HOSPITALS BACKS DOWN,
WON’T FORCE ULTRASOUND TECHS TO DO ABORTIONS
The ACLJ is pleased to report a significant
victory for religious liberty and pro-life
medical professionals.
As
you’ll recall, we recently sent a demand
letter to a hospital on behalf of five
ultrasound technicians who were concerned
that they would soon be compelled to
participate in abortion procedures despite
their deeply held religious beliefs. Today
we can share that counsel for the hospital –
after receiving our demand letter – has
informed us that each of our clients will be
granted the religious accommodation they
requested.
This is a tremendous win, not just for these
brave medical professionals, but for the
broader principle that no one should be
forced to violate their sincerely held
religious beliefs in the workplace –
especially when their objection is to
assisting in the killing of innocent preborn
babies.
Read more here...
AMA ARTICLE PUSHES
FOR OVER-THE-COUNTER ABORTION PILLS
Taking abortion pills can lead to dangerous
side effects, perhaps even death. Which is
why the process of chemical abortion —
called “medical” by pro-abortion advocates —
is supposed to occur only under the guidance
of a doctor. Indeed, post-Dobbs, women died
because of improperly supervised chemical
abortions, wrongly blamed by the media and
pro-abortion advocates on pro-life laws.
But the medical establishment is so invested
in unlimited abortion that JAMA Internal
Medicine just published an advocacy article
calling for the two drugs used in chemical
abortions to be available over the counter:
...
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STUDY: RATE OF
SERIOUS OR LIFE-THREATENING COMPLICATIONS
AFTER ABORTION PILL IS 22 TIMES HIGHER THAN
FDA CLAIMS
Abortion advocates, their allies in the
corporate media, and even the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration insist the pill
responsible for more than half of the
nation’s abortions is “safe and effective.”
A new, wide-ranging analysis of insurance
claims regarding the abortion drug regimen,
however, found that the rate of
life-threatening complications due to
mifepristone is at least 22 times higher
than what the FDA and Danco Laboratories,
manufacturer of mifepristone pill Mifeprex,
suggest.
In the “largest known study of the abortion
pill,” Ethics and Public Policy Center
President Ryan Anderson and Director of Data
Analysis Jamie Bryan Hall used purchased
Medicaid, TRICARE, Medicare, and private
medical insurance claim data to determine
that 865,727 mifepristone abortion
prescriptions for 692,873 women were handed
out between 2017 and 2023.
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NEW REPORT SHOWS 1.1
MILLION BABIES KILLED IN ABORTIONS AS
ABORTION PILLS FLOOD AMERICA
The most accurate, current and complete
compilation of abortion data shows over 1.1
million abortions took place via licensed
providers from July 2023–June 2024,
according to new analysis compiled by the
Charlotte Lozier Institute. This establishes
a baseline number of recorded abortions
nationwide.
This
analysis is the first to collect abortion
totals from different types of abortionists
and examine which estimates are the most
complete and definitive. The analysis used
the regularly cited data from #WeCount and
Guttmacher Institute because the U.S.
government doesn’t have a complete and
thorough reporting system for a
comprehensive evaluation. Neither
organization publishes the raw data from
abortion centers.
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STUDY FINDS CHEMICAL
ABORTIONS BLOODIER, MORE PAINFUL THAN
ADVERTISED
One of the reasons (among others) we spend
so much time complaining about the “studies”
of mifepristone safety and efficacy put out
by the abortion industry is that they aren’t
being straight with women about the risk and
severity of side effects.
Now comes a study out of the University of
Pennsylvania which proves that prescribers
of the abortion pill are underplaying these
risks in their anxiousness to deliver their
sales pitch.
The study, “Patients’ experiences with pain
and bleeding in first-trimester abortion
care,” which appears in the February 20,
2025 online edition of the American Journal
of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG),
surveyed more than 600 women who aborted,
with 347 chemical abortion and 169 surgical
abortion patients responding.
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NEW JERSEY PROGRAM
AIMS TO PREVENT SUICIDE – JUST NOT ALL
SUICIDES
New Jersey has started an admirable program
to prevent suicide. From the NJ.com story:
...
That’s great. Too bad the effort won’t apply
to all suicides.
You see, assisted suicide is legal in New
Jersey. The self-terminations of people with
a prognosis of six months or less ceases to
be “suicide” when facilitated by a doctor.
Indeed, the terminology of the law has been
engineered to create a false narrative: ...
