March 3, 2022

Biden's Abortion Comment on Ash Wednesday: "I'm not gonna make a judgement for other people."

With ashes on his forehead following his observance of Ash Wednesday, President Biden was asked by a reporter why he supports Roe v. Wade as a Catholic.

"I don't want to get into a debate with you on theology, but you know..." Biden started to say before being nudged by First Lady Jill Biden.

"Anyway, I'm not gonna make a judgment for other people," Biden concluded. He refused to answer further questions on the subject.


As President, Biden has made those decisions for other people. His administration has enabled abortion businesses to distribute abortion pills through the mail and reinstituted policies that give millions of taxpayer dollars to abortion businesses. He has gone as far as supporting legislation that would codify a right to abortion into federal law. Such legislation would undercut virtually all pro-life state laws in existence.

Biden's choices have expanded abortion in the United States, against the will of pro-life Americans who do not want their tax dollars to fund the killing of innocent children.

Biden Advocates for Abortion Expansion During State of the Union Address

In President Biden's State of the Union Address on March 1, Biden reiterated his support for expanding abortion in the United States.

While Biden advocated for abortion, just a day after the Women's Health Protection Act failed to pass a cloture vote in the US Senate, he did not say the word abortion or acknowledge the millions of American lives that have been ended by abortion since the Roe v. Wade decision.

“Advancing liberty and justice also requires protecting the rights of women. The constitutional right affirmed in Roe v. Wade—standing precedent for half a century—is under attack as never before,” Biden said.

“If we want to go forward—not backward—we must protect access to health care. Preserve a woman’s right to choose. And let’s continue to advance maternal health care in America.”

While Biden chose to avoid using the word "abortion," it is clear that Biden is advocating for the advancement of abortion rather than actual maternal health care.

In the time since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, it is estimated that over 63 million children have been killed through abortion. This is not health care. Mothers deserve support, including health care, but their children also deserve protection under the law.

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March 2, 2022

Planned Parenthood and ACLU Sue Ohio over Abortion Survivors Protection Law

On Feb 25, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood filed a joint lawsuit over an Ohio law protecting babies who survive attempted abortions.

Ohio's Born-Alive Infant Protection Act protects babies who survive failed abortions by requiring that medical professionals provide immediate medical care. The bill was signed into law by Gov Mike DeWine in Dec 2021.

The law also requires abortion facilities to maintain a written transfer agreement with a local hospital or qualified consulting physician. To separate tax dollars from abortion businesses, the law also prohibits doctors who work for public hospitals and universities from contracting with abortion businesses as consulting physicians.

Some abortion businesses claim that it is too difficult to comply with the law, and they are suing the state to have it blocked. The law is scheduled to take effect on March 23, but a judge could issue a temporary injunction to prevent this.

Senate Rejects Bill Creating Federal Right to Abortion

On March 1, the US Senate brought the Women's Health Protection Act to a cloture vote. This bill would have created a federal right to abortion on demand during all stages of pregnancy and ended virtually all pro-life state laws. The motion failed by a vote of 48 (opposed) to 46 (in favor).

47 Republican Senators were joined by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin voting against the bill.

To overcome a filibuster, the cloture vote would have required a total of 60 votes. This means that pro-abortion lawmakers were 14 votes short of the majority they needed to move forward with this bill.

Illinois Senators Dick Durbin (D) and Tammy Duckworth (D) were among the 46 Democrat Senators who voted in favor of the legislation.

The House of Representatives voted 218-211 last September to approve the Women's Health Protection Act, and President Biden has signaled that he would sign the bill. Without a cloture vote in the Senate, however, the bill cannot move forward.

March 1, 2022

Thomas More Society Takes Action Against Groups Violating Texas Heartbeat Act

The Thomas More Society took preliminary steps to take legal action against two abortion groups which have each enabled the abortion of unborn children with detectable heartbeats.

Texas's Heartbeat Act prohibits the abortion of unborn children with detectable heartbeats. Any person who knowingly aids or abets an abortion can be sued under this law, potentially facing a fine of $10,000.

The Thomas More Society wrote in a press release that it has filed petitions for pre-lawsuit discovery against leaders of the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity and the Texas Equal Access Fund. According to the group, the directors of both groups "have admitted in court that their organizations paid for at least one abortion of an unborn child in Texas that had a detectable heartbeat."

