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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed described a pregnant mother as “simply a carrying vehicle for a fetus that has not ever breathed air.” The comment came when a pro-life student asked him, at a Western Michigan University town hall, why she should vote for him. The exchange came at a “Students vs. Billionaires” event on the Kalamazoo campus. El-Sayed did not use the word “woman.” He called the pregnant mom “an adult, or sometimes even a juvenile human.” “I respect your position insofar as it’s founded in the idea that you want to protect and empower life,” El-Sayed told...

Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood heavyweight who was a longtime supporter of the abortion industry, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sex crimes. Key Takeaways: * Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has faced numerous charges of rape and sexual assault in multiple states, giving rise to the #MeToo movement. * He was convicted of committing a first-degree criminal sexual act in New York against production assistant Miriam Haley, though this conviction was later overturned. * Weinstein was again found guilty, and sentenced to 15 years in prison in New York, though there are other legal battles continuing in...

Gov. Kathy Hochul was one of a handful of Democratic governors to stockpile pills used in medication abortion amid fears the U.S. Supreme Court could restrict access three years ago. But a feared shortage of the drug never materialized. Now, 150,000 pills in the state’s possession have all expired — and not a single one was distributed. The state Department of Health says it will soon destroy its reserve of misoprostol pills, which is enough for 12,500 doses. That’s in contrast to California, which took steps to distribute its supply to providers, and Oregon, which reupped its stock at no...

Female Rage Hot Sauce’s second “Hot Dogs for Abortions” fundraiser of the summer brought hundreds of supporters together to raise money for the D.C. Abortion Fund, channeling their anger over reproductive rights into advocacy. The fundraiser, held at Dew Drop Inn on Sept. 17, is the latest iteration of an event that began as a backyard party following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What started with friends grilling hot dogs and donating at the door has since grown into a recurring fundraiser for abortion funds, raising thousands of dollars along the way. “After the Dobbs case...

MILWAUKEE - Abortion hasn't been a major focus in the race for Wisconsin governor, but with just four weeks to go, Democrat David Crowley is making a new push. Constitutional amendment? What they're saying: Crowley announced he backs a push to amend the Wisconsin Constitution to make abortion a constitutional right. "I'm also a girl dad times three, and so this isn't just a policy debate for me. It's personal. You know, when I look at my three daughters, I think about the Wisconsin I want them to grow up in, a Wisconsin where they have the same rights to...

Archbishop George Leo Thomas is urging Catholics to vote no on Nevada Question 6, warning that the measure would allow abortion into the ninth month and take parents out of a minor’s decision. From the pulpit Sunday, the Archdiocese of Las Vegas asked Catholics across five counties to reject the ballot question, which would write abortion into the state constitution. Abortion is already legal in Nevada but this would expand it in the extreme. Thomas’ pastoral letter was read at Mass in the archdiocese’s 34 parishes. “This question is not whether abortion is legal in Nevada; it already is under...

Sometimes, it takes five years for the U.S. federal government to even begin to correct a miscarriage of justice. On October 4, 2021, then-U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued an infamous memo vowing to commit federal resources to investigate, as domestic terrorists, concerned parents over constitutionally protected speech against local school board policies. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Weaponization Working Group finally published a scathing report on the “Garland Memo,” along with proposed steps to provide justice for the parents whose constitutional rights were so egregiously ignored. Over the past five years, independent and congressional investigations revealed...

KPRC 2 News is using pseudonyms in this story to avoid inadvertently identifying survivors of sexual abuse HUMBLE, Texas – A Humble mother allegedly used her teenage daughter as a surrogate through repeated sexual abuse, then later participated in the alleged sexual assault of another daughter, according to Harris County court records. Because the allegations involve sexual abuse survivors, KPRC 2 News is not using the real names of anyone involved. The names used in this story are pseudonyms. The mother, identified here as “Maria,” is charged with trafficking a child or disabled individual and continuous sexual abuse of a...

White House officials have denied a report that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles pressed Attorney General Todd Blanche to hold off on abortion-related Justice Department actions until after the 2026 midterm elections. Pro-life leaders said any such delay would leave unborn children on a political calendar while abortion pills continue to end their lives every day. Click here to sign up for pro-life news alerts from LifeNews.com The Washington Sun reported Oct. 2 that senior White House officials, led by Wiles, told Blanche in a series of discussions to move slowly on abortion-related actions before November. A senior administration official,...

Newly released public records obtained by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) reveal that the fetal organ-harvesting company Cercle Allocation Services billed a UCLA research laboratory $765 each for individual fetal body parts harvested from late-term abortion facilities. Peer-reviewed research confirms that Cercle, which has previously harvested organs under the name Advanced Bioscience Research (ABR), has been a source of human fetal tissue for researchers. ABR and its partners at Planned Parenthood were the subject of Congressional criminal referrals in 2016 prompted by CMP’s undercover video reporting in 2015 by David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt who exposed Planned Parenthood’s aborted...

