Category: Sanctity of Life

Oregon will celebrate a statewide “Adoption Day” for the first time on August 25 after lawmakers unanimously approved a bill put forward by a pro-life representative this year.

Overall, those who are unmarried have experienced an increasing risk of suicidal thoughts, plans, or attempts at a rate of about 4-6% per year (during the time period examined), compared to their married counterparts.

Abortion was associated with the long-term risk of hospitalization for psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, and suicide attempts in models adjusted for age, comorbidity, preexisting mental illness, material deprivation, rural residence, and time period. Abortion was more strongly associated with eating disorders, hallucinogen use disorders, and cocaine use disorders.

Canada‘s assisted suicide laws have continued rapidly expanding in recent years, with a group of doctors now pushing for disabled newborn babies to be euthanized. . . . As assisted deaths have become a major part of Canada’s health care system, the Quebec College of Physicians suggested legalizing euthanasia for infants born severely ill.

While miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and other pregnancy complications can be life-threatening and require emergency care, abortion — the elective murder of an unborn baby — is not and will never be health care. And no law banning abortion has any effect on women being able to seek care for genuine pregnancy complications.

On August 14, a federal appeals court ruled against a pro-life student who argued that an Indiana school district violated her First Amendment rights when it suspended her Students for Life club and disallowed flyers featuring photos of signs stating, “Defund Planned Parenthood.”

While some studies suggest there are no significant long-term negative psychological effects from abortion, a more recent study is contradicting those precepts.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the “Abortion Every Day” newsletter and its continuing slick rebranding of abortion as something casual, even empowering, and how I made the mistake of listening to their podcast.

A leading pro-life group is urging pro-life Americans to support the new rule President Donald Trump has proposed to end Joe Biden’s policy of allowing abortions at VA hospitals and clinics.

Houston is preparing for the closure of what has been the nation’s largest Planned Parenthood facility—Planned Parenthood Prevention Park. The clinic, a sprawling 78,000-square-foot structure widely known in the abortion debate, is slated to shut down at the end of September as part of organizational restructuring amid funding cutbacks.