“If they are funding abortions in violation of the Texas Heartbeat Law, they can be held accountable,” said Thomas More Society Tom Brejcha. “…This is an attempt to see whether there are violations and, if so, seek accountability. In other words, it’s not just a toothless statement or aspirational ideal. It’s an applicable and effective law with teeth.”

Guttmacher Data Shows Majority of Abortions are Chemical Abortions

The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute recently released new data revealing that chemical abortions have surpassed other types of abortions in the US.

Guttmacher's numbers come from a survey of abortionists who provided data for the year 2020. In that year, 54% of abortions were chemical abortions. Chemical abortions are simply abortions committed through the use of the abortion pill regimen.

The Guttmacher Institute has not yet finalized its study, writing that the 54% number was based on "preliminary findings from ongoing data collection." The group plans to release final estimates in late 2022. While the percentage could change, Guttmacher wrote that it does not expect the number to go below 50%.

In 2020, the FDA suspended safety regulations that required abortion pills to be distributed in-person at abortion businesses. The change was advertised as being a temporary measure meant to slow the spread of COVID-19, but as many pro-life advocates suspected, those regulations were never reinstated. Instead, FDA officials dropped those safety regulations completely.

National Right To Life Director of Education and Research Randall K. O'Bannon said, “Promoters of these pills like to trumpet high safety rates, but they neglect to mention that with hundreds of thousands of women taking these pills, even a couple of percentage points of women hemorrhaging, dealing with infections, and ectopic pregnancy, represents thousands of women desperately seeking emergency medical treatment, which may or may not be nearby.”

February 28, 2022

Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to Replace Breyer on Supreme Court

On Feb 25, President Biden announced that he will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.

Jackson is currently a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. When she worked as a private practice attorney, Jackson represented pro-abortion advocacy groups, including NARAL Pro-Choice America.

National Right to Life pointed out that Joe Biden was asked in 2020 by The New York Times what he would look for in a Supreme Court nominee. He told them:

"They have to have an expansive view of the Constitution. Recognize the right to privacy, unenumerated rights that exist in the Constitution… that means I know they will in fact support Roe v. Wade."

"President Biden made a campaign promise to impose an abortion litmus test on his nominees and we think it is extremely important that Senators take the time to carefully examine Judge Jackson’s record and her judicial philosophy, said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who will interpret the Constitution according to its actual text and history rather than one who would trample the Constitution to promote the radical pro-abortion agenda of the Democratic party and Biden administration."

February 25, 2022

Life-Threatening Emergency Documented at Aurora Planned Parenthood

Ambulance at the Planned Parenthood in Aurora, IL
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A newly released 911 recording and incident report reveal that a woman suffered a life-threatening injury after a second-trimester abortion at the Planned Parenthood abortion business in Aurora, Illinois.

The abortionists at Planned Parenthood suspected that they tore a hole in the woman's uterus, an injury that can cause severe hemorrhaging and future infertility. The bleeding caused by such an injury is life-threatening. Planned Parenthood did not prioritize the woman's life during this emergency, however. When employees called 911 to request an ambulance for the patient, they asked that the ambulance respond without using sirens.


Not using sirens slows the response time of emergency vehicles, as they will have to navigate traffic normally. The time lost could be put to use saving the life of a person suffering from a medical emergency, but abortion businesses often request no sirens anyway.

Operation Rescue, a pro-life organization that documents medical emergencies at abortion businesses, writes that this is the 12th documented hospitalization since Aurora Planned Parenthood opened in 2012.

California AG Moves to Exclude Evidence from Daleiden Trial

CMP Investigative Journalist David Daleiden
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The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) continues to fight a legal battle against the state of California, which has pressed charges against the CMP for its undercover journalism exposing abortion businesses' practice of harvesting and selling body parts from aborted children. In a recent development, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a request to exclude evidence that would help the CMP establish the legality of its undercover journalism.

In 2015, the CMP started releasing recordings of undercover conversations with employees of Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses. Those conversations exposed that Planned Parenthood was illegally profiting from the sale of fetal body parts and that the abortion business was altering abortion procedures for the purpose of harvesting more intact body parts.

California has accused the CMP of breaking state privacy laws during its investigation, but those laws expressly allow undercover recordings if they are intended to reveal evidence of violent crimes. That exception is the focus of the CMP's defense, and it is the focus of the evidence that the state of California is attempting to block.

