LIFE

IN UK AT LEAST 39,000 WOMEN TREATED FOR DIY ABORTION COMPLICATIONS IN FIVE YEARS. In the last five years across England and Wales, at least 39,000 women have been treated at NHS hospitals for complications arising from failed or incomplete DIY medical abortions at home. In the past, these complications would have been treated at the abortion providers’ facilities. Read more here.

 

HONDURAN WOMAN FILES UN COMPLAINT OVER COUNTRY’S PRO-LIFE LAWS. A Honduran woman has filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee saying the country’s pro-life laws forced her into motherhood and serious mental suffering by preventing her from getting an abortion after she was raped. Read more here.

 

POLL: MOST AMERICAN VOTERS DO NOT SUPPORT ABORTION THROUGHOUT PREGNANCY. Sixty-six percent of American voters believe abortion should not be legal past three months, according to Rasmussen Reports. Read more here.

 

ARIZONA LEGISLATURE DEFEATS MEASURE TO REPEAL PRO-LIFE LAW PROTECTING BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. Following two attempts to advance a pro-abortion bill that would repeal the state’s ban on abortion, lawmakers defeated the measure. Read more here.

 

NEVADA SUPREME COURT APPROVES BALLOT AMENDMENT FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously approved the pro-abortion language and reversed a district court judge’s ruling stating that the language was misleading. Read more here.

 

ABORTIONS IN FIRST 12 WEEKS SHOULD BE FULLY LEGALIZED IN GERMANY, COMMISSION SAYS. Germany should lift all restrictions on abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy but keep its ban on the procedure after fetal viability, around 22 weeks, a government-appointed commission said. Read more here.

 

FACT CHECKER FAILS TO TELL THE TRUTH ON ABORTION SURVIVORS AND INFANTICIDE. Abortion advocates often deny that actively killing an infant after birth is abhorrent, and a new article from the fact-checking Poynter Institute for Media Studies falsely claims that infanticide is illegal in every state and it never happens. Read more here.

 

IDAHO FIGHTS BACK AGAINST BIDEN’S ATTEMPT TO TURN ERS INTO ABORTION CLINICS. Idaho is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Biden administration’s attempt to twist a federal law into a mandate that emergency rooms must double as abortion clinics. Read more here.

 

UK MP TABLES EXTREME ABORTION AMENDMENT THAT WOULD REMOVE PRISON TIME FOR INFANTICIDE. UK Labor MP Stella Creasy announced that she was tabling an amendment that would decriminalize abortion up to 24 weeks, and she responded angrily on social media to claims that she was in favor of abortion up to birth. Read more here.

 

ABORTION CLINIC INJURES THREE WOMEN IN BOTCHED ABORTIONS IN 10 DAYS. Three emergency transfers, each involving a woman with post-abortion hemorrhaging, took place in less than two weeks from the notoriously dangerous Access Health Center in Downers Grove, Ill. Read more here.

 

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO MAKE ABORTING BABIES A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT. The European Parliament voted by a margin of 336-163 for a resolution “on the inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.” Read more here.

 

GERMANY: GOVERNMENT ADVISORY PANEL RECOMMENDS LIBERALIZING ABORTION. A panel of 18 people with backgrounds in medicine, psychology, ethics and law was set up by Olaf Scholz’s left-wing traffic light coalition last year, and now says lawmakers should legalize abortions within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Read more here.

 

UK: CROSS-PARTY MPS URGE HOME OFFICE TO PROTECT PRO-LIFE FREE SPEECH OUTSIDE ABORTION FACILITIES. Cross-party MPs have called on the Home Office to protect the free speech of pro-life activists put on trial for allegedly breaching buffer zones around abortion facilities in England. Read more here.

 

NATIONAL MARCH FOR LIFE WILL RALLY CANADIANS IN DEFENSE OF THE RIGHT TO LIFE FOR ALL. The 27th National March for Life is set to take place May 9, when Canadians of all ages will gather to defend and celebrate life in all its stages. Read more here.

 

MAINE AMENDMENT TO ENSHRINE ABORTION-ON-DEMAND FAILS IN STATE LEGISLATURE. A proposal to amend the Maine Constitution to establish a “right” to abortion failed to gain the necessary votes in the state legislature, effectively killing the effort for the time being. Read more here.

 

CITY OF MUENSTER IN TEXAS BECOMES 69TH ‘SANCTUARY CITY FOR THE UNBORN’ IN US. By a 5-0 vote, the City Council of Muenster passed an “Ordinance Outlawing Abortion, Declaring Muenster a Safe Haven for the Unborn.” Read more here.

 

NEW STUDY: ABORTION INCREASES RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES. A new longitudinal peer-reviewed study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute published in the International Journal of Cardiology Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention has shown that abortions are an independent risk factor for increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death among women. Read more here.

 

ARIZONA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LAW BANNING ABORTION IN NEARLY ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that an 1864 law banning all circumstances except when the mother’s life is at risk, and which mandates two to five years prison for anyone performing an abortion, can go into effect. Read more here.

 

KANSAS LAWMAKERS APPROVE BILL OUTLAWING ABORTION COERCION, SEND TO DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR’S DESK. Under House Bill 2436, it would be a felony to coerce a pregnant woman to have an abortion, and it defines coercion as the use of physical or financial threats to the woman’s well-being if she says she does not want to abort her child. Read more here.

 

COURT ALLOWS PRO-LIFE NURSE TO FIGHT FOR ABORTION PILL REVERSALS THAT SAVE BABIES. A federal district court in Colorado issued an order that allows Chelsea Mynyk, a licensed nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife, to intervene in a lawsuit defending her use of providing patients with abortion pill reversal. Read more here.

 

PREGNANCY CENTER SLAMS FBI FOR FAILURE TO ARREST PRO-ABORTION FIREBOMBERS. Staffers at a pro-life pregnancy resource center in Rochester, New York are criticizing the FBI for failing to provide any kind of status update on investigations into pro-abortion vandals’ attacks on the pregnancy center. Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTION ARIZONA GROUP HAS GATHERED ENOUGH SIGNATURES TO PUT ABORTION ON THE BALLOT. Pro-abortion groups behind Arizona for Abortion Access have announced they have gathered more than the necessary amount of petition signatures required to put a pro-abortion measure on the ballot for voters in November. Read more here.

 

OHIO ABORTION BUSINESS WITH DANGEROUS HISTORY INJURES TWO WOMEN IN 10 DAYS. According to the pro-life watchdog group Operation Rescue, two women suffered serious injuries at the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, Ohio in a 10-day period. Read more here.

 

NURSE WHO FORCED HIS PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND TO TAKE ABORTION DRUG LOSES HIS LICENSE. The Washington State Board of Nursing suspended the license of David Benjamin Coots, a nurse who had been arrested for trying to force an unwanted chemical abortion on his pregnant girlfriend. Read more here.

 

THOUSANDS JOIN ROMANIA MARCH FOR LIFE TO STAND AGAINST ABORTION. Romania’s celebration of human life took place in 1,500 locations with the theme of ” We build bridges together for LIFE” in support of pregnant women. Read more here.

 

BRITISH ‘CONSERVATIVE’ SUPPORTS KILLING OLD PEOPLE TO SAVE MONEY. Matthew Parris is a former Tory MP who wrote in the Times newspaper that “it will be a healthy development” for the old and infirm not just to consider undergoing assisted suicide but to be “urged” to do so. Read more here.

 

ABORTION INDUSTRY LASHES OUT AS NEBRASKA ADVANCES BILL SUPPORTING PREGNANCY HELP CENTERS. Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill last week that would allow a tax credit for people who donate to pregnancy resource centers in the state. Read more here.

 

FORMER TERRORISM OFFICIALS QUESTION ‘RADICALIZATION’ STUDY THAT LISTS PEACEFUL PRO-LIFERS. Created by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, the project purportedly tracks “ideologically motivated criminal activity” and known “extremists,” including the peaceful group Students For Life of America. Read more here.

 

HOW A LEFTIST NETWORK OF WEBSITES FLOODS RED STATES WITH ABORTION PILLS WITH NO CONSEQUENCES. Facilitated by Left-wing activist groups, a network of websites has emerged to ship unregulated foreign abortion pills across the country with no age verification, no prescription, and no concern about state laws that may ban medication-induced abortions. Read more here.

