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An Alaska nurse hired to serve as a surrogate for a couple in California is desperately trying to save their unborn baby's life after they demanded an abortion. McKenna West, a single mother of two young children, applied to Connecticut-based Worldwide Surrogacy Specialist in LLC last year and received a preliminary approval based on her medical history, Live Action reports. She was then shown the profile of a couple whom she felt would be a 'good match' for her and she met on Zoom with the couple, only referred to in court documents as AB and CD.

In the midst of navigating a turbulent divorce last year, Claire learned she was pregnant. “It wasn’t the right time for me to have a child,” said Claire, who lives in Kansas City and agreed to speak on the condition that she be identified by her first name, citing concerns for her privacy and the charged political climate around abortion in Missouri. “But I knew at that point that I did want to have children in the future.” Claire is among about 3,220 Missourians who obtained medication abortions through telehealth from out-of-state clinicians in 2025 — up from roughly 880...

A Canadian nonprofit’s website that mails abortion pills to women worldwide will stay blocked in Korea after a Seoul court ruled that the government’s ban was not unlawful, according to legal sources on Saturday. The Seoul Administrative Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Women on Web against the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC), seeking to overturn the regulator’s corrective order ㅑon June 12. The block is “hard to see as unlawful because Women on Web’s provision of abortion pills that were not manufactured, imported or approved for use in Korea violated the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act,” the court said. It therefore...

Abortion is one of the most contentious issues in American politics, and since the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide, the issue has been a top concern of activists on both sides in assessing both Supreme Court nominees and political candidates. The anti-abortion cause has been embraced by many religious Christian groups, including the Catholic church. Most American Jews strongly support legalized abortion: A 2015 Pew Research Forum survey found that 83 percent of American Jews, more than any other religious group, say abortion “should be legal in all/most cases.” However, Judaism’s position on abortion...

surrogate is at the center of a new legal battle as she tries to protect the life of the baby boy she is carrying. After the couple that hired her told her to abort the baby following a serious but treatable prenatal diagnosis, she refused — and now, three months later, she is fighting to ensure he receives life-saving care at birth. Key Takeaways: * McKenna West thought being a surrogate would be a good way to make income for her family as a single mother, and to do something rewarding. * After she was accepted as a surrogate and...

Sandy Cancino began his professional career as a successful independent Cuban audiovisual producer, but since 2018, he has become an influential leader and social organizer within civil society. That year, he founded the Havana Pastoral Unit (Unidad Pastoral de La Habana), a structure linking the social work of denominations boasting tens of thousands of followers across the island. He was also a key figure in the “For the Original Design” (Por el Diseño Original) campaign, which opposed restrictions on economic and religious freedoms — as well as on the family — contained in the 2019 Castroist Constitution. That campaign achieved...

Pro-life leader says garden could lead to serious health risks or abuse if students use plants Purchase College, a public university in southeastern New York, is home to a student-run “Reproductive Justice Garden” that features plants promoted because of their abortifacient properties. Social media posts by the student club appear to encourage people to use the plants in the garden for self-induced abortions — which one pro-life leader told The College Fix she fears could lead to serious health risks or abuse. The garden, which was launched in 2019 and revamped in 2024, is run by students who are part...

Earlier today, our team arrived at the office to find our Aftermath Traveling Memorial van had been broken into and vandalized. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time our van has been broken into and its windows smashed. This is the second time we’re experiencing this same vandalism — just within the last year. It’s frustrating, costly, and serves as a reminder that not everyone welcomes the life-saving message we bring to communities across Kansas. As disappointing as this incident was, it didn’t shake our resolve to continue speaking up for vulnerable women and preborn babies. We take the Aftermath Traveling...

The number of births to Black women in the United States fell more sharply than for any other major racial or ethnic group in 2024, according to final data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a result of skyrocketing abortions in recent years due to the expansion of the abortion pill, the black birth rate is reaching levels described as among the lowest on record. The CDC report, “Births: Final Data for 2024,” recorded 473,377 births to non-Hispanic Black women, a 4 percent decline from 491,494 in 2023. The general fertility rate for Black women dropped 5...

Senator Joni Ernst questions Dr. Anthony Fauci about NIH-funded researchers at UNC who allegedly shipped 'humanized mice' to China and used aborted baby parts in research. WATCH: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402410748112 1:07 MIN AND A LONGER 2 MIN SEGMENT https://x.com/SenJoniErnst/status/2082494591417119027

Dr. Haywood Robinson, a former abortionist whose dramatic conversion to Christ made him one of the pro-life movement’s most powerful voices has passed away. Robinson, who served as director of medical affairs and education for 40 Days for Life, has died of heart failure. He was a leading advocate who dedicated the latter half of his life to protecting the unborn and supporting families facing difficult pregnancies. Robinson died over the weekend, according to an announcement from his wife, Daphne Robinson, and confirmation from Shawn Carney, president of 40 Days for Life. “Our dear friend, former abortion doctor, and 40...

