CNA Staff, Aug 15, 2025 / 14:33 pm
Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.
Costco won’t dispense abortion pill at pharmacy locations
Costco won’t dispense the abortion pill mifepristone in its pharmacies following pressure from investors to refuse selling the drug in its stores.
With more than 500 pharmacy locations, the retailer says the company hasn’t seen consumer demand for the pill, according to Bloomberg News.
A coalition including the legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the Idaho-based Inspire Investing last year publicly urged the company to not stock the drugs. Costco in the statement did not comment on whether the coalition played a role in its decision not to stock the drug.
Chemical abortions account for about half of the abortions in the United States every year.
ADF attorney Michael Ross called Costco’s decision “a very significant win” and said the group hopes “to build on” this win over the coming year.
Major online abortion provider named in Texas wrongful death lawsuit
A wrongful death lawsuit was recently filed against a major online abortion drug provider after a Texas man allegedly poisoned his wife and unborn child with drugs he obtained from the company.
According to the lawsuit, the man spiked the drink of the mother of his unborn child with abortion pills, killing the unborn child and sending the mother to the emergency room.
The lawsuit claims that Christopher Cooprider killed his own unborn child with abortion drugs from Aid Access, a group that ships abortion drugs into states like Texas, where abortion is generally banned.
The lawsuit names Aid Access Founder Rebecca Gomperts and Cooprider as defendants.
The filing contains a series of texts where Cooprider appears to attempt to pressure the mother of his child into abortion.
“You’ve told me 1,000 times you are trying to stress me out so that I lose the baby,” the mother wrote. “I can’t wait to hold that gorgeous baby though, if it’s alive.”
Though the mother had “no intention of aborting,” Cooprider slipped the abortion pills into her hot chocolate on April 5, the lawsuit said, leading to the death of the baby.
Pro-family groups file lawsuit opposing Montana’s constitutional right to abortion
Two pro-family Montana groups are continuing to oppose the abortion rights provision in the state’s constitution in a district court.
The Montana Life Defense Fund and Montana Family Foundation filed a lawsuit in Yellowstone District Court earlier this week.
The groups asked Judge Thomas Pardy to declare the constitutional initiative invalid because the full text was not printed on the ballot.
The Montana Constitution guarantees a right to abortion up to the point of fetal viability (around the 22nd week of gestation).
Advocates challenged the measure’s passage under a two-year statute of limitations. The groups were initially ruled against by the Montana Supreme Court but resolved to continue opposing the measure.
Indiana appeals court upholds pro-life law
The Indiana Court of Appeals this week upheld an Indiana pro-life law that protects unborn children throughout pregnancy with some exceptions.
In the 31-page ruling, a panel of judges ruled to uphold the law requiring abortions to be performed only in hospitals and surgery centers and to protect unborn life except in cases of a serious health or life risk to the mother, a lethal fetal anomaly, or cases of rape or incest.
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Click herePlanned Parenthood Great Northwest opposed the law in the suit, arguing that if a pregnancy risked the mother’s health, providers might be afraid to abort the unborn child because of fears of legal repercussions.
In addition, the plaintiffs opposed that the law required abortions to be performed in hospitals or surgical centers, not freestanding clinics.
The appeals court ruled to uphold the law, maintaining that the circumstances brought before them “do not necessitate an abortion to treat those risks.” The panel of judges added that because abortions are only allowed in “an extreme medical scenario,” the hospital rule “is not a material burden” on the state’s constitutional right ot abortion.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita called the ruling a “resounding victory for life” and said he is committed to “protecting the most vulnerable and upholding our state’s values.”
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