The evidence in question is sworn testimony from former Orange County District Attorney and former Superior Court Judge Tony Rackauckas. He is willing to testify that his office responded to CMP recordings by taking action against Da Vinci companies, which admitted to selling body parts harvested from aborted children.

In response to California's attempt to block Rackauckas's testimony, CMP attorneys filed a statement:

"The AG castigates Mr. Daleiden as an agent provocateur who sought only to damage Planned Parenthood. Mr. Rackaukas[‘] testimony would be extremely relevant to Mr. Daleiden’s credibility and character concerning his search for violent crimes. In addition, there is probably no greater expert on what constitutes evidence of all crimes than the five-term District Attorney of Orange County, Tony Rackaukas."

February 24, 2022

Virginia Withdraws from ERA Revival Effort

The Commonwealth of Virginia is withdrawing from radical efforts pushing the Archivist of the US to certify the long-expired Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution.

On Feb 18, Virginia submitted a motion to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. In that motion, Virginia Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson wrote that he now agrees that the ERA is dead.

The ERA, as interpreted by pro-abortion activists, could create a constitutional right to abortion. Fortunately, three-fourths of the states are required to ratify a constitutional amendment. This did not happen before the ERA's ratification deadline of March 22, 1979. This deadline was written into the original amendment, but radical pro-abortion activists have chosen to ignore it.

Between the years 2017 and 2020, the legislatures of Nevada, Illinois, and Virginia voted to "ratify" the dead amendment. After Virginia voted in favor of the amendment in January 2020, these radical activists argued that the amendment had surpassed the 38-state minimum required to ratify an amendment. This, of course, refuses to take into account both the deadline and the fact that many states that voted to ratify the amendment 40+ years ago might now hold different stances.

Finally, Virginia has come to understand the ruling of Judge Contreras, who ruled in Virginia v. Ferriero that the ERA's deadline expired decades ago. In his decision, he said that it would be "absurd" for the Archivist to certify the ERA as part of the Constitution. His ruling follows a streak of decisions by federal judges who have all ruled that the amendment is dead.

4th Circuit Ruling Upholds Injunction Blocking South Carolina Heartbeat Law

On Feb 22, a three-judge panel upheld a district court's ruling blocking South Carolina's new heartbeat law while it is being challenged in court.

The "South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act" was passed into law in 2021. Immediately afterward, abortion businesses filed a lawsuit to block it. US District Court Judge Mary Lewis issued a ruling to temporarily block the law on Jan 27.

The law would prohibit abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detectable, which happens at the sixth week of gestation. Additionally, the law requires abortion businesses to perform ultrasounds on each abortion patient, display the results of those ultrasounds to women, and offer women the opportunity to listen to the child's heartbeat if one is detected.

Twenty states filed an amicus brief siding with South Carolina's defense of the new law. They argued that the ultrasound provisions could exist separately from the six-week abortion ban, but the 4th Circuit disagreed in its 3-0 ruling.

"These provisions serve to carry out the six-week abortion ban and make little sense without the ban. As such, the district court did not abuse its discretion by declining to sever the remaining portions of the Act," Judge Stephanie Thacker wrote in the court's decision.

February 23, 2022

Abortion Business's Medical Waste and Patient Info Anonymously Left at Pastor's Home

One of many ultrasound images found in the trash
bags left at Fr. Terry Gensemer's home.
Redacted by Operation Rescue
Pro-life groups are filing charges against an Alabama abortion clinic after trash bags filled with medical waste and patient information were anonymously left at the home of a pro-life minister.

Fr. Terry Gensemer, director of CEC for Life, found the bags on his property when he returned home one evening. Upon opening the bags, he and his wife found bloody surgical pads, tubes of fluids, and human tissue. The couple also found papers with the header "West Alabama Women's Center." Those papers contained private medical information and ultrasound photos.

In response, a coalition of pro-life organizations including the Life Legal Defense Foundation, Operation Rescue, and CEC for Life has filed complaints against West Alabama Women's Center (WAWC) with state officials. They demand that the state conduct a thorough investigation into the abortion business's HiPPA violations and illegal disposal of medical waste.

Since 2020, there have been at least two major medical emergencies at WAWC, one of those resulting in a woman's death. In both instances, the women experience heavy bleeding after uterine perforation. The Alabama Department of Public Health has mostly ignored complaints stemming from these incidents, and the clinic maintains its license.

