"A crucial win for the Unborn" = that's what pro-lifers are calling the result of a long-running legal battle in Texas. State Attorney General Ken Paxton (pictured) has declared victory in his years-long fight against a Biden-era guidance that sought to limit hospitals’ sharing of information pertaining to abortions or “gender transitions” from investigators trying to enforce state laws.

In its final year, the Biden administration issued a rule change to the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, to greatly limit the sharing of information pertaining to so-called “reproductive health care.” The move was made in response to a wave of pro-life laws enabled by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which former President Joe Biden had been intent on countering with a “whole-of-government” campaign to preserve so-called “reproductive access.”

Paxton’s office sued, arguing the rule was meant to “obstruct States’ ability to enforce their own laws on abortion and other laws that HHS deems to fall under the rubric of ‘reproductive health care.’” He said it “actively undermines Congress’s clear statutory meaning when HIPAA was passed, and it reflects the Biden Administration’s disrespect for the law. The federal government is attempting to undermine Texas’s law enforcement capabilities, and I will not allow this to happen.”

Since then, the Biden administration has been replaced with the Trump administration, which takes a different view on abortion and gender, and, on December 9, Paxton announced that his office and the Trump Justice Department have filed a joint motion agreeing to close the case, with the Biden rule “permanently vacated.”

“The Corrupt Biden Administration failed in its radical attempt to obstruct our ability to protect women, children, and those who can’t yet speak for themselves,” Paxton said. “This dismissal confirms that federal agencies cannot take away the power of a state to uphold their laws. This is a crucial win for Texas, the unborn, and the rule of law.” 

The Scottish Deputy First Minister has warned that Scotland could become a hub for “death tourists” from across the United Kingdom if assisted suicide becomes legal there.

The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill would legalise assisted suicide for adults resident in Scotland with no prognosis requirement specified, while the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales for those with a prognosis of six months or less. 

In November, MSPs rejected an amendment to the Scottish assisted suicide Bill that would have instated a six-month terminal prognosis requirement, which the proposed Bill in England and Wales currently has.

The Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Kate Forbes, warned that individuals from across the UK could travel to Scotland to end their lives by assisted suicide due to the looser restrictions on the eligibility criteria proposed law there. 

“It is a risk”, Forbes said. “That wider point around looser definitions is a matter of concern for residents in Scotland, as well as those who might want to relocate to Scotland”. 

Forbes made her comments as part of a cross-party statement from MSPs who are concerned about the potential ramifications of legalising assisted suicide in Scotland. 

Among other MSPs who made comments during the statement was Conservative MSP Edward Mountain, who recently disclosed that he is suffering from bowel cancer. Mountain said there was a “real risk” that individuals would travel to Scotland from around the UK to avail of the looser assisted suicide restrictions. 

“There is always the chance that people will see Scotland, if this bill passed, which I hasten to say I hope it doesn’t, is an easier place to end your life than down south”, he added. 

Frontbench Labour MSP Michael Marra also criticised the assisted suicide Bill for these reasons, saying the issues that would likely arise as a result of incentivised cross-border travel had been “hugely underexplored” during the debates in Holyrood and Westminster. 

“It’s a very complex issue, about how the two systems might interact”, he continued. 

Concerns around this kind of “death tourism” were initially raised by Dr Claudia Carr, a medical ethics expert at the University of Hertfordshire’s law school. 

She highlighted that people in England and Wales who are suffering from a terminal illness would likely realise that Scotland would have “a more positive climate for an assisted death and move accordingly”. 

Sick abortion activists have published a children’s book to promote abortion to five to eight-year olds.

The picture book titled ‘Abortion is Everything’ is illustrated with bright, colourful drawings, and is advertised as ‘framing’ abortion “as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower”.

The book is written by Rachel Kessler alongside activist Amelia Bonow, whose group ‘Shout Your Abortion’ (SYA) aims to “arm existing activists, create new ones, and foster collective participation in abortion access all over the country”.

The book is marketed as speaking “directly to five to eight-year-olds about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions”.

Posting about the book’s release, SYA claim: “Parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion”.

They say the book promotes abortion as “a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies” and to “make choices that lead us towards the life we envision”.

Instead of using the word ‘woman’ or ‘mother’, it talks about “human beings” who have “an organ called a uterus”, and in its illustrations, it compares having an abortion to letting go of a balloon.

