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Pope Leo XIV delivered a powerful affirmation of the sanctity of life Friday, emphasizing that the Catholic Church must uphold the dignity of every person, particularly the unborn, in his first major address to the Vatican diplomatic corps. The remarks, made ahead of his formal installation Mass on Sunday, underscored the Church’s unwavering commitment to […]

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The reconciliation bill that pro-life groups supported to defund Planned Parenthood has failed as a handful of Republicans on a House committee joined Democrats to defeat it. House Republicans failed to pass the “one big, beautiful bill” out of the Budget Committee on Friday after leadership was unable to persuade a few recalcitrant GOP members […]

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In the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday, Republicans took a key step toward stopping forced taxpayer funding of the abortion industry – led by Planned Parenthood. Pro-abortion Democrats put on a show full of sound and fury, accomplishing nothing. Let’s take apart nine big lies they told: 1. 🤥 Abortions can be separated from […]

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On March 31, a 21-year-old woman required emergency transport from the Flossmoor Planned Parenthood in Illinois after a failed dilation and evacuation abortion. This botched abortion brings the number of known women injured in just one month by Illinois abortion facilities to six – with a grand total of eleven Illinois injuries in 2025 so far. According to 911 […]

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My husband Brian and I were 24 years old and had been happily married for three years when we learned that I was pregnant with our first child. I was born with multiple congenital heart defects, and although I had been cleared for pregnancy by my cardiologist, we were referred to the specialist hospital for […]

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A court fight has developed that ultimately will decide whether pro-abortion state officials “can team up with abortion activists” to censor the speech of those who don’t adhere to the ideology of killing the unborn. “The state’s conduct is not just discriminatory – it’s unconstitutional,” explained the American Center for Law and Justice. “This case […]

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Pro-life leaders from around the country delivered a powerful letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Martin A. Makary, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, urging them to protect women. A recent study of commercial insurance data from 865,727 patients highlighted the tremendous […]

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Yesterday, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the state’s “Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act” protects unborn children when a heartbeat is detected, which is usually at six weeks gestation. After the state supreme court previously upheld the law’s constitutionality in August 2023, Planned Parenthood then challenged the law again arguing it should be a nine-week […]

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In a bold move to protect unborn life, Missouri’s Republican-led legislature passed a referendum Wednesday that, if approved by voters, would repeal a recently enacted abortion amendment and restore protections for unborn babies. The measure, which allows very narrow exceptions, aims to reverse what pro-life advocates call an “extreme” constitutional change approved by voters just […]

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The phone rang. The caller’s voice quivered with emotions so intense that she spoke haltingly, “If I don’t get… an abortion…I’m going to kill myself.” Before I could respond, she revealed her full anguish. “After my abortion, I won’t be able to live with it…I plan to kill myself.” After 35 years of work as a trainer and […]

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Alaska’s indigenous women and their unborn babies are increasingly vulnerable to abortion, according to the latest comprehensive data from the state. For decades, the abortion industry and its allies have worked to make the killing of pre-born babies more palatable among Alaska Native communities. Well-funded leftist groups like Planned Parenthood, Native Movement and others now employ activist […]

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At this rate, New York is on track to become the 11th state to legalize assisted suicide. In an 81-67 vote on April 29, the New York Assembly passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAID). This law permits terminally ill patients to end their lives with a physician’s help. The state Senate remains just seven votes […]

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Pro-family experts are touting multiple provisions of President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” aimed at fulfilling the administration’s promises to facilitate family formation, ease adoption, and benefit homeschool students or those who attend religious schools. The House Ways and Means Committee passed the 389-page bill on Wednesday morning by a 26-19, party-line vote. “It’s sad […]

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There is a major battle in the U.S. House over negotiations this week on the federal budget. Lawmakers are making key decisions to either keep the abortion defunding language in the 2026 budget or remove it and continue funding Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion. The result of this debate will determine whether nearly 800 million dollars in taxpayer […]

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Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Bonta, a case where California Attorney General Rob Bonta is attempting to silence pro-life pregnancy centers from informing women about progesterone therapy as a means to reverse the abortion drug Mifepristone. In March 2025, a […]

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On Tuesday, the City Council of the City of Big Sandy (pop. 1,343), passed an “Ordinance Outlawing Abortion, declaring Big Sandy a Safe Haven for the Unborn” in a unanimous 4-0 vote. The vote made the City of Big Sandy, located between the cities of Hawkins (pop. 1,278) and Gladewater (pop. 6,441) on State Highway […]

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More than a decade before he was elected and addressed the media as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV had spoken about evangelization amid modern media in an address that is still accessible, a Vatican expert spotlighted this week. In 2012, then-Father Robert Prevost gave an address at a Synod about evangelization convened by Pope Benedict XVI, […]

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Prosecutors dropped charges May 9 against an Ohio pro-life advocate who was arrested in December for providing a Christian witness with a megaphone outside an abortion facility. CatholicVote previously reported that Zack Knotts was on a public sidewalk outside a Cuyahoga Falls abortion facility and using a megaphone to advocate for the unborn and to tell women […]

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Planned Parenthood’s leaders launch into its 2023-2024 annual report with a markedly sad tone: “It’s been over two years since the U.S. Supreme Court took away our constitutional right to abortion.” Very quickly, however, readers can see the truth: that never before in its history has the abortion giant been so well-funded by American taxpayers, […]

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said Wednesday that he has ordered a top-down review of the abortion drug mifepristone in light of “alarming” research showing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved pill does far more harm to women than previously reported. The latest research is “alarming,” Kennedy said during a hearing […]

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