee will hear SB 1324, essentially the state-level equivalent of the federal FACE Act, aimed at obstructing pro-life efforts and undermining free speech and targeting peaceful abortion protesters and sidewalk counselors. Read more here.
‘SHE DID THIS TO HERSELF’: MAN STRANGLED PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND AFTER SHE REFUSED ABORTION. Vidol Wegner is facing charges of two counts of first-degree murder as well as felony murder, after authorities found the dead body of his girlfriend, 30-year-old Ariel Nevills, who was seven months pregnant at the time. Read more here.
TRUMP BLOCKS MILLIONS IN FUNDING FOR PRO-ABORTION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. Last week, Trump withdrew the United States from the pro-abortion World Health Organization. Today, he blocked millions in taxpayer funding that had been allocated by the Biden administration for the international group. Read more here.
NEW GOVERNOR OF WASHINGTON IMMEDIATELY PUSHES PRO-ABORTION AGENDA. Bob Ferguson, the new governor of Washington, wasted no time in signing an executive order to expand abortion in his state, just moments after wrapping up his inaugural speech. Read more here.
TRUMP RESTORES MEXICO CITY POLICY, ENFORCES HYDE AMENDMENT TO LIMIT GOV’T ABORTION FUNDING. President Donald Trump reinstated two key federal rules for keeping taxpayer funding away from the abortion industry Friday, signing two executive orders to reinstate the Mexico City Policy governing foreign aid and directing federal agencies to recognize the Hyde Amendment’s limits on dispensing federal money domestically. Read more here.
POILIEVRE SAYS HIS GOVERNMENT WOULDN’T LEAVE PRO-ABORTION PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT. Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada Pierre Poilievre said he is not considering withdrawing Canada from the United Nations’ pro-abortion Paris Climate Agreement if he becomes prime minister. Read more here.
THE BEATRIZ CASE: A HISTORIC VICTORY FOR THE LATIN AMERICAN PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights rejected the pro-abortion lobby’s attempt to establish a “right to abortion” throughout Latin America, creating a legal precedent that will help pro-life groups defend innocent unborn life from conception in the 25 member countries, including in the region at large. Read more here.
INDIANA GOVERNOR ORDERS FULL ENFORCEMENT OF STATE PRO-LIFE LAWS. Republican Gov. Michael Braun signed an executive order requiring all state agencies to fully enforce and comply with Indiana’s pro-life laws after complaints over the Indiana Department of Health failing to fully release required abortion data. Read more here.
VANCE PROMISES PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT ‘WE STAND WITH YOU’ IN FIRST VICE PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS. U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance delivered his first public remarks as vice president at the 52nd annual March for Life on Friday, vowing to the pro-life movement that the Trump-Vance administration stands by them, and will continue to march with them through the years. Read more here.
WOMEN WHO REGRET THEIR ABORTIONS SPEAK UP AT MARCH FOR LIFE. Several women who regret having an abortion — and men who regret that their unborn child was aborted — spoke in front of the steps of the United States Supreme Court during the 2025 March for Life. Read more here.
50,000 PRO-LIFERS LINE THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO DURING WEST COAST WALK FOR LIFE. Tens of thousands of prolife supporters rallied in the 21st annual Walk for Life West Coast Saturday, filling Civic Center Plaza and marching for more than a mile through the city’s center behind the Walk’s banner “Abortion hurts women.” Read more here.
TRUMP PARDONS 23 PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS. U.S. President Donald Trump issued pardons for 23 imprisoned abortion protesters prior to Friday’s March for Life, many of them elderly and in poor health. Read more here.
SEN. MIKE LEE INTRODUCES BILL TO REPEAL LAW WEAPONIZED AGAINST PRO-LIFERS. Sen. Mike Lee reintroduced a bill to repeal the FACE Act, which has been weaponized against at least 50 pro-life advocates. Read more here.