 

NORWAY BISHOPS ISSUE WARNING THAT EXPANDING ABORTION WOULD BE UNJUST. In its letter to Norway’s Ministry of Health and Care, the bishops’ council highlights why it believes changing the abortion law would be “highly problematic.” Read more here.

 

MICHIGAN ABORTION INDUSTRY SETS SIGHTS ON ERASING PARENTAL CONSENT LAW. A coalition of pro-abortion organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, Human Rights Watch, and the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health are attempting to undermine a state law designed to keep minors safe. Read more here.

 

OREGON WEBSITE LIES ABOUT ABORTION AND DIRECTS WOMEN TO HAVE THEIR BABIES KILLED. The Oregon Health Authority’s Reproductive Health Program announced the launch of an abortion access webpage, one that contains vague content that could have dangerous consequences by failing to accurately describe what actually happens during abortions. Read more here.

 

RECORD 59% OF AMERICAN VOTERS BELIEVE ABORTION SHOULD BE LEGAL IN ALL OR MOST CASES: POLL. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (65 percent) support a “nationwide law guaranteeing access to legal abortion,” and 32 percent said they believe abortion should be illegal except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. Read more here.

 

SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM SIGNS NATION’S FIRST ‘MED ED’ BILL TO COMBAT ABORTION MISINFORMATION. The bill establishes materials for medical professionals on the ability and necessity of providing emergency care to pregnant women under the state’s life at conception law, which bars abortion throughout pregnancy except to save the life of the mother. Read more here.

 

FLORIDA’S SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS STATE ABORTION LIMITS, PAVING WAY FOR SIX-WEEK BAN. While the ruling most immediately dealt with a 15-week ban that took effect in 2022, it has implications for a six-week version — with exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal anomalies, and medical emergencies. Read more here.

 

IN SCOTLAND 4 OUT OF 10 WOMEN CHOOSE ABORTION BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD CHILDCARE. Research by a lobby group for ending the motherhood penalty has revealed “heartbreaking” consequences of childcare costs on parents in Scotland. Read more here.

 

WOMAN SAYS ABORTION PILL ALMOST KILLED HER: ‘I WAS COVERED IN A POOL OF BLOOD WONDERING IF I WAS GOING TO SURVIVE.’ Elizabeth Gillette is a survivor of chemical abortion who said she “was not prepared for how severe and devastating” the abortion-inducing drugs she took would be, and she now deeply regrets her abortion. Read more here.

 

AMENDMENT TO STOP ABORTION TO BIRTH FOR DOWN’S SYNDROME TABLED BY SIR LIAM FOX MP. The British MP tabled the amendment that, though supported by 40 MPs, would bring an end to the current situation where abortion is available between 24 weeks and birth for babies with Down’s syndrome. Read more here.

 

90% OF BABIES IN THE UK DIAGNOSED WITH DOWN SYNDROME WERE ABORTED. Statistics released by NHS England reveal that 87.26 percent of all babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome in England and the Crown Dependencies had their lives ended by abortion in 2021. Read more here.

 

WYOMING GOVERNOR VETOES INFORMED CONSENT AND ABORTION SAFETY MEASURES. Republican Governor Mark Gordon rejected a bill last week that would have required abortion facilities to meet the same facility regulations as ambulatory surgical centers while also mandating that women receive an ultrasound before an abortion. Read more here.

 

FOUR SHOCKING ADMISSIONS FROM THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTION PILL CASE ORAL ARGUMENTS. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) v. Food and Drug Administration, and the FDA portrayed tens of thousands of women taking the drugs going to emergency rooms as a small number. Read more here.

 

NEW HAMPSHIRE MAN FIRST TO BE CHARGED UNDER FETAL HOMICIDE LAW. William Kelly was charged with second-degree murder for causing the death of Christine Falzone, who was 35 to 37 weeks pregnant at the time. Read more here.

 

NBC PROMOTES ABORTION PILL MILL THAT ILLEGALLY SENDS DANGEROUS ABORTION DRUGS TO PRO-LIFE STATES. Ahead of oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the FDA violated the law when it issued emergency approval for Mifepristone, NBC reporter Dana Burns produced reports aiming to portray the drug’s legality as a matter of “access.” Read more here.

 

IRISH WOMAN NEARLY DIES FROM ECTOPIC PREGNANCY THREE DAYS AFTER HAVING ABORTION. The absence of an ultrasound led to a 24-year-old Limerick woman being hospitalized for an ectopic pregnancy suffered during a medical abortion. Read more here.

 

MIFEPRISTONE ACCESS IS COMING BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. HOW SAFE IS THIS ABORTION PILL? The central dispute in the case is whether the Food and Drug Administration overlooked serious safety problems when it made mifepristone easier to obtain, including through mail-order pharmacies. Read more here.

 

PERU LAWMAKERS JUST TOOK A CRUCIAL STAND FOR PREBORN HUMAN BEINGS. Lawmakers in Peru have passed a bill that guarantees protection for pregnant women and preborn children, a marked difference in Latin America where abortion advocacy has been growing. Read more here.

 

CROSS-PARTY UK MPS SUPPORT STOPPING DOWN’S SYNDROME ABORTIONS UP UNTIL BIRTH. Sir Liam Fox MP gained support by proposing to stop abortions of unborn babies with Down’s syndrome after 24 weeks, as current law treats disabled children like “second-class citizens”. Read more here.

 

NEVADA JUDGE RULES STATE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT FORCES MEDICAID TO FUND ABORTIONS. Clark County District Court Judge Erika Ballou ruled that the state’s Medicaid program must subsidize abortions, accepting an argument that a state-level version of the Equal Rights Amendment Nevada enacted in 2022 mandates it. Read more here.

 

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DEPUTIES CALL FOR ABORTION TO BE MADE A ‘FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT.’ France’s decision to include a right to abortion in its constitution has revived moves to include it in the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, which would require unanimous support. Read more here.

 

JAILED PROTESTER IN CUBA CLAIMS AUTHORITIES HAVE TRIED TO PRESSURE HER TO ABORT HER BABY. Lisdany Rodriguez Isaac was imprisoned for peacefully protesting in Cuba, was impregnated by her husband during a conjugal visit, and now prison doctors are pressuring her to abort her child. Read more here.

 

PROFESSORS CALL FOR MORE RETRACTIONS OF PRO-LIFE SCHOLARS’ RESEARCH. One journal retracted three papers about complications due to abortion drugs last month – prompting the researchers to take legal action, and another journal put on hold a philosopher’s article making a moral case against abortion after the abstract was met with “racism” complaints online. Read more here.

 

HARVARD LAW JOURNAL ARTICLE CONCLUDES UNBORN BABIES HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. An article recently published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has been submitted as a supplemental authority to the Florida Supreme Court in response to the recent oral argument on whether a proposed amendment that would codify unrestricted abortion as a right in the state constitution should be put on Florida’s November 2024 ballot. Read more here.

 

UK GOVT PROVIDES MAJOR FUNDING FOR ABORTION FOR UKRAINE. The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced it will give taxpayer funding to the abortion giant, International Planned Parenthood Federation, for “sexual and reproductive health services” including abortions in Ukraine. Read more here.

 

PHARMACIST CONDEMNS CHEMICAL ABORTION PILL: ‘ISN’T A MEDICATION AT ALL.’ A clinical pharmacist recently wrote an op-ed detailing “the dark history” of the chemical abortion pill mifepristone, and explained that the drug “isn’t a medication at all” because of its direct “intent to actively take life.” Read more here.

 

BEING ANTI-ABORTION COULD LEAD TO TERRORISM, UK GOVT. TRAINING WARNS. As part of “Prevent” training, an aspect of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy aimed at people working in education, health, local authorities, police and criminal justice, the UK lists having “anti-abortion” views as among single-issue ideologies that can lead to terrorism. Read more here.

 

REPORT SHOWS 63% OF ABORTIONS USE PILLS THAT STARVE BABIES TO DEATH AND KILL OR INJURE WOMEN. Abortion statistics 10-20 years ago showed that a majority of abortions were surgical abortions done at freestanding abortion centers like Planned Parenthood, but now, a majority of abortions involve the pill that slowly staves a little unborn baby to death and has the potential to kill or injure women. Read more here.

 

WILL THE TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD CREATE A BROAD LOOPHOLE FOR ABORTION ‘EXCEPTIONS’? This week, the Texas Medical Board will begin its 30-day rule-making process to craft guidance regarding what the legal ‘exceptions’ are to the state’s pro-life law protecting most preborn children from abortion. Read more here.

