Mar 31, 2026
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris
States with and without abortion bans are advancing bills that would shield anti-abortion pregnancy resource centers from certain government mandates and attempts at regulation, allowing them to sue for damages if any part of the law is violated.
At least four states introduced the legislation this session, and two of them, Kansas and Wyoming, made it law. Montana also passed a similar law in 2025. The bills are still pending in Oklahoma and New Hampshire.
Photograph, first published by anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe, purportedly taken at Townsville hospital
Tony Shepherd
Mon 9 Feb 2026
Authorities are trying to have the image removed from social media, while the Townsville Hospital and Health Service (THHS) is investigating how it was taken and shared.
Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe first published the photo.
She claims that after a woman at Townsville hospital had an abortion, a “whistleblower” took the photo in a room for grieving parents at the hospital and leaked it to her.
As abortion clinics disappear nationwide, “crisis pregnancy centers” are transforming reproductive healthcare into a far-right fantasy—quietly collecting hundreds of millions in public funds as Medicaid faces historic cuts.
Sonia Chajet Wides
February 3, 2026
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — A small crowd of abortion rights advocates gathered at a public comment session of the Gwinnett County Department of Planning and Development in July 2025. The most diverse and second-most populous county in Georgia, Gwinnett County distributed millions of dollars in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants to local nonprofits in 2025, with most recipients receiving something in the tens of thousands.
One organization, Georgia Wellness Group, was set to receive a much bigger prize: $450,000.
Continued: https://inthesetimes.com/article/fake-clinics-crisis-pregnancy-abortion-reproductive-healthcare
The three day waiting period for abortions has no medical basis, but it remains in Irish law as a way to slow women down, second guess their decisions, and keep the idea of abortion as regret firmly in place, writes Roe McDermott.
by Roe McDermott
19th Jan 2026
Ireland likes to tell itself that the abortion debate is over, that Repeal shut down moral panic and state control over women’s bodies, and that whatever is left is just bureaucratic tidying up. The mandatory three day waiting period blows that story apart. It is not a neutral safeguard or a quiet moment for medical reflection. It is a moral speed bump, deliberately placed to remind women that certainty is suspicious, that abortion should feel heavy, and that even in supposedly post Repeal Ireland, reproductive autonomy still comes with strings attached.
This waiting period has never been about medicine. It has always been about mistrust. It rests on the belief that women cannot be relied upon to know their own minds, that they need to be slowed down in case they change them, and that the law should gently but firmly steer them away from abortion if given the chance.
Continued: https://www.image.ie/self/ireland-still-doesnt-trust-women-to-be-sure-about-abortion-979834
December 17, 2025
Carly Thomsen
The latest Supreme Court case related to abortion is not technically about the legal right to have one. When the court heard oral arguments on Dec. 2, 2025, the word “abortion” came up only three times. The first instance was more than an hour into the 82-minute hearing.
Instead, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers Inc. v. Platkin hinges on whether First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and association give a chain of five crisis pregnancy centers in New Jersey the right to protect its donor records from disclosure to state authorities. The centers are Christian nonprofits that try to stop pregnant women from obtaining abortions.
December 9, 2025
Video – 2:24 minutes
Billboards with anti-abortion messages may soon be coming down in the Kelowna area. For many years, a local billboard company has allowed the signs along Highway 97 through West Kelowna. As Brady Strachan reports, pressure from a local pro-choice advocate has led to a policy change.
New Jersey’s broad subpoena against an anti-abortion chain has made for some strange bedfellows.
Nina Martin, Mother Jones
Dec 1, 2025
Even if you have no idea what a crisis pregnancy center is, the donor website for the First Choice Women’s Resource Centers chain in northeastern New Jersey offers plenty of clues: Prominent logos for the anti-abortion groups Heartbeat International and CareNet. A home page banner proclaiming “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday 2026.” An agreement for prospective volunteers that states, “I openly acknowledge my personal faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,” and “[I] reject abortion as an acceptable option for any woman.”
How Ethiopians are resisting U.S.-backed disinformation on abortions.
By Maya Misikir, a reporter and editor based in Ethiopia.
November 13, 2025
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—It’s the faces of the women and girls receiving treatment for botched abortions that still haunt nurse Hanna, 47 years into her nursing career.
“They had a look in their eyes. It was a plea to be saved from their misery,” she said in Amharic, during an interview last month.
Continued: https://archive.is/RQ7rE
(https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/13/ethiopia-abortion-fight-propaganda-america-trump-pro-life/)
October 2025
Kelly Baden, Joerg Dreweke, Rachel K. Jones, Guttmacher Institute
False information and faulty science regarding the safety of the drug mifepristone, which is used in the vast majority of medication abortions in the United States, is at the center of a narrative that may further reduce abortion access. Mifepristone, and medication abortion more broadly, is safe, effective and widely used in the United States and globally. Despite its demonstrated safety, relentless policy and legal attacks aim to restrict or even ban access to this method of abortion.
This analysis will explore and counter several pernicious aspects of such attacks. These include the misrepresentation of normal signs a medication abortion is working as intended—for example, cramping or bleeding—as serious medical complications; and the conflation of routine or precautionary care-seeking by medication abortion patients with emergency treatment for serious adverse events.
Taxpayer scam: ‘No charity should be in the business of deceiving people who are considering an abortion and possibly delaying them from seeking health-care’
by Paul Henderson
Oct 19, 2025
The ad on the bus stop bench in front of Chilliwack Senior Secondary School has been there for many months, maybe years: “Cherish Women’s Resource Centre.” It includes a logo with arms forming a heart, hands clasping with the words “Pregnant? Unplanned? Here to help.”
The location in front of a high school where the ad is seen daily by hundreds of teenage girls is no coincidence.
But while “The Cherish Project” claims to be there to support girls and women with information and guidance about reproductive health, in reality it is simply a group of non-medically trained evangelical Christians intent on misleading vulnerable young women into doing what church fathers say they should do with their bodies. Continued: https://www.pauljhenderson.com/fake-crisis-pregnancy-centres-run-by-right-wing-religious-groups-use-deception-and-manipulation-to-trick-vulnerable-women/
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