Abortion Watch

The legal battle over Baby Gabriel took a dramatic turn this week when the California couple who repeatedly sought to abort him obtained physical custody of the newborn just hours after his birth in Texas, even as the surrogate who refused their demands continues fighting for parental rights.

Surrogate McKenna West, an Alaska nurse and mother of two, rejected the biological parents’ demands for an abortion after a 20-week diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious congenital defect that requires multiple surgeries but is treatable.

West fled to Texas for legal protection and specialized care, giving birth to the boy, whom she named Gabriel, on Wednesday at a Dallas hospital.

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Wow. 28-year-old surrogate McKenna reveals an abortion was scheduled in Seattle for Baby Gabriel.

She escaped to Texas to give birth to the little boy, saving his life.

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— Anna Lulis (@annamlulis) August 13, 2026

“He sat on the bed. He brought me a cup of water in a cream-colored plastic cup and a biscuit. And he said, ‘During our trip, I noticed you weren’t drinking enough water. And for the sake of your pregnancy, I want you to stay hydrated.’ And then he went on to say, ‘I’m not going to leave here until you finish this entire cup of water.’ It was when he insisted that she ‘drink faster’ that Catherine looked down in her cup for the first time. What was left was a murky, almost milky-white liquid. And she knew something was very, very wrong.”

Staring into the dregs, Catherine’s mind was gripped by panic. “Was he trying to harm me or the baby?” she remembers thinking. “I had no idea what was in the cup at the time. It could have been lighter fluid. I had no idea.” With her marriage on the rocks, the pregnancy had come at an inopportune time. But the idea that they wouldn’t keep the baby never occurred to her. It occurred to her husband Mason, though. And he tried six more times in 38 days to spike her drinks with the abortion drug.

In her memoir, abortionist Christine Henneberg wrote about a woman who had an abortion because she believed she was carrying a boy and wanted a girl.

Henneberg, who watched the abortion via ultrasound as she committed it, saw that the child was, in fact, a girl—but didn’t tell the woman.

Instead, she allowed the woman to believe she’d aborted a boy instead of the girl she wanted.

The woman was 14 weeks pregnant. When she was on the abortion table, she said, “I didn’t want to be here today, you know.”

Henneberg didn’t stop the abortion and discuss alternatives, or make sure the patient truly wanted the abortion. Instead, Ronnie, the abortion worker assisting Henneberg, said, “It’s okay. Nobody wants to end up here.”

Apparently, a woman saying she doesn’t really want an abortion is business as usual in Henneberg’s abortion facility—no need for more counseling.

The woman having the abortion continued to talk, mentioning the two little boys she had at home.

Henneberg writes:

From my secluded, light-filled perch between the woman’s legs, I glanced up at Ronnie. A silent sigh passed between us. We both knew this was the best way to get a woman through these 10 minutes: get her talking about the kids she already has.

“These 10 minutes” refers to the time it takes to commit a suction aspiration abortion.

These abortion providers seem to find it easy to discuss pregnant women’s other children as they kill the babies in their wombs.

When Donald Trump’s pick to run the Justice Department promised to take action against the dark forces behind the abortion pill explosion, he probably didn’t expect to start anytime soon. That all changed Thursday when Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pulled back the curtain on a sinister underground network trying to pump mifepristone into all 50 states. Plan C, an under-the-radar organization that’s coaching people to break the law, has been a one-stop shop, helping women (and predatory men) get their hands on a drug that seriously hurts almost 11% of the moms who take it. This criminal operation, Hawley demanded, needs to stop.

Although most Americans have never heard of Plan C, the group has been around since 2015, quietly devising ways to bypass the law and, in their words, “normalize[e] the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail.” On their website, they proudly admit, “We envision a near future in which the ability to end a pregnancy is in the hands of the person who seeks it.” Notice that they say “person,” not “woman,” suggesting that they’re quite fine offering their services to men who are looking for a stealthy way to poison or coerce their significant others.

Due to a key vote by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the one-year ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood expired on July 4, meaning the abortion giant can resume consuming hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars through Medicaid reimbursements for non-abortion-related services. Without this funding, the entity has struggled to keep its nationwide network of abortion clinics operational.

