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STUDY SHOWS ABORTION
RAISES MATERNAL MORBIDITY
RISK IN FUTURE PREGNANCIES
LifeNews.com | Laura Pham
9-15-26 | Washington, DC
A new peer-reviewed study by Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) researchers used Medicaid data to identify a history of pregnancy loss, which includes miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion, as risk factors for severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in future pregnancies. SMM is defined as a life-threatening complication during pregnancy or delivery.
Previous studies suggest a woman’s history of pregnancy loss may contribute to increased risk in future deliveries, but most analyses have relied on limited clinical samples or registry populations outside the U.S.
This retrospective study analyzed Medicaid data from 2016-2021, specifically looking at over 1.7 million women who had their first live birth in that timespan. Researchers examined how many of those first live births were complicated by SMM, using the CDC’s list of 21 SMM indicators.
Key points:
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A prior pregnancy loss increased the odds of SMM in future pregnancies by about 55%.
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A history of abortions increased the risk of SMM by about 20% and increased the risk of C-sections in a subsequent first delivery by 12%.
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These findings confirm the importance of identifying women with a history of pregnancy loss as a potential high-risk group for enhanced prenatal monitoring.
Dr. David Reardon, director of the Elliot Institute and associate scholar at CLI, said:
“The data shows clear evidence that abortion is a risk factor for maternal complications, many of which are life threatening, in later pregnancies. This is an avoidable risk factor, and women considering abortion should be warned of this risk along with the elevated risk of premature death and harms to their mental health.” CLICK HERE for a link to the source article (which includes a link to the read the full study).
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Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Says
He Never Had “Reasonable Doubt”
LifeNews.com | Steven Ertelt | 9-17-26 | Washington, DC
The holdout juror who refused to allow Lindsay Clancy to escape accountability for killing her three children says he never had any “reasonable doubt” as other jurors alleged.
Michael P. Desronvil, 48, of Bridgewater, spoke with Ray Marcel of Fugitive TV after Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Sept. 4.
Clancy faces three counts of murder in the strangling deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023. She then slashed her wrists and jumped from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed.
Prosecutors say she killed the children deliberately. The defense argued postpartum depression triggered auditory hallucinations.
Marcel told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo that Desronvil “felt that she was sane when she did it. And that’s exactly what he told me.”
CLICK HERE to read the entire article.
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TOLEDO-AREA DOCTOR
SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS
IN FORCED
ABORTION-DRUG CASE
WTOL 11 News & YahooNews.com
Victoria Dugger, Melissa Andrews | 9-11-26 | Toledo, OH
A Toledo-area doctor who was placed on administrative leave from his position as a surgical resident at the University of Toledo Medical Center was sentenced Friday to six months at CCNO and two years of probation.
Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Joe McNamara sentenced 32-year-old Hassan-James Abbas to six months at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio and two years of probation.
Abbas pleaded no contest in May to four felony charges:
• Disrupting public services
• Unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug
• Identity fraud
• Deception to obtain a dangerous drug
A no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but it allows the court to determine guilt based on the facts presented by prosecutors.
Abbas was originally indicted on six felony charges. Under his plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to dismiss charges of abduction and tampering with evidence at sentencing.
The charges stemmed from a Dec. 18, 2024, incident at Abbas' Holland home.
According to prosecutors and records from the State Medical Board of Ohio, Abbas began a relationship with a woman who previously had been his patient. After the woman told Abbas she was pregnant and did not want an abortion, investigators said Abbas used his estranged wife's personal information to obtain mifepristone and misoprostol from an out-of-state telemedicine provider.
Prosecutors said Abbas later crushed the abortion medication, climbed on top of the woman while she was sleeping, held her down and forced the medication into her mouth.
The woman told WTOL 11 that she fought to get away and attempted to call 911. Investigators said Abbas took the phone from her and disconnected the call. She eventually left the home and sought treatment at a hospital.
The woman told WTOL 11 that the medication ended her pregnancy.
