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What to Know About the Colorado March for Life This Friday

Calling all pro-life Coloradans! Focus on the Family is inviting you to join us at the Colorado March for Life this Friday in Denver!

For the third year in a row, the National March for Life is partnering with Pro-Life Colorado to host the Colorado March for Life.

The event will kick-off with a pre-rally concert at 10 a.m., followed by a rally at 11 a.m. and the march at noon.

The concert and rally will take place on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol Building. 

The march will immediately follow. Participants will march approximately one mile around the capitol complex.

This is a family-friendly event, so be sure to bring your kids to rally and march for life together as a family!

Attendees are encouraged to bring signs that communicate their pro-life values. For inspiration, you can get sign ideas here.

The purpose of the gathering is to peacefully advocate in favor of pro-life protections for women and babies in Colorado state law. This is an opportunity to communicate your pro-life values while our lawmakers are at work in the Capitol building. 

Speakers at the rally will include: 

• Chelsea Mynyk, Castle Rock Women’s Health

• Mackenna Greene, Pro-Life Advocate

• Friends of Club 21 Choir, National Anthem

• Sister Mary Grace, Sisters of Life

• Diane Ferraro, Save the Storks

• Lauren Castillo, Bella Health + Wellness

• Representative Brandi Bradley, Colorado General Assembly – District 39

• Julie Bailey, Pro-Life Colorado

• Hannah Callahan, March for Life

• The Most Reverend James Golka, Archbishop of Denver

• The Most Reverend Jorge Rodriguez, Archdiocese of Denver

• Rev. James Maxwell, The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod

• Anita Abeyta, Testimony Speaker

• Jaime Gallob, Pregnancy Center of Grand Junction

• Dr. Daniel Catarisano, Iglesia La RED

• Nicole & Taylor Hunt, Focus on the Family, Testimony, Pledge of Allegiance

Lutheran High School students will be carrying the March for Life banner and leading the march.

Many pro-life organizations will have tables at the event. 

Focus on the Family will have a table for the third year in a row, so please stop by and say hello!

This year, Students for Life will be hosting their very first Denver Pro-Life Summit. The Summit will be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall from 3 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the same day of the march. It is designed to “equip all attendees with the skills and strategies needed to successfully lead their communities toward a culture of life.” 

We hope you will consider attending both events.

To get more information about parking, marching and advocating for life, visit Colorado March for Life.

We look forward to seeing you there!

New Planned Parenthood Annual Report: More Abortions, Fewer Services

Planned Parenthood killed 434,450 preborn babies in one year, according to its newly released annual report. It earned over $2.1 billion for its evil deeds.

The recently released report, “Care continues. Annual Report 2024-2025,” reveals our nation’s largest abortion mill continued to increase the number of preborn babies it kills – even as it performed fewer real healthcare services.

The report shows an increase of over 32,000 abortions from the previous year – a rise of 8%.

Robyn Chambers, vice president of Advocacy for Children at Focus on the Family, said in a statement to the Daily Citizen, “When Roe was overturned, one of my greatest fears was the demand for abortion pills (chemical abortion) would escalate and those that provide abortion would become more aggressive in their marketing efforts to target women with an old argument, but new lies.”

“Their tactics are misleading and dangerous,” she continued. “Women are being harmed and babies’ lives are being lost to a culture that no longer values life. That is why Focus on the Family’s pro-life work is more important than ever.”

Abortions and Other Services

According to the Charlotte Lozier Institute, Planned Parenthood’s service data lags behind the rest of the report’s information, meaning the 2024-2025 report contains data on abortions from 2023-2024.

The pro-life research institute details the abortion giant’s annual report, which shows:

  • Planned Parenthood performed a record 434,450 abortions in 2023-2024.
  • The number of patients it saw increased by 0.5% from the previous year.
  • In 2023-2024, 97% of the time women sought help for pregnancy-related care, they were sold an abortion.
  • For every adoption referral, Planned Parenthood performed 143 abortions.
  • Since 2014, Planned Parenthood’s total cancer screenings and prevention services have dropped by 43%, including declines of 55% for breast exams and 38% for pap tests.
  • Prenatal services are down 56%.
  • Contraceptive services are down 23%.