While Murkowski continues to identify as a Republican, she has long supported federal funding for Planned Parenthood and regularly joins Democrats in efforts to ensure the abortion business benefits from taxpayer dollars.

A report from Ireland’s Health Service Executive, released Friday, tells us that in 2024 the numbers of abortions had nearly doubled since 2019, the first year abortion was legalized in Ireland.

Tragically, the huge increase from 6,666 to 10,852 comes shortly after the Dáil (the lower house of Parliament) voted to end the three-day waiting period for abortion. All told, the report—“Termination of Pregnancy Services in Ireland Report (2019–2025)”–shows there were 46,861 abortions in Ireland in the six years from 2019 to the end of 2024.

However, “Just one in 10 GPs have signed up to provide medical abortion, and only 10 of the 19 maternity units in the country do planned [surgical] terminations,” Eilish O’Regan reported for the Irish Independent.

Humans have used language to belittle their enemies and strip them of their humanity for centuries. Yet in America today, many on the left believe that liberal culture has summited the mountain of progress and demonized all words that tear down.

But if the left really wants to be the rhetorical protector of the innocent, then it should stop whitewashing IVF as a scientific procedure that only affects mindless cells, and start calling IVF embryos what they really are: human children.

However, that is exactly what the Huff Post did not do.

The radically liberal news site smeared the Trump Administration last week for changing the language in the federal Embryo Adoption Awareness and Services (EAA) program to refer to frozen embryos as children in need of homes.

“The grant has seemingly transformed into a vehicle for anti-abortion rhetoric and fetal personhood ideology,” the Huff Post claimed, and quoted the leftist, pro-abortion director of the National Women’s Law Center calling the grant “a Trojan horse” that the Trump Administration used to “insert something that is incredibly harmful,” namely, recognizing embryos as humans.

The EAA grant program operates the federal “frozen embryo adoption public awareness campaign,” and promotes adopting already created, frozen embryonic children instead of creating more. Grant recipients must refuse to engage in “embryo-destructive research … discarding or destroying human embryos,” or “create new human embryos.” The Huff Post claims that the program previously focused on helping “LGBTQIA+ couples looking to adopt embryos.” Now, it emphasizes faith-based organizations that recognize embryos as humans as the primary recipients of the grant.

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Liberty Counsel (LC) is attempting to head off a proposal to embed a right to abortion in the Virginia Constitution this fall, backing a legal challenge contending that the amendment’s proponents skipped several key legal requirements to put it on the ballot.

In February, Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed legislation approving multiple proposed constitutional amendments to go before Virginia voters this year for final adoption, including one to establish in the Virginia Constitution a “right” to surgical abortions, abortion pills, contraception, and fertility “treatments,” such as embryo-destructive in vitro fertilization (IVF). 

On June 18, LC announced it has filed four briefs in support of Bedford County Supervisor Charla Bansley’s challenge to the amendment, maintaining that state lawmakers “missed several key procedural steps mandated by the Virginia Constitution before the amendment can go before the voters, such as distributing the amendment to all circuit court clerks statewide and posting it for public inspection three months prior to the 2025 House of Delegates election.”

Republicans are calling on federal authorities to impose stringent regulations on the abortion drug mifepristone, citing the dangers posed by the drug’s largely unregulated use to Americans’ drinking water. A coalition of 15 red state attorneys general is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to add mifepristone to the agency’s Contaminant Candidate List, which would likely trigger safety studies and potentially stricter regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The latest state to join the effort was Indiana.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) said in a press release this week that the use of the abortion drug is “causing pain and suffering to women. … Obviously, this starts with the individuals persuaded by Planned Parenthood and Big Pharma to use mifepristone to abort their pregnancies, but increasingly it extends to other women who might ingest the drug from their local water supplies.” Rokita noted that when a woman ingests mifepristone, whether via the drug in pill form or via mifepristone contaminating drinking water, the chemicals block the natural production of the hormone progesterone and erodes an unborn baby’s uterine environment. “The baby, in effect, is starved to death in the womb,” the Hoosier State A.G.’s office said.