Earlier today, the most recent hearing in an ongoing licensing dispute between Whole Woman’s Health Alliance (WWHA) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) took place. A three-member panel presided at the...

I first met Antonio when we were freshmen in high school. We both attended an Antioch youth retreat and quickly became very close friends. His love for the Faith despite trying circumstances was very inspiring to me, and I vividly remember thinking...

Our oldest son, Thomas, was born right after our graduation at the end of our senior year. Our next son, John Patrick, was born a year and a half later, and our third son, Andrew, was born a year after that. Andrew was born very sick, but no doctor was able to diagnose him. He relied on feeding tubes, had developmental delays, would turn blue...

In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul quotes the Prophet Hosea. He says, “O death where is your victory? O death where is your sting?” (1 Cor. 15:55). My father, James Harty, died this past January. He was part of the Greatest Generation. He grew up in the depression, he was a World War II veteran, he worked...

Although she was an innocent victim of an unimaginable crime, Cassie’s birth mother soon discovered that her life was not the only one that was affected. When Cassie’s birth mother learned that she had conceived Cassie, she courageously chose to press on through the pregnancy despite the violence...

In 1982 I had not one, but two abortions. I was a part-time student working at the YMCA in South Bend. The first time I was pregnant, I thought it would get me married. This didn’t happen. Steve, the baby’s father, had a brother whose girlfriend...

The following is copied with permission from this blog post, written by long-time St. Joseph County Right to Life member, Rick...

An administrative judge has ruled in favor of Texas-based abortion chain, Whole Woman’s Health Alliance (WWHA), which is trying to open an abortion facility in South Bend. In January, WWHA appealed the decision of the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) to reject WWHA’s application for an Indiana abortion...

Sparking controversy in local, national, and international spheres, a Dallas billboard posted the message: "Black women...

Whole Woman's Health (WWH) has been working for months now to get a foothold in South Bend. They've purchased property, applied for a license, appealed after the license denial, and run a media campaign. We, the pro-life community, will combat their doggedness, semantics, dishonesty, and immorality through the single most powerful weapon we have...

On Sunday, March 25th, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed two Senate Enrolled Acts in a decisive pro-life victory for the Hoosier state. St. Joseph County Right to Life had been following the passage of Senate Enrolled Act 340...​

A Washington Post article from January 24th recounts the disturbing euthanasia of a Dutch woman with dementia. Referred to in records only as “2016-85,” the woman had made an advance written request to be euthanized in case of dementia. The wording of the directive was “ambiguous,” though, and...

Whole Woman's Health has made their expected appeal to the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) following the ISDH's Notice of License Application Denial...

The Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health has issued Whole Woman's Health a Notice of License Application Denial, forcing the clinic to appeal in order to obtain an abortion license...

“So Sjoerd costs us, as a society, forty-eight thousand Euros per year.” The message the video wants to spread is clear: a person’s worth is determined by how much they cost society...

On Tuesday, December 5, 31 individuals joined St. Joseph County Right to Life to express concerns before the St. Joseph County Council regarding threats to the health and safety of women...

This past Tuesday, November 7, emergency personnel were alerted as an infant was surrendered at this location. Emergency personnel estimate that the baby was only about one hour old, still...

As part of an effort to stop Whole Woman’s Health, a national abortion chain, from making its way into our community, St. Joseph County Right to Life and Indiana Right to Life have teamed up to launch a vast media campaign...

October 31, 2017

An October 30 press release from Whole Woman’s Health reveals CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller’s true motive for seeking to open abortion facilities in South Bend and...

As a representative of the organization, Compassion and Choices (formerly known as The Hemlock Society), Bev Hmurovic stood in support of “medical aid in dying,” while Dan Lowery, former IU Northwest...

October 27, 2017

The Washington Free Beacon reported this morning that Whole Woman’s Health (WWH), the abortion chain that hopes to open a new abortion facility in South Bend, has had multiple health and safety violations...

Both US Representative Jackie Walorski and State Senator Joe Zakas publicly wrote to the Indiana Health Dept and Gov. Eric Holcomb respectively opposing the opening of a new abortion facility...

October 25, 2017

In a heated, fast-moving case this week, “Jane Doe” a young, undocumented teenage mother from Mexico was played as a pawn in a political game by abortion advocates...

As one of the oldest pro-life groups in the nation, St. Joseph County Right to Life has flourished into a community of more than 10,000 strong, nearly 800 of whom gathered together on October 12 for the 26th annual...

Antonio Marchi, Program Director at St. Joseph County Right to Life made the following announcement at the organization's annual banquet...

