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There’s Something in the Water!

When women use abortion pills, abortion facilities and online distributers are instructing them to flush “the waste,” which includes placental tissue and human remains, down the toilet. This contaminates the water, which poses a new environmental risk that needs addressing.

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3 Questions You Might Be Asking About Abortion Pill Reversal

Abortion Pill Reversal reintroduces progesterone to reverse the effects of the abortion pill.

Learn more about commonly asked questions.

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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Access to Abortion Pill

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision regarding access to Mifepristone (also known as RU486), the abortion pill that stops the growth of a baby developing in its mother’s womb.  

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Harrison Butker’s Take on Motherhood

Harrison Butker, NFL kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, delivered the 2024 Benedictine College commencement speech and gained a lot of attention. He used his platform to call society to a higher standard and to respect all roles that women take on, whether they choose to excel in the workplace, or as mothers. 

The attention that Butker’s speech is receiving has brought many differing viewpoints to light. Some claimed Butker’s speech was chauvinistic and negatively enforced gender roles, while others felt he empowered women to fulfill their unique calling to be mothers.  

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From Research to Redemption: Vitae’s Exploration of Abortion Healing 

A crucial aspect of Vitae’s mission is to find more effective ways to communicate with women seeking emotional healing from past abortion decisions. Recognizing that the journey toward healing is deeply personal, Vitae uses research to develop messages that best resonate with the diverse experiences of women.

The goal is to understand the psychological dynamics that explain why certain messages empower women to choose life and why others do not. Vitae aims to share the findings of this important research with existing abortion healing organizations in order for them to more effectively reach the women and families who need healing. 

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Vitae Foundation Files Amicus Brief

Friends, today, Vitae Foundation, along with Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA) and Thomas More Society (TMS) took a stand against the abortion industry by filing an amicus brief in the State of Missouri at the Cole County Courthouse.

What is the case about?

The lawsuit came about when retired physician Anna Fitz-James on behalf of Missourians for Reproductive Freedom filed eleven proposed ballot amendments to the Missouri Constitution which if enacted, these proposals could not only make abortion legal for any and all reasons up to birth but would also eliminate many of the state’s parental consent protections.  

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Lawsuit for Wrongful Death During Abortion Settles for $1.265 Million

The Case
Keisha Adkins (23) was 24 weeks pregnant when she tried to obtain a legal and elective third trimester abortion at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Hospital in 2017. The staff there referred her to Southwestern Women’s Options, a private abortion facility founded by Dr. Curtis Boyd, and scheduled her appointment without so much as a psychological evaluation. An induction abortion was performed, and Keisha was sent home afterward.

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Death by Delivery

Abortion advocates will go to great lengths to promote the culture of death.

A non-profit out of Minnesota, Just the Pill, has made it their mission to deliver dangerous abortion pills to vulnerable women in the center of the country. Initially, they acted as a brick-and-mortar dispensary for abortion pills, but recently expanded their “services” to include delivery.

In a recent interview, “Medical” Director for Just the Pill Julie Amaon justified her motivation to deliver dangerous abortion pills. “[When I worked at Planned Parenthood] we were always getting calls from patients at the clinic asking, ‘Do I really have to come in for this?’ Or comments like, ‘I don’t need counseling, can I just pick up my pills?’”

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Walgreens and CVS to begin dispensing lethal abortion pills

On January 3rd, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved a regulatory change which allows retail pharmacies to now dispense the dangerous abortion drug regimen of Mifepristone and Misoprostol to customers with a prescription.

The abortion pill, Mifepristone (also known as RU-486), was first approved by the FDA in 2000. During that time, the drug was regulated under the REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) protocol. This protocol is reserved for drugs that according to the FDA have “serious risks that may otherwise not be approved and available on the market.” ¹ and joins 56 other drugs of 20,000 approved prescription agents.²

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Abortion Tourism is on the Rise

Tourism is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “the practice of traveling for recreation.” When someone talks about tourism, we might think of gathering up the family into a van and traveling to white sandy beaches for a week of rest and relaxation. If that’s what women are expecting, they are in for a surprise.

Abortion tourism is the act of traveling out of your home state in order to obtain an abortion. What women aren’t being told is to expect physical, emotional, and spiritual trauma which could (and likely will) last a lifetime.

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Abortion Pill Kills 19-year old Canadian

(Campaign Life Coalition) – A 19-year-old Canadian girl died after taking the abortion pill.   

The Canadian government’s online system that tracks adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs reveals that a hospital reported on July 4, 2022, that a 19-year-old female used the abortion pill Mifegymiso to kill her preborn child (read full adverse reaction report here). This information was first noticed by pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney who published news about it on her blog Run With Life.

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Extreme Bill Makes Minnesota One of the Most Pro-Abortion States in the U.S.

On January 31st, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law a bill which enshrines a “right” to abortion in state law, allowing abortions up to birth for any reason.

Minnesota’s democrat-controlled legislature was the first in the country to codify abortion into their state law by passing the Protective Reproductive Options (PRO) Act. This bill acts as an added layer of protection for the abortion industry.