Life Legal Attorney Allison Aranda said, "Though ADPH may appear to have total authority over licensure, ADEM [Alabama Department of Environmental Management] has authority to respond to medical waste violations, and the Attorney General and Lt. Governor certainly have the authority, and hopefully the desire, to investigate a state agency refusing to do its job or a facility injuring and killing the very citizens officials are required to protect."

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February 22, 2022

Medical Journal Pushes Assisted Suicide for "Terminal" Anorexia

The Journal of Eating Disorders recently published an article suggesting that psychiatrists be allowed to end the lives of anorexia patients who say they would rather die than struggle against mental illness.

The article, titled "Terminal Anorexia Nervosa," argues that some patients suffering from anorexia should be given terminal diagnoses. From the article:

"Designating terminal AN may more readily enable patients to receive palliative care, hospice care, and emotional and practical resources for loved ones, as well as access to medical aid in dying (MAID) where legal. Therapeutic goals in these situations are to ameliorate suffering and honor the life lived."

The article goes on to say that MAID "is offered to individuals whose death is inevitable within six months from an underlying disease process..."

Mental illness does not have an underlying disease process that will end a patient's life like other diseases might. Anorexia can be combated by compelling an individual to receive nutrition.  By diagnosing cases of mental illness as terminal, psychologists will simply be giving up on providing them with treatment. Instead, those who suffer from mental illness can be simply tossed aside.

US Senate to Vote on Bill Codifying Roe v. Wade

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer scheduled a cloture vote for a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade into law. It was passed last fall by the House of Representatives. If passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Biden, this legislation would force every state to allow abortion with virtually no restrictions.

The deceptively-titled Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal right to perform and obtain abortions. This right would extend past the point that the child could survive outside of the mother's womb. Additionally, the bill would prevent states from enforcing ultrasound requirements, waiting periods, informed-consent requirements, bans on discriminatory abortions (based on a child's race, sex, or disability), and other safety regulations.

President Biden has already voiced his support for the WHPA, but the legislation is likely to face a significant challenge in the Senate. To pass the WHPA, pro-abortion politicians would need to garner enough votes to bypass the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold. This means that every Democrat and at least ten Republicans would need to vote for the WHPA.

February 21, 2022

Judge Rules Winnebago County Must Pay $374,000+ for Firing Pro-Life Nurse

Last week, Circuit Court Judge Eugene Doherty issued a decision that Winnebago County must pay over $374,000 in attorney fees for firing a nurse who exercised her conscience rights to refuse to refer for abortions.

After working there for 18 years, pediatric nurse Sandra Rojas lost her job with the Winnebago County Public Health Clinic. In 2015, Winnebago County Public Health Administrator Dr. Sandra Martell fired Rojas for refusing to take on duties including abortion referrals and contraception.

The Court noted in its decision that by "vigorously" pursuing this case over the past five years, Winnebago County has only increased the attorney fees that it must now pay.

“Nurse Rojas’s case set significant precedent and now stands as a seminal case under the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act,” said attorney Noel Sterett, who was part of the team that filed the case on Rojas's behalf. “The Court’s fee award will hopefully encourage other public and private health care employers to respect their employees’ rights of conscience.”

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February 18, 2022

Supreme Court Asked to Block NY Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

Healthcare workers in New York petitioned the Supreme Court on Feb 14 to block the state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare employees.

New York's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers does not allow for religious exemptions- something that is particularly problematic for pro-life workers. Many pro-lifers take issue with the fact that all currently available COVID-19 vaccines were either developed or manufactured through the use of cell lines harvested from aborted children. For that reason, those pro-lifers often choose not to take these vaccines.

New York is one of only three states that don't allow workers to file religious exemptions to its vaccine mandate. Workers who do not conform to the mandate will be fired, and they will not be allowed to receive unemployment benefits.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and the Thomas More Society filed the lawsuit against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on behalf of 17 healthcare workers. These workers argue that the mandate violates their religious beliefs.

Biden Admin Launches Pro-Abortion Task Force

A new task force created by the Biden administration plans to "protect and bolster" abortion in the US and abroad.

Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the "Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force." A Jan 21 press release stated that the task force "is composed of senior-level HHS officials who have been designated by their respective agencies to identify and coordinate activities across the Department to protect and bolster access to essential sexual and reproductive health care."

