On Monday, Planned Parenthood released its 2024 annual report. These annual reports are often helpful to pro-lifers.

However, this year, Planned Parenthood’s annual report takes on additional significance, as pro-lifers are currently making a strong push to defund Planned Parenthood through the budget reconciliation process. Fortunately, this report should bolster pro-life efforts. That is because, once again, it provides extremely solid evidence that Planned Parenthood continues to prioritize abortion at the expense of health care.

Overall, this new report shows that Planned Parenthood performed 402,230 abortions in 2023. This marks the first time that Planned Parenthood has reported performing over 400,000 abortions in a given year — and represents an all-time high number for the organization. Overall, Planned Parenthood performs over 39 percent of the abortions that take place in the United States.

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The report also indicates that Planned Parenthood continues to cut back on various health services. Between 2023 and 2024, primary care visits fell by 13.7 percent, pap tests fell by 12.3 percent, cancer screenings fell by 8.1 percent, and UTI treatments fell by 45.0 percent. Though Planned Parenthood did report an increase in adoption referrals in 2024, it should be noted that for every adoption referral that took place in 2023, Planned Parenthood still performed over 187 abortions.

All of this is consistent with Planned Parenthood’s long-term trend of performing more abortions and providing fewer health services. In fact, during the past ten years, the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood has increased by over 22 percent. Meanwhile, cancer screenings fell by more than 54 percent and prenatal services declined by more than 62 percent during the same time period.

Although Planned Parenthood cut back on several health services in 2023, it continues to receive increases in government funding. The report indicates that, in fiscal 2023, it received $792.2 million in government grants and reimbursements. This is a whopping 13.3 percent increase from 2022. This is further evidence that the Biden administration prioritized funding for Planned Parenthood.

With Republicans controlling the White House and both houses of Congress, pro-lifers have a unique opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood’s annual report indicates it receives 39 percent of its revenue from the government. Thus, a federal funding cutoff would do substantial harm to the abortion giant. House Republicans unveiled legislation on Sunday that would defund Planned Parenthood. Let’s hope this report gives Congressional Republicans the ammunition they need to continue their efforts and finally end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.

LifeNews Note: Michael J. New is an assistant professor at the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America and is an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Follow him on Twitter @Michael_J_New

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Despite the weekend's positive news on China trade negotiations and the associated jump in most stock prices, the healthcare sector was hit hard. The culprit is an executive order aimed at reducing U.S. prescription drug prices. Donald Trump plans to implement a "Most Favored Nation" (MFN) policy. The policy would tie Medicare drug prices to the lowest prices paid by other countries. Consequently, drug prices in the US could fall an estimated 30% to 80%. Or, they could rise substantially abroad.

While daunting for the healthcare industry at first glance, the executive order faces significant challenges. The industry has long argued that such a policy stifles innovation and reduces R&D. Moreover, the courts could present a significant roadblock. Courts blocked a similar proposal by Trump in 2020. Also worth noting is that the order's specifics, such as which drugs and insurance programs it will cover, remain unclear. Additionally, its implementation may require congressional action.

The pharmaceutical lobby is strong. As we share below, courtesy of Statista, pharmaceutical and health product companies spend significantly more on lobbying than other industries. They will put undue pressure on Congress and likely minimize the executive order's impact.

What To Watch Today

Earnings

• No notable earnings releases today

Economy

Market Trading Update

Yesterday, the market rallied sharply following news that a trade negotiation had been struck with China, reducing tariffs to just 30% over the next 90 days. Technically, we continue to track the initial decline and rally in 2022. As I stated previously, I don't like analogs as "this time is always different," however, it is worth noting that bear market rallies look like the end of corrections and a return of a bull market, until it isn't.

From a technical perspective, the market also continues to trace the reversal of extremely oversold conditions to more optimistic ones.

As noted in Monday's Trading Update, this could still be a "bear market rally," as we saw in 2022. Such is entirely possible. But with the markets breaking above both resistance levels at the 100 and 200 DMA, there is a rising probability that the correction process is over. With the MACD pushing more elevated levels and the RSI index approaching overbought, we are at levels where we should expect a "pause" in the rally before making the next push higher. If the market can consolidate a bit, without breaking back below those previous resistance levels, we will remove hedges and reduce our cash holdings.

