ERLC, lawmakers urge blocking Title X family planning funding from abortion industry
WASHINGTON (BP) – The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has joined 159 lawmakers, including several Southern Baptists, urging the Trump administration to restore a rule that blocks Title X family planning funding from subsidizing abortions.
Supreme court protects mail-order, telehealth abortion pills as lower courts wrangle
WASHINGTON (BP) – Telehealth and mail-order abortion pill prescriptions remain accessible as a case challenging the medication works its way through lower courts, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled May 14th.
U.K. Baptist preacher latest convicted for Gospel outreach in abortion buffer zone
COLERAINE, Northern Ireland (BP) – A retired Baptist pastor is the latest Christian convicted for religious activity in an abortion buffer zone in the United Kingdom, this time for holding a church service on the outskirts of a zone.
ERLC’s Psalm 139 Project places 100th ultrasound machine
ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. (BP) – The Psalm 139 Project, a pro-life ministry of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), celebrated its 100th ultrasound machine placement during a dedication in Elizabethtown, N.C., Friday (May 8).
Greensboro abortion clinic closes after decades, ministries point to next steps
GREENSBORO, N.C. — After more than a decade under its current ownership — and years of prior operation under a different name — the only surgical abortion provider in Greensboro closed its doors on April 30, prompting responses from area pro-life ministries.
Judge scraps definition of ‘human being’ in Kentucky’s abortion ban
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Kentuckian challenging the state's trigger abortion ban received a victory on Friday (May 1) when Jefferson County Circuit Court partially granted her petition, striking down the law's definition of when life begins.
FIRST-PERSON: Celebrating Psalm 139’s 100th ultrasound placement
What is the value of an image? What if that image showed what was previously unimaginable: human life growing inside the womb?
Supreme Court stays Fifth Circuit ban on abortion pills by mail, restoring access
WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals nationwide ban on mail-order abortion pills, the main mode of pregnancy termination in the U.S.
Kentucky’s last independent abortion clinic building demolished
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The building that housed EMW Women's Surgical Center, Kentucky's last independent abortion clinic, has been demolished.
Trump admin seeks stay, dismissal of two more pro-life lawsuits against abortion pill
WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Justice Department is fighting Florida and Texas challenges to the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, compounding the Trump administration’s resistance to pro-life challenges by at least four other states.