The press release listed several actions that this task force might consider to promote abortion access. One example involved partnering with other organizations to support policies that promote abortion globally, while another suggested that the task force could initiate a PR campaign to counter pro-life arguments that abortion is not health care.

This task force comes as a response to the upcoming challenge to Roe v. Wade and the increasing number of pro-life state laws. The HHS argued in its press release that pro-life laws lead to an increase in infant mortality, but this argument fails to account for the glaring fact that every "successful" abortion ends the life of a child.

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February 17, 2022

Nurse Sues CVS after being Fired for Refusal to Prescribe Abortifacients

photo credit: Mike Mozart / Flickr
A former nurse who worked at CVS is suing the company for firing her after she refused to prescribe contraceptives that can work as abortifacients.

Robyn Strader worked as a nurse practitioner at a CVS Pharmacy in Keller, Texas for 6.5 years. During that time, she refused to prescribe birth control medication because it can often function as an abortifacient. Emergency contraception medication attempts to prevent the egg from implanting in the mother's womb. If that egg has been fertilized, it is a human life. Preventing that egg from implanting will abort that life.

The First Liberty Institute is representing Strader in her lawsuit. The organization sent a letter to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on her behalf. According to the letter, Strader asked for religious accommodation before she was hired, to which CVS agreed. “[f]or the next 6.5 years,” the letter explains, “CVS accommodated Ms. Strader with no issues. On the rare occasions someone requested contraception, Ms. Strader referred them to the other nurse practitioner at her location or to another CVS MinuteClinic two miles away.”

The letter goes on to state that CVS changed its position in 2021, announcing that “all nurses must perform essential services related to pregnancy prevention.” CVS's definition of "essential services" included the prescription of emergency contraception medication.

“I am a Christian and longtime member of a Baptist Church,” Strader said. “I believe that all human life is created in God’s image and should be protected. For this reason, I cannot participate in facilitating an abortion or participate in facilitating contraceptive use that could prevent the implantation of an embryo, cause an abortion, or contribute to infertility.”

Senate Confirms Pro-Abortion Robert Califf as FDA Commissioner

Robert Califf
photo credit: Christopher Michel / Flickr
On Feb 15, the US Senate voted 50-46 to confirm Robert Califf as the new commissioner for the FDA.

Califf previously held this position during 2016 under the Obama administration. During this time, the FDA extended the approved use of the abortion pill to the tenth week of gestation. Before then, the use of the abortion pill was limited to the first seven weeks of pregnancy.

Under Califf's direction, the FDA also modified regulations so that abortion businesses could give women abortion pills to take without medical supervision. The second part of the abortion pill regimen causes a woman to go into labor and "miscarry," her aborted child. Without supervision, this process could pose significant risks to the mother's health.

The FDA also decided in 2016 to alter regulations so that the abortion pill's manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, would no longer be required to report adverse events (other than death) linked to abortion pills. After this change, it has been impossible to know for sure just how many women have suffered complications after taking abortion pills.

Califf's past actions demonstrate that he is willing to sacrifice the safety of women to empower the abortion industry.

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February 16, 2022

New House Bill Would Require Abortion Pill Complications to be Reported to FDA

A new bill introduced by Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) would create reporting requirements for adverse effects associated with abortion pills.

Walorski introduced the Safeguarding Women's and Children's Health Act of 2022 this month to ensure that complications caused by the abortion pill are accurately documented. The legislation would require abortion pill complications to be reported to both the pill's manufacturer and the FDA. Currently, abortion businesses only need to report adverse events to the abortion pill's manufacturer. The manufacturer can then report those events to the FDA, but it is only required to report deaths.

Only 28 states require abortion businesses to report complications directly to the government.

“As chemical abortions become more frequent, American women need to know the risks of abortion pills such as mifepristone. While the Biden Administration’s FDA recklessly removes guardrails on chemical abortion drug prescribing, too many of the facts are unknown. Women who take abortion drugs are ending up in emergency rooms – or worse,” Walorski said.

There is currently an upward trend of prescribing women abortion pills without first examining them to verify the gestational age of the child or if there are any rare pregnancy conditions. If the child is past the gestational age at which the abortion pill regimen is designed to work, attempting the abortion pill regimen could pose major medical risks. The same would be true if the mother had an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy. This is especially risky if the woman attempts this kind of abortion while home alone, which is also increasingly common.

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