Pro-life advocates are gaining more and more popular support around the world. In the United States, following the Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court in 1973, a backlash by pro-life advocates slowly took hold. Since about 1980, the pro-life movement has been gaining momentum. This appears to be largely because of advances in science and a clear demonstration that life begins at the moment of conception. Other advances have allowed the developing baby to live outside the womb earlier than ever before. Women and men have both been forced to confront the issue that the life growing within the mother is a baby and not a piece of amorphous tissue, and that there must be an alternative to killing it.

Now, pregnancy resource centers offering help and alternatives to abortion outnumber abortion clinics 3 to 1. However, clinics doing surgical abortions are in decline while the use of the morning after pill and the abortion pills are on the rise. So, the battlefield is shifting to the greater struggle for the hearts and minds of women in untenable situations who see abortion as their only option.

At the same time, the pro-life movement in the United States is confronted with pro-abortion politicians in power who want to have federal tax money pay for abortion in women with government health care plans. Oddly, many such persons currently holding political power call themselves devout Catholics, a position which has brought them into direct conflict with the Catholic Church teaching on the sanctity of life and the dignity of every person.

The pro-life group Susan B. Antony has undertaken a nation-wide publicity campaign designed to unseat members of Congress who support taxpayer funded abortion. Recently news media have discussed “the president’s attack on the Catholic church” as more bishops speak out against the policies of the current administration.

While abortion is a central issue, because the unborn are the most defenseless, the Catholic News Agency is reporting that pro-life advocates in Queensland, Australia will hold a March for Life on September 11 to protest a proposed law which would allow assisted suicide. The reader is referred to the page on this subject which is on this web site for background information. Most people contemplating suicide are tragically depressed and untreated.

A story out of St. Petersburg, Russia, notes that there are at least 500,000 chemical abortions in Russia annually. However, thousands of women take the abortion pills impulsively and regret the action. This has led to an expansion of services to reverse the effects of the pills, and the movement has spread worldwide.

On September 1, the Texas “heartbeat law” took effect. I have reported on that in previous posts. As expected, the law is being attacked, even by the president himself. A lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to prevent the Texas law from taking effect was dismissed: the State of Texas cannot enforce the law, so the Court could not order Texas not to enforce the law. Justice Kavanaugh wrote the decision of the 5 justices so ruling. A pro-abortion group called ShutdownDC is planning a protest outside Kavanaugh’s home next week. This is seen by some as an attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court into making more liberal rulings.

In other news, a pro-abortion group on TikTok has conspired to crash the Texas web site for reporting illegal abortions by using a bot to fill out hundreds of false reports. The website will, of course, be fixed to prevent this, but it further demonstrates the anger harbored by so many people…people who would send a woman to have an abortion but not lift a finger to help her in her desperate situation. It boggles the mind, but it is about to get even uglier.