On August 1, a federal court delivered a decisive victory for religious freedom when it ruled in favor of a pro-life clinic that offers abortion pill reversal treatment.

In Bella Health and Wellness v. Weiser, a federal judge permanently blocked Colorado from enforcing its ban on abortion pill reversal treatment against Bella Health.

The ruling is significant because it defends the rights of women to change their minds after taking the first abortion pill, protects preborn babies, and upholds the religious freedom of medical providers to offer life-affirming care in a manner consistent with their deeply held religious beliefs.

Background

In 2023, Colorado passed SB23-190, the first state in the nation to ban abortion pill reversal (APR).

As reported by the Daily Citizen, the law prohibits Colorado doctors from prescribing progesterone to women who begin a chemical abortion and want to stop the process and try to save their baby.

In a chemical abortion, a pregnant woman takes two pills to complete the abortion. The first pill, mifepristone, kills the baby by stopping its development. The second pill, misoprostol, causes the mother’s body to expel the dead baby.

If a woman has a change of heart after she takes the first pill (usually within 72 hours), she may be able to reverse the abortion with a treatment of progesterone, a hormone women have been safely using for decades.

A Denver nonprofit hands out drug paraphernalia to local addicts in the name of “harm reduction.”

Your tax dollars are paying for it.

‘Use Your Dope First’

The Harm Reduction Action Center (HRAC) in Denver purports to “educate, empower and advocate for the health and dignity of Denver’s people who inject drugs, in accordance with harm reduction principles.”

“Harm reduction” refers to policies and aid focused on reducing the consequences of illegal drug use, like accidental overdoses and the spread of disease through dirty needles.

Some harm reduction policies, like training police officers to administer the overdose reversal drug, Naloxone, can be helpful — but only in the context of preventing and discouraging drug use.

The materials distributed by HRAC do the opposite: They promote drug use by distributing paraphernalia and step-by-step instructions on getting the best high.

Case-in-point: HRAC helps users package and ingest drugs with its “parachuting” kits.

“Parachuting” refers to swallowing crushed drugs wrapped in a permeable barrier like toilet paper. HRAC’s “parachuting” kit includes several empty pill capsules recipients can use instead.

Pictures posted by @dobetterdenver on X show the kit also contains: Utensils for gathering and packing drugs into the capsules.

Eight healthy babies were born over the last two years in the United Kingdom who have each broken new ground in how we create new human beings.

They are the biological offspring of three adults. One more is expected to be born in the coming months.

The Free Press highlighted this news in late July with this headline: “One Embryo. Three Parents. The Future is Already Here.” They ask, “Is it ethical to create polyparental hybrids?”

These children have one biological father and two biological mothers.

Even though this development did not result from some nefarious effort to redefine the family, that could certainly be an unfortunate by-product.

We are indeed on the verge of creating biologically related throuple (and beyond) “families” as polyamory grows more “hip” and boldly experimental. The implications of this experimentation for children, the meaning of parentage, family itself, and what it means to be mother and father are all deeply concerning.

An academic paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine in July details how this troubling development stems from efforts to prevent a mother’s harmful mitochondrial mutations from causing serious diseases as it is passed to her child. The paper explains, “Mitochondrial donation by pronuclear transfer involves transplantation of nuclear genome from a fertilized egg from the affected woman to an enucleated fertilized egg donated by an unaffected woman.”

A state appeals court has upheld Indiana’s pro-life law, handing abortion giant Planned Parenthood a defeat in its attempt to kill preborn children in Indiana.

The ruling is a massive victory for life.

The Law

After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022, Indiana passed SB 1 prohibiting abortions in all but three circumstances:

• When an abortion is necessary either to save the woman’s life or to prevent a serious health risk to her (aka the Life or Health Exception).

• When there is a lethal fetal anomaly.

• When the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.

According to the attorney general’s office, in the limited number of cases where abortion is permitted, it must be performed in a hospital or ambulatory surgical center (the Hospital Requirement) — not an abortion clinic like Planned Parenthood.

The Indiana House passed the bill on August 5, 2022, in a 62-38 vote. On the same day, the state Senate approved the bill in a 28-19 vote, and former Governor Eric Holcomb signed it into law.

The Lawsuit

After the Indiana general assembly enacted SB 1, Planned Parenthood and other abortion sellers in the state challenged the abortion ban, arguing that Article 1, Section 1 of the Indiana Constitution, which provides that “all people” are endowed “with certain inalienable rights,” including “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” thereby contained a right to abortion.