REGIONAL NEWS
This page last updated 4/14/25
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Trump restores Title X funding
to Oklahoma and Tennessee
4-14-25 CV NEWS FEED // The Trump administration has restored millions in Title X funding to Oklahoma and Tennessee, two states previously cut off under the Biden administration for refusing to provide abortion referrals.
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In 2023, Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) revoked funding after labeling the states’ pro-life services “out of compliance” with federal rules, as CatholicVote previously reported. CLICK HERE to read the full story.
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NEWS FROM IDAHO
Idaho Governor Signs Bill Safeguarding Conscience Rights
for Pro-Life Doctors
State | Steven Ertelt | Mar 20, 2025 |10:07AM |Boise, ID
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Idaho Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 59 into law on Wednesday — a measure that would safeguard conscience rights for pro-life medical professionals.
The bill, which had been sent to the governor’s desk earlier in the month, aims to protect healthcare professionals from being compelled to perform non-emergency procedures like abortions that conflict with their religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. Supporters argue that it safeguards the conscience rights of medical providers.
The Medical Ethics Defense Act applies to a wide range of healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and psychologists. Under the new law, these professionals cannot be forced by employers, regulators, or legal mandates to participate in treatments or procedures they conscientiously object to, provided the situation is not an emergency.
CLICK HERE to read the full article.​
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BREAKING NEWS IN TEXAS
Texas Abortionist Arrested
for Running Illegal Clinics
State | Kimb | Mar 18, 2025 | 8:00AM | Houston, Texas
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, a 48-year-old midwife in the Houston area. “In Texas, life is sacred. I will always do everything in my power to protect the unborn, defend our state’s pro-life laws, and work to ensure that unlicensed individuals endangering the lives of women by performing illegal abortions are fully prosecuted,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Texas law protecting life is clear, and we will hold those who violate it accountable.”
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An extensive investigation by Attorney General Paxton’s Law Enforcement Division revealed that Rojas owned and operated multiple clinics under the names Clinica Waller Latinoamericana in Waller, Clinica Latinoamericana Telge in Cypress, and Latinoamericana Medical Clinic in Spring.
These facilities unlawfully employed unlicensed individuals who falsely presented themselves as licensed medical professionals to provide medical treatment. Rojas also performed illegal abortion procedures in her clinics in direct violation of the Texas Human Life Protection Act.
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In addition to the arrest, Attorney General Paxton’s Healthcare Program Enforcement Division filed for a temporary restraining order to shut down Rojas’s network of clinics to prevent further illegal activity. Under the Texas Human Life Protection Act of 2021, the Attorney General has the authority to seek civil penalties of at least $100,000 per violation for the unlawful performance of an abortion. Waller County District Attorney Sean Whittmore referred the case to Attorney General Paxton for prosecution.
CLICK HERE to read the full story
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Judge Orders NY Abortionist to Stop Illegally Mailing Abortion Pills to Texas Steven Ertelt | Feb 13, 2025 | 7:54PM | Austin, TX
A Texas judge has ordered New York based abortionist Margaret Carpenter stop illegally prescribing and mailing abortion pills to people in Texas and to pay a $100,000 fine.
As LifeNews reported, Carpenter faces a lawsuit from the state of Texas for selling abortion pills there in violation of state law. The judge’s ruling today came in response to that lawsuit.
CLICK HERE to read the full story.
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News About Texas
Report Reveals How Abortion Bans Really Affect Women
The Daily Signal
January 10, 2025
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Not one Texas doctor has been prosecuted for performing one of 132 “medically necessary” induced terminations of pregnancy, according to a report from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services released Jan. 2.
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Texas doctors have reported performing 132 abortions to save mothers’ lives since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022. Zero doctors have been prosecuted, sued, or sanctioned for conducting those procedures.
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Texas doctors have reported performing 132 abortions to save mothers’ lives since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022. Zero doctors have been prosecuted, sued, or sanctioned for conducting those procedures.​ Click HERE to read full article
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LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE U.S.
Do you remember when many people assumed COVID-19 was the leading
cause of death? Well, consider this:
in 2024, abortion was the leading cause
of death in the United States. Click Here to read the full article dated January 2, 2025.
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The Heartbreaking Reality of Coerced Abortion: A mother’s unforgettable testimony -- by Maria Brizek Jan. 23, 2025
As the legal case Women’s Life Care Center v. Ellison unfolds, it is bringing to light numerous troubling stories about the irreversible pain caused by coerced abortions.
One such story is that of Brittany Weston, who submitted a declaration in support of the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction in this case.
