Tuesday’s ruling comes after McKenna West, a surrogate mother from Alaska, fled to Texas to save Baby Gabriel when the intended parents attempted to force her to abort their son due to his serious but treatable heart condition.

West refused to end the child’s life and offered to adopt Baby Gabriel, but the parents disagreed.

“Every life matters,” West said in a statement. “No woman should be forced to end the life of the baby she is carrying—including me.”

She then traveled to Texas, where the unborn child would be recognized as a person and where she could give birth near experienced doctors who treat children with serious heart conditions.

The parents then stated that if he is born, they would not consent to give Baby Gabriel the life-saving surgery he needs, and they may attempt to transport him out of Texas to prevent treatment.

That raised an urgent question: What happens if Baby Gabriel is born in Texas and needs immediate surgery to survive, but the adults claiming authority over him refuse the procedure and leave him to die?

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office asked a Dallas County judge to address that question before the baby is born.

Praise God: The court agreed to protect Baby Gabriel, ordering life-saving care upon birth and blocking him from being removed from Texas except when medically necessary.

This case exposes big problems with surrogacy: a woman is treated as a reproductive contractor and a child is treated as a product for sale.

Texas should ensure that every baby—including children conceived through surrogacy—is protected from medical neglect and discrimination.

Texas Right to Life is grateful to the attorney general’s team for saving Baby Gabriel and affirming a basic principle: A child’s life is worth more than a contract.

Baby Gabriel’s dignity does not depend on whether he is healthy, wanted, or convenient. He deserves the opportunity to be born, treated, loved, and given the chance to grow up.

Thank you for reading this story! If you support our Pro-Life ministry, chip in with a life-saving contribution today!

What if filling out one application this semester led you to make an impact across Texas for years to come?

That’s exactly what happened to Naomi Wick.

A few years ago, Naomi was just a college student with a heart for defending Life. She applied to Texas Right to Life’s Dr. Joseph Graham Fellowship, where she was trained, mentored, and challenged to boldly stand for preborn babies on her campus.

She had no idea where God would take her.

Today, Naomi serves as the Executive Assistant at the Pregnancy Center of the Coastal Bend, which just opened an incredible new location in Corpus Christi.

And not just anywhere.

It’s less than a mile from the Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi campus. In fact, there’s only one road onto the island, meaning thousands of students and visitors drive right past the pregnancy center every single day.

Every day, women facing unexpected pregnancies pass a place filled with hope instead of fear.

A place where they can receive a free ultrasound. 

A place where moms and dads can find compassionate counseling.

A place where families can receive diapers, baby clothes, and everything they need to welcome their little one.

A place with a prayer room where every wall is covered with anonymous requests from people carrying unimaginable burdens, reminding everyone who walks in that no one is alone.

This is what building a culture of Life looks like.

And Naomi gets to be part of it every single day.

“Women in crisis situations need emotional and oftentimes financial support, and as an activist for Life, I am responsible for supporting people who have chosen Life for their families,” said Naomi when she applied for the scholarship. Look at her now!

The leadership and skills she developed through the Fellowship didn’t stay on her college campus. God multiplied them into a calling that’s now changing lives for mothers, babies, and families across Texas.

Her willingness to invest her time in helping struggling families and building a culture of Life on campus led her to a future centered on serving others.

The exciting part?

Your story could be next.

Maybe God is calling you to become a pregnancy center director. Or an attorney defending Life in the courtroom. A doctor caring for moms and babies. A teacher. A legislator. A ministry leader. Or maybe He’s calling you to transform your own campus, helping students choose Life when they never thought they could.

You don’t have to have everything figured out.

You just have to be willing to say, “Yes.”

Billy Gibula shows you can change lives right where God plants you.

Billy first discovered his passion for the Pro-Life movement in high school after attending the March for Life in Washington, D.C. He sensed God calling him to do more, even though he had no idea what that would eventually look like.

When Billy started college at the University of Dallas, he looked for ways to put that calling into action. That’s when he became one of the very first students in Texas Right to Life’s Dr. Joseph Graham Fellowship in 2008.

The Fellowship connected Billy with mentors, practical training, and a community of students who shared his commitment to saving moms and babies from abortion. Instead of simply learning about the Pro-Life movement, he was challenged to grow as a leader.

Billy served as president of Crusaders for Life at the University of Dallas, a group still active to this day.

One of Billy’s favorite projects with the group was “Hundreds Day.” Each semester, the Crusaders for Life gathered more than 100 students on a Saturday morning to pray outside an abortion facility.

