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Pro-Life This Week – February 20, 2026

Week in Review

Catholic Priest Celebrates Sunday Mass Outside of Planned Parenthood

Father Javier Olivera Ravasi, an Argentinian priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, celebrated the Holy Mass this past Sunday outside of Planned Parenthood’s San Francisco facility. According to an article posted on Infovaticana.com, Father Ravasi celebrated Sunday Mass in the traditional form for a group of faithful outside the abortion facility “as a gesture of witness and reparation.” 

Planned Parenthood has operated this facility since 1929, a year after its foundress Margaret Sanger began the organization, which she originally called the American Birth Control League. Currently, this facility commits both surgical and pill abortions in person, distributes birth control, and provides gender hormone drugs and surgery referrals. While the building location has moved in recent years, the horrors of abortion, the promiscuity, and the moral depravity that Planned Parenthood has encouraged since its inception remain rampant.

In his blog post on Monday, Father Ravasi explained three intentions of that Holy Mass. Father prayed for the conversion of all abortion workers, that they may accept God’s mercy and see that abortion takes the life of an innocent person. He prayed for the reparation of the sins against preborn children in the womb. And he prayed that all Catholics and Christians bear courageous witness to Christ and the faith through our actions, words, and prayer.

The public witness of both Father and the faithful group of prayer warriors outside Planned Parenthood on Sunday serves as both inspiration and a reminder of our duty to act always in charity, mercy, and hope when combating the many evils we face in our culture. 

While we may not be able to physically go to a local abortion facility and pray outside, we can pray and witness the truth about abortion among our own families, friends, and acquaintances. Committing to a weekly rosary through our Marian Blue Wave program is just one example of how we can become active participants in the fight to defend life, which is first and foremost a spiritual battle. 

American Life League applauds and thanks Father Ravasi for his courage to stand as a public witness in defense of life and defender of Our Lord and His truth. 

Abortion Pill Rescue Network Saves More Than 8,000 Babies from Abortion

The abortion pill is an abhorrent, dangerous drug that kills millions of babies worldwide. But in the midst of its darkness, there is one glimmer of hope: When mothers regret taking mifepristone, they may be able to stop the abortion and save their babies.

This week, Heartbeat International announced that its Abortion Pill Rescue Network has saved more than 8,000 babies through its abortion pill reversal treatment. The APRN partners with thousands of pregnancy centers nationwide and runs a 24/7 hotline to reach mothers who change their minds after starting a chemical abortion. With most preborn babies now killed through the abortion pill in the US, the APRN is more important than ever.

The abortion pill regimen typically includes two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone blocks a pregnancy hormone called progesterone. Without this essential hormone, the baby can’t receive nourishment and starves to death. Misoprostol then induces labor to remove the dead baby from the womb.

Abortion pill rescue saves babies by replacing the progesterone blocked by mifepristone and is successful up to 68% of the time. Mothers take supplemental progesterone prescribed by a doctor; this is a treatment that has been used for decades to support pregnancies at risk for miscarriage. APR is most effective when started within 24 hours of taking the abortion pill, but it has worked for mothers who began taking progesterone later. The treatment does not work if the mother has already taken misoprostol.

The abortion industry and its champions claim that APR is not only unproven but harmful to mothers and their babies. Despite claiming to be “pro-choice,” abortion supporters are fighting to keep mothers from having the option to save their babies. Thankfully, these more than 8,000 babies prove that life can win, even in the darkest moments.

ALL in the News

American Life League’s press release for the Planned Parenthood facilities report update was referenced in a recent article by LifeNews. 

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—wrote an article discussing 12 ways families can create and maintain a culture of life during Lent. This article was published in Catholic365 and on Today’s Catholic Homeschooling.

Susan wrote an article about five saints who cared for the elderly and infirmed. It was published in LifeSiteNews.

The latest Wednesday STOPP Report came out this week. You can read it here.

The Winter 2026 issue of Celebrate Life Magazine is officially out! Catch up on all the articles online here.

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

Dream of the Rood: Written in the early 7th or 8th century, “Dream of the Rood” was one of the first early Christian poems written in English. Recounting Christ’s passion and death from the perspective of the cross, this poem recognizes the power of redemptive suffering and the Christian’s fundamental need for salvation. With early medieval literary devices, “Dream of the Rood” describes Christ’s passion as a battle waged against sin and death. You and your children can use this booklet to discover what medieval imagery, language, and symbolism reveal about the sacredness of all human beings. ORDER HERE

ALL’s Education Materials

Stop Planned Parenthood Prayer Card: Created to take with you whenever you go to pray in front of Planned Parenthood, this beautiful 5.5″ x 8.5″ prayer card invokes the help of the Blessed Mother in closing Planned Parenthood facilities and in protecting preborn babies and their mothers. Buy in bulk and save! Hand them out to friends and family, or leave them in the vestibule of your church. SHOP NOW

Pro-Life Social Media

Pretend-Catholic Senator Kaine Reading Bible for Lent

Virginia senator Tim Kaine has a Catholic problem. He likes to pretend he is obedient to Catholic teaching all the while giving a thumbs up to every pro-abortion legislation that he has either signed as governor or voted as a member of Congress. Kaine cosponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act, voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, and voted against the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. 

Opposing every effort to protect preborn children who are created in the image of God is Kaine’s legacy thus far. Now that Lent has begun, Kaine announced that he is spending 40 days reading 40 chapters of Exodus. 

When Kaine reaches day 21, he will come across verses 22-23 of the twenty-first chapter. Pro-aborts like to defend their position with varying interpretations of these verses. What ought to be clear is that the death or removal of a preborn baby requires a punishment.  

Reading God’s word should be done with a willingness to receive promptings from the Holy Spirit to make necessary changes in your life. If you are using scripture merely to validate your own ideological beliefs, then you’re doing it out of service to yourself, not the Lord.

Exodus is loaded with God’s people being punished for disobedience to His commandments.

What are the odds that Psalm 127 is never heard in this house of worship?