Pro-Life News

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed three pro-abortion bills on Wednesday, calling the push to expand abortion in the already pro-abortion state "proactive" against potential pro-life laws. Less than two weeks ago, Pritzker signed a law mandating that both private and taxpayer-funded insurance must fully cover abortions with no co-pays or deductibles. "We can't wait around and be reactive when the latest attacks come, the pro-choice majority in this country need to be proactive," Pritzker said during a signing ceremony. "The three bills that I am signing today send a single, straightforward message: Illinois will always be a place where women have the freedom to...

The mail-order abortion business is booming under "telemedicine shield laws"— state policies that protect doctors who prescribe and send chemical abortion kits to states where abortion is illegal. But pro-life advocates like John Seago, the president of Texas Right to Life, say organizations like MAP are committing a crime. "You have states not just picking their own strategy but trying to completely sabotage the governing efforts of their neighboring states," Seago said. "It can't stand." Read more......

The opposition to Florida's proposed Amendment 4 is getting organized, and Gov. Ron DeSantis is leading the resistance. At an event at Jesuit High School on Thursday, DeSantis galvanized opposition to the amendment, which would end most abortion restrictions in Florida. In front of a packed auditorium crowd of a few hundred, Florida's Republican governor laid out what he said are the stakes in November. "If you care about building a culture of life in this state or this country, them winning in Florida I think really represents the end of the pro-life movement," DeSantis said. Read more......

A group of pro-life pregnancy centers in Massachusetts is suing the governor and other state officials for a taxpayer-funded advertising campaign against them, which they argue constitutes "impermissible viewpoint discrimination" based on their religious and political speech. The lawsuit was filed on Aug. 19 by Your Options Medical Centers (YOM), a Christian-based network of pregnancy resource centers. Under Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, Massachusetts launched a first-in-the-nation $1 million advertising campaign against pregnancy centers in June. Read more......

State government legal attacks on pro-life pregnancy care centers have been increasing since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, according to a conservative legal expert. Daniel Schmid, associate vice president of Legal Affairs at Liberty Counsel, told reporters that he believed "there's no question" that such attacks are on the rise. "What they have done there is target them and say 'these people are frauds, these people are lying to you, these people are X-Y-and-Z,' even though they are not. They're just offering alternatives to abortion for women who might want the counseling, who might want the resources they provide, all the rest of it."...