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When Chasity Congious went into labor for the first time, there were no doctors or nurses. No clean blankets to swaddle the coming baby. There were no family members, no friends. Congious wasn’t even in a hospital. She was alone in a jail cell. Four months earlier, she suffered a mental health crisis and her mother called 911 for help. Instead, police arrested the 21-year-old. Now, the contractions were getting stronger, with no way to ease the soaring pain. Bleeding, she said, she pressed the emergency intercom button, but no one came. She tried to get up from the thin,...

HOBBS, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — The New Mexico Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions of Alexis Avila, the woman who was convicted after abandoning her newborn by putting the baby into a trash container in 2022 in Hobbs, New Mexico. Attorney General Raúl Torrez issued the following statement: We are pleased that the New Mexico Court of Appeals upheld justice and reaffirmed the conviction against Ms. Avila for throwing her newborn baby in a dumpster,” said Attorney General Raúl Torrez. “My office, alongside District Attorney Dianna Luce, prosecuted this case and we are extremely fortunate that the child survived this horrific...

CANARSIE, Brooklyn (WABC) -- An investigation is underway after the remains of fetus were found in a black bag in a pile of leaves in Brooklyn on Thursday. Police are estimating the baby boy was pretty far along, about five to seven months into the gestational period. The remains were discovered around 11 a.m. Thursday between two buildings in the Bay View Houses on 102nd Street. Police sources say it was a NYCHA worker out on the grounds, cleaning up trash and leaves, that made the disturbing discovery of the fetus discarded in a garbage bag. "I saw the whole...

A woman in South Carolina has been charged with attempted murder and child endangerment for allegedly leaving her baby to die after a chemical abortion using misoprostol failed to end the infant's life in the early third trimester. Key Takeaways: * Twenty-year-old Jocelyn Byrum gave birth to a baby at 27 weeks after taking misoprostol. * Byrum's baby was born alive, and police discovered she did not call for help or offer any assistance to the premature infant. * The federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act protects babies born alive after an attempted abortion, ensuring they are legally viewed as...

A mother who felt pressured by her husband to take the abortion pill at nine weeks into her pregnancy says a Las Vegas pregnancy center helped save her child's life after she experienced regret. During a press call on Monday, nurse Jessica Williams said she was preparing to divorce her husband in 2022 during a period she described as "one of the hardest seasons of [her] life." While she and her husband were separated, Williams met another man and became pregnant with his child. Williams said her husband demanded that she have an abortion so they could attempt to reconcile...

President Donald Trump and his administration are preparing to officially classify state-funded abortion, gender transition procedures for minors, and a host of other left-wing policies as human rights violations. In its next annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. State Department will update what qualifies as a human rights violation, according to The Daily Signal. State Department officials will now record other nations’ gender transition procedures for children, government-funded abortions or abortion drugs and the annual number of abortions committed, arrests or “official investigations or warnings” targeting free speech or laws targeting “hate speech,” affirmative actions and diversity...

Twenty-nine Republican lawmakers have backed a bill introduced Thursday morning to end taxpayer-funded abortion travel for illegal immigrants. Led by Reps. Mark Harris (R-N.C.) and Mary Miller (R-Ill.), the legislation builds on efforts dating back to the first Trump administration, when policies were enacted to block unaccompanied minors in federal custody from accessing abortions. However, a press release from the sponsors highlights how the issue continued into the Biden era. In 2021, the administration rolled out the Unaccompanied Children Program Foundation Rule, which mandated that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) provide “access to medical care, including transportation across state...

A pro-life advocate has sued a woman who physically and verbally assaulted her while she was having conversations about abortion on the streets of New York City. The lawsuit comes after Manhattan’s district attorney failed to prosecute the attacker. According to the complaint, Savannah Craven Antao was discussing pro-life issues with passersby and recording interviews with them in Harlem April 3 when Brianna Rivers approached her and held a conversation for about 20 minutes. The complaint alleges that when Antao brought up a point that Rivers had made earlier in their conversation, Rivers suddenly punched Antao in the face twice—...

In a pro-life win for children and families, Prince Albert II has rejected a proposed bill that would have legalized ending a pre-born child’s life on demand up to 12 weeks while expanding existing exceptions. The decision, delivered ahead of Monaco’s National Day, halts the bill because the prince holds final constitutional authority over legislation, according to the Monaco Tribune. Under the current law, updated in 2019, abortion in Monaco remains illegal in nearly all circumstances. Exceptions are cases posing a serious risk to the mother’s life or health, fetal conditions deemed “incompatible with life,” or pregnancies resulting from rape...

The North Dakota Supreme Court on Friday restored a near-total ban on abortions, delivering a major victory for pro-life advocates who hailed the decision as a critical step in safeguarding unborn children across the state. In a 3-2 ruling, the high court found that the state’s pro-life law banning abortions, enacted by the Legislature in 2023, remains constitutional, rejecting a lower court’s earlier decision to strike down the law. The measure, Senate Bill 2150, classifies killing a baby in an abortion as a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Exceptions are permitted only...

