CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 / 17:34 pm

Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.

WHO promotes abortion drugs on essential medicines list

Pro-life leaders are expressing concern after the inclusion of abortion drugs in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s latest annual list of essential medicines, noting that the drugs can be “dangerous.”

The Model List of Essential Medicines 2025 , released on “International Safe Abortion Day,” had a section dedicated to abortion drugs, which for the first time did not include the caveat that these medicines are not legal or culturally acceptable everywhere.

According to WHO, “the list no longer carries the boxed caveat, in place since 2005, that singled out these medicines as only to be used where legally permitted or culturally

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