However, this week we will have the next batch of economic data, including CPI, which will likely determine the market's next move. We remain somewhat cautious with our allocations, but the market reversal is healthy. We are watching our weekly indicators closely, and if they turn back to the positive, we will look to overweight equities and reduce cash holdings completely. However, that will likely be several weeks before seeing those signals turn.

Trade accordingly.

Industrials And Healthcare Move In Opposite Directions

As shown below, courtesy of SimpleVisor, the impact of potential tariffs plays a significant role in stock sector selection. With news of tariff agreements, the industrial and technology sectors, both among the most negatively impacted by tariffs, are now the most overbought on a relative basis. Healthcare, which has traded poorly on rumors of executive actions calling for lower drug prices, weighs on healthcare stocks. The sector will be pushed further into oversold status over the coming days as Trump's prescription pricing plan was announced on Sunday.

The graph to the right of the sector scores shows that both healthcare and industrials were orbiting around in the upper left box, denoting decent relative scores versus the market but oversold on an absolute basis. Over the last two weeks, industrials moved to the upper right and healthcare to the lower left. The second graphic shows that aerospace companies are leading the industrials sector.

A Bear Market Rally, Or Just A Correction?

Assessing a bear market rally proves challenging when you experience it firsthand. It is only in hindsight that the complete picture reveals itself to investors. Of course, after a bear market rally, investors tend to review their investments and speculate on what they should have done differently.

Retail investors seem to view the recent sharp correction as possibly finished. As I noted last week on X, despite the near 20% correction in the markets, retail investors piled into US equities at a record pace. Of course, historically, retail investors were considered a contrarian indicator, but in recent years, particularly post-pandemic, they have been aggressive buyers of any dip in the market. Of course, after 15 years of monetary and fiscal interventions to stave off deeper bear markets, their “buy the dip” mentality is unsurprising.

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Risk management is one of the most crucial elements of successful financial planning, serving as the foundation for both protecting your assets and achieving your long-term financial goals. Whether you're in the early stages of building wealth or actively preparing for retirement, the ability to anticipate, understand, and navigate financial risks is vital to maintaining stability and peace of mind.

From market volatility and rising interest rates to unexpected health expenses and the risk of outliving your savings, every stage of life presents unique challenges that can impact your financial well-being. Proactive risk management helps ensure that your financial plan remains resilient in the face of uncertainty—minimizing losses, preserving gains, and allowing for steady progress toward your goals.

This guide outlines the most common financial risks individuals and families may encounter and offers practical, proven strategies to mitigate them. Whether you're a seasoned investor or just beginning to map out your future, understanding how to manage risk is essential to making informed decisions and securing your financial future with confidence.

Understanding the Different Types of Financial Risk

Effective risk management begins with understanding the various threats to your wealth:

Market Risk

Market risk refers to the possibility that investments will lose value due to fluctuations in the financial markets. Stock prices, for example, can be impacted by economic events, political developments, or investor sentiment. This type of risk can affect both equity and bond investments.

Interest Rate Risk

Interest rate risk affects bondholders primarily. When interest rates rise, existing bond prices typically fall, which can negatively impact your portfolio. This risk is particularly relevant in today’s rising rate environment.

Longevity Risk

Longevity risk is the possibility of outliving your savings. As life expectancy increases, so does the need for a retirement plan that accounts for decades of income needs.

Inflation Risk

Inflation erodes the purchasing power of money over time. If your investments don’t keep pace with inflation, your real returns may be significantly reduced.

Liquidity Risk

This is the risk of not being able to access your money when you need it. Certain investments—like real estate or some annuities—are less liquid than others and can restrict your flexibility during financial emergencies.

Strategies to Mitigate Investment and Retirement Risks

Managing financial risk doesn’t mean avoiding risk altogether. Instead, it involves building a portfolio that balances potential returns with your ability to withstand loss.

Diversification

Spreading investments across various asset classes—stocks, bonds, real estate, and alternatives—can reduce your exposure to any single source of risk. A well-diversified portfolio can help cushion the impact of a downturn in one sector.

Asset Allocation

Your investment mix should reflect your time horizon, risk tolerance, and retirement goals. Younger investors may lean more heavily toward equities for growth, while those approaching or in retirement should consider shifting toward income-generating and lower-volatility assets.

