The pro-abortion radicals are citing her opposition to abortion and her warnings about the risks of chemical abortion drugs.

The Center for Reproductive Rights released a statement calling on supporters to contact their senators and demand a “no” vote. The group said Overton has called abortion “corrosive” and abortion pills “dangerous to women,” described the overturning of Roe v. Wade as a “huge victory,” labeled the pro-abortion Women’s Health Protection Act “radicalism,” and worked with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on childhood vaccine policy.

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“Who decides whether you can get abortion pills? If Trump gets his way, it’s White House advisor Heidi Overton,” the Center for Reproductive Rights stated.

“His pick to run the FDA has called abortion ‘corrosive’ and abortion pills ‘dangerous to women.’ Our senators must stop her.”

Trump announced the nomination on August 19, praising Overton as a “ROCKSTAR” in his administration who has worked closely with Kennedy and others on health priorities.

Overton currently serves as deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. She previously was chief policy officer at the America First Policy Institute and held a fellowship in the first Trump White House.

Board-certified in public health and general preventive medicine, Overton trained as a general surgery resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital and earned a doctorate in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Pro-life organizations welcomed the selection.

Americans United for Life endorsed Overton and its CEO John Mose said, “Dr. Overton is the right candidate. She has the scientific and medical background that will enable her to perform an objective analysis of the dangers chemical abortion poses to women. Americans United for Life supports Dr. Overton as the next Commissioner of the FDA.”

In a 2023 America First Policy Institute brief she co-authored, Overton wrote that abortion is “corrosive to children, women, and society broadly because it devalues and extinguishes innocent human life” and described chemical abortions as “far more dangerous to women.” She has also called the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade “a huge victory for life,” stating that “Human life is not disposable, but a precious gift from God with inherent worth and dignity.”

Supporters argue her medical training and policy experience make her well-suited to examine the lck of safety of mifepristone and strengthen protections for women and unborn children. The nomination requires Senate confirmation when lawmakers return from recess.

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The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, now in its 14th year, is a joint project of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society and the Pro-Life Action League. The first event was held in 2013 on the 25th anniversary of the burial of the remains of some 1,500 aborted children in Milwaukee, Wis. The observance continues annually on the second Saturday of September.

This year the National Day of Remembrance is scheduled for September 12.

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Pro-Life Action League Project Coordinator John Jansen discussed the event, how chemical abortion underscores its significance, and the role that mourning plays in bringing about healing and hope.

“The more this event goes on, the more we realize how sacred are the actual burial places of aborted children,” Jansen said.

“With each passing year we know there are more and more babies killed by the abortion pill,” he noted. These are aborted babies passed at home in bathrooms and disposed of, Jansen noted, “in a very undignified way.”

“Therefore,” he said. “The handful of sites where actual aborted babies’ remains have been recovered and given a proper burial, loom even larger and are that more significant.”

There are 60 known burial sites which are part of the 232 locations where remembrance services were held in 2025, with a total number of 1,050 sites on the map. There are 990 designated memorial sites set aside with memory stones where groups gather for the annual event and individuals can visit anytime to pray.

Jansen said that sites are being added all the time, often by Knights of Columbus fraternal service organizations across the country.

Last year’s event saw an increase in participation, including the burial site of aborted babies at Pierce Brothers Memorial Park in Riverside, Calif., where 54 babies have been laid to rest.

Other locations such as Berlin, N.H., have memorial stones and the service held in 2025 saw a boost in attendance there as well.

The reports from last year were markedly positive, with participants calling it a hope-filled experience.

Organizers say pro-life advocates should visit these gravesites and other memorial sites devoted to aborted children as a part of their pro-life witness. It is a way of humanizing the many lives lost to abortion.

Additionally, there is healing and life-giving blessing possible for those with an abortion experience in gathering to mourn the loss of life of the unborn.

The thought is that mourning is something that enables us to embrace the truth of what has been lost, which helps us to remember.

“This is my favorite event of the year that we do at Pro-Life Action League,” Jansen said. “It’s the one where I am brought to tears to realize the gravity of abortion – at the same time, to realize the immensity of God’s mercy and God’s consolation.”

“Most of us aren’t very good at mourning,” Jansen said. “It’s an odd thing to express grief over children you’ve never met. Yet we are called to mourn for them and that’s kind of a mystery.”

Jansen said that gathering with others to mourn for aborted children at the remembrance event can also be cathartic and a source of renewal for pro-life advocates.

