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Ninety minutes. That was the length of the United Nations webinar I participated in last week. For ninety minutes, I listened to people discuss how to better expand abortion around the world. Not once did I hear the kind of urgency one might expect when discussing women living in some of the poorest, most medically neglected regions of the world. No serious discussion of the woman hemorrhaging in a village without electricity. No anguished concern for the frightened teenager facing complications miles from the nearest hospital. Instead, I heard about “indicators, implementation strategies, reporting systems, and expanded access.” And how...

Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a new rule, scheduled to go into effect November 18, that will change the organ donation process. According to HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy: [W]e are holding failing organizations accountable, strengthening patient safeguards, and helping high-performing organizations reach more patients. We will honor donors’ gifts by demanding results. Tens of thousands of organ donation operations happen each year in the United States, for everything from hearts to kidneys to corneas. Before this rule change, a clear line had been drawn between the two teams of doctors involved in organ donation. Doctors working...

In October 2024, a woman entered the emergency room in North Texas. She was presenting with extreme fatigue, pain, and heavy bleeding. Just two days prior, she had an ultrasound confirming a viable pregnancy with a heartbeat. She was happy to hear about her prenatal child’s health. But in the emergency room, doctors told her that she was going through an inevitable miscarriage. A police investigation revealed that the father of the woman’s child was Justin Anthony Banta. He pleaded with her to get an abortion, which she refused. Afterwards, he invited her to a coffee shop where he offered...

This video is also available on TikTok. A woman posts in the abortion subreddit saying that she’s 33 weeks pregnant. She initially was actually excited about being pregnant, and she went to a regular OB. While she was there, she said, “Lo and behold, a mini human—arms, legs, a head. It was such a clear picture of a baby.” She was excited about it until around 15 weeks pregnant. She started to feel not so excited. Now, at 33 weeks pregnant, she says, “I’m just weeks away from giving birth, and as awful as I feel about it, my mind...

A judge has expanded an earlier order to stop New York from censoring pro-life groups that recommend the abortion pill reversal treatment to pregnant women. U.S. District Judge John Sinatra of the Western District of New York, a Trump appointee, issued an order last Friday in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates et al. v. Letitia James. The order expands an earlier preliminary injunction preventing the state from censoring talk about abortion pill reversal to include “unnamed New York members” of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA). Gabriella McIntyre, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, which...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Two Tennessee lawmakers have introduced legislation that would create a $1 million fine or “damages award” in certain cases involving abortion-inducing drugs sent into the state. Under House Bill 1 and Senate Bill 2, a patient or other wrongful death beneficiary would have to prove that a defendant sent an abortion-inducing drug to the patient in Tennessee by courier, delivery or mail service and that the drug caused the death of an unborn child. The proposal is sponsored by Rep. Gino Bulso, R-Brentwood, and Sen. Joey Hensley, R-Hohenwald. It would amend Tennessee’s law over damages. The...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was so worried that a 2028 ballot initiative might nullify an abortion law that was passed over the summer, and took effect November 8, that she issued an “emergency” declaration on November 6 that puts the law into effect while the referendum moves forward. The state’s four bishops denounced her decision, taking aim at her statement that abortion may be considered “health care.” Two aspects of Healey’s ruling make her among the most radical public officials in America today: (a) she knows abortion kills the innocent and (b) she falsely justifies her decision by citing her...

Three Bellingham residents have been arrested in connection to the alleged drugging of a woman in an attempt to induce an abortion without her knowledge. An investigation began Oct. 20, when a woman reported to the Bellingham Police Department that her former fiancé, 32-year-old Jean Brando Zintz, intentionally drugged her and gave her medication to terminate her pregnancy while she was sleeping. Zintz initially reacted negatively when he learned the woman was pregnant in March, according to court records. His mother offered her $10,000 to get an abortion, and Zintz encouraged the woman to accept it. She declined, and reported...

Now that pro-abortion Democrats have taken over all the statewide offices in Texas and the Texas state House, they’re on the warpath to legalize abortions. Only the Republican-controlled Texas Senate can stop them. Texas Democrats filed multiple bills this week seeking to repeal or weaken the state’s abortion ban, which protects the lives of unborn children and their mothers. State Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, introduced House Bill 126, which would repeal Texas’ three abortion bans: the 2022 trigger law prohibiting abortion from fertilization until birth, the 2021 Heartbeat Bill (SB 8) banning abortion when an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detected,...

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley on Monday blamed Republican election losses on his party abandoning working Americans, criticizing cuts to Medicaid that he voted to approve last year. The Missouri Republican also called for what he described as a “historic response” to last week’s election: a one-hour gathering for fasting and prayer at the U.S. Capitol next month. Hawley’s comments came as Democrats prepared to take control of both chambers of Congress and Senate Republicans confronted growing pressure to reconsider their leadership and legislative priorities. “When you abandon pro-lifers, when you abandon the needy, when you abandon the poor, when you...

