A question directed at pro-lifers tweeted out by an author critical of Alabama’s “heartbeat bill” prompted a flood of responses that ended up demonstrating the personal, proactive generosity of many in the pro-life movement.

In a tweet pointed out by Twitchy, “blue-check” author and Times of Israel blogger Sarah Tuttle-Singer wrote: “Dear Pro-Life friends: what have you *personally* done to support lower income single mothers? I’ll wait:”

Dear Pro-Life friends: what have you *personally* done to support lower income single mothers?

I’ll wait:

— (((TuttleSinger))) سارا تاتل سينجر שרה טאטל-סינגר (@TuttleSinger) May 15, 2019

The new Alabama laws won’t stop women from having abortions. They’ll find alternatives. Many women will go under the knife of back alley butchers, or use metal hangers in dirty rooms, or drink toxic herbs until they bleed out. Does that make you cringe? Do something about it

— (((TuttleSinger))) سارا تاتل سينجر שרה טאטל-סינגר (@TuttleSinger) May 15, 2019

I've spent the last 15 years serving breakfast once a month at a homeless shelter and making lunches for the same shelter once a month on a separate weekend. Your bad faith garbage argument is irrelevant, but I hope your happy with your supposed mic drop.

— Mo Mo (@molratty) May 15, 2019

Donated to crisis pregnancy centers.
Volunteered with the Sisters of Life (highly recommend: you can be helpful just by holding a baby while mama gets food at the potluck, for instance)
Offered to meet with anyone in a crisis pregnancy to talk about arranging to adopt their baby.

— Alexi Sargeant (@AlexiSargeant) May 15, 2019

The Mennonite community in our small town runs a huge foster care program, funded by their thrift store, in association with the prisons (our county has something like 14 prisons). They foster kids where they can be near their mothers and visit them with the aim of reunification.

— CleverNameGoesHere (@CaitEMarchand) May 15, 2019

Paid to have her car fixed and furnished the place they were living in (with the grandmother).

— IrritatedWoman (@irritatedwoman) May 16, 2019

I currently have a school friend of my daughter living with us, (we considered her a daughter now), who was raised by her now 85 year old grandmother since kindergarten. when her mom & dad abandoned her, for drugs & alcohol.

— Peg Demetris TOC 🇻🇦 (@CatholicForLife) May 15, 2019

Volunteered at a center assisting with the wellness (fitness, meals) of mothers
Babysat
Donated to adoptions
Drove moms to appointments
Was a friend (listened, talked, met up with, called)
*I truly do hope all the answers encourage you. Most people serve and love quietly.

— Trillia Newbell (@trillianewbell) May 16, 2019

After the overwhelming response, the author and blogger issued some follow-up tweets praising the personal generosity of pro-lifers, while suggesting the government needs to step in to do more.

“I am delighted to see that there are good people out there supporting struggling single moms:) wish our government did more, too!” she wrote. “It’s wonderful to see so many pro life people personally doing things to help struggling single moms – but what about the government? And what about better sex education and easier access to contraception?” (Read more from “Author Asks Pro-Lifers What They’ve Done to Help Lower Income Single Mothers, Gets Flood of Remarkable Answers” HERE)

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The Trump administration finalized a new rule in the Department of Health and Human services to protect the conscience rights of pro-life people and institutions in the health care field, officials announced Thursday.

The actual finalized rule is a pretty long one, totaling a whopping 440 pages in PDF form. The summary section at the top of the document states that the new rules are meant to step up the enforcement efforts of laws already passed by Congress to “ensure vigorous enforcement of Federal conscience and anti‐discrimination laws applicable to the Department, its programs, and recipients of HHS funds.”

A primary goal of the new regulation is to ensure that people and institutions in the medical field cannot be discriminated against by the government or others because of beliefs that bar them from taking part in or providing abortion. It also protects beliefs against contraception and “assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing.”

The enforcement of those new laws will fall to HHS’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR).

“This rule ensures that healthcare entities and professionals won’t be bullied out of the health care field because they decline to participate in actions that violate their conscience, including the taking of human life,” reads a statement from OCR Director Roger Severino. “Protecting conscience and religious freedom not only fosters greater diversity in healthcare, it’s the law.”

“Laws prohibiting government funded discrimination against conscience and religious freedom will be enforced like every other civil rights law,” explained Severino.

On a call with reporters Thursday afternoon, Severino went into greater detail on the scope of the rule, explaining that it’s meant to be an improvement over 2011 Obama administration regulations that have proven inadequate in the years since their enactment.

As an example of people who would be protected under the new regulations, Severino reminded reporters of the story of Cathy DeCarlo, a pro-life New York nurse who was forced by her employer to take part in an abortion, despite her clear, conscientious objections to doing so.

Severino also that the new regulations would even go as far as ensuring that pro-life medical students would not face discrimination because of their views, saying that medical specialities like gynecology and obstetrics should not be “pro-life-free zones.”

The rule stems from a 2017 executive order from President Donald Trump directing his administration to “to vigorously enforce Federal law’s robust protections for religious freedom.”

President Trump announced the new regulations during his remarks from the White House Rose Garden for the National Day of Prayer on Thursday.

“Together, we are building a culture that cherishes the dignity and worth of human life,” the president said, saying that the rules would protect the conscience rights of “physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and faith-based charities.”

“Every child born and unborn is a sacred gift from God,” Trump added, to applause from the attendees.

