Nearly $2 million, primarily from out-of-state billionaires and dark money groups such as Government That Works PAC, has been donated to support Idaho's Proposition 1, a ballot initiative to establish a right to abortion in the state. The initiative, backed by Idahoans United for Women & Families, would allow abortion before fetal viability for any reason and after viability in cases of medical emergency, reversing Idaho's current pro-life laws if passed.
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.
Belfast City Council initially approved lighting City Hall green on September 28 to honor International Safe Abortion Day, despite a petition with over 20,000 signatures opposing the move. However, the Democratic Unionist Party used a call-in procedure to halt the lighting, making it unlikely to take place as planned, and a pro-life group announced plans to protest outside City Hall.
Alicia Duncan and her sister Christie fought to stop their mother Donna's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) procedure in Canada after she was approved despite showing signs of psychiatric distress and a recent suicide attempt. Despite securing a court injunction and psychiatric assessment, Donna was euthanized just hours after being discharged from involuntary psychiatric detention, highlighting failures in the safeguards and oversight of the MAiD process, especially concerning mental illness eligibility.
Liberty Counsel and a coalition of 50 pro-life leaders sent a letter to FDA Commissioner nominee Dr. Heidi Overton urging her to restore abortion pill safeguards that existed before the Biden administration while the FDA completes its safety review of mifepristone.
Elspeth McKellar, an Australian classical painter, became pregnant after a traumatic nonconsensual encounter and chose to keep her child despite pressure from the father and others to have an abortion. She now uses her artistic talents to create pro-life content and advocate against abortion through the organization Bird Flip, aiming to educate the public and support the pro-life movement in Australia.
Carmello Brooks, a University of Houston football player, was arrested for allegedly assaulting his pregnant girlfriend, Nariah Harley, after she refused to take the abortion pill, though Harley later retracted statements implicating him. Brooks is also facing charges for a separate August incident involving the alleged assault of another pregnant woman, and the University of Houston Athletics is investigating the matter.
Claire Brennan, a 54-year-old Roman Catholic mother from Ballymena, Northern Ireland, was convicted in December 2024 for praying outside an abortion clinic within a designated buffer zone under the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act 2023, but the charges were dropped in May 2026 due to insufficient evidence and absent witnesses. Brennan continues to pray and provide support outside clinics within legal restrictions while pursuing a broader legal challenge against the buffer zone law, attributing her activism to her family background and religious convictions.
Marc Burmich left his successful consultancy business to lead and transform Choices Pregnancy Centers in the Phoenix area into a thriving, well-funded organization by restructuring roles, increasing revenue, and expanding services including launching a mobile medical unit. Under his leadership, the organization has seen increased client load and funding, enabling it to serve more than 6,000 clients annually and expand medical services statewide while maintaining a focus on compassionate care.
Apoorva Tadepalli wrote in the New Yorker that early pregnancy is ambiguous and suggested that if a preborn baby is not likely to survive, it may not count as pregnancy, a view influenced by her experience with multiple pregnancy losses. Medical experts and scientific sources cited in the article affirm that pregnancy begins at fertilization when a new human life starts, and early pregnancy, regardless of outcome, is a real and definable condition.
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.
A wrongful death lawsuit in New Mexico resulted in a $200,000 settlement awarded to the estate of a 26-week aborted baby, recognized as a person under the state's Wrongful Death Act, due to the mother's inability to provide informed consent while under the influence of methamphetamine. The lawsuit also accused the abortion providers of unfair trade practices, including failing to inform the mother of substance abuse treatment programs and improperly handling the baby's remains by placing them in medical waste instead of releasing them for funeral services.
Haile McAnally, a Nebraska woman who was previously pro-abortion, experienced a severe hemorrhage in her bathtub after taking abortion pills and required a blood transfusion. She now identifies as pro-life and warns that women are not adequately informed about the risks of chemical abortions, which have higher rates of emergency room visits compared to other medications and surgical abortions.
Government reports from the United Kingdom indicate a rising gender imbalance among Indian parents, with a higher number of boys born in third or later births, attributed to sex-selective abortion or IVF. Instances of baby girls being abandoned at maternity wards have also been reported, despite sex-selective abortion being illegal in the UK.
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 2164, which would have codified and strengthened protections for abortion providers against extradition to pro-life states, despite having previously signed an executive order with similar protections in 2022. Newsom explained his veto by stating that extradition is an executive function and expressed concern about setting a precedent that would limit the authority of future governors, a decision that drew criticism from abortion rights advocates.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Several thousand pro-life supporters, estimated at over 2,200, gathered in Zurich-Oerlikon, Switzerland, on September 19 for the annual March for Life, which was delayed by 200 masked protesters who blocked the route and set off firecrackers. The event has been held since 2010 but has been restricted from Zurich's city center by local officials, leading organizers to hold it on the northern outskirts, while abortion remains legal in Switzerland for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and euthanasia tourism is also prevalent in the country.
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.
The international coalition of pro-life and pro-family governments has expanded to 43 members with the recent addition of Mauritania, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic, whose leaders signed the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD). The declaration emphasizes prioritizing women's health, rejecting abortion as an international human right, protecting life before and after birth, supporting the family, and upholding national sovereignty, with the United States playing a leading role in advancing the coalition's efforts through a whole-of-government approach.
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.
Two men in Spain have been arrested and charged with four counts of murder, including the death of a pregnant woman and her preborn baby, following a gang-related shooting in Andalucia that also killed the woman's elderly mother and a teenage bystander. The shooting was reportedly retaliation for a 2024 narco-related incident, and authorities conducted multiple raids resulting in several arrests and the recovery of weapons and cash.
The South Korean government announced plans to legalize and regulate the abortion pill Mifegymiso by March 2027, initially prescribing it in hospitals and later expanding distribution to pharmacies. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea expressed strong opposition, warning that the measure institutionalizes abortion and calls for the government to choose a path that protects life while supporting women.
The University of Illinois Chicago School of Law has approved Planned Parenthood of Illinois as a qualified agency for its federal work-study program, allowing law students to work part-time at Planned Parenthood using federal funds. Additionally, the UIC School of Nursing offers abortion training fellowships funded by a $2 million grant from the Illinois Department of Public Health, which supports abortion-related training programs at UIC, the Midwest Access Project, and Planned Parenthood of Illinois.
The Guiding Star Project is launching a telehealth pilot program in Minnesota to provide restorative reproductive medicine services, including virtual education, lactation consults, and FEMM cycle education classes, with plans to expand nationally to states where they have physical centers. Nurse practitioner Laura Ducote explained that the program aims to improve women's healthcare access and outcomes, addressing conditions like PCOS, heavy periods, and perimenopause, while promoting a culture of life by enhancing pregnancy and motherhood experiences to reduce the desire for abortion.