“This is an event primarily for pro-lifers themselves,” he said, for ourselves to recharge spiritually, you might say and bring it home as to what we are doing.”

Jansen referenced the prevalence of abortion’s negative impact and those suffering the anguish of a past abortion.

“We can’t hope to have any progress culturally unless we reckon with this spiritually,” he said.

“Mourn for these children because they are members of the human family,” Jansen said. “They were created in God’s image like we were. They deserve to be mourned for.”

“If we don’t mourn for them, we don’t remember them,” he said.

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Under the Safe Water Drinking Act, the EPA reviews and updates the list of unregulated drinking water contaminants that must be monitored every five years, known as the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR). When new contaminants are added to the list, it triggers an evaluation into the levels at which these contaminants are present in public water systems, and whether they carry a significant health risk and what regulations are needed. The EPA has opened a unique public comment period soliciting input for the rule until August 31, 2026.

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LCA submitted a 65-page formal comment urging the EPA to add mifepristone and its active metabolites to UCMR 6 so public water systems can start collecting nationwide data. In addition to the written testimony, on August 11, 2026, Liberty Counsel Action Public Policy Analyst and Copywriter Abigail Forman gave oral testimony to EPA officials regarding the risks posed by mifepristone in the public water system.

In the comment, LCA points to the widespread and increasing use of chemical abortion drugs at home, which accounts for approximately 700,000 chemical abortions annually. These at-home abortions are polluting U.S. water systems and drinking water through human excretion, aborted human fetal remains, and related medical waste expelled and flushed into America’s wastewater systems. These expulsions contain mifepristone’s active metabolites which the wastewater systems are not designed to filter out.

Mifepristone deserves heightened scrutiny because no other FDA approved drug has been designed and approved to be lethal in nature by starving a baby in the womb. The drug’s biologically active metabolites also have “long half-lives” and retain the “considerable” ability of the parent drug to block the vital fertility hormone progesterone, which makes the metabolites operate as “endocrine disruptors,” wrote LCA. The comment noted that numerous scientific studies show even “trace amounts” of endocrine-disrupting substances can have adverse effects on health and fertility. Considering the inability of wastewater plants to completely filter out active metabolites from these abortions, as well as 23,000-75,000 annual sanitary system overflows and up to 425 billion gallons of sewer discharge into the environment, it is probable that the human remains and medical waste from at-home chemical abortions are contaminating American water bodies.

“Corroborating these facts, a peer-reviewed study published July 20, 2026, ‘Anti-Progesterone in Environmental Water,’ reports finding ‘significant levels of mifepristone’ in eight out of nine water samplings from three U.S. cities, including two municipal tap water samples (in Carbondale, Illinois and Austin, Texas),” reads the comment.

As these chemicals have also been detected in wastewater internationally, this peer-reviewed study has validated what LCA has long proposed that at-home abortions are likely contaminating U.S public water systems, wrote LCA.

Since UCMR data helps serve science-based decision-making for environmental regulations, mifepristone and its active metabolites should be included on the final UCMR 6 for monitoring and evaluation, concluded LCA.

Liberty Counsel Action President John Stemberger said, “The chemical abortion drug mifepristone is being used in most abortions annually where it is being flushed into U.S. wastewater systems. Yet, in its 26 years on the market, there has been no federal environmental monitoring or evaluation of mifepristone’s environmental effects. Mifepristone’s primary action is blocking the vital fertility hormone progesterone. Given the nation’s infertility crisis and the growing concern of the health risks of endocrine disruptors in our water, the drug’s active metabolites warrant immediate monitoring efforts. By naming mifepristone to the Sixth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, the Environmental Protection Agency can properly evaluate the drug’s environmental and public health implications. We encourage our supporters to also submit comments to the EPA.”

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In a new heartfelt column at the New York Post, West expresses why she has fought so hard for Baby Gabriel.

West, a 28-year-old nurse from Alaska, agreed last year to serve as a surrogate for a California couple, Nasheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed. In April, when she was 20 weeks pregnant, a routine ultrasound showed the baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a congenital condition in which the left side of the heart is underdeveloped.

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“To treat a baby with HLHS, surgeons perform a staged repair, beginning with the Norwood procedure shortly after birth, followed by two more surgeries. This medical treatment gives children a high chance of going on to live full lives,” West wrote.

The contracting couple ordered her to terminate the pregnancy – code for killing the baby.

