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    ‘Off-the-Wall Abortion Policies’ Are Actually Common Sense, Widely Supported

    Pro-choice Republicans in Congress are back. What had become a dying breed in the past couple of years, Republicans who consistently vote against basic pro-life protections have taken the House appropriations process hostage. This group of about eight to 10 Republicans have now helped to sink two appropriations bills over policies that are commonsense solutions…
    Connor Semelsberger
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    Tuberville’s Effort to End Pentagon Abortion Policy Backed by Veterans on Heritage Foundation National Security Team  

    To mark Veterans Day, six national security analysts at The Heritage Foundation who served in the military released a statement Thursday supporting Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s stand against the Pentagon’s abortion policy.  President Joe Biden “is the one playing politics with the military,” longtime Heritage national security expert James Jay Carafano, who signed the statement, told…
    Lucy Gilbert
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    3 States Sue FDA for Allowing Abortion Pills to Be Shipped Via Mail

    Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced Monday that several states sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for allowing abortion pills to be shipped through the mail. Missouri, along with Idaho and Kansas, filed a lawsuit alleging the FDA “failed” to meet its “statutory responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of all Americans by rejecting or…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    High School Students Chase Abortion Advocates off Property, Burn Contraceptives They Left Behind

    When abortion advocates came to their high school to give a talk, pro-life students in the African republic of Malawi chased them off the grounds and then burned their boxes of condoms and other contraceptives. Malawi, home to some of the tightest abortion restrictions in the world, is a frequent target of abortion advocates. The…
    Sara Garstka
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    Federal Judge Blocks Colorado’s Abortion Drug Reversal Ban

    A federal judge has blocked implementation of Colorado’s ban on abortion drug reversals, citing constitutional grounds. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico issued an order last Saturday halting Colorado’s ban on performing abortion drug reversal procedures, citing concerns about religious freedom. Domenico wrote: “The law at issue here runs afoul of these First Amendment principles. And because it…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    VA Won’t Explain What It Means to Save the ‘Health’ of the Mother in an Abortion

    One year since it began performing abortions, the Department of Veterans Affairs released annualized data to the House Veterans' Affairs Committee under threat of a subpoena. The VA disclosed to Congress that it had provided 88 abortions through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30—of which 64 were said to have been performed…
    Sara Garstka
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    The Haunting Reason Britney Spears Had an Abortion

    So much for abortion being a woman’s choice. In her upcoming memoir, pop star Britney Spears reveals she had an abortion—and it wasn’t because she wanted one. “If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” Spears writes about her abortion in “The Woman in Me,” reports People magazine….
    Katrina Trinko
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    Abortion Apathy Akin to Civil War-Era Indifference Toward Slavery

    Everyone has encountered apathy about abortion:  “I wouldn’t get one, but I can’t tell anyone else what to do” or “It’s not my problem what other people do with their bodies.”  That spirit of apathy toward the greatest moral violation of the day isn’t new. Before the Civil War, Stephen Douglas said he didn’t care…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Planned Parenthood Turns Its Attention to Confused Adolescents Who Think They’re Trans

    For Planned Parenthood, June is the cruelest month. Last year, on June 24, at the end of a blockbuster Supreme Court term, the high court issued its landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That ruling overturned Roe v. Wade and clarified once and for all that the Constitution did not, in fact,…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    State Abortion Laws Being Reversed as State Courts’ Ideological Compositions Change

    For 50 years, the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which invented a fictional “right to abortion,” prevented most efforts to protect human lives before birth. Last year’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization corrected that egregious error, lifting that impediment to pro-life efforts in state legislatures and Congress. Pro-abortion forces,…
    Thomas Jipping
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    NYC Becomes First US City to Offer ‘on Demand’ Phone Appointment for ‘Abortion Kit’

    New York City’s health system has become the first in the nation to offer “on demand” virtual “abortion access,” the city announced on Monday. NYC Health + Hospitals and New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched the abortion program through “Virtual ExpressCare,” according to a news release from the city’s health system. “Beginning this week,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    This Is the Pro-Abortion Activist Newsom Chose to Replace Feinstein

    California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has chosen Laphonza Butler, a pro-abortion activist, Democratic strategist, and former labor union boss, to fill the late Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat. Butler is the president of Emily’s List, one of the top pro-abortion groups in the country seeking to elect pro-abortion females into office. She has expressed support for…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Tucker Carlson Declares Abortion a ‘Spiritual Battle’

    Veteran reporter and cultural-cum-political commentator Tucker Carlson is declaring that the fight against abortion is in fact a matter of spiritual warfare.  Speaking at a recent gala hosted by the Center for Christian Virtue in Cleveland, Carlson stated that abortion is not a “political debate” but a “spiritual battle.” The former Fox News host said that…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    DOJ Silent on Pro-Abortion Activist Who Vandalized Pro-Life Center

    The Department of Justice will not say why it has not prosecuted a Buffalo woman for vandalizing a pro-life pregnancy center, one of over 200 attacks on pro-life centers and Catholic churches since the leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating Roe v. Wade would be overturned. Forty-year-old Hannah Kamke pled guilty this month…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Left Sheds Crocodile Tears Over Military Pay to Dodge Debate About Abortion Extremism

    The Left wants our government and institutions to operate as if its values were the norm and must be enforced—or else. That idea hit a snag in Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who has been making a prolonged stand against the extreme abortion policies adopted by the military under President Joe Biden. Tuberville has been blocking…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Lee Defends Tuberville in Pentagon Abortion Debate

    Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, gave a strong constitutional defense of his colleague, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, after Defense Department officials attacked the Alabama Republican’s move to block Biden administration military promotions. Tuberville is blocking around 300 military promotions until the Pentagon drops its policy of funding travel for women to get abortions. Democrats, the media, and…
    Fred Lucas
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    DC Police Backtrack, Say No Investigation Into DC Abortion Clinic

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — The Metropolitan Police Department backtracked Thursday evening, informing The Daily Signal that it is not, in fact, investigating abortionist Cesare Santangelo and his Foggy Bottom abortion clinic. The police department had said Tuesday that it was investigating both Santangelo and Washington Surgi-Clinic, apparently related to the 2022 discovery of five…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    DC Jury Finds Pro-Life Activists Guilty on All Counts of Blockading Abortion Clinic

    A Washington, D.C., jury has convicted five pro-life activists of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act when they sought to prevent the abortions of unborn babies by blocking women from accessing a D.C. abortion clinic in 2020. The jury found pro-life activists Lauren Handy, Herb Geraghty, Heather Idoni, William Goodman, and…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Court Slaps Down FDA Again for Illegally Dropping Abortion Pill Rules

    On Wednesday, for the second time, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit concluded that the Food and Drug Administration violated federal law when it removed safety restrictions for mifepristone, the drug used for a majority of abortions in the United States. But despite the intense focus on the FDA’s decision to remove…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Pro-Abortion Attacks on Pro-Lifers Face Little to No Consequences From DC Authorities

    Police say they are still investigating a violent assault on pro-life activists that took place outside a D.C. Planned Parenthood clinic in late July. But a closer look at the manner in which D.C. authorities handle attacks on pro-lifers raises questions about the lack of consequences for the attackers—and how safe it is for those…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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