VIDEO: Abortion activist attacks pro-lifer on campus, gets assault charge from police

A pro-abortion activist assaulted one of Created Equal's team members in a shocking new video. Created Equal was conducting a campus tour traveling to 14 college campuses in 3 states to display large signs depicting the gruesome reality of abortion and to engage students in conversation about this human injustice.

Our traveling team was attacked during its visit to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 2nd, 2019. Footage of the outburst begins with a woman asking our team, "Did you put these [signs] up?" When they respond affirmatively, she proceeds to repeatedly punch and kick a member of our staff. Watch the attack and hear from law enforcement that the student is being charged with assault the video below.  Click here for more.

Trump Strengthens Medical Conscience, San Francisco Sues

The Trump administration has finalized a rule that will expand HHS enforcement of existing — not new — statutory conscience protections for doctors, nurses, and other professionals who do not wish to participate in legal medical services — such as assisted suicide, abortion, or transgender medical interventions. Generally stated, the rule prevents employers that receive federal funds (like hospitals) from punishing medical professionals who so refuse.

Prior to the new rule, HHS only focused on enforcing conscience protections contained in three federal laws — and the Obama administration was credibly charged with barely enforcing those. Under the new rule, all federal laws granting medical conscience rights will be vigorously enforced.

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the Trump administration on Thursday, accusing it of effectively sacrificing patients’ health and lives by expanding “conscience” protections for patients and health care professionals who opposed controversial treatments.  Click here for more.

Equality Act guts every pro-life protection ever passed into law

In the history of bad bills, there are a lot of doozies. Just in the last handful of months, we've had a Democratic grab bag of everything from abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Green New Deal. But nothing -- not even Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (R-N.Y.) crusade against airplanes and cows -- compares to the one measure that out-radicals them all: the Equality Act. And the worst mistake any of us can make is not taking the threat seriously.

Maybe, like a lot of Americans, you think the Democrats' H.R. 5 is just about sex and gender. Well, think again. This isn't just the most extreme LGBT bill ever written. This is one-stop-shopping for the worst the far-Left agenda has to offer -- including, we've discovered, the largest expansion of taxpayer-funded abortion this country has ever seen. That's right. The Equality Act doesn't just torch religious freedom and the First Amendment, it guts every pro-life protection ever passed into law.

On the Hill, the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus is just one of the groups frantically trying to warn members. Now that the text of the bill has been released, staffers have had time to comb the language for landmines. And based on what our team has seen, there's a field of them. Believe it or not, Democrats didn't just expand the meaning of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" -- they've also defined it to mean "pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition." In other words, under the terms of this proposal, "pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition... shall not receive less favorable treatment than other physical conditions." Click here for more.

STUDY: More than 23 million girls missing due to sex-selective abortion

A groundbreaking new global demographic study has found that the world is missing at least 23.1 million females who would otherwise have been born, but fell victim to sex-selective abortion.

The peer-reviewed study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on April 15th, resulted from a five-year project of combing through data from over 90 countries around the world identified as having the most complete statistical data for the period of the study, 1950 to 2017.

The authors attribute the millions of missing women to three causes. First, certain cultures have a strong preference for male children. Second, sex identification in the womb and legalized abortion have become widespread throughout the world. Third, “fertility has fallen to low levels” and resulted in a “squeezing effect” in which parents use sex selection to attain their preferred family composition and size. Click here for more.

Surround our State Capitol in Prayer - May 15th

Pro-life group taking message to pro-abortion states

Presidential candidates are speaking about abortion to the moment of birth and some states have taken similar action or are considering action along that line.

Viewing the Democratic candidates who want to occupy the White House, Mark Harrington of Created Equal says all of them refuse to protect newborn children from murder.

“In fact,” he points out, “many of them have been on record saying they don't believe the government should mandate giving medical care to babies that survive an attempted abortion.”  Click here for more.

VIDEO: PBS documentary failed to show painful reality of abortion pill experience

In a weak attempt to make abortion seem like a normal part of a woman’s life, PBS completely failed to accurately portray abortion in its documentary series “The Abortion Divide.” Claiming to go “inside” abortion facilities to show what it’s like, the documentary touched on medication abortions but stopped short of actually showing what women go through after they have swallowed the deadly pills.

