Abortion Watch

Massachusetts Legalizes Abortion Up to Birth gellerreport.com
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Massachusetts Legalizes Abortion Up to Birth; ‘The Progressive Death Cult Takes Over’
The Bay State joins a list of states with a similarly dark approach to innocent human life. Newsweek: Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed legislation on Monday that gives doctors the final say on whether an abortion should be allowed late in pregnancy, making it the 10th state to allow the procedure at any point in pregnancy (Newsweek).

I am deeply ashamed for my country.

Julia Cassidy: It was an utterly macabre scene in Massachusetts [Monday], as Democrat Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation legalizing abortion up to birth and removing previously existing protections for post-24 weeks abortions. The death sentence, which overwhelmingly passed the Democrat House on July 22, was met with cheers and smiles of surrounding women who champion “reproductive freedoms.” The new legislation removes the previous 24 week limitation, permitting abortion throughout the pregnancy by “allowing physicians to rely on their professional medical judgment, consistent with accepted standards of care, when providing abortion care later in pregnancy.”  It also eliminated a list of “statutory exceptions” that previously permitted late-term abortion in “exceptional cases.” Now, with a doctor’s approval, abortion can be performed at any point for virtually any reason (Townhall).

More from Joe Chalfant in his piece, “The Progressive Death Cult Takes Over Massachusetts”: Remember when Democrats would tell you that “no one celebrates abortion”? (Townhall).

Planned Parenthood shuts down three Michigan facilities after $5.6 million loss www.lifesitenews.com
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Three Planned Parenthood facilities will close in Michigan as the one-year, temporary defunding of abortion vendors took a toll on its profits.

Planned Parenthood of Michigan said that the closures were driven by “$5.6 million in uncompensated and undercompensated care.”

The three closed locations in Lansing, Warren, and Livonia did not commit abortions at their facilities, though they did refer for dangerous chemical abortion drugs. The closure of these facilities further shows that abortion is a moneymaker for Planned Parenthood while some other services are not.

While the one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood expired on July 4 of this year, the effects of it in just 365 days illustrate the importance of extending the cuts. Planned Parenthood also cited its exclusion from Title X “family planning” funds as a reason for its financial losses.

“For decades, federal family planning funding and reimbursement for patient care helped Planned Parenthood expand access across the state,” Paula Greear, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Michigan, stated in a news release.

Every Democrat Supports Letting Sexual Abusers Buy Abortion Pills www.lifenews.com
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He sat on the bed. He brought me a cup of water in a cream-colored plastic cup and a biscuit. And he said, ‘During our trip, I noticed you weren’t drinking enough water. And for the sake of your pregnancy, I want you to stay hydrated.’ And then he went on to say, ‘I’m not going to leave here until you finish this entire cup of water.’ It was when he insisted that she ‘drink faster’ that Catherine looked down in her cup for the first time. What was left was a murky, almost milky-white liquid. And she knew something was very, very wrong.”

Staring into the dregs, Catherine’s mind was gripped by panic. “Was he trying to harm me or the baby?” she remembers thinking. “I had no idea what was in the cup at the time. It could have been lighter fluid. I had no idea.” With her marriage on the rocks, the pregnancy had come at an inopportune time. But the idea that they wouldn’t keep the baby never occurred to her. It occurred to her husband Mason, though. And he tried six more times in 38 days to spike her drinks with the abortion drug.

Abortionist Kills Baby Girl in Sex-Selection Abortion, Lies to the Mother www.lifenews.com
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In her memoir, abortionist Christine Henneberg wrote about a woman who had an abortion because she believed she was carrying a boy and wanted a girl.

Henneberg, who watched the abortion via ultrasound as she committed it, saw that the child was, in fact, a girl—but didn’t tell the woman.

Instead, she allowed the woman to believe she’d aborted a boy instead of the girl she wanted.

The woman was 14 weeks pregnant. When she was on the abortion table, she said, “I didn’t want to be here today, you know.”

Henneberg didn’t stop the abortion and discuss alternatives, or make sure the patient truly wanted the abortion. Instead, Ronnie, the abortion worker assisting Henneberg, said, “It’s okay. Nobody wants to end up here.”

Apparently, a woman saying she doesn’t really want an abortion is business as usual in Henneberg’s abortion facility—no need for more counseling.

The woman having the abortion continued to talk, mentioning the two little boys she had at home.