During a July 2025 interview with medical board investigators, Abbas reportedly acknowledged obtaining the drugs using his estranged wife's information, crushing the medication and administering it to the woman.
He claimed she had consented to take it. The woman denied giving consent.
Investigators said Abbas later discarded the remaining medication while driving, preventing authorities from recovering it.
The State Medical Board of Ohio suspended Abbas' medical training certificate in November 2025 after determining that allowing him to continue practicing presented a danger of immediate and serious harm to the public. UTMC subsequently placed him on administrative leave.
Abbas' medical training certificate remains inactive and suspended, according to state licensing records. CLICK HERE for the source of this article. Comment: One wonders if readers thought the article headline should have read "sentenced to only 6 months."
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PATRIC CLANCY AFTER MISTRIAL:
“Will Have to Relive the Pain”
of Children’s Deaths
LifeNews.com| Steven Ertelt | Sept. 5, 2026 Washington, DC
Excerpts from Article
Patrick Clancy issued a statement through attorney David Meier after Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the former labor and delivery nurse charged with killing 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan on Jan. 24, 2023.
“Patrick Clancy is grateful to the Court and to the jurors for their hard work, their commitment, and their perseverance,” Meier said. “The loss of Patrick’s children is something from which he will never recover and from which there will never be closure. The prospect of reliving this tragedy through another trial is extraordinarily painful — for Patrick, for his family, and for all us.”
The mistrial is not an acquittal and does not erase the fact that three children are dead.
The legal fight was never about whether the children were killed. It was about whether Clancy could be held accountable.
Sullivan instructed the jury of nine women and three men that a person is not criminally responsible “if she has a mental disease or defect” and, as a result, “lacks the substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality or wrongfulness of her conduct or to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law.” He also reminded them that mental illness alone does not erase criminal responsibility.
Please CLICK HERE to read the entire article and a more complete idea of what is at stake.
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First They Defended Abortion,
Now They Defend Lindsay Clancy Killing Her Kids
LifeNews.com Opinion|Paul Batura | Sept. 1, 2026 Washington, DC
When it comes to the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts labor-and-delivery nurse currently facing three counts of first-degree murder for the death of her three children, there is no dispute over the primary tragic facts of the case.
On January 24, 2023, Clancy strangled her three children with an exercise band. Cora, age 5, and Dawson, age 3, died that day. Callan, 8 months, died three days later.
While Clancy has never formally confessed to the murders (she pleaded “not guilty”), neither she nor her defense attorneys have ever disputed that she did it. When her husband, Patrick, called 911, he told the dispatcher, “She killed the kids.”
Instead, Clancy’s attorneys have argued that she was mentally ill, suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis, and therefore incapable of understanding that she was killing her three children.
As of Tuesday morning, the 12-member jury was in its fourth day of deliberations and reported back to the judge that it had been unable to come to a unanimous decision. The jury could find Clancy guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter or not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. CLICK HERE for the full story.
Note: After this article was published, the judge declared a mistrial because jurors were not able to give a unanimous decision.
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen was a
Tireless Pro-Life Advocate
LifeNews.com Opinion | Maria Gallagher
Sep 8, 2026 | Washington, DC
Excerpts
A pro-life pioneer is closer than ever to being declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified in St. Louis on September 24th. At the ceremony, he will be declared “Blessed.” The declaration comes after a miracle involving the resusci-tation of a baby who did not breathe for 61 minutes after birth. That baby is now a young man and reportedly will be present at the ceremony.
Sheen was a tireless promoter of the right to life. He regularly condemned the evil of abortion and predicted the misery it would cause American women. He even composed a special prayer to save a baby in danger of abortion. CLICK HERE for access to the full article.
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Judge Orders Disabled Man Starved to Death Against His Family’s Wishes
LifeNews.com |Christian Defense Coalition
Sept. 8, 2026 | London, England
Excerpts
In spite of a court injunction barring anyone from speaking on this case, Fahim’s mother is publicly calling for the court to reverse their order on removing hydration and nutrition, immediately return her son back to his home, and drop the “gag” order crushing free speech on this case.
