Abortion and Planned Parenthood-related stories.
While Republican pro-life policies are most often blamed for—or credited with—the shuttering of 37 Planned Parenthood abortion clinics since January 2025, the reasons for the closures are more complex than defunding abortion through H. R. 271: The Defund Planned Parenthood […]
The Planned Parenthood abortion business is closing more centers – with another 5 closing in northern California thanks to the defunding bill President trump signed that took $300 million in taxpayer dollars away from the abortion giant. […]
“With this May Budget Revision, Governor Newsom is effectively defunding Planned Parenthood in the state of California. “As the state’s leading reproductive health care provider, the Planned Parenthood affiliates of California are outraged by the devastating cuts […]
Support for family-planning medical services was cut off with the Trump Administration’s withholding of Title X funds, effective on April 1. On the Central Coast, that limits what services local clinics — including Planned Parenthood and Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics — can […]
The University of California San Francisco recently hosted a play “about what really happens when people are denied access to abortion,” centered around a widely cited study from its own abortion research program. The Turnaway Play is […]
The Trump administration upended decades of UN social policy diplomacy last week at the UN Commission on Population and Development. A UN agreement on population policies that should have been adopted without a glitch was rejected by U.S. officials because […]
Catholic businesses may not be forced to subsidize abortions or fertility treatments, ruled federal Judge Daniel Traynor, a Trump appointee to the District Court of North Dakota, on Tuesday. Traynor granted 9,000 Catholic businesses a permanent injunction against an Equal […]
The city of Beverly Hills is seeking more than $400,000 in legal fees from an abortion provider who accused officials of colluding with extremists to scuttle the opening of a clinic, drawing new outrage in a case that has already […]
As President Donald Trump is battling to end birthright citizenship, Chinese nationals are reportedly using the largely unregulated surrogacy industry in the United States — specifically California— to rent the wombs of American women to have babies and take them […]
In March 1995, long before I came home to the Catholic Church, Pope St. John Paul II released the amazing Evangelium Vitae, one of the most important documents about life the Church has ever published. Even as a Protestant I […]
