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"The Fetus Is a Life Worthy of Dignity and Protection" Calls for Expanded Support for Women in Crisis Pregnancies, Single-Parent, and Disabled Children’s Families As the government moves forward with the phased introduction of abortion medication, Protestant organizations have joined the Catholic Church in voicing their opposition. They argue that, before the approval of such pharmaceuticals, there should first be comprehensive legal and systemic reforms encompassing the scope of permissible abortions, safety management, and protections for women facing crisis pregnancies. On September 17, the United Christian Churches of Korea issued a statement calling for the government to halt its planned...

The South Korean Catholic Church has expressed "deep concerns" over government plans to formally introduce abortion pills and urged for a reconsideration. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea (CBCK) made the call in a statement issued Wednesday after the government announced plans to allow the use of abortion pills by women up to nine weeks pregnant. "The CBCK voices deep concerns as this measure would only institutionalize abortion in an 'orderly' manner, without changing its fundamental nature, while allowing a disregard for life to be more deeply rooted in our society," the organization said. The Korean Catholic Church said the...

Above and beyond the truism that the Abortion Industry opposes anything pro-lifers propose, why are they so dead set against informing women they have a good chance of reversing their chemical abortions if they change their minds early enough and do not take the second of two drugs? Here are three (of many) possibilities. #1. It’s reflexive. If you believe (as abortionists and their media colleagues fervently do) that virtually no woman could ever regret her abortion mid-stream (so to speak), then why bother adding this information to the state’s informed consent language? But if you take the time to...

Women in Georgia have had to navigate the state’s six week abortion ban for the past few years, but lawyers and advocates say a lawsuit coming out of another Southern state could further restrict access. On Sept. 9 oral arguments began for Louisiana v. the U.S Food and Drug Administration, a suit over telehealth and mail delivery access to the abortion pill mifepristone. In 2020, the FDA began allowing mifepristone to be prescribed through telehealth and delivered to patients in the mail. Previously, the medication was only allowed to be dispensed in-person in a medical facility. In 2023 the agency...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A Toledo-area doctor who was placed on administrative leave from his position as a surgical resident at the University of Toledo Medical Center was sentenced Friday to six months at CCNO and two years of probation. Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Joe McNamara sentenced 32-year-old Hassan-James Abbas to six months at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio and two years of probation. Abbas pleaded no contest in May to four felony charges: • Disrupting public services • Unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug • Identity fraud • Deception to obtain a dangerous drug A no-contest plea is...

A recent story out of North Carolina confirmed that women are self-administering the abortion pill far beyond the FDA-approved 11 weeks — and it's had devastating results. Key Takeaways: * The FDA has been relaxing safety rules on the abortion pill for over a decade, leading to a lack of oversight and a lack of care for women who take it without medical supervision. * Easier access to the abortion pill via telehealth has led to horror stories of babies found in toilets and in dumpsters. * Taking the abortion pill after the first trimester, outside FDA-approved limits, increases the...

A radical left abortion group founded and led by ex-Biden officials is coming under fire by Kentucky’s top law enforcement official after an “illegal” stunt advertising abortion pills at the state fair. New York-based Mayday Health was founded following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade by former Biden White House Traveling Content Director Olivia Raisner, former Biden-Harris campaign speechwriter Sam Koppelman, and Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz. Last weekend, Mayday Health promoted the trafficking of abortion pills into the state, bypassing an existing law in Kentucky that bans the sale of the deadly drugs, Kentucky Today reports. The banner,...

The Urban Institute just published a review of Ohio’s abortion amendment called “Ohio Is Expanding Abortion Access Even as Implementation Proves Uneven.” And they are right—abortion access is expanding in Ohio. But our question is this: Do Ohioans understand what that actually means for our state? Three years have passed, but the meaning and consequences of the vote to add the “right” to abortion to our constitution are still being worked out in courtrooms, hospitals, doctors’ offices, and abortion clinics across our state. The Urban Institute’s report is just a small sample and not a representative survey of Ohioans, as...

The 19th is sharing the story of Tina (no last name given), a married mother of one daughter who "desperately" wanted another baby. But shockingly, when she finally became pregnant with a "healthy" child, she chose to have an abortion almost immediately. Key Takeaways: * Tina desperately wanted a baby and turned to IVF and surrogacy. * While her sister-in-law was carrying Tina's baby as a surrogate, Tina was surprised to learn that she, too, was pregnant. The babies would be eight months apart. * The day after Tina took the positive test, she ordered the abortion pill. * She...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) — Award-winning produce, baked goods, textiles and livestock weren't the only items on display at the Kentucky State Fair. Mayday Health, a reproductive health education nonprofit, took to the skies to promote mail access to abortion-inducing drugs. Leo Raisner, who founded Mayday Health and serves as executive director, said the organization goes where the crowds are, and the commonwealth's fair draws more than600,000 people a year. "Mayday shares information about abortion pills in states where clinics are banned or restricted," Raisner said. "We want everyone to know that safe, effective abortion medication exists." Raisner said there's a...

