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Pro-Life This Week – August 22, 2025

Week in Review

American Life League Debuts First-of-Its-Kind Report, Reveals ‘Pro-Life’ States Still Fueling Planned Parenthood’s Profits

On Monday, our team released a new report revealing that Planned Parenthood is raking in millions of dollars in annual revenue, even in states with abortion restrictions.

The report was released as an exclusive by Catholic News Agency and EWTN News Nightly. 

The major findings from the report reveal that even in so-called “pro-life” states, abortions are still happening. Every single state in the US allows for abortion under some or all exceptions, and due to shield laws and foreign abortion pill drug cartels, abortion pills are mailed to women in every single state, regardless of that state’s laws. 

Not only this, but Planned Parenthood continues to thrive financially even in “pro-life” states. In these “pro-life” states, Planned Parenthood averages $41.2 million in income annually, and in pro-abortion states it averages $43.3 million—almost no difference. 

“I’ve heard pro-life advocates celebrate over states that have laws intended to protect preborn life at conception,” explained Katie Brown Xavios, American Life League’s national director, “and yet those same states have active Planned Parenthood facilities and readily accessible abortion services. Despite legislative intentions, preborn babies are being aborted at record numbers in these so-called ‘pro-life’ states. To say that a state in which that happens is ‘pro-life’ is both a myth and a travesty.” 

Xavios warned, “States need to enact laws that protect every preborn child and mother without exception. The exceptions are the cracks that entities like Planned Parenthood prey on, and they allow them to perform numerous abortions, all while lawmakers can tout being a ‘pro-life’ state. Babies condemned to the exception clause matter just as much as every other child, and until states protect every single preborn baby, they should not get to call themselves ‘pro-life.’” 

Katherine Van Dyke, the project’s lead researcher said, “No state in America is abortion free. Even those states that enforce heartbeat laws still allow hundreds of thousands of preborn babies to be put to death in the weeks before their heartbeat is detectable and through exceptions post six-weeks gestation. Florida has exceptions for abortion after six weeks in all cases, and as of 2024 it has an exception for human trafficking. Planned Parenthood continues to profit even in these so-called ‘pro-life states.’” 

The response to the report has been very encouraging. Pro-life advocates are shocked by the realization that Planned Parenthood is still thriving in pro-life states. ALL is hopeful that these unique findings will encourage both life advocates and lawmakers to institute laws that protect all human beings without exceptions or compromise. We also hope that this report will open our lawmakers’ eyes to how accessible the abortion pill regimen has become because of the ability to mail the pills without any tracking or repercussions. 

View the full report here.

Planned Parenthood Quietly Closes Down Two More Facilities 

This week, American Life League uncovered the fact that two more Planned Parenthood facilities have permanently closed without any official announcements from the abortion business or other local news sources. This update marks the current 2025 abortion facility closure count at 42. 

The first of these recent closures is the Aurora Health Center of Aurora, Colorado, which was dispensing both abortion pills and contraceptives until 2025. In March 2025, LifeNews posted an image of the announcement on the facility’s door saying it was closed “until further notice,” but the facility’s website and reviews remained active through July 2025. No other official announcement has been made outside of the website’s disappearance and a Google update that the facility is permanently closed.

The second closure is the Delavan Health Center in Delavan, Wisconsin. This facility distributed contraceptives at the time of its closure and also appeared to be operating through July 2025. However, since then, the abortion facility’s website has been taken down, Google shows the center as permanently closed, and a real estate rental listing for the space was posted just two weeks ago. 

Though we don’t know why Planned Parenthood does not formally announce all of its facility closures to highlight its “struggle” in keeping facilities open, we know that this has been a trend for quite a while. 

Below is the updated count of Planned Parenthood’s brick-and-mortar closures for 2025 and a coding regarding whether they provided surgical (S), pill (P), or contraceptive (C) abortions:

California
San Diego (PC)
Gilroy (PC)
Madera (PC)
San Mateo (SPC)
South San Francisco (PC)
Santa Cruz (PC)

Colorado
Aurora (PC)

Iowa
Ames Health (SPC)
Cedar Rapids (C)
Sioux City (C)
Urbandale (C)

Illinois
Chicago (PC)
Ottawa (PC)
Decatur (PC)
Bloomington (C)

Indiana
Evansville (C)

Louisiana
Baton Rouge (C)
New Orleans (C)

Michigan
Jackson (PC)
Petoskey (PC)
Marquette (PC)
Ann Arbor (PC)

Minnesota
Alexandria (C)
Apple Valley (C)
Bemidji (C)
Richfield (C)

Missouri
Joplin (C)

Nevada
Las Vegas (x2) (PC)
New Jersey
Bellmawr (C)

Ohio
Cleveland (C) 
Hamilton (C) 
Springfield (C)

Pennsylvania
Moon Township (C)

Texas
Tyler (C)
Houston (x2) (C)

Utah
Logan (PC)
Saint George (C) 

Vermont
St. Johnsbury (PC)

Wisconsin
Delavan (C)

ALL in the News

ALL’s report on Planned Parenthood funding in “pro-life” states was released as an exclusive by Catholic News Agency on Monday. That night, ALL national director Katie Brown Xavios joined EWTN’s Nightly News to discuss the report. Watch the interview here.

Following its release, the report was featured in articles by National Catholic Register, Catholic Vote, LifeNews,LifeSiteNews, Catholic World Report, The Catholic Thing, and Angelus News.

The bimonthly Wednesday STOPP Report was released this week. View the full issue here.

Judie Brown wrote a commentary asserting that “‘poor’ countries that protect the unborn are richer than wealthy nations that kill them.” It was published in LifeSiteNews.

Susan Ciancio, editor of Celebrate Life Magazine and director of the Culture of Life Studies Program, penned an op-ed entitled “The Culture of Death Wins When We Try to Conform God to Our Wishes.” It was published by LifeSiteNews. She also wrote an article discussing a new book about the Beatitudes. It was published by Catholic World Report. And her CLSP blog about the Eucharist was published on Catholic 365.

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. 

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X User Makes Reprehensible Claim That Down Syndrome Is a Disease

Debating an abortion advocate can be futile because their irrational arguments are wrapped in hyperbole, emotionalism, and a total disregard for the very evidence put in front of their eyes. Show them a preborn baby, and it’s a clump of cells. Show them a mother with post-abortion regret, and she’s a victim of abortion-shaming. Show them a child with Down syndrome, and they see a disease that should have been eradicated before birth.

If this X user had a proper education, he would know that Down syndrome is a genetic condition and that a disease is a transmitted pathogen. Down syndrome is not contracted from other people with Down syndrome. Further, no parent is advocating for MORE Down syndrome children. Pro-life advocates just don’t want them murdered because of their condition.

Eliminating the life of a child and trying for another one isn’t “a good outcome.” Richard treats Amazon packages better than children. At least the package is returned rather than destroyed if he’s not happy with the item.