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Mar 11 2026

Biden Administration Endangered Women With Abortion Pill Change, Research Finds

The Biden administration endangered and harmed thousands of women by canceling the requirement to visit a doctor in person before having the dangerous abortion pill prescribed or dispensed, new research has found.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) released research on March 10 showing the Biden administration’s relaxing of the “in-person dispensing requirement” increased the rate of serious adverse events from 10.15% to 11.50%. This is a “statistically significant difference of 1.35 percentage points and an increase of 13%,” the EPPC notes.

The report was written by EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson and Director of Data Analysis Jamie Bryan Hall.

“Without requiring an in-person doctor visit, anyone can go online and get mail-order abortion pills,” said Anderson, adding,

There is no way to ensure that the unborn baby hasn’t grown so large that chemical abortion is unsafe for the mother, no way to ensure that the unborn baby isn’t implanted outside of the uterus where using chemical abortion drugs could prove deadly to the mother, and no way to ensure that it’s the mother who is voluntarily requesting the chemical abortion drugs and not a boyfriend seeking the pills to secretly and coercively poison her.

Tragically, exactly that happened in the case of Rosalie Markezich, a Louisiana woman coerced into taking abortion drugs by her boyfriend, who obtained them from a doctor in California via mail.

The Biden administration suspended the “in-person dispensing requirement” in 2021, making the change permanent in 2023. The requirement had been in effect since 2000, when the FDA first approved mifepristone, mandating the drug – the first in the two-drug abortion regimen – be dispensed and administered only in a clinic, medical office or hospital.

The 2021 changed allowed the drug to be obtained through the mail – allowing women to abort their baby without ever talking to another person – rather than from a licensed physician in an office setting.

Credit: EPPC

The new findings follow the EPPC’s release of a study last year finding the rate of serious adverse events from the abortion pill is far higher than the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had previously acknowledged.

According to that study, “nearly 11% of all women who abort their child with mifepristone suffer from life-threatening conditions, including sepsis, infection or hemorrhaging” – a rate 22 times higher than the FDA had claimed.

The FDA is currently reviewing the abortion pill’s safety profile at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s direction. Pro-life supporters, however, have raised concerns that the study is being delayed.

The EPPC’s latest findings provide new urgency for the FDA to crack down on the abortion pill and reinstate its safety guardrails – if not outright ban mifepristone – to protect women.

“Making America Healthy Again” demands nothing less.

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If you are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and want to learn more about your options, you can visit My Choice Network.

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Mar 09 2026

Pop Star Jokes About Fan’s Abortion, Encourages Others to do the Same

A rising pop star unapologetically joked about a fan killing her preborn baby last week — the sobering result of the decades-long devaluation of life in the West.

“I didn’t know I was pregnant here but at least my baby got to hear ‘Midnight Sun’ before I aborted it,” a fan of songstress Zara Larsson commented under a TikTok video of Larsson performing the song.

“I killed the performance and then you killed it after the performance purrrrrr,” Larsson replied, using a slang term meant to indicate strong approval or celebration.

The singer remained unapologetic — even gleeful — in the face of pro-life censure.

“Like, sorry, that’s funny,” Larsson said of her (mediocre) wordplay in a video responding Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins, who called the singer’s comments “sick.”

“Like, I don’t know what to say. That’s funny,” Larsson repeated.

The singer encouraged her followers to further trivialize abortion.

“Let’s make more jokes,” she said. “Like, abortion is healthcare.”

Hawkins’ responded to Larsson’s video on X, writing:

This is the culture of death the pro-abortion movement has created. We must end it.

Hawkins’ response refers to the systematic devaluation of life in American culture, evidenced by the legalization, normalization and celebration of killing preborn babies.

Larsson’s reprehensible comments illustrate a grim new iteration of the culture of death — the trivialization of murder.

Larsson and her fan reduced the death of a preborn child to a pithy exchange on social media. Even more disturbing, the duo joked about the baby’s death after humanizing him or her. The child’s mother admitted he or she could hear music. Larsson freely used the word “kill” to describe the child’s death.

You don’t kill “a clump of cells.” You kill a living being. But, in a culture of death, life ceases to matter.

I’m reminded of a line from C.S. Lewis’ eminently relevant The Screwtape Letters, in which Screwtape, a demon, describes humor as “an invaluable means of destroying shame.”

People continue toward damnation, Screwtape contends, when they discover “almost anything [they] want to do can be done, not only without the disapproval but with the admiration of [their] fellows, if only it can get itself treated as a joke.”

Larsson’s utter detachment from the gravity of murder illustrates how much influence the culture of death wields over hearts and minds.

It is vital, then, for pro-lifers to not only pursue legal protections for preborn children, but also to remind those who have forgotten that human life is intrinsically valuable.

Only when Americans reclaim the cultural value of life will abortion become unthinkable — and jokes like Larsson’s utterly unacceptable.