ALL SENATE DEMOCRATS VOTE AGAINST BILL TO CRIMINALIZE INFANTICIDE. The U.S. Senate voted 52 to 47 to advance Senate Bill 6, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act, though 60 votes were needed to end cloture and advance the bill for a final vote. Read more here.
GOOGLE REVIEWS OF D.C. ABORTION BUSINESS WARN OTHERS TO STAY AWAY: ‘PUSHED, RUSHED, TRICKED.’ Cesare Santangelo is a well-known late-term abortionist at the Washington Surgi-Clinic, in Washington, D.C., and he stands accused of potential criminal actions, in addition to incriminating internet reviews. Read more here.
AIDS FUNDING USED FOR ABORTIONS IN AFRICA A ‘VIOLATION,’ U.S. OFFICIAL WARNS. U.S. Senator Jim Risch has called for an investigation into the Centers for Disease Control for allegedly misappropriating funds for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief by directing money to abortion. Read more here.
NEW POLL SHOWS 70 PERCENT OF MILLENNIAL VOTERS WANT ABORTION LIMITS. The Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement, in conjunction with YouGov and Survey USA, released its annual poll exploring abortion views among younger voters, particularly Millennials and Gen Z, and found that nearly 7 in 10 young voters favored some abortion limits, an increase from prior years. Read more here.
UK: MPS CALL ON HEALTH SECRETARY TO CLOSE ABORTION LOOPHOLE THAT ALLOWS GROOMING GANGS TO COVER UP ABUSE. British MPs have urged the Health Secretary to close an abortion loophole that allows grooming gangs to hide their sexual abuse of children age 15 and younger who have become pregnant because there is no requirement for abortion providers to notify a parent or guardian before performing an abortion on a child. Read more here.
ARKANSAS GOV. SARAH SANDERS WILL LOWER STATE FLAGS TO MOURN 65 MILLION BABIES KILLED IN ABORTIONS. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a proclamation designating January 22, 2025, as the “Day of Tears,” and she encouraged Arkansans to lower their flags to half-staff every year on January 22, the date of the 1973 Roe v. Wade court decision. Read more here.
911 CALL: WOMAN COLLAPSES IN PARKING LOT FROM APPARENT POST-ABORTION HEMORRHAGE. Pro-life watchdog group Operation Rescue reports that an Ohio woman and her partner called 911 three weeks after her abortion as she experienced post-abortion hemorrhaging, including blood clots, in a parking lot near the abortion facility. Read more here.
TRUMP DISABLES BIDEN WEB SITE THAT PROMOTED ABORTION. President Donald Trump’s first pro-life action came in the form of disabling a pro-abortion web site created by former President Joe Biden to promote abortions, reproductiverights.gov, which was a response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read more here.
ABORTION HAS BECOME THE GO-TO METHOD OF ‘BIRTH CONTROL’ IN THE UK, STUDY SUGGESTS. More than two-thirds of British women who had abortions in 2023 used no method of contraception before getting pregnant, according to a new study published in BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health journal. Read more here.
KENTUCKY LAWMAKERS FILE BILLS TO ALLOW ABORTION EXCEPTIONS. Two Kentucky lawmakers filed similar bills in the House and Senate that would add exceptions to the state’s law protecting preborn children by allowing abortion in certain cases, rape or incest, or when the child has a “lethal fetal anomaly.” Read more here.
JUDGE RULES STATES CAN INTERVENE IN ABORTION PILL LAWSUIT. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has ruled that the states of Missouri, Kansas and Idaho can intervene and file a complaint in an abortion pill lawsuit originally filed by a group of pro-life physicians. Read more here.
UK: ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ RISE IN ABORTION PROSECUTIONS PROMPTS CALL FOR LAW CHANGE FROM MEDICAL LEADERS. Medical leaders are calling for reform of abortion laws in England and Wales. More than 30 groups issued a joint statement warning that the current legislation is causing “trauma and cruelty” and demanding “immediate action” to safeguard reproductive rights. Read more here.
