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As you’ve probably heard in the news, a deeply troubling reality has set in since Roe v. Wade was overturned four years ago: abortion numbers in America are on the rise.
Read →Planned Parenthood's Deborah Nucatola sipped wine over lunch and explained how to crush a baby without damaging the liver. That supply chain still runs, and new purchase orders show a taxpayer-funded...
Read →A coalition of 128 Republican lawmakers is urging the HHS Inspector General to review Planned Parenthood's federal funding for potential fraud or abuse.
Read →As a physician, I don’t make any decisions without assessing my patients, reviewing the data, and ensuring I’ve considered every course of action to find the best one. Before recommending treatment, I want to know not simply whether it will work, but what complications might occur, and how vulnerable my patient might be if something...
Read →In the late 1800s, a Harvard-educated physician led an anti-abortion crusade seeking “the suppression of this abominable, unnatural, and yet common crime.” A century and a half later, abortion opponents who call themselves “abolitionists” are seeking the same outcome, with much d
Read →Henry Hyde told me personally that he considered passing the Hyde Amendment his greatest achievement as a legislator. I agree with him.
Read →Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.
Read →By Judie Brown This past Wednesday marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, which was written to eliminate taxpayer funding for abortion. The original language read: “None of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to perform abortions except where the life off the mother would be endangered if the fetus were… Read More » Dwindling Hyde The post Dwindling Hyde appeared first on ALL .
Read →(Washington, D.C.): On Wednesday, the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama filed an original jurisdiction complaint in the Supreme Court against the states of New York and California and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Invoking the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction, the Court’s authority to hear cases in the first instance rather than on appeal, is a […] The post Americans United for Life Stands Behind Pro-Life States Invoking Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court appeared first on Americans United for Life .
Read →With total control of Virginia's legislature, Democrats wrote an abortion amendment that eliminates every safeguard.
Read →This is Issue 46 of the American Reports Series. On November 3, 2026, voters in four states will consider ballot measures on abortion.
Read →She initially had no idea she was pregnant, until her parents and her boyfriend thought she had been gaining weight, and finally realized she was pregnant.
Read →A public broadcaster initially scheduled a pro-life doctors' event but later canceled it, citing concerns over political controversy. The decision has drawn criticism from pro-life groups for silencing medical professionals who oppose abortion.
Read →Pope Leo XIV recently visited France, addressing topics such as assisted dying, European identity, and the role of the Catholic Church in a secular country during his four-day apostolic journey. During the visit, he met with abuse survivors, spoke against French assisted-dying and abortion laws, and drew large crowds, including 800,000 attendees at a Mass in Paris.
Read →Theresa Bonopartis, founder of Entering Canaan Ministries, shares her personal experience of having a saline abortion at age 17 and discusses 30 years of Catholic post-abortion ministry focused on healing through God's mercy. She explains why post-abortive women often remain silent for years and emphasizes the path to forgiveness, repentance, and reparation after abortion.
Read →Florida Commissioner of Education Henry Mack issued a memorandum to school districts instructing them to remove sexually explicit materials from school libraries and to follow state law rather than guidance from organizations like the American Library Association or PEN America. The memo cites statute 1006.28(2)(a), which mandates discontinuing use of materials deemed pornographic or harmful if a parent is denied the right to read passages at school board meetings, and highlights concerns over books promoting graphic sexual content and abortion being accessible to minors in Florida schools.
Read →Different types of Halloween candy as metaphors to describe various aspects of grief and healing after abortion, such as the protective shell of M&M's representing outward appearances and the unexpected waves of grief likened to Pop Rocks. It encourages individuals to grieve at their own pace, seek support, and acknowledges that healing has no set timeline, especially during emotionally challenging times like Halloween and the holidays.
Read →A health care agenda presented to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries by a working group led by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Terri Sewell includes a bill, H.R.
Read →Bishop William Byrne and the Catholic bishops of Massachusetts are urging Catholics to sign a petition to repeal Chapter 188, a new law allowing abortion throughout pregnancy, including after 24 weeks for any reason and in non-hospital settings. The repeal effort, called Repeal 188, requires collecting certified signatures to place the question on the 2028 ballot and suspend the law until voters decide, while parishes are holding petition drives and promoting support for women facing unplanned pregnancies during Respect Life Month.
Read →The Joint Committee on Health discussed a Sinn Féin bill to remove the three-day waiting period for abortion, with Fianna Fáil TD and GP Martin Daly questioning the objectivity of pro-life GPs who supported keeping the wait. Daly contrasted their 'personal beliefs and philosophy' against the clinical evidence presented by other doctors who argued there is no clinical reason to keep the wait, effectively implying that the life of the unborn child is not valued in the clinical debate over abortion access.
Read →Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, has called on Catholics in his diocese to pray and fast throughout October to oppose two ballot initiatives related to abortion and gay marriage. He specifically requested that on Fridays, Catholics pray the Stations of the Cross and fast by eating one full meal without meat, and on Sundays, pray the Rosary and fast from social media for several hours, especially around Mass.
Read →Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against New York, Massachusetts, and California challenging abortion shield laws that protect providers who mail abortion pills to patients in states with abortion bans. This legal action marks the first time states with abortion bans have directly sued states with abortion shield laws, escalating the conflict between states with opposing abortion policies.
Read →The Hyde Amendment, adopted by Congress 50 years ago, has prevented the use of federal tax dollars to fund abortion and is estimated to have saved more than 2.6 million lives. Pro-life leaders and lawmakers gathered outside the U.S.
Read →Several ballot initiatives this fall aim to codify the right to abortion and more.
Read →Understanding the metaphysical concept of potentiality, as developed by Aristotle and Aquinas, can help socially conservative college students better defend traditional views on abortion, gender, and sexuality by clarifying what it means to have inherent capacities directed toward particular states of being or acting. It applies this concept to issues like disability, gender identity, and abortion, arguing that a woman is defined by the first potentiality to gestate new life, which remains even if actual ability is lost, and that this framework can strengthen conservative arguments on sexual ethics in secular academic settings.
Read →Sexual abuse and abortion frequently co-occur, leading some abortion healing ministries to address sexual trauma in their programs. These ministries offer healing resources for both sexual trauma and abortion to better serve women who have experienced either or both in any order.
Read →Candy Thompson, author of Feminine Not Feminist: Reclaiming My Womanhood After Abortion, shares her experience of having three abortions in the 1970s, two marriages, and a healing from Crohn's disease she attributes to God. She discusses how post-abortion Bible studies helped her process grief and why she believes true freedom is found in the Bible's view of womanhood rather than feminism.
Read →Actress Sharon Stone and former First Lady Michelle Obama joked that if men could get pregnant, abortions would be as easily accessible as from a vending machine and that men would celebrate childbirth with competitions and trophies. Stone also criticized the lack of medical research on women and expressed concern about prosecuting women for miscarriages, while Obama humorously engaged in the conversation and mocked her brother's attempt to change the subject.
Read →The Hyde Amendment, first enacted by Congress on September 30, 1976, protects federal Medicaid funds from being used for abortions and has saved approximately 2.7 million lives since its inception. Despite this, some health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act violate the Hyde Amendment by covering elective abortions, leading to calls for Congress to make the Hyde Amendment permanent through legislation like the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HR 7).
Read →James Talarico, then a Texas representative and now the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, voted "present, not voting" on the 2019 Texas Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, which required doctors to provide life-saving medical care to infants born alive after an abortion.
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