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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.

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Experiencing God’s Mercy After Leaving the Abortion Industry

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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.

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

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EEOC Chair Warns Companies Against Discriminatory DEI Policies

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

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HHS Investigates 13 States for Requiring Health Care Providers to Cover Abortion

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it is investigating thirteen states for “allegedly coercing health care entities to provide coverage of, or pay for, abortion contrary to conscience.”

The HHS Office for Civil Rights argues such state requirements violate the Weldon Amendment, a 2004 law that protects the religious and conscience rights of physicians and health care professionals, hospitals, health insurance plans and other health care organizations that do not support abortion. 

The amendment prohibits federal funds from going to programs or state or local governments that discriminate against these individuals and groups. 

Director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights Paula Stannard explained: 

OCR launches these investigations to address certain states’ alleged disregard of, or confusion about, compliance with the Weldon Amendment. 

Under the Weldon Amendment, health care entities, such as health insurance issuers and health plans, are protected from state discrimination for not paying for, or providing coverage of, abortion contrary to conscience. Period.

HHS is putting these states on notice for violating religious freedom with their abortion coverage mandates: California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.

Many of them have already faced lawsuits from Chrisian organizations fighting their unconstitutional abortion mandates, including: 

• In 2017 New York created a statewide abortion mandate requiring employers to cover abortifacients and even surgical abortions in their health plans. Becket, a religious freedom legal firm, fought on behalf of ministries’ religious freedom, as the state attempted to force nuns and other religious organizations to cover the cost of abortionsbefore the state finally backed down. 

• A Washington state law, SB 6219, the “Reproductive Parity Act,” forces churches to cover elective abortions in health insurance plans. Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit on behalf of Cedar Park Assembly of God of Kirkland and has been battling for the church’s conscience protections for six years now. 

• Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit challenging an Illinois law “requiring all health insurance policies sold in the state to provide coverage for chemical and surgical abortions, with no exemptions, even for churches.” 

Scripture is clear that God created humans in His image: 

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. … 

So God created man in his own image,
    in the image of God he created him;
    male and female he created them.

And God blessed them. (Genesis 1:26-28)

Every individual ever conceived bears that image; in some mysterious way, each one of us is a “copy” or “graphic image” of the Creator. Christians have always believed that humans are unique in all creation, a visible representation of God. 

From its very beginning, the church condemned abortion as murder. The government should not attempt to force Christians to participate in grievous sin, and it shouldn’t take Christian groups thousands of dollars, countless hours and great effort to fight infringements of our First Amendment right to religious freedom. 

We’re grateful that the Department of Health and Human Services is pushing back against states that advocate the destruction of human life and trample on religious freedom. 

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The Great Christian Tradition of Protecting Preborn Babies and Opposing Abortion

The History of Christianity and Abortion

I’m Pregnant, Now What?

A Look at Life-Affirming Federal Policy Changes

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New York Ends Fight to Force Nuns to Pay for Abortions

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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.

At Focus on the Family, we have 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?

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

Related articles and resources:

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Dealing With Unplanned Pregnancy

Become an Option Ultrasound Life Advocate

New Insights on the Dangers of the Abortion Pill

Overcoming Abortion and Becoming a Force for Life

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