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    Biden Forgets Democratic Party Supports Unrestricted Abortion

    President Joe Biden appeared to forget Thursday that his administration — and the majority of the Democratic Party — supports unrestricted abortion. The president spoke with reporters outside The White House on Thursday afternoon where he was questioned: “Should there be any restrictions on abortion at all?” “Yes, there should be,” he responded. Pressed as…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Pentagon Establishes Abortion Travel Fund for Service Members, Abortion Providers

    The Department of Defense announced Thursday that the Pentagon will pay for service members and their dependents to travel to abort their unborn babies. A Pentagon memo obtained by The Daily Signal says that it will establish “travel and transportation allowances for Service members and their dependents, as appropriate and consistent with applicable federal law…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Democrats Stake Midterm Election Hopes on Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision in Dobbs. It May Not Be Enough.

    In the months since the U.S. Supreme Court issued what many consider its most significant decision in five decades, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (overturning the court’s earlier creation of a fictitious “constitutional” right to abortion in Roe v. Wade), the nation has inched closer to the Nov. 8 midterm elections. And with control…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Stacey Abrams Claims Abortion Access Could Relieve Inflation Woes

    Abortion access could help to alleviate concerns over high inflation rates, according to Stacey Abrams, the Democrat nominee for governor in Georgia.   “Abortion is an economic issue,” Abrams told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday.   Abrams was asked what she would do as governor about “the cost of gas, food, bread, milk … to alleviate…
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden Promises to Codify Roe in What Some See as Last-Ditch Midterm Abortion Effort

    President Joe Biden announced that if Democrats win the House and Senate in the midterm elections this November, the first bill he would send to Congress would codify Roe v. Wade. Biden remarked at the Democratic National Committee event this Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision violated women’s’…
    Gillian Richards
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    Notre Dame Professor Offers Abortion Assistance to Students 

    A sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame offers to help students in procuring chemical abortions and “morning after” pills, a student newspaper reported Wednesday.   The Irish Rover, a conservative Catholic publication, reported that the professor, Tamara Kay, had advertised her willingness to assist in abortions on her office door with a sign reading: “This…
    Wallace White
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    ‘Did He Just Shoot Me?’ 84-Year-Old Woman Shot While Canvassing on Abortion Speaks Out

    Eighty-four-year-old Joan Jacobson never imagined she would be shot when she knocked on the door of a Michigan couple's home, hoping to convince them not to vote for a local pro-abortion ballot proposal. Sharon Harvey answered the door and quickly became "hostile, belligerent, and antagonistic" when she learned Jacobson's mission, according to David Kallman, Jacobson's…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘Never Had FBI Agents Show Up on the Sidewalk Before’: Pro-Life Group Claims FBI Questioned Volunteer By Planned Parenthood

    A pro-life sidewalk counseling group warned members Tuesday that President Joe Biden's Justice Department is determined to intimidate pro-life organizations, claiming that two FBI agents showed up to question a pro-life activist praying outside Planned Parenthood – St. Paul – Vandalia Health Center. In an email obtained by The Daily Signal, Pro-Life Action Ministries Executive…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Planned Parenthood’s Overdue Annual Report Is Finally Out. Here’s What You Should Know.

    Planned Parenthood’s 2020-2021 annual report is so late that some observers wondered whether it would release one at all. But after roughly nine months, the wait is over. For pro-life Americans, the numbers aren’t pretty. The medical and financial data reveal the abortion giant’s priorities. Spoiler alert: The number of abortions performed in one year is…
    Melanie Israel
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    Democrats Use Abortion of 10-Year-Old to Slam GOP Candidate as She Goes Into Labor

    Democrats combating Republican Ohio congressional candidate Madison Gesiotto Gilbert have not shied away from pro-abortion rhetoric and attacks—even as she gave birth to her first son this week. “Marcus and I are excited to announce that we welcomed our baby boy, Marcus Jr., into the world earlier this week,” Gilbert, the GOP nominee in Ohio’s…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    The Battle Over Abortion Rages on in Pennsylvania as Pro-Lifers March for Life