One mother featured in the abortion pill portion of the documentary is Taryn, who is nonchalant about killing her preborn twins with the abortion pill. “What I hope I feel is a sense of peace, not only with myself and the decision that I’ve made but also a sense of peace with these two beings that I’ve chosen not to bring into the world. Thank you for choosing me,” she says to her twins. “And I’m honored to be given this gift of life. And also, I can’t do it right now. I can’t accept that mantle in terms of the other lives that I’m taking care of and I’m responsible for.”

Taryn and PBS fail to realize that there are approximately two million couples waiting to adopt babies — that’s 36 couples for every one baby placed for adoption. A couple could have immediately adopted those babies and Taryn could have gone back to her life raising her other two children. Instead, she decided she would rather her twins were dead — never born — than raised by someone else.  Click here for more.

VIDEO: Pro-abortion State Rep. bullies and harasses elderly pro-life woman

Because his distasteful and bullying behavior was caught on video (in fact, he videotaped the exchange himself), I’m guessing the uproar over Pennsylvania Democratic State Rep. Brian Sims’ abominable treatment of an elderly pro-life woman will not blow over in a day or two. Or, at least I can hope not.

Sims’ behavior toward the unnamed woman goes beyond whether he broke state law. According to columnist Timothy Meads, Sims either didn’t know or didn’t care that he needed her permission to record her words while he badgered her outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in his 182nd district.

And as the eight-minute long video makes clear, Sims, on more than one occasion, indicates he wants (actually demands) to have a conversation. Each time “the women says no and does not give permission to record,” Meads explains.  Click here for more.

ALIVE From New York: The Day Abortion Died

On May 4th 2019, a near perfect 70 degree afternoon, in the middle of Times Square, in New York City, from three sound stages blasting thousands of decibels into the surrounding neighborhoods, the final speaker of the day said that, “Soon... Abortion will become... unthinkable!”

The statement came after a 90 minute program that had been slated as a “public celebration of life.”

Not content to believe the organizers, protestors attempted to disrupt the proceedings. But those protests, which began with profane chants, obscene signs, and thundering drums, ended with nary a whimper, and dispersed far more mysteriously than they had appeared.  Click here for more.

Alabama bill to send abortion doctors to jail sets up Supreme Court fight

The Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make performing an abortion a Class A felony offence. The Human Life Protection Act would mean doctors who perform abortion could face years in prison.

As a Class-A felony, performance of an abortion would carry a potential prison sentence of 10-99 years but, the bill’s supporters noted, would only apply to doctors and not to mothers.  The bill was carried in the House by a margin of 74-3 on April 30. It must now be passed by the state Senate and approved by Gov. Kay Ivy (R).  Click here for more.

Trump issues religious-freedom protections for doctors, nurses forced to do abortions

The Trump administration has finalized another set of administrative protections for religious Americans’ conscience rights on a range of fronts, President Donald Trump announced Thursday morning during remarks to observe the National Day of Prayer.

According to a press release from the Department of Health and Human Services, the final rule “ensures that HHS implements the full set of tools appropriate for enforcing” laws that exempt healthcare workers from “having to provide, participate in, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for, services such as abortion, sterilization, or assisted suicide.” It also “clarifies what covered entities need to do to comply with applicable conscience provisions,” “requires applicants for HHS federal financial assistance to provide assurances and certifications of compliance,” and “specifies compliance obligations for covered entities.”  Click here for more.

U.S. hospital will not remove oxygen from elderly woman who says on video ‘I want to live’

The 64-year-old woman at reported risk of being euthanized by a Minnesota hospital has received a reprieve after a pro-life legal non-profit intervened on her behalf.

Catie Cassidy is resting comfortably, according to Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF), after the hospital agreed to abide by her wishes and those of her healthcare proxy and not remove Catie’s oxygen.  Click here for more.

Pro-life Group to Broadcast Live, 4-D Ultrasound in Times Square This Saturday

After New York shocked the country with its egregious law expanding late-term abortion this January, Focus on the Family decided to act, bringing the value and dignity of human life back to the forefront of the discussion.

To do so, the pro-lifec, conservative group organized a 12-week campaign, called “See Life Clearly,” capping it off with an event called “Alive From New York” to be held in Times Square this Saturday, May 4.