Rebalancing

Over time, market movements can skew your asset allocation. Regular rebalancing brings your portfolio back in line with your original risk tolerance and investment objectives.

Hedging Techniques

Sophisticated investors may use hedging strategies like options, futures, or inverse ETFs to protect against losses. While these tools aren’t right for everyone, they can serve as a buffer during periods of extreme market volatility.

Using Insurance to Manage Risk

When it comes to preserving long-term financial stability, insurance is one of the most powerful—and often underutilized—tools in a comprehensive risk management strategy. While investments focus on growing wealth, insurance is designed to safeguard it. Life is full of unpredictable events that can disrupt your income, drain your savings, or place a financial burden on your loved ones. Insurance helps offset these risks by providing protection against significant losses that could derail your financial goals.

Whether you're in your prime earning years, approaching retirement, or already enjoying life post-career, incorporating the right insurance coverage into your financial plan is essential. It allows you to navigate the unexpected with greater confidence and ensures that your overall strategy stays on track, even when life throws a curveball.

Life Insurance

Life insurance offers critical financial protection for your loved ones in the event of your death. It can replace lost income, cover outstanding debts, or provide funds for future expenses such as college tuition. For high-net-worth individuals, life insurance also plays a key role in legacy planning and can provide liquidity to cover estate taxes, allowing heirs to retain valuable assets without forced sales.

Health and Long-Term Care Insurance

Healthcare costs are one of the most significant financial risks in retirement. Without adequate coverage, a serious illness or need for long-term care can rapidly deplete even a well-funded portfolio. Health insurance helps cover routine and unexpected medical expenses, while long-term care insurance helps protect against the high costs associated with assisted living, nursing homes, or in-home care services—expenses that Medicare doesn’t always cover.

Disability Insurance

For those still in their working years, your ability to earn an income is your most valuable asset. Disability insurance provides a safety net if illness or injury prevents you from working. It ensures that your financial goals don’t come to a halt just because your income stream does. Short-term and long-term disability policies can replace a significant portion of your income, allowing you to maintain financial stability during recovery.

Insurance is not just a safety net—it’s a strategic component of any well-rounded financial plan. It provides peace of mind, knowing that you and your family are protected against life’s uncertainties. By evaluating your needs at every stage of life and securing the right combination of life, health, long-term care, and disability insurance, you can ensure that your financial future remains intact, even in the face of the unexpected.

Incorporating Guaranteed Income Products

To mitigate longevity risk and provide predictable income, many retirees turn to guaranteed income products.

Annuities

Annuities are financial products designed to provide a stream of income, often for life—making them a valuable component of retirement income planning. In essence, they act like a personal pension, offering guaranteed payments that can help ensure you don’t outlive your savings. Annuities can be especially useful for those seeking predictable income in retirement or looking to reduce reliance on market-based withdrawals.

There are several types of annuities, each offering unique features based on your financial goals and risk tolerance:

• Fixed Annuities: These provide consistent, guaranteed payments for a set period or for life. They are ideal for conservative investors seeking stability and reliability.
• Variable Annuities: With this type, payments fluctuate based on the performance of underlying investment options. While they offer the potential for higher returns, they also carry greater risk and fees.
• Indexed Annuities: These annuities are tied to the performance of a specific market index (such as the S&P 500). They offer a balance between growth potential and security, with built-in downside protection that typically limits losses in down markets.

While annuities can be a powerful tool for creating lifetime income, they’re not right for everyone. It’s important to evaluate fees, liquidity restrictions, and your overall retirement strategy before purchasing an annuity. A financial advisor can help you determine if and how annuities fit into your long-term plan.

Stress Testing Your Financial Plan

Even the most carefully constructed financial plan should be tested against worst-case scenarios. Stress testing evaluates how your plan would perform under different conditions, such as:

• A prolonged market downturn
• A major health crisis
• Inflation spikes
• Early retirement due to job loss

By identifying vulnerabilities, you and your financial advisor can make adjustments in advance and avoid reactionary decisions during periods of uncertainty.

Why Risk Management Matters More in Retirement

Once you’ve retired, your ability to recover from losses is limited. Without a regular paycheck to replenish your portfolio, protecting what you’ve accumulated becomes a top priority. That’s why retirement risk planning isn’t just about asset allocation—it’s about building a financial safety net for the unexpected.