They sang hymns, read scripture, and inspired women to choose Life instead of walking inside the abortion clinic.

Those experiences taught Billy something that has stayed with him ever since: Ordinary people, working together, can make an extraordinary difference.

Today, Billy is married with four children and works in finance.

But his Pro-Life mission didn’t end when he graduated.

Billy and his wife thought of a simple way to continue helping moms and babies. They organized volunteers to make home-cooked meals for mothers at a local pregnancy resource center.

Many of these women are raising several children on their own. Some have no family nearby. Others are facing overwhelming financial hardship.

Billy realized something simple: Families at church often receive meal trains after welcoming a new baby. Why shouldn’t vulnerable mothers receive the same love?

They asked friends and family to cook meals from their own kitchens and deliver them to a local pregnancy center, who would then give the meal to a mother in need. The response was overwhelming.

In its first year alone, volunteers provided nearly 200 meals.

He reflected:

“The first month that we did meals, this mom came to pick up the meal with her son and her son looked at her when they were getting the meal and he said, ‘Do we know these people? Like who made us this meal? Do we know them?’ And the mom said, ‘No, but we know the Spirit in them.’ It just encompasses what this ministry is about. We’re being the hands and feet of Christ for others.”

Billy’s story reminds us that defending Life doesn’t always require a microphone, a courtroom, or a full-time ministry position.

Sometimes it looks like organizing 100 college students to pray outside an abortion facility.

Sometimes it looks like cooking lasagna for a mom who’s wondering if anyone cares.

The Dr. Joseph Graham Fellowship helped prepare Billy to lead during college.

More importantly, it helped shape a lifelong commitment to serving others wherever God called him.

That’s exactly what the Fellowship is designed to do.

Wherever our students go, they carry the same mission: protecting innocent human Life and building a culture where every mother and every baby is welcomed.

If you’re a college student who wants your faith and convictions to make a lasting difference, the Dr. Joseph Graham Fellowship can help prepare you—not just for four years on campus, but for a lifetime of Pro-Life leadership.

The young girl nearly drowned on Memorial Day and landed in the hospital with a serious brain injury.

Immediately, doctors wanted to give up, stop treatment, and declare her “brain dead.”

Annelise wasn’t brain dead (she responded to light, she could digest food, and her body functioned and responded), but Texas law put all the power in the hands of the hospital.

A court order in May protected her from harmful brain death tests, kept her ventilator on so she could breathe, and gave her family more time to find a different facility to care for her.

This victory gave the Camp family two extra months with Annelise and provided her a chance to recover from her injury. We were honored to stand with her family to ensure her life was not cut short by doctors rushing to declare her “brain dead.”

Still, this loss is heartbreaking.

Her grandfather wrote:

“The Psalms say, ‘the days of our lives are in His hands.’ What great promise, comfort and hope those words are to any Christian while facing the death of a family member… especially a young child as she was.”

“Thank you all for your prayers. Not only for her, but for her dear family: Johnston and Joy (her parents), and for her siblings, too.”

Please continue praying for this family as they grieve over their beautiful girl.

State laws that don’t protect patients end up worsening tragedies like Annelise’s initial accident. The Camps hope to fix the problems in our legal and medical systems so that future patients have a better chance at recovery and Life.

It’s a seemingly small wording change to an old grant program, but leftists are calling the move “a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s pursuit of fetal personhood.”

• What happens next?
• Will it change Trump’s inaction on abortion?
• Will this pave the way for unborn children to be nationally protected by the Constitution?

It all started in June when the Trump administration invited nonprofits and other organizations to earn federal funding by promoting embryo adoption. This isn’t new. President George W. Bush created the Embryo Adoption Awareness and Services grant in 2002 to give some unborn babies created in IVF a second chance instead of being killed or frozen indefinitely.

This time, however, the Department of Health and Human Services raised eyebrows when it published its new proposal. Throughout the document, the department correctly and consistently called frozen embryos “children.”

Most of the time, these applications use clinical terms that make unborn human beings sound like clumps of cells or “icy, microscopic biological material in a test tube,” as The Guardian puts it.

But the Trump administration asserted that frozen embryos are “children who already exist…“

No ambiguity. No whitewashing. Just the facts: Human embryos are human beings.

While the document itself doesn’t make a big difference, the language is significant. Recognizing human embryos as children is a step toward protecting human embryos as children.

Then comes the question… If the Trump administration agrees that embryos are children, when will they take action to save these children from abortion?

Today, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice effectively allow abortion pills to be mailed to women in all 50 states, bypassing Pro-Life laws.

