June 11, 2020

CBS Poll Gives Interesting Statistics on Support for Roe v. Wade

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A new CBS poll gives fascinating statistics about public support of legal abortion.

It should be noted at the start that this poll consisted of 331 people who identified as Republicans and 454 who identified as Democrats. The 123-person bias to the Democrat side accounts for some of these statistics.

24 percent of respondents said that they thought abortion "should not be permitted" at all, while 31 percent supported abortion being "available but under limits." Finally, 43 percent said that abortion should be "generally available."

The CBS poll also asked if respondents supported the idea of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. 63 percent said they would prefer the decision to remain, while only 29 percent of the left-slanted poll group supported overturning the decision.

Finally, respondents were asked if they would vote for candidates who disagreed with their position on abortion. 49 percent said that they would, while 42 percent said they could not vote for someone who disagreed on this issue.

While some of these statistics may be disappointing for pro-lifers, it's important to remember the bias included in this poll and consider one silver lining: 55 percent of respondents (including Democrats) said they either believe abortion should be either banned or limited in some way. Pro-lifers may be able to use this common ground to save lives and start discussions that change minds on the value of unborn life.

Religious Groups and Businesses Sue the State of Illinois over Illinois Reproductive Health Act's Abortion Coverage Mandate

Thomas More Society
Vice President Peter Breen
Yesterday, the Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois for mandating that all insurance policies sold in the state include elective abortion coverage.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Illinois Baptist State Association, the Southland Smiles dental practice and the Rock River Cartage freight company in the Sangamon County Circuit Court. It charges that requiring all health insurance plans to include coverage for elective abortion violates the religious rights of those who believe abortion kills a human being.

The lawsuit seeks an injunction that would prevent the state of Illinois from enforcing the abortion coverage requirement against employers and insurance companies.

“This forced coverage of abortion is a blatant violation of the religious and conscience rights of Illinoisans,” said Thomas More Society Vice President Peter Breen. “While the secular forces behind this mandate often erroneously object to any influence of religion on the state, here they had no hesitation in wielding state power against our sincerely held, common-sense religious beliefs, which compel us to avoid paying for health insurance coverage of abortion.”


“Governor Pritzker and his administration have run roughshod over the religious freedoms of Illinoisans, from shuttering churches during COVID-19, to forcing people of faith to pay for elective abortions,” Breen continued. “The people of Illinois shouldn’t have to sue to have their fundamental religious rights recognized, but just as we succeeded in reopening our state’s churches through vigorous court actions, we will fight this abortion insurance mandate until it is reversed.”

June 10, 2020

Colorado Supreme Court Rules Deliberately Harming an Unborn Child is not Child Abuse

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The Colorado Supreme Court ordered a retrial of a case involving a man convicted of shooting his pregnant wife partially because one of the counts he was found guilty of was child abuse.

A man named Andre Jones shot his estranged pregnant wife in the stomach seven years ago causing her death. His then-unborn daughter managed to survive the incident, but she was born with severe neurological damage. She suffered vision and hearing loss, and she is unable to breathe or swallow on her own. Jones was convicted of first-degree murder, unlawful termination of a pregnancy, and child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury. Jones's lawyers argued that his daughter was not a person at the time of the crime, so child abuse could not occur. The Colorado Supreme Court agreed, so when they ordered a retrial they did so without the child abuse charge.

In the majority opinion, the justices said, "The child abuse statute defines ‘child’ as ‘a person under the age of sixteen years.’ The statute does not define ‘person.’ […] We cannot infer from this definition, however, that the child abuse statute similarly applies only to harm caused to those who are already born at the time of the injurious conduct."

University of Colorado Boulder law professor Aya Gruber had this to say,

“It’s kind of wild that they’re saying, ‘It’s not clear to us on the face of it that the word ‘person’ doesn’t really mean ‘person or fetus.’ In other words, they’re saying it is completely plausible [for a] facial meaning of the word ‘person’ to include ‘fetus.’ That part of it all seems like a pretty big blow to the anti-personhood [movement] and maybe a symbolic victory for the personhood movement.”

Pro-life advocates say this may prompt some Colorado legislators to push to include unborn children in a definition of personhood.

