On behalf of a nonprofit pro-life pregnancy center and a nonprofit network of affiliated centers, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed an appeal Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Bonta to protect the centers’ right to inform women about how supplemental progesterone can reverse the effects of abortion drugs.

National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, along with SCV Pregnancy Center in Santa Clarita, are asking the court to halt California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s censorship of pro-life pregnancy centers that inform women about the option of progesterone therapy to reverse the effects of taking mifepristone—the first drug in the two-drug chemical abortion regimen—and potentially save their unborn babies’ lives. This procedure is commonly known as “abortion pill reversal.” Pregnancy centers wish to share that it may be possible to counteract mifepristone’s lethal effects if they change their minds and seek treatment within 72 hours of taking the first drug. But their scientifically backed speech about the treatment is chilled by the attorney general’s censorship campaign against similar speech.

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“Access to information is a hallmark of a free society and is essential to making informed medical choices,” said ADF Senior Counsel Caleb Dalton. “Every woman should have the option to reconsider going through with a chemical abortion, and the pro-life pregnancy centers we represent truthfully inform women about that choice. We urge the court to affirm the pregnancy centers’ freedom to tell the public about this lawful, life-saving treatment and end the attorney general’s censorship.”

In September 2023, Bonta sued Heartbeat International, a national network of pregnancy centers, and RealOptions Obria Medical Clinics, a chain of five pregnancy centers in California, for publishing information about abortion pill reversal, including that progesterone therapy is considered safe and can be an effective treatment. Bonta’s politically motivated lawsuit threatens other pregnancy centers in the state that have made, or would like to make, similar statements, so ADF attorneys filed a lawsuit on behalf of NIFLA and SCV. A federal district court denied the pregnancy centers’ original motion to stop the censorship while the case continues, prompting the appeal to the 9th Circuit.

“Progesterone therapy offers these women hope and their babies a second chance at life,” the appeal explains. “No one knows this better than Atoria Foley and Desirae Exendine, California mothers who immediately regretted taking mifepristone and frantically sought an alternative to completing their chemical abortions. After searching for terms like ‘abortion pill reversal,’ Atoria and Desirae were connected with a NIFLA-member pregnancy center with an OBGYN on staff who ran diagnostics, obtained informed consent, and proscribed progesterone treatment for free. The treatment worked: Atoria gave birth to a healthy daughter, and Desirae to a healthy son.”

Progesterone is a natural hormone needed to sustain pregnancy and has been used for decades to prevent miscarriage and preterm labor. Statistics show that abortion pill reversal has likely saved over 6,000 unborn lives and one study found a 64-68% success rate. Yet Bonta has targeted centers that tell women about this option because of the centers’ pro-life viewpoints and the content of their speech, which ADF attorneys argue is a violation of First Amendment rights.

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In a bold move to protect the First Amendment rights of our client, we have just asked a federal court to prevent the city of Carbondale, Illinois, from enforcing an unconstitutionally vague ordinance that restricted our client Brandon’s speech. If you’ve been following Brandon’s story, you’ll recall that he is a pro-life missionary and founder of a sidewalk counseling ministry who found himself entangled in the bureaucratic web of Carbondale’s unconstitutionally vague ordinance while peacefully advocating for life with small pro-life signs near a local abortion clinic.

On April 16, Brandon was exercising his right to free speech by displaying signs that read “Free baby supplies” and “Please don’t murder your unborn baby.” These signs, placed in a grassy area open to the public near the abortion clinic, should have been protected under the First Amendment. Yet Carbondale Community Development Manager John Lenzini, at the bidding of city attorney Jamie Snyder, tried to cite Brandon by saying the signs were either “commercial” or were not a First Amendment “demonstration”; and Mr. Snyder, through Mr. Lenzini, declared the signs violated the ordinance on permitted temporary signs.

After our client attempted to comply with the express demands of the city officials by swapping out those signs for others that purely expressed pro-life messages, Mr. Lenzini still insisted they were in violation, claiming he had consulted with Mr. Snyder, and both remained adamant that Brandon’s speech was not protected speech. Astonishingly, even when presented with the ordinance’s language – which specifically exempts demonstrations from certain restrictions – and the fact that Brandon has a constitutionally protected right to engage in demonstrations, Mr. Lenzini denied Brandon’s right to free speech, simply stating, “No, you don’t.” It’s clear that these city officials care more about arbitrarily enforcing a vague sign ordinance than protecting the speech of American citizens.