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At RIA Advisors, we specialize in investment risk management and retirement risk planning tailored to your unique goals. Whether you’re in the accumulation phase or already in retirement, we’ll help you prepare for the road ahead with clarity and confidence. Contact us today to schedule your consultation.

FAQs

What is the most common financial risk in retirement?

Market risk and longevity risk are among the most common. Market downturns can erode portfolio value, while longevity risk increases the need for a sustainable income plan.

How can I protect against outliving my savings?

Incorporating annuities, managing withdrawal rates, and maintaining a diversified income strategy can help ensure you don’t outlive your retirement savings.

Are annuities a good option for managing retirement risk?

Annuities can provide guaranteed income, which helps reduce longevity and market risks. However, they come with trade-offs like fees and limited liquidity.

What role does insurance play in investment risk management?

Insurance helps protect your wealth against unexpected events such as illness, death, or disability, which can otherwise derail your financial plan.

Should I adjust my investment risk as I age?

Yes. As you approach retirement, it’s wise to shift toward more conservative, income-generating investments to preserve capital and reduce volatility.

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Congratulatory messages to Pope Leo XIV were issued by world leaders of Catholic and non-Catholic nations alike on his elevation to the Throne of St. Peter. Even Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his “cordial congratulations,” saying, “I am confident that the constructive dialogue and cooperation between Russia and the Vatican will continue to flourish, grounded in the shared Christian…

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Bishop Robert Barron’s decision to serve on the White House Commission on Religious Liberty under the Trump administration—Timothy Cardinal Dolan will also serve—has prompted a predictable murmur from certain quarters of the Catholic commentariat. The logic of the critique is familiar: when a bishop steps into the political arena, he imperils the evangelical mission of the Church by appearing to lend her authority to a partisan agenda. In its more vulgar expressions, the critique simply amounts to a complaint that Barron does not champion a partisan set of concerns that the complainer champions. But this is to misunderstand not only the nature of the Church’s mission, but the nature of politics itself.

There is no denying that political entanglements can distort the witness of the Church. In the American context, this has taken the form of pastoral letters that read like warmed-over policy white papers, ecclesial committees that mimic the bureaucratic priorities of the earthly city, and public moral pronouncements filtered through the logic of advocacy rather than the salvation of souls. No one saw this danger more clearly than Fr. Ernest L. Fortin, whose withering analyses of the U.S. bishops’ pastoral documents in the 1980s remain instructive not because they are hostile to the bishops’ aims, but because they remind us that the Church should not be a policy shop. “Political issues,” wrote Fortin,

are inherently controversial and divisive. They rarely admit of clear-cut solutions and leave room for reasonable disagreement on the part of decent and thoughtful persons. By taking sides on such issues, the Church inevitably commits itself to a partial view of justice and runs the risk of compromising its integrity. (Fortin, Human Rights, Virtue, and the Common Good, 253–254)

Yet this does not entail political quietism. The Church’s mission is transpolitical, not apolitical—and the distinction is decisive. The Church cannot be reduced to the dynamics of the temporal order, but neither can she be indifferent to it. The political order, properly understood, is the sphere within which human beings deliberate about common action and justice in view of the common good. It is not the final horizon of human thought and action, but it is the stage on which persons pursue goods that are subordinate to, but not severable from, the highest good. Because man is by nature a political animal—and because grace perfects nature rather than abolishing it—the Church must speak to political realities, though she must never be subsumed by them.

This transpolitical character of the Church means that the Church can speak about politics without becoming political in the partisan sense. It also means that she can, under the right conditions, take part in the work of political structures in order to bear witness to truths that transcend those structures. This is especially true in matters touching on the natural moral law or the freedom of the Church herself. Here, the classical and Christian traditions converge. The Christian tradition inherits from antiquity the conviction that politics, rightly ordered, is not merely about power but about truth and human flourishing. Political communities cannot thrive without some orientation toward the truth about man and his destiny. But precisely because that truth transcends politics, the Church must be careful not to reduce her voice to merely political idioms.