BIDEN BROKE FEDERAL LAW BY FUNDING ABORTIONS IN AFRICA WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention violated the Helms Amendment by illegally using U.S. taxpayer dollars from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to pay for abortions in Mozambique. Read more here.
DEMOCRATS STOCKPILE ABORTION PILLS AHEAD OF TRUMP’S INAUGURATION. With the approach of administration change in Washington, D.C., California, Massachusetts and New Jersey plan to hoard mifepristone — the abortion pill — to make sure that abortion will remain readily available, according to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy. Read more here.
MONTANA AG ASKS SUPREME COURT TO REVERSE COURT DECISION THAT CLAIMED CHILDREN HAVE ABORTION ‘RIGHTS.’ Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has asked the United States Supreme Court to intercede, after the state’s highest court struck down a law last summer that required parental consent before a minor’s abortion. Read more here.
THREE WOMEN SUE MINNESOTA GOV. TIM WALZ AFTER THEY WERE FORCED TO HAVE ABORTIONS. Two Minnesota laws are allegedly leading to coerced abortions in Minnesota, according to three women subjected to abortions they did not want. Read more here.
THOMAS MORE SOCIETY PETITIONS TRUMP TO PARDON 21 PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS IN PRISON. The Catholic law firm Thomas More Society is petitioning the incoming U.S. presidential administration to pardon 21 pro-life activists who are imprisoned for protests at abortion clinics under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION GROUPS DEMAND MPS DECRIMINALIZE ABORTION, SPUC SLAMS AS “REPREHENSIBLE” EXTREMISM. A collective statement signed by more than 30 pro-abortion organizations, including the British Medical Association, has called for the total decriminalization of abortion, prompting the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children to slam it as “reprehensible” and “self-serving extremism.” Read more here.
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS APPROVE RADICAL MEASURE FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. The Virginia House of Delegates voted 51-48 to advance HJ1, the unlimited abortion amendment setting Virginia on a path toward one of the most extreme abortion policies in the United States. Read more here.
KANSAS ABORTIONS JUMP 58 PERCENT, WITH ALMOST 20,000 BABIES ABORTED IN 2023. According to the 2023 Annual Summary of Vital Statistics from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, 19,467 abortions were performed in the state during 2023, a 58-percent increase from 2022, when 12,319 abortions were performed. Read more here.
WASHINGTON GOVERNOR WANTS ‘EMERGENCY ABORTION’ RULE CODIFIED AS HE LEAVES OFFICE. In a directive to the Washington State Department of Health, outgoing Gov. Jay Inslee called for so-called “emergency abortion care” to be codified into law. Read more here.
SENATE TO VOTE ON PRO-LIFE BORN-ALIVE SURVIVORS PROTECTION ACT BEFORE MARCH FOR LIFE. As pro-life Christians make a pilgrimage to the U.S. capitol later this month for the third annual March for Life after the repeal of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Senate plans to vote on a bill to assure unborn babies who are born during botched abortions receive potentially lifesaving medical care. Read more here.
MAN IN INDIA SEEKS COURT ORDER TO FORCE HIS UNMARRIED DAUGHTER TO ABORT HER BABY. A father in India is asking the high court to force his daughter to abort her preborn child because he says she is unmarried and “mentally ill.” Read more here.
INDIANA BILL WOULD CRIMINALIZE ABORTION DRUGS. New legislation in Indiana would make it a punishable offense to possess abortion drugs and to send the deadly pills into the state. Read more here.
CATHOLIC DOCTORS CHALLENGE BIDEN ADMIN ABORTION MANDATE. Representing the Catholic Medical Association, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration for trying to force emergency room doctors to perform abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Read more here.
RHODE ISLAND ABORTIONS DROP 36 PERCENT AS MORE BABIES ARE SAVED. Rhode Island lags behind other states in abortion reporting, but its report to the Centers for Disease Control showed that between 2021 and 2022 abortions decreased by 36 percent overall, with drug-induced abortions decreasing by 76 percent. Read more here.
