Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time our van has been broken into and its windows smashed. This is the second time we’re experiencing this same vandalism — just within the last year.

It’s frustrating, costly, and serves as a reminder that not everyone welcomes the life-saving message we bring to communities across Kansas.

As disappointing as this incident was, it didn’t shake our resolve to continue speaking up for vulnerable women and preborn babies.

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We take the Aftermath Traveling Memorial to college campuses and communities across Kansas because people deserve to know the truth about abortion in our state. It starts conversations, answers questions, and reaches people who may have never reflected on the true damage caused by abortion before.

This also comes at a critical time for our state.

With an important election underway in Kansas, pro-abortion organizations and their allies are pouring millions of dollars into deceptive campaigns. They know what’s at stake, and they’re investing heavily to advance their cruel agenda.

We refuse to sit on the sidelines.

Kansans for Life will continue educating and equipping grassroots volunteers and standing for every human life. We will continue taking the Aftermath Traveling Memorial to campuses and communities across Kansas…but we can’t do any of these things without help from friends like you.

You can help us repair the damage, keep us on the road, and ensure this outreach continues in communities across Kansas. Most importantly, it sends a clear message that acts of vandalism will not deter the pro-life movement from our mission.

Thank you for standing with Kansans for Life. We look forward to continuing this work together!

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Peggy Noonan, President Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, famously wrote, “Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.”

I remember fondly the days of bipartisan support for commonsense state legislation like parental consent for abortion and protections against using taxpayer dollars to fund other people’s elective abortion. Overwhelming support for a ballot initiative in the late 90s to defeat the threat of physician-assisted suicide. These family-friendly, life-affirming positions enjoyed support across the aisle. There were, as many agreed, issues that transcended politics – issues that strengthened our families and communities, issues that were distinctly American.

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I take comfort in the idea that we might again return to that shared sentiment. Any hope of doing so lies in our commitment to stay engaged in the democratic process and exercise our right, our duty, to vote.

Yet, both Republicans and Democrats have difficulty turning out their traditional supporters or “base” voters for elections. Sadly, pro-life voter turnout drops during midterms – it dropped 19% from 2016 to 2018, and then 26% from 2020 to 2022. Why have we decided to exercise our right to vote and stand in the gap for the unborn only every four years? If that happens this year, our candidates will lose. Our issue will face another setback, and lives will be lost. 

It strikes me that voting is the simplest of tasks with the greatest impact on everything from gas and grocery prices to children’s safety and security. Yet political parties, candidates and interest groups spend billions imploring their supporters simply to vote.

This year, leaders in the Democratic Party are taking it one step further.

Pro-abortion Democrat candidates and consultants are working tirelessly to discourage Republican voters. Why vote this year, some might suggest. While Trump isn’t on the ballot, they want to cast his shadow over the entire country – if you don’t like Trump, vote Democrat; if you did like Trump and aren’t sure anymore, well, what’s the point?

Don’t buy what they’re selling! Democrat politicians in our state care about one thing – POWER.

Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Secretary of State and the lead Democrat candidate for governor, announced “The Road to Trifecta,” a bus tour seeking to win the governor’s mansion and both the state Senate and state House. The name of the tour isn’t about a policy she wants to champion to bring down prices, improve children’s test scores, or fix the d### roads. It’s about securing the levers of power. How revealing…and troubling.

The Democrats have occupied the governor’s mansion for eight years, with control of both chambers of the state legislature for a portion of it. We know what they do when they have unbridled power, and it’s time for a new path in our state. The destruction they’ve wrought is almost incomprehensible. Jocelyn Benson wants it back.

The elections this year are entirely about Michigan – our families, our communities and our future. The president is not on the ballot. Our governor, state Senate, state House, dozens of local races and a handful of critical Congressional races are front and center. In each and every race, the primary focus is Michigan.

As you consider voting this year, I invite you to ask yourself two questions:

1. 1. Do you love America and care about its future, for your children and your children’s children?
   2. Do you care about the cause of life here in Michigan?

If you answered yes to these questions, please say “yes” to voting this year!

The stakes are high. If we fail to vote, we hand over our entire government to the anti-life Democrat political leadership. Physician-assisted suicide will be legalized. Parental rights will be further chipped away. Children will be targeted in schools with abortion. It’s a dark path. If we care about the future of our state, this is an election we cannot sit out.

There will be some who suggest this article is too political. I disagree. Sadly, Democratic Party leaders have failed women, the country and our state by making abortion a litmus test for public office. They refuse to support candidates who won’t peddle their dark anti-life, anti-family agenda. Their answer to unplanned pregnancy is singularly abortion and, instead of working to secure safeguards for women, they’ve made it even less safe. I hope that changes in the years ahead, but for now, we know where they stand.

