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A recent Wall Street Journal report described a new legal development in the fight to protect unborn life: a number of fathers are filing lawsuits over abortions carried out without their knowledge or consent. The suits claim harm from the loss of their children and seek accountability from those who facilitated the abortions, including doctors, family members, and abortion pill distributors, the Journal reported Aug. 26. According to the outlet, many of these cases originate in Texas, where state law permits parents to sue for the wrongful death of an unborn child. Some lawsuits target out-of-state providers who mail abortion...

A pro-abortion “health education” group has launched an ad campaign this month in an attempt to reach women in rural West Virginia and Kentucky. Key Takeaways: * Mayday Health was formed in June 2022 in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Its founders are well-connected in the journalism and financial sectors. * Mayday places billboards and ads in areas where abortion is restricted, under the guise of providing “preventative reproductive health information.” * Its latest ad campaign targets rural women in Kentucky and West Virginia with a series of ads placed at gas stations. The Details: An article...

Mayday Health, a company that disseminates information on where and how to obtain abortion pills, is promoting its deadly services with floating billboards off the Florida coast. Key Takeaways: * Mayday Health was formed in 2022 in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. * The group does not commit chemical abortions, but provides information on where and how women can obtain the pills. * Mayday has been placing billboards and ads in pro-life states. * The latest stunt targeted Florida, with floating billboards promoting the abortion pill and its website on boats in the Gulf of Mexico. The...

An Illinois man is facing homicide charges after allegedly slipping abortion pills to his girlfriend without her consent. WMBD-TV reported that 31-year-old Emerson Evans of the community of Normal appeared Monday in McLean County Circuit Court. Judge Amy McFarland agreed to prosecutors’ request to detain Evans pending a trial. Evans faces two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child, a felony comparable to first-degree murder. Emerson Evans pressured his girlfriend to abort — she refused. So he told the police he "made the decision for her." Evans bought abortion pills for $50. Then allegedly drugged his girlfriend without her...

A Texas woman is suing a U.S. Marine, alleging he spiked her drink with nearly a dozen abortion pills, killing their unborn child, after she rebuffed his repeated requests to “get rid of it,” according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed in federal court Monday. Liana Davis alleges Christopher Cooprider secretly dissolved at least 10 abortion pills into a cup of hot chocolate that he prepared for her April 5 and then left the house and stopped responding as she profusely bled, the suit says. Cooprider, 34, declined to comment Monday. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for...

Doctors and nurses who want to help women with abortion pill reversal treatment after taking chemical abortion pills have won a permanent injunction blocking a Colorado law that prohibited the treatment. In April 2023, Colorado enacted a law making it illegal for medical practitioners to assist women who wanted to reverse a chemical abortion after they had taken the first of two pills in the regimen. The law threatened professional discipline for practitioners who use progesterone to attempt to save the baby’s life. Bella Health and Wellness, a Catholic pro-life clinic in Colorado represented by the Becket Fund for Religious...

A Texas man has filed a landmark federal wrongful death lawsuit against a California abortion provider, alleging the physician "murdered" his unborn children by mailing abortion pills across state lines. The case, Rodriguez v. Coeytaux, marks the first of its kind to test how far pro-life litigants can go to sidestep blue state abortion shield laws using century-old federal statutes and Texas civil code. Filed July 20 in the Southern District of Texas, the lawsuit accuses Dr. Remy Coeytaux of aiding illegal self-managed abortions in 2024, by mailing abortion-inducing drugs to Galveston County, Texas, where they were allegedly used to...

An abortion business in New Hampshire has been accused of attempting to groom and indoctrinate young girls by promoting its business using American Girl Dolls, which have long been marketed to girls 12 and under. While it is unclear if the American Girl company approved the use of its dolls in this manner, its own TikTok account shows it has shifted some of its marketing to young adults — many of whom grew up with the dolls and remain fans. Key Takeaways: * Lovering Health Center, a New Hampshire abortion business, used American Girl Dolls in a recent Facebook post...

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, accusing the abortion organization of misleading women about the safety of mifepristone, a drug used in chemical abortions. The suit, announced Wednesday, seeks millions in damages and aims to hold the national abortion provider accountable for what Bailey calls deceptive practices that endanger women’s health. “Planned Parenthood has a documented history of subverting state law, including failure to file complication reports,” Bailey said in a statement. The lawsuit, filed in response to what Bailey describes as Planned Parenthood’s pattern of violating Missouri regulations, alleges the...

A former Gig Harbor nurse practitioner has pleaded guilty to sneaking pills into his girlfriend last year in an attempt to cause her to miscarry and to trying to silence her from speaking to authorities. David Benjamin Coots, 43, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, tampering with a witness and fourth-degree assault. He wore a blue dress shirt with a tie as Superior Court Judge Pro Tempore James Orlando sentenced him to one year and a day in prison, which the defense and prosecutors agreed to recommend. He also was ordered to have no contact with the victim for 10 years....