Financials

Planned Parenthood’s report shows the organization:

  • Earned $2.1 billion between government reimbursements and grants, non-government revenue, private contributions and other revenue.
  • Reported $2.5 billion in net assets.
  • Received $832 million from government reimbursements and grants.
  • Received $728 million in private contributions and bequests.
  • Reported a net loss of $29.3 million, the first time in recent years the abortion giant’s expenses exceeded its revenue.

It’s 2024 report had shown the organization earned a profit of $206 million in the preceding two years.

The new report includes financial data from before the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, defunded the abortion giant of taxpayer money. The law prohibits Medicaid reimbursements from flowing to Planned Parenthood for a period of one year.

The report reveals the impact the law has had on the organization, blaming it for putting up to 200 Planned Parenthood clinics at risk of closure. Nearly 50 Planned Parenthood clinics closed last year.

The law’s financial effect upon Planned Parenthood should be made clearer in its next annual report, while it will take until 2028 for the defunding provision to show up in its services data.

The one-year defunding provision is set to sunset on July 4, 2026. Congress shouldn’t give Planned Parenthood an Independence Day gift by allowing the provision to expire. It should use an upcoming reconciliation bill to defund the abortion giant for at least one more year.

One could also be easily forgiven for hoping and praying the whole grisly enterprise will face divine retribution, be shuttered and never release another annual report detailing its dark deeds.

The organization violently ended nearly half a million lives in one year. That should provoke a sense of righteous anger and take one’s breath away. It should also harden pro-life supporters’ resolve to engage and get involved to help save lives.

Clearly, much remains to be done in the fight for life. Chambers highlighted Focus on the Family’s efforts to promote life:

Focus on the Family works with 2,800 pregnancy centers across the country to equip them with ultrasound machines, nurses training grants and abortion pill reversal training.
Our newest campaign is reaching college students with true medical information and connecting them with a life-affirming pregnancy center that can serve a young woman right in her moment of need. Our work is vital in this battle for life!

Focus on the Family has been working to turn the cultural tide and save mothers and babies from abortion for years. Since beginning the Option Ultrasound Program in 2004, Focus has helped save over half a million lives.

Just $60 will help save a life through Option Ultrasound. Will you partner with us to save lives from abortion?

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

Related articles and resources:

My Choice Network

I’m Pregnant, Now What?

Dealing With Unplanned Pregnancy

Become an Option Ultrasound Life Advocate

Stepping Up to Defend Life

Expressing Pro-Life Views in Winsome Ways

Experiencing God’s Mercy After Leaving the Abortion Industry

Planned Parenthood Earns $2 Billion Killing Over 400,000 Babies, Annual Report Shows

Abortion Remains Highly Profitable Business for Planned Parenthood, New Annual Report Shows

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New Poll: 70% of Americans Support Medical Oversight for Abortion Pills

New polling data reveals most Americans agree there should be more oversight of the distribution and consumption of chemical abortion pills like mifepristone.

According to polling conducted by CRC Research for The 85 Fund, as reported by The Daily Wire and Susan B Anthony Pro-life America, approximately 70% of Americans support requiring an in person medical evaluation before and after taking the abortion pill.

A closely related question found that 67% of voters support requiring an in-person doctor’s visit in order to obtain the abortion pill. This policy was previously upheld by the FDA but abandoned by the previous pro-abortion administration.

Source: The Daily Wire

What makes this data so interesting and newsworthy is how it breaks down across political lines. Support for medical oversight was not limited to a single party. In fact, 72% of Republicans, 68% of Independents and 63% of Democrats all supported reinstating in-person doctor visits before accessing abortion pills.

The data shows a clear majority of Americans in every major political party support some form of in-person medical attention before abortion pills are dispensed.

Concerns over medical oversight are reinforced by research from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), which raised questions about the safety of women using mifepristone last year.  