REPORT REVEALS HOW ABORTION BANS REALLY AFFECT WOMEN. No Texas doctors have been prosecuted for performing one of 132 “medically necessary” induced terminations of pregnancy, according to a report from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services released Jan. 2. Read more here.
LEAKED DOCUMENTS SHOW LEFTIST AUSTRIAN PARTIES TRIED TO LEGALIZE UNRESTRICTED ABORTION. Leaked documents show that left-wing Austrian political parties wanted to legalize abortion and establish “buffer zones” around abortion mills in the country. Read more here.
OLDEST ABORTION BUSINESS IN MN SHUT DOWN, TO BE DEMOLISHED. After an estimated five decades of aborting pre-born babies, Minnesota’s oldest abortion business has shut down and will soon be demolished. The Robbinsdale Clinic, located near Minneapolis, has been sold to an internet company that will use it as a new data center. Read more here.
ABORTION GROUP TRAINS PHARMACISTS TO DISPENSE ABORTION PILLS. Pro-life groups are criticizing a burgeoning effort to expand use of the abortion pill through pharmacist prescriptions, slamming what one advocate called an effort at “chipping away at medical standards for women.” Read more here.
SUPREME COURT MAY HEAR CHALLENGE TO ILLINOIS LAW CENSORING PRO-LIFE FREE SPEECH. There’s a local law in Carbondale, Illinois that prohibits “approaching women outside clinics to advise of abortion alternatives,” but the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a petition submitted by Coalition Life. Read more here.
SINGER OLIVIA RODRIGO INCLUDES ABORTION FUND IN DONATION TO ‘WOMEN’S HEALTH’ CHARITIES. Singer Olivia Rodrigo is donating millions of dollars to charities that support abortion in Canada, Europe, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and Australia. Read more here.
VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO VOTE ON ALLOWING ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. As Virginia’s General Assembly resumes meetings, the House will vote on HJ1, a bill calling for an unlimited abortion amendment. Read more here.
U.S. PRO-LIFE GROUP LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN IN 26 STATES TO SAVE BABIES FROM ABORTION. Students for Life Action has launched a major lobbying effort in 26 states as part of its “Make America Pro-Life Again” Roadmap, promoting legislation that protects preborn children and addresses the dangers of chemical abortion pills. Read more here.
TEXAS ELECTIVE ABORTIONS DROP TO ZERO. A report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission shows that, since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, doctors have performed 132 medically necessary abortions to save women’s lives or health, with elective abortions dropping to zero. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE PROTESTERS SCORE VICTORY IN LAWSUIT AGAINST CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. Pro-life advocates recently scored a victory against the city of Minneapolis over an ordinance banning them from blocking entrances and driveways to clinics, gaining access to clinics and payment of legal fees. Read more here.
ZIMBABWE COURT RULES LAW PROTECTING CERTAIN CHILDREN FROM ABORTION UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Zimbabwe’s High Court found that a law protecting certain preborn children from induced abortion is unconstitutional, but the ruling still must be affirmed by the nation’s Constitutional Court. Read more here.
ARKANSAS SELECTED AMERICA’S MOST PRO-LIFE STATE. For the fifth year in a row, Arkansas is at top of Americans United For Life’s list as the most pro-life state in America. The organization considers each state’s protections for life from conception to natural death including laws on abortion and legal recognition of preborn children. Read more here.
PRO-LIFER CHRISTIAN DETAINED FOR PREACHING GOSPEL, OFFERING TO ADOPT BABIES AT ABORTION CLINIC. Police detained a pro-life father and husband outside an Ohio abortion clinic for sharing the Gospel and offering to adopt abortion-minded women’s babies. Read more here.
ABORTION WAS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH WORLDWIDE IN 2024, KILLING 73 MILLION PEOPLE. More human beings died in abortions than any other cause of death this past year – 73 million, according to statistics compiled by Worldometers. Read more here.