In her memoir, abortionist Christine Henneberg wrote about a woman who had an abortion because she believed she was carrying a boy and wanted a girl. Henneberg, who watched the abortion via ultrasound as she committed it, saw that the child was, in fact, a girl—but didn’t tell the woman. Instead, she allowed the woman to believe she’d aborted a boy instead of the girl she wanted. An Ambivalent Woman The woman was 14 weeks pregnant. When she was on the abortion table, she said, “I didn’t want to be here today, you know.” Henneberg didn’t stop the abortion and...

A Texas appeals court on Thursday reversed a temporary injunction against a Houston-area woman accused of violating the state's abortion ban. Maria Margarita Rojas was arrested in March 2025 and accused of providing "illegal abortions" and practicing medicine without a license at a network of clinics in northwestern Houston, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Rojas' attorneys have argued that the allegations are not true and that the state has failed to prove any abortions were happening at the clinics or that any unlawful practice was occurring. A lower court in Waller County issued a temporary injunction against Rojas...

LOS ANGELES -- Graphic testimony continued Friday on day four in the preliminary hearing for singer D4vd, as a judge weighs whether there is sufficient evidence for him to stand trial in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Prosecutors are seeking to prove D4vd, whose real name is David Burke, began sexually abusing Rivas Hernandez when she was 13 and he was 18, then stabbed her to death when she threatened to reveal their long sexual history and crater his career. A Los Angeles Police Department detective testified about explicit photographs found on Burke's phone that allegedly depicted sexual...

The Democrat-controlled Massachusetts House passed legislation Wednesday that loosens restrictions on abortions that can be performed after 24 weeks of gestation, with supporters saying the policy change will enable more residents with serious complications to remain in Massachusetts rather than needing to travel out of state to seek care. The bill scraps the four types of exemptions currently outlined in statute for life-threatening situations for the mother or fetus, instead giving deference to doctors' professional judgment. The House passed the bill on a 119-33 vote, with all Republicans who voted casting their votes against the bill. Democrats who rejected the...

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a South Dakota law that prohibits abortion advertising. Key Takeaways: * A federal judge has blocked a South Dakota law prohibiting abortion advertising. * The law was passed earlier this year in response to advertisements placed within the state by Mayday Health, despite the state's law protecting preborn children from abortion. * Mayday Health sued South Dakota over its law, leading to the preliminary injunction. The Backstory: In December 2025, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley issued a cease and desist letter to Mayday Health, which had placed ads for the abortion pill...

In an obvious case of the pot calling the kettle black, Amy Acton, who is running for governor, is touting her endorsement by Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly known as NARAL Pro-Choice America, formerly known as National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, formerly known as National Abortion Rights Action League, and originally known as National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws), and labeling her opponent as “extreme.” I’ll concede that most Americans’ views are somewhere in the middle on the abortion issue, but I think we need to examine what exactly “extreme” means in this discussion. A consistent...

When Donald Trump’s pick to run the Justice Department promised to take action against the dark forces behind the abortion pill explosion, he probably didn’t expect to start anytime soon. That all changed Thursday when Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pulled back the curtain on a sinister underground network trying to pump mifepristone into all 50 states. Plan C, an under-the-radar organization that’s coaching people to break the law, has been a one-stop shop, helping women (and predatory men) get their hands on a drug that seriously hurts almost 11% of the moms who take it. This criminal operation, Hawley demanded,...

During my research on Planned Parenthood, I stumbled across a quote from a Planned Parenthood clinic director that I’d like to share. It is from an old article (1), but the quote is so revealing of Planned Parenthood’s attitude towards abortion that I thought it deserved a mention. Irving S. Rust, director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in the South Bronx, was asked about the declining number of doctors committing abortions. He said that abortions are “boring” to perform, and that is why many doctors won’t do them. It’s an argument I have seldom encountered. A first-trimester abortion is “like...

e-mail 324 shares Ann Widdecombe was bludgeoned 21 times over the head with a hammer in a 'ferocious' two-minute attack captured on camera, a court heard today. The 78-year-old former minister was ambushed in her own kitchen by a hammer-wielding intruder while she was having her lunch, it was said. Disturbing details of her brutal murder emerged today as her alleged killer Joshua Kerry appeared in court for the first time. The 28-year-old is alleged to have walked into the former MP's kitchen through an unlocked front door asking, 'Don't suppose you have bank cards and ID?' as he held...