As reported by the Daily Citizen in May, the EPPC released a study revealing nearly 11% of women who take the abortion pill experienced serious adverse effects within 40 days, including sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection and emergency room visits. 

Those numbers are 22 times higher than the FDA’s current label, which suggests the rate of adverse effects is only 0.5%.

Following the release of the report, Senator Josh Hawley questioned HHS Secretary Kennedy at a committee hearing. The secretary committed to a complete review of the chemical abortion pill by the FDA.

Instead of cracking down on the abortion pill, the FDA has made abortion pills even more available by approving a generic abortion pill alternative.  

Several pro-life organizations and advocates have accused HHS and the White House of intentionally slow-walking the review. They argue that recent findings demonstrate the need for stronger safeguards and removing in-person visits and medical oversight allows for serious complications to go untreated.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is calling on the Trump administration to revisit current FDA protocols and reinstate requirements that were previously in place, including in-person dispensing and physician oversight. They argue basic medical standards should apply to abortion.

Recently, Senator Josh Hawley recently introduced a senate bill to ban the abortion pill and give women the right to sue manufacturers for damages. Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger, a pharmacist, introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives.

When abortion policy is often sharply divided, broad bipartisan support from a majority of Americans for medical oversight of the abortion pill should not be ignored. HHS and the FDA should use their authority to restore in-person medical oversight for abortion pill use.

Planned Parenthood Pays $500,000 Fine After EEOC Investigation for DEI Policies

Our nation’s largest abortion giant violated federal law by discriminating against white employees, an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found.

The agency announced on Monday Planned Parenthood of Illinois will pay a $500,000 settlement for segregating employees by race, harassing white employees and providing white workers with fewer employment privileges. The investigation began after four Planned Parenthood employees spoke out against the abortion mill’s racist practices.

The abortion affiliate created mandatory “‘affinity caucuses’ that were segregated by race, in which employees of other races were not allowed to participate,” the EEOC said.

“Segregating employees by race violates the core promise of our nation’s civil rights laws,” said EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas in a statement. “Title VII guarantees equal treatment for every employee and prohibits race discrimination in America’s workplaces. Those protections equally apply to white workers.”

Chair Lucas added,

There is no DEI exception to Title VII’s requirements. Employers who deliberately separate workers or subject them to harassment because of their race, including white employees, violate federal law.
The Commission will continue to enforce these protections to ensure equal opportunity for all.

According to the EEOC’s allegations, a Planned Parenthood manager also made “racially harassing statements” and the organization “demanded all employees attend DEI-related training sessions which involved repeated harassing and derogatory statements targeting white employees,” including statements like “[white employees] are white and do not feel racism the same way non-white patients feel” and “white supremacy is exerted at every level of oppression.”

Additionally, the organization “denied white employees access to time off that it granted only to black employees.”

Announcing the news on X, Chair Lucas said, “Calling something DEI doesn’t inoculate the practice or program from liability under longstanding civil rights rules.”

“Four workers here bravely spoke up against segregation, harassment, and disparate treatment. Grateful to U.S. EEOC career staff for their work investigating and conciliating this matter to a strong resolution.”

As a result of the EEOC’s investigation, Planned Parenthood removed the manager responsible for the alleged misconduct.

But for the abortion giant, racism is nothing new. The organization was founded by racist Margaret Sanger, an advocate of eugenics, who opened the first Planned Parenthood clinic in Brooklyn, New York.

Planned Parenthood only recently acknowledged Sanger’s overt racism against black citizens.

Sanger infamously launched The Negro Project to eliminate black Americans through sterilization and birth control, the Daily Citizen has previously reported.

While the context of Sanger’s words is debated, she once described the project, saying, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

Abortion as it is practiced today fulfills Sanger’s dark dreams. As we’ve noted, “Although African Americans are about 14% of the U.S. population, 28% of all abortions are from black women, compared to 6.4% of white women.” In New York City, a preborn African American baby is more likely to be aborted than born.

The EEOC’s investigation of the abortion giant’s racist policies deserves praise, especially since one might call Planned Parenthood a “systemically racist” organization.