Andy Cohen Wins $32,000 for Planned Parenthood on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

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Last Thursday, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and talk show host Andy Cohen went on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" to win money for charity. While Cooper selected Spike's K9 Fund as his charity of choice, Cohen decided that he wanted to win money for Planned Parenthood.

Reports say that Cohen won $32,000 on the show; a small amount compared to what was possible but still an unnecessary donation. Income from private donations, taxpayer funding, and business-as-usual generate millions of dollars in excess revenue for the abortion giant.

This comes just a few weeks after another game show "The Price is Right," similarly allowed celebrity drag queen RuPaul to choose Planned Parenthood as the recipient of a donation.

June 9, 2020

Chicago Woman Decides Against Abortion

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A post by John Janson on Pro-Life Action League's blog told a short and encouraging story about a woman who changed her mind on abortion after they had a short exchange on the sidewalk outside a Chicago abortion clinic.

"About ten minutes after I arrived, I offered literature to a young African-American woman on her way in and told her that there had recently been a medical emergency at this location, and that she could get help at the Aid for Women pregnancy center on Michigan Avenue," Janson wrote.  

"She accepted the literature but continued walking, and then opened the door.  At that point, I said, 'Even if you go in, you can still change your mind.'"

He writes that about 15 minutes later, the woman emerged from the clinic and smiled at him before returning to a vehicle and sharing a long embrace with another woman before leaving.

Sidewalk counseling can save lives. While many women may not listen, sincere words of kindness coupled with life-affirming options can make a difference.

June 8, 2020

6th U.S. Court of Appeals Rules Against Kentucky Dismemberment Abortion Ban

On June 2, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a permanent injunction against a Kentucky dismemberment abortion ban by U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley. The court found that Kentucky’s House Bill 454 created too much of a barrier to abortion access, even though it only banned a single method of abortion.

Dismemberment abortion kills an unborn child by having an abortionist individually tear limbs off a child and remove them from a mother's body individually with forceps. The child eventually dies by bleeding out during this process. Abortionists often use this method to complete abortions once an unborn child has grown too large to be removed via vacuum aspiration abortion. The unborn baby, specifically the baby's head, becomes too large to pull out of the mother's womb without first crushing it. To solve this "problem", abortionists tear individual limbs from a child's body until only the head remains. Then, they crush the skull and remove all of the pieces to complete the abortion.

“While the court did not decide in our favor or in the favor of these young victims, we must never give up working toward the day when all innocent human life is protected in law,” said National Right to Life President Carol Tobias.

116 Reps Advocate for Hyde Amendment Protections to Healthcare Funding for Unemployed Americans

Texas Rep. Mike Conaway
On June 5, Texas Rep. Mike Conaway led 116 members of Congress in signing a letter to House and Senate leaders asking that they pass legislation that would apply Hyde Amendment protections to healthcare funding for unemployed Americans.

The letter suggests H.R. 6742 as a solution, saying that the bill “prohibits any funds that are authorized or appropriated for the purposes of preventing, preparing for, or responding to the COVID–19 pandemic, domestically and internationally, from going towards abortions or abortion coverage. In addition, this bill also addresses any attempts to use refundable tax credits from being used to purchase coverage on the exchanges or for COBRA continuation coverage.”

Planned Parenthood already took advantage of some emergency funding passed by Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic by taking $80 million in federal loans meant to help small businesses. Individuals can similarly take advantage of emergency funding for the unemployed by using extra funds to pay for abortions if measures such as H.R. 6742 are not passed.

June 5, 2020

How "AKA Jane Roe" Documentary Deceptively Claimed Pro-Lifers Paid Norma McCorvey to Change Her Mind

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The recent FX documentary "AKA Jane Roe" used interviews with pro-abortion advocate Rev. Rob Schenck and receipts from Roe No More Ministry, Inc. to claim that pro-life advocates paid Norma McCorvey to speak in opposition to abortion. Live Action News examined tax records from Roe no More Ministry to confirm that these claims were false. 

