A number of pro-life organizations have filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio for a recent city council decision to create a fund that will assist women with getting abortions out of state. San Antonio Family Association and Texas Right to Life are among several suing the city for the […]
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Firebombed Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Files FACE Act Lawsuit
A New York pro-life pregnancy center that was seriously damaged in an arson attack in June 2022 and was subsequently vandalized again with pro-abortion graffiti in March, has filed a federal lawsuit against two "known pro-abortion activists." Two unnamed defendants are included in the Oct. […]
Supreme Court Lets Rulings Against Pro-Life Activists Stand
The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeals of multiple pro-life activists who are facing heavy fines for releasing undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood employees discussing the harvesting of baby body parts for profit. The refusal to hear the appeals allows earlier court […]
State Sues Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers for Reversing Abortions
California's pro-abortion attorney general, Rob Bonta, sued five pro-life pregnancy centers over their promotion of a drug that is meant to reverse chemical abortions. The state's lawsuit claims that there is no scientific evidence supporting the safety or efficacy of the abortion pill reversal drug […]
Biden Administration Appeals Abortion-Pill Ruling
The future of the most popular method of terminating a pregnancy is back before the Supreme Court after the Biden administration and pharmaceutical company Danco appealed a lower court ruling rolling back years of FDA policies broadening access to the drug. The Supreme Court is unlikely to consider […]
Oregon Right to Life Sues State Over Insurance Mandate
The Reproductive Health Equity Act, passed in 2017, requires every private insurer in the state to cover reproductive health services, including contraceptives, at no cost to patients. All but one insurer, Providence Health Plan, must also cover abortion services. The law allows insurers to offer […]
Pro-Lifers Found Guilty Protesting at Late-Term Abortion Facility
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 […]
South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds 6-Week Abortion Ban
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 […]
Appeals Court Sides With Pro-Live Protesters
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 […]
Vermont Law Bans Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers From Counseling Women
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 […]
Judge Blocks Illinois Law Targeting Pro-Life Centers
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 […]
Judgette Blocks Wyoming’s First-in-Nation Ban on Medication Abortion
Medication abortion will remain legal in Wyoming for now after a district judge blocked the state’s ban on abortion pills. The law, intended to take effect July 1, would have prohibited the prescription, sale and use of abortion pills – the first such measure in the nation. It joins the state’s […]
City Councils Sued For Trying to Silence Pro-Life Sidewalk Counselors
A federal lawsuit filed by Coalition Life seeks to break down unconstitutional, restrictive speech zones across the country. The suit positions pro-life advocates against the city of Carbondale, Illinois, where council members made an aggressive move to shut down pro-life sidewalk advocacy, voting […]
Colorado Pro-Lifer Challenges 'Bubble Law' as Unconstitutional
A pro-life activist in Denver is challenging state and local laws that prohibit counseling women within 100 feet of an abortion clinic, which she argues violates her constitutional rights. Wendy Faustin filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Colorado on June 1 against Democrat Gov. Jared […]
Man Sentenced to Community Service for Shooting Elderly Pro-Life Volunteer
A 75-year-old Michigan man who pleaded no contest for shooting an elderly pro-life volunteer during a heated argument over abortion was sentenced Tuesday to community service. Richard Harvey was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service and given a suspended jail sentence of two months and […]
Catholic Clinic Challenges Colorado Ban on Pro-Life Treatment
A federal judge in Colorado heard arguments about a new state law that would ban clinics from offering treatment to save babies from the chemical abortion pill mifepristone. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a lawsuit on April 14 on behalf of Bella Health and Wellness, a nonprofit Roman […]
Judge Exempts Pro-Life Clinic From Colorado's Ban on Abortion Pill Reversal Therapy
A federal judge granted a pro-life health care clinic a temporary exemption from Colorado’s first-in-the-nation ban on the abortion pill reversal regimen after the clinic filed a lawsuit soon after the measure took effect. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico said in his injunction Sunday that […]
Judge Halts Montana Abortion Parental Consent Law
A Montana judge recently expanded abortion access to minors by halting a law that required parental consent for individuals 16 and under to have an abortion. "Pro-abortion forces are running wild in Montana, with a judge even mandating that young girls can obtain abortions without parental […]
Court Revives Pro-Life Care Network's Lawsuit Against NY
A federal court determined that a network of New York-based pregnancy centers can proceed with challenging a law that the organization said forces pro-life or religious groups to hire employees who have had abortions or hold views contrary to their mission. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in […]
Kentucky Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Ban for Now
After three months of waiting, the Ky. Supreme Court upheld an earlier appeals court ruling allowing Kentucky's trigger abortion ban (and a six-week ban) to be enforced and sent the case back to a circuit court where parties will argue over the constitutional merits of the law. The decision drew […]