    HARRISBURG, Pa.—The United States Supreme Court may have overturned Roe v. Wade this summer, but pro-life activists across the country know the battle over abortion is far from over.  Marshaled by the March for Life, several thousand Pennsylvanians gathered in Harrisburg on a sunny Monday morning in what PennLive.com calls “one of the largest gatherings…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    As Indiana’s Abortion Ban Takes Effect, Court Battle for Life Underway in Ohio

    Hours after legislation went into effect in Indiana protecting nearly all unborn babies, a county judge temporarily blocked a heartbeat law in neighboring Ohio.   On Thursday, Indiana’s abortion ban went into effect, prohibiting abortion except in cases of rape or incest, or to save the life or health of the mother.   The Indiana General Assembly passed the…
    Virginia Allen
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    Abortion Is a Lifesaving Procedure and Other Myths

    A pro-life association released a backgrounder debunking several myths abortion advocates have pushed following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision this June.  The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, founded the same year as the landmark abortion case in 1973, has ramped up its…
    Gillian Richards
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    Biden’s Title IX Rule Change Would Redefine Pregnancy to Include Abortion

    The Department of Education’s 90-day comment period ended Monday for proposed rule changes for Title IX. What is the Biden administration trying to accomplish? Nothing less than the redefinition of sex—and of pregnancy itself. The landmark 1972 law known as Title IX ensures that women and girls don’t face discrimination based on sex in school…
    Melanie Israel
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    Sen. Lindsey Graham Introduces Bill to Prohibit Abortion After Baby Can Feel Pain

    Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has introduced the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act. If passed, the bill would prohibit abortion across America after 15 weeks in most cases.   Flanked by pro-life leaders, Graham introduced the bill during a press conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday, saying the legislation aims to limit abortion after an…
    Virginia Allen
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    Voters in These 4 States to Decide Abortion Law at Ballot

    Voters in at least four states will have the opportunity in November to decide what to do about abortion.   Voters in California, Kentucky, Montana, and Vermont will decide abortion-related ballot initiatives during midterm elections Nov. 8.  Michigan voters also may weigh in.  “Constitutional ballot initiatives are notoriously confusing and complicated,” Mallory Carroll, vice president…
    Virginia Allen
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    Federal Judge Strikes Blow to Biden’s Abortion Coercion Efforts in Texas

    A federal district court in Texas issued an order Wednesday blocking the Biden administration’s attempt to force the state’s emergency room doctors to perform abortions—regardless of whether doing so violates their religious beliefs. Judge James Wesley Hendrix determined that the state of Texas and two groups of pro-life physicians were likely to prevail in their case…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Lawmaker Faults 4 Big Companies for Focus on Abortion Travel Rather Than Family Leave

    A Texas congressman has asked four entertainment and social media companies to explain why they emphasize paying travel and other expenses for out-of-state abortions rather than their existing policies of paid family leave for employees.  Women “should not feel coerced into seeking an abortion instead of taking time off to have their child, especially since…
    Gillian Richards
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    Planned Parenthood’s Planned Politicking: $50 Million and Counting

    While the IRS bulks up to come after conservatives, another “nonprofit” is robbing taxpayers blind and then turning around and using its freed-up cash to influence elections. And yet, Planned Parenthood’s racket never seems to raise an eyebrow in the federal government, which is apparently too busy harassing ministries who don’t take a dime of taxpayer money. But…
    Suzanne Bowdey
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    Pro-Abortion Vandals Strike Pregnancy Center in Massachusetts

    Vandals painted pro-abortion messages late Wednesday or early Thursday at a pro-life pregnancy center in Massachusetts.   The vandals splattered red paint across the white exterior of Bethlehem House Inc. Pregnancy Care Center in Easthampton, 99 miles west of Boston.   A vandal used black spray paint to write this message on the ground outside the pro-life…
    Virginia Allen
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