19 ONTARIO WOMEN SENT TO U.S. FOR ABORTIONS, COSTING TAXPAYERS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. The province of Ontario has paid for 19 women to have their babies aborted in the United States at taxpayer’s expense. Read more here.
FLORIDA PRO-ABORTION GROUP PAYS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO SETTLE FRAUD ALLEGATIONS. The group behind a failed 2024 abortion ballot initiative, Floridians Protecting Freedom, is the subject of more than 100 fraud investigations by the Florida Office of Election Crimes & Security, two people from the organization have been arrested and the group has paid thousands in fines for violating Florida election laws. Read more here.
MINNESOTA ABORTIONS INCREASE 16 PERCENT AFTER GOV. WALZ SIGNS ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH LAW. Abortions in Minnesota increased to a 20-year high of 14,124 in 2023, according to a report released by the Minnesota Department of Health, following a new state law allowing abortion up to birth. Read more here.
KANSAS ABORTIONS INCREASE 13 PERCENT AFTER STATE APPROVES AMENDMENT FOR ABORTION UP TO BIRTH. Abortions in Kansas are rising, and the number of people coming to Kansas from states with restrictions on abortions is skyrocketing. Read more here.
INDIANA DOCTOR SUES OVER ABORTION REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. Dr. Christina Scifres, an OB/GYN at Indiana University Health, filed a lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Health and the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana, claiming that the law requiring abortionists to report information to the state violates federal health privacy requirements. Read more here.
PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS OFFER AID TO THOSE AFFECTED BY HURRICANES. Thanks to the generosity of pregnancy help organizations around the United States, financial gifts and material aid were distributed through a special fund administered by Heartbeat International to pregnancy help centers affected by Hurricanes Milton and Helene. Read more here.
PASTORS HOLD CEREMONY TO ‘BLESS’ ABORTION CLINIC. At an abortion clinic in Maryland, a Presbyterian pastor, Baptist minister and Jewish cantor burned incense as part of a “ritual blessing” in order “to show that religion could allegedly be a source of support for abortion rights.” Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION GROUP COLLECTS SIGNATURES NEEDED TO PROMPT EU ACTION. The group My Voice, My Choice has collected the one million signatures it needed across the European Union to push for free access to abortion and force a response to that request from the EU Commission. Read more here.
AFRICA’S CHRISTIAN PROFESSIONALS URGE SIERRA LEONEAN GOVERNMENT TO “WITHDRAW OR AMEND” BILL SEEKING TO LEGALIZE ABORTION. The proposed Bill dubbed “Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Care Act 2024” seeks to legalize abortion in the West African nation. Read more here.
VIRGINIA GOV. GLENN YOUNGKIN AGAIN PROPOSES ELIMINATING STATE-FUNDED EUGENIC ABORTIONS. For the third consecutive year, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has proposed a budget amendment that would eliminate taxpayer-funded abortions for fetal anomalies. Read more here.
DESPITE PRO-LIFE STATEMENT, SALVATION ARMY SUPPORTS ABORTION. A recent exposé by the American Life League reveals that the Salvation Army, an organization known for its charitable works, supports aborting preborn babies with life-limiting diagnoses, as well as those conceived in rape. Read more here.
62,000 BABIES OLDER THAN 15 WEEKS ARE ABORTED EVERY YEAR IN U.S. Abortion data from the states and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2022 indicate that approximately 6 percent of all reported abortions – approximately 61,900 abortions –take place at or after 15 weeks of gestation. Read more here.
COURT AFFIRMS EL SALVADOR’S PRO-LIFE LAWS SAVING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. An Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling in the case of Beatriz v. El Salvador chose not to wade into the political waters of abortion, leaving El Salvador’s commitment to protecting both mother and child intact. Read more here.
JUDGE RULES MISSOURI’S ABORTION BAN CONFLICTS WITH NEW CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AFTER ACLU, PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUE STATE. A Jackson County Circuit court judge ruled that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban cannot be enforced due to a newly enacted constitutional amendment. Read more here.
