Category: Sanctity of Life

The pro-abortion activist group “Shout Your Abortion” has proudly debuted a book aimed at young children. Organization founder Amelia Bonow published the book “Abortion Is Everything” after years of promising it was forthcoming. She shared photos and excerpts on the group’s official social media page, describing it as a “very special book.”

In his “Interesting Times” podcast earlier this year, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat gave his audience a profound opportunity to see where in vitro reproductive technology is leading us, and wondered aloud whether it might replace natural, marital procreation. His guest was Silicon Valley entrepreneur Noor Siddiqui, who was a Thiel Fellow at age seventeen. She articulated a moral imperative for that displacement.

Led by Reps. Mark Harris (R-N.C.) and Mary Miller (R-Ill.), the legislation builds on efforts dating back to the first Trump administration, when policies were enacted to block unaccompanied minors in federal custody from accessing abortions. However, a press release from the sponsors highlights how the issue continued into the Biden era. In 2021, the administration rolled out the Unaccompanied Children Program Foundation Rule, which mandated that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) provide “access to medical care, including transportation across state lines and associated ancillary services” for family planning — which explicitly encompasses abortions.

On Monday, November 17th, the City Council of Wolfforth, Texas (pop. 9,600) became the 85th city in the nation, and the 68th city in the State of Texas, to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance.

Slovenia will hold a referendum this weekend on whether to allow physician-assisted suicide. The country’s parliament voted to legalize the practice in July, but a civil society group backed by the conservative opposition and the Catholic Church managed to force a referendum on the issue after collecting 40,000 signatures.

In 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany’s highest judicial body, conjured a fundamental right to commit suicide, to assist, and be assisted therein. The ruling called suicide a “self-determined death” — i.e., death on demand — regardless of the reason, and perhaps even, age of the person who wants to die, as the court ruled that the right to suicide “is guaranteed in all stages of a person’s existence.” Youth is a stage of a person’s existence. (Estonia’s highest court recently issued a similar ruling, while requiring competence.)

The Philadelphia City Council has declared that killing unborn babies is a “human right.” On November 13, the Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution by council member and abortion activist Kendra Brooks to recognize murdering the unborn as a “human right.”

A new report from Family First New Zealand exposes a deeply troubling reality. Since 2020, an average of one baby every month in New Zealand has survived an attempted abortion—yet is denied life-sustaining care. Official government data obtained under the nation’s Official Information Act reveal that approximately 80 such infants were born alive after abortion attempts between 2020 and 2025, at gestations ranging from 20 to 30 weeks.

Legislators in the Ohio House passed the Baby Olivia Act, a bill that would require students in grades 5-12 to receive education about prenatal development, including viewing a prenatal education video, such as Live Action’s “Baby Olivia,” as well as a “high-definition ultrasound video” showing the development of specific organs.

The girls were abducted from their dormitory before dawn on Monday, when gunmen attacked their boarding school, the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, in the town of Maga in Nigeria’s Kebbi state.

During his 2025 campaign, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani attacked pro-life pregnancy centers (which exist to support mothers by supplying them with years’ worth of diapers and other material goods and resources), while his campaign promised “Finnish-style” baby boxes to new mothers.

More than three years after the Supreme Court put an end to the 1973 ruling that federalized the murder of the unborn, the fight for life is far from over. Much is at stake in the year ahead.