(LifeSiteNews) — The abortion industry’s ugliest secret is that babies are regularly born alive after attempted abortions and left to die by the medical professionals who had just tried to kill them. There are frequent and documented examples of this in just the past several years in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and in Ireland, where abortion has only been legal since 2019. Now government data has confirmed that in New Zealand, babies are being born alive after attempted abortions at least once a month and, as is standard practice, are dying without being provided medical care. Abortion is legal on demand until 20 weeks of pregnancy and is frequently perpetrated afterwards if a doctor signs off that it is necessary for “health” reasons. “Family First New Zealand reported they were able to obtain government data after filing an official request, and discovered preborn children survive attempted abortions on a regular basis,” Live Action News reported. “Since …
(LifeSiteNews) — Oregon Right to Life (ORTL) scored a victory for the unborn last Friday when a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in its favor. In June, ORTL filed a complaint arguing that the Appeals Court should throw out a Clinton-appointed district judge’s ruling last year that denied its request to be exempt from a 2017 Oregon state law that would have forced it to pay for abortions and contraception. Lois Anderson, ORTL’s executive director, argued that covering abortions via health insurance was an attack on their religious liberty. “The attempt by the state to force Oregon Right to Life to finance abortion — the precise human rights violation we are dedicated to opposing — is blatantly unconstitutional and obviously unjust,” she said this past summer. Trump-appointed Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke wrote the 2-1 majority opinion for the Appeals Court. Obama-appointee Circuit Judge John Owens agreed with him that the case should …
Cardinal Kikuchi told UCA News he “cannot approve measures that may take human life without adequate moral education”. He added that while he understands this move as contributing to the respect and promotion of a “woman’s right to self-determination”, it remains essential to recognise that “life is a gift from God”.
This file picture shows a pharmacist putting a box of morning-after pills into a fertility control kit at a pharmacy in Tokyo. (Photo: AFP) Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo has spoken out against the over-the-counter sale of an emergency contraceptive pill in Japan, allowing women in the country to take the medication without a prescription for the first time. The “switch to OTC [over-the-counter] use of the emergency contraceptive pill commercialized under the trademark Norlevo,” was announced by its manufacturer Aska Pharmaceutical in a statement on Oct. 20. The move marks a major policy shift in a country where access to birth control has long been restricted. A date for the pill to go on sale has yet to be announced, but women of any age can buy it, though they must take the pill in front of a trained pharmacist to ensure proper use and safety, the company said. Kikuchi told UCA News he “cannot approve measures that may take human life without adequate moral education,” although “…
The condemnation of abortion is an infallible doctrine of the Catholic Church with the same authority as all the Marian dogmas and the founding of the Catholic Church by Christ. There is nothing to discuss.
Uruguay’s Senate passed a euthanasia bill today that was previously passed in August in the Lower House. Sadly, Uruguay’s passed a euthanasia law that is similar to Canada’s law. According to the Associated Press article: The legislation permits euthanasia, performed by a healthcare professional, but not assisted suicide, which involves a patient self-administering a lethal dose of prescribed medication. Unlike laws in U.S. states, Australia and New Zealand restricting euthanasia to those with a life expectancy of no more than six months or a year, Uruguay sets no time limits. It also not does require a waiting period, and allows anyone suffering from an incurable illness that causes “unbearable suffering” to seek assisted death, even if their diagnosis is not terminal. Similar to Canada, the person who is killed is not required to be terminally ill and there is no waiting period, which means that once approved a person can have a same-day death. The Associated Press also reported …
Some, when they find themselves with child through their sin, use drugs to procure abortion, and when (as often happens) they die with their offspring, they enter the lower world laden with the guilt not only of adultery against Christ but also of suicide and child murder." ~St. Jerome