President Trump could immediately order the FDA to revoke a Biden-era policy that allows abortion pills to be shipped in the mail. He could even shrink the timeframe that abortion pills can be used in pregnancy – currently 10 weeks but it used to be 7 weeks. Or, even better, President Trump could tell the FDA to completely revoke approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.

However, that would still leave unborn children at risk. Liberal U.S. doctors said they would just use a different pill to kill babies in the womb if they can’t prescribe mifepristone. Plus, overseas pharmacies aren’t subject to the FDA. They can still mail abortion pills even with the tightest regulations.

That’s why we’re calling on President Trump to stop mail-order abortions through the Department of Justice. The U.S. Postal Service and law enforcement can block abortion pills in the mail (no matter where they came from) and prosecute senders.

Tell President Trump to stop mail-order abortions!

On top of that, the Trump administration’s recognition of embryos as children sheds light on the shocking abuse babies suffer in in-vitro fertilization.

Because IVF clinics create way more embryos than what they’ll actually implant, over 1 million babies are frozen in storage in the United States alone. Many others are destroyed. Still, others are exploited and killed through medical research.

Embryo creation and long-term storage is not a small or abstract problem. Plus, as misguided lawmakers try to increase IVF with little to no regulation, the number of frozen children will only grow.

These babies deserve the lives, families, and love that every other child does.

Some Pro-Lifers argue that embryo adoption perpetuates a process and industry that endangers babies in the first place.

However, most Pro-Life advocates see embryo adoption as a solution to rescue America’s frozen children. They say it’s an act of charity toward preborn babies rather than “fertility treatment” for adults.

That said, we hope that the federal government’s recognition of embryos as children will spur new policies to save babies from abortion and IVF. Personhood should extend to all preborn babies, whether fertilized in-vitro or conceived naturally in a womb.

We look ahead to a nation where every baby is protected from abortion, without exception.

Thank you for reading this story! If you support our Pro-Life ministry, chip in with a life-saving contribution today!

Purchase College, a public university in southeastern New York, is home to a “Reproductive Justice Garden” that features herbs known for their abortifacient properties. While organizers describe the garden as educational, its social media posts appear to encourage students to harvest these plants, raising concerns about the message being sent to young women facing an unexpected pregnancy.

A September 2024 post from the garden’s Instagram account highlights an herb, stating that enslaved black women would use the “flower as an abortifacient” and that “by drinking the seeds, leaves, or flowers of the plant in tea-form, enslaved women could induce a miscarriage.”

Another post offers instructions on how students can harvest and “collect [plants] from the garden.”

A map of the garden also labels a large section for “abortifacient” plants. Other sections are dedicated to “pregnancy/gestation,” “mental health,” and “menstruation.”

No matter how the garden is described, encouraging students to collect plants associated with killing babies in the womb is terrible. College can already be an overwhelming time, especially for women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant. Instead of helping scared women, projects like this make abortion seem like the obvious answer.

Herbal abortions are far from harmless. Not only can they lead to a dead child, but a mother as well. These plants can vary greatly in strength, making it impossible to know a safe dose. They can lead to severe bleeding, infection, poisoning, or incomplete abortions that require emergency medical care. 

While the garden appears to be run by a student club, college interns have allegedly helped maintain it, according to an October 2024 Instagram post. Another post says it has also received donations from the Purchase Student Government Association, which is funded through mandatory student fees.

The garden’s Instagram also directs visitors to a website called “How to Perform an Abortion,” which describes itself as “a collaborative, research-focused art project.” It was created by Maureen Connor, an artist and professor emeritus at Queens College in New York.

According to the website, Connor’s project aims to demystify and destigmatize “reproductive care” through abortion gardens, monuments, workshops, and public presentations. Other abortion gardens connected to the project include one at Barnard College in New York City.

The website says the purpose of these gardens is “both as symbol and through function … women need knowledge about existing methods and the means to access them.”

It also explains that the garden “explores the history of reproductive justice through plants” and “includes herbs that have been used over thousands of years for fertility, contraception, and abortion.”

According to the website, the gardens are “comprised of ten plants with abortifacient potential.”

The site also includes educational material about historical abortion methods and states that “no power structure can ultimately stop women from preventing or ending an unwanted pregnancy.”

As Christians, we know babies deserve the chance to live. Women facing unexpected pregnancies need hope, support, and people willing to walk beside them, not encouragement to take dangerous risks in isolation. 

Every mother and every child is made in the image of God, and both are worthy of love, protection, and care.