Recently released state data show abortions in Massachusetts rose sharply in 2024, reaching 49,450 cases, more than double the 24,355 reported in 2023.

This week, the Massachusetts Legislature placed all the pro-life bills we support at Massachusetts Citizens for Life under “study order,” effectively blocking them from advancing during the current 2025–2026 legislative session.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced investigations into thirteen states for allegedly coercing health care entities to provide coverage of, or pay for, abortion contrary to conscience.

A 2025 Pew Research Center survey finds that 47 percent of U.S. adults consider abortion morally wrong, highlighting enduring pro-life sentiment across the country.

The New Hampshire Senate voted 16-8 against SB551, a bill that would have established abortion as a state-protected right and provided legal shields for abortionists, including those performing abortions on out-of-state women or shipping abortion pills across state lines.

The U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump-Vance administration moved to dismiss lawsuits from Florida and Texas challenging the FDA’s mail-order abortion drug policy, marking the second such action in a week.

South Korea recorded 240,000 marriages in 2025, an 8.1% increase over 2024, continuing a three-year rebound from an 11-year decline.

Paul DeBeasi, chairman-elect of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, will lead a workshop on Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) at the Heartbeat International 2026 Annual International Pregnancy Help Conference.

Matt Vallière, executive director of Patients Rights Action Fund and Institute for Patients’ Rights, joins Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, for a detailed discussion on assisted suicide and its legal and ethical implications in Massachusetts.