This is where criticism of Barron’s participation in a religious liberty advisory council misses the point. Such criticism tends to assume that any involvement with a politically charged administration is a betrayal of the Church’s transpolitical character or a descent to merely partisan aims. But the question is not whether a bishop appears too close to Caesar, but whether he forgets that Christ is Lord even of Caesar. To speak and act on behalf of religious freedom is not to bow before the temporal power, but to remind it of its limits. As Pope Benedict XVI insisted in Caritas in Veritate (see §§1, 9, and 78), and again in his address to the Bundestag in 2011, the state must be open to the truth that transcends it—or else it collapses into will and proceduralism. Religious freedom is not merely one civil good among others, but the juridical recognition that man’s highest obligation is not to the political community, but to God. When the state protects that obligation, it tacitly acknowledges the limits of its own authority.

Bishop Barron’s role on such a council is therefore not to baptize the political goals of the Trump administration, but to clarify the moral and theological stakes of religious liberty in a contemporary context that increasingly regards transcendence with suspicion (See Washington State’s new law that requires priests to violate the seal of the confessional). The question is not whether the administration is perfect (it isn’t), or whether its motives are pure (they seldom are), but whether this specific role allows the bishop to serve the transpolitical good that the Church is uniquely equipped to articulate. In this case, it does. And to say so is not to make an idol of politics—it is to refuse to let politics become an idol.

Transpolitical Engagement and the Question of Religious Freedom

What makes Bishop Barron’s participation in this particular forum defensible—indeed, desirable—is not a calculation of political gain, or even the prudential balance of ecclesiastical risk and reward, but the nature of the issue at hand: religious freedom. Unlike debates over marginal tax rates or regulatory policy, which belong properly to the prudence of the laity and the autonomy of the temporal order, the question of religious freedom bears directly on the Church’s ability to carry out her mission. This makes it not merely a “political” matter, but a domain where temporal governance intersects with the perennial claims of conscience and worship that transcend politics.

Religious freedom, rightly understood, is not a concession of the state to the private whims of belief. It is the civil expression of a deeper metaphysical truth: that man is ordered to the divine, and that his obligations to God precede and exceed his obligations to Caesar. It was this truth that Pope Benedict XVI emphasized repeatedly—not only in Caritas in Veritate and his Bundestag address, but also in his consistent calls for the recovery of reason in public life. As he put it in his 2011 message for the celebration of the World Day of Peace,

Religious freedom expresses what is unique about the human person, for it allows us to direct our personal and social life to God, in whose light the identity, meaning and purpose of the person are fully understood. To deny or arbitrarily restrict this freedom is to foster a reductive vision of the human person; to eclipse the public role of religion is to create a society which is unjust, inasmuch as it fails to take account of the true nature of the human person; it is to stifle the growth of the authentic and lasting peace of the whole human family.

Religious freedom is not an accidental concern of the Church but a natural implication of her sacramental presence in the world. Christianity’s unique claim is that the truth about God has been revealed definitively in Christ, and that this truth transcends the political order. Religious freedom, in this light, is not merely a legal protection, but a recognition—however indirect—of the primacy of the truth revealed in Christ over the goods of the political order.

What, then, should a bishop do when invited to speak for the defense of religious freedom? If the invitation is genuine, and if the forum allows him to bear witness to the truth without compromising it, then refusal would not be a mark of religious independence but an abdication of religious duty. Bishop Barron’s decision to serve on the commission is defensible precisely because the issue at stake—religious liberty—is one where the Church’s teaching has direct and authoritative bearing. In such contexts, the bishop does not politicize the Gospel; he reminds the political order that it is not the Church.

This is not to say that every such invitation should be accepted, or that political regimes are always sincere in their interest in religious liberty. Prudence remains essential.

The Risk of Misidentification and the Path of Witness

To say that a bishop may rightly engage in political discourse—particularly on matters touching religious liberty—is not to deny the risks. The danger is real: that the Church will be seen as merely another “stakeholder” in public life, her sacramental character blurred into mere “advocacy,” her religious mandate mistaken for partisan ambition. The modern state has a genius for and a tendency to flatten higher and lower orders into a comfortable, secular frame. When the Church speaks too facilely about politics and policy that are the arena of legitimate prudence and deliberation because each side is unclear and partial, she risks being taken as one more special interest. The episcopal voice must remain recognizable as a theological voice, not reducible to partisan talking points or administrative jargon.

