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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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    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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