Cecile Richards (1957-2025) Photo courtesy of Wikicommons images, Lorie Shaull, CC-BY-SA-2.0Cecile Richards, abortion activist and long-time president of Planned Parenthood has passed away from incurable brain cancer.
Just two days before Christmas, the Department of Health and Human Services quietly issued a notice stating their intent to withdraw rule changes to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraception mandate that the Little Sisters of the Poor have been fighting for years.
The next battleground in the fight to protect human life appears to be the fight to ban the mailing of abortion pills into pro-life states. Two states, Texas and Tennessee, are the first to initiate action against this practice which could have national implications on this increasingly dangerous practice.
U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. has introduced the Defining Male and Female Act of 2024 which aims at codifying the legal definitions of male and female to ensure they are based on biology rather than ideology.
Now that the pro-abortion Biden-Harris Administration has been tossed out of office by former President Donald J. Trump, pro-life leaders across the country are getting to work on unraveling the damage done by the current administration and creating a roadmap to a brighter future for America’s unborn.
In a powerful shift that has shocked the pro-abortion community, Dr. Forrest Smith, a longtime abortion provider, has now publicly urged voters across the country to reject all 10 state abortion amendments on the ballot this election cycle. Dr. Smith, who once performed thousands of abortions, now calls for an end to the practice, especially for viable children, saying, "There is no need to kill viable babies."
A group of 10 nationally recognized and credentialed scientists filed a petition on October 3 asking the court to arbitrate their claim against a scientific journal after the publisher retracted articles about the dangers of abortion drugs.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSState abortion laws aren’t killing women, but the constant drumbeat of erroneous information about these laws, promulgated by the abortion industry, is misleading too many women into making dangerous choices about their reproductive health care.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe one-sided fact-checking that took place in last week’s presidential debate left many missed opportunities to properly inform the public about issues pertaining to the military, the crime rate, and energy policy, but the saddest omission of all was neglecting to recognize the hundreds of babies born every year who are left to die after failed abortion attempts up to the ninth month of pregnancy.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSWhile Planned Parenthood is bragging about featuring a mobile van offering “health care” (i.e., abortion, vasectomies, and IUDs) to attendees at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, not everyone is pleased by this tasteless celebration of the culture of death.