While Rev. Schenck may have paid McCorvey in cash himself while he was part of the pro-life movement, his claims about other organizations are not supported by financial documents. His side only stands to gain by accusing pro-life organizations of bribing McCorvey, and the filmmakers never found evidence that McCorvey was paid to change sides. They instead based their claim on Schenck's word and receipts for McCorvey's ministry which was formed years after she converted. According to Live Action News, tax forms from Rev. Schenck's own non-profit organization don't support the documentary's claims. P&R Schenck Associates in Evangelism, Inc. never legally gave money to Roe No More Ministry Inc.

The documentary claims that pro-life organizations only gave money to Roe No More to "pay off" McCorvey. Live Action News learned, however, that this ministry didn't even exist until years after McCorvey left the abortion movement in 1995. The earliest tax documents for Roe Nor More were dated 1998.

Furthermore, the documents include compensation for Norma McCorvey for the years 2001-2007. McCorvey only received $140,205 for all of those years combined. Even if McCorvey had been compensated the average of this total for the years when her compensation isn't available in tax documents, she would have only been compensated $200,000 over nine years. All of that money would have been received years after her conversion, and it would have been standard practice to pay McCorvey for speaking engagements and books.

The documents tell a very different story from the $450,000 bribe the FX documentary claims pro-life advocates gave to Norma to give pro-life speeches. We may never know if it's true that McCorvey's conversion was a complete act, but we do know that her pro-life friends believed her, and they did not use their money to take advantage of her.

June 4, 2020

Pro-life Women Arrested Outside New York City Planned Parenthood

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On May 30, Bevelyn Beatty and Edmee Chavannes stood outside the Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood Clinic in New York City, New York to counsel women coming to the clinic to get abortions. They had done this many times before, but this time, police punished their activism by arresting them.

Planned Parenthood clinic employees called the police, and when they arrived they told the activists that they needed to leave because they were violating social distancing guidelines. When they told the police they intended to stay and speak with the people coming to have abortions, the police arrested them.

Beatty told Live Action News, “[Planned Parenthood is] not following social distancing, mind you — the person I’m standing with I actually live with so we don’t need to follow social distancing. But the police were saying we were violating social distancing and the only ones that are supposed to be there are the ones that work there. And we told them we’re not moving because it’s a public sidewalk and we have a right to be there. They could be there because they work for Planned Parenthood, but we work for Jesus so as long as this is a public sidewalk, we can be here.”

Beatty also told Live Action News she was frustrated that New York police weren't arresting looters for stealing, but arrested the two women for peacefully standing outside an abortion clinic.

Euthanasia Physicians are Seeing Patients using Video Conferencing

Doctors prescribing assisted suicide drugs to dying patients are now seeing their patients using video conferencing programs such as Zoom. These doctors are not required to consult their patients' previous physicians, only their medical records.

An article written for The Conversation by Anita Hannig, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University, includes the following excerpt:
[Dr. Carol] Parrot says she sees 90% of her patients online, visually examining a patient’s symptoms, mobility, affect and breathing.

“I can get a great deal of information for how close a patient is to death from a Skype visit,” Parrot explained. “I don’t feel badly at all that I don’t have a stethoscope on their chest.”

After the initial visit, whether in person or online, aid-in-dying physicians carefully collate their prognosis with the patient’s prior medical records and lab tests. Some also consult the patient’s primary physician.
Hannig wrote that she interviewed Dr. Parrot to obtain this information back in 2018, which means this method of prescribing assisted suicide drugs was present even before the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic simply drove more death doctors to pursue this as the primary method of seeing patients.

Euthanasia is not currently legal in Illinois, but lobbies still push to allow doctors to grant vulnerable patients drugs to be used to end their lives. Health care should always value human life and provide even terminal patients with a high quality of life.

June 3, 2020

New York Baby Born 11 Weeks Early Comes Home from Hospital after Mother Gave Birth During Coma

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Doctors have proven once again that abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of a mother.

NYU Winthrop Hospital put pregnant mother and COVID-19 patient Adriana Torres in a medically-induced coma to help during her fight against the disease. After she had been in the coma for a while, doctors knew that they needed to end the pregnancy early in order to increase both the mother and the child's chance of survival. To accomplish this, they performed an emergency C-section on April 8th and Leah was born.

Leah was born 11 weeks early, and therefore had a lower chance of survival than a child born normally would. Leah's chances were higher than the chances she would have had if the only solution was abortion, however. Emergency C-sections are both life-affirming and quicker than abortion procedures. The child has a chance at survival, and doctors can end a mother's pregnancy to tend to life-threatening issues.