 

UK PETITION OF 102,573 CALLING FOR LOWER ABORTION LIMIT DELIVERED TO NO. 10 BY PARENTS OF CHILDREN BORN AT 22 AND 23 WEEKS. Parents of children who were born at 22 and 23 weeks gestation along with a large group of MPs have delivered a petition, signed by 102,573 people, to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street calling for a reduction to the abortion time limit. Read more here.

 

MONTANA SUPREME COURT ALLOWS BALLOT MEASURE FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH TO PROCEED. Following two months of legal proceedings and deliberation, the Montana Supreme Court issued a decision overturning the state attorney general’s January determination that the ballot proposal was “legally insufficient.” Read more here.

 

STUDY SHOWS TEENS WHO HAD ABORTIONS 40% MORE LIKELY TO DIE PREMATURELY THAN TEENS WHO NEVER GOT PREGNANT. A study published in JAMA Network Open using data from Ontario’s health registry from over two million Canadian females found that Canadian teenagers who became pregnant were more likely to die before reaching their 31st birthday. Read more here.

 

WISCONSIN ATTORNEY GENERAL THREATENS LAWSUIT TO PROMOTE ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Attorney General Josh Kaul has stated he will seek a broader state ruling on “women’s right to choose” if the state’s Supreme Court agrees to hear a highly anticipated case. Read more here.

 

BELGIUM EUTHANASIA DEATHS REACH RECORD HIGH IN 2024. Belgium is well-known for its liberal laws on assisted suicide and euthanasia, and its latest report indicates that euthanasia increased 15 percent from 2022 to 2023 in the country, reaching a record high. Read more here.

 

68 CITIES ARE NOW ‘SANCTUARY CITIES FOR THE UNBORN’ THAT PROTECT BABIES FROM ABORTION. Midlothian, Texas – population 38,635 – became the 68th city to adopt an enforceable ordinance that protects babies from abortion within its limits. Read more here.

 

NEW CALIFORNIA LAW RESULTS IN 400 ABORTIONS ON CAMPUS. California pro-life leaders are raising concerns about coercion and a lack of family support after a report showed more than 400 abortions resulted from a new state law requiring public colleges and universities to provide chemical abortions, or abortion pills, in their student health centers. Read more here.

 

LEVI STRAUSS FOUNDATION DONATES MILLIONS TO SUPPORT ABORTION. Levi Strauss’s philanthropic arm made substantial donations to groups like the Abortion Care Network and the International Planned Parenthood Federation between December 2021 and December 2023, according to tax filings and charity documents. Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTION SINGER LILY ALLEN SAYS DAUGHTERS ‘TOTALLY RUINED’ HER CAREER. Singer and outspoken abortion advocate Lily Allen appeared on the Radio Times podcast, where she stated that “having an abortion is such fun,” but when she eventually did have children, “yes, my children ruined my career.” Read more here.

 

BRITAIN’S LARGEST ABORTION PROVIDER ATTEMPTS TO HIJACK MOTHER’S DAY BY ‘CELEBRATING’ ABORTION PROVIDERS INSTEAD. Attempting to hijack Mother’s Day, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service published a post on X (formerly Twitter) in celebration of “Abortion Providers Appreciation Day.” Read more here.

 

YES TO LIFE: 35,000 MARCH AGAINST ABORTION IN MADRID. Under the motto ‘Yes to Life,’ tens of thousands marched through the streets of Madrid to proclaim that “there are no people who have less value due to their health or capacity.” Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFE GROUP BLASTS MANITOBA BILL SEEKING ‘BUFFER ZONES’ AROUND ABORTION MILLS. A proposed bill by the socialist New Democratic Party provincial government of Manitoba would ban pro-life speech around abortuaries by mandating buffer zones. Read more here.

 

UK WOMAN CHARGED FOR OFFERING HELP TO WOMEN IN CRISIS PREGNANCIES OUTSIDE ABORTION CENTER. Retired medical scientist Livia Tossici-Bolt is facing trial following charges relating to holding a sign saying “here to talk, if you want to” near an abortion facility in Bournemouth. Read more here.

 

JOE BIDEN’S NEW BUDGET WOULD FORCE TAXPAYERS TO FUND ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. President Joe Biden’s FY 2025 budget proposal once again calls for eliminating the Hyde Amendment, which has protected unborn babies and their mothers for over 40 years by ensuring that federal tax dollars don’t fund elective abortion. Read more here.

 

BUSINESSES MASQUERADE AS HEALTH CENTERS IN K-12 SCHOOLS TO PREY ON KIDS. A trend of installing “health centers” in K-12 public schools has led to students being offered disturbing services without parental knowledge or consent, an investigation by a leading parental rights group has found. Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY GROUP APPEALS TO SCOTUS IN CLASH WITH NEW JERSEY AG OVER ‘UNLAWFUL’ SUBPOENA. First Choice Women’s Resource Center is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving what the center calls an “improper” and “unlawful” subpoena by state Attorney General Matthew Platkin. Read more here.

 

SCOTLAND MAY BAN PEOPLE FROM PRAYING OUTSIDE ABORTION CENTERS. The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee has been gathering evidence for and against the implementation of buffer zones in Scotland, as proposed by the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill. Read more here.

 

WYOMING LAWMAKERS TIGHTEN STATE’S PRO-LIFE PROTECTIONS. Lawmakers in both the Wyoming House and Senate passed a bill that will require abortion facilities to meet the same facility regulations as ambulatory surgical centers, as well as provide regulations that women receive an ultrasound 48 hours before any abortion procedure. Read more here.

 

HUNDREDS OF PRO-LIFE PEOPLE IN MAINE PROTEST BILL TO ALLOW ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Hundreds of pro-life and conservative Maine citizens showed up in Augusta at a public hearing to express opposition to a radical Democrat-led bill that seeks to create new legal protections for both late-term abortions and the application of “transgender” hormones and surgical procedures to minors. Read more here.

 

BECOMING ‘HIT MEN’: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS OFFICIALLY ADOPTS NEW PRO-ABORTION POLICY. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs changed its policy to include abortions for veterans and their beneficiaries in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger, even in states with pro-life protections. Read more here.

 

MICHIGAN WOMAN HEMORRHAGES BADLY AFTER ABORTION BIZ BOTCHES ANOTHER ABORTION. Commenting on botched abortions at Michigan abortion clinics, Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said, “The injuries to moms are just a byproduct of the abortion cartel’s unquenchable thirst for the death of vulnerable children and the blood money that accompanies it.” Read more here.

 

CALIFORNIA EXPANDS ALLOWANCES FOR NON-DOCTORS TO PROVIDE ABORTIONS WITHOUT SUPERVISION. One of the most pro-abortion states in the country, California is expanding abortion by allowing physician assistants, licensed nurses/midwives and nurse practitioners to provide abortions without a physician supervising. Read more here.

 

CATHOLIC BISHOP CONDEMNS ARKANSAS AMENDMENT CREATING ‘RIGHT’ TO ABORT BABIES. Arkansans for Limited Government is collecting petition signatures to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the November ballot, and if it passes election, the amendment would write abortion into the state constitution, and it would prevent the Arkansas Legislature from restricting abortion during the first five months of pregnancy. Read more here.

 

‘ABORTION IS NOT A FREEDOM’: REACTION TO FRANCE MAKING ABORTION A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. France has become the first country to enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution, after MPs voted 780-72 to do so, but pro-life campaigners, the Church and France’s Former Secretary of State for Culture have spoken out in criticism, with impassioned protests taking place in Versailles. Read more here.

 

NEW POLISH GOVERNMENT GETS HEADWINDS IN LIBERALIZING ABORTION. Poland’s opposition party, the Civic Coalition, introduced new regulations for parliamentary review, including the decriminalization of abortion and allowing the practice up to 12 weeks during pregnancy. Read more here.

 

BIDEN TURNED VA CLINICS INTO ABORTION CENTERS, NOW HE’S MAKING THE POLICY PERMANENT. Since September 2022, the Biden administration has ignored a longstanding prohibition against Veterans’ Administration clinic abortions and this week issued a new rule that requires taxpayers to fund abortions for undefined and presumably broad “health” reasons. Read more here.

 

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND TERRORISM CENTER DATABASE INCLUDES PEACEFUL PRO-LIFERS. A pro-life group said its attorneys would review the research to consider legal action. Read more here.

