President Trump signed the law yanking taxpayer money from NPR and PBS in July 2025. In Richmond, a public broadcaster that lost $1.3 million in that cut has proved him right.
Joe Biden backed the Hyde Amendment for four decades, then dumped it in 2019 to please the abortion lobby. On September 30, 2026, the one-sentence rule Biden abandoned turned 50 years...
Abby Johnson ran a Texas Planned Parenthood until the people praying outside her fence won her over. Twenty-two years later, that same prayer campaign is back outside Planned Parenthood, and the...
Twenty armed federal agents raided the Pennsylvania home of pro-life father Mark Houck. The federal FACE Act was the weapon, and California has a FACE Act of its own.
Elizabeth Warren went on television and demanded that pro-life pregnancy centers be shut down across America. In Mayfield, Kentucky, one of those centers has now been open for 30 years.
A Planned Parenthood doctor was caught on hidden camera haggling over baby parts and joking about a Lamborghini. Eleven years later, 128 Republicans in Congress have asked a federal watchdog to...
Kathy Hochul flatly refused to send an indicted New York abortion doctor to stand trial in Louisiana. Now Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have taken that refusal somewhere Hochul cannot simply ignore.
Costco refused to stock the abortion pill in its more than 500 pharmacies after faith-based investors pushed back. Now pro-life shareholders have taken that same fight to FedEx, and they came...
Planned Parenthood's Deborah Nucatola sipped wine over lunch and explained how to crush a baby without damaging the liver. That supply chain still runs, and new purchase orders show a taxpayer-funded...
Canada's Veterans Affairs offered a disabled Paralympian assisted suicide when she asked for a wheelchair lift. Now an American Air Force veteran fighting stage four cancer says Canada had a message...
A health care agenda presented to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries by a working group led by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Terri Sewell includes a bill, H.R.
The impact of safe haven laws in the United States, highlighting a case in Idaho where a baby was found abandoned in a dumpster, which led to the creation of such a law that allows mothers to safely surrender their newborns. It contrasts this with the high number of abortions reported by Planned Parenthood and emphasizes the need for greater awareness of safe haven laws to prevent infant abandonment and promote adoption as an alternative.
In 2000, Idaho reporter Suzanne Hobbs covered a story about a newborn baby found abandoned in a dumpster, which led her to advocate for and help pass Idaho's Safe Haven law in 2001. Years later, the law enabled Hobbs and her husband to adopt a baby girl surrendered under the law, illustrating the impact of safe haven laws in providing alternatives to infant abandonment and abortion.
A baby boy named Adonis was born prematurely at 24 weeks and five days at North Memorial Health in Minnesota, weighing 1 pound, 8 ounces, and survived 334 days in the NICU despite battling MRSA and pneumonia. Minnesota's 2023 abortion law signed by Governor Tim Walz allows abortion through all nine months of pregnancy without restrictions, meaning babies like Adonis have no legal protection from abortion, and efforts to restore protections for infants born alive after abortion attempts have failed in the state legislature.
Haile McAnally, a Nebraska woman, took the abortion pill as directed but experienced uncontrollable bleeding that led to unconsciousness and a hospital blood transfusion. After surviving the incident, she became a pro-life advocate, traveling to Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to regulate mail-order abortion pills and highlighted studies showing serious adverse events occur in over 10% of abortion pill cases.
Michael Bloomberg contributed $250,000 to support Idaho's Proposition 1, a pro-abortion measure that would legalize abortion through the eighth month of pregnancy and protect providers from liability, while the largest donation of $650,000 came from Government That Works PAC, a group with hidden donors linked to George Soros and Hansjörg Wyss. Idaho voters will decide on Prop 1 on November 3, with early voting having started on October 13, amid concerns from pro-life advocates about the influence of out-of-state billionaire funding on the state's abortion laws.
Anastasia Rogers, a pro-life activist in San Francisco, was charged under California's FACE Act for posting a 14-second Instagram video outside a Planned Parenthood clinic, which prosecutors claimed was intimidating. After a trial resulted in a mistrial with most jurors rejecting the intimidation claims, the charges were eventually dismissed following public pressure and Rogers entering a diversion program with no guilty plea or admission of wrongdoing.
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 2164, which would have prevented future governors from honoring extradition requests for abortion providers charged in other states, despite the bill passing both legislative chambers with significant support. Newsom previously refused to extradite Dr.
