LONDON — The leader of the Royal College of Midwives in the U.K. has joined an effort by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) to call for the legalization of abortion up to birth. It is currently illegal to perform abortions after 24 weeks in the nation, unless for the life and health of the mother. […]
WASHINGTON — On the same day that the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education threatened to revoke funding for public schools that do not allow students to use the restroom and locker room that correlates with their “gender identity,” the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) also released guidelines requiring […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has become the sixth state to ban dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortions, also known as dismemberment abortions, while leaving other methods used to murder unborn children legal. As previously reported, H.B. 1081, also known as the “Louisiana Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act” passed the House of Representative unanimously last month. On Tuesday, […]
DALLAS, Texas — The Republican party of Texas has approved language for its platform expressing support for the total abolition of abortion. “We call upon the Texas legislature to enact legislation stopping the murder of unborn children; and to ignore and refuse to enforce any and all federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, and court rulings, which would […]
A global report released by the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute estimates that every one in four pregnancies ends in abortion. “Some 25% of pregnancies ended in abortion in 2010–14,” the report, published in The Lancet, outlines. “Because of population growth, the annual number of abortions worldwide increased by 5.9 million from 50.4 million in […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama has become the fifth state to ban dilation and extraction abortions (D&E), also known as dismemberment abortions, while leaving other forms of killing unborn children legal. S.B. 363 passed the House of Representatives 74-26 last week and the Senate 30-21 last month, and was signed into law on Thursday by Gov. Robert […]
JACKSON, Miss. — The Republican governor of Mississippi has signed a bill cutting the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, as well as the state’s sole surgical abortion facility, from its Medicaid program. “Happy to sign Senate Bill 2238. Taxpayer dollars should not fund abortions,” Tweeted Gov. Phil Bryant on Tuesday. The bill had been sponsored by Sen. […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Oklahoma has become the next state to cut the abortion giant Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program, as officials revealed this week that its contract with Planned Parenthood will end in June. As previously reported, last November, Gov. Mary Fallin sent a letter to the state’s Health Care Authority Board to call […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana House of Representatives has approved a bill banning dilation and extraction abortions (D&E) and well as a measure that would prohibit killing babies with Downs Syndrome or other survivable conditions, while leaving other reasons for abortion legal. H.B. 1081, also known as the “Louisiana Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion […]
CHICAGO — Life begins with a “flash of light” or “fireworks,” scientists at a university in Illinois have announced in releasing a written study and video that captures what occurs at the moment of human conception. Northwestern University in Chicago recently announced the find in a study outlined in Scientific Reports. “It was remarkable,” said Teresa […]