NEWSworthy: What’s Happening

and What It Means to You

Welcome to Human Life Review’s new online feature, NEWSworthy, where you will find weekly, timely coverage of news touching on a range of life issues, how they fit within the pro-life movement, and what they mean for you and your community. On such high-stakes topics as these, too often the news reporting around us appears to partake in one extreme or another, whether shrill or agenda-driven. For those looking for fair and human coverage on the issues affecting many lives today, we hope this space provides news worthy of your read.

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Pro-Life Advocates Celebrate Major Victory with EMTALA Guidance 

  The Trump administration recently rescinded the Biden administration’s misguided interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, EMTALA. Pro-abortion advocates framed this move as an assault on women’s health and safety, while pro-life advocates...
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Netflix Show ‘Ginny & Georgia’ Depicts Abortion As Just Another Choice

  Viewers of Ginny & Georgia, Netflix’s soapy TV show about a young mom and her teenage daughter, likely aren’t watching the show for anything profound. But it’s too bad that despite its subtle pro-life premise — after a teenage pregnancy, Georgia begins the show as a...
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The Dangers of Abortion Pill Expansion

  Four states — California, Massachusetts, New Jersey,  and New York — are now petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to relax restrictions on abortion pills. As the FDA reevaluates its guidance on abortion pills and states such as Illinois push to keep them readily...
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 Maryland sets up $25 million abortion fund with Obamacare dollars

    Maryland will subsidize abortions using a surcharge on its Affordable Care Act insurance funds. Democratic Governor Wes Moore signed legislation directing $25 million “to fund a program to pay for abortions,” according to the Associated Press. The money for the...
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Another Step Towards the Moral Abyss

This article was originally posted June 10, 2025, on Ed Mechmann’s Public Policy Blog, Stepping Out of the Boat.   New York State’s government, already infamous for its hostility to life in the womb, has taken another tragic step towards the moral abyss – the State...
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Washington Post Tries and Fails to Debunk Study on Mifepristone Dangers

  Is the abortion drug mifepristone truly “as safe as Tylenol”? A new report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center is disputing the claim. Data from the report reveals the real world failure rate of mifepristone is at least 5.26% — double the rate from U.S. clinical...
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Israeli Supreme Court Minimizes Biological Parenthood

  The Israeli Supreme Court ruled  May 11 (U.S. Mother’s Day) that motherhood by surrogacy trumps motherhood by genetics in terms of “legal parentage.” Baby Sophia was produced through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and born in 2022.  She was born to a surrogate mother and her...
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Pro-life Groups Can’t be Forced to Accommodate Abortions, Federal Judge Rules

  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot force pro-life groups to accommodate abortions, a federal judge ruled. Under the Biden Administration, the EEOC issued regulations that required employers to make “reasonable accommodations” for employees seeking...
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Yonkers Woman Learns Abortion is Not the ‘Quick Fix’ She Thought 

  A New York woman filed a lawsuit last month alleging that she aborted her nearly 20-week-old unborn child after paternity results incorrectly claimed the child was not her fiance’s. This tragic story reveals much about women and the current state of abortion in Americ...
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