When Vicki Thorn was a Catholic teen in rural Minnesota, a close friend confided to her that she'd gotten pregnant a year earlier and that her mother had arranged for her to have an abortion. The encounter later inspired Thorn to found Project Rachel, a groundbreaking post-abortion healing ministry […]
California Pro-Lifers Rally as 'Infanticide' Bill Advances
Thousands of California pro-lifers rallied at the state capitol to protest what they call an extreme pro-abortion bill that removes all civil and criminal penalties in the deaths of newborn babies. The California Assembly Health Committee voted 11-3 to advance AB 2223 to the next step in the […]
National Right to Life Endorses Herschel Walker
Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker received an endorsement from a prominent anti-abortion organization. "National Right to Life is pleased to endorse Herschel Walker for the U.S. Senate," Carol Tobias, the organization's president, said in a statement. "Herschel […]
Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Mississippi-Style Abortion Ban
Gov. Ron DeSantis has publicly signed into law a 15-week abortion ban that shortens by more than two months the current window available to legally terminate a pregnancy. Within minutes of his office announcing that he had received the bill (HB 5), approved by the Legislature in March, DeSantis held […]
Kentucky Lawmakers Override Governor's Veto of Pro-Life Law
By an overwhelming margin, the Kentucky legislature has overridden Democratic governor Andy Beshear's veto of a new pro-life law, with a 76–21 vote in the House and a 31–6 vote in the Senate. The law prohibits most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and requires women to visit a physician in […]
Report Demonstrates Effectiveness of Pro-Life Laws
Last month, researchers from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization (WHO) released a study on the incidence of abortion and unintended pregnancy worldwide. The study was published in in BMJ Global Health and presents data from 150 countries dating back to the early 1990s. Because […]
Michigan Governor Whitmer Insists on Killing Babies
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed a lawsuit challenging her state’s 1931 law banning abortion — the latest move in a flurry of state activity preparing for the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade in a few months. The Michigan law bans abortion at any stage of pregnancy, with an exception for the […]
Does Colorado's Abortion Law Legalize Infanticide?
Colorado has become the 15th state in the union to enshrine the right to have an abortion into state law with a bill that pro-life activists say may legalize infanticide. Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed the so-called Reproductive Health Equity Act into law, a law that affirms women in Colorado […]
Lauren Handy Explains the Five Dead Babies
Pro-life activist Lauren Handy made headlines last Wednesday, when police and medical examiners removed the bodies of five unborn babies from her Washington, D.C. apartment. Handy had been arrested by federal investigators earlier that day, and is charged with violating a federal law that prohibits […]
Planned Parenthood Sues Idaho Over Abortion Ban
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit that seeks to reverse Idaho's new abortion law. The law bans abortions once cardiac activity in a fetus is detected, which happens at approximately six weeks of pregnancy. Many women are unaware at six weeks that they are pregnant. The suit was filed in Idaho's […]