At Right to Life of Michigan, we are supporting candidates who advocate another choice – the choice for life, candidates who are committed to ensuring women have the support they need to make a choice for life if they would like to do so. It’s a straightforward proposition. One that will not only impact the future of our state but have ripple effects across the country.

Please take 30 minutes. Find your polling location at https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/Index. Then print your pro-life ballot at rtl.org/vote. Vote in the August 4 Primary Election and the November 3 General Election. Let’s take back our state!

LifeNews Note: Right to Life of Michigan President Amber Roseboom is the author of this opinion column.

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest abortion business, sued the Trump administration Tuesday over changes to the federal Title X family planning grant program that pro-life advocates say will finally end taxpayer support for the abortion business.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of Planned Parenthood members, challenges the Department of Health and Human Services’ revised notice of funding opportunity for the 2027-2032 grant cycle. It names HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine, and Office of Population Affairs Deputy Director Amy L. Margolis as defendants.

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Title X provides grants for contraception, pregnancy testing, STI screenings and other family planning services for lower-income patients. Federal law bars the funds from being used for abortions.

But pro-life groups have long contended that awarding the grants to Planned Parenthood and similar abortion corporations still subsidizes the abortion industry by freeing other revenue for abortions.

In March, White House spokesman Kush Desai confirmed that 2026 would be the final year of Biden-era Title X grants to Planned Parenthood.

“The administration has issued the fifth and final year of Title X grants that were locked in place during the Biden presidency,” Desai said. “The administration faced significant legal challenges in stopping any of these dollars from going out.”

Desai added that Title X funds “cannot be used for abortions by law and, consistent with President Trump’s Executive Order on Enforcing the Hyde Amendment, the Administration remains committed to realigning the Title X program with the President’s pro-life and pro-family agenda going forward.”

The new funding priorities emphasize family formation, healthy pregnancies and natural family planning methods such as fertility tracking, while screening applicants for alignment with administration policies.

Planned Parenthood’s complaint argues the changes require applicants “to align with certain political positions such as favoring fertility tracking over contraceptives” and are “based on HHS’s current political and ideological preferences” rather than the program’s statutory purpose.

Thirty-two Planned Parenthood members currently participate in Title X, operating more than 240 abortion centers in 29 states.

The suit is brought on behalf of several affiliates that plan to apply for the next grant cycle.

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“The 2023 REMS modification is unlawful and must be remanded to the FDA for review,” Ballou wrote, using the acronym for the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies protocols.
Abortion businesses have long insisted that Mifepristone is safe and has no significant adverse reactions among the women that use it for abortions.  This of course ignores the fact that the drug ends the life of a helpless unborn child.

The claims of these abortion promoters also fail to recognize the serious complications women have reported and that have been observed in recent reports. A study out of Finland published recently identifies extreme pain as a side effect acknowledged by 58% of women in the study.

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The most extensive data on the risks associated with Mifepristone were provided in a 2025 analysis released by the Center for Ethics and Public Policy. ( https://eppc.org/stop-harming-women/)  After examining insurance data from 865,728 Mifipristone abortions from 2017 to 2023. The conclusion was that the drug does carry serious risks to women’s health and wellbeing. Included in the findings were facts like these:

• 10.93% of women experienced sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious/life-threatening adverse event — over 1 in 10 patients.

• The adverse events are 22 times higher than the adverse event rate on the current FDA label.

Now to add insult to injury Virginia’s pro-abortion Attorney General, Jay Jones, has added the Commonwealth of Virginia to a coalition of 23 other states that are pressuring the FDA to reject any attempts to restore the much-needed safety restrictions previously in place on Mifepristone use in America.

The FDA has yet to complete the review of the drugs and provide guidance about the future distribution and handling of Mifepristone. There is no precise timeline for when their decisions will be made.

In the meantime, Virginia’s pro-abortion elected leaders seem determined to provide assistance to the reckless agenda of Virginia abortion promoters at the cost of women’s lives and safety as well as their unborn babies.

As Virginians prepare for the upcoming election cycle that includes a ballot question that will enshrine unlimited abortion in our Constitution we must push back against the actions taken by elected officials like Jay Jones.

We must Vote No on Ballot Question 1. 

LifeNews Note: Olivia Gans is the director of the Virginia Society for Human Life.

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Widdecombe, 78, a former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman, was found dead July 9 at her bungalow in Haytor on Dartmoor with serious head injuries.

Prosecutors told a court that she was struck 21 times on the head with a hammer while eating lunch on July 8 in an attack captured on security cameras. Joshua Kerry, 28, of Rotherham, has been charged with her murder and remanded in custody.