New Mexico has rapidly become a national hub for out-of-state abortions. This trend is not driven by local demand, but by an expanding network of wealthy donors, Hollywood celebrities, and billionaire-backed foundations that are actively financing travel, lodging, and abortion procedures for women—primarily from Texas and other states with protective pro-life laws. Through large charitable gifts, public fundraising campaigns, and entertainment-driven activism, these high-profile figures are fueling a pipeline that moves women across state lines into New Mexico abortion facilities. Their financial support empowers national abortion funds that specialize in arranging flights, hotels, rideshares, meals, childcare, and multi-state logistics for...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a staunch pro-life advocate known for leading investigations into the Biden administration’s aggressive imprisonment of peaceful pro-life advocates, revealed Thursday that former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department secretly subpoenaed his phone records over a 28-month period. The subpoena, part of the Justice Department’s Arctic Frost investigation, targeted Jordan’s “call detail records” from Verizon, covering calls, text messages, voicemails and location data dating back to January 1, 2020. The federal grand jury request was issued on April 25, 2022, and was accompanied by a nondisclosure order signed by Magistrate Judge David A. Baker that barred...

Leftist ideology is so patently sick and wrong that recruitment focuses on children too young to have developed a sense of moral revulsion. The idea is that attitudes implanted in defenseless minds at a very early age can lead to a lifetime of voting for Democrats. That’s why the liberal anti-sacrament of abortion is promoted via books aimed at children as young as 5 years: Amelia Bonow, the abortion activist most well-known for creating the “Shout Your Abortion” social media movement, has published a children’s book about abortion… The book is entitled Abortion Is Everything. Marketed toward children from ages...

Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that “abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas” in response to a ProPublica report published Wednesday. Clinton’s comments came in a Wednesday post on the social platform X, which included a link to ProPublica’s story. According to the outlet, a 37-year-old woman named Tierra Walker had been dealing with health issues during her pregnancy. She faced increasing blood pressure and diabetes and was aware she faced a raised chance of potentially fatal pregnancy complication, according to ProPublica. In mid-October of last year, Walker decided it was necessary to request...

New research shows that national abortion funds, Texas-based nonprofits, and affiliated organizations are dramatically expanding their travel, lodging, and logistical grants to bring out-of-state abortion seekers into New Mexico, raising significant concerns among Abortion Free New Mexico leaders about the state becoming a national hub for abortion-on-demand. Out-of-State Abortion Surge Continues More than 14,000 Texans traveled to New Mexico in 2023 to obtain abortions, and an estimated 71% of all abortions in the state are now performed on women who do not live in New Mexico. This massive influx has transformed the state into what Abortion Free New Mexico leaders...

Singer Stevie Nicks has previously admitted to having at least one abortion, saying she would not have had her successful musical career without it. But though her story is being hailed as one of career success, it might also be seen as a cautionary tale: so-called "protected" sex outside the confines of marriage can lead to destruction and tragedy. Key Takeaways: * Stevie Nicks has admitted to having at least one abortion and possibly as many as four. * She said Fleetwood Mac would not have existed if she hadn't chosen to end her preborn children's lives. * The Center...

Press release – Calls for Scottish Government to reject extreme abortion up to birth plans 14 November 2025 – A review of abortion law in Scotland commissioned by the Scottish Government, and undertaken by a group chaired by a former trustee of the UK’s largest abortion provider, has recommended that Scotland scrap the 24-week time limit and allow abortions on social grounds, including for sex-selective purposes, right up to birth. In Scotland, 98% of the 18,710 abortions performed in 2024 were done so under section 1(1)(a) of the Abortion Act, which is interpreted by abortion providers to allow abortions to...

First Lady Melania Trump is spearheading a “Fostering the Future” initiative to reform and improve our foster care system. Yesterday, at the White House, the president signed an executive order to increase resources and investment for children in the system and those “aging out.” That’s good for these kids. Trumps’ executive order did something else, too. Democrat-controlled states are refusing to allow parents to foster children unless the parents agree to affirm the child’s gender identity, seek hormone treatment and deforming surgeries for the “trans” child, etc. The parents are told they cannot talk to the child about religious views...

Microsoft has agreed to end its discriminatory practices against pro-life and conservative faith-based organizations The computer business reportedly discriminated against pro-life groups by refusing them proper discounts on software that every other customer qualified received. Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life conservative legal group said that Microsoft had applied a litmus test to deny discounts to nonprofits holding traditional religious views on life and sexuality. Alliance Defending Freedom alleged that Microsoft withheld discounts from the group itself, as well as from pro-life pregnancy resource centers and other nonprofits that decline to hire LGBTQ individuals for religious reasons. Investors backed by ADF...

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...