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Pro-Life This Week – June 20, 2025

Week in Review

ALL’s New Charity Watchlist Email Updates Give Donors Insight about Charities 

American Life League just launched its new monthly email updates so its supporters can receive the latest information on charities recently researched and updated to the Charity Watchlist.

For those not familiar with the watchlist, we relaunched this initiative on our website in 2023; it currently examines over 150+ charities. Using a red, yellow, and green rating system, ALL’s research team investigates various nonprofit organizations to determine where they stand on the following life issues: abortion, contraception, IVF/ART, human embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and support of LGBTQ+ lifestyles. If an organization supports any of these offenses against life or actively works with organizations that support these offenses, the organization is placed on our red list, alerting pro-lifers that the nonprofit is not worthy of pro-life support. 

If there is not enough information about where an organization stands on the life issues, or if certain policy positions cannot be verified, the charity ends up on the yellow list to signal caution about supporting it until we can find more information. 

Lastly, if an organization does not support any anti-life agendas and/or states its pro-life values, mission, and works, it is placed on our green list, which indicates that it is worthy of support by pro-lifers.

With our new email list, you can receive the latest updates on new charities reviewed for the watchlist or on previously reviewed charities whose ratings have changed. The email will feature three to five charities and will be sent out on the first Monday of each month. It will provide the charity’s rating on our list, along with PDF attachments of our findings. 

If you are interested in receiving these monthly updates, please consider subscribing to the list at this link. Stay tuned for our next email update on July 7!

REPORT: Planned Parenthood Boasts Record High Abortion Count, Despite Increased Facility Closures

A new report from American Life League’s STOPP program reveals that Planned Parenthood is using the Internet and telehealth platforms to defy state laws. America’s largest abortion provider is deliberately skirting legislated protections for expectant mothers and their preborn children while continuing to receive nearly $800 million in taxpayer funding. 

According to STOPP’s 2025 Planned Parenthood Facilities Report, while the number of the abortion chain’s physical locations has dropped to its lowest level since 2006, its reach has grown dramatically through online appointments, virtual health centers, and abortion pill mobile apps. 

“Planned Parenthood is leveraging the Internet to skirt state abortion laws,” said Katie Brown Xavios, national director of American Life League. “Even in states where abortion pills are restricted, women can book virtual appointments and receive abortion drugs in the mail. This is not only unethical, it’s illegal.” 

The report details that between 2022 and May 2025, Planned Parenthood has shut down 66 brick-and-mortar locations, dropping 22 from its total facility count in the first five months of 2025. Yet in its 2023-2024 annual report, we see that the abortion conglomerate took credit for performing a record high number of abortions—402,230—in 2022-2023. 

“Planned Parenthood is adapting to find new ways of delivering abortion in the face of state attempts to shield women and children from harm,” noted Xavios. “As legislators seek ways to defund the abortion vendor and Planned Parenthood is closing doors, the organization is infiltrating the virtual healthcare sphere, moving online to entice its clients to end the lives of their preborn children through convenient, impersonal telehealth services. In the face of declining facilities for on-site abortions, Planned Parenthood has cunningly leveraged the telehealth platform to prescribe abortion pills to women, even in states where the pills are illegal, furthering its largest moneymaking ‘service.’” 

“As Planned Parenthood increases its virtual footprint, one has to wonder if this is an attempt to counter the steep decline in brick-and-mortar facilities,” Xavios suggested. “Another possibility is that Planned Parenthood is desperate to regain market share from rogue abortion pill drug cartel traffickers that are snagging the abortion giant’s customers and profits via shadowy virtual operations. The truth likely lies somewhere in the middle, but one thing is certain: Planned Parenthood is panicking, and it’s changing its game.” 

Katherine Van Dyke, American Life League’s lead researcher for the STOPP report, summed up the findings saying, “Every time we learn that a Planned Parenthood facility has closed its doors for good, we can rejoice in knowing that lives and souls will be saved without an abortion vendor in the neighborhood. However, Planned Parenthood is now utilizing the Internet to continue to earn big bucks off of its most profitable revenue stream—aborting preborn babies. And they’ve illegally played a part in trafficking more than 33,000 women across state lines to get those abortions.” 

“The landscape has changed in our post-Dobbs America,” Xavios observed, “and the abortion giant is now capitalizing on its distribution of abortion pills to women, not only through the facilities themselves but through telehealth visits, its phone app, and its new virtual health centers. By making a digital end-run around the law—putting women, babies, and states’ rights at risk—Planned Parenthood is using the Internet to come right into our homes to do its dirty work.” 