ABORTION INCREASES 90 PERCENT IN NEW YORK AS ABORTION PILLS MAKE IT CHEAP AND EASY. The Guttmacher Institute’s New York 2023 abortion numbers showed an alarming increase of 90 percent in one year, to the astounding total of 130,000 abortions. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP WINS LEGAL BATTLE AGAINST MINNEAPOLIS LAW, CAN SAVE BABIES OUTSIDE ABORTION BIZ. Pro-Life Action Ministries has won a legal victory against the city of Minneapolis, which amended an ordinance that had barred pro-life advocates from sidewalk counseling outside abortion facilities. Read more here.
FLORIDA WOMAN CONVICTED OF TARGETING PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS. Gabriella Oropesa is the fourth Florida woman convicted for her part in vandalizing and threatening employees of pro-life pregnancy centers, according to the United States Department of Justice. Read more here.
DIY ABORTION PAIN FAR MORE SEVERE THAN WOMEN ARE TOLD BY MEDICS, POLL FINDS. A survey of 1,500 women has found that at-home chemical abortion is much more painful than they were told it would be by medics, who have been accused of “sugar-coating” the painful reality of chemical abortion after a poll found that around half of female respondents said that the pain was worse than they anticipated. Read more here.
UK: CROWN PROSECUTION SURRENDERS TO ABORTION IDEOLOGY AFTER COUPLE ALLEGEDLY ABORTS CHILD PAST LEGAL LIMIT. A couple that allegedly aborted their baby past the legal limit have been sentenced to community service and unpaid work for concealing the body of their stillborn baby in a rubbish bin, but the Crown Prosecution Service said that after “careful reflection” it had decided not to pursue the additional charge of illegal abortion as it was “not in the public interest.” Read more here.
SAM’S CLUB REMOVES ABORTION PILL FROM PHARMACY WEBSITE. Just days after grocery giant Kroger claimed the abortion drug mifepristone was listed on their Health Savings Club pharmacy website due to an “error” and removed the listing, wholesale giant Sam’s Club has likewise stated that it too erroneously listed the abortion pill on its pharmacy website due to an error committed by a “third-party vendor.” Read more here.
PRO-LIFERS CLAIM VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH AFTER MINNEAPOLIS BUFFER ZONE LAWSUIT. Pro-lifers in Minneapolis are claiming a victory after the city amended its ordinance that had prohibited pro-life speech outside abortion facilities. Read more here.
ARGENTINE LEGISLATIVE LEADER ANTICIPATES 2025 ATTEMPT TO REPEAL ABORTION LAW. The president of Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem openly declared himself to be pro-life and anticipates a 2025 attempt to repeal the abortion law passed in December 2020 during the administration of former president Alberto Fernández. Read more here.
‘DEEPLY DISTURBING’: BIDEN PUSHING ABORTION ON BLACK-MAJORITY COUNTRY, SOURCES SAY. A U.S. foreign aid agency called the Millennium Challenge Corporation is threatening to withhold millions from a U.S. agreement with Sierra Leone unless the West African country’s parliament passes a bill decriminalizing abortion, the former government official said. Read more here.
NEW ZEALAND: 16,277 BABIES ABORTED IN 2023, ALMOST 15% INCREASE. The annual Abortion Services report shows an increase of 2,113 abortions, 14.9% more than 2022. Of the abortions, 61.9% were medical abortions and 11% were surgical. Read more here.
JUDGE ACQUITS 76-YEAR-OLD CANADIAN PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST. Linda Gibbons, 76, was on trial for holding up a sign reading, “Why Mom? When I have so much love to give,” outside a Toronto abortion facility. Read more here.
KROGER PHARMACIES SAYS IT WON’T CARRY ABORTION PILLS, CLAIMS ONLINE LISTING WAS AN ‘ERROR.’ Major grocery chain Kroger now says it will not dispense the abortion pill mifepristone, following pro-life backlash over an online listing the company claims was posted in error. Read more here.
