An elderly black janitor in the early 1980s saved Christina Bennett’s life. Her mother was single, pregnant, under pressure, and scheduled for an abortion at Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford, Conn. The janitor asked, “Do you want to have your baby?” Later, at the hospital, the abortionist reminded her that she had already paid for the abortion and demanded she stay in the room, but Bennett’s mother insisted on keeping her baby.

New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) give pro-life organizations exactly what they don't want: job security. After a more than decadelong downward trend, the number of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2018 by about 1 percent, according to a new CDC report. The numbers are a reminder that women still need local pregnancy centers.

Most vaccines take years to develop, but almost exactly a year after the first recorded case of the novel coronavirus in China, three companies have promising results.

Abortion provider Marie Stopes International attempted to break with its eugenicist and pro-Nazi founder on Tuesday by changing its name to MSI Reproductive Choices.

On Nov. 18, 1920, Soviet Russia became the first country to legalize abortion in an attempt to promote the government’s communist values. Since then, North America and most of Europe has followed suit as the worldview behind the practice took root in the West. Today, abortion on demand is legal in 67 countries, and 14 more allow it for broad social and economic reasons.

This year, as a seventh country legalized euthanasia, 16 U.S. states considered bills that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication for terminally ill patients, according to the pro-euthanasia group Death with Dignity. In 2013, only eight state legislatures were looking at euthanasia proposals.

The Massachusetts House approved a measure in the state budget on Thursday that would codify abortion rights in state law and open the door to infanticide. The Roe Act died in committee earlier this year, but the lawmakers attached it as an amendment to the budget.