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The Indiana Right to Life PAC has announced its endorsement of Trevor De Vries for Indiana State Senate District 1. Trevor De Vries is a strong advocate for protecting life and is a lifelong common-sense conservative, servant leader, and dedicated family man. He and his junior-high sweetheart, Leah, have four daughters. Trevor graduated from Illiana [...]
Read →The Word, the President, and an elderly black woman, clutching her purse and her Bible, gently weeping to herself. This was the quiet, yet striking image that assailed photographer Todd Scoggins at the epic “America Reads the Bible” event in Washington D.C. this spring. “Isn’t this amazing?” the elderly woman wondered aloud to Scoggins, as [...]
Read →Attorney General Todd Rokita is calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to put tighter controls on the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone, which presents a growing threat to the U.S. population via chemically tainted medical waste being flushed into American waterways. “Drug-induced abortions occurring outside of the legal, direct and personal care of a properly [...]
Read →Six members of Indiana's congressional delegation added their names to an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a Louisiana law protecting moms and babies from abortion drugs by mail. The brief reads in part: "By deregulating chemical abortion drugs and permitting them to be sent through the mail, the Biden FDA [...]
Read →WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) led a letter encouraging the Trump Administration to reinstate the Protect Life Rule, which would ensure Title X family planning funds cannot be used to provide abortions or abortion referrals. U.S. Senators Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Jim Banks (R-Ind.), [...]
Read →Indiana releases newest abortion and complications reports; 26 children reported killed by abortion in Indiana, 15 abortion complication reports filed Reported statistics for the fourth quarter of 2025 The Indiana Department of Health released its October through December 2025 abortion data on February 28, revealing the latest abortion numbers. A total of 26 children were [...]
Read →INDIANAPOLIS (January 27, 2026) – Indiana Right to Life spoke out today in support of Senate Bill 236, passed this afternoon in the Indiana Senate by a 35-10 margin. IRTL President Mike Fichter issued the following statement on the bill: We fully support SB 236 because it protects the lives of unborn babies and their mothers from [...]
Read →WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Marlin Stutzman (IN-03) introduced the Chemical Abortion Awareness Act, which will create new requirements for communicating chemical abortion risks for providers who receive federal funds. This legislation comes on the same day as thousands of American patriots flocked to Capitol Hill to stand up for the lives of the unborn. The requirements include providing women both electronic [...]
Read →WASHINGTON, D.C, - Today, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced Dr. Monique Wubbenhorst before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee ahead of her testimony at its hearing entitled “Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs.” Dr. Monique Wubbenhorst is a practicing, board-certified OB-GYN with more than 30 years of experience in patient [...]
Read →INDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 22, 2026) – Indiana Right to Life publishes a letter it sent today to President Donald Trump from Indiana state legislators addressing the Hyde Amendment. “This letter to President Trump speaks to a truth Hoosiers hold sacred: protecting unborn children should be an uncompromising stance, and that abortion should never be funded with [...]
Read →Attorney General Todd Rokita and his legal team today celebrated a major victory for life after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit unanimously affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Satanic Temple challenging Indiana’s landmark 2022 pro-life law. The federal appeals court ruled that the Satanic Temple lacked standing to [...]
Read →Senator Jim Banks is joined as a cosponsor of S. 250, the Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance Act, to restrict the availability of Federal funds to organizations associated with the abortion industry. The Act states Federal funds may not be made available for purposes outside of the United States (including its territories and possessions) to [...]
Read →Sen. Todd Young and Sen. Jim Banks join 49 other Republican senators in call for action on abortion drug U.S. Senators Todd Young and Jim Banks last week joined 49 Republican colleagues in a letter calling for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to take swift [...]
Read →INDIANAPOLIS (Oct. 3, 2025) – Indiana Right to Life President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Fichter issued this statement today regarding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of a generic version of mifepristone. "The FDA approval of a generic abortion drug will fuel illegal trafficking of abortion drugs into Indiana. "The generic version will [...]
Read →INDIANAPOLIS (July 3, 2025) – The office of Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita motioned today for the U.S. Seventh Circuit to vacate a 2012 permanent injunction blocking Indiana from keeping Medicaid dollars from Planned Parenthood. The brief accompanying the motion states: "Just last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the premise underlying this Court’s injunction: [...]