COMPANY ‘OUT OF COMPLIANCE’ WITH FEDERAL LAW BEGINS SELLING ABORTION PILL ‘PREPPER’ KITS ONLINE. Abortion profiteer Medside24.com is selling abortion “prepper” kits containing the abortion pill that according to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy violate compliance with U.S. federal and state pharmacy laws and practice standard. Read more here.
AUSTRALIAN STATE SUSPENDS DEBATE ON ABORTION LEGISLATION FOR NEXT FOUR YEARS. Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, leader of the right-wing Liberal National Party, has banned debate about abortion laws in the Queensland parliament for the next four years, rushing it through the parliament without notice, with only half an hour set aside for consideration of the issue. Read more here.
CANADIAN PRO-LIFE GROUP HAS AD CANCELED BY MAJOR BILLBOARD COMPANY. According to Manitoba pro-life group True North, one of its billboard ads was canceled by a major company that claims the messaging creates too much “controversy.” Read more here.
CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM PARTNERS WITH PRO-ABORTION VIRTUAL WOMEN’S HEALTH CLINIC. The Catholic health care system CommonSpirit partners with an online women’s health clinic that offers abortion pills and referrals for surgical abortions, according to the pro-life organization Save the Storks. Read more here.
LEGAL TEAM FIGHTS HOSPITAL’S AGENDA TO SCHEDULE NURSES TO HELP WITH ABORTIONS. The legal team at the American Center for Law and Justice is fighting on behalf of a pro-life Kentucky hospital nurse who is facing the threat of being forced to participate in abortion procedures. Read more here.
MPS ASTOUNDED AS MOTION BANNING ANY CHANGE TO QUEENSLAND’S ABORTION LAW IS PASSED. The Queensland Parliament in Australia has rushed through a vote to introduce a complete ban on discussion of its abortion law in an unprecedented move by the state’s premier, David Crisafulli. Read more here.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SAYS ABORTIONISTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS. Amnesty International and a group of other pro-abortion organizations say abortionists deserve special protection as “human rights defenders,” despite the fact that there is no international human right to abortion. Read more here.
BRITISH HOUSE OF LORDS APPROVES BILL TO COMPILE REPORT ON HOW ABORTION PILLS HURT WOMEN. Lord Moylan’s Complications from Abortions Bill, which proposes a change to the law that would require the Department of Health and Social Care to publish an annual report on medical complications from abortions, received its Second Reading in the House of Lords and has moved forward in the legislative process. Read more here.
DONALD TRUMP CAN STOP JOE BIDEN’S DESPERATE EFFORTS TO OVERTURN STATE ABORTION BANS. After the U.S. Supreme Court heard the Biden-Harris administration try to explain why Idaho doctors should have to carry out abortions that are illegal under state law earlier this year, the case of U.S. v. Idaho went to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where arguments have resumed. Read more here.
DALLAS SUBURB BECOMES 70TH ‘SANCTUARY CITY FOR THE UNBORN’ IN U.S. The city council of Ovilla, Texas, located about 20 miles from Dallas, became the 70th city in the nation to pass an ordinance declaring itself a “Sanctuary City for the Unborn.” Read more here.
TEXAS AG SUES NEW YORK DOCTOR FOR PRESCRIBING ABORTION PILLS TO TEXAS RESIDENT. Texas attorney general Ken Paxton alleges Dr. Margaret Carpenter provided abortion-inducing drugs to a 20-year-old woman in Collin County, Texas. State law forbids a physician or medical provider from mailing abortion pills and prescribing drugs through telemedicine without being licensed in that state. Read more here.
29 ABORTION CENTERS CLOSED THIS YEAR, NOW 14 STATES ARE ABORTION-FREE. Twenty-nine clinics closed or halted abortions, while 46 clinics opened or resumed abortions and 20 other clinics no longer see patients in person, resulting in an overall net decrease of three abortion clinics in 2024. Read more here.
