CNA—A federal judge in Richmond, Virginia has ruled against state medical regulations requiring first-trimester abortions be performed only by physicians. “After a careful review of the experts’ opinions from both sides, a consensus appears to have evolved that first trimester abortions, which typically require only medication, do not require the onsite presence of a licensed…
TIME—Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed legislation banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. That can be as early as six weeks, before many women know they’re pregnant…. Read more>> Notice: JavaScript is required for this content.
Last Thursday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed the Human Rights and Heartbeat Protection Act (S.B. 23) into law. The new law prohibits doctors from performing an abortion if a heartbeat can be detected, except in cases to save the life of the mother or to prevent the “substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily…
LiveAction—Dr. Anthony Levatino, the former abortionist featured in Live Action’s Abortion Procedures videos, played the role of an abortionist in the “Unplanned” film. Dr. Levatino says he committed more than 1200 abortions, but stopped committing them after his adopted daughter passed away. One day, he had a sort of awakening about what he was really…
As reported by LiveAction, filmmakers for “Unplanned,” the new movie about the pro-life conversion of former Planned Parenthood facility director Abby Johnson, have announced that since the release of the movie, approximately 100 abortion workers have reached out, seeking to leave the abortion industry. At the end of the film, there is contact information for…
LifeSiteNews—A variety of pro-life measures continued to advance this week through the legislatures of Alabama, Indiana, South Carolina, and Texas, continuing a trend of state-level proactivity that has frustrated pro-abortion activists uncertain of Roe v. Wade’s future. Introduces in the Alabama House on Tuesday, the Alabama Human Life Protection Act bans abortion for any reason…
CNA—A movie chronicling the conversion of a former Planned Parenthood clinic director who became a pro-life advocate will be released in theaters nationwide on March 29. A trailer for the film Unplanned, which tells the story of Abby Johnson, was released on Thursday. Based off Johnson’s book of the same name, Unplanned recounts her…
With a new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, several states this year have seized on the opportunity to advance pro-life legislation aiming to overturn Roe v. Wade. One type of pro-life legislation in particular is increasingly gaining momentum on the state level—heartbeat bills which ban abortion from the moment an unborn child’s heartbeat can…
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a press briefing yesterday, announced the Trump administration is expanding the Mexico City Policy to stop backdoor funding to pro-abortion organizations. Under the new expanded policy, foreign NGOs receiving U.S. foreign health assistance will be prohibited from providing funding to any other foreign NGOs that perform or promote…
Did you hear this on the news? We sure didn’t! Amid the 2019 headline-grabbing, increasingly rabid, unabashed and unrestrained national and local campaigns against unborn babies, not to mention against their mothers and fathers who will suffer the rest of their lives for agreeing to such horror, it only seems appropriate to recall with tears…
CNA—Controversy over a New York abortion bill resulted in a rebuke for a state senator who has been disinvited from a Huntington, N.Y. Irish-American Catholic group’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities and asked to resign as a member due to his vote for the legislation. Monsignor Steven R. Camp, chaplain of the Ancient Order of Hibernians’…
Crisis—“Don’t immanentize the eschaton!” was William F. Buckley’s popularized version of an idea taken from the political philosopher Eric Voegelin. Buckley later made it a political slogan: “Don’t let them immanentize the eschaton!” With apologies to Voegelin scholars, what Buckley meant was: “Don’t let ideologues try to create heaven on earth, because they’ll deprive us…
CNA—The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act has failed to achieve the 60 votes necessary to invoke cloture and bring the legislation forward. The Senate voted of 53 to 44 to invoke cloture on Monday, but fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to halt a filibuster by Democratic senators. The vote was almost entirely on…
We are frequently questioned or challenged to substantiate the arguments that we have been making about the effect of the Reproductive Health Act. People keep asking us to show them “where in the bill does it say that”? Here is a detailed explanation of how the bill (now the law) does precisely what…
Although there is no lawsuit filed at this time, a California attorney, Robert Barnes, who is pro-bono representing families and students of Covington Catholic High School, according to LifeSiteNews, confirmed that the FBI and the Los Angeles police department are already investigating a bomb threat issued to his office. He also confirmed that the state…
Even “banging on the doors of the basilica after they were locked out,” according to one seminarian. Can you imagine experiencing such bold, targeted and immediately threatening behavior during Mass in the U.S.? The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception has confirmed that protesters led by the Native American activist Nathan Phillips…
CNA—While demonstrators chanted and played ceremonial drums, protesters at a rally led by Nathan Phillips attempted Jan. 19 to enter Washington, DC’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception during a Saturday evening Mass. The group of demonstrators was stopped by shrine security as it tried to enter the church during a Saturday…
By far the biggest Walk for Life takes place in Washington D.C., on or near the date of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that undermined the human rights of a human unborn child in the United States. Now the second largest U.S. walk for life takes place in San Francisco. And, there are…
Mainstream media reported “thousands” or “tens of thousands” at this year’s 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C., that is, if they mentioned the massive pro-life walk on or near the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision at all. But history, objective observation and, this year, a time-lapsed video tell quite a different story! The…
LifeSiteNews—The man, now identified as Jordan Hunt, who was captured on video roundhouse-kicking a pro-life woman was fired from a Toronto hair salon as a result of his actions. The shocking 46-second clip by Marie-Claire Bissonnette, youth coordinator with Campaign Life Coalition, went viral after it was published on… Read More>>
