Category: Sanctity of Life

A federal report shows that maternal deaths declined sharply in 2023, contradicting predictions that abortion restrictions would lead to a health crisis.

Canadian member of Parliament (MP) from Cloverdale-Langley City in British Columbia, Tamara Jansen, has introduced a private member’s bill to stop the expansion of medical assistance in dying (MAID) for mental illness alone.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling, struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, a decision pro-life advocates decried as a devastating blow to the protection of unborn lives.

One woman and a coalition of four disability groups are suing the state of Colorado, arguing that its law allowing assisted suicide discriminates against people with disabilities.

The Supreme Court released its decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood last week, a 6–3 ruling against Planned Parenthood. Cue the predictable hysteria: Axios immediately opined that “Supreme Court ruling on patients rights’ could devastate Planned Parenthood,” Vox explained to its readers the Supreme Court’s “disastrous new abortion decision,” and so on.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s top abortion provider and one of the top providers of transgender hormones for minors in the U.S., receiving nearly $800M from taxpayers annually — and there are many reasons why it should not be supported with taxpayer dollars.

Texas officials have filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, alleging the abortion giant filed millions in false Medicaid claims, potentially facing a $1.8 billion judgment with repayments, damages, and fines under the federal False Claims Act. The Texas Office of the Inspector General found that Planned Parenthood violated federal regulations by altering abortion procedures to harvest baby body parts, leading to the termination of its Medicaid provider contract.

Filed June 30 in U.S. district court by several organizations including Not Dead Yet and the Institute for Patients’ Rights, the lawsuit describes Colorado’s assisted suicide regime as “a deadly and discriminatory system that steers people with life-threatening disabilities away from necessary lifesaving and preserving mental health care.”

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) issued a public statement Tuesday criticizing the UK Parliament’s decision to advance the legislation of assisted suicide. “As the UK Parliament considers support for state-subsidized suicide, euphemistically called a bill for ‘Terminally Ill Adults,’ the United States reaffirms the sanctity of life,” the bureau posted on X. “The western world should stand for life, vitality and hope over surrender and death.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the investigation into five aborted babies left outside a late-term abortion facility remains ongoing. On Monday, Republican U.S. Rep. Riley Moore of West Virginia urged U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate fetal remains discarded years ago by an abortion facility in the nation’s capital for possible cases of infanticide that so far have evaded justice.