Women’s HealthIn Crisis. denied breast cancer surgery due to BMI. It’s a feeling of helplessness that Cherise Basque will never forget: bleeding out in a hospital surrounded by health-care professionals, who she says wouldn’t intervene. “It was heartbreaking because it felt like a nightmare,” she said. “You’re in a crowded room with all these professionals crying, begging for help, and nobody’s helping you.” When the mother of five found out she was pregnant with her sixth child, she was told by her family doctor it wouldn’t be safe to carry to term because her previous pregnancies had complications with bleeding and required medical intervention. About a month ago, Basque was provided with a medical abortion — a total of five pills that she would be able to take at home. But when she began bleeding excessively, she travelled from her home in Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation to the emergency department at St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish, N.S. She recalls how she was bleeding through …
In his statement yesterday, Cardinal Cupich quoted this from John Paul II: "...Is present-day America becoming less sensitive, less caring towards the poor, the weak, the stranger, the needy? It must not! Today, as before, the United States is called to be a hospitable society, a welcoming culture. If America were to turn in on itself, would this not be the beginning of the end of what constitutes the very essence of the ‘American experience’?” Cupich then added: "We need to listen to these prophetic words in this moment of our nation’s life." Compare to the full text of John Paul II's homily, which, in the next paragraph, says the following: "To a great extent, the story of America has been the story of long and difficult struggles to overcome the prejudices which excluded certain categories of people from a full share in the country's life: first, the struggle against religious intolerance, then the struggle against racial discrimination and in favor of civil rights for everyone. …Mehr
a Supreme Court decision allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood to ensure no taxpayer dollars are flowing to the abortion giant. The state Senate passed a bill Monday to stop state funding from going to Planned Parenthood through Medicaid. All Democrats in the chamber voted against HB 192, Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency, while Republicans supported the pro-life measure. The bill would prohibit Planned Parenthood from participating in Medicaid. According to bill sponsor Sen. Amy Galey, R-Alamance, there was $830,000 still available through Medicaid for which Planned Parenthood could get access to. She and other lawmakers want to ensure the funds go to legitimate health care centers not an abortion business. Galey stressed that this is not a cut to Medicaid and is only a change in who is allowed to be a provider of certain services. “These would be family-planning services that can include reproductive, preventive health, contraceptive services, screening, and testing …
I was at an abortion mill when a husband pulled into the parking lot to drop off his wife who worked at the mill. On his way out he stopped to try to convert me to pro-abortion which of course I denounced abortion. I asked him why his wife could possibly work at such a horrific job. He said, "the women who come here are trash, and she is just taking out the trash."
story about a woman who died of an infection following an abortion. The story shares how nineteen-year-old Rheanna Laderoute discovered that she was pregnant and went to a women’s health clinic in Brampton. There, she was prescribed the abortion pill Mifegymiso. Now, the article doesn’t provide much detail about what the abortion pill actually does. So here’s an excerpt from our position paper on the abortion pill: Rheanna experienced heavy bleeding and severe abdominal pain for two weeks. Over the following ten days, she visited the local ER three times. She rated her abdominal pain “as 10 out of 10” and held “her abdomen, breathing heavily and crying” as she was assessed. On her second ER visit, Rheanna was diagnosed with peritonitis, a “swelling of the lining around the abdominal organs.” This peritonitis was due to sepsis, a condition where the immune system goes into overdrive in response to a widespread infection and attacks the body’s tissues and organs. This sepsis was …
Reminds me of Savita Halappanavar case. She died of sepsis. It would have been helpful to know if it was the killer pill but as far as I know they never tested for it or at least never disclosed the results if they did. She was quite certain she was miscarrying when she presented herself to the clinicians even though they could not detect clinical signs at that stage, back pain being normal in pregnancy. Sepsis is a risk for that pill, and her confidence that she was miscarrying a neon sign for the need to test. It would have changed the whole landscape if she had tested positive but then again it would have changed the whole landscape if she had!
New York Times writer Malcolm Gladwell now admits he was ‘dishonest’ about his views and exposed the culture of fear behind transgender sports activism.
