Pastor Rusty Thomas of Waco, Texas, was arrested as he read scripture and prayed on the property of Wichita abortionist George Tiller. Two cars with abortion-bound mothers drove past Tiller's abortion mill, but instead of driving in, drove down the block. During the brief time Pastor Thomas was in jail, three inmates prayed to receive Jesus as Lord!

Recent studies indicate that between 60 and 90% of women who had planned to abort their baby changed their mind after viewing a sonogram in a doctor's office.

A month-long battle over how pro-lifers may conduct their street ministry outside the Summit Women's Center has ended, with police lifting restrictions that forced all protesters 28 feet away from the abortion mill's entrance and 5 feet from anyone entering the center. Deputy Police Chief David Boston said that pro-abortion clinic escorts illegally painted a white line in the street, leading police to believe that people had to stand beyond that line.

The "Anti-Defamation League" launched a new web site Monday, claiming that it will serve as a database for law enforcement officials investigating "hate groups." The site will reportedly help officials to obtain background on on leaders of pro-life groups, along with white supremacist movements and groups advocating violence.

People from across the country are expected to gather in Wichita July 15-21. "We have to continue to expose what's going on here," said Donna Lippoldt of Operation Save America, in reference to abortionist George Tiller. "We can't cover up the fact that we have the best-known third-trimester abortionist in the nation."

Social-agency leaders and religious professionals aligned their resources Friday to help pregnant women in need. The gathering was a strategy session for Project Gabriel, a national pro-life movement to assist women through "crisis" pregnancies. To get involved in Project Gabriel, parishes place a sign outside their church that offers immediate help to expectant mothers in crisis.

U.S. Catholic bishops voted overwhelmingly on Friday to forbid Catholic hospitals from being directly or indirectly involved in sterilization procedures, such as popular tubal ligations.

Asheville's Life Advocates have been paying a visit to Asheville area high schools with what they call a final lesson to be learned before the graduates enter the adult world. The group has been displaying large signboards of photographs of aborted babies with a one word message at the top: "choice."

Commentary from Tim Palmquist of Voice For Life: Under the Michigan Women's Right to Know law, women must receive basic information before an abortion is committed. But while the new Michigan "informed consent" web site contains substantial information on fetal development and the risks and complications of abortion, it also includes some significant errors. In particular, the site repeatedly emphasizes deceptive statistics claiming to show that abortion is safer than childbirth. While some pro-life groups are applauding the site, we caution pro-life missionaries to carefully review the information on this site before recommending it to women who are considering abortion.

Priests for Life published ads in major newspapers recently focusing on women who lost their lives from legal abortions. "We call on NOW, NARAL, and Planned Parenthood to join us in seeking an investigation of the standards by which abortion clinics do or do not protect the health of their patients," said Father Frank Pavone. "If these groups are truly concerned about women being harmed and exploited, they will call for an end to abortion malpractice and violence against women. If they don't, they show themselves to be more protective of the abortion industry than of women's lives and health."

Graphic photos, some of which compared Planned Parenthood to Hitler, were displayed on a Cheyenne street Tuesday. Pastor Ralph Ovadal, a leader of the group, said "Some great things have happened on this western tour... we've had some babies saved - that's confirmed." Most people who saw the demonstration in Cheyenne seemed sympathetic.

A federal appeals court panel has overturned a lower court decision and ruled that a woman can proceed anonymously in her lawsuit against an abortion clinic. In the lawsuit, the woman accused workers at the now-defunct Aware Woman Center in Melbourne of preventing her from leaving the abortion center, in violation of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law.

In an effort to head off opposition to a pro-life demonstration, Brian Brown of the American Family Association Center for Law and Policy sent a 10-page legal briefing advising city authorities about laws governing peaceful demonstrations. "We will bring suit against your fair city, and any unfair agents and officers, if need be," the briefing said. "This is not intended to be a threat, but rather fair warning."

"I find little evidence to support the claim that legalized abortion caused the reduction in crime. I conclude that the association between abortion and crime is not causal, but most likely the result of confounding from unmeasured period effects such as changes in crack cocaine use and its spillover effects."

Even as Timothy McVeigh awaits execution for his crime against humanity, in the fashionable Quail Creek section of Oklahoma City another murder case is scheduled for trial.

Nonviolent pro-lifers who "interfere" with "reproductive health clinic clients" could be sentenced to six months in jail and $5,000 fines if SB 780, a bill approved Wednesday by the state Senate, becomes law. Sen. Charles Poochigian, who voted against the bill, said "if this bill were about violence... there would be strong bipartisan support, but this bill is about freedom of speech and acting on that speech."