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Then, Carbondale Community Development Manager Lenzini escalated the situation and called the police. Police officers arrived and gave Brandon yet another interpretation of the ordinance. They said that Brandon could place the signs further than 20 feet from the road. Mr. Lenzini then interrupted the police and said that no signs could be placed on public property, but the demonstrators could hold the signs. The officers and Mr. Lenzini contradicted themselves. This contradiction highlighted a core issue: The ordinance is hopelessly vague. It fails to clearly define what is permitted, leaving its enforcement to the whims of city officials. This type of arbitrary application is not only unconstitutional but strikes at the heart of our First Amendment freedoms.

The very next day, our client went down to the municipal building and requested a permit to display signs, noting a provision in the ordinance for 501(c) organizations to obtain such a permit. His attempt was met with outright denial. Mr. Lenzini stated flatly that “you can only get a sign permit if you own the property,” despite the ordinance explicitly stating otherwise. This refusal is not just bureaucratic incompetence; it is viewpoint discrimination. Brandon’s pro-life message was singled out and suppressed, despite clear legal protections.

We have taken decisive action by filing for a preliminary injunction, along with a declaration from our client and accompanying exhibits. Importantly, the exhibits include photos from other signs that the city did not take down despite being in violation of the way Mr. Lenzini and Mr. Snyder attempted to enforce the ordinance against our client. This further shows how arbitrarily this statute is being enforced and that our client was, in fact, targeted for his pro-life speech. Our argument is clear: The city of Carbondale’s ordinance is unconstitutionally vague and discriminatorily enforced. It chills free speech, allows for arbitrary enforcement, and silences voices the city disagrees with – which in this case are those protecting innocent lives.

Why This Matters

The First Amendment prohibits laws that are vague and infringe on the right to free speech. The Supreme Court has held that a statute is “vague” when an ordinary citizen cannot understand what the law means and could have differing opinions on how the law should be applied. Essentially, if five people can give you five different meanings of what following that law looks like, it’s unconstitutionally vague. And that’s exactly what happened here. This is important because, as courts have noted, the law must “give people fair notice of what conduct is prohibited” so that people can follow the law. Without this benchmark requiring a statute to be reasonably understood by ordinary, reasonable citizens, government corruption – like we see here with Brandon’s case in Carbondale – would run amok, and governments would be able to arbitrarily enforce unconstitutional laws without a citizen having any idea what appropriately following the law looks like. This is a direct due process violation.

When government officials are permitted to arbitrarily enforce vague ordinances, free speech is at risk for everyone. The First Amendment does not permit local governments to pick and choose who gets to speak based on their viewpoints. Today, it’s Brandon’s pro-life advocacy; tomorrow, it could be any message the city finds inconvenient.

We are committed to defending Brandon’s rights and setting a precedent that vague and discriminatory laws will not stand. Stay connected with us for updates as we continue this critical fight to protect free speech and hold Carbondale accountable.

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Pro-life forces in Congress have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood, but the road ahead is far from easy. Before scaling an avalanche of media disapproval, then hurdling a potentially adverse ruling by the Senate parliamentarian, pro-lifers must first navigate the measure between the forbidding cliffs that are constraining the GOP’s historically narrow House majority. House moderates are making that last task extremely difficult.

The simmering tension boiled over “in a Tuesday evening closed door meeting between Speaker Mike Johnson [R-La.], House Majority Leader Steve Scalise [R-La.], and some moderate Republicans,” NOTUS reported. However, neither Johnson nor other members present were willing to discuss what happened in the meeting with them.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) said beforehand that he planned to raise the issue in the meeting, arguing that “we need simplicity in this bill.” According to NOTUS’s anonymous sources, Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) were also among the members opposed to cutting Planned Parenthood funding through reconciliation. Kiggans’s office vehemently contested the report, calling it “false.”

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Johnson has publicly promised that the reconciliation bill “is going to redirect funds away from ‘big abortion.’” This is consistent with President Trump’s stated goal of returning abortion policy back to the states.

