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n states where abortion is legal, at least 34 clinics have closed in the past two years, citing financial and operational struggles. In September, an appeals court allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, putting an estimated 200 health centers at risk of closing, according to the organization. To fill in the funding gaps, states and cities nationwide have been stepping up financially to support abortion access. Following the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Philadelphia granted $500,000 to the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA, a nonprofit focused on protecting and expanding...

Leading pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony (SBA) Pro-Life America and Women Speak Out PAC (WSO) announced an $80 million investment on Wednesday into the 2026 midterm elections. The massive funding dump is aimed at retaining pro-life majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, with a focus on battleground states, like Iowa, Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina, the organization announced in a press release. SBA and WSO plan to make 4.5 million visits to voters at their homes in those states. “All four states are Senate battlegrounds and contain key House battleground districts. Further, the effort includes deploying student teams into...

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by The Satanic Temple challenging Idaho’s abortion ban, delivering a major victory for the state’s pro-life protections. The ruling rejected claims that the law violates the group’s religious rights. U.S. District Judge David C. Nye ruled that The Satanic Temple lacked standing to sue because it failed to show any of its members had suffered a concrete injury from Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortions except to prevent the death of the mother or in cases of rape or incest reported to law enforcement. “The Satanic Temple has not...

A report released by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) earlier this year exposed a dark reality of in vitro fertilization (IVF): in adults' quest to create children, most of the children they create using IVF will not survive. As the number of IVF cycles increases year after year, so does the number of lives lost to the process — and it's staggering. The total number of lives lost as a result of IVF is now surpassing the number of lives lost to induced, elective abortion each year. Key Takeaways: * More children are now dying from the IVF...

The federal government has reopened following President Trump’s signing of a bipartisan spending package passed by Congress. The action ends the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Last night, the House of Representatives voted 222 to 209 to give final approval to the funding measure. The Senate began clearing the way on Monday, when eight Senate Democrats crossed party lines in a vote that opened the door for the government to resume operations. Their votes came with a promise from Senate leadership to allow a future vote on extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies—which currently reimburse insurance plans that include...

Northwestern University has a “responsibility” to tell students about what is in its new “reproductive vending machine,” a pro-life leader told The College Fix. The Big Ten University in Evanston, Ill. plans to put a “reproductive vending machine” in the Norris Center on campus following a request from the Associated Student Government’s Health and Wellness Committee. The vending machine will dispense “Narcan, urine test strips, Plan B, condoms, tampons and lube,” according to The Daily Northwestern. The school had not installed the machine as of Nov. 7 when The Fix last checked. The inclusion of Plan B, which can either...

‘The employee has since apologized for the choice of words and acknowledged that the sign is not an example of hate speech,’ according to a university statement A Christian university in Texas is apologizing for a recent situation in which a pro-life student group was forced to remove its “abortion is murder” sign. Abilene Christian University’s ACU for Life group last month was tabling in the campus center with a sign that read: “Abortion is Murder. Disagree? Let’s talk.” But two administrators took issue with that verbiage and told the group the wording was inappropriate and represented hate speech, according...

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in Boston heard oral arguments today whether a provision of the July 4 “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that ended Medicaid reimbursements for one year for Planned Parenthood and other big abortion providers can remain in effect while legal challenges continue. In September, on an unanimous 3-0 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit reversed the earlier preliminary injunctions by Judge Indira Talwani and allowed the Trump administration to resume blocking Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while the case proceeded. Background Planned Parenthood filed the...

Over the past couple of days, my fellow pro-life student leaders and I witnessed first-hand the hostility that many young adults have to the idea that unborn babies shouldn’t be murdered in the womb. Students for Life of America spokesperson Lydia Taylor Davis held a speaking event Monday on my campus, the University of Mary Washington, during her “Make Gen Z Anti-Abortion” tour. I’m on the leadership team of Students for Life of America’s University of Mary Washington chapter. Throughout the weeks leading up to that event, our flyers advertising it were frequently taken down by other students. In light...

Pharmaceutical companies likely would prefer advertisements for their newest wonder drugs to leave out mention of possible side effects, but the public has a right to know and that’s why television commercials expose viewers to long lists of things that can go awry, everything from “may cause pain at the injection site” to “may lead to thoughts of suicide” to “can cause death.” In that same spirit of informed consent, women should have the right to know what can happen to them after abortion. But in what can only be interpreted as a conspiracy of silence, lawmakers, media, and the...

Pastors from across Michigan, across the country, and across the Body of Christ gathered in Bay Harbor, MI from November 4th to 6th at a training camp run by Liberty Pastors , to learn how to activate their congregations on key issues facing America and the Church today. The training camp came just before the Michigan March for Life, which took place on Nov. 6th in Lansing. Some of the gathered pastors from Michigan, of course, had groups from their churches going to the march. I was privileged to address the pastors on abortion, and then to participate in the...

