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    VA Grants Religious Exemption to Employees Against Abortion After Lawsuit
    A Texas nurse has won religious exemptions for Department of Veterans Affairs employees nationwide opposed to participating in performing abortions, the First Liberty Institute says. Stephanie Carter filed a lawsuit against the VA in December after seeking a religious exemption from taking part in abortions, and finding no such exemption existed, contrary to a VA…
    Elise McCue
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    Notre Dame Professor Sues Student Newspaper for Covering Her Abortion Promotion
    A pro-abortion Notre Dame professor is suing the student newspaper that reported on her inflammatory abortion remarks, claiming that the reporting subjected her to harassment. The student newspaper says her claims are "entirely false." Notre Dame professor Tamara Kay takes issue with two stories from The Irish Rover, a conservative-leaning newspaper run by students at…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Canadian Province Bars Planned Parenthood From Schools Over Graphic ‘Sex: From A-Z’ Cards?
    Is this what Planned Parenthood means when it says it provides more than just abortions? Planned Parenthood of Regina, Saskatchewan, in Canada brought "SEX: From A-Z" sexual topics cards to ninth graders there last week as part of a presentation about sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, and more. The sexually graphic cards had not been approved…
    Elise McCue
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    Repentant Former Abortion Doctor’s New Book Explains His Conversion to Pro-Life
    Dr. Haywood Robinson and his now-deceased wife Dr. Noreen Johnson started their relationship as a married couple performing abortions. Together, they went through a conversion and became pro-life advocates. Johnson died in August 2021 due to complications from the coronavirus. And now, Robinson has published a book they co-authored telling their story: "The Scalpel and…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    People ‘Assigned Female at Birth’ Are ‘Going to Be Dying,’ Pro-Abortion Activist Says 1 Year After Roe v. Wade Overturned
    Pro-abortion activists gathered in Washington, D.C., Saturday on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade.   “Without abortion access, women and girls, and people who are assigned female at birth, they are going to be dying,” Olivia Anderson said at the Women’s…
    Virginia Allen
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    On 1st Anniversary of Roe’s Demise, Most Americans Want Some Limits on Abortion, Poll Finds
    A majority of Americans support protections for unborn children and their mothers, a new poll conducted for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America shows. In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, 24 states have enacted pro-life protections for the unborn and their mothers, the pro-life group notes: Wyoming extended Medicaid…
    Elise McCue
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    Mike Pence Challenges 2024 Field to Support National 15-Week Abortion Ban
    As his fellow 2024 presidential candidates shy away from abortion, former Vice President Mike Pence is instead embracing the issue—and calling for the 2024 field to support a national 15-week abortion ban. The former vice president spoke out at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C., an evangelical conference where candidates gathered on…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Pearls Before ‘Swine’: Pop Star Lovato’s New Song Is Profane Pro-Abortion Rant
    Warning: This article contains language that could be offensive to some readers. While pro-lifers celebrate the first anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, singer-songwriter Demi Lovato’s new song “Swine” epitomizes leftists’ fear of, and fury at, a growing pro-life America. On Thursday, Lovato—perhaps best known among Generation Z for her lead role in…
    Gigi De La Torre
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    EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Lankford Lays Out How GOP Should Approach Abortion Post-Roe v. Wade
    FIRST IN DAILY SIGNAL: Saturday will mark one year since the historic day Roe v. Wade was overturned. Republican Sen. James Lankford sat down with The Daily Signal to discuss what the post-Roe landscape looks like, as well as the Republicans who shy away from discussing abortion and the Democrats who promote it. The Oklahoma…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘We Don’t Need’ Abortion, Former NFL Star Ben Watson Says of Black Community
    Former NFL tight end and pro-life advocate Ben Watson says he didn’t want to write a book about abortion and race.  “It’s two heavy topics,” Watson says, adding that he saw a connection that needed to be made between the two topics, and “perhaps not in the traditional way.”  Pro-abortion advocates argue that women, especially…
    Virginia Allen
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    From G7 to UN, Pressure to Codify Abortion as ‘Human Right’ Is Wrong