 

16 AGS ORDER YOUTUBE TO REMOVE ‘MISLEADING’ PRO-ABORTION NOTICES ON ABORTION VIDEOS. A coalition of 16 state attorneys general is calling out YouTube for “misleading” informational posts on abortion videos, warning that the platform is putting women in danger by minimizing the risks of chemical abortions. Read more here.

 

CAMPAIGN LIFE COALITION WARNS TRUDEAU’S ONLINE HARMS ACT WOULD CRUSH FREE SPEECH, PRO-LIFE ACTIVISM. Campaign Life Coalition has warned that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s online harms bill targets pro-life advocacy and Canadians’ freedom of speech. Read more here.

 

500 MEDICS SIGN LETTER OPPOSING DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION. Nearly 500 medics have signed an open letter opposing the proposed decriminalization of abortion in anticipation of the French Parliamentary debate on Dame Diana Johnson’s pro-abortion amendment. Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFE GROUPS SLAM CVS AND WALGREENS FOR SELLING ABORTION PILLS. CVS and Walgreens announced that they received certification to dispense abortion drugs in a small group of states, even though it has taken the lives of millions of babies and injured countless thousands of women. Read more here.

 

FOUR STUDIES SHOW PRO-LIFE LAWS ARE SAVING THOUSANDS OF BABIES FROM ABORTION. The Society of Family Planning has released updated abortion estimates from their #WeCount project, finding that through September 2023, U.S. abortions numbered between 81,000 and 89,000. Read more here.

 

TEXAS CITY BECOMES LATEST SANCTUARY FOR THE UNBORN IN THE U.S. The City Council of Midlothian, Texas passed an “Ordinance Outlawing Abortion, Declaring Midlothian a Sanctuary City for the Unborn” in a 5-2 vote. Read more here.

 

SCOTLAND: SILENT PRAYER DEEMED “UNACCEPTABLE” IN HEARING ON WORLD’S MOST EXTREME ABORTION BUFFER ZONE LAW. The Scottish Parliament has begun hearing evidence on a bill which, if it becomes law, will introduce the world’s most extreme buffer zone law. Read more here.

 

UK: SHOCKING SCENES AS MANCHESTER PRO-LIFE SOCIETY STUDENTS ESCORTED AWAY FROM VIOLENT MOB. Members of the Manchester Pro-Life Society had to be given a police escort out of a meeting held inside the Students’ Union building that was surrounded by aggressive demonstrators. Read more here.

 

MICHIGAN PSYCH CLASS WANTS ‘QUEER,’ ‘TRANS’ ABORTION STORIES. A “queer” abortion stories event in March at Kalamazoo College will encourage students to take action on “abortion rights and reproductive justice,” according to the event description. Read more here.

 

22 STATES SUPPORT IDAHO’S ABORTION BAN THAT PROTECTS UNBORN CHILDREN. Twenty-two states, 121 members of Congress, doctors and a broad coalition of policy and advocacy groups filed friend-of-the-court briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Idaho’s law that protects the lives of women and their unborn children, preventing doctors from performing abortions unless necessary to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest. Read more here.

 

MONTANA JUDGE DECLARES 3 LAWS RESTRICTING ABORTION UNCONSTITUTIONAL, INCLUDING A 20-WEEK LIMIT. The 20-week ban and the two other laws — one that banned telehealth prescriptions of abortion medication and required a 24-hour waiting period after giving informed consent, and another that required providers to offer patients the option of viewing an ultrasound or listen to the fetal heart tone — had been blocked by a preliminary injunction. Read more here.

 

‘ENSHRINING ABORTION IN THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION BRINGS EUROPE TO THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE.’ The French National Assembly adopted a bill in January aimed at enshrining abortion in the Constitution, and now the French Senate is expected to do the same. Read more here.

 

SIDEWALK COUNSELORS REPORT REPEATED HARASSMENT AGAINST THEM IN NORTH CAROLINA. According to pro-life watchdog group Operation Rescue, there has been an uptick in violent acts against peaceful pro-life sidewalk counselors in front of the Planned Parenthood facility in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Read more here.

 

CONSERVATIVE UK MPS FIGHT POSSIBLE MEASURE TO LEGALIZE ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. A number of Conservative British MPs are threatening to derail the government’s flagship Criminal Justice Bill next month if it includes a law change that could be introduced via an extreme abortion amendment to the Bill, which will remove offenses that make it illegal for a woman to perform her own abortion at any point right up to birth. Read more here.

 

40 PRO-LIFE GROUPS DEMAND EPA TRACK CHEMICALS FROM ABORTION PILLS THAT WIND UP IN AMERICA’S WATER. A coalition of pro-family leaders signed onto a letter drafted by Students for Life Action and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America calling on Congress to demand that the EPA track the “forever chemicals” in the first of the two drugs used to cause an abortion with pills. Read more here.

 

THERE ARE 200 SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES IN AMERICA, THEY’VE SAVED 6 BABIES FROM INFANTICIDE THIS YEAR. In early February, Safe Haven Baby Boxes celebrated the 200th installation of a baby box, helping birth parents keep their infants safe and keeping them anonymous. Read more here.

 

COULD THIS WYOMING BILL SHUT DOWN THE STATE’S ONE SURGICAL ABORTION BUSINESS? A bill making its way through the Wyoming legislature could cause the state’s only surgical abortion business to shut its doors for a time, by requiring that surgical abortion facilities be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers and that abortionists be licensed physicians. Read more here.

 

DEMOCRAT STATES IMPLEMENT ‘SHIELD LAWS’ TO ENSURE ABORTIONISTS ARE NEVER PROSECUTED. The New York Times released two articles highlighting efforts in six blue states to promote chemical abortion in pro-life states through “shield laws,” and the effort has been characterized as “A New Abortion Access Strategy” and “A New War Between the States.” Read more here.

 

SPUC CONDEMNS ‘INTOLERANT‘ PETITION SEEKING TO CANCEL MANCHESTER PRO-LIFE SOCIETY. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned a petition seeking to cancel the Manchester Pro-Life Society, founded last month to create a pro-life culture on campus. Read more here.

 

SOUTH DAKOTA HOUSE PASSES ‘MED ED BILL’ TO ENSURE PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF STATE’S PRO-LIFE LAW. The South Dakota House of Representatives passed a bill known as the “Med Ed Bill” aimed at educating doctors and women on what the state’s law allows regarding abortion during pregnancies in which the mother’s health is in danger. Read more here.

 

NEW U.S. POLL SHOWS THAT A 16-WEEK ABORTION BAN HAS PLURALITY SUPPORT. The poll of over 1,500 adults, conducted by the Economist and YouGov, shows that 48 percent of adults would support such a ban, with only 36 percent opposed. Read more here.

 

NEW REPORT SHOWS 89,000 BABIES SAVED FROM ABORTIONS SINCE ROE V. WADE OVERTURNED. A National Right to Life report notes that the annual number of abortions was on the increase in the years leading up to Dobbs, largely due to the promotion of the abortion pill, but 89,000 preborn children have been saved since Dobbs due to new protective state laws. Read more here.

 

ACTIVISTS INFILTRATE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO ADVANCE PRO-ABORTION, PRO-TRANSGENDER ‘BLUEPRINT.’ Abortion activists have been strategically infiltrating government agencies through a somewhat secret program called the “Blueprint Appointments Project,” a recruitment scheme to expand abortion. Read more here.

 

UK SURVEY FINDS OVER HALF OF MOTHERS WHO HAD AN ABORTION SAY IT WAS DUE TO THE COST OF CHILDCARE. According to the findings of this survey, 52.5 percent of UK mothers who have had an abortion somewhat agree or absolutely agree with the statement, “I believe that the cost of childcare was the primary reason for me to terminate a pregnancy.” Read more here.

 

CHRISTIANS PROTEST GERMAN BILL TO CRACK DOWN ON PRO-LIFE PRAYERS. Christians in Germany are expressing their concerns over a proposed bill that aims to establish censorship zones around abortion facilities, potentially penalizing pro-life prayers and offers of help, with major fines. Read more here.

 

A RECORD OF OVER 10,000 ABORTIONS IN IRELAND IN 2023, NEW FIGURES SUGGEST. The Republic of Ireland experienced the highest number of abortions since it was made legal in the country, with the latest figures suggesting there were over 10,000 abortions in 2023. Read more here.