“As of 2023, all of Planned Parenthood’s affiliates offer telehealth in some capacity,” shared Xavios. “Telehealth services are available through the abortion vendor’s individual facilities to people who reside either in or out of that facility’s state. So, essentially anyone can book a Planned Parenthood telehealth appointment online, regardless of the laws in the state one lives in. Almost half of Planned Parenthood facilities offer telehealth specifically for abortion pills.” 

American Life League president Judie Brown points out that the report illustrates the failure of Planned Parenthood to maintain public facilities, even despite the organization’s receipt of millions of dollars in government funding. 

“We believe that this is due to Planned Parenthood’s pressure tactics to promote abortion by mail, enabling expectant mothers to kill their babies in the privacy of their home,” shared Brown. “If this is not demonic, then what is? We must end Planned Parenthood’s reign of death.” 

Read the complete 2025 Planned Parenthood Facilities Report, released in June 2025 by American Life League’s STOPP.  

American Life League is the parent organization of STOPP, a national initiative solely dedicated to shutting down Planned Parenthood.  

ALL in the News

STOPP’s latest report on the opening and closing of Planned Parenthood facilities was released Tuesday this week as an exclusive by the conservative media group Daily Wire. This sparked a media storm around the report, with an article on the report published by The Federalist the following day. Other articles include coverage from World Net Daily, American Family News, Shaken Terra, and LifeSiteNews.

ALL national director Katie Brown Xavios was on One America News’ nightly news with anchor Kara McKinney to discuss the report’s findings. Watch the full interview here.

ALL’s Planned Parenthood CEO report is still making media rounds, as it was featured in a Breitbart article on Planned Parenthood’s federal funding. 

ALL president Judie Brown spoke about a Catholic university disbanding a Planned Parenthood student group. Her comments were featured in an article by LifeNews.

Susan Ciancio, editor of Celebrate Life Magazine and director of ALL’s Culture of Life Studies Program, wrote an article about a collaboration by Team Iron Will and EveryLife to bless 50 families in the Down syndrome community with diapers and wipes for a month. The article was published by Catholic World Report this week. 

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

All Shapes and Sizes: Learning about the Beauty and Dignity of People with Disabilities and Other Challenges helps students understand that the value of every human being exists because we are all made in the image and likeness of God. Our value does not depend on our appearance, ability, or background. To show children the beauty of the human person from creation until death, this 4-week unit study examines Down syndrome, autism, the beauty of the elderly, and the fact that it’s okay to be different. It’s now on SALE for more than half off! ORDER HERE

ALL’s Education Materials

Exceptions: Abandoning “The Least of These My Brethren” is a downloadable booklet written by Judie Brown and Brian Young that tackles the dangerous distinction between principle and pragmatism in the pro-life movement. This distinction leads to erroneous exceptions, loopholes, and traps, as it teaches that some babies are valued while others are not. Compromising pro-life principle for pro-life legislation is a lose-lose game for both morality and the common good. SHOP NOW

Pro-Life Social Media

Abortion Cheerleaders Refer to Dying Mother as ‘Incubator’

Pro-aborts once complained that pro-life advocates were “canceling” women with their calls to end preborn mass murder, ban contraception, and put an end to the deadly IVF industry. “Stop the war on women” was their rallying cry. As we learn time and again, if you want to know what your opposition believes, pay attention to what they accuse you of.  

Radical abortion supporters are canceling women at a record pace. Women don’t exist anymore. They are merely “people who menstruate” or “people with uteri.” They no longer identify people AS people. They identify people by their functions.  

Adriana Smith was a 31-year-old pregnant mother in a coma. In February, doctors declared her “brain dead,” but her body still pumped blood and supplied oxygen to her preborn child. Medical authorities cited Georgia’s Heartbeat Law as their obligation to keep her on life support, giving the baby a chance at life. 

Her child is now under intensive care after being delivered via C-section, but despite the baby’s survival, unhinged pro-aborts are disturbed by the case, going so far as describing the mother as nothing more than an incubator.

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— Ra3lic (@ra3lic) June 18, 2025 Brain death is a controversial criterion that exists to harvest organs from the living. “Brain dead” people still circulate blood, sweat, digest nutrients, and mend wounds. Sadly, carving out their organs for transplant is much cheaper than maintaining a perpetual state of life support.

Adriana was a mother, and her baby is a child. No degree of pro-abortion rhetoric will ever change that fact.