Colorful characters lie behind the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision legalizing abortion: the abortionist-turned-pro-lifer who helped found NARAL. A lawyer who obtained an illegal abortion in Mexico while in law school before representing Jane Roe in court. The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School who also served as the second president of the National Right to Life Committee. 

Sadly, the new film Roe v. Wade, available on several streaming platforms, makes little use of them. 

At New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, the flights stop each night to allow Queens residents to get some sleep. But in mid-March at Citi Field, the Mets baseball stadium next to LaGuardia, COVID-19 ­vaccine appointments continued all night long.

In 2008, El Salvador officials convicted and imprisoned a woman known as Manuela for committing infanticide against her newborn son. Less than two years later, she died from cancer while serving her sentence. Pro-abortion groups are now attempting to use the case to overturn El Salvador’s pro-life laws protecting all babies from abortion. They are trying to convince the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that punishing abortion as a crime leads to the unjust conviction of innocent women.

Natalia Isherwood took the abortion pill last summer because she was afraid that her then-boyfriend would leave her if she didn’t. After a phone consultation through the United Kingdom’s Pills by Post program, the 20-year-old picked up the drugs at the local abortion facility with instructions to take them that night.

Peter Breen was in his office after an Illinois House of Representatives committee hearing on April 5, 2016, when he received a call from his client David Daleiden. Breen—then a state representative and an attorney for the Thomas More Society—often took calls from the pro-life activist between legislative meetings, but this one was particularly memorable.

Tasmania is set to become the third state in Australia to legalize euthanasia. On Tuesday, its upper house of Parliament approved amendments to legislation that will allow people suffering from irreversible conditions to end their lives early, within six months of their expected deaths. The legislation will take effect about 18 months after it receives final approval from Tasmania’s governor, which should happen within a month.

The new documentary Fighting for Life: The Story of NOW v. Scheidler highlights how abortion groups first began using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) against pro-lifers in the 1980s. The case came before the Supreme Court three times, turning into one of the longest-running federal cases in history. Victory for Scheidler ultimately solidified the right of pro-lifers to protest at abortion clinics.