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California Governor Gavin Newsom is giving Planned Parenthood another $140 million in taxpayer money, to show support for the abortion corporation and keep its doors open. But even this amount of money may not guarantee that. Key Takeaways: * Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he will funnel another $140 million in taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. * The promise of further financial support is in response to the Congressional defunding of abortion providers that qualify as "prohibited entities" of federal Medicaid dollars for one year. * Planned Parenthood is asking supporters for more donations as it announces more facility closures; however,...

This is truly shocking stuff. Mexican authorities in August, with the use of DNI intelligence, captured an infamous human trafficker who would lure pregnant women to steal their babies and organs. She would then sell the stolen babies and organs on both sides of the border, which is how the United States got involved. The last example ... was providing intelligence to the Mexican law enforcement that led to the arrest of CJNG cartel affiliated baby trafficker called "La Diabla." Her whole moneymaking operation was centered around luring pregnant women, performing illegal c-sections, harvesting organs, and selling newborn babies. The...

A California woman has filed a lawsuit against two Catholic hospitals operating under the umbrella of Dignity Health, claiming that doctors failed twice to give her appropriate care — what she claims would have been a medically necessary induced abortion. Key Takeaways: * Rachel Harrison's water broke at 17 weeks during a pregnancy in 2024, and during another pregnancy in 2025. * Each time, she went to a Dignity Health Catholic hospital, but was reportedly sent away after receiving a diagnosis of preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). * Harrison's lawsuit alleges that the Catholic hospitals refused to give her...

Pregnancy help centers (PHCs) in Virginia are facing a serious threat. A proposed constitutional amendment could expand abortion access, remove the limited safeguards for women and girls that currently exist, and endanger the existence of PHCs across the Commonwealth. This fall’s election will determine which delegates will vote on that amendment in January. If you’ve ever supported a PHC with your time, prayers, or donations, we’re asking you now to take one more step: support us with your vote. Vote for a delegate who will protect women, unborn children, and the ministry you’ve built. For the staff of PHCs in...

A set of extreme abortion bills in Pennsylvania could make the Keystone State one of the most radical pro-abortion states in the country if legislators carry them through both chambers. The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted October 22 to advance seven bills that protect, grow, and subsidize the abortion industry. The bills passed in a 14 to 12 vote, with all Democrats in favor and all Republicans against and all seven aim to thwart anyone who would disrupt the pro-abortion agenda. All 14 Democrat legislators on the Judiciary Committee are endorsed by and have received funds from Planned Parenthood's Political...

Seven Democrat states have pledged tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to prop up Planned Parenthood amid federal defunding under Congress and President Donald Trump. The move is drawing sharp condemnation from pro-life advocates who say the states are propping up the nation’s biggest abortion company. The taxpayer-funding commitments from New York, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts and Hawaii come in response to a one-year moratorium on Medicaid reimbursements for nonprofits that kill babies in abortions, enacted as part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” signed in July. The law bars such organizations from federal funding if they received...

As 2025 enters its final months, battles over the legalization of assisted suicide continue to advance toward uncertain outcomes. The battlefields include the British House of Lords, New York State, and the Australian State of Victoria. Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick on the expansion of “access” to assisted suicide in Canada, where the effective date has been moved to March 17, 2027 for “medical aid in dying” (MAID) to become available for people whose “sole underlying condition is a mental illness.” Altogether, the pending proposals and arguments on their behalf illustrate what Wesley Smith calls the “slippery slope” of...

President Donald Trump and his administration are undoing a Biden-era immigration provision that would have facilitated abortions for children. The Daily Signal reported that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is terminating rules and programs that violate the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal taxpayer dollars for abortions. The move includes ending a rule change from 2022 affecting the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a division of HHS that deals with unaccompanied children (UACs) encountered crossing the border. The Biden administration issued a requirement that ORR facilitate UACs with “access to medical care, including transportation...

Republican Winsome Sears, a staunch pro-life advocate, is locked in a tightening race against pro-abortion Rep. Abigail Spanberger for Virginia governor as Election Day on Nov. 5 approaches. Recent polls are showing the contest narrowing amid fierce debates over protecting unborn children from abortion up to birth. Pro-life leaders are rallying behind Sears, warning that a Spanberger victory could enshrine unlimited abortions in the state constitution, devastating thousands of babies and devaluing human life. The race has drawn national attention as Virginia’s off-year election serves as an early barometer for 2026 congressional battles, with Sears positioning herself as a defender...

Tallahassee, FL — Over the last three or four weeks, Florida abortionist Kirk Brody has reportedly failed to show up and commit abortions at any of the usual All Women’s Health Center locations currently associated with him. When Michele Herzog of Pro-Life Action Ministries Central Florida took notice of this, she did a little digging and quickly found out why. Documents provided to Operation Rescue reveal Brody’s Florida license was suspended indefinitely in early September – a direct result of another suspension of his medical license in Tennessee. In September 2024, the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners ordered an immediate...