Trump made announcement in the Rose Garden, as White House marks the National Day of Prayer.

“Together, we are building a culture that cherishes the dignity and worth of human life,” Trump added. pic.twitter.com/Y8UD3SYiAk

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 2, 2019

Like other federal regulations, the new conscience rule will go into effect 60 days from its publication in the Federal Register. On the call, Severino told reporters that he expects publication to happen “very soon.” (For more from the author of “Trump Administration Announces New Protections for Pro-Life Health Care Orgs” please click HERE)

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People are working to spread the pro-life message through cultural media like music, movies, and poetry, but what about fashion? One homeschooling Philadelphia-area mom has that front covered.

Carla D’Addesi and her daughters have always had a passion for shopping. “It’s our cardio,” she joked to me about their retail habits. But when they realized that so many of their favorite clothing lines were kicking back proceeds to organizations that didn’t share their views, they decided to stop buying in and start their own fashion line.

“We felt very marginalized by the fashion industry,” Carla told me at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “There were a lot of brands that were anti-American or they were giving our dollars to organizations like Planned Parenthood that went against our core principles.”

The relationship between the fashion world and the pro-abortion movement isn’t a secret. In 2017, 43 fashion designers lined up to help out Planned Parenthood during New York Fashion Week.

Conservative corporate activism watchdog 2ndVote keeps a running list of companies that have either donated to Planned Parenthood or have given to third parties that do. That list includes several famous brands such as Converse, Dockers, Banana Republic, Ann Taylor, and Old Navy. And if you want to support America’s largest abortion provider more directly, there are several smaller brands that are more vocal about their pro-abortion stance.

Ultimately, the idea for the company started with a gradual “build-up,” Carla’s 18-year-old daughter Vittoria told me. “Over time we would joke about it, you know, ‘Mom, you’re gonna have to start sewing soon, because there’s no more stores.’”

“Then one day,” Vittoria continued, “like a good Italian family, we’re sitting at our dinner table over a bowl of pasta and we were talking, you know, ‘What can we do? What’s something different that nobody else has done yet, but that can support the movement and be good for everyone?’”

“My family sits around the dinner table and we do discuss religion and politics from the time the kids were little,” Carla explained, noting that she also homeschooled her three daughters. “We have always stood outside of the Planned Parenthoods and prayed. We have been at rallies. We do the March for Life. And we just saw that the Left so appeared to be reaching our kids in pop culture and we saw a huge gap.”

“So we said, ‘Let’s try and reach the other side for life by making life glamorous and starting a fashion line,’” Carla recalled. “So this is absolutely a brand on a mission for people on a mission.”

Carla said that recent controversies over late-term abortion laws and infanticide have only increased the market for her brand.

“And believe me, there’s never been a better time to launch a pro-life fashion line than today,” Carla explained. “Because forget about abortion; it’s now about infanticide; it’s now about botched abortions where there’s babies gasping for breath on the table and we are denying them the right to life.”

“We did the research,” Carla said. “There’s nine million teen, tweens, Millennial young women that identify as being pro-life.” And she and her daughters want “to empower them” and “to make them stronger and we’re using the medium of fashion to do that.”

Right now the COL 1972 site features pieces like hoodies, knit hats and sweatpants, and travel bags, most of which are emblazoned with the company’s logo. Over time, the goal is to build out more options for both men and women.

But where does the company’s creative spark come from? So far, COL 1972 has gotten some help from a designer in Los Angeles, but Carla says that she and the girls are going to roll out their own designs this spring with their “Life is Amazing” campaign when the weather starts warming up.

“So you’re going to be seeing beach bags, flip-flops, dresses that just have the simple message: ‘Life is Amazing,’” Carla says. “Because it is!” (For more from the author of “This Pro-Life Mom Got Tired of Fashion’s Support for the Abortion Industry. So She Started Her Own Brand” please click HERE)

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In response to New York’s recent decision to allow abortions up to the moment of birth, Focus on the Family has launched “See Life Clearly,” the largest pro-life effort in the history of the organization.

The global Christian ministry’s campaign will conclude on May 4 with “Alive from New York,” featuring live 4D ultrasounds that will be broadcast across the large monitors in Times Square.

“We’re looking forward to celebrating life in the middle of Manhattan this coming May. Times Square is known as ‘The Crossroads of the World’ and we’re at a crossroad as a nation regarding life,” Focus on the Family President Jim Daly told TheBlaze in an email. “Do we really want to be part of the Abortion Axis of Evil – like China, North Korea and Vietnam that allows abortion for any reason after 20 weeks? We’re hearing from people all over the country who are disgusted by the blatant disregard for life. Enough is enough!”

In a bold move, Focus on the Family is gearing up to blast live ultrasounds on monitors and screens across New York's Times Square. https://t.co/G0tsRnm1fk@FocusFamily

— CBN News (@CBNNews) February 13, 2019

Focus on the Family President Jim Daly believes the images of a baby inside a mother’s womb will be undeniable.

“We’ll have great speakers. We’re going to have music, but we’re also going to do a live ultrasound of a third-trimester baby. And with the 4D technology that we have, it looks like a picture of a 1-year-old,” Daly told CBN News. “There is no way a person is going to be able to say, ‘That is not a child.’ It is a child and we want everybody to see it,” (Read more from “Focus on the Family Plans to Broadcast Live 4D Ultrasounds on Giant Screen in Times Square” HERE)

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