Category: Sanctity of Life

Ten of the researchers responsible for producing the three scientific papers filed a petition to compel arbitration this week against Sage Publications for issuing what they called “pretextual and discriminatory” retractions of their findings on the abortion pill.

Live Action’s new “Face to Face” series brings together former abortionists, women who have had abortions, and abortion survivors for emotional, impactful conversations on how abortion affects people. Two of the people who participated are Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist who estimates he committed nearly 1,200 abortions, and Melissa Ohden, who survived an attempted saline abortion at 31 weeks gestation.

Bumble, a dating app with a long history of promoting abortion, is paying for a series of screenings to be shown throughout Texas of a pro-abortion propaganda film produced by Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton.

The Dutch News NL reported that the Dutch federation of doctors (KNMG) rebuked 14 psychiatrists for sending a letter to urge the prosecution office to investigate the euthanasia death of a 17-year-old.
Since oversight of the Netherlands euthanasia law is based on an after the death reporting system, there has been almost no investigations by the prosecution office into controversial euthanasia deaths.

2,442 abortions were listed in the “other” reasons category. These included 1,581 who “didn’t want to have children,” 150 who felt “unprepared” or “not ready” for children, 70 called it a “timing issue,” 150 gave “financial reasons,” 324 referred to “personal/emotional health,” 10 said the “father doesn’t want child/lack of support” and more. Additional reasons can be seen in the image below. Out of the 340 listed for “maternal health,” 258 were not specific and were categorized as “unknown” reasons.

“So the Justice Ride is also ordered around trying to bring together these students who want to learn about how to defend the preborn baby but also want to make themselves frankly uncomfortable,” he said. “For most people, the first time you walk onto campus, it’s enormously uncomfortable to talk to someone, ask[ing], ‘What do you think about abortion?’ But when you’re in the community of the justice riders, you’re together with them, and you’re standing alongside a veteran person who has done this for a long time, it makes it so much easier.”

Violence, crime, and drug-related deaths in the U.S. have been on the rise for some time now, thanks to Mexican drug cartels, but a new report is revealing that a different kind of cartel is flooding the U.S. with a different kind of drug—namely, abortion pills. A new in-depth study, “Beneath the Surface: Exposing the Abortion Pill Drug Cartel,” published by the American Life League, dives into how abortion pill companies ship the deadly drugs to states with stringent pro-life laws. The American Life League observed, “To the casual observer, this pill network is modeled after the drug cartel, creating an abortion pill crisis similar to our nation’s narcotics crisis.”

A coroner is calling for changes to assisted suicide laws in Queensland, Australia, after an elderly man was able to kill himself using his wife’s assisted suicide pills. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the man’s wife was declared eligible for assisted suicide in March of 2023; medication was delivered to the couple’s home a month later. However, the couple went to the hospital, where the man’s wife was euthanized using an intravenous drug instead. The man was supposed to return the assisted suicide pills delivered to their home, but never did. Instead, he took them on his own and died on May 16, 2023, just days after his wife’s death.

A 64-year-old American woman recently died in Switzerland, after using ‘Sarco’, a specially designed suicide capsule with nitrogen. The woman has specifically travelled to Switzerland to die, because assisted suicide is legal in the country, as long as the person takes his or her life with no “external assistance”, and those who help the person die do not do so for “any self-serving motive”, according to a government website. She died at a private forest retreat in the canton of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland, and recorded her death wish on a video hours before she stepped into the Sarco. Then, she pushed a button, the machine filled the cubicle with nitrogen, and died.

A study published last week in the Annals of Internal Medicine pointed out a definite difference in health risks posed for surrogates compared to women who become pregnant traditionally and through IVF. The cohort study, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, was set in Ontario, Canada, and spanned nearly a decade — from 2012 to 2021. Researchers evaluated 863,017 singleton births from 20 weeks’ gestation and onward. Of these participants, 97.6% (846,124) resulted from unassisted conception, 1.8% (16,087) through IVF, and 0.1% (806) by gestational carriage or surrogacy. The goal was to measure the rate of severe maternal morbidity and severe neonatal morbidity — or the severe illness/disease rate among the participants.

Two former abortionists and two abortion survivors recently had a powerful in-person conversation as part of a new video series called “Face to Face” launched by Live Action.
Live Action released the first episode, “Honest Conversation Between Abortion Survivors and Providers” on YouTube on September 30. According to a Live Action article, future episodes will include other abortion survivors, former abortionists, and women who had abortions.