Abortion Watch

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito had some choice words for their Supreme Court colleagues on Thursday over their “remarkable” decision “undermin[ing]” the court’s historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

The stinging rebukes came in an order the high court handed down to temporarily pause an appellate court ruling that halted a Biden-era FDA rule allowing the mailing of mifepristone to women without an in-person doctor visit. In agreeing to halt the policy, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the FDA’s “progressive relaxation of mifepristone’s guardrails likely lacked a basis in data and scientific literature,” and noted how the “FDA itself now concedes the regulations were marred by ‘procedural deficits’ and a ‘lack of adequate consideration.’”

While seven justices agreed to temporarily pause the 5th Circuit’s order while litigation in the case continues, Thomas and Alito authored brutal dissents underscoring the illogical nature of their colleagues’ decision.

Abortions in the United States are overwhelmingly done via the abortion pill regimen, a two-pill procedure that utilizes mifepristone to cut off progesterone from the developing baby inside the womb and then misoprostol to expel the dead baby through uterine contractions. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on May 1 that essentially said mifepristone could only be prescribed with an in-person doctor visit. The U.S. Supreme Court has since lifted the ban for one week, and it is yet to be seen what will happen with the other half of the abortion pill regimen, misoprostol.

Pro-life groups cheered the 5th Circuit ruling, but here’s the thing: medication abortions can still be done with misoprostol only. Mifepristone is not needed. In fact, many countries have been using the misoprostol-only regimen for decades. And Planned Parenthood was immediately ready to ship out misoprostol pills as soon as mifepristone was no longer an option. One day after the 5th Circuit Court ruling, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York told the New York Times they had already started mailing misoprostol-only abortion pills.

This week, Planned Parenthood released its 2025 annual report. In recent years, these reports have taken on additional significance. That is because congressional Republicans have demonstrated their willingness to stop federal taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood. Indeed, this year’s report should bolster pro-life efforts to defund Planned Parenthood for the upcoming fiscal year. That is because, once again, this report provides very solid evidence that Planned Parenthood continues to prioritize abortion at the expense of real health-care services.

This evening Governor Laura Kelly vetoed H.B. 2727 and H.B. 2729, two measures designed to strengthen women’s ability to enforce their statutory rights and ensure they receive clear, accurate information before an abortion.

H.B. 2727 created a streamlined path for a woman to bring a claim when her informed‑consent rights under Kansas law have been violated. The bill allowed her to bypass the medical malpractice screening panel—an expensive and time‑consuming process intended for complex medical disputes—and instead pursue a straightforward statutory claim. The bill also placed a cap on recovery.

While Illinois’ 12 public universities are beginning to roll out plans to provide abortion pills on campus, as state law now requires, none offer prenatal care and only a few advertise referrals for it, a College Fix analysis found.

Illinois recently began requiring public higher education institutions to provide or offer referrals for contraception and abortion pills to students for free if the campus has a student health center. If the center includes a pharmacy, the school must provide abortion pills to students on campus, according to the law.

The Fix recently looked at the campus health center websites of all 12 public universities to see which offer abortion pills (sometimes referred to as medication abortions), which offer abortion referrals, and whether any offer other services for students who are pregnant. The Fix also contacted each university to ask about these services, but only three responded.

The University of Sussex has published a “toolkit” to enable political and legal action to grant “rights” to trees. This is consistent with the radical environmentalist activism seen in many universities, such as Harvard Law, which is now teaching “nature rights” principles and strategies to students.

“Tree rights” is a subset of the overarching “nature rights” movement, which also includes “river rights,” “ocean rights,” and even “rights for the moon.” I don’t have space to discuss the entire 186-page advocacy treatise — developed over three y

Catholic bishops in the United Kingdom are condemning a recent House of Lords vote on a proposal that would decriminalize abortion in certain cases, including up until birth.

The plan, which passed the House of Commons last summer, would remove criminal penalties for women who seek abortions beyond the legally permitted time frame.

Archbishop John Sherrington of Liverpool, the lead bishop for life issues in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, immediately condemned the vote, expressing his deep “distress.”

“I am deeply distressed by the decision by the House of Lords to reject Baroness Monckton’s amendment to remove clause 208 from the Crime and Policing Bill,” wrote Archbishop Sherrington.

“The clause decriminalises on-demand abortion up to birth in England and Wales in some circumstances. This move is likely to lead to more late-term abortions putting pregnant women and their babies at risk. Many women could likely also face even greater risks of isolation, coercion, and pressure.”

Kermit Barron Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who was convicted in 2013 of first-degree murder for “snipping” the spinal cords of three babies that were born alive during horrifically barbaric late-term abortions, has died at the age of eighty-five.

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman released the following statement:

“Gosnell was famous for murdering hundreds of late-term babies who struggled for life after failed abortion attempts, though he was only convicted of three. Within his ‘House of Horrors’ abortion facility were found unspeakably filthy conditions that revealed a gross disregard for the lives of his patients. Bodies of babies dating back 30 years were stored in freezers and stashed in trash bags throughout his clinic. Dismembered feet of large babies were displayed floating in specimen jars in a cupboard as if they were trophies. The world has been rid of a man that can only be described as a monster, and we are better off now that he is gone.”