Getting the federal government out of the business of setting abortion policy is hard to do while the federal government continues to subsidize the nation’s largest abortion supplier. In 2023 (the latest report available), the Government Accountability Office calculated that, in the three-year span from 2019-2021, Planned Parenthood affiliates received approximately $1.8 billion from the federal government, through HHS grants, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP payments, Paycheck Protection Program loans, and even USAID.

Yet the effort to excise “big abortion’s” slush fund stands in danger of faltering over intra-party squabbles. This is an appropriate time for President Trump to step in and unite the GOP, argued National Review’s Dan McLaughlin.

“There’s a time and place in partisan politics for a big-tent approach to letting legislators vote their consciences or their districts (which are often not the same things), and there’s a time and place for demanding that people stand with the party’s principles and priorities,” he argued.

“Even for those Republicans who don’t care all that much about the moral issues, the group is for all intents and purposes an arm of the Democratic Party,” McLaughlin added. “Trump’s second term should send a message that Democratic and progressive groups no longer have a permanent entitlement to taxpayer financing that is immune to the outcomes of elections.”

This point of partisan expediency should resonate with the policies pursued by the second Trump administration so far. Defunding Planned Parenthood is no different than cancelling DEI grants, pulling university funding over blatant anti-Semitism, or shutting the spigots of USAID to leftist NGOs. The point is that left-wing organizations have enjoyed unfair advantages for decades, and they should be de-subsidized.

At least one moderate Republican understands this. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said he is “not opposed” to defunding Planned Parenthood through reconciliation. “A lot of people in my district don’t like money going to organizations that do abortion — taxpayer money,” he said.

“Planned Parenthood is a massive abortion provider,” Bacon added. “They also are very political, so, [we’re] giving them taxpayer money, and then they turn around and attack us.”

If this argument persuades one moderate Republican, it stands a chance of persuading others.

Amid this debate, newly released audio from Live Action reminds America that Planned Parenthood is evil not only for perpetrating the mass destruction of unborn lives but also for its predatory provision of gender transition procedures to minors.

In the recording, a Live Action investigator posed as a 16-year-old girl seeking a testosterone prescription. The investigator called multiple Planned Parenthood facilities in Minnesota and New York. Multiple facilities said they would prescribe cross-sex hormones to a minor. Multiple facilities were willing to schedule virtual appointments. Multiple facilities said they required no documentation that the presumed minor had attended therapy. Multiple facilities were willing to write a prescription for cross-sex hormones on the very same day as their first visit with the minor.

This is the very opposite of good medical practice. Planned Parenthood is willing to prescribe extreme physical interventions with irreversible effects for a psychological condition. They are willing to do so without physically examining the patient, without monitoring the patient over a period of time, and without even attempting therapy to construct a holistic picture of the patient’s condition. They are even willing to do these things to minors.

This second evil is one that the Trump administration has moved aggressively to counter. Thankfully, President Trump has issued an executive order defining “man” and “woman” in biological terms. Executive departments from HHS to DOD to Agriculture have acted to implement this executive order throughout the federal government.

Purging federal funding from an organization that actively promotes and profits from transgender ideology is simply the next step on a trail the Trump administration has already blazed.

President Trump has shown that this is one fight from which he will not back down. His administration has successfully fought activist judges to re-implement his military transgender policy. It has tackled states like Maine for allowing men to compete in women’s sports. The next item of business is for the Trump administration to lean on members of his own party in Congress, so that the federal government no longer has to subsidize an organization that actively pushes a transgender ideology on children.

LifeNews Note: Joshua Arnold is a staff writer at The Washington Stand, contributing both news and commentary from a biblical worldview. Originally published by The Washington Stand.

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Habemus Prevost…

The Conclave Elects Leo XIV:
Initial Thoughts by Bp. Donald Sanborn

In a livestream broadcast shortly after the election of Robert Prevost as ‘Pope Leo XIV’ on May 8, 2025, His Excellency Bishop Donald J. Sanborn of Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Reading, Pennsylvania, sat down with Stephen Heiner of Roman Catholic Media to discuss the 2025 conclave, the new papal claimant, and the post-Francis era that has now begun:

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Abortionist Christine Henneberg revealed in her 2022 memoir that Planned Parenthood trained her to send women with uterine perforations home without treatment, instead of to the hospital.

