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Brigitte Stegemann was declared competent despite not answering the competency questions during an assessment related to euthanasia. The Daily Mail published an article about an 83-year-old Christian grandmother who was euthanized against her will under Canada's assisted dying system, and the story has been confirmed as true despite some online doubts.
Read →James Talarico's pastor, Babs Miller, claims that Talarico will not change his abortion stance and that his mother is prepared to move to Washington, D.C. to ensure he maintains his radical views if he wins the Senate seat.
Read →The UK House of Commons recently defeated a physician-assisted suicide bill after a four-hour debate, with lawmakers urged to vote their conscience due to concerns about vulnerable populations such as poorer communities and those with disabilities. The bill would have allowed adults with less than six months to live in England and Wales to apply for assisted suicide, requiring approval from two doctors and an expert panel, but similar legislation has been repeatedly stopped by the House of Lords over the past two years.
Read →Late-term induction abortions often involve injecting the preborn child with a feticide to cause fatal cardiac arrest before inducing labor to deliver a stillborn baby, a procedure some describe as 'euthanasia. Women who have undergone this process report it as emotionally difficult, with some paying large sums for the procedure and expressing grief over not holding their living baby, while others describe it as a 'humane' or 'gentle' method to end the pregnancy.
Read →The 40 Days for Life campaign has started in 682 cities worldwide, including Kalamazoo, Michigan, where participants held a rain-soaked vigil to pray for the unborn and an end to abortion. In the Pacific Northwest, leaders from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Canada gathered in Seattle for a training workshop to prepare for the campaign, which includes recruiting vigil participants and legal briefings.
Read →The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case of Alaska surrogate McKenna West, who refused to abort the baby she was carrying after he was diagnosed with a serious heart defect and sought a say in his care, leaving a California ruling recognizing the intended parents as the legal parents intact.
Read →Over forty countries representing about 2 billion people have pledged support to the Geneva Consensus Declaration, which defends life, family, and national sovereignty by opposing the recognition of abortion as an international human right at the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.
Read →A 19-year-old University of Houston football player, Carmello Brooks, was charged with assault of a pregnant woman after allegedly attacking his girlfriend for refusing to take an abortion pill. Ohio doctor Hassan Abbas received a six-month jail sentence after force-feeding his pregnant girlfriend abortion drugs, resulting in her losing the baby and requiring emergency medical care due to hemorrhaging.
Read →J Hewitt, a 19-year-old trainee stylist at Elite Hair Lounge in London, was wrongfully terminated due to her pregnancy after her manager suggested she have an abortion and she faced various instances of pregnancy discrimination. An employment tribunal found in her favor, ruling that her pregnancy was the principal reason for her dismissal and awarded her nearly £30,000 in damages.
Read →Students for Life Action and nearly 40 pro-life groups sent letters to four of Trump's top officials on September 9, 2026, urging them to investigate Planned Parenthood and, if evidence supports, to debar it from federal contracts, effectively cutting off its federal funding without needing a Senate vote. This move follows reports of Planned Parenthood receiving $832 million in government funding, performing a record 434,450 abortions in one year, and allegations of Medicaid fraud and improper receipt of Paycheck Protection Program loans, with legal actions and investigations ongoing.
Read →The Culture of Life Studies Program’s Pro-Life Essay Contest, held annually during Respect Life Month and cosponsored by the Institute for Excellence in Writing, invites middle and high school students to write 500-word essays reflecting on pro-life themes inspired by figures like St. John Paul II and Dr.
Read →Dr. Christina Francis of AAPLOG explained that nearly all state abortion restrictions explicitly exempt ectopic pregnancy treatment, and the confusion highlighted by ProPublica stems from hospitals misinterpreting these laws rather than the laws themselves.
Read →Hassan-James Abbas, an Ohio surgical resident, was sentenced to six months in prison for forcibly administering abortion pills to his pregnant girlfriend, Jona Affholder, who subsequently lost the baby after going to the hospital. Pro-life leader Marjorie Dannenfelser criticized the light sentence and current U.S. laws that allow abortion medications to be prescribed via telehealth, highlighting the need for stronger legal consequences and more active prosecution in cases of forced abortion. Abbas obtained the abortion drugs using his estranged wife's identification and forced Affholder to ingest them despite her intention to keep the pregnancy, leading to felony charges including unlawfully distributing abortion-inducing drugs and identity fraud, to which he pleaded no contest. Dannenfelser and Senator Bernie Moreno called for greater accountability from political figures and the Department of Justice, while noting a lack of public response from pro-choice advocates and Planned Parenthood regarding the case.