“We’re looking to fill Times Square with pro-life Americans, and it will feature live music, compelling and inspirational speakers, and best of all, live 4-D ultrasounds broadcast on a massive digital marquee in Times Square, powerfully showing the world that a baby inside the womb is fully human and should be given the chance to be born,” Focus on the Family announced in February.  Click here for more.

Abortion more deadly than homicide in New York City

More babies died from abortion at 21 weeks gestation or over in 2015 than there were people killed by homicide in New York City, new figures reveal.

Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and published by the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), reveals that the number of abortions at or after 21 weeks was 1,485 while the number of homicides was 352.

CNS News observes that while there were approximately 0.96 people per day victimized by “murder and non-negligent manslaughter” in New York City in 2015, there were approximately 4.1 babies at 21-weeks gestational age or older who were aborted per day in the same city.  Click here for more.

Pro-lifers to nationally protest waste hauler Stericycle for aborted baby disposal involvement

Despite the official Stericycle policy against hauling fetal remains, the company continues to pick up at Planned Parenthood facilities, the group of pro-life leaders say, and state investigators have determined that these pick-ups include fetal remains.

Thus, Citizens for a Pro-Life Society (CPLS), Created Equal, and Pro-Life Action League are organizing a major protest at the Stericycle annual stockholders meeting near Chicago on Wednesday, May 22, with concurrent protests at Stericycle locations around the U.S.

The coalition of pro-life groups is currently recruiting local pro-life activists throughout the country to coordinate protests at Stericycle offices, waste disposal centers, and other facilities on May 22.  Click here for more.

Click HERE for more information and to take part.

A US appeals court upholds use of technology to inform choice in abortion

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in EMW Women’s Surgical Ctr. vs. Beshear et. al, recently decided that a statute is constitutional under Supreme Court precedents if it “requires the disclosure of truthful, non-misleading, and relevant information about an abortion.”

This important case, celebrated by pro-life advocates, upheld a Kentucky law requiring doctors to conduct an ultrasound, and thereafter offer to show and to explain to the patients the images taken, as well permitting the patient to hear the fetal heartbeat of the unborn life in utero, all at least 24 hours prior to having an abortion performed.  Click here for more.

House Democrats Move to Protect Planned Parenthood Funding

In a budget draft, Democrats are attempting to legislatively protect Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from the Trump administration’s rule that prohibits taxpayer family planning funds for facilities that perform or refer for abortions.

“...it’s going to keep the Trump administration from shutting the doors of Planned Parenthood, which they have been trying to do from day one,” Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) said on a press call, according to the Washington Examiner. Click here for more.

US veto threat gets pro-abortion language removed from UN resolution

The Trump administration recently threatened its veto power if the UN security council did not remove abortion-related language from a resolution aimed at combatting rape in war-torn areas. After fierce negotiations, the security council removed the language and the final resolution passed 13-0.

The resolution was an initiative by the German government to address the problem of rape in war zones. The original proposal contained language referring to “comprehensive health services” for “survivors of sexual violence” – language commonly used to imply abortion. Click here for more.

Hospital set to euthanize patient who wants to live by removing oxygen

Life Legal Defense Foundation shared a post on Facebook today regarding a lung cancer patient, Catie, in Minnesota, whom the hospital is threatening to euthanize by removing her oxygen today — which would cause her to suffocate to death. Withdrawing Catie’s oxygen to cause her death is active euthanasia, which is illegal in Minnesota and every other state. LLDF writes:

Catie is a patient at a hospital in Minnesota. She has lung cancer and needs oxygen to remain comfortable. The hospital plans to remove Catie’s oxygen tomorrow morning, which will result in her death by suffocation.

Catie is on video saying she does not want the hospital to “pull the plug.” She relayed this to the hospital’s chaplain, who was sent to Catie’s room by the hospital to prepare her to be euthanized.

Even though the hospital has been sedating Catie, she understands what the hospital is planning to do and says she is still fighting and is “not ready” to die. Click here for more.

As Illinois seeks to expand abortion, ambulance wheels away patient at capital’s Planned Parenthood

While Christians across the world were observing Holy Thursday, business as usual carried on inside abortion clinics across the country while pro-lifers kept vigil on the sidewalks outside. Around noon, pro-lifers praying outside the Planned Parenthood in Springfield, Illinois, one of 18 Planned Parenthood centers in the state, were shocked when an ambulance pulled up to the abortion facility’s patient entrance. Moments later, a person covered by a sheet was wheeled out on a gurney.

