CNN At This Hour host Kate Bolduan welcomed former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards onto her Friday show to condemn the trend of Republican states passing pro-life bills and to lament that this puts the United States out of touch with the rest of the world.

Against a chyron that read “more states move to restrict reproductive rights,” Bolduan reported, “Globally, we’ve been seeing a trend. Globally the trend is moving in one direction which is from Colombia in February to Mexico in September to Argentina legalizing abortion in 2020. Globally it seems to be moving one way, and then in the United States, as we’ve been talking about all of these states, it appears to be moving the other direction.”

The Oklahoma legislature has passed a pro-life law that would ban abortions in the same manner as Texas did. The Texas abortion ban is a unique law that has been on the books for almost 250 days days and saved thousands of babies from abortions.

Once pro-life Governor Kevin Stitt signs the bill into law, Oklahoma will be the third state to have passed such a law, following Texas and Idaho. Although the Texas law has survived pro-abortion lawsuits and been affirmed at both the Supreme Court and the Texas Supreme Court, the Idaho law has been put on hold while the lawsuit agaisnt it continues.

Photographs of the dead bodies of five very large and significantly developed fetuses—which had been found in a “medical waste” container outside a Washington, D.C., abortion center in late March—seem to indicate that some of the children may have died in illegal “live-birth” or “partial-birth” abortions.

The discovery prompted pro-life groups and legislators to call for an investigation into possible violations of two federal laws, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

Medical experts who studied the photos agreed that the deceased children likely died after viability, late in the second or third trimester of their mothers’ pregnancies.

On Tuesday the Bryant City Council adopted a resolution affirming that the community is Pro-Life. Bryant is located in Saline County, which approved a separate Pro-Life resolution in September.

Last year the Arkansas Legislature enacted Act 392 of 2021 by Rep. Kendon Underwood (R – Cave Springs) and Sen. Gary Stubblefield (R – Branch) affirming that cities and counties can designate themselves as Pro-Life. Act 392 also says that Pro-Life Communities can install signs or banners announcing that they are Pro-Life.

Bryant’s pro-life resolution reads:

A RESOLUTION AFFIRMING THE COMMITMENT OF THE CITY OF BRYANT, ARKANSAS TO PROTECTING THE UNALIENABLE RIGHT OF LIFE OF EVERY PERSON; AND DECLARING THE CITY OF BRYANT, ARKANSAS TO BE A PROLIFE CITY

WHEREAS, the Declaration of Independence declares that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, including the right to life, and;

WHEREAS, Amendment 68 to the Arkansas Constitution states that the policy of the State of Arkansas is to protect the life of every unborn child from conception until birth; and;

WHEREAS, it is the duty of state and local governments to protect the unalienable right to life of every person within their respective jurisdictions; and;

WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court stated in Poelker v.

Shelly Tien is one of about 50 traveling abortionists in the U.S. who rushes from state to state aborting unborn babies and then leaving their mothers to suffer the consequences on their own.

But Tien and other abortionists often are portrayed as heroes in popular culture for their unnecessary, life-destroying work.

This week, Reuters published a profile of Tien, who works full-time at a Planned Parenthood in Jacksonville, Florida, but also travels to Alabama and Oklahoma to abort unborn babies.

Tien told the news outlet that she does abortions because she believes in the saying “Medicine = science + love.”

New legislation by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio would strip tens of millions of Americans’ tax dollars from the nation’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood.

Bloomberg Law reports the Florida Republican’s resolution would overturn a rule from President Joe Biden’s administration that allows abortion groups to receive tax dollars through the Title X family planning program.

“The Biden Administration’s rule is an assault on the most sacred and fundamental human right, the right to life,” Rubio said in a statement. “I will continue to protect the sanctity of life and do everything I can to make sure taxpayer dollars are not used for or promote abortions.”

A Catholic priest in Malta criticized a prominent political leader this week for abandoning his pro-life stance on unborn babies’ right to life.

Lovin Malta reports Monsignor Anton Gouder reminded Malta Parliament Opposition Leader Bernard Grech that abortion is the “murder of an unborn child.”

Earlier this week, Grech appeared to abandon his pro-life stance in an interview with Xtra, saying politicians “shouldn’t tell people how to live their lives,” according to the report.

Malta is facing intense international pressure to legalize the killing of unborn babies in abortions. It is one of the few countries in Europe that still protects their right to life.

Through their message of forgiveness and hope, a group of post-abortive women helped four mothers choose life for their unborn babies last week outside a Mississippi abortion facility.

Live Action News reports Serena Dyksen, founder of the post-abortion healing ministry She Found His Grace, organized the April 15 event with several other pro-life groups outside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only abortion facility in Mississippi.

On the sidewalk, the women shared their testimonies, many carrying signs that read “My choice has a name” above the names of their aborted babies.

Dyksen told Live Action that their group spoke with men, women and abortion workers, and four mothers canceled their abortion appointments that day.