She could face being imprisoned for her actions.
In an exclusive video, Farah, the young man’s mother publicly shares her heart from the bedside of her son and discusses how his condition has dramatically gotten worse after he was removed from his loving home 16 months ago by the government.
Farah’s son suffered a catastrophic hypoxic brain injury in 2020, leaving him disabled.
Below, Farah shares how the UK government has treated her son and how it impacts her as a mother:
“They took my vulnerable son from the stability and protection of his home and mother, locked him up and banned his entire family from visiting him; even criminals don’t get banned from their families while in prison, yet my vulnerable son was deprived from his basic human rights. CLICK HERE to read the entire story, including a linked video, and comments from noted pro-life spokespersons.
British Medical Association Requires Doctors to Starve Patients to Death
LifeNews.com | Wesley Smith | 8-21-26
London, England
The subtitle of the revised and updated version of my book criticizing utilitarian bioethics, Culture of Death, is, “The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.” Helping patients kill themselves by self-starvation and dehydration — known in euthanasia parlance as VSED (for voluntary stopping eating and drinking) — certainly fits that designation.
Two major medical associations now have endorsed doctors assisting in such suicides by palliating the painful symptoms to help patients go all the way to death. The first was the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2023. This is especially notable because the organization shamefully went “neutral” on the legalization of assisted suicide, despite that action being the antithesis of the hospice philosophy enunciated by the great medical humanitarian Dame Cecily Saunders. The AAHPM’s journal also published a piece recently endorsing intentionally undernourishing dementia patients under certain conditions (MCF, or “minimal comfort feeding”) — VSED in slow motion, if you will.
Now, another “do harm” shoe has dropped. The British Medical Association has issued an ethical guidance that requires practitioners to participate in VSED when asked to do so by a patient. CLICK HERE to read the full story.
a developing story
“Parents” Who Wanted Surrogate Baby Gabriel Killed in Abortion Get Custody
LifeNews.com | Steven Ertelt | Aug. 14, 2026 | Dallas, TX
The California couple who requested that their surrogate mother abort their unborn son after a prenatal diagnosis of a severe but treatable heart defect have taken custody of the newborn boy less than 24 hours after his birth in Texas.
McKenna West, an Alaskan nurse and single mother of two, served as the surrogate for Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed of Los Angeles.
At 20 weeks, the little baby was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare condition that requires a series of surgeries beginning in the first weeks of life but is treatable.
According to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who intervened in the case, Gilkar and Ahmed requested an abortion upon learning of the diagnosis. A clause in the surrogacy agreement allowed the biological parents to have the baby killed in an abortion if an “anomaly” were found. West refused and traveled to Texas before giving birth so that she would be recognized as the birth mother under state law.
She named the boy Gabriel and he was born Wednesday morning in Dallas. A California court had already ruled that Gilkar and Ahmed are the legal parents.
Paxton secured an emergency court order requiring life-saving medical care, including intensive treatment and at least one surgery, and barring the infant from being taken out of Texas. The court also determined that the biological parents, not West, are responsible for medical decisions within the bounds of that order.
A separate order currently prohibits West from any contact with the child.
Attorney Lee Budner, representing Gilkar and Ahmed, said the boy “is now in their physical custody while he receives expert medical care at a tertiary care center.”
“Thankfully, McKenna West’s baseless attempt to interfere with his medical care has been soundly rejected by the courts,” Budner said – even though West acted to ensure Gabriel received all the medical care he needs.
Budner ironically added about the boy his clients wanted killed before birth, “Right now, our clients are continuing to place their baby’s health and well-being first, following the advice of the baby’s medical team, as they always have and just as any loving parent would.”
In other incomprehensible remarks, Budner added: “As if the heartbreak of his condition were not enough, they are devastated to see their family tragedy transformed into political theater by the Texas Attorney General’s office and McKenna West. Our clients’ only focus at this time is ensuring that their baby receives the medical care that he vitally needs and that they, as his parents, are able to spend every precious moment they can with their beautiful newborn son.”