Leah was 2 pounds and 15 ounces when she was born, but she surprised even the doctors by nearly doubling her weight in the weeks after the procedure. Adriana Torres successfully recovered from COVID-19 and her daughter was finally able to go home with her family last Wednesday.

78 Members of Congress Urge Second Circuit Court of Appeals to Protect the Conscience Rights of Pro-Life Doctors

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78 members of Congress filed an amicus brief last month to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals asking the court to allow the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to put conscience protections in place for health care workers. HHS Enforcement for these protections was blocked by a lower court. Without them, doctors who work at facilities receiving federal funds could be forced to carry out abortions or assisted suicides by their employers or risk losing their jobs.

“To ensure compliance with these federal conscience protections, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) promulgated the Conscience Rule on May 21, 2019 to interpret and implement existing federal statutes,” the legislators told the court in their amicus brief. They are referring to the Church Amendment, the Coats-Snowe Amendment, and the Weldon Amendment that offer conscience protections. The HHS rule would simply be a method of enforcing those protections.

“For the last fifty years, Congress has been very clear: governmental and private entities cannot receive federal funds and discriminate against health care entities that refuse to perform or assist in the performance of particular procedures,” the amicus brief continued. “HHS should be allowed to enforce this statutory prerogative.”

On November 6, 2019, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, nominated by President Barack Obama to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, vacated the HHS rule protecting the consciences of health care workers before it became effective.

United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York Paul A. Engelmayer vacated the HHS rule on Nov. 6, 2019. After appealing the decision, Regina Frost, M.D., a Michigan-based OB/GYN, the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, and the HHS filed their opening briefs to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on April 27.

June 2, 2020

Trump Cuts Pro-Abortion World Health Organization from US Funding

President Trump followed through on a promise last Friday, stripping the pro-abortion United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) of US federal funding. Many have accused the WHO of aiding China in covering up the spread and danger of COVID-19, and these accusations have ultimately led to this breaking point.

“China has total control over the World Health Organization despite only paying $40 million per year compared to what the United States has been paying, which is approximately $450 million a year,” Trump said.

Last month, Trump temporarily withheld US funding from the WHO and declared that unless the organization demonstrated independence from the Chinese government, he would make the change permanent. Now he has.

Trump said last Friday, “Because they have failed to act and make the requested and greatly-needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving, urgent, global, public health needs.”

The WHO and other arms of the UN have also used the COVID-19 crisis to promote abortion as "essential services" during the pandemic. USAID Administrator John Barsa sent a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres last month asking that the UN stop using the pandemic to stop using the crisis as an opportunity to pressure life-affirming nations to legalize abortion.

June 1, 2020

Missouri Administrative Court Rules to Relicense St. Louis Planned Parenthood Despite Hospitalizations

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A Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in St. Louis, Missouri has been in a long legal battle with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for several months. The department moved to have the clinic's license revoked after botched abortions resulted in the hospitalizations of pregnant women, but last week a court ruled to relicense the dangerous clinic.

Missouri Administrative Court Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi ruled in favor of the Planned Parenthood clinic, saying that the clinic's failures did not amount to the “substantial failure to comply” with Missouri regulations required to have its license revoked.

This decision may come as a surprise to Planned Parenthood as well, since its recent Fairview Heights, Illinois abortion clinic was constructed partially to take patients from across state lines, seemingly in preparation for the closure of the St. Louis facility.

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman pointed out that the St. Louis Planned Parenthood was responsible for over 70 hospitalizations, and further noted that the court decision blamed hospitalized women for the injuries they suffered at the hands of the facility.

“It is unbelievable that the Commissioner put the burden for proper care on the injured by fat-shaming one woman, and placing the blame on the other for having a condition that would have been diagnosed by a competent physician,” said Newman.

“Planned Parenthood has lost their license due to their incompetence, and for no other reason,” said Missouri Right to Life Executive Director Susan Klein. “The blame for the deficiencies and infractions at the Planned Parenthood abortion site in St. Louis can be laid specifically and only on those who operate that abortion facility. Women’s lives were put at risk and the law was broken at the St. Louis Planned Parenthood. No one and no healthcare facility is above the law.