A woman was brought from the "Hope" abortion mill in Granite City to St. Elizabeth's Catholic hospital on June 1 after a botched abortion.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared Tuesday that it will not hear Planned Parenthood's appeal of a ruling which said committing abortions would violate Lancaster City's zoning law.

Milwaukee's Missionaries to the Preborn displayed graphics signs exposing Planned Parenthood as "Butchers of Mankind" on Tuesday in Rapid City and Pierre. Linda Ovadal of Monroe, Wis., said three post-abortion women sought counseling after viewing the signs in Sioux Falls. "Seeing the pictures changes hearts, and they knew what they had done," she said.

Voice For Life and several other peaceful pro-life ministries are labeled as criminal organizations in a report recently prepared by the California Senate Office of Research. The libelous report was issued to generate support for SB 780, the latest attempt to punish efforts to save babies from abortion as if they were "hate crimes."

A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop Bridgeport police from forcing all individuals involved in a pro-life street ministry to keep 28 feet from a Bridgeport abortion facility's entrance and 8 feet from people entering the building.

Economic and medical realities are weighing heavily on the introduction of mifepristone (the RU-486 abortion pill) in the United States. High prices and the reluctance of doctors and even many abortion facilities to offer it have slowed the "revolution" that many expected.

The pro-life movement has to make the embryo and early fetus as real to people as the late term fetus already is, Gregg Cunningham of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform told Alberta pro-lifers.

Nearly two decades ago, Robyn Bowen refused when a doctor said she needed an abortion to save her life. Now, her 19-year-old son is giving her a kidney and a chance to keep living.

In an effort to provide a platform for women's voices to be heard by both supporters and opponents of abortion, Priests for Life and the Elliot Institute have announced a combined effort to make an expanded number of women's testimonies available to the public through the internet.

Two prominent researchers have asserted that a recent study -- purporting to show that abortion causes a drop in crime -- is simply not supported by the facts. Ted Joyce, Ph.D., of the National Bureau of Economic Research, has released a counter study, using the same data, which finds no causal effect of abortion on crime. Carnegie-Mellon Professor Alfred Blumstein, director of the National Consortium on Violence Research, has edited a new book, Crime Drop in America, in which several experts point to such factors as prison expansion and the waning of the crack epidemic as the real reasons for the crime drop.

The Illinois Court of Appeals recently reversed the conviction of sidewalk counselor Laura Carroll on the charge of trespass. Carroll's "crime" was walking onto an abortion mill's parking lot in order to deliver asked-for pamphlets. Bryan J. Brown, Litigation Counsel with the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy, said "abortion clinics are put on notice -- if they invite the general public into their waiting rooms then they invite even pro-life advocates into their waiting rooms." Carroll recently joined the Sisters of Saint John Convent, where she received her habit and was christened "Sister Mary Alix."

Twenty-seven studies published in major medical journals show a significantly elevated risk of premature birth from prior induced abortions. Medical research indicates that preterm birth increases the risk of respiratory distress and asthma, cerebral palsy and death.

The National Abortion Federation is beginning a six-month $2 million ad campaign promoting the abortion pill, but their ads will not include details of the drug's side effects, even though such disclosures are usually a required element of drug advertisements.

Notorious abortionist James Scott Pendergraft, 43, was sentenced to three years, 10 months in prison Thursday, after being convicted in federal court in Ocala, Florida on charges of conspiracy to commit extortion, lying under oath and mail fraud.

British women who abort their babies or have an early miscarriage should be able to ask for a funeral or cremation, says the country's Royal College of Nursing. "We need to recognize the fact that women want to know what has happened to their baby," said Lesley Allen, a member of the RCN working party.

Three Christian evangelists have filed a lawsuit alleging that the city of Denver violated their First Amendment rights when police forced them to stop preaching against abortion on a university campus.

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to hear a case involving a group of North Dakota residences who were arrested for taking part in a peaceful "prayer walk" in an abortionist's neighborhood.

Bill Whatcott of the Christian Truth Activists was charged with unlawfully distributing literature at the University of Regina on Monday. Whatcott had been distributing literature which contained a photo of a living pre-born child and a pre-born child who was killed by abortion.

Judie Brown of the American Life League warns that the so-called contraceptive patch "can destroy flesh and blood in the form of an already-conceived human person." Pro-abortion groups are demanding quick Food and Drug Administration approval of the patch.

Attorney J. Fred Hart, 51, was stabbed by an angry woman on Saturday as he picketed the "Family Health Care Clinic." The woman claims that she cut Hart during a struggle, but another pro-lifer says he captured most of the attack on video.

You can burn a U.S. flag and that is considered constitutionally protected speech. You can dance nude at the Kitty Kat bar in South Bend, Ind., because you are thereby expressing yourself. But you must not dare to stand within 100 feet of a Colorado health care facility and suggest to a fellow human being that unborn children have a right to live.