West’s attorney, Lincoln Davis Wilson, said she is challenging the parentage orders. "We are working on challenging those orders of parentage because we think that Texas law makes a woman who gives birth to a child the mother of the child,” Wilson said. He noted the infant is receiving care “at a facility that has an excellent track record of success in performing” the necessary procedures.
The biological parents are scheduled to appear in a Dallas County court on August 25. Gilkar and Ahmed are also suing West.
Gabriel requires immediate surgery to survive beyond the first week and is under the care of a team of pediatric experts. Aside from the known heart condition, early signs were described as positive. CLICK HERE FOR THE PUBLISHED STORY
Comment from Tiffin Right to Life: This is a prime example of why surrogacy -- which at first seems like a loving gesture to help couples desiring a baby -- too often ends up in the court system involving "bartering" children like any other commodity.
Tiffin Right to Life believes
Adoption, NOT Surrogacy, is a better plan.
The lives of children have intrinsic value --
they are not commodities.
France’s Constitutional Court
Approves Euthanasia Law
LifeNews.com| Alex Schadenberg | 8/14/26 | Paris, France
France’s Constitutional Court has essentially accepted the euthanasia bill as passed by France’s National Assembly with the priviso that the Constitutional Court improved conscience rights.
On July 15, 2026; France’s National Assembly passed a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide by a vote of 291 to 241. This was the final vote in the National Assembly and it over rides the previous votes rejecting the euthanasia bill in France’s Senate.
The battle was not over. Agence France-Presse reported on July 15 that: The President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced Tuesday that he would refer the matter to the Constitutional Council, to take into account the oppositions that persist, especially on the right.
Sebastien Ostertag sent the following update from France. Ostertag reported: The French Constitutional Council, which is similar to the US or Canadian Supreme Court, has upheld most of the current French euthanasia law.
CLICK HERE for the entire news article -- there is much more. Comment from Tiffin Right to Life -- This is what is happening in France and in other countries. There are already more than a dozen states in the United States with similar legislation. We must be vigilant and be ready to work tirelessly to make sure Ohio never accepts this type of law for euthanasia or assisted suicide.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide:
A Perversion of Mercy
by Kevin Jorrey
article excerpts below
In recent years, the push for Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) has been framed as a compassionate choice, a way to end suffering and uphold “personal dignity.” Yet the Catholic Church, rooted in Scripture and Tradition, makes clear that such practices gravely misunderstand both human dignity and authentic compassion.
In Canada, PAS has been legal for several years, and the consequences are devastating. In 2023 alone, over 15,000 Canadians died under what is called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), a phrase that hides the harsh reality of euthanasia. When physicians abandon their oath to “do no harm” and instead participate in killing, the foundations of healthcare itself begin to collapse. CLICK HERE to read the FULL article.
Note from Tiffin Right to Life -- Be Aware: House Bill 835 was introduced this past Spring in the Ohio House to try to enact MAiD legislation for the State of Ohio. We must speak out against this to demand that MAiD does not become the law in Ohio.
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THE REALITY OF
ELECTIVE ABORTION ON DEMAND
For many people, abortion is an abstract idea concerning personal freedom. They fail to grasp the true reality of what happens when a more powerful person chooses elective abortion (also known as abortion on demand). Elective abortion is a violent and fatal assault on an innocent human being growing and developing in his or her mother's womb with the sole intention of killing the growing child. Elective abortion is spoken about in euphemisms to hide the brutal reality of what occurs. This is why it is necessary to bring the truth forward.
EVEN IF AN ACT IS LEGAL
IT DOES NOT MAKE IT MORAL
Ask yourself this question, "If Ohio law said it is legal to steal less than $500 from a bank, and you will not be prosecuted for doing so, would that make it morally right to steal?"
Many people incorrectly assume, "If it's legal, it must be moral." Pro-life people understand that elective abortion is now legal in many states, but it is NOT and will never be moral, AND that medical care after a spontaneous miscarriage is NOT elective abortion, AND ELECTIVE "ABORTION ON DEMAND" IS NOT HEALTH CARE.