After rejecting measures to ban the very latest of late-term abortions and protect doctors from being forced to abort unborn babies, the New Mexico Senate voted Thursday to approve a bill to keep abortions up to birth legal in their state for years to come.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Democrats who control the legislature basically ignored Republicans’ questions and concerns before the vote. The final vote on state Senate Bill 10 was 27-15 with two Democrats joining Republicans in opposing it.

Sponsored by state Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Bernalillo, the pro-abortion legislation would repeal a 1969 New Mexico statute that prohibits abortions except in cases of rape, incest or threats to the mother’s life.

Black History Month this year follows on the heels of the deadliest month of the coronavirus pandemic. We have long known the virus is more often fatal to Blacks than Whites but new headlines scream of something insidious afoot as we begin to deal with the virus: Blacks are being vaccinated at lower rates than whites.

Here’s why, according to Kaiser Health News, which commissioned the study that prompted the flurry of news stories:

“African Americans are being left behind because of barriers stemming from structural racism, as well as a failure to address nuanced hesitancy and mistrust about the vaccines and the medical system overall.”

In the past 48 years, approximately 62.5 million unborn babies have been killed in abortions across America.

Abortions are tragically common. They are the number one killer of human life in America. They are not health care or a necessity.

Yet, abortion activists frequently try to drum up support for their cause by claiming women need abortions and they face too many obstacles to access them.

A new organization in New Hampshire is based on this false claim, and it already has raised money to “help” by paying for unborn babies to be aborted.

The state NPR affiliate NHPR reported about the start-up of the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire this month.

A Tennessee group that describes aborting unborn babies as “healthcare” received a $50,000 grant from a U.S. Catholic bishops’ agency in 2019, according to a new report from the Lepanto Institute.

The grant came from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, an anti-poverty agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The Lepanto Institute recently discovered that the Catholic agency gave multiple grants to groups that openly defy Catholic Church teachings about the sanctity of human life and family.

One of them is the Workers’ Dignity Project, a Nashville, Tennessee-based group that is listed as a “community partner” on Planned Parenthood’s 2017-2018 annual report.

An Idaho Senate committee advanced a pro-life bill Monday to protect unborn babies from abortion once their heartbeats are detectable.

Idaho News 2 reports the Senate State Affairs Committee voted along party lines to recommend the Fetal Heartbeat Preborn Child Protection Act (Senate Bill 1085) to the full state Senate.

Sponsored by state Sen. Patti Anne Lodge, R-Caldwell, and Rep. Steven Harris, R-Meridian, the bill would prohibit abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy. Exceptions would be allowed for rape, incest or threats to the mother’s life.

The Lewiston Tribune reports the bill would take effect only if a court in the U.S.

An Indiana bill that would inform women about the life-saving abortion pill reversal process passed a state House committee Monday.

Lawmakers approved state House Bill 1577 in a 9-3 vote with bipartisan support, moving the pro-life bill to the full state House for consideration.

Sponsored by state Rep. Peggy Mayfield, R-Martinsville, the bill would require abortion facilities to inform women about the abortion pill reversal procedure, which can reverse the effects of a drug-induced abortion and may save their unborn baby’s life. It also would require abortion facilities to give women a photo of their unborn baby’s ultrasound image at least 18 hours before the abortion.

One in four students are “threatened, abused, alarmed or distressed” for being pro-life at university, a shocking new survey has revealed. Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications, said: “Pro-life students are routinely subject to discrimination and mistreatment solely because they uphold the humanity and worth of unborn children. It is vital that steps are taken to ensure that pro-life students are not silenced and can speak out about pro-life issues.”

The survey, conducted by the Alliance of Pro-life Students (APS), asked for the views and experiences of over 200 students at university in the UK.

The poll found that:

• Over 70% of students faced situations in lectures or seminars where they felt “unable to speak” about their views.

Abortion proponents obliquely touting chemical abortion pills as an answer to late menstruation is yet another ploy to push abortion at the expense of women’s health.

“Missed period” remedies as a euphemism for abortifacient drugs or herbal concoctions is nothing new. However, a study recently published in the journal Contraception and accompanying articles in the New York Times and Ms. Magazine covering the study have drawn more public attention to the idea of a “missed period pill” (MPP) to “fix” a late period.

Make no mistake, this fix is an abortifacient.

According to the Contraception article, the “missed period pill” would be a uterine evacuation drug or combination of drugs, like mifepristone and misoprostol (which are the two main drugs used in a medical abortion procedure).

Soon after passing a law to protect newborns from infanticide, South Dakota lawmakers moved forward with another pro-life bill Wednesday that would ban discriminatory abortions on unborn babies with Down syndrome.

The Argus Leader reports pro-life House Bill 1110 received unanimous support Wednesday during a House State Affairs Committee hearing.

Introduced by Gov. Kristi Noem, the legislation would prohibit abortionists from knowingly aborting an unborn baby because the baby has or may have Down syndrome.

The governor said she wants to protect every unborn baby from abortion, but the U.S. Supreme Court prohibits states from doing so under Roe v.