 

VIOLENT ABORTION ACTIVISTS ATTACK PEACEFUL PRO-LIFE AMERICANS. The Planned Parenthood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina has sent four women to the hospital for hemorrhaging in recent months, drawing several groups and churches who offer women compassionate support and life-affirming options – but not without harassment from violent abortion supporters. Read more here.

 

OKLAHOMA LAWMAKERS ADVANCE BILLS REGULATING ABORTION DRUGS AND MORE. Two bills that would further strengthen protections for preborn children passed through an Oklahoma House committee, one that would make it a felony to share or traffic chemical abortion drugs, punishable by a hefty fine and/or 10 years in prison. Read more here.

 

BOGUS STUDY FALSELY CLAIMS ABORTION PILL IS NOT DANGEROUS FOR WOMEN. The journal Nature published a study purportedly showing that telemed chemical abortions pose few health risks, but the study relies on survey data and therefore fails to track health outcomes from all of the women who had obtained chemical abortions. Read more here.

 

MARYLAND GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES MAJOR FUNDING FOR ABORTION. Governor Wes Moore announced massive new funding to advance abortion in the state, including a grant for Maryland’s Abortion Care Clinical Training Program at the University of Maryland. Read more here.

 

FIRST PRO-LIFE ‘MED ED’ BILL IN THE U.S. PASSES SOUTH DAKOTA HOUSE. A bill designed to give doctors information about the state’s pro-life law and how it applies to other members of the medical community is one step closer to becoming law as pro-lifers continue to combat what they view as efforts to deliberately mislead voters about their state’s abortion laws. Read more here.

 

WEST VIRGINIA SENATE PASSES TWO CRUCIAL LIFE-AFFIRMING BILLS. Currently, nearly all preborn children in the state are protected from abortion, though there are exceptions if the abortion is considered necessary to protect the life of the mother, if the pregnancy is no longer viable, or in cases of rape. Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTION VALENTINE’S DAY CARDS CLAIM ABORTING BABIES IS LOVING. Though the left agrees that Valentine’s Day is all about love, many outlets and groups are using the holiday to promote something that’s completely antithetical to the idea of love – abortion. Read more here.

 

NEW HAMPSHIRE DEFEATS AMENDMENT TO MAKE ABORTION A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. The state of New Hampshire will not be the next to declare that aborting babies is a right under the state Constitution, because the state Senate voted against an attempt to do so. Read more here.

 

DEMOCRAT WANTS TO GIVE ABORTIONISTS TAX CREDITS TO MOVE TO ILLINOIS TO ABORT BABIES. State Representative Kelly Cassidy filed House Bill 5152, which would give a $500 tax credit to any abortionist who moves to the state to abort babies. Read more here.

 

UK NEUROLOGIST – INVESTIGATED AND PUT ON TRIAL FOR HIS PRO-LIFE BELIEFS – WINS BIG VICTORY. The United Kingdom’s General Medical Council has exonerated the Rev. Dr. Patrick Pullicino, an experienced consultant neurologist and ordained Catholic priest who was investigated for three years after giving a pro-life medical opinion in an end-of-life court case. Read more here.

 

ATTORNEY GETS 180 DAYS IN JAIL FOR DRUGGING WIFE TO ABORT CHILD. Mason Herring, a Texas attorney who secretly laced his pregnant wife’s drinks multiple times in a failed attempt to abort their unborn daughter, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and another 10 years on probation for his crimes. Read more here.

 

VIRGINIA LAWMAKERS PASS BILLS TO PROTECT LAW-BREAKING ABORTIONISTS. Virginia lawmakers passed several rounds of legislation that would prohibit the state from extraditing a woman or abortionist who has violated pro-life laws in another state, as well as preventing the Board of Medicine from investigating out-of-state abortion violations. Read more here.

 

EXTREME ‘SELF-ABORTION TO BIRTH’ AMENDMENT REVIVED IN UK. MP Diana Johnson’s pro-abortion amendment would make it legal for a woman to self-abort at any point in pregnancy in the UK. Read more here.

 

A TENNESSEE HOUSE PANEL ADVANCES A BILL THAT WOULD CRIMINALIZE HELPING MINORS GET ABORTION. Tennessee would become the latest state to make it illegal for an adult to help a minor get an abortion without parental consent under legislation that advanced inside the GOP-controlled statehouse. Read more here.

 

ARKANSAS PRO-LIFE GROUPS LAUNCH EFFORTS TO DEFEAT RADICAL ABORTION AMENDMENT. Pro-life organizations in the state are pushing back and launching campaigns against an amendment that would legalize abortion by writing it into the Arkansas Constitution. Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTION GROUPS SUE MICHIGAN AG TO UNDO REMAINING SAFEGUARDS FOR ABORTION SEEKERS. Due to a relatively new pro-abortion amendment in the state, pro-abortion groups in Michigan are now suing to undo even the most basic informed consent and safety measures for women seeking abortions. Read more here.

 

BABY BORN AT 24 WEEKS IS THE SMALLEST EVER TO SURVIVE AT NEBRASKA HOSPITAL. John McClinton, nicknamed “Buddy” by his parents, was born weighing only 14.1 ounces, though he stopped growing at around 20 weeks’ gestation. Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFE ATTORNEYS BLOCK DC FROM DESTROYING FULL-TERM BABIES IN POTENTIALLY ILLEGAL ABORTIONS. In an 11th-hour victory, pro-life attorneys have stopped Washington D.C., from destroying the bodies of five full-term aborted babies who were victims of infanticide at a late-term abortion facility. Read more here.

 

IOWA PRO-LIFERS CELEBRATE CLOSING OF LARGEST ABORTION CENTER IN STATE CAPITOL. Maggie DeWitte, executive director of Pulse Life Advocates, founded in 1972 and now one of the longest standing pro-life organizations in Iowa, celebrated the closure and called for renewed efforts to end all abortions in the state. Read more here.

 

ECUADOR’S TOP COURT AUTHORIZES BOTH VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA. Under the terms of the 79-page ruling, doctors who euthanize their patient will not suffer the penalty for voluntary homicide laid down in the Ecuadorian penal code if the person concerned expresses “unequivocal, free and informed consent” to an active euthanasia procedure. Read more here.

 

MAN GETS PROBATION FOR ATTEMPTING TO TAKE LIFE OF PREGNANT WOMAN’S PREBORN BABY. A Texas man who assaulted his pregnant girlfriend in an attempt to cause their preborn child’s death has pled guilty to the charges against him and was sentenced only to probation. Read more here.

 

RESEARCH SHOWS INCREASED FERTILITY RATE IN TEXAS THE YEAR ROE WAS OVERTURNED. The University of Houston’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality released a report on the Texas Heartbeat Act and found that the Texas fertility rate increased by 2 percentage points in 2022, in large part because of the Heartbeat Act. Read more here.

 

14-YEAR-OLD GIRL SUFFERS PERFORATION DURING BOTCHED ABORTION. The Access Health Center in Downers Grove, Illinois downplayed the girl’s abortion injury in a 911 call for help, claiming the person only needed to be transferred for “monitoring.” Read more here.

 

HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL FIGHTS BACK AGAINST CALIFORNIA’S ATTEMPT TO FORCE WOMEN TO ABORT THEIR BABIES. Thomas More Society attorneys asked a California Superior Court to throw out a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta against Heartbeat International and RealOptions Obria Medical Clinics, over their advocacy for Abortion Pill Reversal. Read more here.

 

ABORTION ACTIVISTS ARRESTED IN FLORIDA FOR SUBMITTING FAKE SIGNATURES FOR RADICAL ABORTION AMENDMENT. Inspectors with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement have arrested one paid petition circulator and issued an arrest warrant for a second individual for submitting fraudulent signatures in their drive to enshrine late-term abortion in the state. Read more here.

 

DOJ ADVISED D.C. MEDICAL EXAMINER TO DISPOSE OF ABORTED BABY BODIES, LAWYER SAYS. The remains are from an abortion clinic in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood of D.C., and pro-life activists believe the baby bodies are evidence that a D.C. abortionist was performing illegal abortions. Read more here.

 

‘COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED’: MEDICAL JOURNAL RETRACTS MAJOR STUDIES CRITICAL OF ABORTION PILL AHEAD OF SUPREME COURT CLASH. Three studies, including two on the potential harms of the abortion pill were retracted by Sage Publishing, an independent academic publishing company. Read more here.