Video footage taken by Tim Moore, president of Springfield Right to Life, suggested that the victim was a patient since the person was not wearing shoes. A Freedom of Information Access request was filed with the Sangamon County Central Dispatch System Manager and FOIA Officer to determine the reason for the 911 call, and it was later learned that the person on the gurney was an abortion patient, who was 11 weeks pregnant. She was suffering from chest pains, shortness of breath, dizziness, and nausea. She was conscious at the time, and it is unknown if she began experiencing these symptoms before or after her abortion.  Click here for more.

ACLU sues over Indiana’s ban on dismemberment abortions and expansion of conscience protections

Two days after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law House Enrolled Act 1211, which bans the practice of dismembering living unborn children, and Senate Bill 201, which expands Indiana law to extend conscience protections to additional medical providers, the ACLU filed a lawsuit.

“HEA 1211 will discourage women from obtaining abortions and will impose a substantial and unwarranted burden on women’s ability to obtain second-trimester, pre-viability, abortions,” huffed Ken Falk, legal director at the ACLU of Indiana.

The ACLU also couldn’t abide Senate Bill 201, authored by Sen. Liz Brown. State law previously allowed only physicians and hospital employees to object to participating in abortions for ethical, moral or religious reasons. SB 201 extends conscience protections to other medical providers, including nurses, physician assistants and pharmacists.  Click here for more.

Supreme Court considers case that could be devastating for Planned Parenthood

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media D/B/A Argus Leader. The case centers around an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that was used to deny a request for data from government vendors as part of a newspaper’s food-stamp fraud investigation.

What does this have to do with abortion?

According to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), it could actually have implications for Planned Parenthood, and how much information U.S. taxpayers are allowed to know about the abortion corporation’s use of federal funds. Planned Parenthood uses the same FOIA exemption (Exemption 4) that the Food Marketing Institute uses in order to prevent pro-life organizations from exposing the truth about how Planned Parenthood spends the $500 million in taxpayer dollars they receive a year. Exemption 4 covers “trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person [that is] privileged or confidential.” This allows government contractors like Planned Parenthood to deem all of their spending of taxpayer funds confidential. It’s “illogical,” according to ADF, because it negates the value and purpose of why the FOIA exists in the first place. Click here for more.

Planned Parenthood Outrageously Claims ‘No Medical Benefit’ to Abortion Pill Reversal

Dr. Meera Shah of Planned Parenthood (pictured) writes for Jezebel about “Shattering the ‘Abortion Reversal’ Myth.” Her column claims, “It is only a theory that has been introduced by anti-abortion activists and politicians to further attack access.” Shah doubles down, saying there is “no evidence that medication abortion reversal is possible.” Abortion Pill Reversal indicates studies reveal a 64-68 percent success rate. Plus there’s the fact that in 2016, 175 babies were saved by it.

There’s more lunacy with her writing, “[W]e do not expose people to potential risks for no medical benefit, so we would never recommend this as an option for patients.” What about the benefit to women who want to have their baby and the “medical benefit” to the baby who wouldn’t be aborted? It’s more accurate to say there’s “no… benefit” for Planned Parenthood. Click here for more.

Now there are Eight: Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signs Abortion Pill Reversal bill

On Thursday Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed SB 614 into law. Abortionists are now required to tell an abortion-minded woman at least 72 hours before her scheduled abortion that she might be able to reverse a “medication” [chemical/RU486] abortion, should she change her mind.  Oklahoma joins Arizona, Arkansas, South Dakota, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, and Kentucky in assuring that women know that if they have second thoughts prior to taking the second set of pills, they have a solid chance of saving their babies. Click here for more.

Closely divided Montana Supreme Court upholds district court decision allowing non-physicians to perform early abortions

Voting 4-3, a divided Montana Supreme Court last Friday upheld a district court ruling “that allows a nurse practitioner and a nurse midwife to provide abortions while they challenge a state law that says only physicians and physician assistants can perform the procedure,” the Associated Press’s Amy Beth Hanson reported.  The Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU of Montana had filed the lawsuit last year.  Click here for more.

