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The Satanic Temple plans to open an abortion center in Maine on June 14, 2025, named “The President’s Yuge Most Beautiful Tremendous Satanic Abortion Clinic” in a mocking nod to President Donald Trump’s birthday. “We hope he receives this clinic’s distinguished title as the magnificent, regal birthday present it is intended to be,” said Satanic Temple executive director Erin Helian in a press release. The facility, part of the temple’s TST Health network, will sell dangerous abortion-inducing drugs by mail and instruct women to perform a “Satanic Abortion Ritual” involving chants that pro-life advocates denounce as evil and morally repugnant....

PARKER COUNTY, Texas - A North Texas man who works for the U.S. Department of Justice has been arrested and charged with capital murder after authorities said he secretly gave his pregnant girlfriend an abortion-inducing drug, causing the death of her six-week-old fetus. Justin Anthony Banta, 38, was arrested Friday following a months-long investigation, according to the Parker County Sheriff’s Office. He also faces a charge of tampering with physical evidence. Forced Abortion Allegations Timeline: In a news release, Sheriff Russ Authier said the investigation began in October 2024, when the victim reported the incident. She told investigators that after...

New evidence shows a widescale coverup regarding the dangers of chemical abortion pills. A new peer-reviewed study by Charlotte Lozier Institute examined nearly 29,000 visits to emergency rooms by women who within 30 days had undergone either a surgical or chemical abortion. The research revealed widespread miscoding of these ER visits. Women who were suffering serious effects of chemical abortion were often coded as having a miscarriage. This in itself is not surprising but the sheer scale of deceit is stunning. * The study revealed 79% of abortion pill ER visits were likely to be miscoded as miscarriages comparted with...

Hyderabad: A six-month pregnant tribal woman passed away in Hyderabad after her husband allegedly forced her to unknowingly consume abortion pills. Pravalika, 23, and Sepurwar Prashanth, both natives of Adilabad, had been married for three years with a two-year-old son. She was in the sixth month of her second pregnancy. The couple were constructing a new house in Maharashtra. According to a police complaint registered by Pravalika’s brother, V Rajesh, the husband and his family held superstitions, believing it was misfortune for a woman to undertake part in the rituals of a new house while pregnant. On May 30, Prashanth...

Pressure is growing on federal agencies to regulate the abortion drug mifepristone, following publication of a series of alarming reports. The latest report, published last week by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), analyzed Medicare and Medicaid data and discovered that the vast majority (over 80%) of women who visited an emergency room with complications from the abortion drug had their abortions miscoded as miscarriages. The study examined nearly 30,000 emergency room visits and found that between 2016 and 2021, a period of five years, miscodes of emergency room visits following surgical abortions increased in prevalence from a rate of 26.8%...

Maine recently updated its drug labeling law to shield physicians who prescribe abortion pills, allowing the prescribers to list their healthcare facility instead of their names on the label. Local ABC affiliate WMTW reported that Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, signed the bill May 29, two days after both chambers of Maine’s legislature approved it. The bill covers abortion drugs mifepristone, misoprostol, and their generic alternatives. According to WMTW, Mills has a history of shielding physicians and healthcare workers who commit abortions. Last year, she signed a bill that bans other states from taking legal action against abortionists or those...

A bill that would compel Illinois public universities to provide, prescribe, and even promote abortion drugs is now one signature away from becoming law. House Bill 3709 passed the state senate May 31 and is now awaiting action from Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker. If signed, the bill would require schools to refer students to abortion providers and, where pharmacies are available on campus, directly distribute abortion drugs like mifepristone, according to a May 20 press release from Illinois Right to Life. The bill would also mandate that universities include information about chemical abortion on their websites, elevating the practice to...

A peer-reviewed analysis by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) not only confronts the widely-professed claim of abortion activists that abortion-inducing drugs are “safer than Tylenol,” but also finds no evidence of its credibility. Published Tuesday in the journal BioTech, the research, titled “The Origins and Proliferation of Unfounded Comparisons Regarding the Safety of Mifepristone,” revealed there is no “controlled, scientifically appropriate study” that compares the abortion drug to the drug Tylenol in existence. Indeed, one overarching finding of the analysis by CLI director of life sciences Cameron Louttit, Ph.D., is that the popular abortion industry talking point is founded...

In a letter to pro-life Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has committed to conducting a full review of the dangerous abortion pill – which has killed and injured countless women. Makary made the commitment after Senator Josh Hawley sent a letter highlighting new research showing greater risks than the FDA currently acknowledges and urging Makary to reconsider his earlier statement that he had “no plans to take action.” “As Commissioner of Food and Drugs, I am committed to conducting a review of mifepristone,” the FDA chief said in a letter to the senator, who highlighted it...

Texas lawmakers passed bills that will help build a Pro-Life culture, but House leadership ignored the biggest threat to women and babies: abortion pills. State officials began the 2025 legislative session in January with a major opportunity to stop the abortion industry. An estimated 30,000 Texan babies are killed each year by out-of-state procedures and abortion drugs, which also endanger mothers. Texas Right to Life urged the Legislature to save these children with two Pro-Life Priority Bills: 1 The Woman and Child Protection Act (SB 2880) to combat abortion pills; and 2 The Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act (SB 33)...

