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Pro-Life This Week – July 25, 2025

Week in Review

Massachusetts Judge Defends Planned Parenthood in Preliminary Injunction That Partially Halts Its Defunding 

In a response to the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful, Bill,” District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts has sided with Planned Parenthood by granting a preliminary injunction order that states that the BBB’s ruling to defund Planned Parenthood for one-year “is unconstitutionally vague and violates Planned Parenthood Federation and these Members’ First Amendment and Due Process rights.” Talwani’s 36-page explanation of her reasons for taking this next step comes after she issued a temporary restraining order regarding the bill’s Medicaid reimbursement two weeks prior. Talwani is not only challenging the constitutionality of the BBB to do this, but she ordered the Medicaid reimbursements to continue for Planned Parenthood. In other words, she believes Planned Parenthood has a “constitutional right” to receive Medicaid funding from American tax dollars.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America expressed mixed feelings about this recent preliminary injunction, as it doesn’t see Talwani’s order as going far enough. According to Talwani’s order, the freeze on defunding Planned Parenthood from Medicaid reimbursements only applies to some Planned Parenthood affiliates who either received “less than $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements during federal fiscal year 2023” or who “do not provide abortions because abortion is not legal in any state where their health centers are located.” The affiliates named in the report for receiving less than $800,000 are PP Utah and PP of Delaware, while PP Gulf Coast, PP Greater Texas, and PP of Tennessee and North Mississippi are named for not directly providing abortions within the states where these affiliates reside (emphasis added). 

A joint statement from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah said:

This isn’t over. While we’re grateful that the court recognized the harm caused by this law, we’re disappointed that not all members were granted the necessary relief today. Patients across the country should be able to go to their trusted Planned Parenthood provider for birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing and treatment. This is about patients and their right to get care—no matter their insurance. The court has not yet ruled on whether it will grant preliminary injunctive relief to other members. We remain hopeful that the court will grant this relief. There will be nothing short of a public health crisis if Planned Parenthood members are allowed to be “defunded.”

American Life League has commented on our thoughts regarding the BBB’s Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2025, which only bars Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood for one year and allows exceptions for abortions performed in cases of rape and incest and for the mother’s life. While we don’t know where this temporary order will go next or how many similar orders will follow to defend Planned Parenthood and challenge its defunding, American Life League stands by its commitment to defend all human life from creation to death, with no exceptions and no compromises. We urge our fellow pro-lifers and those in public office who voted in favor of defunding Planned Parenthood to make the same commitment and set the bar higher in our nation to combat the forces of Planned Parenthood. After all, if Planned Parenthood is no exceptions in its stance for always allowing abortion for any reason, we must stand to always oppose every abortion if we truly believe all human life is sacred and created by God.

Department of Health and Human Services Recognizes the ‘Disregard’ for Human Life in the Current Organ Donation and Transplant System

On Monday, the HHS announced its terrifying findings of organ transplants occurring while a patient is still alive. An investigation by HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration found that out of 351 cases where organ donation was authorized and not completed, 73 patients approved to have their organs removed showed neurological signs, as they were not dead. Also, 28 patients may not have been dead when the organ transplant began. HHS also found a “lack of coordination with medical teams, questionable consent practices, and misclassification of causes of death, particularly in overdose cases.”

As a result of these findings, HHS stated that it will begin a “major initiative” to revamp and reform the organ donation system so that it does not allow for the “disregard for sanctity of life.” Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated the following:

Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying. . . . The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.

ALL is certainly grateful that the current HHS department is looking into these offenses against the human person and encourages it to continue doing so. For decades, ALL has been drawing attention to this crisis of organ transplants on people who are not dead. 

To read more about ALL’s stance and article on organ donation, please visit our site.

ALL in the News

In case you missed it, ALL released a statement last week following West Virginia’s win over whether or not it can ban the abortion pill. The statement was featured in two LifeNews articles, one published last Wednesday and one published last Thursday. The statement was also featured in an article from Just the News and The Christian Post.

Katie Brown Xavios’ comments were featured in a Pregnancy Help News article about Planned Parenthood’s defunding.

Susan Ciancio, editor of Celebrate Life Magazine and director of the Culture of Life Studies Program, wrote a blog post with six suggestions parents can protect their children from Planned Parenthood. You can read it here. Susan wrote another CLSP blog post about the heart of St. Charbel and how it can draw us closer to Christ’s heart. You can find it here. She also wrote an article about caring for people with disabilities. It was featured in LifeSiteNews 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

No Greater Love: Saint Maximilian Kolbe: This lesson teaches middle schoolers about Maximilian Kolbe—his acceptance of the crowns of purity and martyrdom at a young age, his vocation as a Franciscan priest, his devotion to the Immaculata, and his martyrdom for the sake of another man. It challenges students to think of ways that they can use their talents to spread the gospel of life. Just as St. Maximilian brought light to the darkness of the Nazi concentration camp, students learn how they can be God’s instruments to bring light to the darkness of the abortion industry through prayer and evangelization efforts. ORDER HERE

ALL’s Education Materials

We teamed up with a neonatologist, a neurosurgeon, and a cardiologist to bring you reliable information regarding organ donation. This shareable and eye-opening brochure will teach you all you need to know about why you should not sign the form at the DMV. SHOP NOW

Pro-Life Social Media

Organ Donation: Department of HHS Begins to Recognize Its Brutality

For decades, American Life League has warned the public about the evil that lurks in the organ procurement industry. It’s namely this: Organs only come from the living. Most individuals registering as organ donors assume that they will be dead and gone and that they’ll have no need for their organs. So why not consent to give them to someone else whose life can be saved?

It isn’t consent if the person is uninformed of the reality that their organs are only useful if their hearts are still beating. That means they are still alive.  

For the first time, Health and Human Services and Secretary Kennedy affirms what we’ve been saying all along.

… ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.

It may take decades, but the truth eventually comes out.

… to hustle families to consent to this on the patient’s behalf. It made me sick to call the companies and watch them through the glass windows trying to get these families to agree to harvest the organs of their loved one who was still alive fighting for their life.

It was never a theory. 

… the Holy Spirit, and his family pinned it to his gown. He woke up the next morning fully alert and discharged a few weeks later. All to say, prayer works, and what the medical establishment says about what death is, is not to be trusted.