This is what makes Bishop Barron’s presence on a religious freedom commission uniquely defensible. He is a well-known public theologian and Catholic evangelist.  His life is committed to the Church and to spreading the saving message of the Gospel.  His participation is not in service of a legislative agenda, but of a deeper witness: that religious liberty is not the product of political will, but the recognition of an antecedent truth about the human person. For this he is uniquely well-suited.

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Planned Parenthood released its 2023-2024 annual report on Monday, and it shows that Planned Parenthood continues to perform a record number of abortions.

The service figures in this latest annual report cover October 1, 2022, to September 30, 2023. This report is the first full account following the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Women’s Health Services that overturned Roe v. Wade.

The report shows that Planned Parenthood performed 402,230 abortions, or about 4 of every 10 abortions nationwide, and that abortions outnumbered prenatal care 57 to 1.

“Planned Parenthood performed a record number of abortions and continues to promote abortion for any reason and at any time,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “The abortion giant’s primary mission to destroy preborn children cannot be more clear.”

Tobias continued, “Rather than being ‘A Force for Hope,’ the nation’s largest abortion provider continues to perform abortions at an unprecedented rate, offering only a dead baby for a woman seeking help and hope.”

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For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, Planned Parenthood took in $2.026 billion in revenue making the abortion giant one of the nation’s most profitable “non-profits.”

Planned Parenthood stopped offering abortion in some states but obviously more than made up for it by facilitating support for women who traveled to abortion-friendly states.

Of the over $2 billion in revenue, $792.2 million (39%) of Planned Parenthood’s revenue came from taxpayers in the form of “Government Health Services Reimbursements & Grants.”

“Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report shows that the abortion industry giant continues to put abortion above genuine pregnancy-related services,” said Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., director of Education and Research for National Right to Life, one of the right-to-life movement’s most authoritative experts on the Planned Parenthood.

Most of Planned Parenthood’s expenses went toward “medical services,” which came in at $1.286 billion. It is impossible to estimate how much of these expenses were for performing abortions, because Planned Parenthood does not make these numbers public and the prices for abortions vary regionally at Planned Parenthood affiliates. In addition, the cost of different abortion procedures varies based on how old the unborn baby is at the time of the abortion, making even general calculations impossible.

Planned Parenthood’s annual report also shows that prenatal services and adoption referrals are still rare at Planned Parenthood:

• Just 7,008 women received prenatal care at Planned Parenthood clinics.
• Just 2,148 women were referred for adoptions.

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The Fort Worth Pregnancy Center received a call from a woman desperate for help—she wanted to reverse the abortion pill she had just taken.

Her name was Tania (changed for privacy), and just days earlier, she’d reached out to an abortion fund for help. That group—one of many operating in and out of Texas, often with taxpayer support from liberal cities—covered everything: her travel, her hotel, and the abortion pill itself.

“She got there, and she took the first of the two pills,” said Jamie Bryant, development director at the Fort Worth Pregnancy Center. “They sent her home with instructions to take the other one after she got back home.

However, everything changed for her on the trip home.

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“On the plane ride, she started bleeding a little bit,” Bryant said. “I think it really just hit her what was happening, and she said she was just overcome by regret and sadness for her decision.”

Bryant revealed that Tania had been her client just a year prior. “She actually ended up choosing abortion for that pregnancy,” Jamie recalled, “but I think it goes to show how even our clients that choose abortion feel like we are a safe place.”

Tania didn’t even know that abortion pill reversal was possible. But she needed support, and she trusted the center enough to call.

“I hadn’t spoken to her in almost a year,” Bryant said. “Obviously, our services and our care for her made an impression because when she was overcome with sadness and regret and wanted someone to talk to, she called us.”

Within hours, Tania came in for an ultrasound. “We saw a very healthy, bouncy baby, about 10 ½ weeks old,” Jamie recalled.

But that revealed a serious issue: the FDA only approves abortion pills for up to 10 weeks. Yet some abortion providers, especially online, ignore that limit and continue pushing the pills past the legal window. Tania’s doctor had given her the deadly pill regimen after the FDA’s time limit, putting her at even greater risk.

“We told her about the Abortion Pill Reversal process, so she understood that that’s what we were doing with the sonogram,” Jamie highlighted. “I expected her to be very happy that we were seeing this healthy baby on the screen, but she looked upset.”

