Pro-lifers in the USA are tryhing to extend protection for babies born alive after abortions to the whole country. At present, such victims are only given legal protection in eighteen states, with abortionists free to leqave them to die everywhere else.

Republican Sen. James Lankford (OH) reintroduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (BAASPA) in the U.S. Senate last Thursday, in hopes of securing a vote to enforce infanticide prohibition early in the upcoming Trump presidency.

BAASPA would mandate that abortion-surviving newborns be shown the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” as would be given following an intended birth, and then be “immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.” Violating physicians would face up to five years in prison, and those who go beyond willful negligence and commit an “overt act” to kill the newborn would be punished under the existing federal murder statute.

Congress technically banned infanticide nationwide unanimously two decades ago with the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA). But that bill lacked penalties or enforcement mechanisms, which BAASPA is meant to correct.

“No child should be denied medical care simply because they are ‘unwanted,’” Lankford said. “Today, if an abortion procedure fails and a child is born alive, doctors can just ignore the crying baby on the table and watch them slowly die of neglect. That’s not an abortion, that’s infanticide.”

Despite letting BAIPA become law unchallenged in 2002, Democrats have since grown far more extreme on abortion, and have consistently voted against BAASPA over the past decade. Republicans now control both chambers of Congress, but would need to convince a handful of Senate Democrats to cross the aisle to clear the 60-vote filibuster threshold.

Another question mark is returning President Donald Trump, who in this past election cycle dramatically retreated from the pro-life record of his first term, and now says he opposes federal abortion restrictions and wants the practice’s legality decided on a state-by-state basis. Both Trump and his incoming Vice President J.D. Vance have also criticised Democrats for their absolutism on the issue, however, including their defense of infanticide, which pro-lifers hope means Trump would at least be open to signing infanticide legislation.

Democrats and the abortion lobby justify their opposition to BAASPA by claiming that existing law is sufficient to make infanticide virtually nonexistent. In reality, however, “[a]lthough the United States fails to record reliable data on abortion survivors, we have estimated, through Canadian government extrapolations, that 1,734 infants are born alive after a failed abortion procedure every year in the United States,” says the Abortion Survivors Network. “In other words, about 2 out of every 1,000 abortions result in a live birth. After 49.5 years of Roe v Wade, 85,817 babies lived through an abortion procedure.”

In September 2024, the Family Research Council (FRC) wrote, “State-level abortion reporting statistics from nine states show that at least 277 infants have survived abortion since 2006.” Only eight states require reporting such data, and there are no federal reporting requirements on the subject, guaranteeing the real number is higher. Several former abortion industry insiders and policy scholars have told Congress or admitted under oath that infanticide after failed abortions happens beyond the notice of official numbers.

As of September 2024, only 18 states have laws requiring medical care for infants delivered alive after attempted abortions, according to FRC, leaving abortionists free to commit infanticide in a majority of the country.

It is becoming very dangerous to be a Christian. One in seven Christians across the world now face “high levels of persecution and discrimination” for their beliefs.

Thelatest  Open Doors annual World Watch List has revealed that over 380 million Christians are suffering persecution, 15 million more than last year. Almost 4,500 Christians were killed for their faith in 2024 alone. A staggering 69 per cent these martyrs were in Nigeria.

In terms of non-lethal persecution, North Korea remains the most dangerous country to follow Jesus, followed by Somalia and Yemen, both of which also see the regular killing of Christians by Islamist gangs. Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan are both also seeing a rise in anti-Christian hatred and violence, often deadly.

Speaking at the parliamentary launch of the World Watch List, the Government’s UK Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, David Smith, said: “These freedoms, which we take for granted, are ones we should share with our international partners around the world.

“We mustn’t shy away from that. We’ve got to recommit ourselves to tackling persecution in every way that we can.”

Jeff King of International Christian Concern, which releases a separate annual spotlight on Christian persecution, said he is “reminded of the profound hope and resilience displayed by our brothers and sisters in Christ under unimaginable circumstances”.

“While the adversaries of faith seek to extinguish the Church, they only spread its flame.”

In Open Doors’ US version of its report, Manga, a Nigerian Christian, explained how God saved him after he refused to renounce his faith.

He told Boko Haram militants: “I live as a Christian, and I’m ready to die as Christian”, before he “felt the presence of God” and survived their attack.

Manga emphasised: “Your prayers should be for strength to remain firm, and that fire for Jesus, which is burning in our heart, should keep on burning.”

The victory of Western- and Israeli-backed Islamists in the long conflict in Syria has also created a rumbing crisis of persecution of Christians there too.

These problems, however, are not confined to Africa and Asia. In October, religious freedom experts highlighted the “increasing intolerance” towards those who hold religious beliefs on marriage, family, and sexual ethics in Europe and North America.

Organised to coincide with a Berlin meeting of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance, the event featured the Religious Freedom Institute, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe and the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE).