In 2020, a 26-week-old viable fetus was aborted at Curtis Boyd's Southwestern Women's Options clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, leading to a wrongful death lawsuit settled for $200,000, marking the first time an abortionist was sued for wrongful death of a baby in the state. The lawsuit argued the mother, who was on methamphetamine, could not give valid informed consent, and New Mexico law recognizes viable unborn babies as persons under the Wrongful Death Act, despite the state's permissive abortion laws.
Joe Biden received the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award from Planned Parenthood of Delaware in 2026 and credited Sloan for his political career, stating he would not have become senator or president without her support. During the event, Biden highlighted his executive actions to protect access to reproductive health care following the Dobbs decision, while Planned Parenthood reported record abortion numbers and substantial government funding during his presidency.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Heartbeat International and RealOptions pregnancy centers for promoting abortion pill reversal, seeking over $20 million in penalties and a court order to ban claims that the treatment is safe and effective. During the six-week trial, the state's lead expert witness could not definitively say that abortion pill reversal is ineffective or unsafe, and no evidence of harm from the treatment was presented, while defense witnesses testified to successful outcomes and thousands of lives saved.
Maleah Durand, born in Iowa under the Safe Haven law and named Sara Haven, was surrendered by her birth mother at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center and later adopted by Ed and Patty Durand. She expresses gratitude toward her birth mother and encourages other mothers facing similar decisions to know that their children can be loved and cared for through Safe Haven options, which in Iowa include hospitals, fire stations, and Safe Haven Baby Boxes at four locations statewide.
Illinois' assisted suicide law, known as Deb's Law, took effect on September 12, 2026, allowing hospitals and doctors to decide whether to participate, but several hospitals including Blessing Health System, Quincy Medical Group, and Jacksonville Memorial Health have opted out of participating in medical aid in dying. The Little Sisters of the Poor, along with Cardinal Blase Cupich and other religious groups, have sued the state to block enforcement of the law against them, resulting in a temporary injunction protecting these groups from being forced to participate in assisted suicide.
Judge Matthew R. Byrne, known for his pro-life stance and refusal to join the Ohio Supreme Court's dismissal of an appeal over the state's six-week abortion ban, was confirmed by the Senate to a lifetime federal judgeship for the Southern District of Ohio on September 15, 2026.
Students for Life of America launched its fall 2026 'Abortion Victims: Every Abortion Has a Human Cost' tour on 150 college campuses in more than 40 states, continuing the legacy of Charlie Kirk by engaging students with displays about the harms of abortion. Despite opposition and mockery on some campuses, the group reports that nearly 23 percent of students who engaged with their spring 2026 'Chemical Abortion Hurts' tour changed their minds about abortion.
Missouri pastors, led by Wesley Vance and joined by Senator Josh Hawley, unveiled a Declaration for Life at the inaugural Missouri Prayer Breakfast, calling on senators to sign a pledge against chemical abortion pills like mifepristone. Hawley introduced legislation to ban mifepristone, citing high rates of adverse effects, and challenged all senators to take the pledge, while Missouri voters prepare to decide on Amendment 3, which would repeal the 2024 abortion amendment.
Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump's nominee for FDA commissioner, pledged to complete a thorough and transparent safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone, which has been criticized for its adverse effects and mail-order distribution without in-person doctor visits.
In September 2026, a Sixth Circuit panel with judges appointed by Obama and Biden struck down Tennessee's law criminalizing adults recruiting, harboring, or transporting pregnant minors for abortions without parental consent, ruling it violated the First Amendment. The ruling criticized the law for criminalizing speech encouraging abortion while remaining silent on speech encouraging carrying a pregnancy to term, while Tennessee's ban on harboring or transporting minors for abortions remains in effect.
Students for Life of America sent a formal notice to the FDA on September 24, 2026, alleging that the agency violated the Endangered Species Act by approving the abortion pill mifepristone without consulting wildlife agencies, and named four endangered freshwater mussels potentially affected by drug pollution. The group demands the FDA remove the drug from the market and conduct an environmental review, citing a peer-reviewed study that found anti-progesterone activity from the drug in drinking water samples from three U.S.
Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump's nominee to run the FDA, testified before Senate Democrats about the abortion pill mifepristone, stating it is currently considered safe and effective according to FDA standards but did not personally vouch for its safety beyond the ongoing review.