A Perforation is a Life-Threatening Complication

A uterine perforation occurs when an abortionist pokes a hole through the uterine wall. Medic-Journal calls a uterine perforation a “formidable complication” that can cause “life-threatening bleeding, peritonitis, [and] loss of reproductive function.”

Medic-Journal gives the symptoms of a uterine perforation as “intense pain in the lower abdomen and signs of intra-abdominal bleeding: bloody discharge from the vagina, weakness, dizziness, tachycardia.”

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It says:

Untimely diagnosis of uterine perforation can lead to formidable and life-threatening complications and consequences. These include intestinal injuries or bladder injuries, massive hematomas, bleeding, peritonitis, sepsis.

Damage to the internal uterine pharynx can contribute to the formation of cervical insufficiency, miscarriage during subsequent pregnancy. Uterine perforation can have serious consequences for reproductive function and cause the development of infertility due to the formation of intrauterine adhesions (Asherman syndrome) or the need to remove the uterus.

Botched Abortions During Training

Henneberg learned to do abortions through the TEACH partnership, which stands for “Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare.”

However, the TEACH program (which was funded by abortion pill manufacturer Danco) also taught Henneberg to do second-trimester abortions.

Henneberg claims to have trained at Planned Parenthood of Long Beach under abortionist “Rebecca.”

During training, Henneberg reportedly perforated a woman’s uterus while committing an eight-week abortion. She told Rebecca. Henneberg says:

[Rebecca] had been checking something on her phone. She looked up. “Suction off,” she told the assistant. “Let me feel.” She placed her hands on the cannula and probed the wall of the uterus, feeling what I did.

“’Yup, you did,’ she said. ‘You perforated.’ She didn’t bat an eye.

Rebecca examined the abortion remains and confirmed that no fetal tissue remained in the uterus. She checked the woman again and told Henneberg, “Don’t worry. She’s going to be fine.”

Sending the Woman Home Instead of to the Hospital

Henneberg says:

My face must have been ashen. “Have you ever perforated before?” she asked me.

“No.”

She gave a little laugh. “The thing you have to remember is that abortions are one of the safest procedures there is. Perforation is like your worst nightmare, right? We are so careful to avoid it, and we should be.

But now it’s happened to you. You poked a little hole in her uterus. You have to watch her for bleeding, make sure you didn’t suck any bowel through with your cannula. But 99% of the time that doesn’t happen. You’ll watch her. She’ll go home. This will heal itself up in a few days.”

The protocol at Planned Parenthood is to send patients with perforations home instead of to the hospital. And they did.

Henneberg says, “At the end of it, she was fine. She went home. We went home. I couldn’t wait to go back the next morning.”

But was the woman really “fine”? Henneberg doesn’t mention any follow-up with the patient, and abortion facilities generally don’t know if a woman ends up going to an emergency room with bleeding or infection.

Henneberg perforated another woman’s uterus during the first procedure of the next day. This woman received the same “treatment.” They checked to see if they removed the whole baby (which should be done after every abortion), examined the perforation under ultrasound, checked bleeding, and sent her home.

Appropriate Treatment for a Uterine Perforation

According to Medic-Journal, this is the preferred treatment for a minor perforation:

If the perforation is incomplete, the hole is small, and there is absolute confidence in the absence of damage to the OBP, parametral hematoma and intra-abdominal bleeding, conservative-observational tactics can be undertaken. In this case, bed rest is prescribed, cold on the stomach, uterotonic drugs and antibiotics are used. Dynamic ultrasound control is carried out.

In other situations (in the presence of peritoneal symptoms and increasing signs of internal bleeding), laparoscopy or laparotomy, a thorough revision are indicated. If a small defect is detected in the uterine wall, they are limited to suturing the wound.

Henneberg didn’t suture the perforations and says nothing about medications or specific instructions to the women.

Henneberg has now made abortion her career, and says, “I still manage perforation according to the exact protocol we followed (twice) while I was training with [Rebecca].”

So she still sends women home with no treatment.

