Category: abortion

Mom Who Refused to Abort Baby With Down Syndrome Says ‘He Has Made Me a Better Person’

A pregnant mother carried her baby to term over five years ago—in spite of her doctor’s advice to abort the child, who was diagnosed with Down syndrome. But in bringing her son into the world, what Stephanie Wolfe gained, in wisdom and in love, she could not have anticipated at that stage in her life….


Abortion Provider Marie Stopes Closes 4 Regional Australian Clinics

Abortion provider Marie Stopes has announced that it will close four of its regional clinics in Queensland and New South Wales due to financial issues brought on by the CCP virus pandemic. This comes about a week before Queensland MP George Christensen is due to present his private member’s bill to Parliament on June 21,…


North Carolina’s Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Finds

North Carolina’s ban on most abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court found on Wednesday, upholding a lower-court ruling. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday ruled (pdf) the state’s blanket ban is unconstitutional because it prohibits some pre-viability abortions,…


Pregnant Mom Feels Baby Kick When Doctor Suggests Abortion; Now That Baby Is 6 and Thriving

As one of the tiniest babies ever delivered by her doctors, micro-preemie Naomi Bakker faced an uphill battle for survival from the first. Many medical professionals feared she had no hope. When abortion was tabled as an alternative, Naomi’s parents said no. When it seemed prayer was their only hope, they prayed. Now, at almost…


Federal Court Blocks Missouri Law Banning Most Abortions

A federal court on Wednesday ruled against a Missouri law that would ban most abortions. Three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lower court’s 2019 decision to grant a preliminary injunction, making state officials unable to enforce the law. “Missouri has failed to demonstrate that its policy priorities…


Texas City Becomes Latest to Ban Abortion, Passes ‘Sanctuary for the Unborn’ Ordinance

The city of Levelland, Texas, voted to become one of the latest municipalities to ban abortion and declared itself a “Sanctuary for the Unborn.” All four City Council members voted in favor of the ordinance, which states: “It shall be unlawful for any person to procure or perform an abortion of any type and at any…


Mom of Baby Without Forearms Pens Letter to Doctor Who Advised Abortion: ‘I Remember You’

Two years ago, a terrified mom, 19 weeks pregnant with a baby girl missing both forearms, sought a doctor’s guidance on how to effectively care for her tiny daughter. But the doctor advised her to abort the unborn child instead. Coming across the unexpected suggestion, mother Vanessa McLeod, from Vancouver, British Colombia, went from hopeful to horrified….


Destroying Black Babies and Families With Federal Dollars

Commentary If there is one reason why problems associated with race in America persist, it is because we pretend to address problems caused by one sin by exchanging them with other sins. President Biden has just issued a proclamation recognizing 100 years since the race massacre that occurred in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma,…


Biden’s Proposed Budget Lifts Ban on Federal Funding of Abortions

President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget proposal for 2022 notably excludes the Hyde Amendment, a law that has for decades blocked federal funding for abortions under Medicaid, unless the unwanted pregnancy endangers the mother’s life or was the result of incest or rape. Before the Hyde Amendment took effect in 1980, an estimated 300,000 abortions…


Texas Legislature Passes Bill to Ban Abortion If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned

The Texas legislature on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban abortion in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court one day overturns Roe v. Wade. The proposed legislation, HB 1280, would be enacted in the event that Roe v. Wade gets overturned. It would, 30 days after a Supreme Court ruling, make it illegal…