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From my secluded, light-filled perch between the woman’s legs, I glanced up at Ronnie. A silent sigh passed between us. We both knew this was the best way to get a woman through these 10 minutes: get her talking about the kids she already has.

“These 10 minutes” refers to the time it takes to commit a suction aspiration abortion.

These abortion providers seem to find it easy to discuss pregnant women’s other children as they kill the babies in their wombs.

Virginia’s “Reproductive Freedom Act” would decriminalize statutory rape by giving girls under 18 the legal “right” to consent. Josh Hetzler, one of the challenging attorneys to the bill, said “Among other wild consequences, it will eliminate statutory rape laws for consenting minors, since the amendment provides an unqualified ‘fundamental right to reproductive freedom’ to every ‘individual,’ without any limitation on age. This is wrong and extremely dangerous for Virginia.”

Virginia’s Abortion Amendment Would Strike Down Statutory Rape Laws www.lifenews.com
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Virginia Democrats have supported a “Reproductive Freedom” constitutional amendment, but critics warn that it would vacate laws against statutory rape, and a lawsuit seeks to invalidate it.

“Virginia’s so-called reproductive freedom amendment goes far beyond the issue of abortion,” Josh Hetzler, executive director of the Founding Freedoms Law Center and an attorney for the nonprofits challenging the amendment, told the Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.

“Among other wild consequences, it will eliminate statutory rape laws for consenting minors, since the amendment provides an unqualified ‘fundamental right to reproductive freedom’ to every ‘individual,’ without any limitation on age,” Hetzler warned. “This is wrong and extremely dangerous for Virginia.”

Federal Judge Blocks Michigan Abortion Mandates on Pro-Life Ministries www.standingforfreedom.com
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U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Jonker has blocked a hostile Michigan law that would have compelled pro-life organizations to hire staff who support abortion and to provide abortion coverage in their employee health insurance plans.

The opinion, issued July 10 in the case Right to Life of Michigan v. Nessel, also denied the state’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Right to Life of Michigan and the Pregnancy Resource Center Grand Rapids. The court’s preliminary injunction grants immediate legal protection to these faith-based ministries, allowing them to maintain pro-life hiring standards and operational integrity as the constitutional challenge moves forward.

This ruling is an answer to prayer, but it should also serve as a wake-up call. It reveals a pattern where the state leverages unrelated laws, in this case employment law, to control Christian ministries and undermine religious liberty.

Abortion Drug Dealer Hub Referred To DOJ For Investigation thefederalist.com
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is asking the Trump Administration’s legal enforcement arm to formally investigate abortion drug dealer marketplace Plan C for flouting the law by advertising the shipment of mifepristone to states where it is banned.

Hawley previously introduced legislation to ban the popular and dangerous abortion drug and give survivors a legal remedy against foreign abortion pill makers. Successfully curbing the illicit shipping of those pills into states where they are banned requires more, including intervention from the Department of Justice in the form of a criminal investigation, he wrote in a criminal referral on Monday.

“At the center of the effort is an entity called Plan C, a left-wing dark-money operation that styles itself a ‘public health information campaign’ but functions, in practice, as the referral and logistics hub for shipping abortion drugs into states whose laws prohibit it,” Hawley wrote in his letter to Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche.

More than a dozen states ban mifepristone for chemical abortions. Yet, websites like Plan C enable anyone with Internet access, even people in pro-life states, to order abortion pills to their door in less than a minute.

Planned Parenthood Ramps Up Child Vivisection Thanks To Tax Dollars thefederalist.com
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This July, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars flooded back to abortion businesses after Congress failed to extend a defunding provision for Planned Parenthood.

President Donald Trump championed multiple funding roadblocks for abortion providers in 2025, and rescinded Hyde Amendment violations instituted by the Biden administration. His efforts culminated in a year-long ban on Medicaid reimbursements for abortion providers. Congress passed this as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and signed into law July 4, 2025.

Congress had multiple opportunities to extend the ban over the last year, including a proposed amendment to Reconciliation Package 2.0, but they failed. So America’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, celebrated returned taxpayer funding on July 5 in its social media and friendly news coverage. Alongside grants, this federal funding historically accounts for more than 40 percent of Planned Parenthood’s annual revenue. One organization official described the expiration as “immediate operational relief,” though insufficient to recoup the year of lost income.

