Paul Tuns According to an annual report by Operation Rescue on the state of the abortion landscape, 49 abortion mills closed and one more state became “abortion-free” in 2023, although the total number of abortion facilities have increased. Operation Rescue’s Anne Reed and Sarah Neely report that in the two years since Dobbs overturned the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, 137 [...]
Paul Tuns A new report reveals that pregnancy resource centres (PRCs) provided nearly $360 million in services and goods in a single year, even as Democrat-controlled states reduce funding and try to restrict their operations. The “Hope for a New Generation” report covers 2022 and is a joint “collaboration of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Care Net, Heartbeat International, and National Institute of Family [...]
10. Women facing biological men in competition After the trans-identified Lia Thomas, a biological male, competed and won the 500-yard collegiate freestyle swimming competition in 2022, governing bodies of various sports have been forced to consider their policies of permitting biological males to compete against girls and women. World Athletics, formerly the International Amateur Athletic Federation, which governs track and field, began [...]
Paul Tuns: On Nov. 17, Lila Rose, the founder and president of Live Action, addressed the United Nations Transatlantic Summit in New York and called upon the UN to recognize that abortion “is a contradiction of every human right” and urged the body to pass a resolution to end abortion worldwide. The summit commemorated the 75th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration [...]
Oswald Clark: On Oct. 25, 100 pro-abortion organizations signed the 2023 Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Policy Agenda (SRHRJ) calling on the Biden administration to increase abortion access in the United States and abroad. The blueprint asserts, “There is no gender equality or bodily autonomy for all without meaningful progress in reproductive justice, freedom, and liberty,” as it [...]
Ohio voters have approved a constitutional amendment adding abortion to the state constitution. Abortion advocates are calling on the Biden administration to pump ever more money and enact even more policies in support of abortion in both the U.S. and abroad. Justin Trudeau and United Nations’ agencies have been loudly promoting abortion as essential to their utopic vision. The common theme here [...]
Oswald Clark: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin campaigned to maintain the slim Republican lead in the state house and win the state senate in order to pass a 15-week abortion ban that he vowed to sign into law. Republicans in Kentucky hoped to defeat Democrat Andy Beshear who had vetoed pro-life legislation. Neither hope materialized and the media was eager to blame abortion [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns Analysis: On Nov. 7, nearly four million citizens of Ohio voted to enshrine abortion in the state constitution, in a state that Donald Trump carried by a full eight percentage points in 2020. The vote was the seventh consecutive defeat for pro-lifers in statewide referenda since the Dobbs decision in June 2022 reversed the infamous 1973 Roe [...]
Joanna Alphonso: “Safeguarding girls’ lives, health and future through minimizing unwanted pregnancies and guaranteeing access to safe abortion,” is the mission of the United Nations’ CEDAW. The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW, issued a four-page statement on the International Day of the Girl Child on Oct. 11. CEDAW is a treaty body in the United [...]
October 11th, 2023 marked the 11th annual International Day of the Girl Child—a day, established by the United Nations to highlight the conditions in which girls across the globe live and to advocate for their amelioration. This is the same United Nations, of course, that welcomes the most brutal regimes in the world into its Human Rights Council—the same UN that, via [...]
Paul Tuns: On Nov. 19, in the second round of presidential voting in Argentina, the second largest country in South America, the eccentric, pro-life libertarian, Javier Milei, was elected president. During his victory speech, Milei declared, “Today begins the reconstruction of Argentina. Today begins the end of Argentina's decline. The model of decadence has come to an end.” Milei is a populist [...]
By J.M. Glover Protecting babies from abortion after rape is ‘immoral’: Vice president Compassion and assistance must always be offered to women who have been raped or otherwise sexually assaulted. Blaming the unborn child by abortion is not the way to help and heal. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris justifies the murder of unborn babies conceived through rape. She supported the legalized [...]
Oswald Clark: On October 1, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) filled the seat left vacant senate seat following the death of long-time pro-abortion Democrat Dianne Feinstein two days earlier with an out-of-state abortion activist. Newsom vowed to fill appoint a black woman and named Laphonza Butler to fill the seat until next year’s senate election. Butler, a lesbian, was born in Mississippi and lived [...]
Oswald Clark: On Oct. 9, Robert F. Kennedy, who had been running for the Democratic presidential nomination for 2024 against President Joe Biden, announced he would instead make an independent run saying the Democratic National Committee’s rules make it impossible for any challenger to run a competitive race against the incumbent president. Kennedy is now turning his attention to qualifying to get [...]
Donald DeMarco: Fr. Paul Desmarais is a Catholic priest stationed in Rhode Island and an authority on the occult. He speaks of what he regards as the two great lies that Satan, the Father of Lies, uses concerning abortion. The first lie is prior to abortion in which he tells the woman that abortion is no big deal, just a sensible solution [...]