Missouri Right to Life and Operation Rescue have called on the health department and Missouri's attorney general to appeal this decision and ensure that more women are not harmed at the St. Louis abortion mill.


May 29, 2020

Planned Parenthood Started Promoting Abortion Pills Past FDA-Approved Limit

Planned Parenthood's website was recently changed to promote the use of abortion pills up to the 11th week of pregnancy. The FDA only approves the use of the abortion pill regimen up to the 10th week of pregnancy.


A page on the Planned Parenthood website includes a section titled, "How effective is the abortion pill?" which lists how likely the abortion pill regiment is to complete an abortion during different weeks of pregnancy. Live Action News pointed out that this section recently added another week to this list.

The website now says, "For people who are 10-11 weeks pregnant, it works about 87 out of 100 times. If you're given an extra dose of medicine, it works about 98 out of 100 times."

This also comes when Planned Parenthood has begun instituting a "no-test policy" in which clinics simply use a pregnant woman's best guess at when their pregnancy began to make decisions on how to abort the child. If an abortion process goes wrong because Planned Parenthood used an incorrect gestational age in their decision-making process, a woman could experience medical problems including infection.

Pro-Abortion ACLU and ACOG Sue FDA over Safety Requirements for Abortion Pills

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) over abortion pill restrictions designed to maximize women's safety when taking the abortion pill.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) applies restrictions called the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy to some drugs since taking them involves a risk the FDA believes is great enough to require patients to see a doctor in person first. This is what the FDA requires for the abortion drug mifepristone. It is particularly risky for a pregnant woman to take mifepristone if she has a condition called an ectopic pregnancy, in which their child develops outside the uterus. If a woman with an ectopic pregnancy attempts to complete a DIY abortion using the abortion pill regimen, she is at high risk for severe hemorrhage or even death. To prevent this, a doctor can first perform an ultrasound to ensure this condition is not present. Even without an ectopic pregnancy, however, some women require follow-up surgeries and medical treatments after taking the abortion pill regimen.

The ACOG and ACLU do not want to acknowledge this risk and have taken legal action in an attempt to force the FDA to change its stance. They instead are trying to use the COVID-19 epidemic as an excuse to expand chemical abortions. They are spinning the situation to accuse the FDA of causing COVID-19 to spread more by choosing to maintain their safety regulations.

“Of the more than 20,000 drugs regulated by the FDA, mifepristone is the only one that patients must receive in person at a hospital, clinic, or medical office, yet may self-administer, unsupervised, at a location of their choosing,” the ACOG complaint reads. 

“Our request in this case is simple: the federal government should permit patients seeking safe and effective reproductive health care, which includes care for miscarriage and termination of pregnancy, the same ability to access care and protect themselves from exposure as patients in other contexts are afforded,” said ACOG President Eva Chalas.

Pregnancy is not a disease that can be treated or cured with a drug. It is much more complex than that, and the current FDA regulations respect that context by placing special restrictions on abortion pills. These drugs also end human lives; a fact that has yet to be respected by federal laws.

May 28, 2020

Friends of Norma McCorvey Say FX Documentary Creates an Inaccurate Picture of "Jane Roe"

Norma McCorvey
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Friends of Norma McCorvey recently spoke out about McCorvey's life and how they believed the recent documentary "AKA Jane Roe" documentary by FX inaccurately portrayed McCorvey's life. Among other things, the documentary alleges that pro-life advocates took advantage of McCorvey by paying her to make pro-life statements she didn't actually believe.

Karen Garnett, who used to be the executive director of the Catholic Pro-Life Committee, became friends with Norma when they met at pro-life events. Garnett told Live Action News that McCorvey was given honorariums for speaking at events, which filmmaker Nick Sweeney likely classified as "paying McCorvey off" in order to make his point. Garnett also said on The Van Maren Show that McCorvey's health was declining due to all the traveling she had to do for events, so the committee gave donations to her McCorvey would allow her to continue being an activist while traveling less.

Minister Flip Benham told Live Action News that when he spoke with McCorvey while she still worked at an abortion clinic, he told her the same thing that he told all abortion workers: “If you come out, we’ll take care of you. You will not be left alone. We’ll help you find a job.”

