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Are ectopic pregnancies increasing? A notable increase in the number of women seeking emergency care for ectopic pregnancies is causing obstetricians and emergency room physicians to take notice. A recent large-scale study of nearly one million pregnancies over a decade found “significant increase” in ectopic pregnancies. The study confirmed ectopic pregnancy remains one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in the United States. In addition to highest trends for younger women, the incidence was particularly higher for mothers over 40 years in age and non-Hispanic Black women. * 2006–2010: The rate of ectopic pregnancy diagnoses per 1,000 pregnancies increased...

All charges have been dismissed against a 33-year-old South Carolina woman who was arrested last year for using the abortion pill when she was 25 weeks pregnant, reports the Post & Courier. The 13th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said it decided not to prosecute the woman due to “insufficient evidence or another legal issue.” The woman was arrested in September 2022 for self-administering an abortion. According to reports, in October 2021 she was taken to the hospital with labor pains. She then gave birth to a stillborn baby in a hospital bathroom and told medical personnel she had taken the abortion...

A woman in Texas has been arrested after she physically forced abortion pills into her teenage daughter’s mouth in an attempt to abort her own grandchild. Police were called to a Laredo home, where a 16-year-old girl identified her mother, Juana Idalia Sanchez, as the assailant in a violent altercation. According to the Laredo Morning Times, the girl told Sanchez on March 30 that she was pregnant. Her mother demanded that she get an abortion, and began chasing her around the apartment, intentionally making her fall onto her stomach. Sanchez eventually was able to pin her daughter onto the ground...

Live Action’s Sami Parker recently countered the argument that support for limited government logically necessitates supporting legalized abortion. This is a fallacy. In an Instagram video, Parker reacted to Fox News host Tomi Lahren’s explanation as to why she is ‘pro-choice’. Here’s what she said: “I am pro-choice because I believe in limited government — not because I’m pro-abortion, not because I’m not pro-life, but because I believe in limited government. I don’t believe that’s the government’s place.” Parker got right to the point. “That’s crazy,” she explained. “This is like saying, ‘Well, I don’t believe in legislating things around...

As a woman who carries the scars of having a chemical abortion all alone without anyone by my side, I was obviously disappointed that the Food and Drug Administration managed to avoid accountability last month at the U.S. Supreme Court for its reckless disregard for women’s health. But I am very pleased to learn that it’s not over. Three states stand ready to hold the FDA accountable—and that’s good, because the FDA’s callous removal of its original protections for women using chemical abortion drugs has harmed countless women. For now, the FDA will continue to put the abortion drug industry’s...

Pro-abortion state Attorneys General (AGs) are suing pro-life pregnancy centers for “false and deceptive” marketing in places like New Jersey, New York, and California. City council ordinances have targeted pregnancy help centers as well, parroting the claims mouthed by a slew of pro-abortion organizations. They claim that these centers (which offer most, if not all, services for free, including baby items, parenting classes, and more) are lying to women, tricking them into keeping their babies, and deceiving them by connecting them with doctors who offer progesterone in an effort to counteract the effects of mifepristone (the first drug in the...

On June 24 – the two-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade – the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study which purported to compare the safety and efficacy of chemical abortions obtained either in-person (following an ultrasound) or through the mail (using the so-called “no-test” protocol, in which no in-person doctor visit occurs, and no lab work or ultrasounds are performed). It concluded that “medication abortion following no-test telehealth screening and mailing of medications” has “a low prevalence of adverse events.” But how reliable is this study? What does the data in it really...

From Rod Dreher to Eric Metaxas, Tony Perkins, and Charlie Kirk, J.D. Vance has amassed quite the following among those who see him as the new face of “religious populism.” It’s an interesting accolade for someone whose claim to fame is being a champion of conservativism while simultaneously endorsing the very measures that undermine them. In a recent interview with NBC, Vance endorses the abortion pill mifepristone, which reveals a curious contradiction—one that his evangelical supporters seem more than willing to overlook in their quest for a political savior. Arguing like a leftist, Vance offers not just his support for...

On Thursday, three Democratic senators introduced a bill to legalize the distribution of the abortion pill by mail. The abortion pill has become America’s most popular form of abortion, due to its lower cost and liability to the abortion industry. Yet a federal law known as the Comstock Act prevents the abortion industry from mailing the pills to women, outlawing the shipping of “every article or thing designed, adapted or intended for producing abortion” via the U.S. mail. Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced a bill to repeal the abortion provision of that...

Results from the recent report from California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls show that the abortions taking place on college campuses are rising, thanks to California’s initiative to promote abortion pill access to college students. According to the report, a total of 427 abortions were performed across California’s public and private campuses last year. In 2019, legislation to make this a reality was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom and went into effect in 2023. Senate Bill 24 (SB24) requires that the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls administer “readiness” protocols to efficiently use the College...