Her testimony reveals that women had been facing coercion at Planned Parenthood Minnesota, Planned Parenthood North Dakota, Planned Parenthood South Dakota, and Planned Parenthood North Central States (PPMNS/PPNCS) facilities for many years before Women’s Life Care Center v. Ellison was filed.
In 2005, Weston was dating a 41-year-old man when she discovered that she was pregnant. She was 22 years old and on the cusp of graduating from college at the time.
“When she found out at a medical clinic that she was pregnant, she immediately ruled out an abortion. She wanted to raise her baby herself,” the Women’s Life Care Center v. Ellison complaint states.
But the baby’s father demanded that she get an abortion. According to Weston’s declaration testimony, he eventually coerced her into going to a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
January 16, 2025
Lawyer Explains Shocking Minnesota Coerced Abortion Case Now in Federal Court
CV news feed
Pro-life attorney Harold Cassidy explained what is at stake in a federal court case involving three Minnesota women who sued Democratic Gov. Tim Walz after they were forced into having abortions.
Walz, the failed 2024 vice-presidential candidate, has come under scrutiny for signing two bills alleged to have effectively allowed coerced abortions in Minnesota.
“It’s a mother’s rights case, it’s a women’s rights case,” Cassidy said on a Thursday night webinar hosted by CatholicVote. He noted that it was “brought by three women subjected to abortions they did not want, as well as two pregnancy help centers.”
The case Women’s Life Care Center v. Ellison was recently filed in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Read the full story HERE
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Pro-Life Organizations, Christian Employers Sue Illinois Over Unconstitutional Abortion-Coverage Mandate -- November 20, 2024
(November 20, 2024 – Chicago, Illinois) In a federal lawsuit filed November 20, 2024, pro-life organizations, a church, and Christian employers, are suing Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, and other state officials to enjoin them from enforcing an unconstitutional law requiring health insurers to cover elective abortions and abortion-inducing drugs. Thomas More Society attorneys filed the federal complaint on behalf of Students for Life of America, Midwest Bible Church, Pro-Life Action League, Illinois Right to Life, Clapham School, and DuPage Precision Products.
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Illinois law currently requires health-insurance policies to cover elective abortions on the same terms as they cover pregnancy-related benefits. It also requires insurers to provide abortion-inducing drugs free of charge to any beneficiary who demands them, which forces other beneficiaries to pay for these abortions with their premiums. The Illinois law provides no exceptions or accommodations for employers or individuals who object to abortion on religious or moral grounds. The complaint asks the court to block state officials from enforcing these abortion-coverage mandates, which violate the free exercise and expressive association rights guaranteed by the First Amendment, as well as numerous federal statutes.
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BREAKING NEWS:
California Drops Charges
Against Pro-Life Journalists
Townhall - Rebecca Downs
January 28, 2025 11:30 AM
On Monday night, pro-life journalist David Daleiden shared a press release from his X account that the charges against him had been dropped. Such a legal battle had been going on for nine years, from when former Vice President Kamala Harris served as Attorney General of California and came up with a bill to be used against pro-life journalists, like Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, for their pro-life videos exposing Planned Parenthood for selling harvested baby body parts. These videos from Daleiden's Center for Medical Progress (CMP) were first released in the summer of 2015.
Click Here to read the full story from Townhall
​Click Here to read the post by Daleiden on his X Account
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November 2024 Election Results: Candidates endorsed by pro-life organizations elected to serve on State Supreme Courts
Voters in 4 States elected a total of 10 Supreme Court Judges who were endorsed by pro-life organizations: Texas (3), Ohio (3), Arizona (2), and Florida (2) elected a total of Judges.
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YES - YOUR PRO-LIFE VOTE MATTERS
Click HERE to read the details.
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NEWS FROM IOWA​
IOWA ABORTION LAW PROTECTING LIFE AFTER 6 WEEKS TO TAKE EFFECT NEXT WEEK
CV NEWS FEED // Iowa’s Supreme Court has declined to rehear a case challenging a law banning most abortions after six weeks in the state, setting the pro-life law to go into effect on July 29, according to the Iowa-based news publication the Gazette.
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Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa, and the Emma Goldman Clinic requested the rehearing, which was ultimately denied on July 22, the Gazette reported.
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The pro-abortion organizations said in a statement that the Supreme Court’s decision to not rehear the case “will push abortion care almost entirely out of reach in Iowa.”
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Abortion was previously legal in Iowa up to about 20 weeks, according to the Gazette. In July 2023, a special state legislature approved a six-week abortion ban, according to a report last year from the Associated Press (AP). The day after the legislature approved it, several pro-abortion organizations filed a legal challenge against it.
