Dear Friends,

As we joyfully celebrate Council for Life’s 25th Anniversary this year, we are blessed to be fundraising for our 2026 Beneficiaries and looking forward to our Celebrating Life Luncheon: A Legacy of Love and Life on Thursday, October 29.

Along with fundraising for our outstanding Beneficiaries, the CFL Mission includes the important work of Education.

Every day, abortion kills 3,085 babies in the U.S., 137 babies in Texas and 32 babies in Dallas/Fort Worth. That is 1.126 million babies each year. Hundreds of thousands of women are harmed physically and emotionally. Our hearts break.

We feel a profound urgency caused by the darkness surrounding us. But the darkness will never overcome the light.

There is SO much to cover. SO much to pray for.

PART II TOMORROW

MASSACHUSETTS LEGALIZES ABORTION UP TO BIRTH – LORD HAVE MERCY

Women look on with smiles and erupt in applause as Massachusetts Governor
Maura Healy signs legislation legalizing abortion of babies up until birth.
(click on the image above; make sure your volume is up and wait for it)

 

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a sweeping new law last month that legalizes abortion up to the moment a baby is born. She was surrounded in her Beacon Hill office by a room full of cheering women— doctors, businesswomen and mothers — effectively celebrating infanticide.

Massachusetts law already provided extremely permissive abortion access up to 24 weeks gestation. But the enacted legislation removes all of Massachusetts’ restrictions and allows elective abortion through all nine months of pregnancy based on the nebulous “best medical judgment of the physician,” including the patient’s “mental health” or a “lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis.”

Massachusetts tragically becomes the 10th state in our country that permits abortion through all nine months, joining Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont plus Washington, D.C.

Governor Healey and the abject joy of this group of women provoked a visceral reaction from pro-life and church leaders and many other Americans.

Besides the gleeful display by the women gathered around Healey normalizing a barbaric law, we on the side of life glimpsed something equally sinister:

LOUISIANA V. FDA: FIFTH CIRCUIT HEARS ORAL ARGUMENTS TOMORROW — PLEASE PRAY

Mifepristone is the first pill taken in the two-pill chemical abortion regimen
that kills a baby in the womb by blocking the hormone progesterone. “Mifiprex” is the brand name used by the primary U.S. manufacturer of the drug, Danco Laboratories.

 

Council for Life has been reporting on State of Louisiana v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration — the most significant abortion case since the 2022 landmark Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. (See Council for Life News HERE for a timeline of the case and HERE)

Louisiana filed the lawsuit last year to stop the illegal mailing of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone into Louisiana and other pro-life states like Texas in violation of our strong abortion bans. Louisiana resident Rosalie Markezich, who was coerced in 2023 by her boyfriend to take abortion drugs, joined Louisiana as a plaintiff.

Abortion pill manufacturers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro joined the FDA as parties to the lawsuit, claiming the drugs are safe and effective and limiting their access would result in “irreparable harm” to their mifepristone profits.

On May 1, we rejoiced when the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the temporary halt nationwide of mail-order chemical abortion pill access. That decision was swiftly appealed to the United States Supreme Court by Danco and GenBioPro.

Our jubilance was short-lived because just two weeks later the High Court blocked the Fifth Circuit Order pending disposition of the lawsuit in the Fifth Circuit. This ruling tragically maintained the status quo, allowing mifepristone to be prescribed via telehealth and dispensed in the mail.

The Fifth Circuit is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case tomorrow, September 9. After the Fifth Circuit rules, the case will very likely go back to SCOTUS and could take months to ultimately be resolved.

Texas and Other Pro-Life States have also Filed Lawsuits against the FDA

In December 2025, our own great state of Texas along with Florida filed another even more aggressive lawsuit asking the FDA to take mifepristone off the market completely.

Last week, Judge Reed O’Connor, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, granted a request by the FDA to delay the lawsuit until either December 1 — after the mid-term elections — OR when the FDA finishes its ongoing safety review of mifepristone, whichever occurs sooner.

Another pending lawsuit filed against the FDA by the states of Missouri, Kansas and Idaho seeks to restore the FDA’s original safety regulations required for the use of mifepristone that existed before 2016—  namely, the 7-weeks gestational limit, three in-person doctors visits and reporting of nonfatal adverse events. The case revived the FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine lawsuit (See Council for Life News HERE) and was transferred by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk from the Northern District of Texas to the Eastern District of Missouri.

The FDA and U.S. Department of Justice could choose to do the right thing NOW by taking regulatory action to preclude the need for a judicial ruling.

HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL: CALIFORNIA ABORTION PILL REVERSAL CASE CLOSING ARGUMENTS NEXT WEEK — PLEASE PRAY

Heartbeat International leadership has been in a California courtroom for the past six weeks defending Abortion Pill Reversal and shared a legal update.

 

Heartbeat International is a named defendant in a historic First Amendment case brought by the State of California. California is arguing that Heartbeat should be prohibited from telling women about lifesaving Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) and is seeking $20 million in penalties. The state alleges that promoting APR involves fraudulent and unscientific claims, making it illegal commercial speech.

Many woman experience immediate regret after taking the first chemical abortion pill — mifepristone — to terminate their pregnancy. APR is a progesterone protocol that can reverse the chemical abortion if taken within 24 to 72 hours. APR is a legal, proven treatment that has saved thousands of babies’ lives.

We are so thankful that many CFL Pregnancy Resource Center Beneficiaries offer APR (See Council for Life News HERE)

At stake in this case is a woman’s right to receive truthful information about APR so she knows that it may not be too late to choose life and save her baby after beginning a chemical abortion.

The implications for this case extend far beyond Heartbeat and California. If the court rules against Heartbeat, the ripple effect would embolden other pro-abortion states to censor and restrict pregnancy help organizations and medical professionals from sharing information about APR.

Closing arguments in the case are scheduled for next week on September 17.

THE CULTURE OF DEATH CONTINUES

WE MUST NOT GIVE UP

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

— Galatians 6:9

Please pray and speak and serve boldly to combat the dark culture of death. We must all answer this urgent call to action.

 

Council for Life