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Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins has said officials at the Catholic Gonzaga University shut down her attempts to dialogue with a group of pro-abortion “reproductive justice” advocates that gathered to protest her visit to the campus. “I was banned from tabling. The administration prevented students from coming inside to ask questions. ‘Catholic’ student protestors demanded the Church bend to abortion,” Hawkins said. “This indoctrination is happening on college campuses across America, including at ‘Catholic’ schools. Let’s be clear: you cannot be Catholic and support abortion. The backlash I faced here is in direct contradiction to the Church.”...

An Alabama woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after pleading guilty to capital murder for placing her newborn son in a dumpster. She threw him into the trash compactor because, as she told investigators, having a baby “cost too much money.” Houston County Circuit Judge Henry D. Binford on Monday sentenced Jakayla Ashanti Williams, 21, to life without the possibility of parole. Williams accepted a last-minute plea deal moments before jury selection, avoiding the death penalty prosecutors had sought. Williams was 18 in August 2023 when she secretly gave birth to a baby boy at her...

Earlier this week, as I sat in a waiting room and scrolled on my phone, the algorithm attacked. There on my screen was an ad from the so-called Catholics for Free Choice asking me to purchase a training class on how to spot “fake clinics.” They were referencing pregnancy resource centers. And for a fee, they were willing to teach me how to hunt them down. Clearly, Catholics for Choice (CFC) has a new target, and for once, it’s not the bishops. They are now targeting the women sitting in a waiting room with a positive test and no idea...

The BMA’s [British Medical Association’s] new VSED (Voluntary Stop Eating and Drinking) guidance is not a British story. Canada ran this experiment years ago, and we already know how it ends. Every time one of these documents lands, the same thing happens. A medical body publishes something careful and administrative, the language is so smooth you could skate on it, and the people who object are told they’ve misread it. Nobody is being killed. Nobody is being pushed. This is only guidance, only clarification, only doctors being given the information they need to care for their patients well. I have...

A Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit Against Amazon Four women have filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the corporation of refusing them accommodations while they were pregnant. The women are suing under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which forbids businesses that employ 15 or more workers from denying reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees. The women are being represented by the nonprofit A Better Balance and the law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel. A Better Balance was the chief organization advocating for the passage of the PWFA. The group drew attention to the widespread problem of pregnant...

235 to zero. This is the disparity in Gov. Josh Shapiro’s public messaging on X between abortion and adoption since he took the governor’s office. In a review of the @GovernorShapiro X account, since he became governor (and to the date of this article’s publishing), Josh Shapiro has mentioned abortion 128 times and used an abortion euphemism another 107 times. In total, the number of mentions by Governor Shapiro of abortion or abortion euphemisms on X: 235 What about mentions of adoption? Zero. Foster care? Zero. Not once has Governor Josh Shapiro posted about adoption or foster care on X....

Sisters Alicia and Christie Duncan were originally only granted 48 hours notice that their mother was going to be euthanised. It was Sunday, October 24, 2021, when 61-year-old Donna confessed to her family that she had been approved for Canada’s assisted-dying programme, officially known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Her death was scheduled for the following Tuesday - expedited due to her having qualified for Canada's streamlined 'Track 1' pathway, reserved for individuals whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable. But Donna was not terminally ill, according to her daughters, who insist she was in the midst of a spiralling...

Above and beyond the truism that the Abortion Industry opposes anything pro-lifers propose, why are they so dead set against informing women they have a good chance of reversing their chemical abortions if they change their minds early enough and do not take the second of two drugs? Here are three (of many) possibilities. #1. It’s reflexive. If you believe (as abortionists and their media colleagues fervently do) that virtually no woman could ever regret her abortion mid-stream (so to speak), then why bother adding this information to the state’s informed consent language? But if you take the time to...

The doctor who performed the Netherlands’ first case of euthanasia on a child under 12 did so with due care, the supervising committee concluded after investigating. The patient, a child of nearly 2 years who suffered from several severe medical conditions, died at the end of 2025. This child was born very prematurely, at only 26 weeks of gestation. It quickly became apparent that the child had suffered severe brain damage, resulting in severe cerebral palsy and a visual impairment. This was compounded by frequent and severe epileptic seizures, which were largely unresponsive to medication. This left the child restless...

Women in Georgia have had to navigate the state’s six week abortion ban for the past few years, but lawyers and advocates say a lawsuit coming out of another Southern state could further restrict access. On Sept. 9 oral arguments began for Louisiana v. the U.S Food and Drug Administration, a suit over telehealth and mail delivery access to the abortion pill mifepristone. In 2020, the FDA began allowing mifepristone to be prescribed through telehealth and delivered to patients in the mail. Previously, the medication was only allowed to be dispensed in-person in a medical facility. In 2023 the agency...