If you are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and want to learn more about your options, you can visit My Choice Network.

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Feb 17 2026

California Passes $90 Million Funding Bill for Planned Parenthood

California passed a bill last week granting Planned Parenthood $90 million to spend however it likes.

SB 106 passed the California state assembly in a 55-14, party-line vote. Governor Gavin Newsom, accompanied by several Planned Parenthood executives, signed the bill on February 11, promising it would “protect access to critical resources for women and families across the state.”

Critics argue granting Planned Parenthood an additional $90 million — on top of the $145 million California taxpayers have already paid the abortion giant since Congress defunded it in July — does not address California’s most pressing medical concerns.

“Why does Planned Parenthood get a ninety-million-dollar grant [when], right now, over 60 hospitals in the state of California are on the verge of shutting down and have to ask for a hospital distress loan?” Assemblyman David Tangipa asked his colleagues.

Hospitals and maternity wards are especially sparse in rural areas. Tangipa’s Medera County — one of the largest counties in California — doesn’t have a single maternity ward.

“We should be focused on ensuring comprehensive medical care for women everywhere, not directing limited resources in a way that leaves communities behind,” the assemblyman concluded.

Tangipa proposed amending SB 106 to prevent Planned Parenthood from spending the grant on pro-abortion lobbying and better direct the funds toward rural areas.

None of his amendments passed.

Tangipa’s criticisms hit on several important points. Though Planned Parenthood bills itself as a comprehensive “reproductive health” provider, it primarily sells abortions, dispenses sex-rejecting hormones and peddles comprehensive sex education to minors.

According to its most recent annual report, Planned Parenthood performed 402,230 abortions in FY 2022 — a 2% increase from the previous year — and gave out sex-rejecting hormones to as many as 40,000 people.

In contrast, Planned Parenthood provided 10% fewer “additional services” in FY 2022 than in 2013, with a 61% decrease in breast exams, a 54% decrease in PAP smears and a whopping 63% decrease in prenatal services.

California’s decision to further fund Planned Parenthood rather than supplement rural hospital services could reflect the abortion corporation’s entrenched relationship with many lawmakers.

Planned Parenthood donated $1.6 million to California legislators in the past ten years, including more than $68,000 to Governor Newsom.

Some California state representatives have sought abortions from Planned Parenthood. Assemblywomen Buffy Wicks opined at length about the abortion Planned Parenthood performed on her, and how the death of her unborn child facilitated her political career and enabled her to start a family on her own schedule.

“I got to create [my] life because Planned Parenthood gave me the opportunity to make that choice and to make that decision at that vulnerable time of my life,” Wicks told the assembly.

The decision to end her child’s like wasn’t Wicks’ to make. Her success and happiness do not justify the death of her first child. But Wicks’ reasoning illustrates the close ideological alignment between Planned Parenthood and many progressive politicians.

These ideological and monetary ties undergird the symbiotic relationships between Planned Parenthood and much of the political left, including progressive elites in California.

Planned Parenthood spends millions of dollars each year lobbying for pro-abortion policies. Supporting abortion has become a tent-pole position for the modern Democrat party. Many left-leaning political hopefuls, eyeing the 2026 and 2028 elections, have circled the wagons around Planned Parenthood to please their voter bases.

Planned Parenthood also affirms gender ideology through damaging comprehensive sex ed programs, which it develops and teaches. Comprehensive sex ed affirm gender ideology, normalize minors engaging in risky sexual behaviors and claim children have “sexual rights.”

Though gender ideology has become unpopular with most Americans, it continues to motivate a loud section of the political left’s base.

The tangled relationships between California’s legislators and Planned Parenthood give the abortion giant an undeniable leg up in fiscal negotiations.

Reason and the will of the people won’t prevail in California as long as organizations like Planned Parenthood hold legislators’ ears and pocketbooks.

Additional Articles and Resources

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Gender Ideology Sours Feds on Comprehensive Sex Ed

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Planned Parenthood Drops Suit After Trying to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortions

Trump Administration Delivers Pro-Life Wins Ahead of March for Life

Feb 06 2026

Right to Life Michigan Sues Over Law Requiring Hiring of Pro-Abortion Employees

Right to Life of Michigan (RLM) and Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC) filed a lawsuit challenging a state employment law that requires them to hire pro-abortion employees.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed the suit on behalf of the pro-life organizations, explaining in a press release:

Michigan amended its employment law to re-define “sex” discrimination to include “the termination of a pregnancy.” It is now illegal for Right to Life of Michigan and Pregnancy Resource Center to recruit and hire only those employees who share their pro-life views.

ADF, a legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life and parents’ rights, added, “The law also requires these organizations to offer abortion coverage in their insurance plans in direct conflict with their very mission.”

ADF Senior Counsel Bryan Neihart stated:

It makes no sense to force pro-life organizations to hire employees who disagree with that view. Pro-life groups should be free to share the message of hope and joy with women and families experiencing a difficult season through employees who share their common goal.

