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Newly released public records obtained by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) reveal that the fetal organ-harvesting company Cercle Allocation Services billed a UCLA research laboratory $765 each for individual fetal body parts harvested from late-term abortion facilities. Peer-reviewed research confirms that Cercle, which has previously harvested organs under the name Advanced Bioscience Research (ABR), has been a source of human fetal tissue for researchers. ABR and its partners at Planned Parenthood were the subject of Congressional criminal referrals in 2016 prompted by CMP’s undercover video reporting in 2015 by David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt who exposed Planned Parenthood’s aborted...

Let's check in on our "devout Catholic" former president, and see how well he's Catholic-ing today. Last week at a gala in Delaware, Biden spoke (mumbled) for 20 minutes, telling the abortion fanatics that this is "no time to give up" in the fight to kill as many babies in the womb as possible. Biden delivered remarks at Planned Parenthood of Delaware's 22nd Annual Chocolate & Champagne Gala in Claymont, Delaware, on Thursday. Before the former president spoke, former first lady Jill Biden presented her husband with the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award.According to a Facebook post by Delaware Planned...

Since 1987, followers of Jesus have gathered in public witness on the first Sunday of October, in prayerful repentance over the sin of abortion in our cities and in the Church. FIND A CHAIN Search for a local Life Chain near you and join them to stand in prayer this fall. (On link)

At National Right to Life News Today, we post article after article, story after story about the invidious “abortion pill,” alternatively labeled “chemical abortion,” or the preferred [to the Abortion Industry] “medication abortion.” Whatever it’s called, it is lethal to the developing unborn child and incredibly painful to the mother, even deadly. Naturally, Planned Parenthood stands at the front of the line, proudly announcing this “service” to abortion-prone women. I remember once writing about how I’d run across a tribute–although tribute is understating the gratitude–to Planned Parenthood: ”Biggest thank you ever to Planned Parenthood–my abortion.” The young woman tells us...

Planned Parenthood’s largest affiliate has begun selling Botox and other beauty treatments at its centers that also kill babies in abortions, saying revenue shortfalls left it short of the money it needs to stay open. At least four Planned Parenthood Mar Monte locations in California — including sites in Sacramento, Stockton and nearby towns — now sell Botox injections alongside abortion, birth control and dangerous trans hormones. The Mar Monte affiliate of the Planned Parenthood abortion business oversees 30 centers in mid-California and Nevada. The affiliate said Medicaid reimbursement for its other business does not provide enough money for the...

Abortion has hit America's boardrooms, the newest fight being heard by officials with FedEx, who were warned by their own shareholders of the liability they assume when they ship the chemicals used in the chemical abortion industry. A report at the Daily Wire said shareholders have urged the corporation "to investigate the use of its services to mail the abortion pill." The resolution points that the shipping corporation faces possible legal and reputational risks if activists use its services to ship abortion pills. The use of chemicals to destroy the unborn across America has exploded since the Roe v. Wade...

A spiritual leader called upon his followers to repent for eating beef and raising cattle. But he’s not a religiously observant vegetarian in India. He’s a Democrat in the big cattle state of Kansas and is running for U.S. senator. An exclusive by Fox News Monday morning reported that nominee Adam Hamilton, who for years led the largest United Methodist church in the nation, often gave “woke” sermons at odds with the state’s culture and agrarian economy. The minister is seeking to unseat one-term Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS). Kansas is the nation’s third-largest producer of beef, according to the Kansas...

Today, September 28, the international pro-abortion movement and abortion profiteers will celebrate abortion. They call it International Safe Abortion Day, and the celebrations stretch around the world. Activists march in Quito, Dublin, Paris, Mexico City, and Brussels. They turn buildings green, fountains run in emerald hues, and even Geneva’s Jet d’Eau is green. The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights counts “85 countries” and “400 actions.” This year’s slogan is Solidarity in Action: Advance Reproductive Justice and Urgently Strengthen Health Systems for Comprehensive Abortion Care. Good grief. It reads less like something anyone would actually chant in the street and...

Few things make me happier than seeing phony Catholic left-wing front groups that I have been battling for years go under. I fought Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good—I debated them and discredited them—and they no longer exist. I fought Faith in Public Life for a long time, and its obituary is now official. I know I will be criticized for gloating. My critics are right—I am over the moon. We knew last year when Faith in Public Life laid off 90 percent of its staff—they went from 19 employees to two in August 2025—that they...

In an unprecedented legal action, an aborted baby won a wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the abortionist who killed him or her. The estate of a 26-week-old aborted child has collected $200,000 in a New Mexico wrongful-death settlement, in what attorneys on the case call the first payout of its kind to an aborted baby treated as a person under state law. The case, Wabbington v. Boyd, was settled and dismissed with prejudice on Sept. 14. The defendants were late-term abortionist Curtis Wayne Boyd, who then operated as Southwestern Women’s Options; Emily Cohen; and the late Carmen Landau. The complaint...

