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The baby was between 29 and 33 weeks old. After having unprotected sex with her boyfriend several times, a young girl in Singapore noticed she had missed her period. Suspecting she was pregnant and not ready to become a mother, she purchased abortion pills from an online seller. Believing the foetus had not yet fully formed, she took the pills. A medical abortion is recommended up to 10 to 11 weeks after the last day of a pregnant woman's period. However, the girl later experienced severe abdominal pain and eventually gave birth to a baby girl on the floor of...

Pro-abortion extremists knew this was coming but frankly they don’t care. A man posted on Reddit asking for advice. He and his girlfriend became pregnant. “We talked for about a week deciding whether to keep the baby or not…” The “not” didn’t mean making an adoption plan for their child. They were in a long-distance relationship, attending separate universities. Their baby was seventeen weeks along, yet they chose the chemical abortion pill. This was an illegal abortion, far beyond the FDA guidelines. The young man’s girlfriend had to go through the gruesome process alone. In the end they were both...

Right To Life UK is calling for an immediate end to the ‘pills by post’ at-home abortion scheme, after a jury was told that one of the UK’s largest abortion providers, MSI Reproductive Choices (previously Marie Stopes) supplied pills through this scheme, which the jury heard were used to end the life of an unborn baby through an abortion at 26 weeks gestation. Right To Life UK is alo calling for a full inquiry into the abortion provider, MSI Reproductive Choices, whom the prosecution told the court had provided the abortion pills that were used for the abortion at 26...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced two more arrests in addition to the midwife who was arrested last month for committing illegal abortions in the state. Jose Manuel Cendan Ley, 29, and Rubildo Labanino Matos, 54, are both charged with assisting midwife Maria Margarita Rojas (a.k.a. “Dr. Maria”), 48, who was arrested and had her license suspended after she was charged with committing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of abortion businesses in the Northwest Houston area. She was arrested as a result of a months-long investigation led by Paxton’s office. According to Paxton, Ley worked as a...

Lawmakers in the West Virginia Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would impose civil and criminal penalties upon individuals who violate the state’s law prohibiting abortion pill distribution. Senate Bill 85 adds the penalties to the current law by making it a felony to mail or distribute abortion pills, including from outside jurisdictions. Nearly all preborn children are protected from abortion in the state. The bill passed the Senate with a vote of 28 to 5, with one member absent. “This important legislation is designed to protect life in West Virginia and stop the practice of abortifacients being sent and...

One of the common adjectives abortion advocates use in front of the word “child” is “wanted.” Since the American Birth Control League (now Planned Parenthood) first created its “Every Child, a Wanted Child” motto in an attempt to control population, the idea that children shouldn’t exist unless they are “wanted” by their parents has become widely accepted. Yet, research shows that women aren’t necessarily aborting because they don’t want their babies, but because they’ve been led to believe abortion is the only option they have. Margaret Sanger, the eugenic founder of the American Birth Control League wanted “[to] create a...

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the guest author. Minor edits made for clarity. After a year of monthly protests at the CVS pharmacy near Baylor University, a counter-protest has emerged. Pro-Life Waco delivered its first outreach at CVS across Interstate 35 from Baylor in April of 2024. Our top outreach goals are 1) chemical abortion education and 2) exposing the CVS and Walgreens commitment to joining the abortion industry. College Democrats of Baylor, an official student organization, organized a modest counter-protest to our monthly hour-and-a-half protest on February 26. This resulted in a news...

In recent years, the abortion industry has been pushing hard for women to receive the abortion pill regimen through the mail and undergo chemical abortions at home without medical supervision. Yet now, one Planned Parenthood affiliate is warning women that DIY chemical abortions may be dangerous… and it might just be for self-serving reasons. Earlier this month, a Pennsylvania teenager made national headlines when police investigated a chemical abortion. She had been turned away from local abortion facilities, presumably because she was too far along, and her mother ordered abortion pills online for her. The teenaged girl gave birth to...

A New York official has enforced the state’s “shield law” to protect an abortionist who sent abortion pills to individuals in Texas and Louisiana, which resulted in complications for those women. Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck said in a statement that he will not file a summary judgment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter, who is accused of sending abortion drugs to a woman in Texas. The judgment sought a civil penalty exceeding $100,000 due to Carpenter’s failure to appear in court on February 12 in response to Texas’ lawsuit alleging she prescribed mifepristone and misoprostol (the abortion pill regimen) to...

Taxpayer-funded abortion is increasing at the state level as pro-abortion lawmakers work to expand abortion since the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Federally, the Hyde Amendment prohibits most taxpayer funding of abortion, allowing funding only in cases of rape, incest, or when the physician determines the pregnant mother’s life is at risk. But while the Hyde Amendment prevents most abortions from being paid for by federal tax dollars, each state can determine its own taxpayer funding for abortion. According to the pro-abortion organization KFF.org (The Kaiser Family Foundation), “There is tremendous variability in how much states reimburse for abortion services...

HOUSTON — Court documents are shedding new light on the investigation into a woman accused of illegally performing abortions at clinics in the Houston area. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, in Waller County earlier this week. She's charged with illegal performance of an abortion, a felony, and practicing medicine without a license. Court documents reviewed by KHOU 11 reveal how an anonymous tip in January prompted the months-long investigation. Investigators set up surveillance of clinics owned and operated by Rojas. The clinics listed were: * Clinica Waller Latinoamericana in Waller * Clinica...

HOUSTON – A Houston-area midwife accused operating multiple birthing clinics without proper licensing and performing illegal abortions is also being accused of misleading a patient into undergoing a medication abortion, newly released records show. Maria Margarita Rojas, 49, is the first healthcare provider facing criminal charges under Texas’ near total abortion ban. According to court documents, the patient and her husband returned to the Clinica Waller Latinoamericana on Monday, March 3, to review lab results from a blood draw taken during her previous visit. The couple was reportedly attended by Cendan Ley, who mentioned during their conversation that he was...

In September of 2023, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed suit against Heartbeat International and RealOptions Obria — two medical pregnancy center groups — for allegedly “misleading patients” about the prospects of “abortion pill reversal” (APR). Bonta wants to block the centers from advertising APR as “safe and effective,” claiming that the treatment — which consists of administering the pregnancy-supporting hormone progesterone to outcompete the progesterone-blocking effects of the abortion pill, mifepristone — has “no credible scientific backing, and has potential risks for patients who undergo it.” In reality, progesterone has been recommended to and safely used by women at...

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...