West refused. “No woman should be forced to kill the baby inside her. Most importantly, every child deserves a chance to live,” she said.

As a cardiac nurse, she knew the child “had a great shot at survival if given the opportunity to receive the necessary treatment.”

After she declined to end Gabriel’s life, the couple cut off payments and their lawyers threatened six-figure penalties. They later sued her in Alaska seeking at least $100,000 for not aborting.

“The threats eventually became real,” West wrote. “But no threat or amount of money could sway my conviction that this baby had a real chance at a full life, and I could not participate in killing him and depriving him of that opportunity.”

West said her only request was a commitment that the baby would receive the surgeries needed to survive. When that commitment was not given, she researched hospitals and moved with her two children to Texas, selecting a facility with a 100 percent survival rate for the Norwood procedure. She gave birth on August 12.

The baby, whom she named Gabriel (the biological parents call him Rumi), underwent the Norwood procedure earlier this week.

“I’m eternally grateful that the Texas family court and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered that the baby boy I carried must receive the necessary surgery,” West wrote.

West insists the battle is not political theater. “This is about giving an innocent child a shot at the life he deserves,” she wrote. “I’m not fighting to try to take someone else’s baby. I’m fighting because this baby boy needs someone willing to advocate for and fight alongside him as he gets the ongoing treatment his fragile heart requires.”

She has not been allowed to hold the infant beyond a brief moment while the umbilical cord was still attached.

West declared: “Every life matters. No woman should be forced to end the life of the baby she is carrying — including me … Baby Gabriel should receive a chance at life.”

Her attorney, Lincoln Wilson, said the biological parents “haven’t given [West] anything since she declined to terminate the pregnancy.”

Under Texas law, he noted, the woman who gives birth is recognized as the mother. West is seeking parentage with legal help from Alliance Defending Freedom and has asked only for a commitment that the baby will receive the care his heart requires.

Attorney Lee Budner, representing Gilkar and Ahmed, said the infant is “recuperating under the loving care of his parents and his heroic team of doctors, nurses, and medical staff.”

He called West’s parentage claims “baseless.”

The biological parents have stated in court filings that they respected her decision not to abort and denied any intent to withhold treatment.

The legal disputes continue in multiple states.

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These are quiet crimes, happening in the ups and downs of domestic relationships all across America. Often the police don’t get involved until the damage has been done and a baby has been delivered in the toilet. The murder weapon of choice? The abortion pill, Mifepristone.

What happens when the FDA removes safeguards on the dangerous abortion pill? Answer: More people are victimized.

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For many years, mifepristone was on the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) list. This provides strict guidelines for drugs that can be especially harmful if abused or misused. One such regulation on mifepristone’s file was in-person dispensing, which was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Jan. 3, 2023, the FDA made the change permanent under the Biden Administration.

The Biden FDA replaced the in-person dispensing requirement with a system under which pharmacies could be certified to dispense the drug—either in-person or by mail order. Under the current REMS, a patient can obtain mifepristone without seeing a health care provider in person, as acknowledged by the FDA itself—”The Mifepristone REMS Program does not require patients to see a health care provider in person before obtaining mifepristone for medical termination of pregnancy through ten weeks gestation.”

The result is reign of terror perpetrated on moms and their preborn boys and girls, protected by politicians, and promulgated by abortion pill companies.

Some scummy examples surfacing on the stagnant moral pond of abortion on demand could prove instructive for politicians tasked with representing all citizens.

Hassan-James Abbas, a former surgical resident at the University of Toledo, pleaded no contest in an Ohio court to the charges of unlawful distribution of abortion drugs and identity fraud in May of 2026. Upon discovering that his girlfriend was pregnant, he advised her to abort the baby. When she declined, he purchased two chemical abortion drugs under his ex-wife’s name and allegedly force fed one to his girlfriend. Abbas was indicted on felony charges in December, 2025 and could face up to five years in prison.

Mason Herring, a former attorney, pleaded guilty to slipping abortion drugs in his then-wife’s drinks upon discovering that she was pregnant. On March 17, 2022, Herring made his first of seven attempts to end his wife’s pregnancy via chemical abortion. Upon drinking a glass of semi-cloudy water, Herring’s wife became violently ill. After several more alleged attempts on her baby’s life, she took him to court, where Herring ultimately pleaded guilty to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant woman. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years of probation.

