HUMAN EVENTS

Forsythe observes that such equal protection bills, many of which our team at the Foundation to Abolish Abortion drafted, have been “introduced in several states in recent years to penalize women for abortions.” Forsythe defends the position of many Pro-Life groups that no woman should ever be prosecuted for willfully taking the life of her own preborn baby.

But the stance of the Pro-Life establishment against any prosecutions for women who abort their children ensures the murder of preborn babies will never truly be abolished. Even worse, it guarantees that such murders will continue under the explicit protection of our laws.

GEM STATE CHRONICLE

Pastor Jeff Durbin of Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona, and Bradley Pierce of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion will debate Pastor Doug Wilson of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, and Pastor Toby Sumpter of King’s Cross Church in Moscow, Idaho. Joshua Haymes, the host of Reformation Red Pill, will serve as the moderator.

Durbin and Pierce, who are both abortion abolitionists, will defend the thesis “civil magistrates should reject regulatory Pro-Life legislative strategies as biblically forbidden, morally compromised, and practically counterproductive.” Wilson and Sumpter affirm smashmouth incrementalism and will be arguing in the negative.

STEVE DEACE SHOW

Steve reacts to data compiled by the Financial Times regarding birth rates among progressives and conservatives and says it's the perfect encapsulation of the Left-Right dynamic since the Reagan years.

Then, Ben Zeisloft joins the program to talk about his new book, “Forsakers of the Fatherless.” In Hour Two, Fake News or Not reacts to a clip of a street preacher confronting an LGBT-affirming “church.”

FITSNEWS

Senate Bill 323, introduced by South Carolina Republican Senator Richard Cash, would codify criminal penalties for all parties involved in abortion, including the pregnant mother who willfully takes the life of her pre-born baby.

While S. 323 is a huge step in the right direction, Equal Protection South Carolina does not support the current version and suggested amendments to ensure it established true equal protection of the laws for pre-born babies beginning at fertilization. That being said, criminalizing abortion for all parties involved would close the loophole in South Carolina law keeping abortion legal for women.

LIFESITE NEWS

As of October 1, the state Agency for Health Care Administration reported 33,339 abortions performed as compared with 50,224 during the same period in 2024. This means 16,885 fewer abortions overseen by physicians in the state have been committed so far in 2025.

The data does not account for Floridians who may have traveled out of state for an abortion or for those who have illegally obtained abortion pills by mail. Thus, as the Foundation to Abolish Abortion noted, the decrease is “likely overstated by the omission of key abortion data.”

THE WESTERN JOURNAL

The Foundation to Abolish Abortion reposted footage of Trump speaking on the matter, writing, “IVF as commonly practiced promotes the intentional destruction of preborn babies while in their earliest stages of development.

“Christians need to pray that President Trump would instead seek to protect preborn babies, rather than promoting practices which involve the selective aborting, discarding, and indefinite freezing of preborn babies made in the image of God.”

ALABAMA POLITICAL REPORTER

Entitled “All Human Life Is Valuable,” the event will feature a conversation between Pierce, a constitutional attorney and president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and Durbin, a pastor and president of End Abortion Now. According to a post made on the Foundation to Abolish Abortion’s X account, the speakers will specifically discuss “how all human life is valuable and worthy of equal protection.”

As “abortion abolitionists,” Pierce and Durbin both believe that abortion should be illegal in all instances and that individuals who receive or provide abortions should face criminal punishment, up to and including the death penalty.

WBMA

Alabama’s Turning Point USA chapter is set to host a public campus speaking engagement at the University of Alabama on Tuesday, Oct. 7, following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The event, titled "All Human Life Is Valuable," will feature Bradley Pierce, a constitutional attorney and president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and Jeff Durbin, president of End Abortion Now and pastor at Apologia Church.

1819 NEWS

The conversation, entitled “All Human Life Is Valuable,” will feature attorney Bradley Pierce, the president of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and Jeff Durbin, the president of End Abortion Now and pastor at Apologia Church in Mesa, Ariz. It will be held on October 7.

“The light of Jesus Christ dispels the works of darkness, including the child sacrifice which remains legal in all fifty states,” said Pierce in the announcement.

POST AND COURIER

Many backers invoked Scripture. One proponent, pastor and Springfield mayoral candidate Trent Still, suggested “sinful empathy or ungodly and misguided sympathy towards women” led American society to be too lenient toward abortion.

Representatives with groups like the Texas-based Foundation to Abolish Abortion and Equal Protection South Carolina insinuated lawmakers might not get into heaven for voting against the bill or, at the very least, lose their seats for failing to support it.

ABORTION EVERY DAY

Matt Brock, executive director of Equal Protection South Carolina, said “a lot of people here today tell you that this bill goes too far, I’m here to tell you according to the word of God, S.323 doesn’t go far enough.” John Rice-Cameron from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion was also there: this is the organization that drafts and lobbies for “equal protection” legislation.

What happens next is unclear. It’s fair to assume the criminalization piece will get cut: no amount of fire-and-brimstone bullshit from “abolitionists” changes how wildly unpopular it is to throw women in jail. Beyond that, I just don’t know.