Gay Couple Sues Surrogate for Refusing to Kill Baby With Cleft Lip in Abortion www.lifenews.com
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A same-sex couple in Ontario has sued their surrogate mother after she refused to abort their baby diagnosed with a cleft lip, a relatively minor and easily correctable condition with surgery.

The lawsuit, filed in Ontario Superior Court in May, seeks approximately $600,000 in damages. It alleges the surrogate failed to keep the couple informed about the baby’s health, put the child at risk, failed to follow their directions on medical care, violated confidentiality and caused one parent serious emotional distress.

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Due to a key vote by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the one-year ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood expired on July 4, meaning the abortion giant can resume consuming hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars through Medicaid reimbursements for non-abortion-related services. Without this funding, the entity has struggled to keep its nationwide network of abortion clinics operational.

While Murkowski continues to identify as a Republican, she has long supported federal funding for Planned Parenthood and regularly joins Democrats in efforts to ensure the abortion business benefits from taxpayer dollars.

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Planned Parenthood Votes, the super PAC affiliated with the nation’s largest abortion company, is launching a more than $47 million campaign to take over Congress.

The abortion giant’s goal is defeating Republican lawmakers who voted to defund the abortion organization last year.

The spending, described as near-record for the group and second only to its $50 million outlay in 2022, will fund advertising and voter outreach in 10 battleground House races across seven states, as well as Senate contests in Maine and Michigan.

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A report from Ireland’s Health Service Executive, released Friday, tells us that in 2024 the numbers of abortions had nearly doubled since 2019, the first year abortion was legalized in Ireland.

Tragically, the huge increase from 6,666 to 10,852 comes shortly after the Dáil (the lower house of Parliament) voted to end the three-day waiting period for abortion. All told, the report—“Termination of Pregnancy Services in Ireland Report (2019–2025)”–shows there were 46,861 abortions in Ireland in the six years from 2019 to the end of 2024.

However, “Just one in 10 GPs have signed up to provide medical abortion, and only 10 of the 19 maternity units in the country do planned [surgical] terminations,” Eilish O’Regan reported for the Irish Independent.

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Attorneys for the Little Sisters of the Poor will appear before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit tomorrow to ask the court to block a nationwide ruling that rejected the Catholic nuns’ protection from the federal government’s abortion mandate.

The Little Sisters have spent more than a decade defeating government efforts to force them to provide abortifacient contraceptives in their healthcare plan or face tens of millions of dollars in fines.

That winning streak features three Supreme Court victories, including a 2020 ruling in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania upholding the federal conscience rule that protects the Sisters from the mandate.

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After months of investigation, Operation Rescue has uncovered evidence of what can only be an unlicensed, unaccredited abortion operation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. American Women’s Services, also known as Associates in Obstetrics and Gynocology, may be operating without a license at 700 N Broad Street, and this isn’t the first time this clinic has been involved in reckless or illegal operations.

The History 

“It was no surprise when our investigative team received a tip that this AWS abortion operation seemed suspicious,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “The American Women’s Services abortion chain was once solely owned by infamous abortionist Steven Chase Brigham — a man whose New Jersey medical license was fully revoked in 2019 for operating an illegal bi-state late-term abortion scheme.”

The abortion scheme, which was only discovered when an 18-year-old girl was injured so badly during a botched abortion that she had to be life-flighted, is only one of Brigham’s endless documented crimes and horrors. He has had as many as six medical licenses revoked or surrendered, and even faced murder charges when police discovered the bodies of 34 late-term aborted babies found in a bloody freezer at his clandestine Elkton facility in Maryland.

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Humans have used language to belittle their enemies and strip them of their humanity for centuries. Yet in America today, many on the left believe that liberal culture has summited the mountain of progress and demonized all words that tear down.

But if the left really wants to be the rhetorical protector of the innocent, then it should stop whitewashing IVF as a scientific procedure that only affects mindless cells, and start calling IVF embryos what they really are: human children.

However, that is exactly what the Huff Post did not do.

The radically liberal news site smeared the Trump Administration last week for changing the language in the federal Embryo Adoption Awareness and Services (EAA) program to refer to frozen embryos as children in need of homes.

“The grant has seemingly transformed into a vehicle for anti-abortion rhetoric and fetal personhood ideology,” the Huff Post claimed, and quoted the leftist, pro-abortion director of the National Women’s Law Center calling the grant “a Trojan horse” that the Trump Administration used to “insert something that is incredibly harmful,” namely, recognizing embryos as humans.

