Pro-Life News

A court has once again stopped Illinois from making it illegal to guide mothers away from abortion, saving constitutional rights and, most likely, lives. District Judge Iain Johnston blocked Gov. J.B. Pritzker's (D-IL) law that would impose fines on pregnancy centers accused of pro-life "misinformation." Democrats present it as a "consumer protection" measure against "deceptive business practices" by facilities designed to provide alternatives to abortion. In effect, the things it labels "deceptive" are mostly differing moral views of abortion, leading the judge to conclude that it likely violates the First Amendment. Read more......

A new law in Vermont may end up shutting down pro-life pregnancy centers, banning them from offering non-medical services and providing post-abortion counseling, as well as subjecting them to steep fines if the state deems their advertising "misleads" women into thinking they provide or promote abortions. Two Vermont faith-based pregnancy centers have filed a lawsuit challenging the new law that infringes on pregnancy centers' ability to exercise their right of free speech and provide services to women for their pregnancies. Read more......

A decisive defeat for abortion foes in the red state of Ohio, the seventh such loss since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, has sent alarm bells ringing among some Republicans and prominent conservatives over the clear salience of the issue. "The Ohio result tonight, coming on the heels of the shellacking in Michigan and the unexpected loss in Kentucky, needs to be a five-alarm fire for the pro-life movement," Patrick Brown, a conservative scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, tweeted. Read more......

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a regulation establishing a national mandate on employers to accommodate workers’ abortions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The alarming rule is now open for a 60-day period during which citizens can comment with their objections. In particular, the EOCC is seeking comments on whether or not to provide more specific “religious organization provisions” in its rules. CatholicVote is calling on citizens to submit comments via an easy-to-use portal, including by indicating that yes, they do want more religious provisions. Read more...  ...

Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania has announced that the state will not renew its contract with Real Alternatives, a pro-life organizationthat runs 77 pregnancy centers in PA. The decision ends a decades-long arrangement between the state and Real Alternatives. Catholic Vote reports that Pennsylvania has decided that funds reserved for "women's health purposes," which provide $8.2 million annually, will no longer be allocated towards Real Alternatives. The move is expected to place strain on the organization, which provides care for pregnant women throughout the statewho wish to carry their babies to term. Read more......

A federal appeals court sided with a group of pro-life protesters who claim the city of Washington, D.C., discriminated against them by arresting them for anti-abortion messages they had written with chalk in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said in its ruling Tuesday that the Frederick Douglass Foundation (FDF) and Students for Life of America (SFLA) had "plausibly" demonstrated that Washington police had violated the First Amendment rights of two protesters when they were arrested over a pro-life slogan they wrote in chalk on a city sidewalk that year. Read more......

After more than five decades of legal abortion, the majority of Americans no longer recoil in revulsion at the very idea of killing unborn babies in their own mothers' wombs. Unfortunately, for far too long, courtesy of the flawed Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that Dobbs overturned in June 2022, Americans were taught that abortion is a protected constitutional right, not a deadly and horrifying legal and human travesty. So, for the pro-life movement, the central question going forward must be this one: How do we get back to unthinkable, when it comes to abortion? Read more......

The South Carolina Supreme Court reversed a temporary block on the state's abortion restrictions, with four justices agreeing and one dissenting in three separate opinions. The law, known as the "Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act," limits most abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, when early cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus or embryo. Shortly after Republican Gov. Henry McMaster signed the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act in May, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and several other medical providers filed a lawsuit in state court to try to stop it. Read more......

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign launched a new pro-abortion ad in several swing states, which some pro-life groups are calling extreme. The ad, called “These Guys,” will run for two weeks in seven key states. It targets six states that Biden narrowly won in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Wisconsin. It also targets one state that former President Donald Trump narrowly won in 2020: North Carolina. The ad references the Biden administration’s efforts to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, which would prevent states from restricting abortion before viability. Read more......

Five pro-life activists were found guilty in a federal court for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a Clinton-era law passed to stop sit-ins at abortion facilities. They were also charged and found guilty of one count of conspiracy to block the entrance to the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C. The defendants, Lauren Handy, Will Goodman, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, and Herb Geraghty, were part of a group of pro-life activists who participated in an October 2020 rescue and protest at the Washington Surgi-Clinic, operated by the late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo. Read more......