Category: abortion

Priests for Life National Director Says Pro-Life Gains Can’t Be Undone by Policy

In 1994, a young woman went to get an abortion, but when she looked out the window of the facility, she saw a priest. She decided to go outside to talk to the praying man. “And she changed her mind. I ended up helping her baptize her baby, and now, all these years later she’s…


Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas From Withholding Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from excluding Planned Parenthood and its affiliates from the its Medicaid program, the organization said. The temporary restraining order, issued by a Travis County judge, comes after Planned Parenthood affiliates filed an emergency request to the state court on Wednesday to prevent Texas from going through with its decision…


Poland Approves New Restrictions on Abortion

Poland’s government put into effect on Wednesday a constitutional court decision banning terminations of pregnancies with fetal defects, three months after the court ruled that the abortion of congenitally damaged fetuses is unconstitutional. The constitutional court of Poland, a deeply Catholic country, issued on Wednesday a justification of a controversial October ruling that bans abortions…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Jan. 29)

A Congressman calls on President Joe Biden to end abortion, the Texas Governor says the state is “prepared to fight back” against Biden’s actions targeting oil and gas, and Biden faces scrutiny for signing a record number of executive orders in a short time.


Biden to Lift Ban on US Funding for Foreign Pro-Abortion Nonprofits

President Joe Biden will sign a presidential memorandum on Jan. 28 rescinding the ban on U.S. funding for international nonprofits that provide counseling or referrals for abortion. President Donald Trump reinstated and expanded the ban, known as the Mexico City Policy, during his first days in office in 2017. It was previously rescinded by Presidents…


Biden Lifts Ban on US Funding for Foreign Pro-Abortion Nonprofits

President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Jan. 28 rescinding the ban on U.S. funding for international nonprofits that provide counseling or referrals for abortion. President Donald Trump reinstated and expanded the ban, known as the Mexico City Policy, during his first days in office in 2017. It was previously rescinded by Presidents Barack…


Advocates Fear Biden Policies Could Undo Trump-Era Protections for Religious Liberty

President Joe Biden’s first day in office was marked by a flurry of executive orders. Among those was an order addressing discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. It augurs measures that would expand transgender access in areas such as the locker room and school sports, but fails to mention protections on…


200 House Republicans Sign Letter in Support of Hyde Amendment

Two-hundred House Republicans signed a letter Tuesday to protect the Hyde Amendment, a decades-old policy restricting Medicaid funding for abortions. Enacted in 1976, three years after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, the Hyde Amendment blocks federal funds from being used to pay for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or…


Biden to Reverse Trump’s Policy Blocking Funding for Foreign NGOs That Perform, Promote Abortions

President Joe Biden will roll back a Trump administration policy that bans taxpayers’ dollars from going to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) that perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Thursday. “It will be our policy to support women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in…


Pregnant Mom With Stage-4 Cancer Refuses Abortion, Risks Own Life by Delaying Treatment

A mom had to make the ultimate sacrifice after being diagnosed with aggressive cervical cancer during her pregnancy. Sarah Milner, 30, decided against terminating her pregnancy to save her baby after receiving the heartbreaking diagnosis at 21 weeks. Medics had advised the mother of three, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, to abort her pregnancy. However, the…