A federal court has upheld West Virginia’s abortion, ruling the state can continue protecting babies. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected a bid by GenBioPro—the generic manufacturer of the abortion drug—to federalize the regulation of prescription drugs, including the abortion drug mifepristone. Then-West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, now governor, assisted by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, asked a federal district court in February 2023 to uphold the state’s Unborn Child Protection Act against a preemption challenge. In August 2023, the court partially dismissed the lawsuit challenging the law, and GenBioPro appealed the case to...

according to a July 7 article in Ms. Magazine. Although the single-drug abortion regime is touted about as “safe and effective” as the two-drug regime, evidence indicates misoprostol-only abortions have “much higher failure rates and complications for women,” the Charlotte Lozier Institute reports. The potential shift in pro-abortion advocates’ approach would introduce a complex new battleground territory for the pro-life movement. Misoprostol is generally less expensive than mifepristone and does not require a prescription, although its legal usage for abortion varies depending on state law. “Notably, none of the media sources promoting misoprostol abortion seem willing to give or direct...

The abortion pill is the only life-ending drug that does not require consultation or any assurance of accurate identifying information. In fact, for a drug that is intended to end a pregnancy, distributors do not even have to confirm pregnancy at all. Anyone not looking through the rose-colored glasses handed out by the abortion lobby can see this lack of regulation for what it clearly is: a recipe for rampant abuse. Several women have already come forward, sharing how their partner ordered the pill and drugged them, forcing abortions. Victims of sex trafficking have also come forward, recounting how they...

FIRST ON FOX: As Planned Parenthood sues the Trump administration for provisions of the "big, beautiful bill" defunding abortion providers, pro-life medical groups are urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reexamine the FDA’s broad approval of abortion drugs. In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, six anti-abortion medical organizations, representing approximately 30,000 medical professionals, urge Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary to reinstate safety guards on the abortion pill mifepristone that have been removed since it was first approved in 2000. According to the Guttmacher Institute, medication abortion accounts for 63% of all U.S....

A paramedic who secretly gave a pregnant woman an abortion drug, killing their unborn child, has been jailed for 10 years and six months. Stephen Doohan, who was a clinical team leader with the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), administered the drug after he found out the woman was pregnant with his baby. The woman, who did not know Doohan was married when they were in a relationship, suffered a miscarriage after the 33-year-old crushed pills into a syringe and injected her as she lay in bed at his Edinburgh home in 2023. Doohan pleaded guilty to assault, sexual assault and...

Dozens of members of Congress have warned that the most common method of abortion in America may not just kill unborn babies and harm their mothers, it may also pollute America’s drinking water with forever chemicals that could impact declining fertility levels. Some 25 congressional Republicans signed a letter calling on the Trump administration to determine whether the abortion pill mifepristone has an environmental impact on the U.S. water system. “[M]ifepristone is a potent progesterone blocker that disrupts hormonal balance in pregnant women to induce abortion. This raises questions about the drug’s potential endocrine-disrupting effects when present in drinking water...

A new bill introduced in Congress aims to prevent abortionists from flushing aborted baby parts in public water systems, a practice pro-life advocates call a “depraved disregard for the sanctity of life.” The Respectful Treatment of Unborn Remains Act, introduced Wednesday by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., seeks to ensure that aborted babies are treated with dignity and not flushed into sewers like medical waste. The legislation comes in response to growing concerns about the environmental and ethical implications of chemical abortions, which account for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. According to a...

Decades of deception deliberately perpetuated by the abortion industry have given women a false sense of security about the alleged safety of the abortion pill (mifepristone). The abortion industry has attempted to downplay the abortion pill’s risks to women for a very long time, but has in recent years taken to accusing women of ‘overreacting’ when they visit emergency rooms (ER) for adverse events resulting from the abortion pill. If significant numbers of women are visiting ERs due to legitimate concerns about their abortion pill complications, who is at fault? KEY TAKEAWAYS: * Decades ago, the abortion industry began encouraging...

The Abortion Pill Rescue Network (APRN) has surpassed a new milestone: More than 7,000 babies have been saved through its Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) protocol. Heartbeat International, which manages the APRN, reported that the latest milestone was reached more quickly than previous ones, reflecting both increased demand and rising awareness of the reversal protocol. In recent months, inquiries from women seeking to reverse chemical abortions have risen by more than 20%, the organization said. “Milestones like this are important as we see chemical abortion exploding across the US,” president of Heartbeat International Jor-El Godsey said. The network offers an intervention...

Pro-life organizations have been talking about a recent study on abortion pill complications. The study found that 10.93 percent of people experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhage, or another serious adverse event within 45 days of taking the abortion pill. It also found that the rate of serious adverse events following chemical abortions is at least 22 times higher than the figure of “less than 0.5 percent” reported on the drug label. When examining numbers and statistics, it’s easy to lose sight of their impact on individual people. What do these complications look like for individual women? An Abortion Pill Complication One...