Dangerous Missouri Planned Parenthood sends 72nd patient to hospital

The “most dangerous” abortion facility in the nation, as some have dubbed it, sent its 72nd patient in ten years to the hospital on April 24, 2019. Most of the medical emergencies at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region have been due to hemorrhaging after surgical abortions, reports pro-life watchdog group Operation Rescue. The most recent patient is believed to be an African-American woman. She was wheeled out of the center on a gurney to a waiting St. Louis Fire Department ambulance. A fire truck was also present at the scene.  Click here for more.

Kansas Supreme Court Rules State Constitution Protects Dismemberment Abortion

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act (SB 95) violates the state constitution’s Bill of Rights, which they argue guarantees a “right” to abortion.  “Dismemberment abortion kills a living unborn baby by tearing her apart limb from limb,” said Ingrid Duran, National Right to Life director of state legislation. “It is unconscionable that the Kansas Supreme Court would allow living unborn babies to be killed in such a gruesome manner.”  Click here for more.

Bank of America Misled Customers, Investors on Direct Donations to Planned Parenthood

"2ndVote has released documentation challenging Bank of America's defense of its contributions to Planned Parenthood. In a letter recently obtained by 2ndVote, the president of the Bank of America Charitable Foundation apparently responded to a customer concerned with the bank's support for Planned Parenthood: 'Bank of America does not make any direct grants to Planned Parenthood.' Bank of America did contribute over $50,000 in what appears to be so-called 'matching gifts' to the abortion giant through its foundation in 2017."  Click here for more.

Springfield Right to Life Peaceful Prayer Rally

On May 1st, Planned Parenthood is hosting a Lobby Day for Reproductive Health Access and in response to this, Springfield Right to Life is hosting a peaceful prayer rally beginning at the Springfield Right to Life Office (519 Bruns Lane) from 11:30am - 1:00pm.

We are not there to protest Planned Parenthood’s right to lobby; we are simply going to pray there on the public property outside Planned Parenthood that these bills do not get passed and that the end of abortion comes soon.

Please come and bring your friends! Let our prayerful presence speak out for life!

Let prayer be our response to these bills that are still circulating in our legislation.

Tim Moore, the Springfield Right to Life President will come and briefly speak about this at 12:15pm.

Let others know you’re coming! Here is a link to our Facebook event Page.

Planned Parenthood supporter challenges Pro-life Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski in Illinois

Pro-life Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski in Illinois is facing a second challenge to his Congressional seat from a political supporter of Planned Parenthood. Challenger Marie Newman recently announced her second attempt to unseat  (D-IL.) for Congress, who has been deemed by news outlets like the Washington Times as “one of last pro-life Democrats.” This election is being seen as a referendum on Lipinski’s pro-life stance, determining if there is room for people who do not support abortion in the Democratic party. Click here for more.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson calls his friend with Down syndrome “The Rock’s Rock”

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is sharing part of the story of how he became the strong person he is today and the credit he owes to his life-long friend, Milton McBride Rosen.

Tampa’s ABC Action News reports, “When they were growing up in Tampa, Milton, who has Down syndrome, taught the Rock how to work out, how to lift weights and how to never, ever quit.”

In a new short film about Milton, produced by Johnson and Good Morning America host Robin Roberts, Johnson shares how Milton has been an inspiration in his life. Johnson and Milton met when “The Rock” was just five- or six-years-old.  Click here for more.

Indiana Governor signs bills banning dismembering living unborn babies and enhancing conscience protections

On Wednesday Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law House Enrolled Act 1211, which bans the practice of dismembering living unborn children, and Senate Bill 201, which expands Indiana law to extend conscience protections to additional medical providers. Click here for more.

Abortionist Ashutosh “Ron” Virmani shouts at pro-lifers: ‘Rape them and send them here’

Abortionist Ashutosh “Ron” Virmani is raising eyebrows yet again, after pro-lifers caught him on camera yelling “rape them and send them here” as he pulled into his abortion facility earlier this month. Virmani is already well-known to many, as he has expressed racist views in the past, has previously had his medical license suspended, and was even arrested for rape.

In the video, which was published on Facebook last week, Virmani pulls into A Preferred Women’s Health Center, the facility where he commits abortions. He slows down and stops in front of a group of pro-lifers who are filming, and shouts at them, “Rape them and send them here!” Before anyone can respond, he repeats it again, and then speeds off. Click here for more.