 

PROHIBITION AGAINST ‘THE DELIBERATE KILLING OF A PATIENT’ REMOVED FROM IRISH MEDICAL COUNCIL ETHICAL GUIDANCE. The most recent General Medical Council in the UK has specific guidance for end-of-life care, which states, “This guidance takes account of, and is consistent with, current law across the UK, including … the law prohibiting killing (including euthanasia) and assisted suicide.” Read more here.

 

‘MISSING’ GIRLS: SELECTIVE ABORTION IN ALBANIA FUELS GENDER GAP. By even the most modest estimates, Albania is “missing” thousands of girls, following years of sex-selective abortions that led to the termination of pregnancies by families hoping for male children. Read more here.

 

KATELYNN TOOK THE ABORTION PILL AND IMMEDIATELY REGRETTED IT. THANKFULLY BABY AUBREY’S LIFE WAS SAVED. After taking the first abortion pill at Planned Parenthood, Katelynn Perry was instructed to go to her local pharmacy to pick up the other pills to complete the abortion, but she decided she wouldn’t do that because it was possible that her baby was still alive and could be saved. Read more here.

 

THE FUTURE OF THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT: MEET 6 GEN-Z LEADERS. About one-third of Generation Z is missing because of abortion, so it’s understandable why nearly 9 out of 10 millennials and Gen Z-ers have expressed support for limitations on abortion. Read more here.

 

INDIA COURT REJECTS REQUEST TO ABORT 28-WEEK-OLD UNBORN BABY. Abortion is legal in India, with court approval needed for late-term abortions. The Delhi High Court has rejected a late-term abortion of a 28-week-old baby who is viable and in perfect health. Read more here.

 

MISSISSIPPI EYES QUICKER MEDICAID COVERAGE IN PREGNANCY TO TRY TO REDUCE DEATHS OF MOMS AND BABIES. Mississippi could allow Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the nation’s worst rate of infant mortality. Read more here.

 

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS ABORTION PILL SAFETY STANDARDS ARE ‘DAMAGING FOR WOMEN.’ The U.S. Justice Department and Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of mifepristone, have submitted filings to the Supreme Court urging a reversal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s ruling to reinstate safety measures on the abortion pill. Read more here.

 

NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATURE STOPS BILL TO MAKE ABORTION A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. A constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights through 24 weeks of pregnancy gained narrow majority support on a vote of 193-184, but it fell short of the necessary three-fifths of the house to advance. Read more here.

 

LIVE ACTION’S ‘BABY OLIVIA’ FETAL DEVELOPMENT VIDEO IS MEDICALLY ACCURATE DESPITE MEDIA CLAIMS. Live Action’s Baby Olivia video, a medically accurate, animated glimpse of human life from the moment of fertilization, has come under fire from media sources as pro-life legislators draft state bills to ensure accurate fetal development is taught in schools. Read more here.

 

OVERLOOKED FINDINGS OF THE TURNAWAY STUDY. The Turnaway Study conducted by Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health claims women do not regret their abortions, but the findings actually show the opposite is true. Read more here.

 

SINGAPORE’S YOUNGEST SURVIVING PREEMIE IS NOW FIVE … AND THRIVING. A premature baby girl from Singapore, born at 22 weeks, is now five years old and is considered a miraculous milestone because she is the only known surviving child to be born so early in gestation in the country. Read more here.

 

FRENCH LEGISLATORS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTE TO ENSHRINE ‘FREEDOM’ OF ABORTION IN CONSTITUTION. An overwhelming majority of members of the French National Assembly approved a government-proposed revision of the Constitution enshrining the “freedom” of women to have an abortion: 493 members voted in favor, while only 30 voted against and 23 abstained. Read more here.

 

CANADIAN ABORTION BIZ CLOSES DOWN. Clinic 554, a Canadian abortion business that was formerly owned and operated by the infamous Henry Morgentaler, is closing down. Read more here.

 

TEXAS SAW OVER 16,000 MORE BIRTHS YEAR AFTER PASSING SIX-WEEK ABORTION BAN. The birth surge in 2022 came after Texas implemented its six-week abortion ban the year prior, according to a report from the University of Houston. Read more here.

 

NEW UK POLL INDICATES VERY LITTLE SUPPORT FOR MP’S RADICAL ABORTION UP TO BIRTH PROPOSAL. The poll revealed that only 16 percent of the general population disagree that it should remain the case that a woman is breaking the law if she has an abortion of a healthy baby after the current 24-week legal time limit up until birth. Read more here.

 

ABORTION COMPARED TO PROSTATE EXAM IN WESTMINSTER, UK DEBATE. During a debate on removing abortion from the criminal law, an MP argued that abortion has no more moral importance than a prostate exam. Read more here.

 

ABORTION BUFFER ZONE CASE RAISES IMPORTANT ISSUES FOR U.S. SUPREME COURT. Liberty Counsel filed a reply brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Reilly v. City of Harrisburg, where a buffer zone ordinance restricts only pro-life speech outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility. Read more here.

 

ABORTION PILL REVERSAL HAS SAVED 5,000 BABIES FROM ABORTIONS. With estimates indicating that more than half of all abortions conducted in the United States are chemical abortion, abortion pill reversal has become increasingly crucial for moms who take the chemical abortion pill and experience regret. Read more here.

 

POLISH LAWMAKERS INTRODUCE BILL TO LEGALIZE ABORTION THROUGH FIRST TRIMESTER AND BEYOND. Lawmakers associated with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk have introduced legislation that would undo the country’s widespread preborn protections and allow abortion on demand up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. Read more here.

 

ABORTION DRUGS KILL BABIES AND HURT WOMEN, BUT THEY CAN BE REVERSED AND SAVE A CHILD’S LIFE. In a Congressional briefing, the pro-life organization Heartbeat International warned of chemical abortion dangers and highlighted Heartbeat’s life-saving work of offering women abortion pill reversal resources. Read more here.

 

TULANE PROFESSOR: SCHOOLS SHOULD TRAIN STUDENTS TO BE ABORTION ACTIVISTS. Clare Daniel, an administrative associate professor of women’s leadership at Tulane, wrote in Ms. Magazine that universities should be actively involved in training students to advocate for abortion and other reproductive rights issues. Read more here.

 

ABORTION HURTS WOMEN: 1 IN 25 WOMEN WHO TAKE THE ABORTION PILL WILL WIND UP IN THE ER. The U.S. Supreme Court has set March 26 as the date it will hear oral arguments in a highly anticipated case regarding the legality of the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone. Read more here.

 

PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT MAKES KEY DECISION ON ABORTION RIGHTS. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling instructing a lower court to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a decades-old state law barring the use of Medicaid dollars for abortion costs. Read more here.

 

WISCONSIN GOVERNOR VOWS TO VETO BILL PROTECTING PREBORN CHILDREN AFTER 14 WEEKS. Assembly Bill 975 was narrowly approved in a 53-46 vote though some Republicans refused to vote in its favor because they felt 14 weeks was too late in the pregnancy. The bill now needs to pass the Wisconsin Senate before heading to Gov. Evers’ desk. Read more here.

 

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY FIRES PROFESSOR WHO BROUGHT IN ‘ABORTION DOULA.’ Catholic University has terminated the contract of the professor who invited a self-declared “abortion doula” (someone who provides non-judgmental, emotional or physical support and care before, during and after a medical or surgical abortion) to speak to students about coaching women through abortions and “pregnant men” through a “seahorse birth.” Read more here.

 

GERMAN LAWMAKERS PUSH FOR ABORTION FACILITY BUFFER ZONES DESPITE HIGH COURT RULING. German Family Minister Lisa Paus announced legislation that would establish a buffer zone of 100 meters around the country’s abortion facilities, as well as counseling centers that promote abortion. Read more here.

 

RED STATES PUSHING TO BLOCK ABORTION MEASURES FROM STATEWIDE BALLOTS AHEAD OF 2024 ELECTION. Republican-led legislatures are pushing to block statewide ballot measures on abortion in 2024, following a series of defeats on the issue. Read more here.

 

137 U.S. ABORTION BUSINESSES HAVE CLOSED SINCE OVERTURN OF ROE V. WADE. The clinic closures occurred between 2022 and 2023, and cities that once had abortion mills in full operation are now abortion-free. Read more here.

 

PROPOSED ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW MAY PROVE MEANINGLESS IN PRO-ABORTION WASHINGTON. A new bill, SB 6006, would address trafficking by making state law more consistent with the federal Justice for Victims Trafficking Act, and would “improve how the state identifies and responds to victims, provides them with continued care, and brings justice.” Read more here.