A band tied to The Satanic Temple released a music video this week that depicts a woman carrying out the group’s “abortion ritual” in a Hobby Lobby women’s restroom and supposedly flushing her baby down the toilet. The clip was posted Wednesday on YouTube for the song “Sam Alito’s Mom” by Satanic Planet, a band that includes Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves. The video shows a simulated satanic ritual inside the Christian-owned store. After taking abortifacient drugs, the woman sits on the toilet and flushes her baby. She then turns to the mirror and says, “By my body, my blood,...

Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico once delivered a sermon titled “God is not a Christian” as part of a fiery rebuke of conservatives whom the Democrat accused of trying to transform America into a theocracy. Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian and Texas state rep., admitted in his 2023 sermon that he is sometimes reluctant to share his faith, while warning, “There is a cancer on our religion.” “God is so much bigger than our human categories. God is not a Presbyterian. God is not a Christian. God is not a noun at all. God is a verb. God is not a...

First Responders see some horrific things, but even they were probably shocked by a call that came to the station in late July to rush to a Durham, North Carolina home. Inside, a tiny five-pound baby floated quietly in the bathroom toilet, barely alive. The team raced to do CPR on the newborn, as its 18-year-old mom — the girl who had tried to abort it — looked on. The little survivor miraculously pulled through, and the small bundle — premature at 31 weeks — is only alive today because someone in the house called 911. But for the teen...

Olivia Rodrigo just sold out 86 arena shows in minutes, and she’s about to fill another one with the same trick she’s pulled before. Her brand new music festival, Daisy Chain Fields, comes wrapped in an all-women lineup and a name that sounds like it belongs on a greeting card, and it’s being sold to a fanbase that packed 1.4 million seats on her last tour alone as a celebration of women and girls. But look at where the money actually goes . . . to abortionists. Planned Parenthood is a named beneficiary of Daisy Chain Fields. So is the...

The U.S. Catholic bishops are getting ready a nationwide call to prayer and action, with an official launch date of Aug. 18, to mobilize Catholics to address the rising abortion rate and the increased availability of an abortion-inducing drug. "Every abortion involves the death of a child and harm to the mother. Now with easier access to abortion pills, the abortion rate is tragically climbing, along with increased health risks," Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life...

Two Durham teens were arrested Tuesday after the female teen allegedly took abortion-inducing medication while 31 weeks pregnant. Syeisha Jadan Johnson, 18, is charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury on an unborn child, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and negligent child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury, court records show. Elijah Jshaun Speight, 19, the child’s father, is charged with negligent child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury, according to court records. Johnson is accused of taking mifepristone and misoprostol July 26 “in an attempt to terminate her pregnancy early,” her arrest warrant states. Mifepristone and misoprostol...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Johnson County, Kansas, judge has issued an order that permanently blocks the state from enforcing certain abortion restrictions. In his opinion issued on Monday, Judge K. Christopher Jayaram – who was recently appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court – said the proposed restrictions violate a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, as guaranteed by the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights: Because a woman’s right to bodily autonomy (including her right to decide whether to terminate or to continue a pregnancy) is fundamental, the Court concludes, given the overwhelming evidence adduced at trial, that the State’s rationale...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders he is planning to roll back abortion access even in states that have laws protecting it. On a private call last week hosted by the White House Faith Office, Blanche told the religious group Intercessors for America that moves to undo the Biden administration’s efforts to protect abortion are “taking longer than we want.” But Blanche assured them that the Justice Department (DOJ) is “working hand-in-hand” with federal health agencies, the White House and President Trump’s team “to get permanent solutions so the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.” The...

In the midst of navigating a turbulent divorce last year, Claire learned she was pregnant. “It wasn’t the right time for me to have a child,” said Claire, who lives in Kansas City and agreed to speak on the condition that she be identified by her first name, citing concerns for her privacy and the charged political climate around abortion in Missouri. “But I knew at that point that I did want to have children in the future.” Claire is among about 3,220 Missourians who obtained medication abortions through telehealth from out-of-state clinicians in 2025 — up from roughly 880...

A Canadian nonprofit’s website that mails abortion pills to women worldwide will stay blocked in Korea after a Seoul court ruled that the government’s ban was not unlawful, according to legal sources on Saturday. The Seoul Administrative Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Women on Web against the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC), seeking to overturn the regulator’s corrective order ㅑon June 12. The block is “hard to see as unlawful because Women on Web’s provision of abortion pills that were not manufactured, imported or approved for use in Korea violated the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act,” the court said. It therefore...