Women Who Have Died from Uterine Perforations

Here are just a few of the women who have died from perforations:

• Gloria Small was 43 and a mother of six.
• Germaine Newman was 14. Her mother found her dead at home the day after her abortion.
• Teresa Causey was 17. Her last words were “Oh, mama, mama, it hurts so much!”
• Margaret Paula Clodfelter was 19. Like Henneberg’s patients, she was sent home. She later died.
• Maureen Espinoza, 16, was also sent home. After she arrived at the hospital six days after her abortion, doctors tried two unsuccessful surgeries to save her life.
• Leigh Ann Stephens Alford, 34, died 18 hours after the facility sent her home with a perforated uterus.
• Virginia Wolfe, 33, died on the abortion table.
• Shirley Payne was 33.
• Rhonda Rollinson The abortionist couldn’t remove the whole baby. They sent Rhonda home with instructions to return to the facility another day to try again. She died instead.
• A 20-year-old Newark college student, name unknown, also died of a perforation, leaving her four-year-old son motherless.
• Anjelica Duarte, 21, left behind two daughters, ages three and one.
• Mickey Apodaca was 28. Her abortionist, Raymond E. Showery, was out on bail, appealing a murder conviction for drowning a baby girl who survived an abortion.He was charged with manslaughter for Apodaca’s death. While Showery was awaiting trial, local pro-abortion activists rallied outside the jail with signs supporting him and calling for his release.
• Carolina Gutierrez was 20. She suffered a massive infection after a uterine perforation.When Gutierrez realized she was sick, she called the abortion facility but was hung up on. Over two days, as her condition worsened, she left repeated messages, but no one from the facility returned her calls.

  Surgeons amputated both her legs, trying to save her life, but she died six weeks after her abortion

Source: Christine Henneberg Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother (San Francisco, California, 2022) 213, 214, 246—247, 263

LifeNews Note: Sarah Terzo covered the abortion issue for over 13 years as a professional journalist. In this capacity, she has written nearly a thousand articles about abortion and read over 850 books on the topic. She has been researching and writing about abortion since attending The College of New Jersey (class of 1997) where she minored in Women’s Studies. This article originally appeared on Sarah Terzo’s Substack. You can read more of her articles here. This article originally appeared on Live Action News.

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Ahead of next week’s markup of the budget reconciliation bill in the House Energy & Commerce Committee, SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser issued the following statement:

“We urge President Trump, Vice President Vance, and congressional Republicans to stand up for American taxpayers and stop forced funding of the big abortion industry in the reconciliation bill. We will proudly score in favor of the ‘one big beautiful bill’ that includes this vital priority.

“President Trump and congressional Republicans included this effort in the 2017 reconciliation bill, and we have a historic opportunity to get the job done in 2025.

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“Doing so is an extension of the work President Trump has already accomplished this term to stop taxpayer funding of the abortion industry abroad and reapplying the Hyde Amendment across government spending after Joe Biden brazenly ignored it.

“Planned Parenthood performs nearly 400,000 abortions per year while raking in $2 million per day, or nearly $700 million per year in taxpayer funding. During the 2024 election cycle they spent $70 million to try to defeat Donald Trump and Republicans up and down the ticket. They are a political juggernaut designed to protect their big abortion business and their hundreds of millions in tax dollars. President Trump and congressional Republicans can finally stop this.

“The good news is that women will receive better care at community health centers across the country that outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities by a 15:1 margin. They provide much more comprehensive care and do not perform abortions.

“It’s time to stand up for taxpayers who oppose forced funding of abortion and ensure women get better care that is more comprehensive and more available than Planned Parenthood.”

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The Trump administration has fully implemented the defunding of the UNFPA that it announced back in March and announced today that no new funding will the directed to it. And the pro-abortion agency is unhappy.

As LifeNews reported then, Trump has ordered the defunding of the UNFPA, a United Nations population control agency which promotes abortions worldwide.

This is a continuation of his pro-life policy from his previous administration. In 2017, Trump signed an executive order defunding the UN population group because it pushes abortions on other countries and has worked with China for decades to implement its forced abortion population control policies.

Trump officials previously informed the UN Population Fund that nearly all of its grants would be discontinued. That defunding has taken place – with some $335 million in taxpayer funds yanked from the pro-abortion UN agency. Now, Trump officials have informed the UN group that new funding will not take place in future years.

