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CV NEWS FEED // Democratic New York Attorney General Leitita James recently took a pro-life lawsuit to an appeals court, attempting to ban pregnancy centers from promoting progesterone therapy to reverse the effects of chemical abortion pill mifepristone. CatholicVote previously reported that James sued 11 pregnancy centers and a pro-life organization last year for promoting progesterone as a reversal to abortion pills. In a news release from her office at the time, she claimed that the pregnancy centers use “false and misleading statements” to advertise progesterone therapy to save the lives of unborn babies. Her statement also alleges that promoting...

CV NEWS FEED // A pro-life organization in Ohio recently filed a complaint against a “telehealth” abortion provider, contending that its distribution of abortion drugs by mail violates Ohio law requiring a physician to be physically present when a patient takes the first dose. Ohio Right to Life submitted the complaint Feb. 19 to the Ohio Department of Health, raising concerns about abortion provider website Hey Jane, Ohio Capital Journal reported March 18. Emma Martinez, Ohio Right to Life’s director of external and legislative affairs, asked the health department to review whether Hey Jane’s operations comply with Ohio law. “It...

Planned Parenthood has admitted that the abortion pill can be dangerous. This was pointed out by American Life League in what its national director Katie Brown Xavios labeled a “rare moment of honest transparency.” “Planned Parenthood has confirmed the dangers that American Life League has been warning about for decades. No, abortion pills are NOT safe, especially when they come from an unregulated source,” stated Xavios. “The irony in all this falls on the fact that Planned Parenthood themselves refer women directly to these online vendors that send pills recklessly and without any authorization or regulation. But let’s not forget,...

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...

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued a cease-and-desist order last week to Planned Parenthood formally prohibiting the abortion giant from performing chemical abortions in the state. The order advises the company to implement a “valid” health and safety plan to protect women and treat complications from abortion-inducing drugs, as required by state law. AG Bailey cited Planned Parenthood’s “uncontroverted track record” of disregarding Missouri health and safety laws as the reason for the temporary restraining order, which makes it a felony for the organization to dispense the high-risk drugs. In November 2024, Missouri made abortion a constitutional “right” in the...

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has issued an order stopping Planned Parenthood abortion facilities from dispensing dangerous abortion drugs. The action comes one week after Bailey’s office warned Planned Parenthood of the pending cease and desist order after the abortion business failed to have an approved complication plan to protect women. A recent New York Times piece exposed how Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, also endangers women and girls with shoddy “care,” including botched abortions, an IUD inserted in a pregnant woman who ended up suffering a stillbirth, sewage leaking into a recovery room and more. Sue Liebel,...

In a pro-life victory, the lawyer who defended abortion pills in court for the Biden administration has resigned as Chief Counsel for the FDA. Acting general Sean Keveney in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) picked an attorney as the agency’s top lawyer who defended the abortion pill during the Biden administration. Perkins defended the availability of abortion pills that have killed millions of babies in court as an attorney for the DOJ during the Biden administration. After just two days on the job and following pro-life criticism when news of Perkins’ selection became public news, Perkins has...

Connecticut Democrats are attempting to “fight back” against President Donald Trump’s landslide national election and a White House agenda that has already included multiple pro-life initiatives. One of two bills passed by the state legislature last week through an emergency certification process awarded $800,000 in Connecticut taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood of Southern New England for the purpose of stockpiling abortion-inducing drugs. The other emergency bill – which provides funding to organizations impacted by the Trump administration’s policies – awards yet another $2.8 million to Planned Parenthood, making the abortion vendor “the biggest nonprofit beneficiary of the legislation,” reported CT...

In a recent Live Action video, a young woman recounts the extreme physical trauma she experienced after the abortion pill caused her to go into septic shock. Shanyce explained she was a college student when she found out she was pregnant. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, she was unsure what to do. She looked to her boyfriend at the time for support, only to have him “peer pressure” her into an abortion. Though she was hesitant, she agreed to go through with the procedure, describing her emotions at the time as anxious, lost, confused, and scared. After taking the first...

