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    I Lost a Child to Miscarriage. New York Times Essay Likening Miscarriage to Abortion Is Despicable.

    Pro-abortion advocates are trying to muddy the definition of an abortion with muddy and obtuse moral reasoning. On Aug. 2, The New York Times published an op-ed by law professors Greer Donley and Jill Wieber Lens, co-authors of a forthcoming law review article, “Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, & Subjective Fetal Personhood.” Their New York Times essay…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Biden Executive Order on Abortion Access Is Misleading and Full of Misinformation

    After the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden directed his administration to find ways to provide increased access to abortions. That includes potentially funneling taxpayer dollars to transport women and girls who live in states with stricter abortion laws across state lines into states with more lenient ones. Biden’s…
    Nina Owcharenko Schaefer
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    Inside a Pregnancy Center That Pro-Abortion Vandals Attacked

    LYNCHBURG, Virginia—Something didn’t feel right to Susan Campbell as she checked the security camera feed from Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center, where she is executive director.   It was less than a day since the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending abortion on demand across America. And to Campbell, things seemed a little…
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden Executive Order on Abortion Travel Funding Appears to Violate Hyde Amendment

    President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to authorize taxpayer-financed transportation for women seeking an abortion.  Biden’s order directs the Department of Health and Human Services to consider using Medicaid dollars to pay expenses for pregnant women who live in states with pro-life laws when they travel to other states for an abortion.  However,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Kansas Voters Reject Removing ‘Right’ to Abortion From State Constitution

    OVERLAND PARK, Kansas—The voters of Kansas have decided: Their state constitution does provide a right to abortion.   “It’s a great day for Kansans,” state Sen. Dinah Sykes, a Democrat, told The Daily Signal after voters rejected a pro-life ballot question in results late Tuesday night.   “I think we just need everyone who was…
    Virginia Allen
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    Counterfeit, Black Market Abortion Pills Flood Internet With Help of Corporate Media

    Vendors have flooded the internet with illegal, unregulated chemical abortion pills, according to Politico, after corporate media outlets openly promoted do-it-yourself chemical abortions. Unregulated online vendors pose a threat to the health of women by illegally selling abortion pills which may be expired or counterfeit, according to a report in Politico. Several media outlets promoted the use…
    Laurel Duggan
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    Poll Finds Americans Want Biden to Condemn Pro-Abortion Violence, Harassment of Justices 

    Most Americans want President Joe Biden and their other elected officials to condemn intimidation of Supreme Court justices and related violence and vandalism in the wake of their overturning of Roe v. Wade, a new poll finds.   The poll, released Wednesday by the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative advocacy group, found that 61% of…
    Evalyn Homoelle
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    It’s Time to Set Record Straight on Ectopic Pregnancies and Abortion

    The abortion lobby wants women to think that abortion is the best—or even only—option when it comes to lifesaving maternal care. To achieve that, the pro-abortion left continues to spread harmful lies and misleading talking points in public hearings and press releases. Under the guise of a fair and open debate, House Democrats held yet…
    Emma Waters
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    Will Lower Courts Duly Follow the Supreme Court’s Lead in Abortion Cases?

    The general has sounded the retreat. Will the soldiers follow? That is the question raised by Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where the Supreme Court declared that the federal courts should retreat from their invasion of the democratic provinces of legislatures on the issue of abortion. But will the lower courts obey?  One appellate…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    YouTube to Remove Content Promoting ‘Unsafe Abortion Methods’ 

    YouTube announced Thursday it would begin removing content containing abortion misinformation and “unsafe abortion methods.”   The move came nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on June 24.   “Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Whither Future of Abortion Law

    Hadley Arkes, a longtime commentator on abortion, natural law, and constitutional jurisprudence, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the arguments that should be made to defend unborn human life in America. Arkes notes that the term “value judgment … is a term that we began to use with Nietzsche. When people lost their confidence…
    Richard M. Reinsch II
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    Biden’s Attempts at Abortion Workarounds Fueled by Midterm Dreams, Constitutional Nightmares

    In the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise, after originalism prevailed and the Supreme Court recognized in last month’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that indeed the Constitution, American history, and tradition do not support a right to abortion, Washington’s party in power has advanced a flurry of pro-abortion initiatives. But in the…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Pro-Abortion Extremist Democrats Push to Extend ‘Sanctuaries’ Nationwide

    Pro-abortion activists are angry. They want Democrats in Washington to produce a cohesive plan to limit or overrule the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that undid Roe v. Wade.   Democrats, in turn, are scrambling to do anything they can to extend abortion on demand, which, for nearly 50 years, they could take for granted. Last…
    Emma Waters
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    Dick Durbin Flip-Flops on Abortion

    Dick Durbin was the man in charge. It was Jan. 17, 1982, when the Springfield Right to Life Committee held its annual gathering at the Illinois Capitol to protest the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. As the master of ceremonies that day, Durbin presided over an event that opened with a prayer…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    The National Pro-Abortion Echo Chamber

    When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there was a shocking (if temporary) turn in the news coverage. The anti-abortion victory was so historic that journalists actually interviewed anti-abortion activists to get their reaction to this glorious news. It was different when some scabrous leaker gave Politico a copy of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft…
    Tim Graham
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    Most Americans Support Transparency About Post-Abortion Complications, Poll Finds

    A new poll revealed that most Americans agree on certain abortion policies. The abortion-related nationwide poll was commissioned from June 3-6 by The American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, an almost 50-year-old association with at least 7,000 members. The poll surveyed 1,600 registered voters.   Here are three main takeaways from the poll results:  Transparency…
    Bernadette Hassan
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    Don’t Count on Abortion Clinics to Help 10-Year-Old Sexual Abuse Victims

    In recent remarks on abortion, President Joe Biden sought to pull on Americans’ heartstrings by telling the horrifying story of a pregnant 10-year-old. “Just last week, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was a rape victim in Ohio—10 years old—and she was forced to have to travel out of the state, to Indiana, to…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Cruz Demands Garland Explain Why He Hasn’t Stopped Illegal Protests Over Abortion Outside Justices’ Homes 

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has demanded that Attorney General Merrick Garland attend a hearing Tuesday on abortion to explain why he refuses to enforce laws protecting Supreme Court justices from intimidation and to outline plans for protecting the justices in the future.  Cruz sent a letter Thursday about Garland to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the…
    Evalyn Homoelle
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    Biden Considers Declaring Public Health Emergency to Help Secure Abortion Access

    President Joe Biden is considering declaring a public health emergency to enshrine abortion rights, he told reporters Sunday. Biden has asked members of his administration to look into whether he has the authority to make such a declaration and what impact it may have, he said during a brief interview while pausing from a Sunday bike ride….
    Laurel Duggan
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    General Suspended, Put Under Investigation After Responding to Jill Biden’s Tweet on Abortion

    The U.S. Army suspended and is investigating Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky after he tweeted in response to first lady Jill Biden’s remarks about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Volesky tweeted, “Glad to see you finally know what a woman is,” in response to the first lady’s June 24 tweet voicing her…
    Reagan Reese
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