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The Food and Drug Administration faces a court-ordered Oct. 7 deadline to update its study of the abortion drug mifepristone, and pro-life leaders say that review will fail women unless it counts the injuries already on record.
Read →Missouri voters narrowly passed a pro-abortion amendment in 2024 after pro-abortion groups spent more than $31.5 million. In June 2026, a Kansas City judge used that amendment to wipe out nearly...
Read →Republican-appointed Justice Samuel Alito heartily defended the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a national right to abortion, and lamented the death threats that ensued at the time.
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Read →Since the launch of Aftermath in September 2025, Kansans for Life has taken the exhibit to 26 communities, schools, and churches statewide.
Read →‘I think it’s a danger to the courts, and I think it’s a danger to others in public life’
Read →Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.
Read →The landmark ruling, which occurred in the 1970s, guaranteed a woman's right to have access to an abortion. The Supreme Court overturned the historic ruling in June 2022, which returned the issue to individual states.
Read →Justice Samuel Alito said his vote to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 alongside the Supreme Court’s six conservative justices, took “courage.” In a preview for his interview with CBS News, Alito was asked if there was a particular decision that took courage.
Read →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.
Read →Justice Samuel Alito said the Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe v. Wade showed courage, and that the 2022 decision cost him friendships and brought death threats.
Read →Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.
Read →(Washington, D.C.): On Wednesday, the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama filed an original jurisdiction complaint in the Supreme Court against the states of New York and California and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Invoking the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction, the Court’s authority to hear cases in the first instance rather than on appeal, is a […] The post Americans United for Life Stands Behind Pro-Life States Invoking Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court appeared first on Americans United for Life .
Read →Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against New York, Massachusetts, and California challenging abortion shield laws that protect providers who mail abortion pills to patients in states with abortion bans. This legal action marks the first time states with abortion bans have directly sued states with abortion shield laws, escalating the conflict between states with opposing abortion policies.
Read →The attorneys general of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have filed a motion with the Supreme Court asking it to stop California, Massachusetts, and New York from enforcing 'shield laws' that protect doctors who prescribe abortion drugs illegally to residents of pro-life states. A separate lawsuit names 30 individuals and organizations accused of coordinating the illegal mailing of abortion drugs to pro-life states, resulting in thousands of abortions and medical emergencies in those states each month.
Read →Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed a lawsuit against California, New York, and Massachusetts, challenging shield laws that protect abortion providers from investigations and extradition related to abortion services legal in those states but illegal in the plaintiff states. The three plaintiff states are asking the U.S.
Read →Arkansas, Louisiana, and Alabama have filed an original action before the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal lawsuit against New York, California, and Massachusetts to challenge pro-abortion 'shield laws' that protect abortionists mailing abortion drugs to pro-life states.
Read →The Hyde Amendment, first passed in 1976, prevents federal taxpayer dollars from funding elective abortions through Medicaid and has been upheld by the Supreme Court as a legal and policy victory for the pro-life movement. Recently, the Democratic Party's shift toward supporting taxpayer-funded abortion and the absence of the Hyde Amendment in President Joe Biden's budgets have raised concerns about its future, making its defense a priority for pro-life advocates.
Read →Three attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging abortion shield laws in three Democratic-led states.
Read →Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, along with Alabama and Arkansas attorneys general, filed two lawsuits targeting abortion pill providers and challenging blue-state shield laws that block prosecution of these providers, with a Supreme Court case against New York, California, and Massachusetts and a separate lawsuit in Louisiana against over 30 individuals and organizations. The complaints allege illegal distribution of abortion pills into states banning abortions, highlight refusal by governors of New York and California to extradite indicted doctors, and describe investigations revealing unsupervised online prescriptions and cases of coerced abortion pill use, while also seeking more federal action and challenging FDA rules on mifepristone dispensing.
Read →Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced federal lawsuits against New York, California, and Massachusetts for enabling mail-order abortions by refusing to extradite abortionists charged with sending abortion pills into Louisiana, where elective abortion is banned. The state argues that these 'shield' laws violate Louisiana's sovereignty and criminal laws, citing cases where mailed abortion drugs resulted in the deaths of babies and harm to women, and is also challenging the FDA's 2023 policy allowing telehealth prescribing and mail delivery of abortion pills in federal court.
Read →Catholic bishops and religious sisters in New York and Illinois have filed lawsuits against their states' assisted suicide laws, winning temporary court rulings that prevent enforcement of these laws against them while litigation continues. These lawsuits argue that the laws compel Catholic healthcare providers to violate their conscience by participating in or promoting assisted suicide, which the Church opposes as contrary to its mission and moral teachings.
Read →An aborted baby named Baby Wabbington was legally defined as a 'person' under New Mexico's Wrongful Death Act, leading to the baby's estate being awarded $200,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother. The lawsuit claimed the abortion providers performed the abortion without proper informed consent while the mother was under the influence of methamphetamine and failed to discuss alternatives or properly handle the baby's remains as requested.
Read →Former President Joe Biden received the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award at the Planned Parenthood of Delaware gala on September 24, where he expressed being 'outraged and appalled' by the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Read →The Alabama Supreme Court's 2024 IVF decision extended personhood to human embryos for the purpose of a 'Wrongful Death of a Minor' lawsuit, bringing IVF, surrogacy, and infertility issues to the forefront of national discussion. As political parties positioned themselves as 'pro-parent, pro-IVF,' many evangelicals began to reconsider their views on these topics, questioning the assumption that IVF is inherently pro-life because it creates life.
Read →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.
Read →Former President Joe Biden received the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award from Planned Parenthood of Delaware and used his acceptance speech to defend his record on abortion, urging supporters not to give up the fight for legal abortion. Biden reflected on his response to the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision by signing an executive order to protect access to reproductive healthcare and helping women seek abortions in states where it remained legal.
Read →A federal court order currently protects several Illinois physicians and religious health care organizations from the state's assisted suicide law, which took effect on September 12 and includes mandates such as requiring doctors to inform patients about assisted suicide and refer them to providers if they refuse to participate. The Thomas More Society has filed an amended complaint to extend these protections to additional religious health care associations and professionals who object to the law on conscience grounds, highlighting concerns about the law's requirements for falsified death certificates and restrictions on Catholic hospitals disciplining staff who promote assisted suicide.
Read →An Ohio judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Issue 1, the 2023 amendment that established a right to abortion in the state's constitution, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. The judge did not address the merits of the case, noting that the plaintiffs could not demonstrate personal harm from the amendment, including a claim regarding parental consent for minors seeking abortions.
Read →The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a block on a provision of a Tennessee law that made it a felony to recruit a minor for an out-of-state abortion without parental permission, ruling that it violated the plaintiffs' First Amendment right to free speech. The court's 2-1 decision maintained the ruling that the law criminalized speech encouraging abortion but did not regulate speech encouraging carrying a pregnancy to term, while other provisions of the law prohibiting transporting a minor out of state for an abortion remained in effect.
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