In a statement to LifeNews, UNFPA officials decried the defunding.

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“UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, notes with deep regret that the United States of America has announced its intention to deny future funding to the organization by triggering the Kemp-Kasten Amendment,” it said. “It comes in addition to termination notices UNFPA has already received … amounting to some $335 million in funding.”

“UNFPA remains keen to maintain an open dialogue with the US Government, including through the UNFPA Executive Board, of which the USA is a member. We urge the United States to reconsider its stance,” it said.

A reconsideration of the defunding would be easy if the UNFPA stopped promoting abortions worldwide, but the UN agency is more devoted to its abortion agenda that humanitarian work that could receive federal funding.

The defending is a result of the pro-life executive order Trump signed in January that prohibits American tax dollars to groups that promote or provide abortions overseas. Thr order directed the Secretary of State to take all necessary actions, to the extent permitted by law, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.

The new memorandum specifically directs the Secretary of State to review programs under the Kemp-Kasten amendment, a provision of U.S. law that states that no U.S. funds may be made available to “any organization or program which, as determined by the [p]resident of the United States, supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”

During his first week in office last term, Trump signed the Mexico City policy in one of his first acts as president. The pro-life policy prohibits American tax dollars to groups that promote or provide abortions overseas. The move defunded two major abortion chains of hundreds of millions of American tax dollars. The International Planned Parenthood Federation alone estimated a $100 million loss from its budget.

The Mexico City policy, which began with President Ronald Reagan, historically has been supported by pro-life presidents and rescinded by pro-abortion presidents. Trump went further though. He not only reinstated the policy but also expanded it by increasing the number of global health assistance funds and government programs that are covered under the policy.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has a long history of supporting China’s population control regime.

According to information from he Family Research Council, both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush cut off funding to the UNFPA during their administrations. In 1993, President Bill Clinton resumed funding for UNFPA, but for fiscal year 1999 signed a foreign aid appropriations bill that zeroed out funding for UNFPA. Funding to UNFPA was again completely cut off under President George W. Bush.

In 2008, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell explained: “UNFPA’s support of, and involvement in, China’s population-planning activities allows the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion. Therefore, it is not permissible to continue funding UNFPA at this time.”

President Obama resumed U.S. taxpayer funding of UNFPA in 2009.  From 2009 to 2016, over $300 million was appropriated for UNFPA.

Here is more on the policy:

The Mexico City Policy is a policy that prohibits U.S. government global health funding from being used to fund foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that perform or promote abortion. The policy also blocks foreign organizations that receive global health grants from providing any type of financial assistance to other foreign NGOs that perform or promote abortion.

In 2017, the Trump administration renamed the Mexico City Policy the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy (PLGHA).

Currently, the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy only applies to certain kinds of U.S. government awards—the policy currently only applies grants and cooperative agreements. The new proposed rule issued by the Trump administration last week, however, would extend the policy to contracts as well.

The policy requires foreign contractors that sign onto U.S. government global health contracts to certify that they will not perform or promote abortion or provide financial assistance to any foreign pro-abortion organization for the duration of their award. Foreign contractors would be banned from conducting any activities directly aimed at encouraging women to seek abortion and they would be prohibited from lobbying activities in support of the legalization of abortion.

The Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy in included as a clause in their contract agreement and contractors would be required to pass down the policy to any subcontractors.

Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, previously told LifeNews:

“UNFPA has been found to be complicit with coercive population control in China in the past, and I have no doubt that any unbiased investigation would find them complicit again.  I have long advocated for the defunding of UNFPA.”

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President Donald Trump expressed confidence that Republicans will resolve internal disagreements to advance legislation defunding Planned Parenthood.

“I don’t know yet. I have to see because you’re just telling me that for the first time, we’ll work something out,” Trump said in response to questions about opposition from some House Republicans to including Planned Parenthood defunding provisions in this year’s reconciliation bill.

The reconciliation process, which allows legislation to pass the Senate with a simple majority, offers Republicans a rare opportunity to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business. Pro-life groups argue that taxpayer dollars, even if not directly funding abortions, indirectly subsidize Planned Parenthood’s operations, which include killing over 390,000 babies every year.