But the work of pro-life supporters continues until the organization closes its evil doors for good.

Related articles and resources:

Conversations on Racial Unity

An Unlikely Multi-Ethnic Friendship Sealed in Christ

Monique Duson: Responding to Critical Race Theory with Grace and Truth

A Fascinating Perspective on Racial Issues

EEOC Chair Warns Companies Against Discriminatory DEI Policies

Andrea Lucas Leads the EEOC: Restoring Agency With Truth and Common Sense

The Racist Origins of Planned Parenthood

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Is America Growing More or Less Pro-Life?

One of the primary marks of a nation is how it cares for its most vulnerable. Few are more vulnerable and helpless than the preborn. Every child in a mother’s womb is humanity’s tomorrow. That is, after all, how each of us started. Those tiny humans demand our care and protection.

So how are we doing as a country in protecting human life in the womb? For all the seriously heroic pro-life efforts going on across the nation, are our fellow citizens’ views on abortion moving in a positive direction?

New polling data from the Pew Research Center paints a good news/bad news story.

Some good news is that among white evangelicals, 74% say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. This is up from 62% who said this in 2008. (Pew provided no data for black or Hispanic evangelicals.)

The bad news is that in the long run, convictions appear to have not really moved much in the past 30 years. In fact, Pew’s data show the number of Americans who say abortion should be legal/illegal in “all/most cases” is precisely the same today as it was 31 years ago in 1995, as this graph shows.

But there is also good news here. As this chart indicates, there have been recent marked declines in the number of Americans who support abortion and increases in those who want to see it significantly restricted. Pew’s data tells us that in 2024, 63% of Americans thought abortion should be legal in “all/most cases” and that number has now declined to 60%. On the pro-life side, those numbers have shifted from 36% in 2024, up to 38% today. Yet they were exactly as they are today — 60 versus 38% — as they were in 2020 and 1995.

You see a slightly different perspective on the overall consistency from this long trendline:

The year these two conflicting views closed the narrowest gap was in 2009 when 47% of Americans believed abortion should be protected and 44% believed it should be substantially restricted. The highest point the pro-life view reached since 1995 when Pew started tracking this question was 44% in 2009 and 2010. It nearly regained that height with 43% in 2015. The peak for the pro-abortion view was 63% in 2024, and it only hit the low 60s in 1995, 2019 (61%), 2020 (60%), 2022 (62%), and 2026.

Additional good news is that Pew finds a full 76% of Americans believe there should be at least some legal limits on abortion. This is contrary to what pro-abortion activists advocate for and have successfully passed in a great many states in the U.S. When asked, their leaders are not inclined to mention any limitations they favor. In fact, they typically resist basic medical health and safety standards being applied to abortion businesses.

Of this new Pew data, Professor Michael New of the Catholic University of America and the Charlotte Lozier Institute in Washington DC wrote over at National Review,

This Pew poll provides welcome news. Some recent polls, including the Knights of Columbus/Marist poll found that the pro-life position was losing ground in the court of public opinion. However, this poll shows that after a slight dip post-Dobbs, pro-life sentiment is rebounding — good news as pro-lifers continue the effort to build a culture of life.

Abortion by Politics

Finally, Pew documents how abortion has been faring among the two major parties in the U.S. Support for abortion has increased among Republicans and Democrats, yet to very differing degrees.

The Republican party removed “right to life” convictions from its party platform in 2024 and 41% of GOPers supported the full legality of abortion that year. Yet Pew notes a decline since then in the number of Republican or Republican-leaning citizens who believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases down to 36%. Although that conviction has remained pretty steady over the last twenty years.

However, Democrat and Democrat-leaning voters favoring no or few limitations on abortion have risen dramatically from 63% in 2007 to 84% in 2026.

This is a 48-point difference between the two parties on the need to protect preborn life. In 2007, they shared a 24-point gulf. 

We should celebrate the good news here and be sobered by the bad. But we must also realize we still have much work to do to recover a nation that values all life, no matter how young. The collective work of this very vibrant pro-life movement must continue — and grow!