If signed into law, this pro-life legislation would ban abortions after 20 weeks, by which time children in the womb are certainly able to feel...

September 28, 2017

On September 25, a federal judge permanently blocked the State of Indiana from enforcing a law that would have protected infants in the womb from abortion on the sole basis of genetic differences, race, or gender.  Attorney General Curtis Hill has already announced plans...

Instead of truly aiding families devastated by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in Texas & Florida respectively, pro-abortion advocates are using Harvey to push their agenda. Whole Woman’s Health, a Texas-based abortion clinic, has been advertising an abortion giveaway...

The American College of Physicians (ACP) recently issued a policy statement against the legalization of assisted suicide.  This is of vital importance as it opposes the tide of lobbyists pushing physicians to adopt a position of “studied neutrality,” desiring the legalization of suicide for all...

Compassion and Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society, continues working hard to encourage widespread acceptance of physician assisted suicide. This organization is no stranger to our community, having held one of its workshops at a South Bend public library this past spring which clearly had an agenda aligned with advancing...

Attorneys general from 20 states filed a brief on Thursday, September 9 urging the Supreme Court of the United States to allow the release of barred videos from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). Indiana's Attorney General Hill was among this number. Many of the CMP videos were captured undercover...

This past Tuesday in Beaumont, TX, a small town with bayous East of Houston, Colette Sulcer, a mother and her 3-year-old daughter were caught in severe flooding due to the intense, continual rain from Hurricane Harvey.  They were traveling southbound on the service road and got into high water. Sulcer pulled her vehicle into the Plaza 10 parking lot. The vehicle got stuck and the mother...

It is no coincidence that some of our most precious gifts are also those that are attacked and manipulated the hardest. Abortion has shown us that this is certainly the case with the gift of life. Nonetheless, the tragedy of degrading the dignity of the human person does not stop with the unborn. In our current culture, we are seeing this same degradation...

An African American child is 3 times more likely to be killed in utero than a white child. Thirty percent of black pregnancies end in abortion, excluding miscarriages, and more African Americans are killed by abortion each year in the United States than ALL OTHER causes...

Recent news from Iceland just highlighted that Down syndrome was 100% removed from their country.  This was accomplished however, not by curing the disease or healing the children, but rather through selective abortions. ​As humans, we know that prenatal testing can be...

This Tuesday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a bill into law that requires abortion coverage to all Oregonians. The new law applies to both citizens and undocumented immigrants, regardless of income and gender identity, and it includes abortion coverage throughout all nine months of pregnancy for virtually any reason, including sex...

This week, CBS News reported striking headlines boasting that Iceland's population of individuals with Down syndrome has almost disappeared. In reality, as pro-life actress, activist, and feminist, Patricia Heaton, responded over social media, "Iceland isn't actually eliminating Down syndrome. They're just killing everybody that...

Newly released data from the Indiana State Department of Health’s (ISDH) annual abortion report shows that 161 abortions were performed on women from St. Joseph County in 2016, compared to 312 the prior year.​​ The report also shows that 0 abortions were performed in St. Joseph County in 2016, compared to 578 in 2015 (includes non-resident women). Two thousand sixteen is the first year since 1978 that St. Joseph County has reported...​

Preview footage has been released from the 2014 and 2015 National Abortion Federation conventions, obtained by undercover investigators from the Center for Medical Progress. Although YouTube removed the video on Thursday, May 25, you can view most of the footage by clicking the thumbnail above. The following are among many heart-wrenching, gruesome, and insensitive...

Today, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) and the American Civil Liberties Union seeks an injunction against the requirement in the Dignity for the Unborn Law that specifies women receive an ultrasound at least 18 hours before an abortion. Obama-appointed federal judge, Tanya Walton Pratt, is hearing arguments this afternoon...

Public records have surfaced which indicate that Indiana University is buying aborted baby brains for $200.00 each. This invoice is proof! Further, the university has filed a law suit against the State of Indiana, arguing against measures which would prevent them from continuing these practices (see here). “Each aborted baby’s brain being dissected by Indiana University researchers belonged to a little...

​Forty-five years ago, 11 individuals gathered around a kitchen table in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling that would legalize abortion. Fueled by humble passion and a desire to defend innocent human life, they began St. Joseph County Right to Life. As one of the oldest pro-life groups in the nation...

The American Medical Association currently opposes physician-assisted suicide, as is evident in their  Position Statement on the Role of the Medical Practitioner in End of Life Care: ​“The AMA recognizes that there are divergent views regarding euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The AMA believes that medical practitioners should not be involved in interventions...