Category: Sanctity of Life

Official data from Bulgaria’s National Center for Public Health and Analysis reveal that more than 17,000 abortions were carried out across the country last year, with a disturbing number involving young girls. Among the most alarming figures: 92 abortions were recorded for girls under the age of 15, of which 39 were voluntary. Nearly 1,600 abortions occurred among teenagers aged 15 to 19, with 935 performed at the request of the girls themselves.

The case of Noelia, a young Spanish woman granted euthanasia under the country’s permissive law, has triggered intense international controversy and renewed calls to protect the vulnerable from a growing culture of death. The decision to end her life has drawn sharp criticism from pro-life advocates, medical professionals, and faith leaders who argue it reveals the moral bankruptcy of legalized euthanasia.

Though data has shown pro-life laws have saved thousands of babies, illegal abortion pill use continues to grow, and the Trump administration has failed to take action.

Waldorf runs a local chapter of 40 Days for Life, a nationwide effort aimed at praying for women seeking abortions and for their children, usually in front of abortion clinics during Lent. She says she wants women to have “true choice.” “If the mindset of people is about death, they don’t consider the child — and you have to consider both,” Waldorf said. “They’re not counseling these women. What about giving them true choice?”

Belgium had a record 4,486 assisted deaths in 2025, an increase of 12.4% on the previous year, accounting for 4% of all deaths in the country, with almost a quarter of all deaths not expected in the short-term.

Republican lawmakers are actively opposing the nomination of Dr. Michelle Bachelet for United Nations secretary-general due to her “pro-abortion zealot intent.” Bachelet, a Chilean politician, supported abortion access during her time in leadership positions including her two terms as the 33rd and 35th president of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018.

In a March 4 Facebook post, the National Down Syndrome Adoption Network (NDSAN) busted a myth, revealing that there are families on its “waiting list” who are hoping to adopt babies with Down syndrome.

The Republicans also sent a letter demanding the FDA ‘take immediate action’ to keep unapproved abortion drugs from being marketed.

The Slovenian parliament legalized assisted suicide in July 2025. After the passing of the poison bill, a group of citizens organized by Aleš Primc, of the Slovenian Voice for Children and Families, collected 46,000 to require a referendum on the assisted suicide bill.

The push for unlimited abortion access is now advancing beyond the issue of “choice.” A newly published article in Ethics, the University of Chicago Press’s prestigious peer-reviewed journal, argues that pregnant minors must abort — even if that requires coercion and force.

Doctors advised Becky Sefton and Adam Balduckie to have a ‘selective termination’, which means choosing to end the life of at least one child in the womb, claiming their babies only had a 50% chance of survival if they didn’t.

More than 200 people gathered in Helsinki on March 21, 2026, to light 8,645 candles — one for each unborn child lost to abortion in Finland in 2024. The moving vigil, organized by the pro-life group Oikeus elämään ry (Right To Life Association), formed part of the “Muistamme” (“In Remembrance”) initiative to honor the innocent lives ended before birth and to give voice to the grief carried by many mothers and families.