According to the ADF press release:

Right to Life of Michigan offers life-affirming education and advocates for pro-life policies across the state. Pregnancy Resource Center provides women with medical care, resources and support structures to help them through their pregnancies. Both hire like-minded individuals who share their convictions about the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. They depend on their employees to promote their pro-life views to the public and to encourage other staff.

But state employment law now requires them to hire individuals who disagree with their work and their deeply-held pro-life beliefs.

Michigan enacted the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act in 1976, prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations, employment, housing and education on the basis of “religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, or marital status.”

The act prohibited “sex-based discrimination due to pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy,” but it specifically excluded “nontherapeutic abortions not intended to save the life of the mother.”

In 2022, Michigan voters passed Proposal 3, the “Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative,” a law enshrining abortion as a constitutional right.

To bring the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act in line with Proposal 3, the legislature passed Senate Bill 147, which deleted “nontherapeutic abortion not intended to save the life of the mother.”

That change meant that “sex discrimination” included anyone who had an abortion or supported abortion.

The legislature also approved Senate Bill 4, adding “sexual orientation and gender identity or expression” as categories protected from discrimination.

Amber Roseboom, president of Right to Life of Michigan, spoke in a press release about the challenge to the state’s employment law:

Non-profit organizations like Right to Life of Michigan should have the right to recruit and hire employees who unequivocally support women in choosing life-affirming pregnancy care and who compassionately advocate for that choice. … Our legal challenge aims to ensure that Right to Life of Michigan has the freedom to hire employees who share its vision without the threat of government punishment so that we can continue to advocate for life-affirming options now and into the future.

Among other allegations, the lawsuit states that Michigan’s employment law violates RLM and PRC’s First Amendment rights to expressive association and assembly; to freedom of speech and press; and to free exercise of religion and to religious autonomy.

The case is Right to Life of Michigan v. Nessel.

National Pro-Life Summit: Equipping Students to Lead with Courage

As many as 2,000 high school and college-aged students attended the 2026 National Pro-Life Summit on January 24 for advocacy, leadership and policy engagement training.

The annual Summit, which Students for Life hosted for the fifth year in a row, is held the day after the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., bringing together pro-life advocates, students and leaders for training, workshops and strategy sessions.

Over the past five years the Summit has expanded in scope and attendance. The first Summit was held about six months before the Dobbs decision overruled Roe v. Wade.

The legal, cultural, and medical landscape has changed quite significantly since then, with an increased emphasis on state-level pro-life legislation, pro-life apologetics, and becoming influencers for life on campus and online.

This year marked the first-ever live Summit debate held the evening before the event. Two pro-life advocates, including Students for Life President Kristen Hawkins, debated two abortion activists.

The debate demonstrated why advocates for life must be intellectually prepared as well as morally grounded to make the case for life — especially on college campuses that can be more hostile to the pro-life movement.

At last year’s Summit, Charlie Kirk was honored with the Defender of Life Award. He challenged attendees not to be afraid to engage in politics to advance the cause of life.

Participants at this year’s Summit were encouraged to continue the Kirk’s good work by standing for life on their campuses.

Students for Life also honored Kirk and his legacy at the National March for life by making and distributing special signs. One sign read, “Freedom for Preborn Babies.” The other included an outline of Charlie Kirk with his first in the air and read, “Get married and have babies. You won’t regret it.”

Those signs were among the most popular at the March for Life.

The heart of the one-day Summit is a line of workshops and keynote speeches.

The workshops were divided into three tracks: Leading to Win, Changing Minds, and Serving Women and Saving Live.

The Leading to Win track focused on policy, with workshops like “Defunding Big Abortion: In Congress & the States,” “Beyond Roe: Legal Landscape of Pro-Life Laws & Litigation Post-Dobbs,” and “Raising Your Political Voice.”

The Changing Minds track focused on intellectual preparedness with workshops on advanced apologetics, how the Christian theology of the body shapes a pro-life culture, and pro-life concerns with in vitro fertilization.

The Serving Women and Saving Lives track offered workshops that helped students consider working in the pro-life movement after college, discuss the latest innovations being used to change minds about abortion, and the essential role the church must play in ending abortion.

This year’s keynote speaker was Riley Gaines. In her speech, she encouraged students to be courageous and bold in defending preborn life, without fear of political consequences.

Gaines, who became a mother in October, championed the strength and beauty of motherhood, calling it the most rewarding thing she’s ever done.

She offered the audience four pieces of advice:

• You don’t need to have every answer to speak the truth. Conviction matters more than perfection.

• Speak even if you feel fear. Courage is acting in spite of fear.

• Be calm and confident as you speak the truth.

• Find community. Community allows us to multiply courage in the movement.

The Daily Citizen applauds Students for Life for equipping the next generation to advocate for a culture of life in America. The pro-life movement is clearly alive and well among young people.