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French scientist who developed the abortion pill RU-486, also known as mifepristone, died Friday at his home in Paris at the age of 98. Pro-life advocates worldwide mourned the millions and millions of babies the abortion drug has killed. Baulieu, born Étienne Blum on Dec. 12, 1926, in Strasbourg, developed RU-486 in 1982, a dangerous drug that blocks progesterone, a hormone essential for pregnancy, leading to the starvation of an unborn baby and his or her eventual death. The drug, which pro-life groups note has facilitated the loss of countless unborn children, not accounts for approximately 63%...

The New York Times recently published a puff piece highlighting the life and work of “the Father of the Abortion Pill,” Dr. Étienne-Émile Baulieu. It appears that no hard questions were asked by the article’s author, Pam Belluck, although several were suggested by Baulieu’s remarks and certainly should have been posed. A DUBIOUS MENTOR For example, Belluck describes Gregory Pincus, co-inventor of the birth control pill, as one of Baulieu’s mentors. But Pincus is hardly worthy of imitation. He was known for experimenting on the mentally ill; it is questionable whether these women could even give consent. Of these experiments,...

The French scientist who created the abortion pill has died at the age of 98. Étienne-Émile Baulieu helped develop the oral drug RU-486, also known as mifepristone, which has provided millions of women across the world with a safe and inexpensive alternative to a surgical abortion. Dr Baulieu died at his home in Paris on Friday, his widow confirmed in a statement. Simone Harari Baulieu said: "His research was guided by his commitment to progress through science, his dedication to women's freedom and his desire to enable everyone to live better and longer lives." French President Emmanuel Macron called Dr...

Over all three days of the long Memorial Day weekend, Mayday Health, an abortion advocacy organization, hired a plane to fly a banner reading, “Abortion pills by mail,” over the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Over Memorial Day weekend, Mayday Health hired a plane to fly a banner at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Attendees of Carb Day, a parade, and the Indy 500 saw a banner overhead reading “Abortion pills by mail.” Indiana protects most preborn children from abortion and requires the abortion pill to be dispensed in person, not via the mail. THE DETAILS: According to the IndyStar, the...

A California woman who threatened to kill a U.S. District judge presiding over an abortion pill case has pled guilty. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Dolly Kay Patterson of California sent threatening messages to the office of a Texas judge presiding over a case on abortion pill regulations, threatening both him and his children. Patterson took a plea deal, pleading guilty to one of the charges against her for Interstate Threatening Communications. A Florida woman also sent death threats to the judge during the same time frame and was sentenced to 10 months in prison last year. THE DETAILS: Court documents state that...

Even the media is growing concerned over the fact that a lack of climate-controlled delivery and extreme temperatures may negatively impact the stability and efficacy of mail-order drugs — including abortion pills. KEY TAKEAWAYS: While the FDA regulates certain aspects of packaging and transporting drugs from manufacturers to wholesalers and pharmacies, they do not regulate the shipping of mail-order drugs (including abortion drugs) sent to customers’ homes. Mailed abortion pills often spend a great deal of shipping time in extreme temperatures. Experts note that this could cause the drugs to become compromised, unstable, and less effective. The lack of oversight...

Despite common claims that later abortions are a work of fiction, “clinical recommendations” published by a pro-abortion group are encouraging the use of the abortion pill for third-trimester abortions up to nearly 28 weeks gestation. These recommendations follow other studies which suggest the drug regimen was being tested well into the second trimester of pregnancy. Live Action News has previously covered horrific incidents of the abortion pill ending the lives of babies well into the 30th week of pregnancy. “Treatment Choice”? The authors of the “Society of Family Planning Clinical Recommendation: Medication abortion between 14 0/7 and 27 6/7 weeks...

Louisiana’s attorney general is investigating a second case involving New York doctor Margaret Carpenter after she allegedly prescribed and mailed abortion medication to another woman in the state, this time located in the city of Shreveport. The Shreveport woman was 20 weeks pregnant when she took the abortion medication and subsequently went into labor, Attorney General Liz Murrill said during a testimony for an anti-abortion bill in the state’s House Civil Law and Procedure Committee on Monday. “She and her boyfriend, after she gave birth, took the baby, wrapped it in a towel, and threw it in a garbage can,”...

Alaska’s indigenous women and their unborn babies are increasingly vulnerable to abortion, according to the latest comprehensive data from the state. For decades, the abortion industry and its allies have worked to make the killing of pre-born babies more palatable among Alaska Native communities. Well-funded leftist groups like Planned Parenthood, Native Movement and others now employ activist tactics and community organizing to increase abortion accessibility and change cultural perceptions, especially among the youth. Last year, a total of 1,224 unborn babies were killed in Alaska through abortion, up slightly from 1,222 the year before. While the annual total has remained...

CV NEWS FEED // Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said Wednesday that he has ordered a top-down review of the abortion drug mifepristone in light of “alarming” research showing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved pill does far more harm to women than previously reported. The latest research is “alarming,” Kennedy said during a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “And clearly it indicates at the very least the [FDA] label should be changed.” “I’ve asked Marty Makary, who’s the director of the FDA, to do a complete review and to report...