 

PRO-ABORTION STUDY CLAIMING PRO-LIFE LAWS CAUSE THOUSANDS OF PREGNANCIES FROM RAPE IS TOTALLY FALSE. The academic journal JAMA Internal Medicine published a study claiming that 519,981 pregnancies resulted from 64,565 rape in states that enacted strong post-Dobbs pro-life laws, but multiple sources make those figures highly suspect. Read more here.

 

INSTITUTE TEACHES PRO-LIFE STUDENTS TO CULTIVATE PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE WITH PRO-CHOICERS. A pro-life organization called the Equal Rights Institute is helping college students to pursue fruitful, civil dialogues about abortion in an increasingly divisive political culture. Read more here.

 

NORTH DAKOTA JUDGE REFUSES TO BLOCK PRO-LIFE LAW … FOR NOW. The lawsuit will continue to move forward, with a jury trial set to take place in August. Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD DIRECTOR ADMITS: WE TAKE TEENS TO OTHER STATES FOR SECRET ABORTIONS ‘EVERY DAY.’ Parents are not told about their underage daughter’s abortion at Planned Parenthood in some U.S. states, and the abortion giant is also involved in trafficking the minors across state lines according to an investigative journalism group’s recent undercover probe. Read more here.

 

U.S. HOUSE PASSES LEGISLATION SUPPORTING WOMEN EXPERIENCING UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES. The House of Representatives passed two bills aimed at supporting women and families who are experiencing unplanned pregnancies. The Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act and The Pregnant Students’ Rights Act would provide protection for women from feeling like they have no choice but to abort their preborn children. Read more here.

 

RADICAL ARKANSAS AMENDMENT WOULD LEGALIZE ABORTIONS, OVERTURN PRO-LIFE LAWS. In addition to legalizing abortion, the measure would also overturn virtually every pro-life law in the state that protects babies from abortions – including the state’s abortion ban protecting unborn children and laws designed to protect the health and safety of women. Read more here.

 

EL SALVADOR WOMAN FREED AFTER ABORTION CONVICTION. A Salvadoran woman serving a 30-year sentence for aborting her child has been freed from prison after serving seven years, in a nation where abortion is illegal. Read more here.

 

DESPITE RISE IN COMPLICATIONS, PENNSYLVANIA LAWMAKERS WANT TO END ABORTION FACILITY SAFEGUARDS. Pennsylvania Democrats have introduced legislation that would revoke the state’s “target restrictions on abortion providers” — a move that would further endanger women in the state by removing common-sense safety measures. Read more here.

 

INFAMOUS MARIE STOPES DIRECTOR AUTHORED ROYAL COLLEGE ADVICE NOT TO REPORT ILLEGAL ABORTIONS. Abortion idealogue Dr. Jonathan Lord, the medical director at Marie Stopes International Reproductive Choices, authored guidelines that told its members not to report illegal abortions to the police, even if an unborn baby’s life is at risk. Read more here.

 

‘ROE CANADA’ CO-STAR SAYS PRO-LIFERS MUST BE ‘WILLING TO MAKE SACRIFICES TO SEE CHANGE.’ Josie Luetke, the director of Education and Advocacy for Campaign Life Coalition and one who appeared in the new pro-life documentary Roe Canada: The True North in a Post-Roe World, is calling on all pro-lifers to join the fight for life, whatever the personal cost. Read more here.

 

NEW YORK MAKES IT EASIER TO GET AN ABORTION THAN TO ADOPT A BABY THANKS TO HOCHUL ADMIN, EDICT CRITICS SAY. Adoptive and would-be adoptive parents and their lawyers are blasting a rule recently evoked by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Office of Children and Family Services that limits the financial support adoptive families can give to out-of-state birth mothers. Read more here.

 

CHICAGO ABORTION BIZ SENDS WOMAN TO ER, HIDES BOTCHED ABORTION DETAILS FROM 911. Operation Rescue reported that since Illinois became an abortion destination state after the reversal of Roe V. Wade, there has been a marked increase in medical emergencies arising after failed abortions. Read more here.

 

DO NOT REPORT ILLEGAL LATE-TERM ABORTIONS, UK RCOG TELLS HEALTH WORKERS, EVEN WHEN BABY’S LIFE IS AT RISK. The UK’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidance statement advised its members, “In considering whether there is a valid justification for breaching confidentiality to protect the safety of others, the ‘safety of the fetus’ is not a valid reason because in law the fetus does not have personhood status.” Read more here.

 

ABORTIONS DROP 3.3% IN WASHINGTON STATE AS MORE BABIES ARE SAVED. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, there were 16,349 abortions performed in Washington in 2021, down 3 percent from 2020, but chemical abortions increased in 2021 by 4 percent. Read more here.

 

ARGENTINA PRESIDENT JAVIER MILEI SLAMS THE ‘BLOODY AGENDA’ OF ABORTION. Argentina President Javier Milei slammed abortion and radical feminism in an address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Read more here.

 

THREE MORE STATES ALLOWED TO JOIN TEXAS AS PLAINTIFFS IN ABORTION PILL LAWSUIT AGAINST FDA. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk granted a motion allowing Idaho, Missouri and Kansas to join Texas as plaintiffs in the lawsuit Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read more here.

 

FRANCE MOVES TO ENSHRINE ABORTION IN CONSTITUTION. The Parliament’s laws committee approved draft language that would offer women a “guaranteed freedom” to end pregnancies. Read more here.

 

NEW POLL SHOWS 65% OF YOUNG VOTERS SUPPORT ABORTION LIMITS. The Students for Life of America & Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement 2024 YouGov Poll contained results coming from Gen Z and Millennials showing that more than 6 in 10 (65 percent) of the Youth Vote support limits on abortion. Read more here.

 

WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS INTRODUCE BILL TO PROTECT BABIES FROM ABORTION. Wisconsin has a 20-week legal ban on abortion, and Republican state legislators introduced a bill that would shorten it to 14 weeks. Read more here.

 

STUDENT LEADER’S ‘SIMPLE WORDS OF ENCOURAGMENT’ SAVE BABY’S LIFE. Carrena Falls, president of the Eagles for Life club at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul in Minnesota, influenced a young mother who had been heavily pressured to abort her unborn child to consider a pregnancy resource center as an alternative, resulting in the birth of baby Luke. Read more here.

 

ABORTION RIGHTS CLASHES WITH NIMBYISM IN CALIFORNIA. There would seem to be no place friendlier to abortion rights than Beverly Hills, where the city council voted unanimously on a resolution supporting access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which is why not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) boards in the wealthy city are such a surprise. Read more here.

 

IRISH MEDICAL COUNCIL REMOVES DIRECTIVE AGAINST EUTHANASIA BY DOCTORS. Only five years after the legalization of abortion in Ireland, protections against euthanasia — the intentional ending of patients’ lives by doctors — have been removed from the latest Irish Medical Council’s Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Medical Practitioners. The new guide took effect on January 1, 2024. Read more here.

 

MAGAZINE CALLS FOR ABORTIONISTS TO BE HAILED AS ‘HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS.’ Ms. Magazine, which is openly pro-abortion, has sunk to a new low with a new op-ed calling for abortionists to be deified as “human rights defenders.” Read more here.

 

KRISTI NOEM DECLARES 2024 TO BE ‘FREEDOM FOR LIFE’ YEAR IN SOUTH DAKOTA. Gov. Kristi Noem has declared 2024 to be “Freedom for Life” year for the state, affirming that residents must “have the Freedom to get off to the right start,” a right that “extends to every single South Dakotan – before they are born; after they are born; until the day they die.” Read more here.

 

UNTIL NOW, ABORTION WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE AT THE FAROE ISLANDS; NOW THIS MIGHT CHANGE. The bill proposed by the government earlier this week aims to give women on the Danish Islands unrestricted access to abortion on demand up to and including the 12th week of pregnancy. Read more here.

 

SHOCK: ABORTION COMPLICATIONS TRIPLE IN PRO-ABORTION PENNSYLVANIA. A recent report released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health shows that abortions are up in the pro-abortion state, and along with the rise, abortion complications in the state have tripled in the last five years. Read more here.

 

AMERICAN RED CROSS, OTHER TOP CHARITIES EXPOSED FOR PROMOTING ABORTION. American Life League’s Charity Watchlist has assigned negative ratings to the American Red Cross, United Way and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for supporting the abortion industry. Read more here.