Susan B. Anthony List launches targeted campaign for Born Alive bill

The pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List has launched a new campaign to pressure members of Congress to sign the discharge petition for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

If 218 members of the House of Representatives sign the discharge petition, the bill will move to the floor, where it will be considered. Presently, 199 members have signed, including all but two Republican members, but only two Democrats: Reps. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) and Collin Peterson (D-MN).  Click here for more.

Pregnancy center opens next door to Planned Parenthood in Flossmoor Illinois

When Planned Parenthood opened a new abortion facility in Flossmoor, Illinois, just south of Chicago last January, Kris Cortes and her husband Dennis knew they needed to act.

So together with a small band of pro-life friends, they held a meeting in the Cortes’ living room and quickly formed a grassroots group that would come to be known as Southland Coalition for Life. They adopted three goals: to educate the community about the sanctity of life; to initiate a movement of prayer within homes, churches and at the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic; and to open a pregnancy help center to make life-affirming pregnancy options and support available to women in the community. Click here for more.

Uber driver fired for refusing to drive woman to get abortion

Uber has permanently banned a driver in upstate New York for refusing to take a 20-year-old college student to an abortion facility.

The incident went viral on mainstream media after the student wrote about the “worst, most backward day of my life” on Reddit. Uber confirmed “that the driver was removed from the service as his actions violated the company’s community guidelines,” according to Yahoo Lifestyle. Click here for more.

Trump admin removes pro-abortion language from UN anti-rape resolution

The Trump administration secured the removal of pro-abortion language from a United Nations resolution against rape in war zones Tuesday by threatening to veto the measure if the final version contained a notorious euphemism for abortion.

The UN Security Council had been debating updates a resolution first approved in 2013 to combat the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. The United States objected to a reference in the document calling for “comprehensive health services, including sexual and reproductive health” for “survivors of sexual violence,” on the grounds that “reproductive health” is a longstanding term of art for abortion and related services. Click here for more.

Trump abortion rule cutting $60M of Planned Parenthood funding blocked

Federal Judge Michael J. McShane has announced he will block the Trump administration policy prohibiting federal funding to contraception providers that offer abortions or refer patients to abortion providers.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane criticized President Trump’s changes to the Title X program announing he will block the Trump administration policy prohibiting federal funding to contraception providers that offer abortions or refer patients to abortion providers.
Set to take effect May 3, he said that he will soon issue an opinion granting a preliminary injunction against the changes, which abortion proponents have dubbed a “gag rule.”  Click here for more

House leadership aims to ensure legal protections for surviving infants, despite staunch opposition from all but three Democrats

A debate has been reignited in Congress and various state legislatures over legal protections for infants born alive after a failed abortion attempt. After a measure from Senator Ben Sasse, R-Neb., failed in the Senate, Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., is trying to keep the issue alive in the House by leading a “discharge petition” to bypass Democratic leadership and bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to a vote after Republicans have been blocked in their direct attempts to do so 32 times.  Click here for more

Woman traumatized by abortion after rape

Coca-Cola, Ford and Xerox to stop funding Planned Parenthood!

Trump’s HHS may further expand conscience protections for health workers

Federal judge issues partial injunction against Ohio’s ban on dismemberment abortions

California Supreme Court issued a stay for the case for Planned Parenthood investigators David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Susan Merritton trial for ‘conspiracy’

An email received today from Thomas More Society’s public relations firm, stating that as of Friday evening, April 19th, the California Supreme Court issued a stay for the case The People of the State of California v. David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Susan Merritt — “suspended until further notice from the California Supreme Court.” According to the emailed press release, “The stay was based on the political bias and selective prosecution. Further details will be forthcoming.” Click here for more

Who’s paying millions for this abortion training program? Taxpayers.

Abortion training is being orchestrated out of a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) program which receives millions in government dollars. UCSF trains abortion providers through their Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. According to Bixby’s annual reports, in 2014, nearly $22 million dollars (52 percent) of Bixby’s revenue came from the taxpayer, although the report does not specify whether the funds were state or federal. By 2015, although Government dollars made up only 18 percent of Bixby’s revenue, it totaled over $18 million in taxpayer dollars. Bixby is conveniently located in California, which permits millions in taxpayer dollars to fund abortions and has no requirement that abortion numbers be reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for data analysis.

