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    New Abortion Numbers Don’t Show Whole Picture, Especially With Do-It-Yourself Abortions on the Rise

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute each released new reports last November about abortion data for 2020, showing conflicting reports of a decrease in abortions versus a significant increase. While the lack of clarity in the number of abortions is alarming, the spread of do-it-yourself at-home abortions means that…
    Melanie Israel
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    The New Abortion Battleground

    Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, pro-life Americans will March for Life in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands will march, as they have marched since 1973. But this year, it is different. This year, the march will take place, for the first time, in an America where Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the…
    Star Parker
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    Fact Check: Rep. Ayanna Pressley Claims Abortion Is ‘Out of Reach’ for US Minorities

    Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., a member of the far-left “Squad,” celebrated the Biden administration’s unilateral decision to let retail pharmacies carry abortion pills—on the grounds that abortion has historically been “pushed out of reach” for minorities and the disabled. Pressley’s comments stand as a living testament that every fact can be inverted when touched by woke…
    Ben Johnson
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    South Carolina Supreme Court Strikes Down State’s ‘Heartbeat’ Abortion Law

    The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday narrowly decided that the state’s ban on most abortions after six weeks violated the state constitution. Since the U.S. Supreme Court in June correctly held that the U.S. Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion,” attacks on legal protection for the unborn have shifted to state courts…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Media Style Guide Pushes Abortion Propaganda Over Accurate Reporting

    The Associated Press recently released a guide for news outlets for reporting on abortion that’s so biased in favor of the procedure, its guidance often runs contrary to medical science. The new guide has the ability to significantly distort how Americans perceive the abortion issue. The AP’s “Abortion Topical Guide” is part of the widely…
    Melanie Israel
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    ‘Are You Praying?’ Authorities Arrest Woman for Silently Praying Outside an Abortion Clinic

    Authorities have arrested a pro-life woman for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in the United Kingdom. News of Isabel Vaughan Spruce’s arrest comes amid anxieties over the Justice Department’s crackdown on pro-life activists in the United States, such as Mark Houck, a pro-life father arrested for allegedly pushing an abortion clinic volunteer who was…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    EXCLUSIVE: GOP Warns DOD ‘May Not Fund Elective Abortion’ Following Announcement of ‘Illegal’ Abortion Policy

    In the wake of news that the Pentagon will pay for service members and their dependents to travel to abort their unborn babies, Republicans are reminding the Department of Defense that it may not fund abortions. "Both the law itself and Congressional intent are clear: the U.S. military may not fund elective abortion," the bicameral group of…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    SCOOP: VA Claims It Offers Religious Exemptions for Abortion Mandate; Nurse Was Told ‘No Process Exists’

    A Texas nurse is suing the Biden administration after the Department of Veterans Affairs published a rule mandating that VA medical facilities provide abortions and abortion-related services, without an exemption for medical staff who oppose abortion on conscience or religious grounds. Stephanie Carter, a Christian who is a nurse practitioner at the Olin E. Teague…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Virginia Restaurant Kicks Out Family Foundation Over Abortion, Traditional Marriage

    A Virginia restaurant told the Family Foundation that it was no longer welcome to dine at the establishment because of the organization’s views on abortion and traditional marriage. The Daily Signal spoke with Family Foundation President Victoria Cobb on Monday morning outside the Supreme Court as the justices heard oral arguments in 303 Creative v….
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Lila Rose Shares Why Abortion Supporters Want a Culture of Consequence-Free Sex

    Live Action Founder and President Lila Rose started her undercover work as a teenager, posing as an underage victim of sexual abuse seeking an abortion — but with a camcorder hidden in her blouse to document her conversations with Planned Parenthood workers. Her undercover videos captured the attention of the nation, if not the world, prompting…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    There Is Little Evidence Abortion Hurt Republicans

    By any measure, Democrats exceeded expectations this midterm. Though listening to the triumphalism today, you’d think Joe Biden was Hannibal at Cannae. A fractured Republican Party has won the House, which means the agenda portion of Biden’s first term is effectively over (save the executive abuse). As expected, though, the lazy Dobbs-sunk-the-GOP narrative quickly solidified…
    David Harsanyi
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    Michigan Voters OK ‘Extreme’ Pro-Abortion Constitutional Amendment

    EAST LANSING, Michigan—Voters on Tuesday approved the pro-abortion Proposal 3, an amendment to the Michigan Constitution that will enshrine a “right” to kill unborn children. With 52% of the vote counted, Proposal 3 had garnered the approval of 53.4% of voters and was rejected by 46.6%, according to election results posted by 12:40 a.m. Wednesday,…
    Virginia Allen
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    1 State Seeks to Prevent Its Own Roe Among Midterm Choices on Abortion

    Having returned the issue of abortion “to the people and their elected representatives” in June with a watershed opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court paved the way for a flurry of state-level activity regulating abortion. Since the high court issued its Dobbs opinion, 13 states have fully outlawed abortion, and…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Vacuuming, Moaning: NPR Plays Abortion on Air

    On Thursday morning, NPR played an abortion on air. NPR’s Michigan “Morning Edition” on Thursday featured Kate Wells explaining that a Michigan woman aborted her 11-week-old baby at Northland Family Planning in metro Detroit. “Like many patients at Northland, she said I could record her procedure,” Wells, a reporter, says of the mother in the…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Polls Reveal the Central Flaw in Democrats’ Abortion Midterm Strategy

    President Joe Biden and his party fear a defeat at the polls next week amid historic inflation, high gas prices, and rising crime in Democrat-controlled cities. Facing the prospect of a Republican wave election, Democrats have turned their focus to abortion, banking on the overturning of Roe v. Wade to motivate voters. While polling appears…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Anne Hathaway Calls Abortion ‘Another Word for Mercy’

    Actress Anne Hathaway called abortion “mercy” on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday. Hathaway joined the show’s all-female panel and shared her perspective on abortion, saying, “My own personal experience with abortion, and I don’t think we talk about this enough—abortion can be another word for ‘mercy.’” Hathaway added: “We know that no two pregnancies are…
    Virginia Allen
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    Tim Ryan, Who Twice Voted for Unlimited Abortion, Now States He Is Against Late-Term Abortions

    Tim Ryan now says he is against most late-term abortions, despite having voted for and repeatedly touted his support for legislation allowing unlimited abortions. “I don’t think we should have abortions later in the term unless there’s a medical emergency,” he told Fox News hosts Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier. “I think we go back…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    EXCLUSIVE: Claudia Tenney Demands Transparency on Planned Parenthood’s Massive COVID-19 Loans

    Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is calling on the Small Business Administration to explain why it forgave $67 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans to Planned Parenthood affiliates—loans that these abortion clinics should never have gotten in the first place. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, Tenney and her Republican colleagues told Inspector…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Abortion Clinic Moves Across a State Line. It Isn’t Getting a Warm Welcome.

    A small city in Virginia is taking action to protect the unborn and restrict abortion there.   The five members of the Bristol, Virginia, City Council voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a resolution that would prevent new abortion clinics from entering the city and place restrictions on the current clinic. The pro-life resolution is…
    Virginia Allen
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    UK Newspaper Takes Pro-Abortion Deception to Next Level

    The pro-abortion industrial complex is at it again. The Guardian, a U.K.-based newspaper that reaches an estimated 8.8 million readers each day across all platforms, on Wednesday published an article suggesting that until 10 weeks of pregnancy, the unborn baby is only white tissue material. The Guardian article, “What a pregnancy actually looks like before…
    Emma Waters
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