Pete Buttigieg has surged into an unexpected lead after the chaos of the Iowa caucus vote count.  He’s also on the record as welcoming all pro-life Democrats to leave that party.  Now he’s fully on the record as defending abortion up to and even after birth in some cases.  Read more here

Cal State San Marcos will pay more than $240,000 in fees to settle a federal lawsuit by a pro-life student group, which alleged the school refused to fund the group’s effort to bring an anti-abortion speaker to campus, while allowing regular student fees to fund programs on the opposite end of the political spectrum, attorneys said Tuesday.  Read the full story here

Pro-life organizations that use social media are gaining increasing confirmation that they are deliberately kept out of primary audiences on various social media platforms.  Read the latest confirmation from the Federalist here

President Trump made history by being the first sitting US President to address the March for Life event in Washington DC. Read a transcript here. Read the write up by New York Times here.

Social media company Pintrest, known for sharing craft ideas, fashion trends, and other user generated content has banned prolife group Live Action for violating the terms of its service for pornography, spreading conspiracies, and medical misinformation.  When the ban was pointed out by a Pintrest employee, the employee was fired.  It’s yet to be seen if the ban will be reversed or the employee will seek legal action against their former employer under whistleblower protection laws.

In  a case of dueling legal precedents, Illinois now allows abortion up to birth while a town in Texas has declared itself a “sanctuary for the unborn” and banned all abortion procedures with exceptions for the mother’s life.  As more state and local governments pass laws regarding abortion expansion or contraction, a showdown in the Supreme Court becomes all the more certain.

Entertainment production companies are lining up to pressure Georgia for recently moving forward with anti-abortion legislation in another attempt to trigger a review of Roe v Wade at the Supreme Court.  CBS, NBC, Netflix, and Disney have all announced some level of intent to reduce operations in Georgia as a response.  Read more here.

Pro Life Democrat Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed into law a heartbeat bill that bans abortions after a heartbeat can be detected.  This represents a major break from his party, and a rare pro life victory legislated through a state with a sitting Democrat governor.  Read more here.

Finally, Illinois has passed a bill that would repeal the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 and its provisions that called for spousal consent, waiting periods, criminal penalties for physicians who perform abortions and other restrictions on facilities where abortions are performed. The bill would establish “the fundamental right” of a pregnant woman to have an abortion and states that “a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights.”  Of course, in its quest to improve ‘women’s access to health care’, the bill also removes many medical requirements on those who would perform abortions.  Read more here and here.

Michigan recently passed legislation that will ban dismemberment abortions, which are exactly what they sound like.  The ban has passed the Michigan House and Michigan Senate and will now go to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who will most likely veto the potential law. Right to Life of Michigan has already file paperwork with the State to begin a petition drive that would overturn the veto.  Find out more here

Producer Adam Trahan recently ‘came out’ as pro-life on social media and met almost immediate condemnation from pro-abortion celebrities and activists.  His revelation was in reaction to the social media ‘shout your abortion’ movement, which moved him to share his pro-life world view that emerged when he found out that he’d fathered a child with his girlfriend in the past but discovered she’d aborted the child without allowing him to know of it.  Read the full story here

In Louisiana pro-life Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards is poised to sign a bill banning abortions after fetal heartbeats can be detected.  Full story

Democrats are in genuine fear of losing Roe v Wade as legal precedent, and are seeking to make its preservation a  part of their 2020 Presidential platform.  An overall strategy of making the Supreme Court an issue has emerged and is beginning to formalize.  Read here

The law is written in such a way as to force an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, where it is presumed that a 5-4 conservative/pro-life majority of Justices would find in favour of the law, possibly also striking down or greatly rolling back the Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton decisions that legalised abortion across the United States in 1973. Pro-Abortion political experts are in a near panic preparing for a legal showdown that will define a generation.

Read more here and here

Planned Parenthood of Muskegon County, Michigan got its eviction notice last week.  After hearing hours of public comments, commissioners voted 6-2 to not renew Planned Parenthood’s lease with the county.  Planned Parenthood has 90 days to leave the county building.  See the report here

Since the movie Unplanned has debuted, 94 abortion workers have opened channels of communication with pro-life groups, seeking a way out of the profession.  Get the details here

Second time Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is solidifying his position as pro-choice right up to birth, attempting to justify it by stating the situation is ‘rare’.  Watch the clip here

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter continue to face legal challenges for their persistent censorship and blocking of conservative voices on their maturing communication platforms.  Tech experts argue that the tools Facebook, Twitter and Google use to moderate content might not be up to the task. Google and Facebook told Congress Tuesday that their algorithms make mistakes and sometimes nix content that does not specifically violate company policies.  Read more here

Multiple Democrat Senators co-sponsored a bill to end cruelty to kittens earlier this week.  All of the involved Senators also voted against multiple measures to stop abortions during the birthing process or after birth has occurred.  Get the details here

Read about the bills in Arkansas, Utah, and Kentucky.