UPDATE, 6/17/24: In May of 2024, the Guttmacher Institute updated their total abortion number for the year 2023, writing that, “Monthly Abortion Provision Study show that an estimated 1,037,000 abortions occurred in the formal health care system in 2023.” This updated figure reveals that 2,841 abortions daily in the U.S. — 118 abortions per hour, nearly 2 per minute, and one abortion every 30 seconds. “This represents a rate of 15.9 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age,* and is a 11% increase since 2020 [930,160 recorded in 2020], the last year for which comprehensive estimates are available. It is...

Today, rather than warn women of the potential dangers of the abortion pill (mifepristone or Mifeprex), media outlets like the Washington Post are using scare tactics to push a false narrative that pro-life laws are creating an environment in which women are having to flood emergency rooms after illegally accessing abortion pills. But as Live Action News previously documented, the “self-managed abortion” scheme, planned and implemented by the abortion industry years before the fall of Roe v. Wade, is really at fault here. Even in the early days of the abortion pill’s approval, the abortion industry acknowledged that for the...

My name is Anna and this is my story: I found out I was pregnant in September 2020. I registered the pregnancy with my GP and had a phone appointment with my midwife. I wanted to keep the baby at first. The baby’s father was living abroad at that time and distanced himself, only replying to my messages occasionally. I asked him if he would register the baby as his but he said no. I asked for a few days hoping he would change his mind. Eventually I realised I wouldn’t get any help from him. I started desperately looking...

One of the most horrifying changes to take place in recent years regarding UK law surrounding abortion is the introduction of DIY/home abortions. At present they are only permitted under a temporary 2 year measure brought in during March 2020 because of the covid lockdown. The bigger concern is now that this could become permanent. Much has already been said and many concerns have been raised by medical professionals regarding this procedure but we need to hear from the women themselves. What is it like to go through an abortion in your own home, to self-administer the drug which will...

The limited abortion-pill decision of the U.S. Supreme Court June 13 leaves major questions about the future of the drug unanswered, pro-life advocates contend. The high court unanimously found in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that the four pro-life organizations and four pro-life doctors who brought a lawsuit challenging loosened federal regulations on abortion pills lacked standing — meaning they aren’t, in the court’s view, affected enough by the federal agency’s decisions to bring the lawsuit. But the court did not rule on the merits of their case. About 63% of all abortions in the United...

Mifepristone, also known as the abortion drug, is a highly controversial pill that now accounts for over 60% of abortions in the U.S., according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. Among the many fighting for and against access to mifepristone is the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), a group of pro-life physicians who challenged the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2016 and 2021 decisions that lead to easier access to the abortion drug by “permanently [eliminating] its requirements that women receive ongoing in-person medical care when taking mifepristone.” The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled last week to dismiss the challenge. As...

Democratic and leftist groups are gaming out how to resist and prepare for former President Trump’s possible return to the White House, including blue state governors stockpiling abortion pills. The Supreme Court ruled against a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) regulatory approval process of the abortion drug Mifepristone, but some Democratic Party leaders are reportedly preparing for a hypothetical scenario where the Trump administration rescinds the approval or uses the 1873 Comstock Act to criminalize mailing Mifepristone across state lines. "The Democratic governor of Washington State, Jay Inslee, said he had secured a large enough supply of...

Beverly Winikoff, founder of Gynuity Health Projects — the sponsor of controversial abortion pill clinical trials on girls as young as 10 — has credited the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on America with ‘saving’ the abortion pill. On September 1, 2001, a woman in Canada died from taking the abortion pill, and the news of her death was made public on September 10, the day before 9/11. Her death was overshadowed by the horrific events of that day, and Winikoff was glad for that. In a May 2020 interview with Columbia University journalists, Winikoff said, in part: I remember...

Elizabeth was 24 years old when she became pregnant. She was unsure of what to do, but her boyfriend began to pressure her to have an abortion. “I was really afraid and not really sure what to do about it,” she said, “and he was pretty clear that he wasn’t going to stick around for this, so — so I scheduled an appointment for my abortion, a chemical abortion.” Elizabeth explained that when she first got the abortion pill regimen she cried for about an hour, unsure if she should take the pills or not. Ultimately, she decided to swallow...

Gynuity Health Projects, a research organization conducting clinical trials aimed at expanding access to the abortion pill and overturning the Food and Drug Administration’s safety requirements, is funded by organizations with deep historic ties to the American eugenics movement. Gynuity’s donor list includes organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Planned Parenthood, the Population Council, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Society for Family Planning, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tara Health Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In 1996, the Packard Foundation seeded the pill’s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, Inc.,...