Life Issues

We have a disturbing update in the case of baby Gabriel… 

Baby Gabriel was diagnosed before birth with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious but treatable heart defect. His biological parents sought an abortion, but his surrogate mother, McKenna West, refused. Gabriel was eventually born prematurely in Texas and received intensive medical care. 

Now, the Texas Supreme Court has allowed his legal parents to potentially transfer him to a California hospital, while requiring continued life-sustaining care and medical approval for the transfer. 

The obvious concern is that Gabriel will now be in the custody of the very couple which ordered his murder only a few short months ago. I will continue to provide updates on Gabriels condition as we get them. Please keep him in your prayers.  

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is suing to tear down two laws protecting women: one requiring that only doctors perform abortions, and another requiring a 24-hour waiting period. They want the court to invent a state right to abortion.

Think about that. No doctor required. No waiting period, meaning no time to consider alternatives. This from an industry whose pill leaves about 11 percent of women with serious adverse events like hemorrhaging and infection.

Planned Parenthood calls this healthcare. Real healthcare doesn’t remove the doctor, erase the waiting period, and silence counselors. It protects patients, including babies.

Missouri’s pro-lifers have a fight on their hands, and an opportunity to save babies. 

A new YouGov poll of over nine hundred likely Missouri voters, conducted with Saint Louis University, has Amendment Three down just one point: forty-three percent in favor, forty-four opposed, thirteen undecided. 

The amendment would strip the so-called right to abortion out of Missouri’s constitution and bar gender transition procedures for minors. 

Election day is coming. If Missouri pro-lifers show up, babies win. With so many in the state still undecided, pro-lifers have an opportunity to change minds and defend life.  

A federal report just confirmed what pro-lifers have warned about for fifteen years: Obamacare is subsidizing abortion. The Government Accountability Office found that 1,719 Obamacare health plans cover elective abortion, reaching 4.4 million Americans. That’s 683 more abortion-covering plans than in 2014, leaving pro-life families with fewer and fewer ways to avoid them. President Obama promised federal funds would never pay for abortion. That promise was an accounting gimmick, and this report proves it. Your tax dollars are underwriting abortion coverage right now. Taxpayers deserve better.  

A major abortion-pill case is now before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Louisiana is challenging the FDA’s decision to remove the requirement that mifepristone be dispensed in person, allowing abortion drugs to be prescribed remotely and mailed directly to women. 

Louisiana argues that this policy undermines the state’s ability to enforce its own pro-life laws. The case is especially significant because the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision returned abortion policy to the states. Yet abortion providers in states like New York or California can still mail abortion drugs across state lines, bypassing those laws. 

The Fifth Circuit’s ruling could determine if states actually have to protect unborn children after Dobbs. This case is about more than one drug. It is about whether pro-life states can actually enforce the laws their citizens have enacted. 

The abortion pill is being taken far beyond the limits for which it was approved—and the consequences can be horrific. A recent report details cases of women obtaining abortion drugs online and taking them well into the second and even third trimester. One recent North Carolina case involved a woman who allegedly took the drugs at 31 weeks. Her baby was born alive and was found in a toilet. The baby survived and was hospitalized. 

This is what happens when abortion drugs are treated like ordinary medication that can simply be ordered online. There may be no physical examination, no ultrasound, and no doctor actually seeing the patient. And as the pregnancy progresses, the risks of hemorrhage, incomplete abortion, and infection increase. 

There’s encouraging news out of Idaho. A federal appeals court has ruled that Idaho can fully enforce its pro-life abortion ban while a legal challenge moves forward. The Ninth Circuit put a hold on a lower-court decision that would have created a broader exception allowing abortions when a pregnancy threatened a woman’s health—not merely when necessary to save her life. 

This is an important reminder that the fight for life did not end with the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs. The question of abortion is now being fought in state legislatures, state courts, federal courts, and at the ballot box. 

Idaho is standing up for its unborn children. And pro-lifers must remain engaged, because protecting life requires perseverance.

Canada’s culture of death is reaching a horrifying new frontier. The Quebec College of Physicians has reiterated that euthanasia could be an “appropriate treatment” for newborn babies suffering from severe disabilities, serious syndromes, or extreme pain that cannot be relieved. While euthanasia of newborns is not currently legal in Canada, the proposal has already been presented in Parliament. 

Think about what this means: a baby who has done nothing wrong, who cannot speak for himself, and who is completely dependent upon others could be deemed better off dead because of his disability or medical condition. 

This is where the logic of the culture of death inevitably leads. When we decide that some lives are less valuable because they are vulnerable, disabled, or suffering, no one is truly safe. Every human life, from conception until natural death, has inherent dignity and deserves our protection.

The nation was shocked and appalled when Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed H. 5595, the radical bill which removed all limitations on abortion and cleared the path for abortion until birth. 

As the governor signed the legislation the group of women in the room with her clapped and cheered at the opportunity to kill full term babies.  

Now pro-lifers in the state are pushing back. An effort led by Massachusetts Family Action has begun to repeal the radical abortion law. The group is aiming to gather 37,289 signatures by their October 23rd deadline. While Massachusetts is among the most leftwing and pro-abortion states in the union, few people are willing to defend such cruel absurd abortion laws. 

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is taking a stand for mothers and unborn children. Her office is promoting a statewide television and radio campaign warning Missourians about the consequences of Missouri’s current abortion laws, while supporting Amendment 3, which would restore legal protections for unborn babies. 

Under the 2024 constitutional amendment, dozens of pro-life laws have been struck down, including regulations designed to protect women’s health and safety at abortion facilities. Amendment 3 would repeal the constitutional right to abortion with some exceptions.  

While we should not stop fighting until all babies are protected, Missouri Amendment 3 is a leap in the right direction for life in Missouri. We thank Attorney General Hanaway for her stand for life.