Category: abortion

Tennessee Lawmakers on Both Sides Support Adding Exemptions to Current Abortion Laws

Just after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, a federal court allowed Tennessee’s “Heartbeat Bill” to become law, making the state’s abortion law one of the strictest in the nation. Some of the legislators who supported and voted for the bill and other abortion legislation have made statements indicating they will…


HHS Proposes New Federal Rule Limiting Health Workers’ Religious, Conscience Rights

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials are proposing new federal regulations they claim will better protect the religion and conscience rights of individuals seeking or providing health care services. The proposed regulation—the Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as Protected by Federal Statutes—was posted in the Federal Register on Dec. 29 for a 60-day…


‘We Are Deceived’: After 3 Miscarriages From Abortion Scarring, Mom Overcomes Shame, Spreads the Truth

A woman’s abortion at 18 haunted her through her twenties and into her marriage when she suffered three miscarriages because of uterine scarring. Riddled with shame and regret, she underwent surgery to restore her womb and intense spiritual healing to repair the damage to her soul. Today, she is rescuing people from the dark lies…


San Diego Judge Blocks Part of Newsom’s Gun Law

A San Diego federal judge this week blocked part of California’s new gun law modeled after a Texas abortion law after finding the legislation unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez issued an injunction (pdf) Dec. 19 preventing the state from enforcing a provision of Senate Bill 1327 passed in July that would have allowed the…


Abortion Is Not a Jewish Sacrament

Commentary “Our Jewish brothers and sisters,” squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained during a recent rant, “are able to have an abortion according to their faith.” Many religions, the congresswoman goes on, do not share the “fundamentalist Christian” definition of life. They too have a right to exercise their faith, and to stand in their way…


Woman Who Was Offered Abortion Says Choosing Life for Her Daughter Was the ‘Best Decision’ She Ever Made

A career-driven 25-year-old living in New York City was initially terrified and scared to discover that she was pregnant. However, she was more shocked when her doctor defaulted to offering an abortion. Seeing her fully formed baby at 12 weeks, the woman was sure she wanted her baby and believes it to be her best…


Stephen Woodworth: When Does Human Life Begin? Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of Motion 312

Commentary The official press corps recently dusted off the narrative that COVID-19 justifies the re-imposition of public control measures like mandatory masking, penalties for refusal of vaccine booster shots, and lockdowns of public assembly, albeit in the face of confused and conflicting evidence of the effectiveness and cost-benefit balance of such measures. Perhaps its time…


Woman Charged Over Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Claims She Was Only in ‘Silent Prayer’

A pro-lifer who told police she “might” be praying silently has been arrested and charged on four counts with breaching an exclusion zone outside a Birmingham abortion clinic. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested on Dec. 6 and subsequently charged on Dec. 15 with four counts of failing to comply with a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO)….


Pro-Life Priest Frank Pavone ‘Dismissed from Clerical State’ with ‘No Possibility of Appeal’

Father Frank Pavone, leader of the pro-life organization Priests for Life, has been dismissed from the clergy with no possibility of appealing his case. According to a Dec. 13 letter (pdf), Archbishop Christophe Pierre announced that Pavone had been “dismissed from the clerical state” on Nov. 9, with “no possibility of appeal.” According to an attached…


State Legislatures Brace for a 2023 Landslide of Post-Roe Abortion Bills

Delegate Marie March (R-Floyd) enters her second session in Virginia’s General Assembly with lessons learned during her freshman year about the futility of half-measures on her mind. That is why she will carry a “personhood” bill when, on Jan. 11, the 100-member Virginia House of Delegates convenes in Richmond, one of 45 state legislatures that…