One mother commented on the SYA post promoting the book: “Love it. I‘ve been speaking to my kids about abortion since they were small and it is so empowering to hear a child say: ‘You don‘t have to be pregnant if you don’t want to be.’”

The book received substantial backlash on social media, with one commenter saying: “Why would you even want to talk to kids about this????”

Another criticised it for “trying to sanitize abortion”, stating: “But abortion isn’t everything. It ends everything — a heartbeat, a future, a God-ordained life. This is one of the clearest pictures of a culture of death I’ve seen. Parents must speak truth early so children know life is sacred from the moment of conception.”

A surge in the killing of unborn babies has seen the number of abortions in Northern Ireland has reached its highest levels since the law was liberalised in 2020.

Statistics from the Department of Health reveal that there were 2,899 abortions between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025. While this is only a 3.7 per cent rise from the previous year, it is 84 per cent higher than in 2021.

Since Westminster’s liberal abortion regime was introduced in 2020, 11,192 abortions have been carried out in the Province, which has a population of less than two million.

The vast majority of the abortions (88.9 per cent) involved abortion pills, where a woman under 10 weeks’ gestation can take misoprostol at home without medical supervision.

TUV MLA Timothy Gaston accused the media of being “deeply dishonest” for claiming that the new abortion regime was only needed for “hard cases”, as “8,000 abortions in four years since decriminalisation did not happen because of those exceptional situations”.

He warned that it is “anything but compassionate to ignore the social pressures — economic, familial, and cultural — that push women toward ending a pregnancy instead of receiving real support”.

Earlier this year, NHS England data revealed that over 54,000 women have been hospitalised following at-home abortion complications since 2020.

Research organisation Percuity reported that, according to NHS data, 1-in-17 women who had an abortion at home required hospital care for complications including incomplete abortions, infections, and excessive haemorrhaging.

The DIY scheme, where women take both mifepristone and misoprostol at home, now accounts for the majority of abortions since it was introduced, initially as a temporary measure, during the coronavirus pandemic.

An Ohio surgeon has been charged with stuffing crushed abortion pills in his pregnant girlfriend's mouth while she slept.

Hassan-James Abbas, 32, was indicted after allegedly procuring abortion pills under his estranged-wife's name and holding his sleeping girlfriend down to force the crushed pills into her mouth in December of last year. 

'He got on top of me and put his fingers in my mouth,' his girlfriend told WTOL 11. 

'I laid there and I went back and forth in my head on if he was gonna kill me. That was my biggest thought, that he was going to kill me.'

After splitting from his wife in October 2024, Abbas' girlfriend of two months told the doctor that she was pregnant, according to documents obtained by the Daily Mail from the State Medical Board of Ohio. 

'I told him I took a test, I sent him a picture of it. You know, I was happy to talk to him about it and have a conversation. He called me on the phone and was screaming at me,' the alleged victim told the outlet, adding that she only learned of his marriage separation over the phone call. 

Abbas, a surgical resident at the University of Toledo, had urged her to abort the pregnancy but she told him that she wanted to keep the child, the documents stated. 

The doctor then allegedly obtained medication intended for abortion uses from an out-of-state telemedical abortion provider the next day, according to the documents.

He was indicted on November 5 by a Lucas County Grand Jury for all six charges detailed in the Board's summary, according to the indictment. 

The victim's attorney, Kelle Saull, said in a statement to WTOL 11 that they were 'relieved that the criminal process has finally begun,' and added that their team is not 'closing the door on future indictments as this case unfolds.' 

Abbas may face a civil penalty from the board of up to $20,000, in addition to 'any other action the board may take.'

The doctor is scheduled to be arraigned on December 19. 

Supporters of state-sanctioned murder and pro-life peers are engaged in what can best be described as 'legal trench warfare' in the House of Lords. Critics of the Labour-backed push for euthanasia are fighting for every inch of ground, while peers in favour of assisted suicide are trying to undermine even the limited safeguards against blatant abuse which have been inserted into the bill as amendments.

The founder of Operation Rescue and over a dozen other pro-life witnesses were jailed yesterday after blocking a Memphis, Tennessee, Planned Parenthood.

Randall Terry, Joan Andrews Bell, and Terrisa Bukovinac were among the approximately 17 rescuers taken into custody yesterday morning. As of publication time, a number of his companions have already been released, but Randall and Terrisa were still in prison when we last heard.

These brave pro-lifers are on the front line. This Sunday, pray for them, their families, and anend to the violence and injustice of abortion.

The leftist war against Christianity has met with a welcome set back in Belfast.