Category: Sanctity of Life

Abortion increased 90% in the nation’s abortion capital of New York, one report shows. Outlawing abortion in pro-life states certainly reduces abortion incidences, but just in those states. Those restrictions do not appear to have the same effect nationwide. 2023 is the first full year in a post-Roe America. According to a recent article, the Guttmacher Institute claims New York’s 2023 numbers are up 90% over 2022 to a whopping 130,000. That’s the highest number ever recorded for a single year since NY legalized abortion in July of 1970.

For the third consecutive year, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has proposed a budget amendment that would eliminate taxpayer-funded abortions for fetal anomalies. According to Virginia Mercury, current state law allows state insurance to cover abortions for cases in which a doctor has diagnosed “gross and totally incapacitating physical deformity or with a gross and totally incapacitating mental deficiency.” Youngkin’s proposed budget amendment would explicitly remove this, with language saying “no expenditures from general or non-general fund sources may be made out of any appropriation by the General Assembly for providing abortion services, except otherwise as required by federal law or state statute.”

The mother of Colorado Buffaloes football star Travis Hunter said that while others called her pregnancy with Hunter a “mistake,” he has instead been her biggest blessing. Hunter’s mother, Ferrante Edmonds, made the remarks during an interview about her son’s recent Heisman Trophy win.

Even a small African nation can make a big difference for life and family. It is the message the Ambassador of Burundi, Zéphyrin Maniratang, gave the world when he took an uncompromising stand for life in the UN General Assembly this week. “We do not agree that abortion can be characterized as safe,” he told the General Assembly in plenary session last Tuesday. He defended his country’s laws protecting children in the womb and called on countries to protect the family.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood. At issue is a 2018 order by pro-life South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster directing the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to stop abortion facilities from receiving taxpayer funds from the state’s Medicaid program.

“Sending these pills through the mail to women in desperate situations isn’t helping them. They need to be truly empowered, to have someone tell them that they can do this and get through it and come out stronger in the end for saying yes to life. I founded Loveline for this very purpose, a ministry that walks with women who need help and have no one else to go to. I get being in a desperate situation and wanting an abortion but there are so many better options for women that will help them find true empowerment.”

Following advances made by the euthanasia agenda in the United Kingdom, Ireland is now slated to consider legalizing “assisted dying,” despite the concerns raised by Christians.

Five years ago the international abortion movement launched a well-funded effort to promote “safe abortion” in Peru. Their devious strategy was to bypass the pro-life protections of the Peruvian Penal Code by expanding so-called “therapeutic” abortions. The effort–as revealed by a PRI investigation–was incredibly sophisticated. It involved creating and financing a network of public hospitals and NGOs, and then launching a series of media campaigns around specific women in crisis pregnancies. The goal was to put in place a “therapeutic abortion protocol” pushed by the National Maternal-Perinatal Institute (INMP) that would allow abortion-on-demand for “health” reasons.

Days after Live Action News originally broke the news that both Kroger and Sam’s Club were displaying the abortion pill mifepristone (200mg) — also known by its brand name, Mifeprex — for sale on their pharmacy websites, the grocery store giants have issued statements insisting that the drug was displayed for sale on their websites due to “errors” in drug listings by “third-party vendors,” which the pharmacies use to “aggregate medication pricing.” After Live Action News broke the story on the presence of mifepristone on the Kroger pharmacy’s website, other outlets reported on the news, including The Washington Stand (TWS). An e-mail was then sent by Danielle Lewis Jones, Head of Communications for Kroger Health, to a senior editor at TWS, claiming that “The Kroger Company Family of Pharmacies do not carry Mifepristone, nor do we dispense it” and that “The Kroger Family of Pharmacies doesn’t carry Mifepristone and was listed on the Kroger Health Savings Club site in error. It has since been removed and we are requesting a retraction of Kroger’s inclusion in the story” (emphasis added).

“Major grocery chain Kroger now says it will not dispense the abortion pill mifepristone, following pro-life backlash over an online listing the company claims was posted in error.”

““Leaving it to the states” sounded good in theory, but in practice? The abortion debate has never been more volatile. That’s because the war over destroying unborn children isn’t just being waged in one of the most unusual places, but also one of the least regulated: the mail. Unlike past decades, when women had to actually visit a Planned Parenthood to end their pregnancies, abortion is just a postage stamp away. And incredibly, living in a pro-life state doesn’t change that.”