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Iranian authorities shut down a clinic Sunday, after they said a “volunteer force” has been established to identify doctors and clinics who carry out abortions. Public Relations of Tabriz Medical Sciences University said in a statement Monday that various organizations including the university, Basij Physicians Militia of the Revolutionary Guards’ (IRGC), the justice department of East Azarbaijan Province, and police identified and sealed the clinic. At the same time, Saber Jabbari-Farouji, head of the health ministry’s Center for Rejuvenation of Population, that a volunteer group called Nafas (life) has been formed to help prevent abortions. Iranian media have dubbed the...

Opponents of the amendment question the wisdom of allowing medically unqualified groups access to women considering an abortion but the government counters the move is designed so prospective patients can be better informed. Italy’s Senate has passed legislation which allows regions to permit groups “with a qualified experience supporting motherhood” to have access to women considering abortions at public clinics. For the right-wing government, the amendment fulfils the original intent of the 1978 law legalising abortion, known as Law 194, which includes provisions to prevent the procedure and support motherhood. But some in the medical profession have questioned the wisdom...

Following the draconian precedents of Canada and the UK, which have passed legislation prohibiting expressing any sort of protest or demonstration around abortion clinics (In Canada, first-time offenses can land you one year in jail), Germany’s Federal Family Minister Lisa Paus has introduced a draft bill that follows suit, creating a massive buffer zone around these murder mills. Thought Crimes! Woman Fined For Silently Praying Outside Abortion Clinic +Video 72 y/o Pastor Found ‘Guilty’ of Breaking Law by Holding Sign that ‘Disapproves’ of Abortion Priest Charged in Britain For Having THIS Bumper Sticker Near An Abortion Clinic According to a...

The New Yorker article “A Safe Haven For Late Abortions” combines the photography of Maggie Shannon with the writing of Margaret Talbot to give a closer look at the abortions performed at Partners in Abortion Care, an all trimester clinic in College Park, Maryland. (There is no need for a graphic image warning for this article. The photographs focus on the patients and providers, and do not include depictions of the fetuses who are aborted.) Talbot explains that Morgan Nuzzo (nurse-midwife) and Diane Horvath (OBGYN) had long wanted to open an abortion clinic that performs abortions at all trimesters of...

A Christian preacher who held a sign with a Bible verse on it inside an abortion clinic "buffer zone" could be sent to prison. Stephen Green, 72, from south Wales, is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre (CLC), which said he is being prosecuted after holding the sign within a buffer zone outside a clinic in Ealing, west London, run by MSI Reproductive Choices, formerly Marie Stopes International. The clinic was one of the first in the country to be granted a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) by the local council forbidding prayer, protesting and "engaging in an act...

“Long live rescue!” That was the rallying cry of pro-lifers amid tears in response to Tuesday’s verdict against five rescuers. As Live Action News reported, five defendants – Lauren Handy, Herb Geraghty, Heather Idoni, Will Goodman, and John Hinshaw – were found guilty of conspiring to violate civil rights and blocking access to notorious abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s clinic in October of 2020. The case seemed to reflect an attempt by the administration of President Biden, who claims to be a practicing Catholic, to protect abortion after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs. Each defendant faces up to 11 years in...

Verdicts were handed down today in the federal trial of five pro-life activists – Lauren Handy, Will Goodman, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, and Herb Geraghty – who were charged with conspiracy against rights and FACE Act violations. The jury found all of the defendants guilty of both charges. Read all the details here. The defendants were indicted for their participation in an October 2020 rescue action at the D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic (WSC), the abortion facility run by Cesare Santangelo. Santangelo was featured in Live Action’s InHuman investigation stating that if a child was born alive at his facility during an...

In the last few weeks, an abortionist has been seen bringing her infant to work at Toledo Women’s Center in Toledo, Ohio. Yes, an abortionist brings her baby to the same place where she destroys other women’s babies. This is quite a stark contrast to other abortion clinics like Planned Parenthood which, as a general rule, don’t even allow children in their waiting rooms. And, why would they? It’s hard to convince a pregnant mother the child in her womb is a non-person if she’s staring at a toddler the whole time she’s in the waiting area. The presence of...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — When Planned Parenthood decided four years ago to open a new clinic in a medically underserved working-class neighborhood here, it envisioned a place that would save women living nearby from having to take hourslong bus rides to obtain birth control, testing or an abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision overturning Roe v. Wade — four days before the clinic opened — changed all that. Because Kansas is one of the few states in the region where abortion remains legal, the clinic soon found itself inundated with calls not just from panicked patients in Kansas...

In February of 2010, what started out as a routine police raid on a suspected “pill mill” turned into a murder case that shocked the world. Police had suspected that a doctor named Kermit Gosnell was dumping illegal prescriptions for Oxycontin on the streets of Philadelphia. But what they discovered instead was an illegal late-term abortion business where viable babies were gruesomely murdered after having been born alive during appallingly shoddy abortions amid the most squalid conditions imaginable. The following year, a Grand Jury released a bombshell 282-page report that laid part of the blame for the deterioration of conditions...

***WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES ON LINK*** Baton Rouge, LA – As was his normal routine, a homeless man scrounged the streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the evening of April 8, 2021, looking for a promising dumpster where he might find some scraps of discarded food for his evening meal. Lifting the lid on a dumpster behind a business on Colonial Drive, he began to sort through the freshly discarded bags of trash. But instead of finding stale, discarded food, the bags of trash contained bloody gowns, napkins, plastic tubes, and other items that shocked and sickened him. The homeless man...

It seems reasonable to conclude that hormone treatments—pricey as they are—now contribute materially to Planned Parenthood’s bottom line.This story was originally published in Abigail Shrier’s newsletter, The Truth Fairy, which you can subscribe to here.A month ago, I was sent a Tweetstorm written by a woman who had worked as a “reproductive health assistant” at Planned Parenthood for about 18 months prior to March 2020. If you assumed that the employee had abortion on her mind, then your knowledge of Planned Parenthood is outdated. Planned Parenthood is now one of the largest providers in the United States of cross-sex hormones...

Cuyahoga Falls, OH – A woman was injured after a surgical abortion procedure at the Northeast Ohio Women’s Center (NEOWC) abortion business on July 25, 2020. An ambulance responded to a 911 call for help and transported her to a nearby hospital for emergency care. According to 911 records obtained by Operation Rescue, the 29-year-old woman suffered “uncontrolled bleeding” after an abortion procedure. The NEOWC’s caller told the 911 dispatcher that there were protesters at the facility and requested that the ambulance report to the back door of the facility. Photos taken at the scene showed that clinic escorts used...

Austin, TX – Recently received 911 records show that a 32-year old woman suffered a serious medical emergency after an abortion at the Austin Women’s Health Center in Austin, Texas, earlier this year. The emergency, which occurred on February 22, 2020, involved post-abortion procedure hemorrhaging. “We have a patient that we performed a procedure on, and she’s having excessive bleeding that we’re not able to control – as of yet,” the caller stated, according to a recording of the 911 call. However, the caller, who was not with the patient at the time, was unsure if the woman was breathing...

Dallas, TX – A 30-year old woman suffered “excessive bleeding” so severe that it prompted a 911 call for help from the staff at Southwest Women’s Surgery Center, an abortion facility in Dallas, Texas, according to a 911 Computer Aided Dispatch printout obtained by Operation Rescue. Requests for the audio recording of the call that was placed on August 25, 2020, was denied by the City of Dallas. However, the CAD report noted that while the woman was conscious and breathing at the time of the call, she was also suffering “fever, cough, or shortness of breath.” The woman was...

According to pro-life organization Abortion on Trial, a security guard has been removed from his position at a New Mexico abortion facility owned by Franz Theard, an abortionist currently under investigation for abandoning a patient who suffered two concurrent botched abortions under his care. Bertram Wiles, employed by Securitas Security Services USA Inc. as a security guard, was placed at Women’s Reproductive Clinic in New Mexico. In video which Wiles posted himself (since apparently removed), he was seen harassing pro-life women across from the abortion business. Though it appeared portions of the video used voiceovers, other portions appeared to show...

"This is our constitutional right, this is public property, this is not Planned Parenthood's America anymore, this is pro-life America," said a pro-life protester who was arrested Saturday morning while sidewalk chalking the words 'Black Pre-Born Lives Matter' outside of Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C.  (see video of it at link) https://www.breitbart.com/videos/v/TCqT2Rvb/

A group of sidewalk counselors says a man taking his girlfriend to a Detroit abortion facility pulled a gun on them. A Facebook post shared by the abortion abolitionist group Free the States showed a man holding a gun, claiming he was angry that sidewalk counselors pleaded for him to save his baby. “This young man brandished a firearm and pointed it at the sidewalk counselors/evangelists gathered outside of the abortion mill where he recently took his child to be murdered,” the post read. “He threatened to shoot them if they kept on preaching the Gospel.” While the photo does...

Four men were arrested outside a Greensboro, N.C., abortion clinic on Saturday. Their alleged crime? Praying in public while the county is under a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus pandemicSeveral members of a group called Love Life, which is dedicated to praying to end the sin and tragedy of abortion, say they were detained and later arrested by Greensboro police after they gathered near an abortion clinic called "A Woman's Choice" to "pray in defense of the defenseless and minister (offering hope and help in Jesus name) to at-risk mothers and fathers." The group conducts weekly prayer walks in a...

Alabama pro-lifers have been actively praying and witnessing at the building site of a new Birmingham Planned Parenthood facility over the course of the past year. Now, it looks like their efforts may have been successful at keeping that Planned Parenthood from opening. Students for Life of America recently sent out a press release in which it praised many of its student activists for their role in delaying the opening of the new state-of-the-art facility. “Numerous pro-life students have volunteered their time and energy to stop the new abortion facility from opening up in their community. They have been actively...