Read →INDIANAPOLIS (July 3, 2025) – Indiana Right to Life President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Fichter issued this statement today regarding the passage of the federal budget bill that includes defunding Planned Parenthood. "This is yet another moment that's been a longtime coming. We are proud of the members of Indiana’s congressional delegation who honored [...]
Read →INDIANAPOLIS (July 2, 2025) — Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter issued this statement after Governor Mike Braun released the Indiana Department of Health executive report on enforcing Indiana's abortion law: "We are thankful for Governor Mike Braun’s firm resolve to see Indiana’s abortion laws enforced -- and to reinforce life and [...]
Read →INDIANAPOLIS (June 27, 2025) — Indiana Right to Life applauds a statement made Wednesday by Attorney General Todd Rokita regarding the recent ruling by a federal judge in Texas vacating a Biden era abortion rule designed to protect abortion providers from transparency. "We're moving forward with our goal to protect life and working to undo the many [...]
Read →“Today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling has been a long-time coming. Indiana's right to stop using Medicaid dollars to fund Planned Parenthood, and its business of abortion, is finally validated. The Indiana state legislature passed defunding legislation under Governor Mitch Daniels in 2011, making Indiana the first in the nation to do so. But the U.S. Seventh Circuit issued [...]
Read →Indiana Right to Life's first annual Hendricks County vision dinner on May 20 was an incredibly inspiring event featuring Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith as keynote speaker and former State Senator John Crane as emcee. As one of the fastest growing counties in Indiana, Hendricks presents a major opportunity to be a model county in supporting [...]
Read →The Indiana Department of Health's newest Terminated Pregnancy Complications Report shows 20 complications reports filed in the first three months of 2025. According to the report, 13 complications were from chemically-induced abortions compared to 7 surgical abortions. Nine of these complications were reported to be associated with the drugs Mifepristone and Misoprostol. By far the [...]
Read →The Indiana Department of Health's official Terminated Pregnancy Report for January through March 2025, released on Saturday, reveals a reported total of 22 children killed by abortion over the three month span, compared to 45 abortions reported over the first three months of 2024. By comparison, in 2022, the last full year before Indiana's new [...]
Read →Sen. Liz Brown, Rep. Joanna King, Rep. Julie McGuire, and Rep. Jake Teshka all added their names to those of 179 other state legislators from across the nation in a letter calling for Congress to defund Planned Parenthood now. The letter states: “As pro-life state legislators from across the country who are members of the [...]
Read →In a session dominated by the state budget, the Indiana legislature passed milestone legislation requiring all state accredited schools to provide medically accurate and age- appropriate education on human growth and development during pregnancy. SEA 442 , signed into law by Governor Mike Braun on May 6, requires that the education include (A) high definition [...]
Read →A shocking report represented to be the largest-known of its type "based on analysis of data from an all-payer insurance claims database" suggests abortion drug related complications are 22 times higher than previously thought. According to the report produced by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the data suggests one in ten women "experience sepsis, [...]
Read →You are a life saver. Maybe you’ve never thought of yourself that way, but when you are a supporting member of Indiana Right to Life, you are taking a stand to support life-saving efforts reaching all corners of our state. Your membership says you support compassionate care for pregnant mothers and protection for unborn babies [...]
Read →It's time to end taxpayer funding for the nation's largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood. Indiana Right to Life is adding its voice to over 150 other pro-life organizations in calling for the defunding of PP, noting that according to its 2022-2023 annual report, Planned Parenthood brought in over $2 billion in revenue. Of the over [...]
Read →Kayla Kessinger had just arrived at the front of the Walmart checkout line when she noticed the cashier was having a terrible day. Concerned by how miserable she looked, Kessinger started a conversation.As it turned out, the cashier, “Sydney,” had just found out she was pregnant and was in the throes of severe morning sickness. [...]
Read →INDIANAPOLIS (March 3, 2025) — Indiana Right to Life President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Fichter issued the following statement today regarding Governor Mike Braun’s executive order boosting state employees by strengthening paid parental leave, creating paid childbirth leave for women recovering from giving birth, and establishing paid leave for those grieving from the tragedy of [...]
Read →INDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 22, 2025) -- Indiana Right to Life President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Fichter issued the following statement today regarding Governor Mike Braun's executive order directing the Indiana Department of Health to ensure compliance with Indiana abortion laws. “Governor Braun’s action today ensures Indiana’s abortion law will be enforced under his administration. In directing [...]
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