“So, after the sonogram, I asked her about it, about what her emotions were,” Bryant continued, “and she told me that she had had a sonogram at the abortion clinic but they didn’t show her the screen and they told her there was nothing to see. So that made her angry when she saw our sonogram, which of course revealed a totally different story.”

She quickly received a progesterone treatment, which counteracts the first abortion pill, saving her precious preborn child.

“[Tania] is just very grateful for the center, for the resources, for the hope we gave her when she was just hopeless after landing on that plane flight,” Bryant said.

“We serve a God of second chances. It’s never too late for redemption. God can take your biggest mistakes and use them for his purposes.”

Praise God—Tania’s son, Michael, is now a healthy, thriving two-year-old! Her story is a powerful reminder of the real dangers women face from the underground abortion travel industry. That’s why it’s so critical that women in unexpected pregnancies are met with compassion, resources, and support—not rushed into trauma by dangerous pills.

The reality is: Texas women are still seeking abortions, and liberal city councils have helped them do it. This is why Texas Right to Life is fighting, alongside your Pro-Life lawmakers, to pass new laws that will protect both women and their babies.

The Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act (HB 5510 & SB 2880) will stop activists from trafficking these deadly drugs into our state by allowing ordinary citizens to sue companies and organizations that work to kill preborn babies. The Woman and Child Protection Act (HB 1806 & SB 33) would block Texas cities from this horrendous action of giving tax money to abortion assistance organizations.

By sending a quick prewritten message to officials, you can help women like Tania be saved from the heartbreak and trauma of the abortion pill, and babies like Michael from being killed!

Help pass Pro-Life bills! Contact lawmakers here:

Dear Representatives,

I thank you for passing the Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act (SB 33/HB 1806) and kindly urge you to prioritize and pass the Woman and Child Protection Act (HB 5510/SB 2880). Right now, there are still 30,000 preborn Texans killed each year due to abortion pills entering Texas and out-of-state abortion travel. The Woman and Child Protection Act must be passed immediately to give Texas new tools to stop abortion pill traffickers from mailing these lethal drugs into our state. We know every successful endangers the mother’s health while ending her baby’s life. We must not stand for this in Texas.

Please stand for Life and protect mothers and babies from abortion by passing these bills immediately.

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LifeNews Note: Ashlynn Lemos is the communications intern for Texas Right to Life.

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Most people seem to be amazed–excited or terrified–by AI, convinced it’s going to “change everything”, make the professional class obsolete, allow demons to control our minds, whatever. I just don’t see it. What I’ve seen does not impress me at all. Being too disgusted with the software to really learn about it, I had to admit that my skepticism might just reflect my ignorance, so I kept silent for a long time (until AI ascii output started appearing here on the Orthosphere), but I’ve been encouraged to find that I’m not quite alone. Please enjoy with me these wonderful quotes from Bruce Charlton’s blog (written by BC and his commenters):

The new Planned Parenthood annual report comes at a time when pro-life Americans are fighting harder than ever before to defund America’s biggest abortion business.

Knowing that Planned Parenthood killed over 402,000 babies in abortions is plenty of incentive for pro-life Americans to call an email Congress. But now they have even more of a reason to lobby for defunding.

The new report, where Planned Parenthood reports its own figures from its abortion centers nationwide, shows the abortion giant receiving more taxpayer dollars than ever before.

Planned Parenthood’s annual report just released shows a new record high for both lives ended – more than 402,000 abortions – and taxpayer funding, close to $800 million or well over $2 million a day.

The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America bemoaned the numbers.

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“This report heightens the urgency to defund Big Abortion and stop forcing taxpayers to fund an industry that destroys unborn lives and preys on women and girls,” SBA told LifeNews.

“For yet another year, pregnant women seeking help at Planned Parenthood are sold an abortion 97% of the time, while prenatal services, miscarriage care and adoption referrals make up a minuscule minority of the options they offer. Meanwhile their priorities include their assault on parental rights, transgender ‘treatments’ and political spending to defeat Republicans,” it said.