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As more women die from abortion pill, the FDA approves a generic version

The FDA has approved a generic version of the abortion pill Mifeprex, at a time when more deaths are being reported and the abortion industry is pushing for the dangerous abortion inducing chemicals to be dispensed online or by mail. According to a notice from the FDA, the generic version is approved for use as an abortifacient. This news comes just a day before the FDA updated its adverse effects reports through 2018, stating, “As of December 31, 2018, there were reports of 24 deaths of women associated with Mifeprex since the product was approved in September 2000, including two cases of ectopic pregnancy resulting in death; and several cases of severe systemic infection (also called sepsis), including some that were fatal…” The FDA’s 2017 report put the number of deaths at 22.

This means that in 2018 alone, two more women died from taking the abortion pill. And yet, now a generic version is going to be made available.  To date, the report documents nearly 4,200 reported adverse effects, including hospitalization and other serious complications.

Click here for more from Live Action News.

Vandals hit Students for Life display at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

An Illinois chapter of Students for Life (pictured) is reporting vandalism of one of its college displays. The group at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE) reported that a sign marking a cemetery display was stolen. The group wrote of the incident on its Facebook page:

Yesterday, we had a Cemetery of the Innocent display at SIUE to show how many innocent lives are lost in just one year to abortion (926,000 in 2014, the most recent data from the Guttmacher Institute). Unfortunately, our sign was taken just before we were going to pick up the display.

While it was disappointing to see the animosity some have for the pro-life cause, there were many positive points from the day. We had discussions with students about abortion in a compassionate and understanding manner, and many students saw the the display while our sign was still up. We also collected signatures in support of smart paid family leave proposals in Congress. Thank you to everyone that came out to help with the display; even though it can be hard on days like yesterday, we are lucky to have the chance to stand for those who can’t stand for themselves.

Click here for more from Live Action News.

Pro-Life Displays on College Campuses do work as this one at Xavier University in Ohio has

Pro-lifers at Xavier University in Ohio (pictured) recent put up a Students for Life “Planned Parenthood Truth” display, with attention-getting pink banners. “Planned Parenthood Truth” gives students information about the abortion giant that they won’t get in the mainstream media, allowing them to “read real reports from public health departments and mainstream news sources about Planned Parenthood’s facilities and their failure to protect women,” writes Matt Lamb of Students for Life of America. “At the end of the display, students are asked if they trust Planned Parenthood.”

At the end of the display, Xavier students had spoken with 110 individuals on campus about Planned Parenthood, and at least 33 people to whom they spoke reported that they had a change of opinion about the corporation, shifting from once trusting the organization to reconsider. 68 percent of those visiting the display stated that Planned Parenthood shouldn’t get taxpayer funding, and just 19 percent said they would “strongly trust” the abortion giant’s services, or trust it with taxpayer funding. Xavier U’s Lily Hutkowski said that “other groups have even had success getting students to cancel their appointments after seeing the display.”

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Royal or not, they are babies, not “fetuses”

Photo: Mark Jones

Primarily that the impending “more private” birth of Meghan Markle’s and Prince Harry‘s first child will be far different from the minute-to-minute coverage of the births of Kate Middleton’s and Prince William’s three children.

What will be the same is the royal baby will not have been referred to as a “fetus,” which is more important than you might think.

Here’s how Owen Strachan wrote about the approaching birth of Kate’s and William’s first child back in 2013:

How strange was it, then, that leading [American] news sources referred to the fetus of William and Kate as the “royal baby.” There were no pre-birth headlines from serious journalistic sources like “Royal Clump of Cells Eagerly Anticipated” or “Imperial Seed Soon to Sprout.” None of the web’s traffic-hoarding empires ran “Subhuman Royal Fetus Soon to Become Human!” No, over and over again, one after another, from the top of the media food chain to the bottom, Kate’s “fetus” was called, simply and pre-committedly, a baby. Why was this? Because, as I see it, the royal baby was a baby before birth. The media was right; gloriously, happily right.