Ohio Right to Life has filed a complaint with the state of Ohio Department of Health and the State Medical Board, arguing that a pro-abortion website is violating state law in advertising the abortion pill. The complaint references an Ohio law which requires abortion pill distribution only after an in-person visit with a physician (in September 2024, that law was temporarily placed on hold due to a preliminary injunction while the case continues through the court). Basing its complaint on the original law, Ohio Right to Life says that the website HeyJane.com is promoting mail-order abortion pills to the state’s...

New legislation proposed in Arkansas would clarify that abortion by fraud is a crime. H.B. 1551 by Rep. Jimmy Gazaway (R — Paragould) makes it a felony to secretly give a pregnant woman abortion-inducing drugs without her knowledge or consent. Right now abortion in Arkansas is generally prohibited except to save the life of the mother, and it is illegal to deliver abortion-inducing drugs into the state. Arkansas also has laws prohibiting fetal homicide. However, Arkansas has no specific law addressing situations in which a person secretly gives abortion drugs like RU-486 to a pregnant woman. In 2022 a Texas...

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...

One of the jobs of the United States Postal Service (USPS) is to “prevent the flow of illicit drugs and contraband through the mail stream” and to “eliminate the mailing of opioids and other illicit drugs and it works closely with other law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to share intelligence, coordinate cases and conduct joint enforcement operations” according to its website (emphasis added). Since that website also clearly states, “The Postal Inspection Service enforces over 200 federal statutes related to crimes that involve the postal system, its employees, and its customers” (emphasis added), then it stands...

A Texas judge has ordered New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter to stop shipping abortion pills into the state, while also issuing her a fine of over $100,000. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Carpenter in December, after she mailed a Texas woman the chemical abortion drugs in violation of state law. The woman suffered serious complications after taking the pills, and required emergency care. Carpenter is the same abortionist who was later indicted in Louisiana for mailing the abortion pill to a teen in that state; that teen, too, was injured and required emergency treatment. Due to...

A Texas judge has ordered New York based abortionist Margaret Carpenter stop illegally prescribing and mailing abortion pills to people in Texas and to pay a $100,000 fine, As LifeNews reported, Carpenter faces a lawsuit from the state of Texas for selling abortion pills there in violation of state law. The judge’s ruling today came in response to that lawsuit. The ruling by Judge Bryan Gantt, who was appointed to the 471st District Court by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in September, is a default ruling that permanently enjoins Carpenter from “prescribing abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents,” according to the order....

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry wants to hold a New York abortionist accountable for illegally mailing abortion pills to his state that are killing babies and hurting women. As LifeNews reported, a New York abortionist has been indicted for illegally selling abortion pills to people in the pro-life state of Louisiana, where babies are legally protected from abortions. The indictment came after officials learned that a minor girl was gvien the abortion pills that Margaret Carpenter and her company Nightingale Medical sold to the teen’s mom. The mother of the minor, who according to reports coerced the minor to take the...

A Democrat Michigan state representative announced on Wednesday that she underwent sterilization earlier this year to avoid pregnancy under the Trump administration, Michigan Advance reported. “Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump’s America,” said state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia), who is openly bisexual. “I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate.” “If you know people who are questioning how serious this is, I’m going to repeat myself: A sitting government official...

A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in Louisiana on criminal abortion charges for allegedly prescribing an abortion-inducing drug to a teen in the state, which has one of the country's strictest abortion bans. Ten jurors in the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge unanimously voted to charge Margaret Carpenter and her practice, Nightingale Medical located in New Paltz, New York, with a felony. If convicted, Carpenter could face up to 15 years in prison and up to $200,000 in fines. The Louisiana teenager’s mother was also charged. ‘It is illegal to send abortion...

First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a group of pregnancy resource centers in New Jersey, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider its case about the state asking it to disclose information about its donors. In November 2023, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin demanded that First Choice turn over many documents, including information it provides to clients, statements about abortion pill reversal, documents about personnel and outside organizations with which it works, and donor information. Platkin has openly expressed his hostility toward pregnancy centers. “He issued a consumer alert—drafted with the help of Planned Parenthood—complaining that such centers do...