Powerful organizations on the left created and helped sustain a nonprofit called Faith in Public Life in order to replicate the organizing power of the Religious Right, but the group announced that it will be closing its doors on Oct. 31. Jeanné Lewis, the group’s CEO, attributed the closure to fundraising issues, saying that the organization’s leadership “chose to proactively close the organization” once funding opportunities became “inconsistent.” While nonprofit organizations close their doors all the time, this one appears notable. ‘Organizational Anchor for the Religious Left’ As Baptist News Global reported, Faith in Public Life has its roots in...

Imagine you are the parent of a 13-year-old daughter in the Commonwealth of Virginia. You love and care for your child and you and your spouse work two jobs to provide for your family. Life is busy, with work, school, sports, and other recreation. You are an involved and caring parent, but family time is curtailed and, after all, no family is perfect. Occasionally something goes awry and you face a challenge you didn’t expect — this time it’s the fact that your daughter was pregnant. Was. You only know this because you have taken her to the emergency room...

While Virginia Democrats are pushing to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution, thousands of Catholics have organized a massive opposition. In January, Democratic Virginia state lawmakers advanced a constitutional amendment on abortion rights to appear on the November ballot, Virginia Mercury reported. While abortion is presently legal in Virginia up to 26 weeks and six days of pregnancy, the state’s constitution does not at present explicitly protect a right to abortion, 13NewsNow reported. The proposed amendment asks voters: “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to (i) protect the freedom to make personal decisions about prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two Oklahoma mothers, who said they were forced to leave the state in order to terminate nonviable pregnancies, sued state leaders Wednesday, challenging the limits of the state’s abortion ban. Magon Hoffman and Sheena Hamlin each had to spend thousands of dollars to leave the state to receive abortion care after prenatal testing determined their pregnancies were nonviable or had fatal diagnoses, according to the lawsuit filed in Oklahoma County District Court. Medical professionals warned both women that their pregnancies would result in either stillbirth or an agonizing death for their wanted children shortly after birth, the...

Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints oppose an Idaho ballot initiative that would establish a right to abortion in the state. They also encouraged church members to “voice their opposition” to the proposed law in a letter that will be read from the pulpit during worship services for the next two Sundays, according to a letter the leaders sent to the faith’s 1,300 congregations in the state. “We join with other like-minded individuals and organizations working against this initiative,” the letter states, “and encourage our members to voice their opposition to it in a respectful manner...

"The Fetus Is a Life Worthy of Dignity and Protection" Calls for Expanded Support for Women in Crisis Pregnancies, Single-Parent, and Disabled Children’s Families As the government moves forward with the phased introduction of abortion medication, Protestant organizations have joined the Catholic Church in voicing their opposition. They argue that, before the approval of such pharmaceuticals, there should first be comprehensive legal and systemic reforms encompassing the scope of permissible abortions, safety management, and protections for women facing crisis pregnancies. On September 17, the United Christian Churches of Korea issued a statement calling for the government to halt its planned...

The South Korean Catholic Church has expressed "deep concerns" over government plans to formally introduce abortion pills and urged for a reconsideration. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea (CBCK) made the call in a statement issued Wednesday after the government announced plans to allow the use of abortion pills by women up to nine weeks pregnant. "The CBCK voices deep concerns as this measure would only institutionalize abortion in an 'orderly' manner, without changing its fundamental nature, while allowing a disregard for life to be more deeply rooted in our society," the organization said. The Korean Catholic Church said the...

Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins has said officials at the Catholic Gonzaga University shut down her attempts to dialogue with a group of pro-abortion “reproductive justice” advocates that gathered to protest her visit to the campus. “I was banned from tabling. The administration prevented students from coming inside to ask questions. ‘Catholic’ student protestors demanded the Church bend to abortion,” Hawkins said. “This indoctrination is happening on college campuses across America, including at ‘Catholic’ schools. Let’s be clear: you cannot be Catholic and support abortion. The backlash I faced here is in direct contradiction to the Church.”...

Earlier this week, as I sat in a waiting room and scrolled on my phone, the algorithm attacked. There on my screen was an ad from the so-called Catholics for Free Choice asking me to purchase a training class on how to spot “fake clinics.” They were referencing pregnancy resource centers. And for a fee, they were willing to teach me how to hunt them down. Clearly, Catholics for Choice (CFC) has a new target, and for once, it’s not the bishops. They are now targeting the women sitting in a waiting room with a positive test and no idea...

235 to zero. This is the disparity in Gov. Josh Shapiro’s public messaging on X between abortion and adoption since he took the governor’s office. In a review of the @GovernorShapiro X account, since he became governor (and to the date of this article’s publishing), Josh Shapiro has mentioned abortion 128 times and used an abortion euphemism another 107 times. In total, the number of mentions by Governor Shapiro of abortion or abortion euphemisms on X: 235 What about mentions of adoption? Zero. Foster care? Zero. Not once has Governor Josh Shapiro posted about adoption or foster care on X....