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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...

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...

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...

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...

In talking about her experience taking the abortion pill, Tami laments that she was not given any options when she visited the abortion facility. “They did not offer to show me an ultrasound image of my baby,” she says. “I was not given any pregnancy resources or told about adoption.” She notes that she was also misled about what the experience would be like. “I was told that I would experience slight cramping and bleeding and pass some blood clots, but no more than a normal menstrual cycle — it was nothing like they had told me.” Tami says she...

In another emotional video in Live Action’s “I Saw My Baby” series, Salome describes coming to the realization that she had killed her child after taking the abortion pill. “After taking the abortion pill, I felt like my inside was being torn and sliced to pieces. I had blood all over my legs and went into the tub to wash them,” she explained. “Right before the fetus came out I started vomiting everything that I had in my system that morning. And then I bled more and I hurt more. And I started praying curled up in the blood in...

Patricia was told “there was nothing to worry about” when she received the abortion pill from her doctor. In the latest video from Live Action’s “I Saw My Baby” series, she describes the horrifying reality of what actually occurred. Patricia says her doctor downplayed the severity of taking the abortion pill, telling her that she “would have some bleeding, and possibly clotting, and that complications resulting from pills were rare. I believed him,” she says. However, she explains that within one hour of taking the abortion pills at home, she knew the doctor was lying. “I was in the worst...

Facing pressure to have an abortion — her second abortion, Courtney went to the abortion facility and was given the abortion pill. She later said it was harder on her than her surgical abortion had been because this time, she felt like the actual killer. Believing that telling the abortion workers that she had changed her mind would make them “mad,” Courtney went through with an abortion she didn’t want. She was told it would be easy. It was anything but easy. “They told me it was just a pill as safe and as easy as taking a Tylenol. They...

In a recent op-ed on Fox News, one woman described her harrowing abortion pill experience, warning against the widespread push for easy chemical abortion access and describing her belief that the FDA has “betrayed” women in unraveling abortion pill safeguards. Author Elizabeth Gillette says she went to Planned Parenthood and was given the abortion pill, even though the doctor never looked at her medical history or told her about potential complications or risk factors (of which there are many). A “no test” protocol in dispensing the abortion pill has become common. “Nothing was said about any side effects,” Gillette writes....

Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a case filed against the Food and Drug Administration for wrongfully expanding access to mifepristone, the first of two drugs utilized for medical abortions. The lawsuit was brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of a group of medical professionals known as the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. When originally approved by the FDA in 2000, mifepristone could only be prescribed by a licensed physician after an in-person appointment and required an in-person follow-up to ensure that the abortion had been completed “safely.” In 2016, the Obama administration expanded the list of who could...

An article in Vox featured an abortionist who co-founded the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline, and included advice for women who have undergone abortions to lie to emergency room staff if they’re experiencing complications. Linda Prine is described as a “family physician,” though she is, in fact, a long-time abortionist who also trains medical students in how to commit abortions. She also founded the hotline, in which she and other volunteers coach women on how to undergo chemical abortions at home without medical supervision. And in her interview with Vox, she said women are frequently taking abortion pills past the FDA-recommended...

Christina was already a mother to one born son when she learned she was pregnant. She visited Planned Parenthood, where she was given the abortion pill and was told it was going to be an “easy” process. The staff said she “wouldn’t see anything” — meaning her baby’s body. But she soon learned these were lies. “They didn’t ever use the word baby,” she explained. “They always just said ‘it’ or ’tissue’ or ‘the process.’ They never said anything about the level of development. They did tell me it would be too small to see anything.” However, she explained, “The...

After finding redemption in Christ for a past abortion, Terri Baxter’s heart was aflame with a desire to help other women like her heal. That desire led her to eventually start a national helpline for women. Though she has heard from women in crisis for years, she and her team say that recently, the stories of women suffering from at-home chemical abortions have increased in both number and intensity. Post-abortive journey leads to the creation of a helpline ministry Baxter started her journey as the director of a pregnancy resource center. There, she met post-abortive women and teen mothers and...

On a recent podcast, Desiree Merced opened up about her experience undergoing a chemical abortion, the trauma she experienced, and how she nearly died in the process. Merced appeared on a podcast with Ivan the Evangelist, and though she had been nervous to share her story, she believed that doing so would serve a greater purpose. “I was so nervous to do this podcast and even after doing it I was so nervous to share it on my social media because it’s so raw, real and open,” she wrote on Facebook. “[T]he amount of people reaching out to me is...