On the heels of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new generic abortion drug, a large national survey by McLaughlin & Associates made public today finds 7 in 10 likely voters – including 57% of liberal voters – approve of requiring a doctor visit to receive a prescription for abortion drugs. Similarly, 7 in 10 voters agree it “makes sense” to bring back safeguards that were removed by Biden’s FDA. Although the majority of voters in the survey identified as pro-choice, voters across the board also have “significant doubts” about the safety of the FDA’s current policy...

Pregnancy resource centers across the country are expanding into full-service medical clinics to help mothers in need — and pro-abortion activists are responding with criticism. According to an Associated Press report, hundreds of pro-life centers — which are long known for offering free ultrasounds, baby supplies, and counseling to women in crisis — are adding services such as testing for sexually transmitted diseases, primary care, and prenatal treatment. The growth follows the Trump administration’s decision to cut Medicaid funding to abortion providers under the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which blocks federal funding for one year. As CatholicVote previously reported, Planned...

Created by Elon Musk, xAI's Grok has introduced AI ‘companions’ — and one of them targeted toward children refers users to Planned Parenthood, likening abortion to simply “turning off a light.” According to a July 2025 article from Tom's Guide, Grok's companions are "AI chatbots that are assigned specific personalities for you to interact with...." Tom's reviewer Alex Hughes adds, with concern, that "[M]ost of the larger AI companies with strong reputations have stayed clear of this world, primarily because of the pretty expansive ethical problems that come attached with providing people with ‘AI relationships’." Grok's companions, Hughes writes, each...

The Fifteenth Court of Appeals in Texas has ruled against Yelp, Inc., allowing a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to proceed in which he is accusing the company of misleading consumers about pro-life pregnancy centers. The decision, hailed as a victory by pro-life advocates, reverses a lower court’s dismissal and holds Yelp accountable for allegedly targeting Texas users with deceptive disclaimers. The Texas Attorney General’s Office initiated the lawsuit, claiming Yelp placed false and misleading disclaimers on listings for pro-life pregnancy centers, which provide free counseling, medical services, and support for women seeking alternatives to abortion. According to...

Social and religious conservatives spent more than a year lobbying first the Trump campaign and then the administration against mandating or subsidizing insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization, which they consider akin to abortion.Last week, their work paid off.President Donald Trump unveiled policies to lower the cost of fertility drugs and to create a new pathway for optional employer-based coverage of IVF, arguing the moves would make it easier for couples to have children. But Trump, who promised on the campaign trail to make fertility treatments free for all patients, will not have the government pay for it or require...

In those neighborhoods, where civil society breaks down, giving way to anarchy and Haitian-style barbarism, civilization is effectively suspended. Across the United States, the trajectory of inner cities has been one of “inexorable decline” — a descent from centers of economic growth, cultural splendor, and communal solidarity into fragmented, dystopian environments marked by neglect and anarchy. Like mirror images of downtown Port-au-Prince, these urban landscapes, far from civic greatness, have become wastelands defined by abandoned structures, pervasive insecurity, and social disintegration (aggravated by the “homelessness crisis”). The emblematic example of Detroit crystallizes the narrative of urban decline — a Democrat-run...

When Taylor Edwards and her husband Travis first learned they were pregnant in late 2022, they were filled with joy — and relief. After more than two years of trying, and three rounds of IVF, they would be parents. "With IVF and infertility, you are always waiting for the other shoe to drop," says Edwards, 33. After she passed her 12-week mark into her second trimester, she felt like she could relax. "I was like, 'Finally. I've run a marathon. I did it. It's my turn to be a mom.' " But when she and Travis, 34, went in for...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — On Monday, Fairfax County Public Schools placed a teacher, who reported information about school staff allegedly arranging abortions for students, on paid administrative leave. The Centreville High School teacher’s leave is effective immediately, pending the conclusion of FCPS’s ongoing investigation focusing on concerns that she “may have engaged in serious professional misconduct.” On Tuesday, Zenaida Perez told 7News that she believes FCPS is retaliating against her for going public with the abortion story, which has received national media attention. “They are now suspending me with pay indefinitely," Perez told 7News on Tuesday. "Who knows until...

The bills would return Pennsylvania to the Kermit Gosnell era, with legal protections for abortionists and late-term abortions.The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee votes on a package of six bills Wednesday that will make it possible for pregnant Pennsylvania women to kill their unborn babies up to birth. It will also turn Pennsylvania into an abortion tourism destination, allowing women from states with stronger pro-life rules to kill their babies in Pennsylvania with no legal entanglements. Currently Pennsylvania bans abortion after 24 weeks (six months), though even then state law makes an exception “when the pregnancy poses a serious health risk...

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that Planned Parenthood affiliates in California, Iowa, and New York do not have to comply with recent executive orders requiring them to affirm biological sex and discontinue the promotion of radical gender ideology and promiscuity in order to receive federal funding Key Takeaways: * Despite multiple Trump executive orders specifying otherwise, a district judge has ruled that certain Planned Parenthood affiliates in three states do not have to rid their sex ed curricula of radical gender ideology. * The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program has been shown in the past to have failed to...