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Pro-Life This Week – June 27, 2025

Week in Review

Come See Us at the National Celebrate Life Conference!

This weekend, ALL representatives will be at the National Celebrate Life Conference in Washington, DC!

If you plan to attend, come find us. We’d love to connect with you!

For more information about the conference, visit the website here.

SCOTUS Says Yes, States Can Defund Planned Parenthood

On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court ruled against Planned Parenthood in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. The court determined that yes, states can indeed defund Planned Parenthood. 

The court determined that a state can disqualify Planned Parenthood as an approved Medicaid provider, which would bar Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. 

South Carolina chose to defund Planned Parenthood due to its abortion business. The decision was met with immediate pushback from Planned Parenthood. This SCOTUS ruling now puts this issue to rest, as any state can now freely choose to defund Planned Parenthood without it going to a lawsuit. ALL’s STOPP program has been working for this victory since the 1980s. STOPP is the sole pioneer in the defund Planned Parenthood movement, and we are so blessed to see this goal finally within reach. 

Latest STOPP Report Highlights That While Planned Parenthood Facility Numbers Are Decreasing, Its Abortion Numbers Continue to Rise

STOPP just released its 2025 Planned Parenthood Facilities Report, after a four-year hiatus from this specific report. STOPP investigated the trend of Planned Parenthood facilities opening and closing from January 2022 through May 2025, counting the number of brick-and-mortar facilities that perform surgical abortions and provide pill abortions and contraceptives. 

STOPP’s report found that between January 2022 and May 2025, 66 facilities closed, 20 facilities reopened/opened, and 10 are temporarily closed, leaving a total of 509 facilities to currently operate.* The closure of these 66 facilities is great news but simultaneously presents us with a deeper challenge to face: Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers are rising each year!

According to its 2023-2024 annual report, Planned Parenthood admitted to killing 402,230 preborn children in abortion, a 2.42% increase from its reported numbers last year. This number does not count abortion pill deaths, nor does it count the deaths that can occur from contraceptive abortions, as there is no way to know or count how many babies are killed from contraceptives, leading STOPP to speculate that many more deaths occurred than even the reported number.

So how can Planned Parenthood’s most “lucrative business” of abortion continue to increase when facilities continue to decline in number? Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood uses several methods to put abortion pills into the hands of people all over the United States, not only through its referrals to online abortion pill distributers but through its telehealth abortions. STOPP discovered that Planned Parenthood’s Direct app, telehealth visits through its facilities, its patient navigator service to provide travel and lodging for women to travel out of state for abortions, and its newest telehealth option of virtual “health” centers are all ways in which it is able to make money off of ending innocent preborn life. 

Our facilities report provides insight into the function and number of these virtual methods and how Planned Parenthood, in the midst of all its facility closures, is still able to operate its abortion business via the Internet.

The fight against shutting down Planned Parenthood is now stronger than ever. STOPP’s research presents these facts about facility closures and the growth of virtual abortions to show just how crucial it is to continue this fight head-on against the biggest abortion organization in our nation, and not with incremental steps. Our government, at both the federal and state levels, must defund the organization for good. 

As long as Planned Parenthood exists, rest assured that we at STOPP will never stop our efforts. 

*Note: In the weeks since this report was released, two temporarily closed facilities reopened, and a facility in Vermont closed, leaving us with 510 facilities currently operating. These numbers are always fluctuating.

ALL in the News

On the anniversary of the landmark Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, ALL national director Katie Brown Xavios was interviewed by Fox News about how the pro-life movement has changed in the last three years. Read the article here. Xavios’ comments on the Dobbs anniversary were also mentioned in an op-ed by Vision Christian Media.

On Monday, Xavios was a guest on Driving Home the Faith and Real Talk with Riggin to discuss ALL’s latest PP facilities report. The report was also mentioned in a new article by LifeSiteNews. 

ALL’s report on the abortion pill drug cartel was mentioned in a Washington Stand article.  

This week, Susan Ciancio, editor of Celebrate Life Magazine and director of the Culture of Life Studies Program, wrote an op-ed discussing the Planned Parenthood facilities report and the evils of Planned Parenthood. It was published by Catholic World Report. She also wrote an article about the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which we celebrate today.

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. 

Pro-Life Education

Culture of Life Studies Program

Do Small Things with Great Love: St. Teresa of Calcutta: Developed for children in grades K-2, this lesson booklet explores the life of one of the greatest pro-life saints of all time. Known around the world as Mother Teresa, this amazing woman devoted her life to the service of the poorest of the poor. Children will enjoy two fun craft projects that draw attention to the beauty and dignity of human beings and a charming bonus coloring page of St. Teresa of Calcutta. Just $3! ORDER HERE

Serving the Poorest of the Poor: St. Teresa of Calcutta: Teach your middle-school students pro-life principles by sharing the life and works of St. Teresa of Calcutta. Through her work among the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa gives us a concrete example of what it means to live out pro-life principles and reach out to those suffering in our own communities by performing the Corporal Works of Mercy. Just $4! ORDER HERE

ALL’s Education Materials

The Presence Is Real: This brochure presents a powerful argument in support of the Catholic Church’s right and obligation to protect Christ in the Eucharist and the child in the womb. SHOP NOW

Pro-Life Social Media

Self-Professed ‘Catholic’ Congressman Still Eschewing Catholic Teaching

Joe Biden officiated a pretend wedding for homosexual men. He has not been excommunicated. After signing abortion into state law, Andrew Cuomo illuminated in pink some of New York’s landmarks. He has not been excommunicated. Nancy Pelosi rides in “Pride” parades and celebrates Planned Parenthood. She has not been excommunicated. 

Today, Pelosi is still spitting in the face of Christ by celebrating the tenth anniversary of SCOTUS’ decision that gave homosexuals the privilege of pretending to live in a married state. 

At least Archbishop Cordileone has excluded Pelosi from receiving Communion in the archdiocese. If Pelosi loved Christ and His Church, she would have repented long, long ago. But eternity in the abode of the damned doesn’t appear to be of major concern to the former Speaker of the House. 

That’s what the “right of all people” would get you.

Yes, even majorities will choose evil over truth. 

But she will not “foist” God’s laws on the people. Doesn’t our Lord warn us about putting light under bushel baskets?