REPORT SHOWS VAST MAJORITY OF ABORTION FACILITIES ILLEGALLY DISPENSE ABORTION PILL. Nearly two-thirds of abortion facilities break federal law by distributing the abortion pill after its legal cut-off date, increasing the chances mothers will experience harmful — and potentially deadly — side effects, according to a new report produced by Operation Rescue. Read more here.
IDAHO, ADF BACK AT 9TH CIRCUIT DEFENDING PRO-LIFE LAW FROM BIDEN ADMIN OVERREACH. The Idaho attorney general, with the assistance of attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom, is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to stop the Biden administration from misusing federal law to override Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, which protects the lives of women and their unborn children. Read more here.
CDC DATA: DESPITE SLIGHT DROP, BLACK ABORTION RATE STILL NEARLY TWICE AS HIGH AS BLACK BIRTH RATE. Black and Hispanic women saw a decrease in the number of abortions in 2022, according to recently published abortion data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but despite this positive report, black women continue to account for a disproportionately higher percentage, rate and ratio of abortions. Read more here.
CHURCH PUSHES BACK AGAINST ATTEMPTS TO LEGALIZE ABORTION IN NIGERIA. Catholic activists across Africa have joined church leaders in Nigeria in condemning the government’s attempts to “expand access to safe termination of pregnancies” in the West African country. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS HELP PREGNANT MOMS DEVASTATED BY HURRICANE HELENE. In the wake of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in western North Carolina, pregnancy centers in the region have rallied to support one another and continue providing vital services to mothers and families in need. Read more here.
SOUTH CAROLINA HIGH COURT SCHEDULES HEARING ON CASE THAT CHALLENGES TIMING OF STATE’S ABORTION BAN. The state Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether or not a 2023 law actually bans abortions in South Carolina at six weeks — or whether the legal cutoff should be at nine weeks instead. Read more here.
MAN SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS FOR FORCED ABORTION USING PILLS BY POST FROM UK ABORTION PROVIDER. Stuart Worby has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after spiking a woman’s drink to cause the death of her unborn child at 15 weeks gestation, using pills supplied by one of the UK’s largest abortion providers. Read more here.
ABORTIONS DROPPED 98 PERCENT IN INDIANA IN FIRST YEAR AFTER PRO-LIFE LAW TOOK EFFECT. Indiana reported a total of 41 abortions in the most recent quarter, compared to 763 for the prior quarter, representing a drop around 95 percent compared to the same time period in 2023, and abortions dropped 98 percent for the year, according to an analysis by State Affairs. Read more here.
MONTANA ABORTION BUSINESSES SUE TO AVOID BASIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS — AND MAY SUCCEED. All Families Healthcare and Blue Mountain Clinic, abortion businesses in Montana, filed a lawsuit against a state law requiring abortion facilities to be licensed and meet certain health and safety standards. Read more here.
BIG ABORTION MADE $485.6 MILLION IN U.S. IN 2022. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released 2022 abortion numbers revealing that a total of 613,383 abortions were reported to the CDC from 48 reporting areas. The abortion rate was 11.2 abortions per 1,000 women between 15 and 44 yeas of age, and the abortion ratio was 199 abortions per 1,000 live births. Read more here.
NORWAY’S LAWMAKERS EXTEND ABORTION LIMIT TO 18 WEEKS. Lawmakers in Norway voted to extend the country’s abortion limit from 12 weeks to 18 weeks gestation, to allow abortion based on sex and to “selectively reduce” twin or triplet pregnancies. Read more here.
BRAZILIAN ABORTION ACTIVIST HAD TO GO ABROAD TO END PREGNANCY. Rebeca Mendes is advocating for safe and legal abortion, but in Brazil’s Conservative-led Congress, a committee voted for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion altogether. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUPS URGE TRUMP TO FREE PRO-LIFE AMERICANS BIDEN PUT IN PRISON. Students for Life of America is calling on President-elect Donald Trump to fulfill his promise to pardon pro-life advocates convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Read more here.
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.
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