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However, three House Republicans—Reps. John Curtis of Utah, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, and Anthony D’Esposito of New York—are reportedly hesitant to support the defunding measure with Planned Parenthood defunding in it. They fear political backlash in their competitive 2026 reelection campaigns.

Pro-life advocates emphasize that community health centers, which outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics and provide comprehensive care without abortions, can absorb patients if funding is redirected.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a staunch pro-life advocate, has signaled that defunding “big abortion” is a priority in the reconciliation bill, which also addresses Trump’s agenda on taxes, border security, and energy.

The Hyde Amendment already prohibits federal funds from directly paying for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the mother’s life. However, Planned Parenthood receives approximately $700 million annually through Medicaid reimbursements and Title X grants. Pro-life leaders argue this funding frees up resources for Planned Parenthood’s abortion operations.

The reconciliation bill, which allows legislation to pass with a simple majority in both chambers, is seen as a critical opportunity to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business. The abortion company received nearly $700 million in taxpayer funds in its 2022-2023 fiscal year, killing 392,715 babies in abortions, according to its annual report.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has voiced support for defunding Planned Parenthood, stating on Fox News that he is “working to build the votes” needed to pass such a measure through reconciliation.

At the annual gala of the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America last week, Johnson pledged that the reconciliation bill “is going to redirect funds away from ‘big abortion.’”

However, with a narrow Republican majority, even a small number of holdouts could derail the effort, as no pro-life Democrats are expected to support the measure.

Pro-life groups, including Students for Life of America and Family Research Council, have intensified lobbying efforts, with hundreds of activists visiting Capitol Hill in recent weeks to press lawmakers. A coalition of over 150 national and state pro-life organizations has called for action, emphasizing that Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, primarily through Medicaid, must be redirected.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) wants the big budget reconciliation plan extending President Donald Trump’s tax cuts sent to his desk — ready for signature — by July 4. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) would like it even sooner: Memorial Day.

Meanwhile, Representative Mary Miller (R-Ill.) is waging a fierce campaign among her Republican colleagues to make defunding Planned Parenthood a non-negotiable piece of the final proposal.

On Monday, Miller sent a passionate letter to Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, obtained by Breitbart News. In it, she urged Guthrie to “use every legislative option available to cease all federal funds going to Planned Parenthood,” exposing the organization’s deep entanglement in abortion and transgender treatments. “Abortions and transgender treatments have exploded in clinics across the country,” she wrote.

Citing the Charlotte Lozier Institute, Miller highlighted that “abortions made up 97.1% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services from 2021-2022, performing nearly 400,000 abortions.” She also underscored the crisis in her home state, noting, “In 2023, my home state of Illinois performed 72,143 abortions, the most in our history since the state started reporting abortion totals in 1973.” Miller laid bare Planned Parenthood’s financial empire, stating, “Due to a lack of decisive Congressional action, Planned Parenthood has become a federally funded health network with private assets valued at $2.5 billion. Recent numbers show that Planned Parenthood received nearly $700 million in taxpayer revenue from 2022-2023.”

Her letter concluded with a call to action: “It is essential that we protect taxpayer dollars and stop funding this organization. President Trump has already issued an Executive Order that implements such a plan. Therefore, I urge you to do everything possible to ensure Planned Parenthood never receives another penny of taxpayer dollars.”

Speaking to Breitbart, Miller doubled down, declaring, “Planned Parenthood is a multi-billion-dollar abortion business that continues to receive millions in federal funding.” She praised Trump’s leadership, stating, “President Trump had it right when he issued an Executive Order to cut off taxpayer dollars from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood,” and insisted, “it’s time for Congress to make that policy permanent. I urge the Energy and Commerce Committee to ensure that not another dime of American tax dollars goes to this murder-for-profit organization.”

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FROM VATICAN NEWS:

Inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV to be held on May 18

Yesterday, May 8, 2025, the feast of the Apparition of St. Michael in the month of Our Lady, we were given given a new Pope. We mustn’t speak negatively about him or his election. It is natural to be concerned that the hirelings and wolves inside the Church appear ecstatic at his election. We are wounded children still reeling from the scandal and confusion wrought by the last “Holy Father.

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