Action Item
Prayer Request for a New Pro-Life Project Exposing IVF
ALL received the following prayer request for a young pro-lifer who is conducting a one-of-a-kind project. The project seeks to expose IVF for what it is to a generation of young people that knows nothing about it. Please join us in prayer for this project, and see the intentions below:
“We humbly ask for your prayers for Cradled in Glass, a docuseries exploring the ethical, emotional, and spiritual realities of in vitro fertilization (IVF). This project seeks to honor the value of every human life while addressing difficult truths.
Please pray for:
Wisdom and Guidance: That God leads every decision with clarity and love.
Divine Connections: That the right experts, stories, and resources align to support this mission.
Clarity and Creativity: That the storytelling resonates deeply, shifting perspectives in ways that glorify God.
Hearts to Be Moved: That viewers approach the series with open minds and are challenged to reflect critically on IVF.
Strength and Endurance: For all involved, to persevere in faith.”
Learn more about this project at luciditypictures.com.
Week in Review
Another Planned Parenthood CEO Steps Down
On Wednesday of this week, Planned Parenthood of Illinois’ CEO, Jennifer Welch, announced her resignation from her role as president of both the 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) portion of the abortion affiliate. Welch served in this role for seven years and oversaw the horrific expansion of abortion in the state of Illinois through Planned Parenthood’s abortion facilities and online application to access abortion pills. Though certainly not close to the highest paid Planned Parenthood CEO salaries, Welch earned a staggering $348, 256 in total compensation in the 2023 fiscal year for increasing baby killing in Illinois.
Planned Parenthood of Illinois is one of the largest Planned Parenthood affiliates in the country and boasts of its 17 facilities, all of which provide abortion and contraception. Planned Parenthood of Illinois claims that it is apprehensive for the future of this affiliate with Welch’s resignation. PPOI’s interim CEO specifically stated that the affiliate faces an “increased demand for services and evolving financial pressures,” which is adding to a “challenging operation environment.” While we know better and can speculate that PPOI is probably not suffering as much from financial and “operational” pressures as they claim, we hope to see that change in 2025.
Let us pray that we may see strong leaders and lawmakers for Illinois who will make efforts to end the state funding of the baby-killing business, just as we are seeing in states like Texas and Missouri. It is only through our efforts, prayers, and sacrifices for the glory of God and the protection of all human life that evil giants like Planned Parenthood will fall one day. Let us keep informing, praying for, and strongly encouraging our nation’s leaders to defund Planned Parenthood for good.
Top 10 Reasons Trump Should Dump Planned Parenthood
As news headlines continue to circulate about what Planned Parenthood’s future will look like following the incoming Trump administration’s latest announcement to defund the abortion giant through its DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) initiative, STOPP International has gathered stories from 2024 that illustrate exactly why Planned Parenthood is certainly undeserving of government funding, let alone any funding.
In case you missed some of these headlines on Planned Parenthood, STOPP selected 10 of the major highlights regarding the abortion giant’s outrageous agenda, programs, and financial earnings from 2024, all of which continue to degrade, devalue, and discard human life.
1) In March 2024, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Alexis McGill Johnson, admitted that “nearly 70%” of all Planned Parenthood abortions are self-performed through the abortion pill regimen. Though Planned Parenthood has not released its abortion pill numbers, it is certainly a culprit in the expansion of this evil baby-killing method.
2) Planned Parenthood released its 2022-2023 Annual Report in April, reporting shocking data that both the abortion giant’s earnings and its abortion numbers have increased significantly within the year. According to Planned Parenthood, it murdered 392,715 preborn children within the year 2022-2023—a +5% increase from its recorded numbers the previous year. The organization also received $2,054.3 billion dollars in total revenue, with $699.3 million of that coming from US government grants and reimbursements.
3) Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino California announced its new sex ed workshop for young men, ages 12-18, who are incarcerated. The workshop includes teaching young men how to use condoms, engage in sex as long as it is consensual, and to “seek resources” for STI testing. In other words, to seek out Planned Parenthood as a resource.
4) Planned Parenthood of Delaware created and distributed ASL sex education videos to infiltrate deaf middle and high schools across the country with its explicit four-part video series.
5) The city of Richmond, Virginia, sold a former school building in the city to Planned Parenthood for a mere $10, showing the city’s immense support for the abortion giant as Virginia League of Planned Parenthood plans to open its third abortion facility in that area.
6) Planned Parenthood announced that it would spend $40 million toward pro-abortion political campaigns, including the former Biden and Harris campaigns.
7. Planned Parenthood of Great Rivers set up a mobile site outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and provided vasectomies for men and abortion pills for women in attendance.
8. Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio opened a first-of-a-kind pharmacy in October. Though the abortion giant removed its previous statement about filling prescriptions for abortion pills on its website, it does list that it will provide over-the-counter pills and gender hormone drugs to those who seek to have a prescription filled.
9. News releases from The Center for Medical Progress in both March and November 2024 showed that Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest agreed to supply body parts of aborted children to the University of California San Diego in exchange for PPPSW’s ownership of intellectual properties and patents for the research conducted by UC San Diego using the aborted baby parts.
10) Planned Parenthood of Illinois announced its partnership with fellow abortion pill provider Hey Jane in efforts to expand abortion in Illinois through the abortion pill (see our article below for more details).
We at STOPP say it’s ABOUT TIME our country ends all its funding of the monstrosity that is Planned Parenthood. With your prayers and support, STOPP will continue to educate, act, and hold our country’s newly elected officials accountable for this hopeful promise of ending our country’s financial support of those who facilitate preborn child killing under the guise of “healthcare.”
ALL in the News
Susan Ciancio, editor of Celebrate Life Magazine and director of the Culture of Life Studies Program—ALL’s pre-K-12 pro-life education program—joined Radio Maria as a guest to discuss birth control and population control. Listen to the show here.
Susan wrote an op-ed about the grocery store Kroger and a pro-life-themed TV commercial they produced. The op-ed was published by Mercator.
Susan also wrote an article exhorting Trump’s administration to defund Planned Parenthood. It was published by LifeSiteNews.
In addition, she wrote an article for CLSP about the self-giving love of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, whose feast day we celebrate this weekend.
Twice a week, Judie’s commentaries are distributed to an expansive media list. The list contains over 100 media outlets such as Fox News, The Federalist, Breitbart, and The Daily Caller, among others. Judie’s commentaries are each featured on the front page of ALL.org.
Pro-Life Education
Culture of Life Studies Program
Unconditional Love and Respect for Everyone: St. John Bosco: In this lesson, students will learn about the life of St. John Bosco and how he created a home and school for young boys who had nowhere to go and no one to care for them. Through stories about his lessons and his life, students will learn to reflect on potential prejudices they have toward certain people based on their appearances, behaviors, or financial status. They will be challenged to think about how their own choices can have a lasting positive impact when they treat all people with respect. Recommended for middle school. And on SALE for more than half off! ORDER HERE
ALL’s Education Materials
Abortion: Why Should I Care? is an eye-opening brochure for young people who want to know why and how abortion affects them. Specifically geared toward youth, this brochure answers questions in a forthright manner and helps explain why they should care about the preborn baby and the mom who’s expecting the baby. SHOP NOW
Pro-Life Social Media
AUDIO: Population Control Can’t Exist Without Abortion and Contraception
Susan Ciancio, editor of ALL’s Celebrate Life Magazine and director of the Culture of Life Studies Program, sometimes writes for Human Life International. In these positions, Susan covers endless topics related to the pro-life movement. In the following episode of Life Matters from Radio Maria Ireland, host Dr. Collins and Susan discuss abortion, population control, and antinatalism.
Running time: 42 minutes