Members of the group Precious Life plan to carry out citizens' arrests on abortionists who are committing illegal abortions, hoping to bring the issue into human rights courts. "We know... that abortions are being carried out for socio-economic reasons and are not legal," said Precious Life spokesman Jim Dowson. "They should either change the law or uphold the law."

Abortionist Kristin Neuhaus announced today that she will stop committing abortions in Wichita after May 28. She will apparently continue committing abortions in Lawrence. Neuhaus is facing a hearing before the Kansas Board of Healing Arts after an investigation found that she failed to follow various medical safety procedures, and committed an abortion on a woman who had withdrawn consent.

A federal appeals court is being asked to overturn a Massachusetts law which forces pro-life counselors to stay at least 18 feet away from abortion mills and six feet away from women seeking abortions. The law "is giving unfair advantage to one side of the abortion debate," said Mark Rienzi, a lawyer for three pro-life missionaries.

Abortionist Jose Gilberto Higuera's medical license has been revoked as a result of his guilty plea to a charge of falsifying medical records. Because of Higuera's plea, prosecutors agreed to drop charges of committing a felonious abortion.

So far, most women don't want mifepristone ("the French abortion pill," also known as RU-486), and few doctors will touch it. "There are a lot more problems with using that (drug) than the public's been led to believe," said Dr. Terry Winegar, president of the San Diego Academy of Family Physicians. Melissa Grant of Greater Iowa Planned Parenthood said "there's a certain myth out there still that this is a magic pill and will make everything go away. Once a woman is pregnant, there is no easy and comfortable way to have that change."

After operating Florida abortion mills for 22 years, Patricia Baird-Windle has joined with an abortion activist to write a book detailing her battles against pro-life ministries. The book quotes Susan Hill, founder of the "National Women's Health Organization," as saying "Do you have any idea what we could have accomplished if we had not had to waste so much time fighting the antis?" Florida pro-life leader Meredith Raney responded "I just think that she has verified what we've been saying all along, that the pro-life movement has been effective at reducing the number of abortions in this country."

Daniel Gilman's negligence caused the death of a woman who was poisoned during an abortion at a Milwaukee hospital, a jury found Friday. However, the woman's estate was late in filing its lawsuit against Gilman, so he will not be liable for any of the $2.3 million the jury felt would fairly compensate the woman's family.

Abortionist John Biskind, 75, was sentenced today to five years in prison and ordered to pay $12,841.40 in restitution. He had been found guilty of manslaughter in February, as a result of the 1998 death of LouAnne Herron, who bled to death after a late-term abortion.

The D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of several pro-life missionaries, striking down a 1998 court order restricting pro-life demonstrations within 20 feet of any "reproductive health facility." The appellate court said the original judge's language was too broad and violated the demonstrators' constitutional right of free speech.

The Life Center of Long Island plans to offer "the first pro-life medical facility on Long Island" across the street from a newly opened Planned Parenthood. "We will be attempting to reach the women walking in the door [of Planned Parenthood] and that's our right," said Lorraine Gariboldi, Executive Director of the Life Center.

The new head of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), Dr. Thomas Purdon, proposed Monday that OB/GYNs routinely offer advance prescriptions for the morning-after pill. Teresa Wagner, Life Policy Analyst for the Family Research Council, challenged the ACOG to admit that the morning-after pill can destroy a human life already conceived. "In failing to inform the public of this function, ACOG is deliberately misleading Americans, which is a gross violation of medical ethics (not to mention honesty)," Wagner said. Wagner pointed out that some groups now claim that pregnancy begins upon implantation rather than at fertilization.

Officials in Elkhorn, WI, have paid a $6600 settlement to pro-life missionaries for arresting them last October for violating a scandalous ordinance. "We hope it really does send a strong message to other municipalities," said Rev. Matt Trewhella of Missionaries to the Preborn.

SB 780 would fine pro-lifers up to $10,000 for non-violent acts, and up to $100,000 for intimidating or interfering with a person outside of an abortion facility.

Linda Boom, 35, died during an "amnioinfusion termination of pregnancy" in September 1995. The chemical which was intended to stop her baby's heart apparently had the unintended effect of stopping the mother's heart. Boom's widower has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Sinai Samaritan Medical Center of Milwaukee.

The Archdiocese of Washington held their first special prayer session for parents who lost their unborn children to abortion on Sunday, The Feast of the Divine Mercy. "Everybody knows that the Catholic Church is against abortions," said Maureen Breitenbach, a coordinator for Project Rachel, "but what many don't know is that we care about the parents just as much as we care about the children."

"Whatever happens within these walls stays within them because no one, not the patients, not the staff or even the doctor, wants to think about the center or the procedures performed there when they leave."