The state of Texas has aggressively fought to uphold the integrity of its abortion ban in court by ensuring that abortionists and abortion companies in other states don’t flood Texas with illegal abortion pills. Thanks to the Tuesday mid-term election, Texas will be flooded with the dangerous abortion drugs that kill babies and injure thousands of women. Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson said he will no longer pursue lawsuits against out-of-state abortionists who mail chemical abortion drugs into the state, a shift that pro-life leaders warn will allow abortion pills to flood Texas unchecked. Johnson, a Democrat who won election...

Exit poll data from tens of thousands of voters allow analysts to investigate narratives surrounding the 2026 election with empirical data. For example, was the Republican collapse due in part to a loss of support from evangelicals? The answer is both no and yes. On one hand, evangelicals supported Republicans at a rate similar to previous elections. According to the 2026 exit polls, 82% of voters who self-identified as “white evangelical or born-again Christian” voted Republican. That compares to 82% in 2024, 83% in 2022, 76% in 2020, 75% in 2018, and 81% in 2016. Even before that, 78% of...

A Massachusetts law allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy is in effect as of Sunday, November 8, after an emergency filing by Democrat Governor Maura Healey prevented the law from being suspended as more than 113,000 residents called for its repeal, well over twice the number needed to put repeal on the ballot in 2028. The law allows elective abortion through all nine months for any reason based on the “professional judgment” of an abortionist and forbids any external medical review from overriding it, making the Bay State the latest of a dozen U.S. states to legalize abortion on...

Today, U.S. Representative Sheri Biggs (R-SC) introduced the “Don’t Flush Babies Act” in Congress, a bill that would require a “do not flush” warning label on chemical abortion pill packaging. Liberty Counsel Action worked closely with Rep. Biggs’ office to draft the bill. The bill is a response to the approximate 700,000 chemical abortions happening at home annually where human fetal remains, biohazardous medical waste, and active pharmaceutical compounds are being flushed down the toilet into municipal water systems that are not designed to filter out such contaminants. “Every year, women are traumatized by seeing the remains of their aborted...

A woman is facing felony and misdemeanor charges after she allegedly posted about wanting to kick a pro-life display booth at Miami University, in Ohio. Key Takeaways: * Nineteen-year-old Alexandra Patterson was arrested and charged after she allegedly posted a threat against Miami University pro-life students to a social messaging app. * In the message, she suggested that either dining dollars would be available to anyone who would 'kirk' a pro-life student table or that she herself was willing to 'kirk' the table in exchange for dining dollars. * The post was a reference to the September 2025 assassination or...

Eight people were arrested and 43 women from West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and other States were rescued during simultaneous raids at four premises in Hyderabad as police busted an alleged illegal human egg harvesting and commercial sale racket involving recruitment, transportation and accommodation of women for oocyte donation procedures. The raids were conducted by Begumpet and Saroornagar police along with the Special Operations Team of the Malkajgiri Commissionerate at premises in Prakash Nagar, Begumpet, Erragadda, Saroornagar and Gopalapuram. Police seized documents, mobile phones and other material, while the identities, recruitment circumstances and medical histories of the rescued women are...

Singer Harry Styles has been dubbed a 'Planned Parenthood champion' for his recent invitation to have Planned Parenthood affiliates distribute condoms and abortion information during each show of his 30-night residency at New York City's Madison Square Garden as part of his "Together, Together" Tour. Key Takeaways: * Harry Styles has been dubbed a 'Planned Parenthood champion'. * As part of his "Together, Together" residency at Madison Square Garden, he invited Planned Parenthood to set up tables to hand out Planned Parenthood condoms and abortion information. * Styles' lifestyle brand Pleasing also collaborated with Planned Parenthood to distribute "I'm with...

The November 3 midterm elections largely devastated conservatives, as a blue wave rolled over the country, seizing Republican strongholds. The performance of the pro-choice party subset proved no exception. Pro-choice incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) lost reelection to Democrat Troy Jackson in a hotly contested race. Pro-choice Republican candidate Michelle Tafoya also lost her Senate race in Minnesota to Democrat Peggy Flanagan. Republican Mike Rogers was defeated by radical Muslim Abdul El-Sayed (D) in the race for the Michigan U.S. Senate seat after Rogers made a controversial commitment not to fight the state’s liberal abortion law. “The people of Michigan...

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth mother is facing a capital murder charge after police say she drowned her newborn baby in a motel bathtub before her boyfriend threw the body in a dumpster. What we know: Avia Cantrell, 23, and Camron Baker, 26, are now facing charges after a baby was found dead in a Fort Worth dumpster in the 7300 block of Camp Bowie Boulevard. According to court documents, Cantrell admitted to police that she delivered a baby girl at the Drummers Inn in Fort Worth last week. Police say Cantrell admitted to drowning the infant and...

It’s now legal to kill babies up to birth in Massachusetts. Gov. Maura Healey on Friday used an emergency preamble to put into effect a law that permits abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy based solely on an abortionist wanting to sell an abortion that kills a baby up to birth. Her decision overrides a citizen petition that gathered more than 113,000 signatures to suspend and potentially repeal the measure. The filing came just two days before Chapter 188 of the Acts of 2026 was scheduled to take effect on Nov. 8. By declaring the law an emergency, Healey blocks...