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    Republicans Need to Stop Being Cowards on Abortion
    How many voters know that the Democratic Party supports legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, on demand for virtually any reason? How many voters know this position aligns with only six other countries in the world—three of them, not incidentally, being North Korea, Vietnam, and China? How many voters know that Democrats want…
    David Harsanyi
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    EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Appeared to Minimize Leftist Role in Violent Pro-Abortion Attacks Ahead of ‘Night of Rage’
    Department of Justice officials appeared to minimize the threat of leftist violence as they prepared for the "Night of Rage" the night that Roe v. Wade was overturned, according to an email obtained by The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project. The email shows James Dunlap, former director of Security and Emergency Preparing Staff at the Department…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Appeals Court Reinstates Safety Restrictions for Abortion Drug While Lawsuit Against Its FDA Approval Continues
    The legal conflict over the Food and Drug Administration’s lax regulation of abortion drugs is getting more complicated by the day as a lawsuit winds its way through the federal courts. Did the FDA skip critical steps to quickly approve the drugs, and did it illegally loosen important safety restrictions later on? Let’s sort it…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Will Supreme Court Hear Abortion Pill Case? Plaintiffs’ Attorney Weighs In
    On Good Friday, a federal judge in Texas handed down a potentially historic abortion ruling.  The case at hand revolves around the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. In 2000, the FDA approved the use of mifepristone to be used along with the drug misoprostol to terminate a pregnancy. But some…
    Virginia Allen
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    Best Part of Federal Judge’s Ruling Against Abortion Pill Comes Down to 2 Words
    A federal judge ruled late last week that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of an at-home abortion pill over two decades ago was improper and didn’t consider all of the pill’s risks to patients. He also did what many in his profession have failed to do: recognize the humanity of the child in the…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Lawsuit Challenges Wyoming’s First-in-Nation Ban on Abortion Pill
    The most utilized abortion procedure in America is now the abortion pill, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research organization spun off from Planned Parenthood. More than half of all abortions in America are carried out using the abortion pill, but Wyoming just became the first state to ban the pill entirely.  Wyoming Gov….
    Virginia Allen | Kristen Eichamer | Lauren Evans
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    Liberal Media’s Cold, Calculating Language on Abortion
    One way reporters are constantly telling us what they believe is inscribed in the words they use to describe matters of life and death, like abortion. Take this Associated Press introduction, for example, from Amarillo, Texas: A federal judge in Texas raised questions Wednesday about a Christian group’s effort to overturn the decades-old U.S. approval…
    Tim Graham
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    EXCLUSIVE: Grassroots Army Backs Senator’s Effort to Overturn Pentagon Abortion Policies
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Conservative leaders representing millions of pro-life Americans are joining forces with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., to overturn the Defense Department’s newly revamped and expansive abortion policies. Tuberville is blocking the confirmations of U.S. military flag and general officers, as well as civilian nominees, unless the Pentagon rescinds policies that could lead…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Texas Abortion Ban Viewed as Virtually Untouchable. A Lawsuit Aiming to Change That Has Problems.
    In an era of increasing litigation over state abortion bans since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one ban in Texas so far has avoided a post-Roe legal challenge. Texas’ Heartbeat Act, also known as SB 8, bans abortions performed after a fetal heartbeat can be detected (at around six weeks’ gestation). The…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Former Planned Parenthood Manager Shows Others They Can Leave, Heal From Abortion
    OXON HILL, Md.—The best way to support women in unplanned pregnancies is to show them such support is available, Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood manager-turned-pro-life advocate, told The Daily Signal.   “A lot of times women choose abortion out of fear,” Johnson said. “There’s so many unknowns out there for women who are impoverished, women who…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    What Pro-Abortion Activists Got Wrong About Jessa Duggar’s D&C After Miscarriage
    Jessa Duggar Seewald, known for her role on the popular TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” is receiving some backlash after sharing about a recent miscarriage. Around Christmas, Seewald miscarried what would have been her fifth child. “At that moment, I was just in complete shock,” she said in a recent YouTube video. “I…
    Virginia Allen | Lauren Evans | Kristen Eichamer
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    Activists Push Radical Initiative Enshrining Abortion in Ohio Constitution
    Abortion proponents in Ohio submitted language for a radical new ballot initiative on Tuesday—one that would enshrine abortion into the red state's constitution. Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom and Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, the groups behind The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety amendment, said in a release that they hope…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘The Church Cannot Remain Silent’: US Catholic Bishops Receive Instructions on When to Deny Communion to Pro-Abortion Politicians
    Tens of thousands of clergy members will soon receive a copy of Cardinal Raymond Burke's firm but clear instructions to Catholic priests and bishops on when to deny someone Holy Communion. "The Church cannot remain silent and indifferent to a public offense against the Body and Blood of Christ," a book with the instructions says….
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Can States Stop Do-it-Yourself Abortion Pills?
    The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown open the once impenetrable blockade on state abortion regulations with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, and now the battle over do-it-yourself home abortions using abortion pills is heating up. Abortion pills are responsible for approximately 50% of American abortions…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Three-Day Education Conference Requires ‘Abortion Access’
    An education organization has moved a previously scheduled conference in Texas to Colorado, saying it wants to make sure abortion services are available for attendees.  The Association for Education Finance and Policy announced in an August blog post that its March conference would relocate from Fort Worth, Texas, to Denver, after claiming it had heard…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Axios Story on Abortion Pills Describes Ending Unborn Life as ‘Care’
    An Axios reporter described abortion drugs as “care” in a news story published last week, apparently doing so with the approval of the news website’s editors.   “40 million more women would lose access to abortion care if a federal court revokes the use of a key drug in medication abortions, data from the abortion rights group…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Senate Advances Judge Nominations of SPLC Attorney, Abortion Lawyer, Biden Pick Who Called Voter ID ‘Grounded in White Supremacy’
    The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee advanced 24 of President Joe Biden's nominees for federal judgeships Thursday, in a move that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, described as an attempt to shield "the proverbial 'worst of the worst’" from "focused public scrutiny." “The Biden Administration is attempting to cram through all their most partisan, controversial nominees at…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ANOTHER ONE: Authorities Punish Catholic Priest for Silently Praying Outside Abortion Clinic
    Authorities in the United Kingdom charged a Catholic priest with violating a censorship zone when he silently prayed outside an abortion clinic while holding a sign that said "praying for free speech." Father Sean Gough, a pro-life priest stationed in Wolverhampton, England, had also parked his car in the area near the abortion clinic, which…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    OB-GYN Responds to Biden’s Touting Abortion During State of the Union
    President Joe Biden took a few moments of his second State of the Union address to advocate abortion, and invited a guest who was personally affected by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in June. Amanda Zurawski and her husband Josh were seated in first lady Jill Biden’s box during Biden’s speech Tuesday…
    Virginia Allen
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    What Biden Said When Asked About Catholic Bishops and Abortion
    President Joe Biden appeared to deny that the Catholic Church is calling for the end of taxpayer-funded abortion in an exchange Monday.  After Biden exited Marine One, EWTN correspondent Owen Jensen brought up the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ statements on abortion.   “Catholic bishops are demanding that federal tax dollars not fund abortions,” Jensen said to…
    Michael Ippolito
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