WASHINGTON— On Tuesday, National Right to Life (NRLC) released a special report, Checking the Fact-Checkers: “After-Birth” Abortions, about babies born alive following abortions. The document was released at a congressional briefing on the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”

The document comes at a crucial time when pro-abortion groups have promoted false narratives about babies who are born alive during abortions. Additionally, vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is under scrutiny and criticism for his actions in reversing state protections for babies born alive following abortions.

“The abortion industry and its sympathizers want to make this about abortion. It’s not. It’s about infanticide,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “It is barbaric that newborns who have the temerity to survive an abortion are considered the ‘dreaded complication’ by abortionists.”

Tobias continued, “The baby who survives an abortion deserves the full protection of the law.”

The “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” would require that when a baby is born alive following an abortion, health care practitioners must exercise the same degree of professional skill and care that would be offered to any other child born alive at the same gestational age. It also requires that, following appropriate care, health care workers must transport the child immediately to a hospital.

Speakers at the congressional briefing included Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, Sarah Zagorski, director of communications for Louisiana Right to Life and a survivor of abortion, Cathy Blaeser, executive director, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, and Melissa Ohden, founder of The Abortion Survivors Network and a survivor of abortion.

Checking the Fact-checkers: “After-Birth” Abortions or Modern Infanticide: Abandoning Babies to Die can be found here.

The record of Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota can be found here.

The record of Vice President Kamala Harris can be found here.

The materials distributed at the briefing can be found here.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

WASHINGTON — On Friday, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, supporting Idaho’s efforts to uphold its Defense of Life Act. Idaho’s protective pro-life law ensures that women and their unborn children are not placed at risk by abortion. The Defense of Life Act includes exceptions for cases where the mother’s life is at risk or in instances of sexual assault.

The Biden administration is attempting to misuse the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to advance a pro-abortion agenda. This federal law, originally created to safeguard access to emergency care, is now being used as a tool to force hospitals nationwide to perform abortions.

“This federal overreach not only undermines state sovereignty but also dismisses the will of the people in these states,” said James Bopp, Jr., general counsel for NRLC and lead counsel on NRLC’s brief. “It’s a troubling example of how Washington bureaucrats are willing to ignore local voters to push a one-size-fits-all abortion agenda. The citizens in pro-life states have made their choice at the ballot box, and it’s not the federal government’s place to nullify those decisions.”

In August 2022, the Biden administration filed a lawsuit against Idaho. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which, in June, decided not to make a final ruling. Instead, the Court remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit for further examination. The Ninth Circuit is now scheduled to hear arguments on this pivotal case in December.

“The Biden-Harris administration has made pushing unlimited abortion on the American people a top priority,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Efforts to twist the compassionate EMTALA law is another way forward in their radical agenda of unlimited abortion.”

NRLC’s brief argues that EMTALA was designed to establish a baseline for emergency treatment and prevent patient dumping, not to create a national medical standard of care. The brief emphasizes that EMTALA does not require hospitals to provide medical care contrary to state law, especially in ethically complex areas like abortion.

NRLC’s amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit is available here.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

WASHINGTON—Delaware Governor John Carney today vetoed Delaware’s HB 140 which would have legalized assisted suicide.

The following is a statement from Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life.

We praise Governor Carney for vetoing Delaware’s assisted suicide bill. HB 140 was a dangerous bill that would have put vulnerable patients at risk for assisted suicide.

We praise the work of Delaware advocates who have faithfully worked to ensure that their vulnerable friends, family, and neighbors remain protected in the state of Delaware.

In a statement announcing the veto, Governor Carney stated,

I still don’t believe a firm consensus has been reached on what is a very difficult issue- in Delaware or nationally. Last year, the American Medical Association reaffirmed its view that physician-assisted suicide is “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer.” And although I understand not everyone shares my views, I am fundamentally and morally opposed to state law enabling someone, even under tragic and painful circumstances, to take their own life.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

Kamala Harris Fails to Put the Blame Where It Belongs

WASHINGTON—While on the campaign trail in Georgia on Friday, Kamala Harris gruesomely exploited the tragic deaths of two women for political purposes. Harris falsely claimed that the deaths of two women in Georgia from chemical abortions were the fault of Georgia’s protective laws.

She is wrong.

Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000, mifepristone is used in combination with misoprostol, a prostaglandin, to cause an abortion. Mifepristone blocks progesterone, leading to the death of the unborn baby, while the second drug, misoprostol, causes powerful, painful uterine contractions to expel the dead or dying baby.

When the FDA gave initial approval for the abortion drug, safeguards for women were established. An exam was conducted before the pills were given in order to diagnose serious health issues, including an ectopic pregnancy, which can be fatal. Another visit was required after taking the pills to ensure the abortion was complete, including the expulsion of fetal remains. If the Biden-Harris administration had not lifted those safety requirements, Ms. Thurman and Ms. Miller would likely be alive today.

In addition, the Biden-Harris administration showed complete disregard for safety protocols for women by allowing pharmacists to dispense abortion drugs, even allowing them to be sent by mail.

Tim Walz supported these changes. He signed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the abortion drug mifepristone.

The following is a statement from Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life.

Amber Thurman and Candi Miller did not die because a law denied treatment.

Amber Thurman’s babies died from a successful, legal, abortion. Amber died from known complications of the FDA-approved chemical abortion pill combination, followed by medical incompetence.  

Candi Miller also took the abortion pills, but the abortion was incomplete and the remains of her dead baby were not expelled from her uterus. As her health deteriorated, Candi sadly did not seek medical treatment and died.

A factsheet about the safety and efficacy of mifepristone can be found here.

Kamala Harris’s record on life can be found here.

Tim Walz’s record on life can here.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

WASHINGTON—Today, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) spoke on the Senate floor about babies born alive following a failed abortion and the need for the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”

The following is a statement from Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life.

We thank Senator Lankford for championing the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” and working to protect babies born alive following an abortion.

The evidence is shocking. A baby born alive following an abortion is considered a “complication” by abortionists, but she is a living baby deserving the full protection of the law.

This bill is not about abortion but pro-abortion groups and their allies in the Senate have tried to make it about abortion. Purposely abandoning a child to die after birth is infanticide.

The “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” requires that when a baby is born alive following an abortion, health care practitioners must exercise the same degree of professional skill and care that would be offered to any other child born alive at the same gestational age. It also requires that, following appropriate care, health care workers must transport the child immediately to a hospital.

As a senator, Vice President, and now-Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris voted against the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”

As governor, Democratic candidate for vice president, Tim Walz, signed legislation repealing a requirement to provide medically appropriate lifesaving care to born-alive infants. Under Walz’s legislation, viable babies could be set aside, with only comfort care, and left to die.

Kamala Harris’s record on life can be found here.

Tim Walz’s record on life can here.

The Democratic Party’s extensive support of unlimited abortion can be found here.

Evidence for abortions until birth can be found here.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

WASHINGTON—Tonight, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris clashed on abortion in the first half-hour during their presidential debate.

Kamala Harris said she would have Congress bring back Roe v. Wade. The bill she’s referring to would allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason.

“Harris’s entire career has had one consistency—abortion. She has ‘joyfully’ supported the destruction of innocent preborn babies and, if elected, would make it a cornerstone issue of her administration,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life.

Kamala Harris has made a career of supporting unlimited abortion. She is the first member of the executive branch to ever visit an abortion clinic and supports the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” (WHPA). The WHPA is a bill that would enshrine unlimited abortion until birth in federal law. The bill would do away with virtually all existing protections for unborn children and their mothers on both the federal and state levels, including parental involvement laws.

As a senator, Harris voted against the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” which would ensure that an infant born alive during an attempted abortion is afforded the same degree of medical care as any other newborn of the same gestational age.

In addition, under the Biden-Harris Administration, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suspended safeguards for women undergoing chemical abortions, such as seeing the abortionist in person. The in-person requirement helped to prevent complications resulting from ectopic pregnancies which can be fatal. Ectopic pregnancies can only be diagnosed with an in-person evaluation. The FDA also now permits pharmacists to dispense abortion drugs, and it even allows abortion drugs to be sent by mail.

Tobias continued, “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will push for the most radical abortion policies possible because the goal of the Democratic Party is no longer ‘safe, legal, and rare.’ Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the Democratic Party want unlimited abortion at any cost—including the lives of precious preborn babies and the harm that could happen to their mothers.”

Kamala Harris’s record on life can be found here.

Tim Walz’s record on life can here.

The Democratic Party’s extensive support of unlimited abortion can be found here.

Evidence for abortions until birth can be found here.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.