The EAA grant program operates the federal “frozen embryo adoption public awareness campaign,” and promotes adopting already created, frozen embryonic children instead of creating more. Grant recipients must refuse to engage in “embryo-destructive research … discarding or destroying human embryos,” or “create new human embryos.” The Huff Post claims that the program previously focused on helping “LGBTQIA+ couples looking to adopt embryos.” Now, it emphasizes faith-based organizations that recognize embryos as humans as the primary recipients of the grant.

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Liberty Counsel (LC) is attempting to head off a proposal to embed a right to abortion in the Virginia Constitution this fall, backing a legal challenge contending that the amendment’s proponents skipped several key legal requirements to put it on the ballot.

In February, Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed legislation approving multiple proposed constitutional amendments to go before Virginia voters this year for final adoption, including one to establish in the Virginia Constitution a “right” to surgical abortions, abortion pills, contraception, and fertility “treatments,” such as embryo-destructive in vitro fertilization (IVF). 

On June 18, LC announced it has filed four briefs in support of Bedford County Supervisor Charla Bansley’s challenge to the amendment, maintaining that state lawmakers “missed several key procedural steps mandated by the Virginia Constitution before the amendment can go before the voters, such as distributing the amendment to all circuit court clerks statewide and posting it for public inspection three months prior to the 2025 House of Delegates election.”

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Republicans are calling on federal authorities to impose stringent regulations on the abortion drug mifepristone, citing the dangers posed by the drug’s largely unregulated use to Americans’ drinking water. A coalition of 15 red state attorneys general is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to add mifepristone to the agency’s Contaminant Candidate List, which would likely trigger safety studies and potentially stricter regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The latest state to join the effort was Indiana.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) said in a press release this week that the use of the abortion drug is “causing pain and suffering to women. … Obviously, this starts with the individuals persuaded by Planned Parenthood and Big Pharma to use mifepristone to abort their pregnancies, but increasingly it extends to other women who might ingest the drug from their local water supplies.” Rokita noted that when a woman ingests mifepristone, whether via the drug in pill form or via mifepristone contaminating drinking water, the chemicals block the natural production of the hormone progesterone and erodes an unborn baby’s uterine environment. “The baby, in effect, is starved to death in the womb,” the Hoosier State A.G.’s office said.

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Your water may be contaminated by abortion pills, officials warn.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told the Daily Caller News Foundation that it is reviewing comments from 14 attorneys general urging the agency to classify mifepristone as a water contaminant.

“Pharmaceuticals, like Mifepristone, encompass a diverse group of chemicals, including prescription and over the counter drugs,” an EPA spokesperson told the DCNF. “EPA is currently reviewing comments submitted on its draft contaminant candidate list 6 (CCL 6), which lists pharmaceuticals as a group, and human health benchmarks for 374 individual pharmaceuticals that are approved by the FDA and may occur in surface and groundwaters and/or treated drinking water.”

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YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife, Ashley, announced that they had aborted their unborn son after a Down syndrome diagnosis. In doing so, they exposed how comfortable our secular culture has become with sorting God’s image-bearers into “fit” and “unfit” categories.


For more than a decade, YouTuber Jesse Ridgway, better known as @McJuggerNuggets, has earned his living by displaying his life to an audience. So, when he and his wife, Ashley, learned that the son she was carrying had tested positive for Trisomy 21, better known as Down syndrome, the couple did what their careers had trained them to do.

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Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins praised the 14 State Attorneys General who signed onto a letter sent to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) led by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway.

The letter adds new voices to a growing coalition, built by SFLA, calling for accountability and information about the extent of abortion water pollution, permitted by negligent FDA polices and the failure of the Trump Administration to enforce the Comstock Act that says abortifacients cannot be delivered in the mail.

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At least four of them lost reelection bids after anti-abortion groups and key party allies backed their challengers instead. Two others — a state representative from North Dakota and a state senator from Tennessee — face contested primaries.


If Eric Murphy loses his primary election on June 9, he believes he already knows one reason why.

Last year, the North Dakota state representative, a Republican, tried to expand the window of pregnancy in which women could access abortion. The state legislature had banned it for almost everyone from the moment of conception.

 

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New polling data suggests that a Senate race in a state Trump won by double digits could fall to Democrats in the midterms.

Incumbent Republican Sen. Jon Husted is facing a challenge from former three-term Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost his 2024 bid for reelection. But now just two years after President Donald Trump carried Ohio by 11 percentage points in the 2024 election, Brown is leading Husted by an eight-point margin 53% to 45%, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday.