JEZEBEL

Terrifyingly, many who spoke at the hearing also testified that they believed SB 323 still wasn’t strict enough. John Rice-Cameron, a known anti-abortion activist, said that while the “bill would be the strongest anti abortion law in America if passed,” he still believes there are two amendments to be added.

One, he says, is that the bill should legally classify abortion as murder and provide equal protection to fetuses: the ultimate goal of the fetal personhood movement. The other, to redefine how the state talks about IVF because, as he says, “the current language leaves children conceived in IVF unprotected.”

THE TEXAN

Bradley Pierce, President of Abolish Abortion Texas and the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, told The Texan in an interview, “The current laws of Texas deny equal protection to preborn children. While they ban abortion for third-party abortion providers, they also grant immunity for all women who willfully choose to murder their preborn babies, a massive loophole that the major Pro-Life groups in Texas actively defend.”

He referenced legislation that was filed to do so in both the regular and special sessions by state Rep. Brent Money, noting that it was opposed by other pro-life groups in the Capitol who instead supported HB 7. He described it as “a shocking betrayal of Christians and conservatives in Texas who want to see abortion abolished.”

REWIRE NEWS GROUP

Additional efforts to criminalize abortion funds’ work in the state are on the horizon. The South Carolina legislation that would ban abortion completely—“The Unborn Child Protection Act”—would also make it a crime to assist pregnant people in traveling for abortion care. Those found guilty would face up to 30 years in prison.

Another Republican bill, the “Prenatal Equal Protection Act,” proposes to classify getting an abortion as homicide—a crime that is punishable with the death penalty in South Carolina—and helping someone obtain an abortion as a felony.

KATIE COURIC MEDIA

Still, for the most extreme anti-abortion groups, HB 7 doesn’t go far enough. As the Houston Chronicle notes, Abolish Abortion Texas says it falls short because it protects pregnant women from litigation, “thereby denying equal protection of the laws.”

 “Our laws should deter everyone in Texas from murdering preborn children, whether they are third-party abolitionists, the fathers of the children, or the mothers of the children,” JR Haas, the group’s vice president, said in a statement.

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

State Rep. David Lowe, a Republican from North Texas who was wearing a big “ABORTION IS MURDER” pin on his lapel, made a speech before the vote explaining that he was abstaining from the vote because he doesn't think HB 7 goes far enough. Exempting women from liability means it denies “equal protection” to all fetuses. Lowe instead supports a bill that would equate abortion to murder and open up women to life imprisonment or the death penalty.

“Bills like this do everything but abolish abortion,” Lowe said. “They provide a way to say we’re winning on the issue while preventing it from being solved.”

THE TEXAN

Among the key aspects of HB 7’s committee substitute, laid out by Leach on Thursday night, was the alteration to the award of damages, so that if related to the affected preborn child, whether the woman or her family, an individual may collect the full $100,000 in such a lawsuit. If unrelated, the individual may be rewarded $10,000 in damages, while the remaining $90,000 would be donated to a charity.

Amid the Democratic speeches against the legislation was state Rep. David Lowe (R-North Richland Hills), who spoke neutral on HB 7. He was joined at the front mic by state Rep. Brent Money (R-Greenville) as he stated that he could not support bill because “HB 2197, the bill that would completely abolish abortion and provide for the equal protection of the unborn, was killed in a committee during the regular session by many of the same pro-life groups and individuals that are now backing this bill… They’re not fighting for equal protection. They’d rather let children continue to die than be considered too extreme.”

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Not all anti-abortion groups are on board with the bill. The most far-right group, Abolish Abortion Texas, says it doesn’t go far enough because it protects pregnant women from litigation, “thereby denying equal protection of the laws.” Texas’ abortion bans also protect the pregnant woman from liability.

“While there are some women who are coerced into abortion, the vast majority of women who obtain abortions are willfully choosing to murder their preborn children,” JR Haas, vice president of the group, said in a statement. “Our laws should deter everyone in Texas from murdering preborn children, whether they are third-party abolitionists, the fathers of the children, or the mothers of the children.”

THE CHARITON BEACON

Missouri’s abortion debate has entered a dangerous new chapter. With Amendment 3 looming on the November ballot, the legislature had an opportunity this year to secure equal protection for unborn children once and for all. Instead, they chose political compromise, and in doing so, abandoned both their moral duty before God and the very principles they claim to defend.

The Foundation to Abolish Abortion exists for one simple, unwavering purpose: to see abortion abolished in every state, with no exceptions and no delays. Their mission is rooted in the conviction that God commands civil authorities to uphold justice without partiality, not to regulate the killing of the innocent, but to end it completely.

WWNR RADIO

The Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act, if passed, would assign personhood at conception, giving fertilized eggs the same civil and criminal protections as “born” people, therefore making abortion homicide, as well as targeting certain forms of contraception and IVF.

Issue 1 gave Ohio citizens the right to make reproductive decisions, including abortion, which would make HB 370 unconstitutional, Firsich said. However, anti-abortion groups, such as the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, said Issue 1 should be treated as “null and void” as it contradicts the U.S. Constitution.