The "National Organization for Women" (NOW) held what was billed as an "Emergency Action for Women's Lives" rally on Sunday to energize the nation's youth behind their campaign for so-called "reproductive freedom." Tina Whittington with Rock For Life said they have succeeded, but not in the way they had planned. "We are now a generation choosing chastity over promiscuity, and life over abortion," Whittington said.

Abortionist Steven Pack was sentenced to two years in prison for forcibly injecting his pregnant girlfriend with a drug in an unsuccessful attempt to cause an abortion.

Rock For Life is claiming a major victory at the University of Virginia, where college regulations blocked Planned Parenthood's effort to distribute condoms and pro-abortion literature at a Dave Matthews Band concert.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who was touted as "pro-life," has dismayed pro-lifers by his endorsement of the abortion drug RU-486.

Without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a New Jersey pro-life group's challenge to the 1994 "Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances" (FACE) Act. The pro-life group's lawyer said the law represented "an overreaching by Congress, enacted in a time of pro-abortion hysteria when even peaceful protests were viewed as posing an intolerable threat to public order."

Large pictures of aborted babies were displayed on the Texas Tech campus in Lubbock on Thursday. Dorothy Boyett, who has been a pro-life missionary for 10 years, said her goal is for students to see these signs of aborted babies and to realize the humanity of the babies being aborted. "We just want people to see the truth," she said. Marla Bryan, director of Heartline Pregnancy, said Lubbock has the only abortion facility in a 200-mile radius, with women coming there from the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas.

Next Friday's "Rock for Choice Show" is billed as an effort to "save" Roe v. Wade. Rock For Life and Operation Rescue will hold a pro-life rally outside the concert hall. Erik Whittington of Rock For Life said the Feminist Majority is too late to "save" Jane Roe, who "already has been saved from the lies of the Big Abortion industry."

When pro-life missionaries went soul-winning in abortionist Judd Goodman's neighborhood on Sunday, a neighbor told them that Goodman died from cancer on March 26. "We have been praying hard for the past five months or so asking our Lord to remove Dr. Goodman one way or another," said Dan LaFreniere, Director of Fort Worth Pro-Life Ministries

Melanie Renee Beer, 26, a University of Northern Iowa senior, was arrested and charged with simple assault and criminal mischief on Tuesday, after she reportedly attacked a pro-life missionary. This newspaper report is an excellent example of pro-abortion media bias, as it hides this assault report in a story which seeks to raise funds for an Iowa City abortion chamber.

As part of a four-day tour of Iowa college towns, Missionaries to the Preborn displayed graphic abortion signs on a street corner in Dubuque on Monday afternoon. "At the end of World War II, American GIs marched German citizens - men, women and children - past the remains of those who died in death camps. We want people to see what a pre-born child looks like after he or she is in the hands of an abortionist," said Pastor Matt Trewhella, founder of the missionary group.

Pro-Life Czech Republic organized a 600-strong demonstration in downtown Prague in late March and is responsible for a pro-life advertising campaign which features a poster depicting a preborn baby and the slogan "Help to the mothers, life for the children, and truth for the public."

Prosecutors charge that a reputed Mafia boss ran a sprawling criminal empire from his legal abortion business. As his trial gets underway, WORLD looks at the structure of a largely cash-based industry that is both profitable and politically protected. If it happened in Chicago, why not elsewhere? And what is the Bush administration going to do about it?

When the issue was civil rights 40 years ago, most of the mainstream media chose to promote the nonviolent ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. and treat him as the movement's legitimate leader. Men like Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown and Malcolm X, all of whom advocated violence to achieve their objectives, were eventually marginalized and portrayed as outside the mainstream. With abortion, it's the reverse. The extremists are featured and responsible voices are ignored, because extremists help the pro-choice cause.

A Superior Court judge removed Gianna's Prayer Gift Shoppe from a lawsuit filed by abortionist Steven Brigham against sidewalk counselors. The shop is next door to the abortion facility, but the judge said there was no evidence that the shop was participating with the sidewalk counselors.

Amniocentesis tests on pregnant women to check for Down syndrome cause up to four healthy babies to be miscarried for every "abnormality" detected, according to researchers at St. Bartholomew's medical school in London.

Two Wisconsin pro-life missionaries have filed a lawsuit claiming that Lake Geneva's parade and assembly ordinance is unconstitutional. Last November, Lake Geneva police had threatened to charge the missionaries with violating the city's newly enacted ordinance, which requires pro-lifers wanting to assemble or demonstrate anywhere in the city to first give 30 days notice. A similar ordinance was revoked in nearby Elkhorn, Wisconsin, after the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy filed suit. The Center is also representing the missionaries in the suit against Lake Geneva.