Category: Sanctity of Life

The Louisiana legislature has given final approval to legislation to open anyone who helps facilitate a chemical abortion to crushing $100,000 civil suits.

A new Gallup poll has revealed that the percentage of surveyed Americans who say they are pro-life has risen two points since last year to 43%, a number that is consistent with past survey results over the last two decades. Experts say the numbers suggest that the efforts by the Democratic Party, pro-abortion activists, and the mainstream media to sway the American electorate towards widespread acceptance of abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision have been largely unsuccessful.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a reconciliation bill hailed as a significant pro-life victory, which will defund major abortion companies like Planned Parenthood and redirect support to women, children, and families.

The American Medical Association (AMA) voted during its annual meeting on June 9 to uphold its opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Pro-life advocates argue the case highlights hospital mismanagement, not Texas’ pro-life laws, which explicitly permit treatment for ectopic pregnancies.

Paula Ritchie was killed at age 52 under Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law, despite having no terminal medical condition, after multiple attempts to find a diagnosis and treatment for her symptoms failed.

The inventor of the Sarco gas chamber assisted suicide pod, Dr Philip Nitschke, has announced the creation of a ‘kill switch’ implant for people with dementia that would automatically release a lethal substance into the user’s body once they stop responding to daily prompts. Nitschke, who is nicknamed “Dr Death” and “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide”, has told the MailOnline that his ‘kill switch’ implant is nearing the test phase.. The device would be sewn into a patient’s body – most likely in their leg – and set to beep and vibrate daily to warn the patient to turn it off.

A jaw-dropping story published by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition revealed that a disabled woman having suicidal thoughts called a suicide hotline for help — and was told to consider ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’ (MAID). Meghan Schrader, a disability rights self-advocate who regularly campaigns against assisted suicide, said her friend, “Amy” (a pseudonym) — an impoverished survivor of child abuse suffering from PTSD and injuries that cause chronic pain — struggled with suicidal ideations after MAID was legalized in 2021 and had reached out to Schrader. She correctly recognized that MAID would pose a threat to her as a disabled person.

Priests, social activists, and others are criticizing companies that offer genome testing to weed out in-vitro fertilization (IVF) babies – highlighting just one of the problems with the procedure. Noor Siddiqui created Orchid Health to help parents decide which of their human embryonic children to implant and which to discard or leave frozen potentially forever. She is also a former winner of Peter Thiel’s “Thiel Fellowship.”