EDINBURGH, Ind. (CNS) — Melissa Coles received a call in the late summer of 2019. She didn’t listen long before she figured it was a prank call and hung up. When the person called back, she hung up again.

“On the third call, they had all the producers on the line — Kirk Cameron and the Kendrick brothers,” she said, referring to Alex, Shannon and Stephen Kendrick, producers of Christian films such as “Fireproof,” “War Room” and “Courageous.” “They said they wanted to make (the documentary) ‘I Lived on Parker Avenue’ into a movie.”

Coles knew the 2018 YouTube documentary well — she was one of its subjects.

After multiple lawsuits attempting to keep protections for preborn children from taking effect, the Idaho Supreme Court has ruled in the state’s favor while the cases make their way through the courts. Therefore, multiple protections, including a heartbeat law modeled after the Texas Heartbeat Act and a trigger law, will take effect on August 25.

The ruling was released late Friday, denying requests from Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, and abortionist Caitlin Gustafson to block the laws until the cases were settled.

Idaho was one of several states to have a trigger law in place when Roe v.

Pro-abortion activist Robin Marty gives dangerous instructions for do-it-yourself abortions in her “New Handbook for a Post-Roe America,” which was previously the number one bestseller in the “abortion and birth control” book category on Amazon. As of this writing, it’s number nine.

Giving desperate women a risky option

Marty describes ways to induce abortions with herbs. She says her instructions are “not provided by a medical doctor and should not be considered medical advice but are only for information-sharing purposes.”1 This may protect Marty from a lawsuit if someone dies, but by giving detailed instructions, she’s encouraging desperate women to take risks with their health and lives.

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The efforts of pro-abortion local and state politicians to investigate pro-life pregnancy resource centers (PRC) and paint them as dishonest and dangerous to women have ramped up since the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in May, which officially overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24.

Pro-abortion politicians are fervently attempting to discredit non-profit pregnancy centers (which are almost entirely donor-funded), dictate how they advertise their services, investigate their practices, and even force them to refer women to abortion businesses. Meanwhile, the abortion industry has faced scandal after scandal and is praised, defended, and propped up by political allies… and with taxpayer dollars.

“The Biden-Harris White House’s ‘new’ strategy is the radical agenda pro-abortion Democrats have been pushing for years, now at fever pitch post-Dobbs. They will stop at nothing to impose abortion on demand until birth, paid for by the taxpayer, without limits nationwide. Using the heavy hand of the federal government, they will coerce medical professionals to kill their smallest patients and will expand the flow of dangerous abortion drugs, even into states that have enacted safeguards for women and unborn children. Abortion is not health care – it destroys unborn life and wounds women. Democrats who think their pro-abortion extremism is a political winner should think again – their agenda continues to be deeply unpopular.”

The City Council of Worcester, Massachusetts, voted 6-5 in July to investigate the regulation of pro-life pregnancy resource centers and to throw its support behind abortion.

As reported by MassLive, “Councilor-at-large Thu Nguyen put a motion before City Council requesting the city manager, along with the city solicitor, look at ordinance language in Somerville, Cambridge and Easthampton related to deceptive advertising practices of ‘limited pregnancy centers’ in order to draft a similar ordinance in the city.” The council also voted to have the solicitor look into requiring any establishment the serves pregnant women — such as a pro-life pregnancy center — to commit or refer for abortions.

Last week, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed a bill into law that protects most preborn children, the first state to do so since Roe v. Wade was overturned. In response, an abortion chain known for having numerous issues with health and safety has closed its facility in South Bend.

The new Indiana bill protecting preborn children is set to take effect on September 15, and after that, Whole Woman’s Health will close its doors. “We are going to be seeing patients from now until the last day that we’re allowed to,” Midwest Advocacy Director Sharon Lau told WVPE. “Because the wait times have gone up, due to all the surrounding states having some sort of restrictions, now people are trying to come to Indiana for a shorter wait time.

A couple who claims to be Catholic has gone on a media tour about their decision to have an abortion, which they justified due to their child’s disability.

Breanna O’Brien told Good Morning America (GMA) that she was 20 weeks pregnant when she and her husband, Kyle, learned their son had two serious disabilities: Xeroderma pigmentosum group D (XPD) and Trichothiodystrophy (TTD). XPD is an autosomal recessive — meaning inherited — disorder which results in severe sun sensitivity, and can result in a higher likelihood of cancer in the areas where the skin is exposed to the sun. There is also the possibility of hearing loss, poor coordination, loss of intellectual function and seizures.

Days after pro-lifers showed up in force at the El Paso City Council to defeat a pro-abortion resolution, the El Paso County Commission passed a similar measure which asks law enforcement to “use discretion” when investigating now illegal abortions in the County. Measures to move police investigations of criminal abortion to a low priority status or deprioritize investigations altogether have been proposed in multiple cities — and now, counties — across the nation in the wake of the Dobbs Supreme Court case which overturned Roe v. Wade.

On July 5, pro-life groups Abortion on Trial and Southwest Coalition for Life were able to mobilize enough opposition to result in the defeat of a so-called  ‘Guarding the Right to Abortion Care for Everyone’ Act (GRACE Act) resolution in El Paso.

Bishop Andrew Cozzens (arrested seven times for pro-life work), Archbishop Samuel Aquila (who saw the effects of abortion while working in an emergency room) and three other bishops call Catholics to unwavering pro-life witness.