    As we approach the first anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization abortion ruling from the Supreme Court, which overturned Roe v. Wade, the battle for the protection of human life continues unabated around the world. While here in the U.S. the fight to expand or limit abortion at the state level rages…
    Rachana Chhin
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    Planned Parenthood Taxpayer Funding Up; Abortion and ‘Transgender’ Services High Priorities
    Planned Parenthood’s 2021-2022 annual report is out: Taxpayer funding is at an all-time high and abortion remains a key priority. Meanwhile, visits for actual health care—like cancer screening and prevention services and prenatal care—continue to decline. The abortion giant has also been diversifying its portfolio of services, trying to corner the market in so-called transgender…
    Melanie Israel
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    US Foreign Aid Used to Push Abortion, Gender Ideology Around the World
    The United States spends more than $40 billion a year on foreign assistance. For decades, there has existed in Congress bipartisan support for humanitarian relief and other forms of foreign assistance, but that consensus is now threatened as federal agencies and the nongovernmental aid organizations they work with are increasingly promoting a far-left ideology and…
    Tim Meisburger
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    After Warren Attack, Tuberville Vows to Keep Fighting Pentagon Abortion Policy
    Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., is not backing down in his efforts to overturn the Pentagon’s policy of subsidizing abortions for members of the military by holding up the promotions of high-ranking military officers. “I’ve continued to reiterate my stance and my position over the last almost four months now about my opposition to this policy,”…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Baltimore Police Seek Assailant in Beating of 2 Elderly Pro-Life Activists Outside Abortion Clinic
    Two elderly pro-life advocates were viciously assaulted outside of a Baltimore Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, several witnesses confirmed to Baltimore police. Jay Walton, the head of Baltimore County Right to Life, said Tuesday morning that 73-year-old Mark Crosby and 80-year-old Dick Schaefer were "viciously attacked" while they were praying in front of a Planned…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘Sen. Tuberville Displayed Tremendous Courage’ in Pentagon Abortion Fight, GOP Rep. Eli Crane Says
    A freshman Republican congressman is weighing in on why he signed a letter supporting Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., in his efforts to overturn the Pentagon’s policy of subsidizing abortions for members of the military by holding up the promotions of high-ranking military officers. "Sen. Tuberville displayed tremendous courage with his willingness to stand in the…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    This School District Teaches Middle School Sex Ed Based on Planned Parenthood Guide
    Warning: This report includes graphic language and references to such language, which some readers may find offensive. A Virginia school district is using a teacher’s guide for middle school sex education, co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood, that promotes student “role-plays,” urges normalizing of certain behavior, and refers to sterilization as “permanent birth control.”  The teachers guide…
    Fred Lucas
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    Planned Parenthood Backs Court-Packing, Term Limits for Justices
    Planned Parenthood announced Sunday that it supports Supreme Court reforms such as court-packing and term limits, according to a statement. After Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, Planned Parenthood launched a “Reclaim Our Courts” website and $100,000 ad campaign to highlight how former President Donald Trump “drastically changed the makeup of our courts.” Its latest position…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Hearing on Abortion After Dobbs Shows Democrats’ Extremism
    The Supreme Court is activist, abortion is health care, pro-life laws are confusing, and abortion drugs are safe.  Those were the talking points from Democratic senators and their witnesses at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing held on April 26 titled “The Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post-Dobbs America.”  Committee Chairman Richard Durbin, D-Ill., opened by…
    Thomas Jipping
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    How a President Nikki Haley Would Seek to ‘Find a Consensus’ on Abortion
    If elected president, Nikki Haley says she would strive to “find consensus” on the issue of abortion.  “Pro-life political leaders and candidates must not put up with being demonized,” the former South Carolina governor said. “We should call out the extremism of the Left,” Haley said, adding: We don’t need a president who endangers lives…
    Virginia Allen
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