 

MASSACHUSETTS DEPT. OF HEALTH THREATENS HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS OVER ABORTION PILL REVERSAL. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health recently sent a memo to all licensed healthcare professionals, warning them against practicing “in violation of good and accepted care practice,” citing Abortion Pill Reversal as an unacceptable healthcare practice. Read more here.

 

IDAHO LAWMAKERS PASS A BILL TO PREVENT MINORS FROM LEAVING THE STATE FOR ABORTION. After clearing both legislative chambers, Idaho could become the first state in the country, according to Planned Parenthood, to criminally charge those who help pregnant minors get an abortion across state lines without parental consent. Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS HELP RECORD NUMBER OF WOMEN AFTER DOBSS OVERTURNED ROE. The report, “Hope for a New Generation,” shows that pregnancy centers responded to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022 with flying colors, as 2,750 pregnancy centers increased the number of clients seen, services provided and material resources distributed as compared to data collected for 2019. Read more here.

 

PILLS BY POST TO BLAME FOR ARRESTS OF WOMEN, PRO-ABORTION RIGHTS ‘EXPERT’ ADMITS. Dr. Claire Pierson, a so-called “abortion rights expert,” has admitted that DIY home abortion, otherwise known as pills by post, is to blame for the recent arrest and prosecution of Carla Foster and several other women, and that “it’s a stretch” to hold the pro-life movement responsible. Read more here.

 

MINNESOTA GOVERNOR TIM WALZ WANTS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORT BABIES. Governor Walz defended the call for a pro-abortion amendment by calling abortion “health care,” even though legitimate health care doesn’t end the lives of patients. Read more here.

 

INDIANA JUDGE DISMISSES PRO-ABORTION NOTRE DAME PROFESSOR’S DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST STUDENT JOURNALISTS. Tamara Kay, a sociology and global-affairs professor, claimed the Irish Rover, the school’s independent conservative student newspaper, published two articles containing “defamatory and false statements,” but the judge dismissed it as a frivolous lawsuit. Read more here.

 

MOM REFUSES ABORTION WHEN TOLD HER SON WOULD HAVE DOWN SYNDROME: ‘HE’S A GIFT FROM GOD.’ Marsha Weigum was told that there was a 99-percent chance her son would be born with Down’s syndrome, and while her immediate response was to ask what this meant for her child’s prenatal care, her doctor’s reply was “you can terminate if you choose.” Read more here.

 

WOMAN INJURED AT CHICAGO ABORTION BUSINESS, BUT CITY REFUSES TO RELEASE 911 AUDIO. Watchdog group Operation Rescue has learned that that the Chicago abortion facility Family Planning Associates Medical Group had injured many women during abortions. Read more here.

 

‘SPA-LIKE’ ABORTION BUSINESS PARTNERS WITH CLOSED VIRTUAL ABORTION PILL DISPENSARY. Carafem, the abortion business that built its brand on being a “spa-like” experience and once marketed abortion pills as “missed period” pills, is partnering with the now-closed virtual abortion pill dispensary Choix, Inc. Read more here.

 

NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CONFIRMS ‘ABORTION IS NOT HEALTH CARE.’ In State of Texas v. Becerra, Christian Medical & Dental Associations joined the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from attempting to employ the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to force physicians capable of performing elective abortions to provide them in the emergency room. Read more here.

 

MAINE CITIZENS WITH PRIVATE INSURANCE CAN NOW GET ABORTIONS FOR ‘FREE’ AND WITHOUT LIMIT. A new pro-abortion law took effect in Maine January 1 – An Act to Remove Barriers to Abortion Coverage in Private Insurance – preventing private health insurance companies in the state from carrying deductibles or co-pays for abortions. Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFE COMPANY RAISES FUNDS FOR PREGNANCY CENTERS. Seven Weeks Coffee, a pro-life coffee company has made a major donation to pregnancy resource centers nationwide to enable them to continue serving as a “shield and protector” to pregnant women, as centers in some states face threats to their funding and ability to operate. Read more here.

 

ARKANSAS AG AGAIN REJECTS ‘MISLEADING’ ABORTION AMENDMENT BALLOT WORDING. Attorney General Tim Griffin has, for the second time, rejected the wording of a proposed constitutional amendment which, if passed, would make abortion a right within the state constitution. Read more here.

 

JUDGE SAYS FEDERAL LAW ‘DOES NOT PROVIDE AN UNQUALIFIED RIGHT’ TO ABORTION. A federal appeals court ruled this week that Texas can uphold its pro-life laws and is not legally required to adhere to a pro-abortion federal law issued by President Joe Biden in 2022. Read more here.

 

FLORIDA ABORTION PROPOSAL HAS ENOUGH SUPPORT TO GET ON THE BALLOT. Floridians Protecting Freedom, the organization behind the push to make abortion a constitutional right in the Sunshine State, announced it submitted more than 900,000 petition signatures, and the Florida Division of Elections verified them. Read more here.

 

APPEALS COURT BLOCKS BIDEN FROM FORCING EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTORS TO PERFORM ABORTIONS. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously ruled to continue an injunction against the Biden administration’s federal guidance requiring emergency room medical staff to perform abortions. Read more here.

 

JUDGE ALLOWS PORTION OF LAWSUIT CHALLENGING IDAHO’S PRO-LIFE LAW TO CONTINUE. A judge has refused to dismiss an abortion industry lawsuit challenging an Idaho law protecting nearly all preborn children from abortion, though he agreed with several of pro-life Attorney General Raul Labrador’s other motions. Read more here.

 

COMMANDER OF ARKANSAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD RESIGNS TO PROTEST BIDEN’S POLICY FUNDING ABORTION TRAVEL. Colonel Dillon Patterson has resigned as commander of the 188th Wing of Ebbing Air National Guard Base because of a policy President Joe Biden implemented forcing the military to fund abortion travel. Read more here.

 

NEW ZEALAND STUDY FINDS THAT BECOMING A PARENT IMPACTS SUPPORT FOR ABORTION. A nine-year study conducted in New Zealand and published in 2023 found that support for abortion slowed after the study participants became parents themselves. Read more here.

 

ABORTION WAS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH WORLDWIDE IN 2023, KILLING 73 MILLION PEOPLE. Worldometers bases its daily abortion figures on a fact sheet from the World Health Organization, which estimates an even higher figure for abortions per year than Worldometers – around 73 million last year. Read more here.

 

HALF OF PENNSYLVANIA ABORTION FACILITIES FAILED HEALTH INSPECTIONS LAST YEAR. Recent reporting from PA Family reveals that half of all abortion facilities in Pennsylvania failed a state health inspection in 2023, which may put the majority of women receiving an elective abortion in the state at risk. Read more here.

 

FULL LIST: EVENTS SURROUNDING THE 2024 MARCH FOR LIFE. The annual U.S. March for Life – the second one since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturned Roe v. Wade – takes place January 19 in Washington, D.C. Read more here.

 

ARKANSAS GOV. SARAH SANDERS ISSUES PROCLAMATION TO LOWER ITS FLAGS, MOURN 65 MILLION BABIES ABORTED. In 2021 the Arkansas General Assembly passed H.C.R. 1007 recognizing January 22 — the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Roe v. Wade abortion decision — as The Day of Tears in Arkansas and encouraging Arkansans to lower their flags to half-staff every year on that day. Read more here.

 

UN ATTACKS AFRICAN ATTITUDES ABOUT ABORTION. The United Nations Population Fund and the World Health Organization released a report committed to coupling health services and abortion in Southeast Africa and said that no country in that region, such as Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda among others, will be able to attain universal health care without universal sexual and reproductive care. Read more here.

 

BRAZIL’S CONGRESS NIXES GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF ABORTIONS, ‘SEX CHANGES’ FOR MINORS. The National Congress of Brazil passed an amendment to the Budgetary Guidelines Law of 2024 that prohibits the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions and “sex-change” surgeries for minors, but socialist President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva is expected to veto it. Read more here.

 

STATES GIVE MONEY TO PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS AFTER DOBBS. Public funds have been allocated for distribution between 2023 and 2025, and will increase to a nine-figure amount according to data from the pro-legal abortion groups Guttmacher Institute and Equity Forward. Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFE VISITORS TARGETED BY NATIONAL ARCHIVES WIN MAJOR SETTLEMENT. The National Archives and Records Administration settled a lawsuit with visitors who were asked to remove or cover up pro-life attire at the facility. Read more here.