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WILL WE STARVE
DEMENTIA PATIENTS IN SLOW MOTION?
Moves are afoot in bioethics to require
caregivers to withhold food and water by
mouth
from
a patient made incompetent by dementia if
that patient, while compos mentis, has
signed such a request — and even if the
patient willingly eats, enjoys meals, or
asks for food. It is sometimes called
“voluntary stop eating and drinking [VSED]
by advance directive,” in the parlance.
I have frequently criticized VSED by
directive as inhumane to the patient, cruel
to caregivers (as it forces them to starve
people to death), and designed to open the
door to lethally jabbing those with advanced
dementia as the less onerous alternative to
their being made to starve to death.
Read more here...
LIFE-AFFIRMING
PRINCIPLES FOR MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING
1.
No matter what life-sustaining
procedure/medical treatment is in question,
when in doubt, err on
the side of life.
A medical intervention can be tried with the
option of stopping it if it proves
ineffective or excessively burdensome for
the patient.
2.
It is the physician’s obligation to
truthfully and fully, in layperson’s terms,
discuss with the patient/
proxy/family/guardian the benefits, risks,
cost, etc. of available medical means that
may improve the
patient’s condition/prolong life. The focus
should be on what the person making medical
decisions
needs to know in order to give
truly informed consent.
3.
The patient or the patient’s legal
representative makes the decision whether a
treatment is too
burdensome.
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“I THOUGHT I
WAS A USELESS OLD WOMAN!”
I decided to become a nurse when I was five
and received a Golden book titled “Nurse
Nancy”.
I loved the stories about how this little
girl helped the other children in the
neighborhood by applying bandaids and
comfort
I also had two wonderful grandmothers and so
becoming a grandma became my other life
goal. Since both were widowed and aging, I
was able to help.
When I finally achieved my RN, I took my new
degree to my father’s mother and she was
delighted. “Think of all the people you will
help!” I replied “Not as many as you have!’
...
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Nancy Valko is a
board member of the National Association of
Pro-Life Nurses.
Click here to visit the
National Assoc. of
Pro-Life Nurses website at
nursesforlife.org.
FATHER OF ABORTED
BABY: NOTHING CAN DESCRIBE THE PROFOUND
SENSE OF POWERLESSNESS THAT COMES WITH
WATCHING SOMEONE TERMINATE A LIFE THAT YOU
HELPED CREATE”
From
a man whose girlfriend had an abortion:
Jenny rang me as soon as she had a
chance to take the test. “I think I’m
pregnant,” she said. Those words hit me like
a sledgehammer. Her next words left me
trembling: “I’ve decided to have an
abortion”.
I offered to come over so that we could
talk things through. “There’s nothing more
to say,” she said icily. I tried to reply
but she cut me off. “I don’t want this baby
and it’s my choice to make. Do you
understand me?” …
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ABORTION WAS THE
LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH WORLDWIDE IN 2024,
KILLING 73 MILLION PEOPLE
More human beings died in abortions
than any other cause of death in 2024.
A
heartbreaking reminder about the prevalence
of abortion, statistics compiled by
Worldometers indicate that there were over
73 million abortions world-wide in 2024. The
independent site collects data from
governments and other organizations and then
reports the data each day, along with
estimates and projections, based on those
numbers.
Worldometers bases its daily abortion
figures on a May 2024 fact sheet from the
World Health Organization, which estimates a
tragically high number of babies killed in
abortions.
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ASSISTED SUICIDE
LAWS, ONCE LEGAL, INEVITABLY EXPAND
When
a jurisdiction is debating an assisted
suicide bill, many organizations and
individuals present information about the
necessary safeguards that the jurisdiction
must implement to “safely” legalize assisted
suicide.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition knows
that it is not possible to “safely” legalize
assisted suicide and once legal the law will
inevitably expand.
Great Britain is currently debating an
assisted suicide bill sponsored by Kim
Leadbeater. Many states have already
introduced assisted suicide bills in 2025
and we anticipate many more legalization
bills this year. We know that some states
that have legalized assisted suicide will
debate bills to expand their law.
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CANADA’S SOCIALIZED
HEALTH-CARE CULTURE OF DEATH: 15,000 - PLUS
DIE AWAITING CARE; 15,000 - PLUS EUTHANIZED
What a debacle. More than 15,000 people died
in Canada in one year because they couldn’t
access care in the country’s collapsing
socialized health-care system. From the
Toronto Sun story:
Close to 15,500 people died waiting for
health care in Canada between April 1, 2023
until March 31, 2024, according to data
compiled by SecondStreet.org via Freedom to
Information Act requests across the country.
