Abortion Bans Do NOT Impact Maternal Mortality Rates

April 3, 2026—The Journal of American Medical Association has published a Report that concludes that abortion bans do not increase maternal mortality nationwide as a whole or state specifically. Data used was collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the Center for Disease Control.

The Report concludes: "This cohort study found that abortion bans were not associated with statistically significant overall or state-specific increases in pregnancy-associated mortality."  

As more and more states have passed legislation banning abortion after certain cut-off thresholds, such as heartbeat detection or number of weeks in gestation, so called "Pro-Choice" organizations have increasingly claimed that these bans threaten the mortality and health of pregnant women. 

The Gender Equity Policy Institute has been at the forefront of these claims which have been touted extensively in an effort to sway public opinion and legislation away from bans of abortion. 

Now these claims have been refuted by credible research by medical doctors and other science professionals.

You can read the entire Report here:  US Abortion Bans & Mortality

Hawley Bill Banning Chemical Abortion Drug Gains Momentum

March 25, 2026, WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to his Republican colleagues in the Senate, urging them to join his new legislation to ban the chemical abortion drug mifepristone and empower women harmed by the drug to sue its manufacturers. The outreach comes after Senator Hawley’s legislation gained 3 new cosponsors: Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Ted Budd (R-N.C.). Companion legislation sponsored by Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger (TN-01) has also picked up multiple co-sponsors in the House.

Senator Hawley wrote, “I write regarding a grave threat to the health and safety of American women: the chemical abortion drug known as mifepristone. The evidence is now clear. Mifepristone is almost always fatal to the unborn child, but it is also significantly dangerous for women. The drug companies that make this drug know this, but continue to profit from the drug’s nearly unregulated distribution, largely insulated from liability. Congress can no longer ignore these dangers.” 

He continued, “At a recent event on Capitol Hill, I invited women who took mifepristone to share their experiences. These women were pressured or coerced into taking the drug, often with repeated assurances that the drug was safe, that they would be able to resume their normal lives in a matter of days. The reality was far different. One woman spent a month in a medically induced coma. Another described bleeding uncontrollably with no one to help. They still suffer from the trauma to this day. But no woman who has suffered from this drug has any meaningful option to recover from the two drug companies who make it, mislead about its effects—and profit from it to the tune of billions of dollars. That should change.”

Senator Hawley concluded, “I have introduced legislation to withdraw FDA approval of mifepristone for use in an abortion. My bill would also allow women harmed by mifepristone used for an abortion to sue the manufacturers for damages. Congress has the power—and the duty—to protect women from the dangers of chemical abortion and from the corporations who would exploit them. I hope that you will join me in this effort.”

This legislation, called the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act, is supported by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Concerned Women for America, Live Action, Students for Life of America, Ethics and Public Policy Center, AAPLOG Action, March for Life Action, National Right to Life, Priests for Life, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Thomas More Society, Missouri Right to Life, Choose Life of Missouri, and Reach Reproductive Health.

Time to View the Question of Life through a 21st Century Medical Science Lense

During Supreme Court deliberations over Roe v Wade in 1973, in considering whether the unborn child is a “person” under the Fourteenth Amendment, Justice Harry Blackmun began his imaginative opinion by going all the way back to the third century BC. He regaled readers with a history lesson about Aristotle, the Stoics of ancient Greece, the Persian Empire, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and how the Catholic Church once believed the Aristotelian theory of “mediate animation” (i.e., that the male embryo acquires his soul after forty days, whereas the more complex female embryo must wait until the eightieth day).

Curiously, Blackmun saturated his opinion with twenty-seven references to the idea that “quickening,” the point at which a mother first perceives fetal movement, was long thought to be the moment when life begins. Never mind that medical science had discarded this notion as archaic long before the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868.

Modern medical science knows now that unborn babies exhibit sentience, the ability to feel pain, and the ability to learn as early as the first trimester. 

Read more details that reveal how the 1973 Supreme Court Decision indeed ignored medical science, which in the ensuing years has only strengthened the cause of life, in this article:

On Abortion, Medical Science is Still Waiting to be Heard

Offering FREE Pregnancy Testing, Counseling, and SONOGRAMS

 

     A growing fleet of Save The Storks mobile medical units is offering free pregnancy and STD testing, free counseling and referrals, and FREE SONOGRAMS coast to coast. Save the Storks partners with pregnancy resource centers all over the nation to provide them with powerful tools and training so they can more effectively reach and serve abortion-minded expectant mothers.

     The Stork Bus minimizes the distance between pro-life professionals and the women who most need them, such as near university campuses and abortion clinics. Once they're up-close and connected, pregnancy centers can use the power of information and the sonogram machine to lead women toward choosing life for their unborn babies.                More than 3 out of 5 abortion minded women choose life for their unborn children after viewing them on via sonogram.   No taxpayer money supports this effort. Save the Storks is not affiliated with any religious denomination or political party. Follow this link to learn more and DONATE:

www.savethestorks.com

SAVE the Baby Humans!

Online For Life is committed to changing the tone of the abortion debate in America. What if there were a better way to communicate the pro-life message, with compassion and kindness, to attract more hearts and minds to the cause of life? Online For Life combines technology and compassion to rescue more unborn children and their families from abortion. Since 2009, Online For Life has rescued more than 2000 babies from abortion and continues to help women in crisis pregnancies find compassionate, loving support in their own communities. Follow this link to learn more about the work of Online For Life, to make a donation, and to receive your Save the Baby Human bumper sticker:

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Embrace Grace for Single, Pregnant Young Girls

Check out our new link to Embrace Grace, a 501c3 non-profit organization formed for the purpose of providing emotional, practical, and spiritual support for single young girls who find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy.    http://www.iembracegrace.com/index2.php#/home/

Roger Ebert Opposed Abortion, Even for Rape and Incest

"My choice is to not support abortion, except in cases of a clear-cut choice between the lives of the mother and the child. A child conceived through incest or rape is innocent and deserves the right to be born."

~Film Critic Roger Ebert, "How I am a Roman Catholic," March 1, written the month before his death April 4, 2013.