News & Headlines From the Pro-Life Front Lines
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South Carolina tried to pass a fetal heartbeat law in 2021, but it was blocked by the state's high court that same year. The bill was revived in 2023 by Gov. Henry McMaster after the fall of Roe V. Wade. The 2023 Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act banned abortion after steady cardiac […]
The new bill forces Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford and the Diocese of Springfield to hire employees who don’t share their beliefs about the sanctity of life, and it prohibits them from disciplining employees if they choose to have abortions themselves. In addition, the statute prohibits […]
A federal district court permanently blocked an Illinois law that forced pro-life pregnancy centers to promote abortion in violation of their deeply held beliefs about protecting unborn life. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates and three […]
The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has agreed to pay $450,000 in attorneys’ fees after settling a lawsuit over sidewalk counseling with a pro-life ministry last year. CatholicVote previously reported that Pro-Life Action Ministries were unconstitutionally barred from standing on public sidewalks […]
Pro-life groups praised the Trump administration's recent move to drop a Biden administration lawsuit against an Idaho law over what the government previously argued was a conflict between Idaho's abortion restrictions and federal law governing emergency health care. Supporters of abortion […]
Wellspring Health Access and pro-abortion group Chelsea's Fund filed a lawsuit against the state over two new laws aimed at protecting unborn babies. Wellspring is the only abortion facility in the state, located in the central city of Casper. It stopped performing abortions after the new laws took […]
The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to restrictions that had been placed on pro-life speech and protest activity within 100 feet of an abortion-providing facility. The case arose after the pro-life group Coalition Life challenged a Carbondale, Illinois, ordinance that restricted pro-life […]
Republican Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita petitioned the state Supreme Court Thursday to stop threats to his law license over his pro-life legal efforts. It's the latest development in years of abortion litigation and advocacy involving Congress, the White House, and ongoing media coverage […]
An organization of Catholic doctors is challenging the Biden administration’s attempt to force emergency room physicians to perform abortions. After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, the Biden administration announced its intention to force doctors to perform abortions […]
In U.S. District Court, the city of Minneapolis agreed to a settlement with the St. Paul-based Pro-Life Action Ministries which included amending a city speech ordinance that kept clinic protesters off a sidewalk that crosses the driveway to the city's lone Planned Parenthood clinic. The Minneapolis […]
Pro-life advocates are increasingly focusing on restricting access to pills, which are the most common way to end a pregnancy in the U.S. This month, the Texas attorney general's office filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor, saying she violated Texas law by prescribing abortion pills to a […]
In Clearwater, Fla., women enter the city's only abortion facility through a driveway and are escorted inside by a staff member. Pro-life counselors who want to talk with the women must approach entering vehicles, make eye contact with the drivers, and attempt to engage in quiet, heartfelt […]
Minneapolis has softened an ordinance that prohibited the obstruction of entrances and driveways to abortion clinics after anti-abortion activists sued to challenge it on free-speech grounds. The City Council this month quietly amended the ordinance to exclude constitutionally protected activities […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against an abortionist in New York, alleging that she illegally provided abortion drugs to a woman in Texas, which killed the unborn child and caused serious health complications for the mother. The lawsuit alleges that Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter […]
Right To Life UK is urging the government to halt the mailing of abortion pills following the conviction of a man who poisoned a pregnant woman with the pills, killing her baby. Stuart Worby, 40, from Dereham, Norfolk, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a pregnant woman and […]
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon plans to appeal to the state Supreme Court after a county judge blocked two pro-life laws in Wyoming. The judge blocked the Life Is a Human Right Act, which protected unborn children except in cases when the mother's life was at risk or in cases of rape or incest, as well as […]
A St. Louis pro-life group has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a rural Illinois town’s now-defunct “buffer zone” law, which previously impeded the group’s peaceful protests and counseling outside the town’s abortion clinics. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide […]
A federal judge has rejected a pro-life organization's attempt to secure an order invalidating an Oregon law requiring most employers to include abortion coverage in their employer-sponsored healthcare plans for employees. Judge Ann Aiken of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon ruled […]
A major court victory in New York is being celebrated by pro-life pregnancy centers and their allies all over the country. The recent federal court ruling in NIFLA v. James protected pregnancy centers in New York against the rabidly pro-abortion attorney general, Letitia James, who sued eleven of […]
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 […]