However, SecondStreet.org says the exact
number of 15,474 is incomplete as Quebec,
Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador don’t
track the problem and Saskatchewan and Nova
Scotia only provided data on patients who
died while waiting for surgeries – not
diagnostic scans.
Read more here...
Editor’s note:
Abortion providers complain that Pro-Life
Pregnancy Centers are biased. Below is
a look at the other side.
SURVEYS SHOW
“COUNSELING” IN ABORTION CLINICS IS BIASED
... There are many, many accounts of biased
and dishonest “counseling” in abortion
facilities. Some come from post-abortive
women, others from former abortion workers.
Pro-life regulations in some states require
abortion facilities to give accurate medical
information about abortion’s risks and fetal
development. So-called “pro-choice” advocacy
groups fight these laws tooth and nail, and
abortion facilities do everything they can
to undermine them.
There hasn’t been a great deal of research
done on abortion “counseling,” and its
effect on pregnant people’s decisions, but
there have been some surveys done over the
years.
Read more here...
AAPLOG SAYS MEDICAL
MALPRACTICE, NOT GEORGIA’S PRO-LIFE LAW,
RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF AMBER THURMAN
Days
before her death: Amber is given and takes
the abortion drug mifepristone at 9 weeks
gestation with twins at a clinic in NC. She
drives home to GA, & takes the 2nd drug,
misoprostol, at home a day later. These
drugs were the root cause of the following
events.
August 18th 6:51pm (days later) – presents
to hospital with bleeding, vomiting blood,
passing out. Found to have abdominal
tenderness, critically elevated white blood
cell count, low blood pressure, foul
smelling vaginal discharge & retained tissue
in her uterus on ultrasound.
Read more here...
Note: the
following is a lengthy article but very
informative
EUTHANASIA POISONS
PEOPLE AND SOCIETIES
In my first-ever anti-euthanasia article,
published in Newsweek in 1993, I described
the suicide of my friend Frances, who killed
herself under the influence of the
euthanasia-promoting Hemlock Society (since
rechristened Compassion and Choices). Toward
the end of the piece, I predicted what would
happen should assisted suicide become legal
and normalized:
The descent to depravity is reached by small
steps. First, suicide is promoted as a
virtue. Vulnerable people like Frances
become early casualties. Then follows mercy
killing of the terminally ill. From there,
it’s a hop, skip and a jump to killing
people who don’t have a good “quality” of
life, perhaps with the prospect of organ
harvesting thrown in as a plum to society.
I believed my conclusion would be
uncontroversial. After all, it was only
logical. Once the act of eliminating
suffering by eliminating the sufferer is
redefined from a crime to a beneficent
medical intervention, there is no limiting
principle. Terminal illness might be the
gateway excuse for legalization, but since
the real issue is the best response to
suffering, ...
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SHOCKING ARTICLE IN
ACADEMIC MEDICINE: HELPING PATIENTS DIE:
IMPLEMENTATION OF A RESIDENCY CURRICULUM IN
MEDICAL AID IN DYING
“First, do no harm” is attributed to
Hippocrates and is one of the principal
precepts of bioethics that all healthcare
providers are (or were) taught in school and
is a fundamental principle throughout the
world.
But today, the Hippocratic Oath, the oldest
and most widely known treatise on medical
ethics that forbade actions such as abortion
and euthanasia that medical students
routinely took upon graduation, has now been
revised or dropped at many medical schools.
So we should not be surprised that we now
have an article in the August issue of
Academic Medicine (lww.com) titled Helping
Patients Die: Implementation of a Residency
Curriculum in Medical Aid in Dying by
Spielvogel, Ryan MD, MS; Schewe, Savannah MD
The authors state...
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NORMALIZING ASSISTED
SUICIDE WILL LEAD TO A DUTY TO DIE
Euthanasia isn’t really about compassion but
fear of decline and a loathing of
dependency
— and of those experiencing them.
That nasty truth has become abundantly clear
with a new column published in the Times of
London in which former Tory MP Matthew
Parris argues that euthanasia/assisted
suicide should not only be permitted — but
encouraged. In “We Can’t Afford a Taboo on
Assisted Dying,” he writes (my emphasis):
I can’t dispute the objectors’ belief that
once assisted dying becomes normalized we
will become more apt to ask yourselves for
how much longer we can justify the struggle.
Read more here...
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