Brown has 98% of support among Democrats, whereas Husted only has the support of 86% of support among Republicans, according to the poll.

Fifty-seven percent of Ohio residents view Trump negatively, while 42% still hold a favorable opinion, the poll found. Husted’s ratings are comparable to Trump’s ratings in the state, as 50% view him unfavorably and 41% view him favorably. Brown, on the other hand, holds a 53% favorable rating and 44% unfavorable rating.

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Ridgway stated that he and his wife researched Down syndrome and decided that it would be best for both the child and for his family if the baby was killed in the womb—and noted that over 90 percent of children diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted:

50% of babies with DS have heart defects. 75% will have hearing challenges. Over 50% will have vision problems. Impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, etc…Sadly, the list is long, feel free to look it up…Down Syndome isn’t a “blessing”, it is objectively shitty from a health perspective. I didn’t realize just how rough it is for the child, let alone the family…more often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life.

To all of my fans who have weighed in on this topic who have Autism, Down Syndrome or any other conditions…we appreciate you,” Ridgway added, despite the fact that he and his wife aborted their baby specifically because she had Down syndrome. “You matter a lot and we’re glad you’re here. I commend you and your families for having the strength and courage to push forward. As for us, we made a difficult decision that we believe in the long-run will be beneficial for our family. Thankfully, we had a choice.

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Today, our Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC) attorneys are in Tazewell County Circuit Court for the first hearing over our lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the unlimited abortion amendment planned for this November’s ballot. Please pray for them!

Learn more about our case here: FFLC Files Lawsuit Challenging VA Abortion Amendment

At issue in today’s hearing is whether the leftist pro-abortion group “Virginians for Reproductive Freedom” (VRF) has the right to formally intervene in our lawsuit and join the government to oppose us. VRF is a “referendum committee” that has already raised $500,000 and plans to pour millions more into Virginia to persuade voters to support the abortion ballot initiative. We believe Virginia case law is clear that they have no right to intervene.

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As pro-life Kansans wrap up Memorial Day weekend, we want to make you aware of an important issue ahead of the June 1 candidate filing deadline in Kansas.

Kansans for Life Political Action Committee (KFL PAC) has been outspoken in its opposition to Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt’s campaign for the Republican nomination for Governor.

Simply put, Vicki Schmidt’s record on life may be the worst record of any candidate ever to seek statewide office in Kansas. 

During her time in the Kansas Senate from 2004 through 2018, Vicki Schmidt repeatedly opposed some of the most common-sense pro-life legislation ever considered in Kansas.

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Planned Parenthood is putting women’s lives and health at risk once again.

The abortion business has launched a program that sells abortion pills to women who are not even pregnant, allowing them to stockpile the drugs for possible future use in ending the lives of their unborn babies.

The initiative, called “Just In Case Abortion Pills,” comes from Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky.

It makes the two-drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol available in advance to residents of Washington state and Hawaii. Women can obtain the dangerous abortion pills in person at one of the affiliate’s 16 health centers or, in some cases, by mail.

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It takes a place as progressively backwards as Colorado to decide school children are safer around accused child molesters than other children who espouse the wrong beliefs.

The Supreme Court of the United States upheld a pause on a 5th Circuit Court ruling that would have halted mail-order sale of the abortion pill, mifepristone. The majority gave no reason for the decision, the two dissenters, Thomas and Alito, wrote their dissents.

Thomas wrote of the decision, “Applicants are not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise. They cannot, in any legally relevant sense, be irreparably harmed by a court order that makes it more difficult for them to commit crimes.”

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The Indiana Supreme Court rejected a Planned Parenthood petition that would have applied a Court of Appeals ruling blocking an abortion ban from taking place. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said the court “ruled in favor of office and delivered a decisive WIN for the people of Indiana and the unborn!”

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A retired Baptist minister has been criminally convicted for preaching the Gospel near a Northern Ireland hospital that performs abortions.

Pastor Clive Johnston, 78, a former president of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, was found guilty on May 7 at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court on two charges under Northern Ireland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act 2023 for preaching on John 3:16 near the abortion buffer zone located outside of Causeway Hospital.

Pastor Johnston must pay a fine of £450 (approximately $600) and now has an official criminal record, according to The Christian Institute, which has supported his legal defense.