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On June 28 the state Supreme Court ruled 4-3 against the pro-abortion appelles in a case challenging the pro-life law, ruling that the law is constitutional.
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According to the July 23 report from the Gazette, last week District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell lifted the temporary injunction that previously blocked the law from going into effect.
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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who signed the pro-life law in 2023, said in a statement after the Supreme Court’s rejection to rehear the case that there is “no right more sacred than life, and nothing more worthy of our strongest defense than the innocent unborn.”
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​​Iowa Supreme Court Reinstates Heartbeat Law That Will Save Babies From Abortions
Steven Ertelt | Jun 28, 2024 | 10:48AM
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The Iowa Supreme Court ruled today that the state’s Fetal Heartbeat Law should be allowed to be enforced and protect babies from abortions.
The law protects unborn children from abortion after the fetal heartbeat can be detected, approximately after six weeks of gestation.
In a lower court ruling, Polk County District Judge Joseph Seidlin agreed with Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the Emma Goldman Clinic, and the ACLU of Iowa and issued a temporary injunction.
The case went up to the state’s highest court, which ruled today that the law can take effect.
The 4-3 ruling is a win for pro-life Americans and has Iowa join over a dozen states that currently protect babies from abortions.
Republican governor Kim Reynolds praised the decision, saying, “I’m glad that the Iowa supreme court has upheld the will of the people of Iowa.” ​
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NEWS FROM ILLINOIS
Hopeless Illinois Abortion Clinic: Permission to Endanger More Women DENIED!
Posted by Anne Reed | Apr 17, 2024 | Featured,
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IL Department of Public Health Rejects Formal Request to Ignore Safety Standards
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The Illinois Department of Public Health (ILDPH) rejected a request made by the absurdly named “Hope” Clinic to disregard safety standards established for ambulatory surgical treatment centers.
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This notoriously unsafe facility in Granite City, Illinois, recently received the “The Worst of the Worst” designation after Operation Rescue documented 15 medical emergencies in 2023 alone. Keep in mind that these are only the emergencies witnessed by pro-life sidewalk counselors present at the time of the ambulance transports. Therefore, the actual number of life-threatening emergencies is not known. Nonetheless, Operation Rescue has appropriately nicknamed the facility “Hopeless.”​
Read the full article HERE
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NEWS FROM FLORIDA
April 1, 2024 -- "Florida Supreme Court Allows Heartbeat Law to Take Effect, Protecting Babies From Abortion" by Steven Ertelt
Excerpt: Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 5, known as the “Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality Act,” to protect the lives of Florida’s most vulnerable by prohibiting all abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. Florida Planned Parenthood affiliates and a group of independent abortionists sued the state on June 1, 2022. The complaint alleges that the 15-week ban violates a right to privacy within the Florida Constitution. Later, Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 5, known as the “Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality Act,” to protect the lives of Florida’s most vulnerable by prohibiting all abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. Florida Planned Parenthood affiliates and a group of independent abortionists sued the state on June 1, 2022. The complaint alleges that the 15-week ban violates a right to privacy within the Florida Constitution.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation to save babies from abortions who have beating hearts. DeSantis made Florida the next state to officially protect the lives of unborn children after Roe was overturned. Pro-Life Americans from across the country celebrated the new law, which protects babies whose heartbeats can easily be detected and whose lives have existed for a month and a half starting at conception. The law would save tens of thousands of lives annually and provide $25 million in aid to women and families but it was held up by the same lawsuit. Today the state’s high court upheld both the 15 week and heartbeat laws. In a 6-1 ruling, the Florida Supreme Court upheld Florida’s law protecting preborn children from most abortions after 15 weeks. The decision paves the way for additional protections for preborn babies beginning at 6 weeks. Read the full article HERE.
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November 2024: In addition to the good news above, Florida voters turned down a proposal by pro-abortion advocates to amend their State Constitution on the November 2024 ballot. Although 57% of voters approved this, their Constitution requires a 60% majority so the proposed amendment failed. Read the details HERE​
CONNECTION BETWEEN INCREASED ACCESS TO ABORTION AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE
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There is a real connection between increased access to abortion rights and increased access to Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS). California has some of the most extreme abortion rights, and the most extreme PAS rights. States that do not support the right to life of preborn children in the womb typically do not support the lives of society's most vulnerable persons regarding end-of-life issues. Click HERE for an article from August 2023 about what is happening NOW to disabled and vulnerable people in California.