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Pro-Life This Week – April 24, 2026

Week in Review

Pennsylvania’s Latest Court Ruling Proves Deadly for Preborn Babies

This week, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg ruled that a ban on withholding state Medicaid funds for abortion was “unconstitutional.” This ruling specifically strikes down Pennsylvania’s Abortion Control Act, which has been prohibiting state funds from going toward abortion since 1982.

This decision follows a 2019 joint lawsuit, in which several pro-abortion groups, including Planned Parenthood, argued that since Pennsylvania’s Equal Rights Amendment protects people from gender discrimination, a ban on Medicaid funding toward abortion was discrimination against pregnant women, specifically women who can’t afford abortions. 

Pennsylvania’s pro-abortion governor, Josh Shapiro, posted his approval for this decision by the court on X, saying, “Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court just struck down the state ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion care. I’ve long opposed this unconstitutional ban, and as Governor, I did not defend it — because a woman’s ability to access reproductive care should never be determined by her income.”

According to Pittsburgh’s Public Source, the ruling from the court is not final, as the case will likely go to Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court next. This movement forward with the lawsuit is a devasting loss for life. It is truly tragic that our society is equating the murder of a preborn child through abortion with the basic rights for pregnant women to receive true medical care, prenatal visits, and financial assistance to protect them and their preborn children from illness and destitution. Abortion is neither a “right” nor “healthcare.” Abortion is the murder of a living person in the womb of his/her mother.

This recent ruling also serves as a warning to all states that are seeking to or have already enshrined abortion into their state constitutions as a “right.” This year alone, Virginia and Nevada are facing these constitutional amendments on their ballots for voters to decide, while several others faced the same decision in 2024.

For more information on Virginia’s and Nevada’s amendments, please visit us at all.org/state-ballots.

Colorado Seeks to Force Colleges and Universities to Offer On-Campus Abortions

Since the Dobbs decision in 2022, Colorado has become even more pro-abortion. It was recently forced to pay millions of dollars after it was sued for suppressing information about abortion pill reversal treatment. In 2024, it added a “right” to abortion to its constitution. The state, which has no gestational limits for abortion, is also home to a new all-trimester killing facility. Lawmakers are currently trying to pass legislation that would target pregnancy help centers. Currently, a lawsuit is attempting to abolish the state’s parental notification and consent laws.

And now, legislators have advanced a bill that would require all private and public universities and colleges in the state to offer pill abortions on campus.

HB26-1335 mandates that every higher education institution that has a health center on campus must keep a stock of abortion pills to give to its students. If the school does not have a pharmacy, it must send prescriptions to off-campus pharmacies or provide the drugs at its health center.

While the bill includes religious exemptions for schools, it doesn’t extend the same rights to individuals, forcing staff to facilitate abortions against their beliefs.

This bill undoubtedly poses dangers to not only the young women who attend schools in Colorado but to their preborn children. But the reality is that abortion pills are already far too easy for students to obtain. 

A recent study found that the vast number of mifepristone prescriptions are filled through mail-order pharmacies, which were first temporarily allowed to ship pills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between January 2021 and December 2022, 46% of prescriptions were filled through these pharmacies. Then, in January 2023, Biden’s FDA permanently changed the rules to allow pharmacies to ship the pills. Between April 2023 and August 2025, the number of prescriptions filled by mail-order pharmacies skyrocketed, making up 98% of pharmacy-filled abortion pill prescriptions. Mothers can obtain these mailed drugs legally through both in-person visits and telehealth appointments.

Additionally, the abortion pill drug cartel offers illegal child-killing drugs online. Anyone can order these drugs from numerous websites and receive them through the mail—including students living in dorms.

Dobbs declared that abortion is a state’s issue, but the reality is that the murder of preborn human beings is everyone’s concern. State lines don’t determine value, and they shouldn’t decide the legality of any child’s murder. If we want to stop Colorado’s evil attempts to increase abortion and to turn educational institutions into death mills, we must fight for the protection of every baby—without compromise or exception.

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—wrote an article about the importance of helping young men become strong and faithful men of God and fatherhood’s effects on the family and society. It was published in Catholic World Report.

Susan also wrote an article entitled “The Immense Gift of Motherhood.” It was published in Catholic365.

American Life League’s press release regarding Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report was referenced in an article by Answers in Genesis.

American Life League’s press release was also referenced in two LifeNews articles this week. You can read the first one here and the second one 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

Honoring the Blessed Mother: In this downloadable lesson booklet, children learn the story of the Annunciation and Mary’s “yes” to God to become the mother of our Savior. As a pro-life people, we can turn to Our Lady for her help as we work to build a culture of life. Mary’s “yes”—her “fiat” to God—reinforces the pro-life message in many ways. Through Mary’s example, we learn how to love, affirm, and respect every human being as a gift during every stage of life. This lesson booklet is now on SALE for just $2 as we prepare to enter the month of our Blessed Mother. ORDER HERE

ALL’s Education Materials

Does IVF Violate Human Dignity? is a shareable brochure about in vitro fertilization. IVF helps infertile couples have biological children, so it is often praised as a pro-life and pro-family form of procreative technology. But IVF success stories hide a devastating reality. This technology murders millions of preborn babies, fractures marital unity, and turns children into objects that can be bought and created on demand. This brochure shares what happens to all the children procreated through IVF and the false hope it offers to suffering couples. Learn what the Church teaches about procreative technologies, as well as the licit fertility treatments Catholics can use instead. SHOP NOW

Pro-Life Social Media

NY Post Throws Women Under the Bus for Pregnant ‘People’

Only females can conceive, gestate, and give birth to a child. To say otherwise is to be dismissive of the unique role women play as mothers. As pro-life advocates, we honor mothers for their physical and emotional sacrifices that come with motherhood. 

Don’t tell this to the New York Post.

Reporting on this year’s Met Gala, the NY Post shared news of the diversity of people attending the annual star-studded extravaganza:

“Pregnant people”?

True, everyone who gets pregnant is a person, but the NY Post leads readers to believe that not everyone who gets pregnant is a woman. Hundreds of sensible X users didn’t let the Post get away with its gender-blurring verbiage.

Even better than “pregnant women” is “pregnant mothers.”