Focused search for life issues

2+ hour, 26+ min ago (293+ words) Last week the Society of Family Planning released updated abortion data through its #WeCount project. The latest update contains both state and national abortion data through the first six months of 2025. Unfortunately, the news is not good for pro-lifers. According to the WeCount data, over 591,000 abortions were performed in the first six months of 2025. This represents a 1.1 percent increase when compared to the first six months of 2024. The WeCount data provides some important information on how policy changes impact the incidence of abortion. Two state Medicaid programs have recently started to fund elective abortions. Nevada's Medicaid program began covering elective abortions in mid-December of 2024, and Delaware's Medicaid program started covering elective abortions as of January 1, 2025. However, the main takeaway from this new WeCount data is that the percentage of abortions done via telehealth continues to increase. In the first six…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago (528+ words) By Louisiana Right to Life Stories like this are painful to hear, and they leave us searching for ways to prevent similar tragedies. One of the most powerful tools Louisiana already has, yet many young people still do not know about,is our Safe Haven Law. Awareness of this law, especially among teens, can literally save lives. There is also an emergency option that many people do not realize is available. A parent may call 911 and meet an emergency responder at a location they choose to surrender the newborn securely. Once surrendered, the baby receives medical care and is placed for adoption through the Department of Children and Family Services. The purpose of the Safe Haven Law is simple. It exists so that no parent ever feels they have no safe or compassionate choice. When tragedies like the Livingston Parish…...

2+ hour, 57+ min ago (182+ words) Pro-Life Senators, House Members Challenge "Opt-Out" Criteria for Medical Residents Who Oppose Abortions WASHINGTON, D.C. " U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, joined fellow pro-life lawmakers in urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take immediate regulatory action to protect the conscience rights of medical residents enrolled in graduate medical education programs. "Because the current opt-out induced abortion training requirement is a clear violation of existing federal law, HHS and CMS should issue a rule to require any graduate medical education program to provide induced abortion as an opt-in only option in order to receive their federal GME funding and in order to receive CMS reimbursements,the lawmakers added. Read the full letterhere. Dec 18, 2025 | Assisted Suicide Dec 18, 2025 | pro-life Dec 17, 2025 | Abortion, pregnancy Dec 17, 2025 | Latin America, UN Dec…...

4+ hour, 47+ min ago (843+ words) President Donald Trump says he wants Americans to have more babies, and his administration is willing to try almost anything, from cash bonuses to transportation grants. However, there is one method for conceiving children that thousands of people use every year, but that has divided the Trump White House and the larger MAGA coalition: in vitro fertilization (IVF). Andrea Lucas, the Trump-appointed chair of the EEOC, has signaled that she wants to revisit the Biden-era regulation. Workers" rights advocates fear the EEOC could revise the rule to exclude accommodations related to IVF, like being allowed to take time off for appointments, potentially forcing people to choose between keeping their jobs and getting pregnant. "Employers frequently balk at IVF appointments, seeing them as elective and not as necessary," Inimai Chettiar, president of the workplace justice nonprofit A Better Balance, told me....

5+ hour, 54+ min ago (600+ words) Are pets crowding out babies? As concern grows over the global fertility crisis, people who chose to have dogs or cats but not children have become a popular scapegoat. In many cities, it's not uncommon to see pets dressed in fancy outfits, pushed around in strollers. These pampered animals, the theory goes, have become replacements for human children, contributing to plummeting birthrates. "Young people are not loving each other," Kim Moon-Soo, then South Korea's labor minister, said in 2023. "Instead, they love their dogs and carry them around, they don't get married, and they don't have children." In 2022, Pope Francis called people who choose pets over children "selfish," and warned that childlessness would contribute to a "demographic winter." It's not hard to find evidence of the cultural shift. A festival in Japan that honors children's birthdays has undergone a "pet-friendly revamp,…...

7+ hour, 43+ min ago (199+ words) Coalition Life, the nation's largest pro-life professional sidewalk counseling organization, has released footage of a hearse pulling into the Fairview Heights, IL Planned Parenthood. The video contains footage of a Coalition Life sidewalk counselor engaging with the hearse driver upon its arrival. The driver clarified that they were not there for pregnancy related services, and were instead there "picking up someone to take them to the funeral home." Moments later, the woman driving the hearse entered Planned Parenthood and exited carrying the remains of an aborted child in a bag. Following the incident, Coalition Life staff called Lake View Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens in Fairview Heights and confirmed that they had indeed picked up an aborted child from Planned Parenthood on October 31st. Speaking about what she witnessed, the Coalition Life staffer who captured the footage stated, "I was shocked" The…...

8+ hour, 2+ min ago (1600+ words) On Dec. 2, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in'First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Platkin, an unregulated pregnancy clinic's'constitutional challenge to the New Jersey attorney general's subpoena for information about its operations, including donor records.' On its face, the justices considered procedural questions: whether this case belongs in state or federal court,'and whether federal constitutional challenges limit a state's power to conduct investigations.' But the case could be about a much bigger question: whether unregulated pregnancy clinics will be immune from any state effort to investigate or regulate their practices going forward. The implications for women's rights and the public health could be titanic, as conservatives move to decimate the reproductive health delivery system for low-income and uninsured Americans and position'unregulated pregnancy clinics as their only option for care.' Post-Dobbs, they increasingly pose as health clinics while operating free of…...

10+ hour, 45+ min ago (434+ words) Imagine fighting a case all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States'only to admit during oral arguments that the entire premise was based on a lie. In my decades of experience working as an OBGYN and medical director of four separate pregnancy centers in North Carolina, nothing could be further from the truth. The nation's nearly 3,000 pregnancy centers are not only credible and professional, but they also provide vital services that American women and children desperately rely on. Anyone asserting otherwise is either uninformed or anti-woman. In a nation that endlessly debates women's "choice," pregnancy centers are some of the only organizations making sure women truly have one. In 2024 alone, pregnancy centers offered over one million women and children more than$452 millionin medical care, educational programs, and material goods. These organizations strive daily to provide women with…...

10+ hour, 58+ min ago (516+ words) A screenshot from the study 'Abortion Onscreen' by UC San Francisco's Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health; UC San Francisco Too few TV shows in 2025 depicted Christian characters as being ok with aborting unborn babies, according to a University of California at San Francisco researcher and self-described abortion "activist." Steph Herold told NPR that she observed this and other "concerning tropes" this year as part of her annual research into how abortions are portrayed on TV. She works for the public university's research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health. Of abortion in general, "I think there still is a lot of stigma, even in allegedly liberal Hollywood," Herold said." Her study, "Abortion Onscreen," published last week, found "a return to concerning tropes" in 2025. Herold tracked 65 abortion plotlines in shows such as "The Pitt, "Call the Midwife," "Chicago Med," "W.A.G.s…...

10+ hour, 59+ min ago (779+ words) (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Members of Abortion Free Utah and other groups celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. The Mormon Land newsletter is The Salt Lake Tribune's weekly highlight reel of news in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Join us on Patreon to receive ad-free podcast episodes, the full newsletter and access to all of our religion content. While many Latter-day Saints may stand firmly against abortion " though the church's official policy allows for it in certain circumstances " some wonder if confining the "pro-life" label to that issue is too limiting. Pope Leo XIV seems to think so. "Someone who says "I'm against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life," the pontiff said earlier this fall. "Someone who says that "I'm against abortion, but…...