Read →Haile McAnally, a Nebraska resident and former Democrat, experienced severe hemorrhaging after taking abortion pills prescribed by medical professionals, which led to a hospital blood transfusion and motivated her to become pro-life. She now advocates for restricting access to mail-order abortion pills and is working with Susan B.
Read →The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case of surrogate mother McKenna West, who refused to have an abortion and sought custody of the child diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Read →Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Arlington diocese in Virginia urged Catholics to vote no on a constitutional amendment that would create a legal right to unregulated abortion at any time during pregnancy and extend abortion rights to minors without parental involvement.
Read →The UK Parliament voted 286 to 270 to defeat the assisted dying bill last week. Alicia Edmund, head of policy for the Evangelical Alliance in the UK, had spent two years briefing evangelicals on the issue before the vote.
Read →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.
Read →Brigitte Stegemann, an 83-year-old Canadian pensioner with stage four stomach cancer, died through Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program despite her family's opposition and claims that she did not want to die. Her granddaughter, Brigitte Kranendonk, alleges that the care home accelerated the euthanasia process while she was away and that staff viewed the family as obstacles to administering MAiD, which now accounts for about one in ten deaths in Canada.
Read →Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed faced criticism for referring to a pregnant woman as 'an adult' or 'juvenile human' during a town hall at Western Michigan University while discussing abortion access. Conservative commentators and political opponents accused him of using dehumanizing language and avoiding the word 'woman' in his explanation, with some comparing his response unfavorably to that of Kamala Harris.
Read →The Supreme Court declined to intervene in a custody dispute involving a California couple and their surrogate, McKenna West, who refused to terminate a pregnancy despite a severe fetal heart defect diagnosis. The California court recognized Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar as the legal parents of the baby, who was born in Texas and underwent surgery, with the Supreme Court's decision leaving the parentage ruling intact amid ongoing medical care concerns.
Read →The Supreme Court declined to intervene in a custody dispute involving California parents and a surrogate who refused their request for an abortion after the unborn child was diagnosed with a serious heart defect. The surrogate, McKenna West, delivered the child in Texas and sought conservatorship, while the biological parents sued for breach of the surrogacy agreement and were previously ruled legal parents by a California court.
Read →Euthanasia has become widespread in Canada, with over 100,000 people having been euthanized by doctors and nurse practitioners. Some hospices have lost funding for refusing to participate, and doctors with moral objections face pressure to comply or leave medicine, while media reports highlight euthanasia as a source of organs and recount numerous horror stories.
Read →The Supreme Court declined to intervene in a custody dispute involving California parents and a surrogate who refused their request for an abortion after the unborn child was diagnosed with a serious heart defect. The surrogate, McKenna West, sought conservatorship of the child after delivering him in Texas, while the biological parents sued for breach of the surrogacy agreement and were previously ruled legal parents by a California trial court.
Read →Brigitte Kranendonk alleges that her grandmother, Brigitte Stegemann, was subjected to a deceptive and coercive medical assistance in dying (MAID) assessment at a Canadian long-term care facility while her family was absent, leading to a botched assisted suicide covered in blood. Investigations by provincial and local authorities, including the Ontario coroner's office and Belleville police, are ongoing following multiple complaints about the facility's practices and the lack of explicit verbal confirmation from Stegemann, who had previously rejected MAID due to her religious beliefs.
Read →Counterdemonstrators threw paint at a pro-life information stall as Germany's March for Life filled the streets of two cities for the fourth year running. [...]
Read →Missouri voters will decide on Amendment 3 in November to repeal a 2024 amendment that legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy and to prohibit gender transition surgeries for minors, aiming to restore previous pro-life protections in the state. In Idaho, Prop 1 seeks to remove current abortion bans by establishing a right to abortion up to viability with expanded exceptions, and pro-life advocates urge voters to reject this amendment to maintain the state's abortion-free status.
Read →Virginia Democrats have advanced a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights up to birth, which is opposed by thousands of Catholics including Bishop Michael Burbidge who called the amendment extreme and harmful to mothers and minors. The amendment would protect abortion as a fundamental right and remove parental roles in abortion decisions for minors, while pro-abortion groups argue it safeguards reproductive freedom without government interference.
Read →Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan declined an emergency request from surrogate McKenna West to intervene in a custody dispute involving biological parents who had told her to get an abortion. West sought to overturn a parentage judgment issued in California in favor of the couple, but the case was not taken up by the Supreme Court.
Read →Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan declined to intervene in a custody dispute involving a baby born via surrogate after the surrogate refused to terminate the pregnancy despite a diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The lower court's order granting custody to the biological parents, who are caring for the baby in Texas following open-heart surgery, was upheld without explanation from Kagan.
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