Florida’s attorney general has launched a sweeping lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, accusing the nation’s largest abortion company of deceptive advertising that downplays the severe risks of chemical abortion pills. The lawsuit could potentially cost the pro-abortion organization up to $350 million in penalties. The 37-page complaint, filed last week under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, targets Planned Parenthood’s claims that the abortion drug mifepristone is “safer than Tylenol.” State officials allege the assertions are not only false but have endangered women’s lives and fueled billions in profits for the group, with a staggering 500% profit margin on...

Several years ago, I traveled to Amsterdam as part of the National Right to Life delegation for a multi-issue pro-family conference. The event brought together representatives from dozens of countries and organizations working in maternal health, children’s welfare, family policy, and religious freedom. Over the course of four days, the conference addressed a spectrum of bioethical concerns: euthanasia, adoption, trafficking, and the global expansion of abortion access under the guise of reproductive health. Our delegation included Dr. Wanda Franz, then president of National Right to Life, and her husband, Dr. Gunter Franz, as well as Olivia Gans. We installed NRLC’s...

A University of Toledo Medical Center surgery resident has been suspended from practicing medicine in Ohio after admitting to secretly obtaining and administering abortion drugs to a pregnant woman. The Ohio State Medical Board on November 5 issued an emergency suspension of Dr. Hassan-James Abbas’ medical license, finding “clear and convincing evidence” that his actions posed “an immediate danger” to the public. The board’s notice detailed Abbas’ alleged use of his estranged wife’s personal information to order the drugs and his subsequent forcible administration of them to his girlfriend, who had refused an abortion. The woman, who is seeking a...

I get it—the whole purpose of pro-abortion sites is to “normalize” abortion, to make it nothing more than a “rite of passage” for women. But when “mainstream” publications, such as the Washington Post, print their most egregious assertions without qualm, you know (if you ever had any doubt) they have descended into shills for the abortion lobby. Take, for the example, the subhead to one of Michelle Boorstein’s stories in the Washington Post which read “ Americans who see a religious case for abortion access try to shift the narrative.” “Shift the narrative” and how! The lead to her account...

Zohran Mamdani is now the Mayor-elect of New York City. During his campaign, he “vowed to ‘protect New Yorkers from’ pro-life pregnancy centers which he accused of spreading ‘false or deceptive information.’” His threat refers directly to CompassCare. CompassCare runs the only three pro-life medical pregnancy centers in all of New York City. His threat mimics the lawsuit brought by pro-abortion activist Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, who endorsed Mamdani’s mayoral bid. Many people are asking how the newly elected, self-avowed, Islamic communist will impact the already battered Christian pro-life medical pregnancy centers like CompassCare. The Christian pro-life pregnancy...

Longtime Democrat Congressman Nancy Pelosi, a fierce proponent of abortion whose unyielding support for killing babies has drawn sharp rebukes from Catholic leaders, is poised to retire from Congress at the end of her current term. The 85-year-old California lawmaker, who has represented San Francisco since 1987, has finally announced she is stepping down. In a CNN interview aired Monday, Pelosi emphasized her drive to reclaim House control for Democrats, saying, “For me, it’s just a question about one thing: winning the House for the Democrats, and that’s what we’re doing with Proposition 50. It’s the first step.” She added,...

SANFORD, Fla. - A Florida man who killed his 18-year-old girlfriend and their unborn son after she refused to get an abortion is facing the death penalty. Donovan Faison, 23, was convicted last week in the first-degree murder of Kaylin Fiengo, of killing an unborn child and of burglary with a firearm. The jury later voted 11-1 to sentence Faison to death, the Office of the State Attorney said in a news release Friday. Faison shot Fiengo in the head as she sat in her car at Coastline Park in Sanford in 2022. Investigators discovered a bullet casing and an...

Destigmatized abortion increases the pressure for women to abort. If abortion is supposed to be a morally neutral option, then it makes sense to expect women to abort if we conceive in difficult circumstances. The circumstances could be conceiving while in poverty or in an abusive relationship, or any number of situations, but the pressure becomes especially clear when we conceive children with disabilities that can be detected prenatally. For example, when discussing options with a woman who receives a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis, a significant number of physicians and genetic professionals will self-report that they emphasize the negative aspects...

In recent months, the Population Research Institute (PRI) has documented, with significant amounts of evidence, the activities of three major abortion networks: FIGO, CLACAI, and FP2030. Each of these has played a specific role in the international expansion of abortion. Now, we have turned our attention to another key player: DKT International. Founded in 1989, this organization presents itself as a promoter of “sexual and reproductive health,” but in reality, it has become the world’s largest distributor of abortion pills, using sophisticated social marketing networks specifically designed to evade pharmaceutical regulations. On September 2, 2025, DKT announced that it would...