A provisional trial date is set for June 8, 2027.

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Counter-terrorism police continue to investigate any possible political motivation.

In a statement, her family said a private service for family and close friends will be held in the coming weeks, with invitations already distributed.

“We understand that there is significant public interest in the funeral of Ann Widdecombe,” the family said. “A more public memorial will follow later in the year, the details of which will be released in due course. While we are very grateful for the wide expression of condolences, the family would ask that this initial service is limited to those closest to Ann.”

Buckfast Abbey, the Benedictine monastery near her home where Widdecombe regularly attended Sunday Solemn Mass and Holy Week services, is working closely with the family on funeral arrangements. The monastic community said it continues to hold Widdecombe, her family and loved ones in its prayers and will provide further information “in due course, when appropriate,” while asking that the family’s privacy be honored.

Earlier, the abbey described her as “a woman of profound faith, a faith which found expression in the public forum of politics” who “was unafraid to express her unwavering convictions, formed through her Roman Catholic faith.”

Widdecombe converted to Catholicism in 1993 and emerged as one of Britain’s most consistent champions of the sanctity of human life.

A longtime patron of Right to Life UK and a senior figure in the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, she fought for greater legal protections for unborn babies and against efforts to legalize assisted suicide.

As early as 1990 she argued in Parliament that abortion should not be treated as a legitimate medical procedure and that existing protections for the unborn should not be eroded. She supported amendments in 2008 to lower the abortion limit under key provisions of the Abortion Act to 12 weeks.

She also opposed assisted suicide bills in 1997, 2000 and 2004 and continued speaking against measures that threaten the vulnerable at the beginning and end of life long after leaving the Commons.

Pro-life organizations have described her as a “heroine of the pro-life cause” whose strong and consistent voting record and public witness set an example for politicians willing to defend the right to life. The public memorial is expected to allow supporters to honor her lifelong defense of the weakest members of society.

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Robinson, who served as director of medical affairs and education for 40 Days for Life, has died of heart failure. He was a leading advocate who dedicated the latter half of his life to protecting the unborn and supporting families facing difficult pregnancies.

Robinson died over the weekend, according to an announcement from his wife, Daphne Robinson, and confirmation from Shawn Carney, president of 40 Days for Life.

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“Our dear friend, former abortion doctor, and 40 Days for Life director of medical affairs & education Dr. Haywood Robinson died of heart failure this past weekend,” Carney said. “While our hearts are heavy and filled with sorrow, they are also filled with joy. Haywood’s conversion is a testament to God’s mercy…and one that brings hope to pro-lifers standing up against the greatest evil in history.”

In a public statement, Daphne Robinson wrote: “It is with profound heartache that I personally, publicly, and officially announce the death of my husband, Dr. Haywood Robinson, MD. My Beloved was much beloved, admired and a friend to many. Protecting and advocating for the unborn and defending all vulnerable life created in the image of God was core to who my husband was.”

Robinson began his medical career doing abortions. During his family medicine residency in Southern California in the late 1970s, he learned the dilation and curettage procedure and, together with his first wife, Dr. Noreen Johnson, an OB-GYN, moonlighted at abortion facilities. They later moved to Texas, where they stopped doing abortions, but continued to refer women for abortions.

In March 1986, Robinson experienced a life-changing Christian conversion at a concert. He later described how God opened his eyes to the reality of abortion.

“One of the first things that the Lord did for us was to make us aware of our past and abortion,” he said. “Because what He wanted to do was to take us from darkness to light, from abortion providers to warriors in the pro-life movement.”

He and Johnson became outspoken pro-life advocates. They co-authored the book “The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical Transformation as Husband and Wife Abortion Doctors,” published after Johnson’s death in August 2021.

Robinson retired from clinical practice in 2019 and joined 40 Days for Life full-time as its director of medical affairs and education, a role he held for the past seven years. He traveled the country and the world, sharing his testimony, leading prayer vigils outside abortion facilities, and educating others on the medical and moral case for life.

In recent years he also served as director of continuum of care for Journey of a Lifetime, an organization founded by his wife Daphne that offers trauma-informed perinatal support to parents and families who receive a life-limiting or adverse diagnosis during pregnancy or in the NICU.

From the pro-life perspective, Robinson’s life stands as a powerful witness to redemption. Once a participant in the destruction of unborn children, he became a tireless defender of those same children, demonstrating that no past is beyond the reach of grace and that every human life, from conception, bears the image of God.

A Celebration of Life will be held Wednesday, Aug. 5, at Christ Church in College Station, Texas. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Journey of a Lifetime.

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