Let's check in on our "devout Catholic" former president, and see how well he's Catholic-ing today. Last week at a gala in Delaware, Biden spoke (mumbled) for 20 minutes, telling the abortion fanatics that this is "no time to give up" in the fight to kill as many babies in the womb as possible. Biden delivered remarks at Planned Parenthood of Delaware's 22nd Annual Chocolate & Champagne Gala in Claymont, Delaware, on Thursday. Before the former president spoke, former first lady Jill Biden presented her husband with the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award.According to a Facebook post by Delaware Planned...

Since 1987, followers of Jesus have gathered in public witness on the first Sunday of October, in prayerful repentance over the sin of abortion in our cities and in the Church. FIND A CHAIN Search for a local Life Chain near you and join them to stand in prayer this fall. (On link)

At National Right to Life News Today, we post article after article, story after story about the invidious “abortion pill,” alternatively labeled “chemical abortion,” or the preferred [to the Abortion Industry] “medication abortion.” Whatever it’s called, it is lethal to the developing unborn child and incredibly painful to the mother, even deadly. Naturally, Planned Parenthood stands at the front of the line, proudly announcing this “service” to abortion-prone women. I remember once writing about how I’d run across a tribute–although tribute is understating the gratitude–to Planned Parenthood: ”Biggest thank you ever to Planned Parenthood–my abortion.” The young woman tells us...

Planned Parenthood’s largest affiliate has begun selling Botox and other beauty treatments at its centers that also kill babies in abortions, saying revenue shortfalls left it short of the money it needs to stay open. At least four Planned Parenthood Mar Monte locations in California — including sites in Sacramento, Stockton and nearby towns — now sell Botox injections alongside abortion, birth control and dangerous trans hormones. The Mar Monte affiliate of the Planned Parenthood abortion business oversees 30 centers in mid-California and Nevada. The affiliate said Medicaid reimbursement for its other business does not provide enough money for the...

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A mother was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection to the death of her baby, who was found in a dumpster in South Los Angeles, authorities said. The baby was discovered around 10:30 p.m. Monday outside the Pueblo Del Rio housing project near Alba Street and Long Beach Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Authorities added the baby had been left within the last 24 hours. Responding firefighters took the baby girl, who was 4 months old, to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. Her death is being investigated as a...

Abortion has hit America's boardrooms, the newest fight being heard by officials with FedEx, who were warned by their own shareholders of the liability they assume when they ship the chemicals used in the chemical abortion industry. A report at the Daily Wire said shareholders have urged the corporation "to investigate the use of its services to mail the abortion pill." The resolution points that the shipping corporation faces possible legal and reputational risks if activists use its services to ship abortion pills. The use of chemicals to destroy the unborn across America has exploded since the Roe v. Wade...

Today, September 28, the international pro-abortion movement and abortion profiteers will celebrate abortion. They call it International Safe Abortion Day, and the celebrations stretch around the world. Activists march in Quito, Dublin, Paris, Mexico City, and Brussels. They turn buildings green, fountains run in emerald hues, and even Geneva’s Jet d’Eau is green. The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights counts “85 countries” and “400 actions.” This year’s slogan is Solidarity in Action: Advance Reproductive Justice and Urgently Strengthen Health Systems for Comprehensive Abortion Care. Good grief. It reads less like something anyone would actually chant in the street and...

Few things make me happier than seeing phony Catholic left-wing front groups that I have been battling for years go under. I fought Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good—I debated them and discredited them—and they no longer exist. I fought Faith in Public Life for a long time, and its obituary is now official. I know I will be criticized for gloating. My critics are right—I am over the moon. We knew last year when Faith in Public Life laid off 90 percent of its staff—they went from 19 employees to two in August 2025—that they...

In an unprecedented legal action, an aborted baby won a wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the abortionist who killed him or her. The estate of a 26-week-old aborted child has collected $200,000 in a New Mexico wrongful-death settlement, in what attorneys on the case call the first payout of its kind to an aborted baby treated as a person under state law. The case, Wabbington v. Boyd, was settled and dismissed with prejudice on Sept. 14. The defendants were late-term abortionist Curtis Wayne Boyd, who then operated as Southwestern Women’s Options; Emily Cohen; and the late Carmen Landau. The complaint...

A medical watchdog group is asking the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate Planned Parenthood’s medical coding practices, which they say could point to fraud. Do No Harm says Planned Parenthood affiliates may have used improper billing codes when prescribing cross-sex hormones to gender-confused young people, according to a new investigation. “Planned Parenthood affiliates may be deliberately miscoding services to mask their true purpose and to facilitate the improper reimbursement of cross-sex hormone treatments,” Do No Harm wrote in a letter to HHS Inspector General Thomas Bell that was exclusively reviewed by The Daily Wire. The watchdog group...