Dr José Luis Bazán of COMECE said what has come to be known as ‘polite persecution’ has manifested itself in “compelling policies and legislation, as well as social pressure, that undermine and curtail Christians’ possibility to express and live according to their moral and religious principles in contemporary liberal societies”.

A pro-life legal charity is urging Donald Trump to pardon pro-lifers thrown into prison by Biden's abortion-happy Department of Justice.

On January 14, Thomas More Society attorneys submitted to the incoming Trump administration formal requests for presidential pardons on behalf of 21 pro-life advocates who have been unjustly prosecuted, convicted, and in several cases, imprisoned, by the Biden Department of Justice. In their letter submitted to President Donald J. Trump, Thomas More Society attorneys “urge that these pro-life Americans are deserving of full and unconditional pardons.”

The pardon request package includes 21 individual pardon requests, one for each pro-life advocate, outlining the specific facts of each case, their upstanding personal and moral character, and the reasons why President Trump should grant a presidential pardon. The pardon request package also includes a cover letter outlining the legal rationale for the requested pardons and explains how the Biden DOJ routinely and unconstitutionally weaponised the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and “Conspiracy Against Rights” statute against peaceful pro-life advocates.

The 21 pro-life advocates for whom Thomas More Society has submitted pardon requests are: Joan Bell, Coleman Boyd, Joel Curry, Jonathan Darnel, Eva Edl, Chester Gallagher, William Goodman, Dennis Green, Lauren Handy, Paulette Harlow, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, Jean Marshall (pictured above), Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Justin Phillips, Paul Place, Paul Vaughn, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, Calvin Zastrow, Eva Zastrow, and James Zastrow.

Steve Crampton, Thomas More Society Senior Counsel, stated: 

With these requests for presidential pardons for 21 peaceful pro-life advocates, we urge President Trump to right the grievous wrongs of the Biden administration’s weaponization of the Department of Justice These 21 peaceful pro-lifers, many of whom are currently imprisoned for bravely standing up for unborn life, are upstanding citizens and pillars of their communities. Through full and unconditional pardons for these pro-life advocates, President Trump has the chance to remedy the harm done to them and their families, deliver on his campaign promises, and repair trust in our constitutional order.

On at least three occasions, President Trump has publicly signaled his intent to pardon the pro-life advocates wrongly prosecuted during the Biden administration. In September 2023, on the heels of the FACE Act convictions in Washington, D.C., President Trump stated he would review the “cases of every political prisoner who’s been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration.”

In February 2024, in a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump referenced the “pro-life activists… convicted on outrageous charges” in the Nashville FACE Act trial and pledged to review those convictions following his return to office. In June 2024, in a speech for the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Trump reiterated his earlier statements and specifically referenced 76-year-old Paulette Harlow in his remarks, who is included among the pro-life advocates requesting a full pardon in the communicated pardon request package.

Let's hope and pray that President Trump stands by his word!

Pro-life media group Live Action has posted to X a video showing horrifying footage of young babies dismembered and mangled by abortion, stressing that this carnage is the direct result of what pro-aborts call “reproductive rights.”

“This is what ‘reproductive rights’ look like,” the Live Action account wrote as a caption to a video montage showing the disfigured bodies of babies torn apart by abortion, including late-term babies. The video also includes animated footage demonstrating how children are most frequently aborted: torn to pieces in a second trimester dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion or sucked out of the womb in a first trimester suction dilation and curettage (D&C) abortion.

Despite Elon Musk's frequently expressed concerns about collapsing birth rates, X does not allow the video to be embedded for sharing.

Several babies shown were among the five nearly full-term aborted children discovered by pro-life activists Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac in 2022 outside a Washington, D.C. abortion facility run by Cesare Santangelo.

Most of those who commented on the video montage responded with sorrow and horror, while a few liberals and feminists dismissed the footage as “propaganda.”

While there remain critics, including soft pro-life advocates who believe showing graphic abortion images is inadvisable due to its potential to disturb the post-abortive, children, and others, advocates of these images argue that their power to change hearts and save lives outweighs such impact. They maintain that, in fact, these images’ disturbing nature is the very thing that awakens people to the evil of abortion.

Many have testified that graphic imagery — including animated simulations of abortion — is the most powerful means of transforming hearts and minds to a pro-life position. Father Frank Pavone, former national director of Priests for Life, has stated, “There is no single thing that I have seen more powerful to change people on abortion than simply showing them the pictures … When people see what abortion does to a baby, they are stung to the heart and their consciences are awakened.”

Fr. Pavone has said the graphic images frequently cause numerous, almost instant conversions of pro-abortion people to a pro-life position. He shared in 2007, “I get emails every day – you will hear people say, ‘I was 100% pro-choice until I saw those pictures.’  We get emails every day saying that the people who went to our website and saw the pictures of the babies began to cry and in a minute they moved from being 100% pro-abortion to being 100% pro-life.”

