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This month, the #WeCount project by the Society of Family Planning released final abortion estimates for calendar year 2025. Unfortunately, the news is not particularly good for pro-lifers.
The Society of Family Planning estimates that 1,126,760 abortions took place in calendar year 2025. This represents a 1.6 percent increase from 2024. Overall, the Society of Family Planning numbers are broadly consistent with the abortion estimates that have been released by the Guttmacher Institute.
Unsurprisingly, the #WeCount figures show that telehealth abortions are playing a large role in this abortion increase. ---More...
Five Month Old Baby Survived Abortion, Then Had Her Organs Harvested
A couple says their five-month-old infant was delivered alive at an abortion clinic in New Jersey — then trafficked for fetal organ harvesting. They named the little girl Clementine.
Their allegations are detailed in the Center for Medical Progress’ new documentary, “What Happened to Clementine?” Filmmakers interviewed Tommy Kearns, Clementine’s father, and Clementine’s mother, who has chosen to remain anonymous.
Clementine’s parents are wondering: Where is their child?
Kearns told the Daily Caller: “If Clementine’s scalp is growing on the back of a lab rat, then the question is not scientific. It is about our child. How long is her hair? What color is her hair? She is not a tissue sample, she is a person.” ---More...
Baby Born Alive at 23 Weeks After Surviving Forced Abortion
A breaking story out of Carencro, Louisiana has stopped many of us in the pro-life community in our tracks — sadly not because the underlying reality is new, but because this case lays bare, in the starkest possible terms, what the reality of abortion is.
According to reports from the Carencro Police Department and confirmed by local news outlet KATC, Jamelle Kelly, 39, has been charged with attempted first-degree feticide and domestic abuse/battery of a pregnant victim — both felonies — after allegedly giving his pregnant 17-year-old daughter abortion drugs without her knowledge. The teenager became ill and was rushed to the hospital, where doctors performed an emergency cesarean surgery. Her baby was born at just 23 weeks gestation, weighing approximately one pound. As of June 12, 2026 — the day investigators made the charges public — that tiny baby (an abortion survivor) is in the NICU, fighting for life. The investigation is ongoing, and not all facts have been established in court. But what has been charged is serious enough to shake anyone who cares about women, children, and human dignity. ---More...
Pro-Life Congressman Mike Collins Will Face Pro-Abortion Jon Ossof in Georgia
Rep. Mike Collins will win the Republican Senate runoff in Georgia, project the Associated Press and NBC News.
Collins, who represents Georgia’s 10th Congressional District, will now face Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff in November. Ossoff narrowly defeated then-Sen. David Perdue, a Republican, in 2020, in the same election Joe Biden won Georgia. In 2024, Donald Trump won the state.
The race is considered “leans Democrat” by the Cook Political Report. To retake control of the Senate, Democrats will need to gain four Senate seats this election cycle.
Ossoff almost immediately criticized Collins as an “extremist” in a X post Tuesday night. ---More...
Abortion Pills in Water May be Making Women Infertile
Your water may be contaminated by abortion pills, officials warn.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told the Daily Caller News Foundation that it is reviewing comments from 14 attorneys general urging the agency to classify mifepristone as a water contaminant.
“Pharmaceuticals, like Mifepristone, encompass a diverse group of chemicals, including prescription and over the counter drugs,” an EPA spokesperson told the DCNF. “EPA is currently reviewing comments submitted on its draft contaminant candidate list 6 (CCL 6), which lists pharmaceuticals as a group, and human health benchmarks for 374 individual pharmaceuticals that are approved by the FDA and may occur in surface and groundwaters and/or treated drinking water.” ---More...
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