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Judge Matthew R. Byrne, known for his pro-life stance and refusal to join the Ohio Supreme Court's dismissal of an appeal over the state's six-week abortion ban, was confirmed by the Senate to a lifetime federal judgeship for the Southern District of Ohio on September 15, 2026.
Read →Erin Evans used to vote for Maine Senator Susan Collins because she believed the moderate Republican would protect abortion access. Collins's support from Planned Parenthood influenced Evans's voting decisions for years.
Read →Former President Joe Biden received the 2026 Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award at Planned Parenthood of Delaware’s annual fundraising gala on September 24. He expressed being "outraged and appalled" by the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v.
Read →Former President Joe Biden accepted the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award from Planned Parenthood at their Delaware fundraising gala, where his wife Jill Biden presented the award. During his speech, Biden criticized the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v.
Read →Pro-life groups and physicians argue that Texas' abortion law, which allows abortions to save the life of the mother, is not responsible for the death of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia after receiving inadequate medical care. They contend that Walker's death was likely preventable with proper medical treatment and that the lawsuit blaming the law is politically motivated and overlooks failures in healthcare coordination and standards-based care.
Read →Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old woman who died of preeclampsia in December 2024, is the subject of a lawsuit blaming Texas' abortion law for her death, but pro-life physicians argue her death resulted from inadequate medical care rather than the law itself. Pro-life leaders, including Dr.
Read →Planned Parenthood honored Joe Biden with the 2026 Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award at a fundraising gala in Delaware, recognizing his support through tax funding and pro-abortion executive orders that helped the organization kill a record number of babies last year. Biden accepted the award, linking it to Sloan, and emphasized his efforts to protect access to reproductive health care following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v.
Read →The estate of a 26-week-old aborted baby settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $200,000 against late-term abortionist Curtis Wayne Boyd and others in New Mexico, marking the first payout of its kind under state law treating the unborn as persons. The lawsuit claimed the mother was under the influence of methamphetamine and could not give valid consent, and both the mother and the baby's estate sued, with the court recognizing the baby as a person entitled to compensation despite abortion remaining legal in the state.
Read →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.
Read →Students for Life of America (SFLA) has filed a notice of intent to sue the FDA for allegedly failing to conduct required environmental testing of the abortion drug mifepristone, claiming this violates the Endangered Species Act due to potential risks to waterways and wildlife. The group cites studies suggesting anti-progesterone activity in water samples and argues the FDA did not consult wildlife protection agencies before approving the drug in 2000, with SFLA President Kristan Hawkins stating the FDA has 60 days to respond before a lawsuit is filed.
Read →A federal appeals court panel heard an appeal from Sean Curran, a quadriplegic, and disability rights groups challenging Delaware's End of Life Options Act, arguing it discriminates against disabled people by requiring doctors to inform patients about assisted suicide as part of standard care. Delaware officials argued Curran lacks standing and that the law does not legalize assisted suicide but merely offers it as a voluntary option, while the court panel did not indicate when or how it would rule.
Read →The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case of an infant boy born in Texas after his surrogate mother, McKenna West, refused to terminate the pregnancy despite the biological parents' request due to the child's life-threatening condition.
Read →The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the custody battle between McKenna West, a surrogate mother from Alaska, and California couple Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, who had a surrogacy contract requiring abortion if fetal abnormalities were detected.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Baby Gabriel, born via surrogacy with a severe heart defect, can be taken from Texas to California by his biological parents for further treatment. Surrogate McKenna West sought sole conservatorship to control medical decisions and prevent the transfer, but the court prioritized the child's medical care and allowed the parents to proceed with the ICU-to-ICU transfer for additional surgeries.
Read →Cases where women were coerced or forced to take abortion pills by their partners, including incidents in Wisconsin and Louisiana, highlighting the ease of obtaining abortion pills online without proper safeguards. It also reports on a federal lawsuit against the FDA and an OB-GYN's test showing that online abortion pill providers do not verify identities or medical conditions, allowing potentially dangerous situations for women to occur.
Read →Planned Parenthood continued to bill Medicaid in Texas after being banned in 2015 due to undercover footage showing officials negotiating the sale of aborted baby body parts. A federal appeals court recently rejected Planned Parenthood's appeal, sending the case back to a Texas federal court where the organization must defend approximately 144,411 Medicaid claims worth about $17 million, potentially leading to damages approaching $1.8 billion under the False Claims Act.
Read →A federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit filed by pro-abortion groups challenging new grant eligibility guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that bar recipients using abortion as family planning from receiving Title X funds starting fiscal year 2027.
Read →Florida couple Joshua and Natalie Strong filed a lawsuit against Brown Fertility clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, alleging the clinic used another man's sperm to create their daughter's embryo, as confirmed by DNA tests showing Joshua is not the biological father. The couple claims the clinic has not accounted for Joshua's missing sperm, refused to admit the error, and they are seeking damages exceeding $50,000 while raising concerns about the possible use of Joshua's sperm in other embryos without their knowledge.
Read →The Texas Supreme Court has allowed Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit against Yelp to proceed, challenging the company's use of labels on pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) that Paxton alleges are misleading because they were applied uniformly to all PRCs regardless of whether they have licensed medical professionals onsite. Yelp had initially placed labels stating that PRCs typically provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals, but changed the label after the lawsuit to say PRCs do not offer abortions or referrals, and the legal dispute continues after lower courts reinstated Paxton's suit despite Yelp's attempts to dismiss it.
Read →A group of four Muslim doctors in Illinois is suing the state over the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act, arguing that the law violates their religious beliefs by requiring them to inform patients about assisted suicide options despite their Islamic faith opposing the practice. The lawsuit claims the law's exemptions for doctors who opt out are among the narrowest in the nation and requests the federal court to strike down the law, while other healthcare professionals of different faiths have also filed lawsuits or expressed concerns about the law's requirements.
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