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Surgeon faces murder charge as abortion remains in legal gray area A doctor has been arrested and charged with murder after the termination of a pregnancy at nine months last year, underscoring persistent legal uncertainties as lawmakers continue to struggle with abortion regulation. Judge Park Jeong-ho at the Seoul Central District Court issued arrest warrants on Saturday for the surgeon, identified only by his last name Shim, and the clinic’s head, surnamed Yoon, over their alleged roles in the death of a baby believed to have been born alive and then left to die through willful neglect. This arrest follows...

Abortionist Cesare Santangelo, who operates the Washington Surgi-Clinic, was spotted by pro-life activists entering the facility this week with a full cast on his right arm and unable to walk on his own. Key Takeaways: * Terrisa Bukovinac, founder of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) and co-discoverer of the “DC Five,” saw Santangelo outside of his facility, seemingly injured or temporarily disabled. * Bukovinac questioned whether Santangelo was capable of committing abortions with a cast, or if doing so would put women’s lives at further risk. * The group recorded the interaction and posted it to social media. The Details:...

A new bill introduced in Congress aims to prevent abortionists from flushing aborted baby parts in public water systems, a practice pro-life advocates call a “depraved disregard for the sanctity of life.” The Respectful Treatment of Unborn Remains Act, introduced Wednesday by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., seeks to ensure that aborted babies are treated with dignity and not flushed into sewers like medical waste. The legislation comes in response to growing concerns about the environmental and ethical implications of chemical abortions, which account for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. According to a...

A Louisiana woman killed her 20-week-old unborn baby with the abortion pill and threw her baby in a garbage can. That’s the shocking story from a pro-life state where officials are pursing potential charges against a New York abortionist who is violating the state’s pro-life law to illegally mail abortion pills to women. Louisiana’s attorney general mentioned the shocking case during testimony yesterday in the state legislature. She also highlighted New York-based abortionist Margaret Carpenter, who is now under investigation again for selling the abortion pill used to kill the baby. Carpenter allegedly mailed the abortion drug to another woman...

Abortionist Christine Henneberg revealed in her 2022 memoir that Planned Parenthood trained her to send women with uterine perforations home without treatment, instead of to the hospital. A Perforation is a Life-Threatening Complication A uterine perforation occurs when an abortionist pokes a hole through the uterine wall. Medic-Journal calls a uterine perforation a “formidable complication” that can cause “life-threatening bleeding, peritonitis, [and] loss of reproductive function.” Medic-Journal gives the symptoms of a uterine perforation as “intense pain in the lower abdomen and signs of intra-abdominal bleeding: bloody discharge from the vagina, weakness, dizziness, tachycardia.” It says: Untimely diagnosis of uterine...

Time magazine has released its annual list of the selected “100 Most Influential People,” and on the list is Julie Burkhart, an owner of multiple abortion facilities who was mentored by late-term abortionist George Tiller. In the article, Time presents Burkhart as a brave warrior fighting on behalf of women. “Julie Burkhart has been fighting for decades to provide abortions in some of the most rural and conservative areas of the U.S.,” the write-up by Time correspondent Charlotte Alter began, before noting that one of her facilities is located in Illinois — one of the most pro-abortion states in the...

In mid-April, the notorious late-late-late term abortionist Warren Hern announced that his Boulder Abortion Clinic was closing. His retirement, on January 22, 2025, was not supposed to slow down the killing machine. His clinic would continue to make available “the safest, most compassionate and highest quality outpatient abortion services available anywhere.” But after almost 55 years and a death toll rising to an estimated 42,000 babies, the 86-year-old Hern told Colorado Public Radio [www.cpr.org/2025/04/24/boulder-abortion-clinic-closes-after-50-years] “All of us who do this work have had increasing difficulty in being able to offer the services,” adding, “We can’t continue, and it breaks my...

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...

An abortionist and staff at a Planned Parenthood abortion center in Missouri are coming under fire after celebrating and giving high fives after killing babies in abortions. Planned Parenthood abortion business in Columbia, Missouri has resumed killing babies in abortions after state efforts to secure proper licensing for abortion facilities was blocked in court. The return of abortion to this Planned Parenthood abortion center was horrifically marked by staff reportedly celebrating and exchanging high-fives after performing abortions To those who hold that life begins at conception, this behavior represents a callous disregard for the sanctity of human life, treating the...

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...

New York abortionist Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter has been fined $100,000 and is permanently banned from prescribing and shipping abortion drugs to Texas residents. This case could open the door for Texas to take further legal action against one of the largest organizations in the illegal abortion cartel: Aid Access. Carpenter works with Aid Access, a website that unlawfully sent 19,000 abortion pills straight to pregnant women’s homes and dorm rooms in a single year. The organization and Carpenter ignore Texas’ Pro-Life laws, which ban elective abortion, including abortion pills, except to save the mother’s life or prevent major bodily...

The Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill last week that would protect abortionists who mail the abortion pill out of state by allowing them to leave their names off of pill bottles. According to a state website, Senate Bill 25-129 “authorizes a prescription label for mifepristone, misoprostol, and the generic alternatives to those prescriptions to include only the name of the prescribing health-care practice instead of the name of the practitioner.” It has further provisions to shield and protect law-breaking abortionists in the state by prohibiting local entities from participating in out-of-state abortion investigations. Colorado already has a shield...

Dr. Catherine Wheeler, a 24-year Ob/Gyn physician who performed abortions early in her career but stopped after becoming a Christian, told a crowd of thousands at the 52nd annual March for Life on Friday that she “felt the evil presence” of what is behind abortion, and that “it’s been a long road to become 100 percent pro-life.” “My patients always told me the truth about abortion,” Wheeler explained to the crowd, who gathered in frigid temperatures on the National Mall in Washington, DC. “They told me about how abortion harmed them, about their regret. They would cry to me about...

An infamous late-term abortion ‘doctor’ continues to show the ongoing depravity of the human heart, describing his work of killing babies and the respite and thankfulness he received from mothers who just murdered their children as ‘Utter exhilaration.’ Dr. Curtis Boyd, 86, who we previously covered after he was caught on hidden camera advising a female decoy on how best to abort a healthy, 8-month-old baby, is one of the most prominent baby murderers in American history. Boyd has been performing illegal abortions since before Roe. v Wade was passed in 1973, as well as participating in an underground abortion...

Dr Warren Hern has been carrying out late stage abortions for decades. In 1988 someone tried to shoot him, and his clinic in Boulder, Colorado, is regularly bombarded by protesters accusing him of being a 'murderer.' But Dr Hern, who is now 86 years old, says he will keep carrying out abortions after 32 weeks — the only physician who publicly admits to doing so — to protect women's health. He says that since Roe V Wade was overturned, he's performing more late-term terminations than ever before. It is likely that this is because abortion bans in many states are...

CV NEWS FEED // Dr. Haywood Robinson, M.D., shared the story of his unbelievable transformation from a young doctor swept up in the post-Roe proliferation of abortion to an integral force behind one of the world’s largest prayer movements to abolish it. Robinson is the Director of Medical Affairs and Education at 40 Days for Life. Along with his late wife Dr. Noreen Johnson – also an ex-abortionist who became a pro-life advocate – he wrote “The Scalpel and the Soul,” a book chronicling their journey. Robinson spoke with CatholicVote at an event hosted by 40 Days for Life and...

BREAKING: New hidden camera video from ‪@studentsforlifeaction‬ shows infamous, late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd advising on the best way to abort a healthy baby, eight months in the womb. This is just another piece of evidence to prove that late-term abortion is real & happening for any reason…and Democratic leaders refuse to name one abortion they don’t support (including these). By the way, all babies are worthy of life, no matter their medical diagnosis, circumstance of conception, or age. It shouldn’t have to be said, but even if a baby has a medical diagnosis, he or she still has intrinsic value...

Live Action’s new “Face to Face” series brings together former abortionists, women who have had abortions, and abortion survivors for emotional, impactful conversations on how abortion affects people. Two of the people who participated are Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist who estimates he committed nearly 1,200 abortions, and Melissa Ohden, who survived an attempted saline abortion at 31 weeks gestation. In the video, Levatino discusses how this exact situation is even more likely to occur with the most common abortion method used today. “I’m listening to your abortion story about your mom, who was projected to be what —...

One of the few abortionists in the country willing to commit late-term abortions, Warren Hern has been featured often in the media, especially in recent months. Yet instead of being portrayed as a man who brutally and violently ends the lives of preborn children (and who has a sneering disdain for humanity), he is portrayed as a compassionate hippie liberal — a pioneering doctor and a lover of nature. The latest piece promoting Hern, however, takes an interesting turn; in it, he makes claims about late-term abortions — claims which contradict his own previous statements. In the New Yorker, Hern...

Well-known late term abortionist Warren Hern recently questioned the care women receive when they are sold abortion pills by asking the obvious: Who is doing “follow-up exam[s]” and “tak[ing] care of… a complication”? In a recent interview with the New Yorker, “America’s Abortion Doctor” stated: “My issue with medication abortion is—is there a follow-up exam? Do you know if the uterus is empty or not? Who’s going to take care of them if there’s a complication? Because of political oppression, people are afraid to take care of the patient.” Hern fails to note that the reason so many don’t know...