Pro-life shareholders at the FedEx annual meeting introduced a resolution urging the company to evaluate and potentially prohibit the shipping of abortion drugs like mifepristone due to legal and reputational risks, though the FedEx board opposed the resolution. Similar shareholder actions have been taken with UPS and Costco, highlighting concerns about the shipment of abortion pills into states with laws protecting unborn children, despite federal laws like the Comstock Act that restrict mailing abortion-related items.
Amanda Jablonski and Brandon Chancey, a Tennessee couple, traveled to Chicago to obtain a late abortion after learning their unborn daughter Daisy had anencephaly at 22 weeks because Tennessee law did not allow it without immediate risk to the mother's health. Tennessee law permits abortion only under specific health risk criteria, which the couple's doctors did not find met, and many women with anencephalic pregnancies carry to term with perinatal hospice support.
U.S. Army veteran Haotian Bai runs Patriot Conceptions, a surrogacy agency that facilitates wealthy Chinese couples having American-born babies, which has raised national security concerns due to the potential for these children to later access sensitive U.S.
The pro-abortion group Plan C commented "Abortion" on DiGiorno's social media post featuring its tagline "It's not delivery. It's DiGiorno," and the comment was subsequently removed by DiGiorno.
On Season 35 of "Dancing with the Stars," co-host Julianne Hough referred to dancer Witney Carson's preborn baby as part of a dance "trio" during an interview with contestant Guillermo Rodriguez. Rodriguez praised Carson's ability to dance while pregnant, emphasizing that motherhood and career are not mutually exclusive and highlighting the importance of supporting women to balance both roles.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied surrogate McKenna West's emergency appeal to overturn a California court ruling that she has no legal or physical claim to the medically fragile baby boy she carried, who was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Despite West's efforts to secure custody and ensure the baby received life-saving care in Texas, the baby's genetic parents, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, retain legal rights and are currently suing West for damages, while courts have ordered that the baby must receive stabilizing and life-sustaining care.
A Texas District Court vacated an emergency order that had kept Baby Gabriel/Rumi, born via surrogate McKenna West, in Texas to receive care for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, allowing his genetic parents to move him to California if approved by doctors. The court found that the genetic parents have consented to all recommended medical treatments and that some restrictions of the emergency order were no longer medically necessary, while maintaining that stabilizing and life-sustaining care must continue and that the Guardian Ad Litem remains appointed for the child.
Two women, Magon Hoffman and Sheena Hamlin, filed a lawsuit against Oklahoma officials and health advisors after being denied abortions following prenatal diagnoses of fatal fetal conditions, leading them to seek abortions out of state. The lawsuit, supported by two doctors and a pro-abortion group, argues that Oklahoma's pro-life law violates their rights to life, liberty, and equal protection by not allowing abortion exceptions for fatal fetal diagnoses, despite the state's law permitting abortion only to save the life of the mother.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has officially opposed Idaho's Proposition 1, a pro-abortion ballot measure that would legalize abortion through viability and after viability for certain reasons, urging its nearly 483,000 members in Idaho to vote no. The Church condemns elective abortion for personal or social convenience but allows exceptions when the mother's health or life is in serious jeopardy or when the baby has a severe diagnosis, and it encourages respectful opposition to the measure in line with Christlike love and civility.
Andorran Prime Minister Xavier Espot has vowed to decriminalize abortion by April 2027 regardless of the Holy See's approval, with legislation requiring the signature of either the President of France or the Bishop of Urgell. Despite ongoing discussions with the Holy See, which opposes abortion, the government aims to pass the law before the upcoming parliamentary elections, though the specific parameters of the proposal have not yet been published.
In Italy, 10 doctors are under criminal investigation for refusing to assist actress Sibilla Barbieri in dying by assisted suicide, despite the procedure not being officially legal in the country and Barbieri ultimately dying by assisted suicide in Switzerland in October 2023. The investigation continues after prosecutors sought to drop the case, but a judge ruled that evidence must be presented on December 16 following a complaint from Barbieri's family alleging denial of a constitutional right.
The family of Tierra Walker filed a lawsuit against Texas officials and medical professionals, alleging that the state's pro-life law prevented doctors from performing an abortion that they claim was the only stabilizing treatment for her preeclampsia and other health conditions. Medical experts and reports indicate that the standard of care for severe preeclampsia is early delivery to save the mother and baby, not an induced abortion, and Walker's death was likely due to subpar medical care rather than the abortion law itself.
A Greek couple, Cristina Rapti-Tzelepi and Constantinos Raptis, welcomed a baby girl named Georgia after implanting an embryo that had been frozen for 22 years following the death of their 21-year-old son Giorgos in a motor accident. Georgia was born just before Cristina reached the age limit for IVF procedures in Greece, and the couple considers her a continuation of their family story and a second chance at life after their loss.
A Greek couple, Cristina Rapti-Tzelepi and Constantinos Raptis, welcomed a baby girl named Georgia after implanting an embryo that had been frozen for 22 years following the death of their 21-year-old son Giorgos in a motor accident. Due to Greek law restricting IVF procedures after age 54, they had a limited window to implant the embryo, and they have not ruled out the possibility of implanting other frozen embryos in the future.
Flanders reports that University of New Mexico administrators and state officials are planning a second publicly funded abortion facility. The article connects the proposal to earlier appropriations and a facility already under construction in Las Cruces.
Flanders reports on an indictment alleging that a Kentucky man replaced his pregnant girlfriend's medication with an abortion drug without her knowledge. She summarizes the reported evidence and places the allegation alongside other cases of coerced or nonconsensual abortion.
Flanders criticizes a New York Times feature about a business providing assisted-death services after New York's legalization. She argues that commercial promotion of assisted death conflicts with suicide prevention and the purpose of healthcare.
Flanders recounts Stephanie Levesque Murphy's allegation that intended parents pressured her to abort after a prenatal heart-condition diagnosis. Murphy describes refusing abortion, losing support, and being left without information about the child after birth.
Flanders argues that remote access to abortion pills has enabled use later in pregnancy than the FDA-approved regimen. She discusses reported cases and criticizes the removal of in-person dispensing requirements.
Flanders discusses Sami Parker's criticism of influencer partnerships promoting at-home abortion through Carafem. The article questions how the sponsored content presents the experience and whether important risks and difficulties are omitted.
Stories may blur lines between induction abortion and inducing labor/delivery, but the main difference is that induction abortion carries the intent to kill.
Flanders argues that abortion pills should not be described as healthcare because their intended outcome ends prenatal life. She also presents safety and regulatory claims that require medical and primary-source review before republication as factual guidance.
Flanders critiques a published account of a woman who became pregnant while a surrogate was carrying another child for her family. She questions the account's framing of the subsequent abortion as necessary and discusses the overlap between infertility treatment, surrogacy, and abortion.
A music video from Satanic Planet, a band comprised of members of The Satanic Temple, depicts a woman doing an "abortion ritual" in a Hobby Lobby bathroom.
International Safe Abortion Day is about ensuring abortion is legally allowed at any time for any reason, as if legalizing killing somehow makes it 'safe.'
Flanders reports another pause in a lawsuit brought by Texas and Florida challenging mifepristone's federal approval. She explains that proceedings are expected to resume after the FDA's review or the stated December deadline and notes a denied dismissal motion.
