A Kentucky woman has been slapped with charges of fetal homicide after allegedly ordering abortion drugs online, taking them at home, and burying her “developed male infant” in a shallow backyard grave—exposing the deadly nature of unregulated mail-order abortions. Melinda Spencer, 35, walked into United Clinic in Compton on December 31, confessing she’d self-aborted, prompting staff to alert cops, who searched her property and unearthed the baby’s remains exactly as she described.

law legalizing assisted suicide in Delaware took effect on January 1, despite a lawsuit that asked the courts to place a temporary injunction against it. Instead, the court dismissed the lawsuit altogether. According to Delaware Public Media, a coalition of disability and patient advocacy groups filed a lawsuit in December challenging the state’s End of Life Options Act [EOLOA], which was passed last year and scheduled to take effect January 1. In the lawsuit the plaintiffs argued that the law discriminates against individuals with disabilities.

A federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration can withhold taxpayer dollars from Big Abortion organizations – most notably Planned Parenthood. On Tuesday, December 30, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a preliminary injunction that had blocked the Trump administration from implementing Section 71113 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The law, which President Donald J. Trump signed on July 4, 2025, prohibits federal Medicaid dollars from going to any non-profit organization that is “primarily engaged in family planning services,” performs abortions and received over $800,000 in Medicaid funding in 2023.

New research utilizing a national random survey of American women aged 41 to 45 years found that prolonged grief disorder is common after both induced abortions and natural losses. The research investigated the degrees of grief and complicated grief attributed to natural and induced pregnancy losses, based on 1,925 surveys collected from a topic-blind panel. Of these, 409 respondents (21.2%) reported a history of induced abortion and 573 (29.8%) had a history of miscarriage or other natural losses.