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Apparently, a high volume abortion facility in Illinois has a big, dirty problem. This same abortion business is well known for a high number of abortion-related medical emergencies that have sent at least four women to the hospital in March and April alone. But the Hope Clinic’s latest woes may be part of a nationwide pattern of grisly consequences when conducting the high-volume extermination of unborn children. Pro-life activists reported interacting with a representative from Embrich Plumbing outside the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois, on the morning of May 3, 2025. The plumber opened a nearby manhole...

CV NEWS FEED // Prosecutors dropped charges May 9 against an Ohio pro-life advocate who was arrested in December for providing a Christian witness with a megaphone outside an abortion facility. CatholicVote previously reported that Zack Knotts was on a public sidewalk outside a Cuyahoga Falls abortion facility and using a megaphone to advocate for the unborn and to tell women entering the facility, “There’s hope in the Gospel of Jesus Christ for all of you.” Police then approached Knotts and ordered him to go with them, later telling him that they had received complaints of “disorderly conduct” that caused...

The University of Colorado Boulder (CU) sought to partner with an abortion clinic to host a now-canceled “Sex Ed Summer Camp” for incoming 5th through 8th grade students. The event, hosted in part with the Boulder Valley Health Center, planned to cover topics such as “bodies beyond the binary” and “gender and sexuality.” The health center announced the camp was canceled due to “safety concerns,” the clinic’s website states. “Sex Ed Summer Camp is everything your camper won’t always get to learn in school!” the now-removed CU webpage exclaimed. The camp also promised to be “justice-rooted” and “affirming,” according to...

Every year for the last half-century, thousands of the poorest Utahns have turned to Planned Parenthood for free or discounted family planning health care, like birth control or testing for sexually transmitted infections. But under a directive from President Donald Trump’s administration to freeze the federal funds that helped pay for those services, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah was forced to raise its fees earlier this month. And now, it will close a quarter of its clinics in the state — the two furthest from Salt Lake City, and ones most accessible to some of Utah’s most rural residents. “When...

Earlier this year, one of the handful of late-term abortionists left in the country announced his retirement, initially promising that his brutal business would remain open. Now, he has released a statement announcing that the facility will close permanently. Warren Hern retired on January 22, 2025 — exactly 50 years to the day from when he opened the Boulder Abortion Clinic. At the time, he said the facility would continue to make available “the safest, most compassionate and highest quality outpatient abortion services available anywhere.” However, despite attempting to remain open, the facility struggled without Hern. Abortionist Benedict Mills was...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced two more arrests in addition to the midwife who was arrested last month for committing illegal abortions in the state. Jose Manuel Cendan Ley, 29, and Rubildo Labanino Matos, 54, are both charged with assisting midwife Maria Margarita Rojas (a.k.a. “Dr. Maria”), 48, who was arrested and had her license suspended after she was charged with committing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of abortion businesses in the Northwest Houston area. She was arrested as a result of a months-long investigation led by Paxton’s office. According to Paxton, Ley worked as a...

A man who physically assaulted two pro-life sidewalk counselors in 2023 was convicted on several charges but will be retried on a first-degree felony assault charge after a jury failed to reach a verdict. Patrick Brice, 28, was convicted on two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment for his attack on Mark Crosby, 84 at the time, and Richard Schaefer, 73 at the time, outside Planned Parenthood in Baltimore, Maryland. According to The Daily Wire, Brice was acquitted of one count of first-degree assault for the attack on Schaefer but avoided a first-degree assault charge due...

Authorities are investigating an at-home abortion that led to the potentially-illegal burial of the preborn baby afterwards — potentially, infanticide. Lancaster Online reported that an East Donegal Township teenager in Pennsylvania ordered abortion pills online, with the help of her mother, after being turned away from a local abortion facility; she then gave birth to the baby, and weeks later, buried the body in her backyard. The initial abortion was committed last year, but police are investigating now; what tipped them off to the incident is not known, but a search warrant was filed on March 6th, and the baby’s...

Nakara Alston was leaving her boyfriend when she learned she was eight weeks pregnant. In desperation, she got an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Albany, N.Y., and moved with her two daughters into a homeless shelter. But something was clearly wrong. Several weeks after the procedure, she was still bleeding heavily and suffering from painful cramps. She took another home pregnancy test, and when it came back positive, the clinic staff assured her that they had seen the aborted fetus and there was nothing to worry about. It was only after she went to an emergency room that...

CV NEWS FEED // A Baltimore jury found Patrick Brice guilty Feb. 6 of two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment for attacking elderly pro-life advocates outside a Planned Parenthood facility on May 23, 2023. Brice, 27, assaulted 84-year-old Dick Schafer and 73-year-old Mark Crosby while they were praying outside of a Planned Parenthood that shares a wall with a pregnancy resource center, CatholicVote reported. According to police reports, Brice shoved one of the men to the ground with both hands, punched him, and then kicked him “with extreme force” in the face. The other was...

