Court Overrules Leftist Judge,

Allows Planned Parenthood Defunding to Continue

Source: LifeNews.com | National | Steven Ertelt Dec 9, 2025 | 12:09PM | Washington, DC

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday overruled a preliminary injunction from liberal U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, allowing a federal provision to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business through Medicaid to take effect and continue during ongoing litigation.

The decision, which lifts a temporary block on the funding ban, marks a significant victory for pro-life advocates who have long pushed to redirect taxpayer dollars away from the abortion company.

The American Center for Law and Justice, which filed amicus briefs supporting the government’s position, hailed the ruling as a “crucial” step in “defending the sanctity of life and ensuring that taxpayer dollars are not used to fund organizations that perform abortions.”

Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee in Massachusetts, issued a preliminary injunction against a pro-life provision in Congress’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The measure bars Medicaid reimbursements to tax-exempt organizations that kill babies in abortions and received more than $800,000 in such funds during fiscal year 2023.

Pro-life advocates had championed the law as a critical step to redirect taxpayer dollars away from abortion companies, ending federal taxpayer support to large entities like Planned Parenthood.

The ruling applied to a coalition of 22 states led by California, Connecticut and New York, plus the nation’s capital.

Talwani found that the states are “likely to prove that the law imposes an unconstitutional, retroactive condition on state participation in the Medicaid program,” which provides health coverage to low-income Americans. She described the provision as “impermissibly ambiguous,” noting that allowing it to take effect would “increase the percentage of patients unable to receive birth control and preventive screenings, thereby prompting an increase in states’ healthcare costs.”

Now defunding can continue nationwide thanks to the appellate court.

Tiffin RTL Notes: The "Monday" referenced in the lead sentence above apparently refers to Monday, December 8, as this article was published online on Tuesday, Dec. 9. The full text of the article appears above as taken from this CLICK HERE link

If you wish to read a previous article published on December 4, 2025 by "The Washington Stand," about about District Judge Indira Talwani's earlier ruling, you can CLICK HERE

These two articles illustrate just how quickly legal issues can change.

Interview with Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, chair of the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops'

Committee on Pro-Life Activities

In a recent interview with "Our Sunday Visitor" publication, Bishop Thomas discussed the committee's priorities. He specifically pointed out the importance of offering “healing and the tender mercy of God” to those hurt by abortion.

CLICK HERE to read the whole interview.

175 Members of Congress

Tell FDA to End Biden’s Mail-Order Abortion Drug Policy

Anna Callahan | Nov. 21, 2025 |Washington, DC

Following last month’s letter from 51 U.S. senators to the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services calling to reinstate commonsense safeguards on abortion drugs, 175 U.S. representatives led by Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) and pharmacist Rep. Diana Harshbarger (TN-01) sent a letter demanding answers from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and Commissioner Marty Makary.

The FDA’s recent approval of a new generic version of the drug comes even as Joe Biden’s COVID-era mail-order abortion policy remains inexplicably in effect, putting women and unborn children at risk and undermining state pro-life laws.

As the letter states:

These drugs are sent across state lines with no physician oversight, and without appropriate screening to ensure that bad actors are not secretly poisoning women without their knowledge or forcing women to take abortion drugs against their will – a clear indication that radical pro-abortion activists care more about protecting abortion access than about upholding women’s health and safety.

CLICK HERE to read the full article.

There’s No Mass Exodus of OBGYNs

From Pro-Life States

LifeNews.com | Monica Snyder | Nov, 5, 2025 | Washington, DC

Article published in The Hill: “No, OBGYNs are not systematically fleeing states that banned abortion.” There’s been a lot of media coverage claiming that they are, but researchers in public health, medicine, and economics from Stanford, Berkeley, and elsewhere tried to look at this more analytically and found “no evidence of such an exodus.”

They found no evidence that OBGYNs were leaving states with abortion bans and no evidence that fewer OBGYNS were moving to states with abortion bans.

They took a closer look at the media coverage claiming otherwise and they found that basically a bunch of different reporters were interviewing the same 15 doctors.

Keep in mind there are tens of thousands of OBGYNs in the United States.

They also emphasized that broader doctor shortage issues predate Dobbs and closure of L&D departments have been inappropriately attributed to Dobbs when there’s other problems.

Specifically, they conclude:

Focusing on a physician exodus that is not actually happening distracts us from addressing the real, plentiful problems with the delivery of medical care.

This is so well said. There are many complex problems with American reproductive healthcare. Abortion advocates continually reduce these issues to a question of abortion access.

CLICK HERE to read more about the complex issues involved, as the story continues to its completion.

RAPED AND TOLD

TO HAVE AN ABORTION,

SHE REFUSED AND CHOSE LIFE

Jerry Newcom | Nov 6., 2025 | Washington, DC

I heard a very moving talk from a rape victim this past weekend, which I’ll share in a moment. And what she said reminds me of the reason why abortion has gained such a stranglehold in America.

Rape is a horrible and violent crime. Interestingly, the allegation of rape is part of the reason America has embraced abortion so strongly in the last half-century.

Our founding documents embrace a culture of life, but abortion is at war with the right to life.

In months, we’ll be celebrating the life-affirming birthday of America. July 4, 2026, will be the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which famously says, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life.”

Eleven years later, in 1787, the Constitution, predicated on the Declaration, opens this way: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice … and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

But in 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court famously voted in favor of abortion rights as they set out “to resolve the issue by constitutional measurement.”

Dissenter Byron Johnson called Roe (and its companion decision of the same day, Doe v. Bolton) an act of “raw judicial power.”

To gain sympathy for her quest to get an abortion, the plaintiff Jane Roe (who we now know was the late Norma McCorvey) claimed she was raped – gang-raped no less.

But years later, Norma McCorvey revealed that she had lied. She said, “Initially, I had told [attorney] Sarah Weddington that I had been raped – and I was not raped.”

CLICK HERE to read the rest of this story.