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Pro-Life This Week – August 8, 2025

Action Alert

Write Hopeful Letters to Expecting Mothers

A pro-life advocacy group called Unplanned Stories is looking for people to write encouraging letters to expecting moms. 

The group states, “Many parents in those vulnerable situations don’t have a community that speaks life over them. Instead, they’re bombarded with negative messaging by their family, peers and social media that their baby will ruin their lives and that they need abortion to pursue their dreams.”

“But the good news is YOU can touch their hearts and change their minds. You can speak words of life, hope and encouragement to those expectant parents. You can help save a life through the power of the written word.”

Unplanned Stories is looking for 30 more volunteers to write hopeful letters. If you would like to write a letter or learn more about their mission, visit their website here.

Week in Review

Department of Veterans Affairs to Reverse Biden Administration Abortion Rule

The US Department of Veterans Affairs has proposed a rule change to end most abortion coverage in medical plans for veterans and their families, reversing a 2022 policy implemented by the Biden administration. 

The 2022 rule allowed abortions at VA facilities in cases of rape, incest, or health of the mother, even in states with abortion bans. The proposed change, announced on August 4, 2025, would prohibit abortions in cases of rape or incest but keep the exception for health of the mother. The VA reported providing only a few hundred abortions since 2022. 

Until 2022, the VA had determined that abortion is not a “needed” service for veterans and their families. This was accepted by every secretary and presidential administration for over 20 years, until the Biden administration.

The move is an encouraging one, but American Life League encourages the VA to fully redact the abortion policy and remove provisions for health of the mother as well. 

Over 450 doctors have signed The Declaration: Protecting the Life of the Mother, which states: “I agree that there is never a situation in the law or in the ethical practice of medicine where a preborn child’s life need be intentionally destroyed by procured abortion for the purpose of saving the life of the mother. A physician must do everything possible to save the lives of both of his patients, mother and child. He must never intend the death of either.”There is never a medical reason for purposely ending the life of a preborn child. 

Pro-Abortion Doctor Confirms That ‘Telehealth’ Abortions Are on the Rise in States with Restrictions

This week, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast announced that it will close its last two operating facilities in Louisiana at the end of September 2025. While various reactions to this news spread in the media, a local news station in New Orleans reported a segment on these closures with an interesting headline that read “Abortions on the Rise as Planned Parenthood Prepares to Close Louisiana Clinics.”

During the two-and-half-minute segment, a pro-abortion doctor named Ushma Upadhyay was interviewed about the rising numbers of “telehealth” abortions in Louisiana, despite the restrictions on abortion in the state. Upadhyay confirmed that the numbers of abortions by pill through telehealth are rising, saying: “It has been rising, and I do expect as more people learn about telehealth abortion that these numbers are likely to increase.” Following this statement, Upadhyay stated that while abortion is restricted in Louisiana, women who want abortions will do whatever they can to get them.

According to the restrictions in the “pro-life” state, Louisiana allows abortions with exceptions for life of the mother, the physical health of the mother, and fetal abnormalities. Additionally, while abortion pills are not permitted to be distributed by facilities in the state, there are numerous abortion groups that are able to send abortion pills to women via telehealth despite the state’s abortion laws. 

In its most recent report on Planned Parenthood’s facilities, STOPP reported that Planned Parenthood, among others, is skirting around restrictions for abortion through telehealth, through its virtual health centers, through shield laws in several states, and because of the FDA’s approval of mifepristone (the abortion pill) to be mailed anywhere in the country without tracking. While Planned Parenthood is not allowed to prescribe abortion pills in Louisiana via its in-person and virtual visits, a woman in Louisiana can do a virtual visit with a Planned Parenthood in another state and still receive the abortion pills via mail or by going to that state.

While STOPP has been following the emergence of virtual abortions for years, it has become a staggering reality especially in the past five years. It also shows how far the abortion industry will go to make sure innocent preborn children are killed under the guise of “healthcare.”

For more information about the abortion landscape in the US, please see American Life League’s 2024 abortion pill report on our site.

ALL in the News

ALL publicly commented to the Federal Register on the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ proposed rule 2900-AS31, which would prohibit the VA from performing most abortions. ALL encouraged the VA to prohibit all abortions and reinstate the pre-Biden administration abortion ban. 

STOPP’s bimonthly Wednesday STOPP Report was sent out this week. View the latest issue and stay up to date on all the latest Planned Parenthood news.

Susan Ciancio, editor of Celebrate Life Magazine and director and executive editor of the Culture of Life Studies Program, was a guest on Ave Maria Radio’s show Morning Offering to talk about pro-life education. Listen to the show here. Additionally, Susan wrote an article about Catholic author Patrick O’Hearn, whose books for kids (and adults!) of all ages teach valuable lessons about the saints. It was published by LifeSiteNews. She also wrote an article about a new book on the Beatitudes called Eight Promises of God. It was published in Catholic 365. And she wrote about ways to help our children become pro-life superheroes. You can find this article at Catholic 365.

As Planned Parenthood facilities continue to close, ALL continues to track each one. ALL’s research on the facilities was cited in a LifeNews article. 

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.

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Pro-Life Social Media

Church Minister Instructs Children that Public Nudity Is Acceptable Behavior

Section 2224 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: “Parents should teach children to avoid the compromising and degrading influences which threaten human societies.”

One of the many tragedies of the West is the willingness of parents to abdicate the responsibility of educating their children. Public schools and libraries have become indoctrination camps of Marxist ideology, but don’t think the grooming is restricted to public institutions. Houses of worship are preying on children too.

Teaching minors that it’s perfectly normal to walk around town in the nude is the next level of cultural depravity. A man opening his coat to expose himself to kids used to be a felony. Today it’s celebrated as “diversity.”

Deviants believe any sexual behavior depicted in a children’s book must be culturally acceptable. To think otherwise means you’re no different than a book-banning Nazi. 

Evil doesn’t always lurk in the shadows. It can pop up where you least expect it. Sensible parents must relentlessly protect their children.