Jon Demeter, in February of this year, allegedly administered abortion drugs to his pregnant girlfriend against her will and without her knowledge. Prosecutors allege that this resulted in the death of the unborn child and serious injury to the woman. Demeter is now facing charges for Performance of an Abortion and Injury to a Child under Texas State Law.

The Abbas case should cause us to ask how exactly do telemedicine providers verify not only the identity of a pregnant woman before dispensing the drugs but whether or not she is even pregnant? And how much verification is enough when a drug capable of ending a pregnancy and resulting in life-threatening complications for a woman can be illegally mailed to anyone’s home?

The Herring and Demeter cases raise another disquieting question: How many instances of covert administration of abortion would ever be recognized as such? Given that any abuser can attain these deadly drugs online, a woman who does not know she was given an abortion drug may simply believe she is suffering a miscarriage.

Why did Biden-era policymakers remove the in-person dispensing safeguard without addressing the possibility of unauthorized access? How could this be the work of a party who is ostensibly “pro-women’s health”?

And this brings us to a story still unfolding, revealing the moral quagmire created when traditional definitions of personhood get tangled up with altered boundaries in the basic human relationship: marriage.

An Alaskan woman, McKenna West, was carrying the surrogate child of California couple, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed. Upon discovering that the child had a rare heart condition that would require surgeries after birth, Gilkar and Ahmed allegedly forced West to have an abortion. The couple disputes her characterization of their actions and says their surrogacy agreement contemplated termination in such circumstances. Not wishing to abort the child inside her, West fled to Texas to have the baby. There, a Dallas County Court issued a court order demanding the hospital offer and continue the life-saving care the child needed.

After West gave birth to the child, whom she named Gabriel, TX Attorney General filed a notice of nonsuit, claiming the immediate need of the emergency action has been accomplished—a successful birth and heart surgery. After the child was placed into the custody of Gilkar and Ahmed, West has vowed to pursue legal action to reclaim custody of the child she traveled to TX to save—the child to whom she gave birth. In response, Gilkar and Ahmed, after their wishes to have the child aborted were denied and the child’s health is now secure, have opened a lawsuit against West, alleging contractual misconduct.

Currently, these crimes and disputes are processed in law, the legislature, and the court of public opinion. The question the judiciary will need to answer is, “To what extent can a mother be protected by law (14^th Amendment) if she is forced to have an abortion?”

The question Congress will have to answer is, “Who gets to deprive a preborn baby of his or her 5^th Amendment right to life without due process?” The telemedicine company illegally shipping the drugs across state lines? The doctor? The abusive boyfriend or husband? The politician? The womb renters? The mother?

Meanwhile, as FDA leadership refuses to place a moratorium on the abortion drug before the Midterms, women and children continue to get hurt.

But when politicians are permitted to disqualify certain classes of human being as “persons” from protection under the law like preborn babies, it props the door wide open for abuse of other humans, like their mothers, including surrogate mothers.

The importance of Congress bringing a Personhood Clarification Act to vote cannot be overemphasized here, telling the nation’s judges, police, and parents in no uncertain terms that all people, from fertilization to natural death, including a pre-born baby, are fully and equally human, deserving of full protection under the law against those who would do harm to these most vulnerable pre-born babies and their moms.

The time is now to put an end to forced abortion in the United States of America.

LifeNews Note: The Rev. Jim Harden, CEO of CompassCare, a pro-life medical network based in Buffalo, New York, is married with 10 children. He passionately exposes unequal enforcement of the law and immoral public policy.

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Brinks (D-29) is set to term out of the legislature after a tenure in which, as the Senate Majority Leader, she advanced a radical pro-abortion agenda that went so far as to remove safeguards for Michigan women and threaten parental consent.

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In all her years in the Senate, Brinks has consistently voted “yes” on radical legislation that does not represent Michigan voters and Michigan values.

Brinks voted to repeal basic abortion clinic health and safety standards. She also voted to remove transparency from the abortion industry and shield facts from women by removing abortion complication reporting. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ last abortion report, in 2024, demonstrated a shocking increase in serious complications from abortion, up 38% in one year! Brinks even voted to repeal the law prohibiting partial-birth abortion. That is just the tip of the iceberg!

If pro-lifers needed a reason to get engaged and vote in the November 3 election, they have one! The RLM-PAC has endorsed John James for Governor and applauds his selection of State Representative Jay DeBoyer as his running mate. Michiganders are ready for commonsense leadership we can trust – leadership that stands up for parental rights and will protect taxpayer money from funding elective abortions!

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