On July 22, the House passed H. 5595, “An Act prioritizing patient access to care.” The legislation essentially removes all remaining restriction on abortion in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI) warns.
The Massachusetts House passed H. 5595 by an overwhelming 119-33 vote. Nine Democrat members joined all 24 present Republican members in opposing the bill.

On July 15th of this year, the French National Assembly is scheduled to consider a bill that would legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. At the same time, we are witnessing a rapidly developing young pro-life resistance speaking up against the growing culture of death.
For the past 5 years, Marie-Lys Pellessier, a remarkable young woman who is also the current spokeswoman for the Marche Pour La Vie (French March For Life), has led and organized a pro-life training camp every August.

The Preventing Forced Abortions Act of 2026 would prevent federal courts from forcing a woman to have an abortion because of a surrogate contract; the act also requires that surrogate mothers still be compensated.
“No woman should ever be forced to murder a child because of a provision buried in a contract,” Ogles said in announcing the measure. “The Preventing Forced Abortions Act ensures that federal courts cannot enforce these coercive clauses or allow intended parents to withhold promised compensation when a surrogate mother chooses life.”

In a courageous stand for faith, conscience, and dignity of the dying, four orders of Catholic nuns and several Catholic healthcare ministries sued New York on Friday over a new law that forces them to help terminally ill patients kill themselves in violation of their faith.
In Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm v. James, Becket is asking a federal court to block the law before it takes effect on August 5, when healthcare providers who refuse to take part in assisted suicide will face crippling fines, professional sanctions, and criminal penalties.

Yesterday, despite clear public outcry, the Massachusetts House passed the Radical Abortion Expansion Bill, H.5595. The bill removes virtually all remaining restrictions on abortion in Massachusetts. It allows abortion past 24 weeks with no requirement of medical justification, meaning abortions could be performed at full term, just days before natural birth, for any reason or no reason at all.

German citizens do not approve of surrogacy despite a recent campaign to legalize it, according to a new poll.
Citizens in Germany do not view the inability to have children as a justification for surrogacy, according to a recent representative survey conducted by INSA-Consulere on behalf of the Evangelical News Agency IDEA. INSA-Consulere interviewed 2,005 adult German citizens via an online panel from July 17 to 20.

On many levels, the United States is a land that is solicitous toward disability. Over the past half century, it has adopted national legislation to render public services and private establishments accessible to people with a wide range of conditions. Everything from curbs to crosswalks to shop entrances has been rendered safer for people in wheelchairs or with vision and hearing conditions. Access to education, health care, and employment have seen improvements, with resulting increases in lifespan. Special athletic competitions (thankfully without having fully able-bodied people insisting they have a right to compete) have become community staples. Heroes like Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow have emerged, transforming public perception and celebrating the lives of the disabled, including individuals with Down syndrome.

The Assembly of Madrid approved a law requiring that family benefits be granted for children, including those who are preborn, making the Spanish capital the first region in the country to broaden government benefits to families from the beginning of pregnancy.
Known as the “Law on the Unborn Conceived,” the measure enables families to qualify for size-based benefits, like private nursery grants and subsidized school meals, upon providing medical proof of pregnancy.

The U.S. abortion count continues to rise even as travel abortions decrease, a recent study found.
The Guttmacher Institute, a data group that openly supports abortion access, documented a decrease in people leaving their own state to get abortions in other states. Instead, abortion seekers turn toward mail-order abortions, which have seen a surge in recent years.

The global fight over abortion is evolving rapidly, and some of the most important developments in recent years have shifted from legislative chambers to supply chains due to the rise of self-induced abortions with pills.
While the dismantling of USAID and the Mexico City Policy have dealt a severe blow to the global abortion lobby, as Samantha Lejeune of the Population Research Institute (PRI) writes, “the resulting vacuum left by USAID is not simply being filled by new funding sources. It is being filled by a reorganized system.”

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