The biggest abortion business in America is not happy that President Donald Trump pardoned two dozen pro-life Americans. As LifeNews reported, Trump signed an executive order pardoning the 23 pro-life Americans Joe Biden imprisoned for protesting abortion. “This is a great honor to sign this,” Trump said, condemning Biden’s lawfare, especially targeted at “elderly people.” Please subscribe to the LifeNews YouTube channel for the latest pro-life videos. Many of the pro-life advocates who Joe Biden targeted with lawfare were praying or singing at abortion centers in an attempt to save babies or help moms choose life instead of abortion. But...

One day after President Donald Trump signed pardons for the 23 pro-life Americans unjustly persecuted by the Biden Administration, the Trump Department of Justice issued a new memo making it clear it would not prosecute any pro-life Americans for peacefully protesting abortion. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a significant shift in its approach to prosecuting individuals accused of violating the controversial FACE law and blocking access to abortion businesses or protesting or praying and singing near them. Under the new directive, actions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act will proceed only under “extraordinary...

Cesare Santangelo is a well-known late-term abortionist whose facility, the Washington Surgi-Clinic, is located in Washington, D.C., where there are no gestational limits on abortion. Santangelo’s facility currently advertises the abortion pill and surgical abortions up to 27 weeks of pregnancy. However, in March of 2022, pro-lifers recovered the bodies of five children aborted by Santangelo late in pregnancy, four of whom medical experts believed to have been between 26 and 32 weeks gestational age at the time of their deaths. Following the recovery of intact deceased baby remains from his facility, Santangelo stands accused of potential criminal actions, including...

CV NEWS FEED // Pro-life attorney Harold Cassidy explained what is at stake in a federal court case involving three Minnesota women who sued Democratic Gov. Tim Walz after they were forced into having abortions. Walz, the failed 2024 vice-presidential candidate, has come under scrutiny for signing two bills alleged to have effectively allowed coerced abortions in Minnesota. “It’s a mother’s rights case, it’s a women’s rights case,” Cassidy said on a Thursday night webinar hosted by CatholicVote. He noted that it was “brought by three women subjected to abortions they did not want, as well as two pregnancy help...

December 19th will mark a significant milestone for the pro-life community in Idaho. Planned Parenthood in Twin Falls, one of the organization’s last remaining locations in the state, will be closing its doors permanently. This closure is more than just a local event; it is a resounding victory for those who champion life and believe in supporting women with compassionate, life-affirming care. With this closure, Idaho now has only one Planned Parenthood location, situated in Meridian. This shift highlights the growing momentum of the life-affirming movement and the increasing availability of alternatives that provide holistic support for women and families....

Euphemisms about abortion as a “woman’s right” and “essential healthcare” are constantly circulated, even by the likes of Melania Trump. But while the former First Lady said abortion has to do with a woman’s “power to determine what she does with her own body,” and that “a woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes,” rarely does a woman’s abortion experience look like a powerful exercise of authority over her own body. Live Action News reviewed and collected Google Reviews of abortion facilities in the U.S. between...

Second Frightening Emergency after Reopening Just Three Months Ago Wichita, KS – On October 21, at 1:15 p.m., an employee of Trust Women abortion clinic called to report that a 28-year-old woman was suffering from a possible uterine perforation after a “pretty painful” procedure. She stated the patient’s vitals were stable, though the 911 service oddly redacted her blood pressure from the audio file and computer-aided dispatch transcript. The employee also stated there were “no complications” and then quickly corrected herself to include, “besides the possible perforation.” “Countless moms have died as a result of organs being perforated or punctured...

A British army veteran who served in Afghanistan was found guilty today of praying silently near an abortion clinic in England. Adam Smith-Connor breached a Public Spaces Protection Order by this action, according to the ruling at Poole Magistrates Court in the town of Poole near Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The court gave Smith-Connor a conditional discharge, meaning he will be sentenced only if convicted of future offenses within the next two years. “Today, the court has decided that certain thoughts — silent thoughts — can be illegal in the United Kingdom,” Smith-Connor said after the court ruling. “That cannot be...

CV NEWS FEED // A group of Wyoming pro-life advocates recently contended at their local city council that they are the ones who experienced harassment, not the clinic escorts and patients, when they were praying and offering pro-life alternatives outside of a local abortion facility. Eighteen or more pro-lifers shared at the Casper City Council on October 15 about the situation related to the Wellsprings Health Access Clinic, which performs abortions, according to Oil City News. According to Cowboy State Daily, Casper Council member Brandy Haskins had said at a Council meeting the week before that a Wellsprings employee and...

If you search “women’s experiences at Planned Parenthood” on Google, you will find mostly positive news articles about Planned Parenthood (with the majority on Planned Parenthood’s website), and stories about “harrowing” pregnancy experiences states that protect preborn children from abortion. However, a look at the Google reviews of individual Planned Parenthood facilities provides an interesting perspective… and tells a far different story. Though strictly anecdotal, these reviews highlight the allegations of former Planned Parenthood patients — that many women have suffered from medical negligence, coercion, and a lack of maternal health services at Planned Parenthood facilities across the country. The...