“As community health centers outnumber Planned Parenthood locations 15 to one nationwide and offer far more comprehensive care, including for Medicaid patients, Americans have real choices and much better options. We commend our House Republican allies for working hard on a budget reconciliation process that finally gets taxpayers out of the abortion business and we encourage them to persevere. Now more than ever, we can hardly wait to see the ‘one big beautiful bill’ advance in Congress.”

Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report, released today, shows the abortion business killed a record 402,230 babies in abortions in the past year, while generating over $2 billion in revenue.

That’s a 2.42% increase in the number of babies Planned Parenthood killed in 2023-2024 than it did the prior year, when it killed 392,715 babies in abortions.

That’s over 1,102 babies killed in abortions every single day of the year or 46 dead babies every single hour. That’s in insane figure for Planned Parenthood, a company that claims its main focus is merely women’s health care. It’s a horrific number that is almost difficult to comprehend and far surpasses any genocide in human history.

The figure is also higher than its previous annual report from two years ago, where it indicated it killed 374,155 babies in abortions. In 2019 the abortion giant killed 354,871 babies in abortions, showing that Planned Parenthood continues to kill more and more babies even as it does less and less legitimate health care.

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One of the great advantages of the existence of the Papal States was that, when popes had the responsibility of temporal administration, we did not hear from them any utopian nonsense about “social justice”. There is a widespread belief, generally accepted by both factions of Catholics, that the conquest of the Papal States was actually a blessing in disguise, that by freeing the Holy See from the distractions of temporal government and Italian politics, the pope was better able to witness to the Faith on a global scale. Thus, the Risorgimento was followed by the great teaching pontificate of Leo XIII, who gave us Rerum Novarum, Immortale Dei, and Aeterni Patris. John Paul II was another great teaching pontiff very much in the same mode, addressing the great social and philosophical questions of the day. Both popes did a very good job of this, perhaps the best that could have been done, but it is worth asking whether in doing so they fell into another form of the same distraction as their predecessors.

Let us grant, for the sake of argument, that new things–technology, social relations, developments in science, history, and philosophy–pose unprecedented challenges to Christian arrangements of life and the Christian worldview. (If there are no unprecedented challenges, just the same old human sinfulness and stupidity, then great teaching popes are certainly not necessary.) Just as the pope is not the best qualified to govern the city of Rome, the pope cannot be the one to answer these challenges. In a way he is the least able to grapple with them, because there is one necessary thing that everyone else can do that he cannot, and that is to make mistakes. Obviously, if we are faced with unprecedented problems, what is needed is a period of trial and error, of following many false leads and dead ends and gaining experience. Workable models of sustainable Christian communities and just, cooperative relations between classes can only emerge from small-scale “Benedict Option” experiments. On faith-and-reason matters, scientists, philosophers, and theologians must explore many lines of thought, most of which will be found unsatisfactory even if begun with orthodox intent. The pope’s job is to inspire and support, and to correct when necessary, not to lead. Arguably popes have already errored in giving too specific advice (such as in promoting Thomism to the exclusion of the rest of the Church’s intellectual resources). Regardless, Leo XIII and his successors have already given us what guidance we need from above. Any great renewal of Christian life, any great advance of Christian thought or art must now originate from below.

Will Leo wear the red papal hat??? Time will tell:

"Leo XIV will create bridges like his predecessor. But in a different context and a different style than Francis. In the Church today there are great tensions, and outside there are frightening conflicts. I think doctrinal clarity is needed now. The confusion of these years must be overcome. And one of the tools to be used are the structures that are already present there. The institutions of the Church are neither a plague, nor a threat against the Pope. They are there to provide help to the pontiffs, who must get help. You cannot govern yourself by distrusting your own institutions." ...

“Papa Prevost gives me great hope. I am convinced that he will make a positive impact within the Church and in the world. He is a peacemaker. Already the choice of name, in the tradition of St. Leo the Great and Leo III who crowned Charlemagne in the 800s, is very indicative. Name and dress made it clear that there will be continuity, not a totally new phase. His experience, ability to speak many languages, the fact that he was a missionary, but also worked in the Curia for two years, make him both a pastor and a governing pope. He does not come from one background but from many things together. And this will allow him to speak to everyone.” ...

"Now a new phase is opening. I sense some widespread relief. The age of arbitrariness is over. We can start counting on a papacy that can guarantee stability and rely on existing structures, without overturning and upsetting them."