He continued

Like all babies-in-womb, in the months before Kate gave birth, the royal heir was spinning around, jabbing mom at inopportune moments, reacting in sheer physical bliss to the soothing sounds of dad’s voice, getting hungry, becoming sad and even agitated when voices were raised in marital conflict, sleeping, sucking its thumb, enjoying certain kinds of music, waking mom up in the night in order to do more spinning around/kicking, and eating hungrily what mom ate.

Agreed, this is a temporary lapse into sanity on the part of publications such as the Washington Post and the New York Times and CNN, etc. But what choice (pardon the pun) do they have?

It’s just too—what?—lame to talk about the upcoming birth of someone who is already internationally famous as if he or she could be reduced to nothing more than a toneless, emotionless Latin term for “baby.”

But that acknowledgment of the unique humanity of each royal unborn child should apply to the children of all of us commoners as well, don’t you think?

I love Strachan’s conclusion:

But in a society that has moved to a stunning degree away from pro-choice identification and toward some form of pro-life conviction, it may also be that the American moral sense, short as its reach is, uncertain as its effects are, will, after much travail and division, shelter the babies that now spin, kick, and play in their mother’s wombs.

Whether royal or unroyal, they are just that, after all: babies

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Federal Legislative Update: Pro-lifers proposing protective legislation in both Houses of Congress

Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

On April 2nd nearly two hundred energized pro-life members of the U.S. House of Representatives lined up on the House floor to begin signing a discharge petition on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

The discharge petition is a tool that the pro-life Republican minority can use to circumvent pro-abortion leadership which is blocking a vote on this bill. The discharge petition can remain open an entire congress. Once it reaches a simple majority (218) of signatures, the bill can come for a vote. To reach that figure, 21 Democrats must join Republicans.

Led by Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and bill sponsor Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), an impressive 193 members signed the petition on the first day. Currently, there are 198 signers, including three Democrats–Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), Ben McAdams (D-Utah), and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.). The battle continues to reach the crucial 218 number of signatures.

In addition, a different prolife member has gone to the floor every legislative day since the bill’s introduction asking for unanimous consent to consider H.R. 962. Democrats have blocked these requests 28 times.

An always current list of House of Representatives signers is available here.

There was prior action in the Senate. On February 25, the U.S. Senate voted 53-44 for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. However, the bill failed to receive the 60 votes necessary to “invoke cloture” (end a filibuster) due to efforts by pro-abortion Democrats to block its advancement.

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Hearings in the U.S. Senate

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the sponsor of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, has scheduled a hearing on S. 160 for today, April 9th.

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act continues to be one of the right-to-life movement’s top congressional priorities for the 116th Congress. Like the state bills, the proposed federal law would generally extend legal protection to unborn humans beginning at 20 weeks fetal age, based on congressional findings that by that point (and even earlier) the unborn child has the capacity to experience great pain during an abortion.

Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act

On April 4th, Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced the Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act. This vital pro-life legislation would prohibit the performance of dismemberment abortion on living unborn children.

The Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act defines “dismemberment abortion” as “knowingly dismembering a living unborn child and extracting such unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors or similar instruments that, through the convergence of two rigid levers, slice, crush or grasp a portion of the unborn child’s body in order to cut or rip it off . . .”

Abortion Pill Reversal and the Second Chance at Life Act

On April 1st, Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), introduced the first-of-its-kind Second Chance at Life Act of 2019 in the U.S. House. This legislation, based on a model developed by National Right to Life, will require that a woman be informed that the effects of the chemical abortion pill can potentially be reversed in order to save her baby if she changes her mind after taking it and does not take the second of the two drugs.

Over 500 babies have been saved by the abortion pill reversal protocol.

High numbers of chemical abortions explain why nearly two-thirds (65.4%) of abortions are now performed at eight-week’ gestation, or earlier.

The chemical (medical) abortion currently involves a two-step drug process. The first abortifacient drug (mifepristone or RU-486) is usually given at the clinic and begins the process of shutting down the unborn child’s life support system (nutrition, oxygen, etc.). The second drug, misoprostol, is taken 24-48 hours later, usually at home, to expel the baby’s remains and complete the abortion.

Research on abortion pill reversal indicates that the first drug, mifepristone, used alone, does not always end the unborn baby’s life. A woman may still have a viable pregnancy after taking the first abortifacient drug, mifepristone.

While action on this legislation is unlikely with pro-abortion Democrats controlling the House, this important legislation can be used to educate and save lives.

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