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.

The Hyde Amendment has been in the news recently, but its author is often forgotten. Henry Hyde from 1975 to 2007 was a Republican member of the House of Representatives. On Nov. 5, 2007, at age 83, he received in a hospital room the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, as he seemed to be recovering from open heart surgery. He died three weeks later. The article below was originally published in the March 9, 1992 issue of Christianity Today.

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.

In 2018, Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a law protecting unborn babies from the dilation and evacuation procedure, or dismemberment abortion, commonly used during the second trimester. Abortion providers sued, and a trial court and an appellate court panel blocked the law. When Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration dropped the case, Attorney General Daniel Cameron asked to intervene and defend the law. The appeals court said no, but on Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Cameron’s appeal this fall.

A young man dressed in pink holding a Planned Parenthood sign picked Michele Hendrickson out of the thousands in front of the Supreme Court building during the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. “Are you a Christian?” he asked abruptly. 

Hendrickson, then a regional coordinator for Students for Life, responded yes. The man shot back, “Well then, what do you have to say when your God supports abortion?” Then he quoted a psalm and Numbers 5:27. “He had them memorized,” says Hendrickson. 

On a sunny morning last October, a large white van with an Indiana license plate pulled up behind the Planned Parenthood facility in Columbus, Ohio. A bald man in a blue uniform brought red trashcan-sized bins out of the facility on a dolly and loaded them into the van. A pro-life volunteer outside the Planned Parenthood recorded some of the short pickup on her phone. She knew the location on East Main Street was the last remaining surgical abortion facility in the city, and those red bins marked with the biohazard symbol likely contained the bodies of aborted babies.