Category: Sanctity of Life

The U.S. birth rate reached a new record low in 2025, according to provisional Vital Statistics data released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Last year, the U.S. recorded only 53.1 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (ages 15-44), a 1.3% decline from 2024 and a 23% decline from 2007.

President Trump released his proposed FY2027 budget on Tuesday, which includes the partial defunding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses. Additional pro-life provisions are also included in the proposed budget.

As estimates released by Planned Parenthood’s former research arm show that abortion in the United States continues to rise despite the passage of restrictions in many states, pro-life advocates suggest the increasing prevalence of abortions by mail is to blame. According to data released in a Guttmacher Institute report late last month, an estimated 1,126,000 abortions were carried out in the U.S. last year, a slight increase from the estimated 1,124,000 conducted in 2024.

The Spanish cabinet recently submitted a draft amendment to the Spanish Constitution to Parliament, which aims to recognise and “safeguard” women’s sexual and reproductive rights, specifically including the right to abortion. The proposal suggests the addition of a fourth paragraph to Article 43 of the Constitution on health protection, stating that “the state shall guarantee the right of women to voluntary termination of pregnancy under conditions of real and effective equality”.

All 50 states have Safe Haven laws that help prevent infant abandonment by allowing a mother to safely surrender her child while remaining anonymous. Now, many states are expanding those laws to protect even more newborns. Texas was the first state to pass a Safe Haven law, also known as the Baby Moses law, in 1999, as the Charlotte Lozier Institute recently reported.

This weekend’s dramatic and harrowing rescue of a downed United States Air Force Officer deep in the mountains of Iran will undoubtedly be recreated and featured one day in a movie or documentary. But the incident also drove home an immediate foundational and long held principle and mantra of the American military: No man or woman is ever left behind.

Euthanasia cases involving dementia patients in the Netherlands have risen sharply, nearly tripling since 2020 and reigniting moral and legal concerns about the country’s increasingly permissive end-of-life regime.