(LifeSiteNews) — In 2022, Gladwell moderated a panel titled “Transgender Athletes: A Conversation led by Malcolm Gladwell on Data and Participation Policy” at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, in which the participants emphasized the importance of a “path forward for the inclusion” of trans-identifying athletes. Malcolm Gladwell says “trans athletes have no place in the female category.” He admits he was cowed into saying that it was ok. He knows it’s not. He was bullied into it and he’s ashamed that he gave in. Good for him. Mad props. https://x.com/JenniferSey/status/1963011651747418472/video/1 — Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) September 2, 2025 “If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan conference this coming March, it runs in exactly the opposite direction,” Gladwell said this month. “And it would be, I suspect, near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category. I don’t think there’s any question.” “I’m ashamed of my …
The Catholic bishops of Nebraska have barred the pro-life group Choose Life Now from collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would recognize unborn children as legal persons from conception. The bishops, represented by Nebraska Catholic Conference director Tom Venzor, support protecting unborn life but only through an incremental approach, warning that sweeping “personhood” amendments have consistently failed in other states and risk harming the broader pro-life movement. The group’s proposed amendment would remove exceptions for rape, incest, and maternal health that were allowed under Nebraska’s 2024 “Protect Women and Children” amendment, which limited abortions after 12 weeks. CLN argues that the Church is obstructing true pro-life progress and insists Nebraskans are ready to support full protection of the unborn. The clash underscores a divide within the pro-life movement between incremental and all-or-nothing strategies.
(LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic bishops of Nebraska have chosen to ban a pro-life coalition from collecting signatures for a state ballot initiative aimed at providing protection in the state constitution for all unborn children from the moment of conception. In a series of articles beginning in March and continuing through August, Tom Venzor, executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference, stated that “the Bishops of Nebraska are “firmly committed to the legal protection of unborn children” but only “through an incremental pro-life strategy,” not one that aims to gain complete legal protection of the unborn “in one fell swoop.” In 2024, Ballot question 434, known as the “Protect Women and Children” amendment, passed with 54.9 percent of the vote, but it only limited abortions after the first trimester, or 12 weeks, while also providing exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. The language of Choose Life Now’s (CLN) proposed Constitutional amendment is simple …
CNA Staff, Sep 1, 2025 / 07:00 am A recent study found that the rate of mental-health-related hospitalizations doubled for women who had abortions compared with women who gave birth. The study, published this summer in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, compared abortions with other pregnancies in hospitals in Quebec, Canada, between 2006 and 2022, tracking data on women for up to 17 years. The study, which compared more than 1.2 million women who gave birth in Quebec hospitals with more than 28,000 women who had abortions, found that “rates of mental-health-related hospitalization were higher following induced abortions than other pregnancies.” Abortion was associated with a number of mental-health-related difficulties including hospitalization for psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, and suicide attempts, the study found. This association was especially high for women who were younger than 25 years at the time of their abortions, as well as for patients who already had …
On 31 July 2025, the Dominican Republic’s Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly approved a new Penal Code, followed by Senate endorsement and President Luis Abinader’s signature on 3 August. The law, set to take effect in August 2026, modernises criminal justice by introducing penalties for femicide, cybercrime, and economic violence. However, it upholds the nation’s total ban on abortion, reaffirmed by Article 37 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to life from conception to natural death. Despite strong international lobbying for liberalisation, Dominican lawmakers defended the measure as aligned with the country’s cultural values, Catholic heritage, and constitutional principles. The new code replaces the 1884 version, while the 1954 Concordat with the Holy See remains in force, underscoring the Dominican Republic’s longstanding religious and legal commitment to protecting life.
“Maureen didn’t die with her family around her. She died alone, far from home, in circumstances that are now being questioned by those who loved her most."
Study: 84% of ‘Aid Access’ abortion pills go to states with pro-life laws: The European abortion network Aid Access is sending tens of thousands of illegal pills into states with pro-life laws, enabled by Democrat states’ ‘shield laws.’
Malcolm Gladwell says “trans athletes have no place in the female category.”