As construction advances on New Mexico’s first $10 million forced taxpayer-funded abortion killing center in Las Cruces, NM, the New Mexico Alliance for Life (NMAFL) confirms that pro-abortion administrators at the University of New Mexico (UNM), in partnership with state officials, are targeting Las Vegas, NM as the site for the second state-funded abortion killing center. The information comes directly from Christopher Arndt, M.D., Interim President and CEO of the UNM Health Sciences Center, during a 2026 University of New Mexico Board of Regents meeting earlier this year. Discussing the state’s plans for a second facility, Arndt said: “And we...

This Wednesday, ProPublica ran an article blaming recently enacted pro-life laws for an increase in ectopic pregnancy deaths. They claim that the ectopic pregnancy death rate has more than doubled since 2014. Additionally, the article provides data which purportedly shows a greater ectopic pregnancy death rate increase in states with strict abortion bans. This article received a large amount of online attention. It was reposted by CNN and has been covered by a number of news outlets including Medical Daily and Scripps Howard. Not surprisingly, there is much less here than meets the eye. First the CDC does not publicly...

MADISON, Wis. (CN) – Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin sued the Medical Examining Board and statewide district attorneys, challenging the constitutionality of two abortion statutes. “Freedom means being able to make the decisions that shape our lives and futures,” said Tanya Atkinson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. “No politician should have the power to make a deeply personal pregnancy decision for someone else. Wisconsin’s Constitution promises liberty to all of us, and this case asks our courts to protect that promise.” The Guttmacher Institute, a leading research and policy institute, classifies Wisconsin as a restrictive state for abortion...

SAN DIEGO (CN) — San Diego can keep an ordinance blocking leafletting in public spaces near schools, despite an anti-abortion protester who said the restriction was unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel found Friday the ordinance was narrowly tailored and did not prevent demonstrators like Don Blythe from communicating their message. “The city enacted this ordinance in an extraordinarily polarized political environment, wherein issues impacting students are subject to immense and impassioned public debate, protest, and opposition," Curiel, a Barack Obama appointee, wrote. “The court cannot ignore this evolving societal context and finds that it lends support to the city’s...

ROME — Emma Bonino, who rose to political prominence as a leader of campaigns by the Radical Party that legalized abortion and divorce in the 1970s in heavily Roman Catholic Italy against the objections of the Vatican, has died. She was 78. Her party of recent years, +Europa, announced her death. “Her life was a long struggle against everything that denies freedom: against clandestine abortion, world hunger, the stranglehold of party politics, female genital mutilation, punitive justice, genocide, and every form of authoritarianism,” the party said. Italy’s conservative prime minister Giorgia Meloni paid tribute to Bonino, saying their different backgrounds...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A Toledo-area doctor who was placed on administrative leave from his position as a surgical resident at the University of Toledo Medical Center was sentenced Friday to six months at CCNO and two years of probation. Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Joe McNamara sentenced 32-year-old Hassan-James Abbas to six months at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio and two years of probation. Abbas pleaded no contest in May to four felony charges: • Disrupting public services • Unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug • Identity fraud • Deception to obtain a dangerous drug A no-contest plea is...

I was in New York in the spring of 2002, as I often was then, representing National Right to Life as a registered NGO at the United Nations. On a day off from fighting the death cult at the UN, a group of us went down to Ground Zero. The ruins, the destruction, the death- it was overwhelming. I’m glad I went, but I did not go back for another 21 years. I had friends visiting in New York in the Fall of 2023, and one of their must-sees was, of course, a visit to Ground Zero. I went for...

Henry Hyde had the rare gift of making a grave argument without becoming a grave man. He could thunder on the House floor and charm a room with humor. When Congressman Hyde spoke about unborn children, he did it with a tenderness that never sounded rehearsed. He was brilliant, warm, funny, stubborn when he needed to be, and absolutely clear about why he had come to Washington. He came to defend life. As we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his Hyde Amendment, the proper tribute is not praise alone, but a clear account of the man who forced...

A landmark legal battle to determine whether Jewish women have a religious right to an abortion entered a critical new stage in Indiana. The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in a case that began with a local Jewish group’s 2022 religious freedom challenge to Indiana’s near-total abortion ban. The state is appealing a permanent blocking of the ban that a lower court imposed in March. The arguments, held in Indianapolis, explored a legal theory that the state’s abortion ban impedes Jews’ religious freedom because many interpretations of Jewish law prioritize the life of the mother over that...

When I talk about post-viability abortions, a lot of pro-choice people claim those only happen for medical emergencies, meaning either the woman’s life is in danger or the fetus has some kind of fatal genetic abnormality. This is a myth, a pleasant fiction to help pro-choice people be comfortable with their stance. The reality is that there are multiple places in the country where people can get abortions at any stage of pregnancy for any reason. We have plenty of evidence to show that they will get abortions after viability on healthy fetuses carried by healthy women for no medical...