Ohio Right to Life President Michael Gonidakis was at home with his family scrolling through Twitter when he found out Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died on Sept. 18. It was a Friday night, but he immediately started making calls to his board members and staff. The high court vacancy meant the Senate could confirm another conservative justice in a matter of weeks, potentially Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “Smart money was on Barrett,” Gonidakis said.

A team of researchers in 2017 transplanted a fetal lamb into a plastic bag filled with fluid and hooked up to tubes. The contraption functioned like an artificial womb, supporting the lamb for up to four weeks until it could safely be delivered.

Pastor Ken Peters said his wife’s eyes widened when he announced to the congregation his plans to start holding church gatherings outside Planned Parenthood in Spokane, Wash. It was the end of an August 2018 service at Covenant Church Spokane after a talk from Rusty Thomas of Operation Save America. Peters thought of the idea during Thomas’ talk and hadn’t discussed it with anyone, but he said the announcement “drove home” the message.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to shore up protections for babies who survive abortions. The order requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to ensure medical centers that receive federal funding give life-saving assistance to all premature and disabled newborns in compliance with existing laws.

When is a person a person? Who determines a child’s quality of life? What happens in an abortion procedure? 

Former NFL athlete and current father of seven Benjamin Watson started asking these questions of prominent thinkers last year. Filming for his documentary Divided Hearts of America began in 2019. Even with race issues and social justice taking center stage in 2020, Watson says abortion is the “core issue” at the center of all others. 

Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House,” said President Donald Trump to thousands of pro-lifers filling the National Mall at the annual March for Life in January. To many listening, it didn’t seem like a bold claim. Pro-life leaders and other politicians had been saying the same thing for months, pointing to the pro-life successes of his presidency. Even his speech at the march was historic: He was the first president to speak at the event in person.

As countries around the world consider legalizing assisted suicide, strong voices out of the Netherlands warn of a slippery moral and ethical slope. In a Dutch medical journal last month, one of the Netherlands’ most prominent euthanasia providers chronicled how the practice easily went beyond its original limits. A different Dutch ethicist testified before the British Parliament this month that legalizing assisted dying leads to an increase of nonassisted suicides.