“We Took Care of her,” Benham said. 

Rev. Patrick Mahoney said on The Van Maren Show, “Norma has been abused enough [in] her life. For these documentarians on her deathbed to abuse her and take advantage of her one more time was truly repugnant and really disheartening. And I couldn’t be more upset with them.”


Pro-Life Students Egged while Protesting at New Planned Parenthood Clinic in Waukegan, IL

Pro-lifers at March for Life 2015
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Last Friday, Pro-life students protesting at a newly-opened Planned Parenthood clinic in Waukegan, Illinois were assaulted by groups of pro-abortion attackers hurling eggs.

Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life of America (SFLA) said, “The violence and vandalism against pro-lifers must stop. In the past several weeks, we have been targeted by violent pro-choice individuals who hate the idea that pro-life people even exist. We are asking the Waukegan police department to hold the pro-choice attackers accountable for their actions.”

“This violence against pro-life activists who take a stand for innocent human life is unfortunately not uncommon,” said Sarah Minnich, the Illinois/Iowa Regional Coordinator for Students for Life who was present during the attacks. “Most striking, however, is the perseverance and joy of the students involved. Pro-life students are told not to return the anger and violence of pro-abortion activists that react to the pro-life message. These student leaders embody the beauty of life by praying for the perpetrators and continuing to stand up for life.”

An investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Planned Parenthood Testimony in Center for Medical Progress Case Once Again Exposes Fetal Tissue Sales

David Daleiden
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Testimony by Planned Parenthood officials during their case against the Center for Medical Progress once again exposes that the organization harvested and sold fetal body parts obtained during abortions.

The Center for Medical Progress released a video showing the testimony obtained from Planned Parenthood officials during the organization's lawsuit against undercover investigator David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress. Daleiden says that Planned Parenthood testimony recorded during his trial only confirms what he originally set out to prove.


Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress were found guilty of breaking privacy laws in a California court for its original work. They went to court not to try Planned Parenthood for its ethically bankrupt actions, but to justify their own undercover reporting, something that their attorneys say is a clear violation of their first amendment rights. They plan to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court of necessary.

The Center for Medical Progress's original exposé involved undercover investigators recording videos of conversations with Planned Parenthood while posing as potential buyers of fetal body parts. It has been nearly five years since the Center for Medical Progress released its initial video, and Planned Parenthood has seemingly not suffered any consequences for its actions.

May 27, 2020

Pro-Abortion Group Calls on FDA to Seize Websites Advertising Abortion Pill Reversal

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A pro-abortion group calling itself Campaign for Accountability (CFA) sent a letter on May 20 to the FDA asking the government to seize websites belonging to pro-life groups for advertising abortion pill reversal.

Abortion pill reversal is a process in which a woman takes progesterone to counteract the effects of mifepristone, the first part of the abortion pill regiment. Mifepristone works by blocking a pregnant mother's natural progesterone, which is vital to delivering nutrients and oxygen to an unborn child. By replacing the blocked progesterone quickly after a woman has taken mifepristone, some children who would otherwise be aborted can be saved.

Pro-lifers were quick to point out the hypocrisy of the situation. Abortion Pill Rescue Medical Advisor Dr. Brent Boles told Live Action News, “There are over 20,000 medications approved for use in America by the FDA. A very small number of them have restrictions on their prescribing. All the others are okay for off-label use. But there are 57 drugs that are limited by REMS [Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy].”

Dr. Boles added, “… Only 57 out of more than 20,000 are sufficiently dangerous to require that. Mifeprex [the abortion pill] is one of those drugs, and abortion activists criticize the off-label use of progesterone while also wanting to ignore the restrictions on one of the 57 most dangerous drugs available.”

Abortion advocates have been working to get around FDA restrictions on the abortion pill for a while (with some success). This caused pro-life organizations to call on the FDA to seize websites selling abortion pills from overseas and shipping them to U.S. residents without them even having to visit a doctor. This is required of the abortion pill regiment so that doctors have the chance to diagnose conditions such as ectopic pregnancy. If a woman with an ectopic pregnancy attempts to abort via the abortion pill, she is likely to face serious injury or death.

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