Posts by Melanie Wade
Honoring Baby Fran
Every March our friends at Dayton Right to Life host a memorial service for Baby Fran. Her precious remains were found in a dumpster at the Kettering abortion facility in 1986. This year would have been her 49th birthday. Tragically, this abortion business that discarded Fran’s human remains like trash, still operates as a for-profit…
Read MoreDeerfield Township Installs 14th Baby Box in Ohio
By: David Miller, originally published March 21, 2025, Loveland Magazine Deerfield Township, Ohio – The Deerfield Township Board of Trustees and Deerfield Township Fire Rescue Department dedicated a “state-of-the-art” baby box at Fire Rescue Station 57 (3435 US Route 22) on March 19. The baby box provides an anonymous alternative for individuals who make the difficult…
Read MoreAfter IVF nightmares, patients have few protections
An NBC News analysis found hundreds of lawsuits over five years alleging that embryos were lost, destroyed or swapped by fertility clinics or companies. By: Aria Bendix, Kenzi Abou-Sabe, Alexandra Chaidez, Priya Sridhar and Ellison Barber, originally published March 19, 2025, NBC News.com Krystena Murray realized something had gone awry in her in-vitro fertilization process…
Read MoreLetter from CRTL ED: America’s Flagship Planned Parenthood has ended their killing!
The Flagship Planned Parenthood of America is CLOSED and Being Sold – Why this is BIG News for Cincinnati A letter from Cincinnati Right to Life Executive Director Laura Strietmann Dear Cincinnati Right to Life friends and community, Praise the Lord. A miracle has happened! Yesterday, after hitting refresh on my computer, and hitting refresh…
Read More‘Stop compromising!’: Abby Johnson calls out cowardice in the pro-life movement
Time to stop playing nice–Abby Johnson speaks out at Bringing America Back to Life event. John-Henry Weston of LifeSiteNews, interviewed Abby Johnson immediately after her appearance at Bringing America Back to Life in Cleveland, OH on March 8, 2025. He shared that Abby “rebuked pro-life movement’s failures, called out weak leadership, moral cowardice, compromises that…
Read MoreWhat Republican Legislators Get Wrong about ‘Right to IVF’ Bills
By: Patience Sunne, originally published March 18, 2025, The Washington Stand A seemingly innocuous in vitro fertilization approach that has been embraced by conservative lawmakers in multiple states is to propose bills that clarify that the “right” to IVF is protected in state law. Unlike more sweeping bills, like the one in Nevada that explicitly states that IVF embryos…
Read MoreWith Adoptions on the Rise, Experts Say Trend Likely to Continue Post-Dobbs
By: Dan Hart, originally published March 18, 2025, The Washington Stand A new study has revealed that domestic adoptions of American children increased by over 3% in the U.S. between 2019 and 2022, which may be due in part to increased restrictions on international adoptions put in place by countries like China and Ukraine. While…
Read MoreRapid Fertility Decline Is an Existential Crisis
By: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, originally published February 11, 2025, American Enterprise Institute – AEI.org Humanity has entered a new era of rapid population decline. Globally, the total fertility rate is likely already below replacement—that is, below the level needed to sustain the population in the long run, approximately 2.18 children per woman. In the US, it’s…
Read MoreSt. Patrick, the Great Pro-Life Warrior
By: Michele Mason, originally published March 7, 2025, The Colorado Catholic Herald When the great St. Patrick is mentioned, what thoughts come to mind? Chasing the snakes out of Ireland? Using the three-leaf clover to teach about the Trinity? The fact that he was a bishop? How about St. Patrick as a pro-life warrior? That…
Read MoreTESTIMONY: 18-year-old died after 22-week abortion at Colorado Planned Parenthood
Cincinnati Right to Life shares this tragic news as a reminder that abortions in Ohio are taking place at this gestational stage many times each week. A pre-born baby at 22 weeks is viable outside the womb, and when born, can survive and grow to be a healthy child and adult. The Planned Parenthoods in Cincinnati and…
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