 Joe Scheidler, founder of Pro-Life Action League in the U.S., has said the fight against abortion would never have made any political headway without images of abortion. 

He has testified that his personal experience shows these pictures save lives. During one Pro-Life Action League tour when such images were shown, 20 pregnant young women who had intended to abort their children approached volunteers saying that though the images had shocked them, they had helped them decide against abortion.

The Life League has log championed the use of terrible real images of abortion as the best way to bring home its true horror - and to save inocent lives.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has slammed Biden administration officials who would “scream” and “curse” at executives at the social media giant during the COVID-19 pandemic, demanding that even “true” posts critical of the mandated vaccine be banned.  

In a wide-ranging video interview with popular podcast host Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg came down hard on the Biden White House’s attempts to censor all opposition to the government’s vaccine program.  

“While they were trying to push that program, they also tried to censor anyone who was basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that honestly were true,” Zuckerberg told Rogan. 

Zuckerberg, who heads Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — explained that, at the outset of the pandemic, he and his executives decided that government health authorities should be granted “a little bit of deference” concerning content moderation.   

He indicated to Rogan that he soon became troubled by the Biden Administration’s demands.     

“They basically pushed us and said anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you need to take down,” he said. “And I was just like well, we’re not going to do that.” 

“These people from the Biden Administration would call up our team and scream at them and curse.”  

With huge compensation payouts to Covid jab injured victims in the UK now in the news, it looks as though the whole sorry story of the elite's manipulation of the much-hyped 'pandemic' is going to come spilling out!

Mel Gibson told Joe Rogan that Jim Caviezel will again be starring as Jesus Christ in his forthcoming film “The Resurrection of the Christ” that will begin filming in 2026.

During a long interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Gibson told the popular host that he intends to make the long-awaited sequel to his 2004 film “The Passion of the Christ,” and that Caviezel will again star as Our Lord. The film, to be titled “The Resurrection of the Christ,” is set to begin filming in 2026, according to Gibson.

In the conversation about the film, Rogan and Gibson took the time to admire Caviezel’s portrayal of Christ in the initial film, mentioning that it had a profound spiritual impact on the American actor and that, in their estimation, Caviezel played Our Lord better than any other actor before or since.

This is not the first time Gibson and others have talked about a sequel being made to the ultra-successful first film, with Caviezel saying in 2020 that “The Resurrection of the Christ” movie will be the biggest in “world history.”

Caviezel and Gibson are well-known for being outspoken promotors of the Catholic faith, with both men having a history of publicly condemning abortion and speaking openly about the importance of their faith.

Our Christian heritage is under attack again. And, as always, its by atheistic elite liberals, using "minorities" that they imported in the first place as battering rams against Christianity and tradition.

But a veteran MP has warned that Parliamentary prayers should not be abandoned to appease ‘modernisers’.

Sir John Hayes said it was important to begin each sitting of the House of Commons with prayer to afford MPs time for quiet reflection, and in recognition of the UK’s Christian heritage.

The practice is thought to have been first introduced in 1558. Prayers follow the Christian faith and attendance is voluntary.

Sir John contended: “Whether you believe in the divine or not, it’s important to recognise our country is rooted in the Christian traditions. Prayers are a reminder of that.”

He warned that some among the new intake of MPs “either because of ignorance or hostility, don’t understand the point about the need for a period of contemplative time or the Christian tradition on which our country’s system of ethics and laws are founded”.

He added: “There’s a certain sort of arrogance associated with people who arrive somewhere and want to change everything before they really understand it.”

Form of the main prayer in the House of Commons

“Lord, the God of righteousness and truth, grant to our King and his government, to Members of Parliament and all in positions of responsibility, the guidance of your Spirit. May they never lead the nation wrongly through love of power, desire to please, or unworthy ideals but laying aside all private interests and prejudices keep in mind their responsibility to seek to improve the condition of all mankind; so may your kingdom come and your name be hallowed.
Amen.”

Twin boys, born at just 22 weeks and weighing only 400 grams each, had to spend over a hundred days in hospital before they could go home.

The boys were born at Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital in South Korea after their mother’s waters broke early, at just 22 weeks and three days gestation – making them among the smallest surviving premature twins. They immediately required resuscitation procedures, including tracheal intubation, and were barely breathing on a ventilator.

“The miracle of survival by overcoming the extreme crisis of extremely low-birth-weight identical twins, for which it is difficult to find even statistics, is evaluated as the first achievement in Korea overcome by the high-level expertise and dedicated efforts of the medical staff of the NICU of Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital”, the hospital said.

The remarkable and heart-warming story deals another blow at the abortion industry ghouls who claim that such precious infants are mere "clumps of cells" to be disposed off if they are in any way inconvenient.