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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 | Emma Waters
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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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    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 | Connor Buss
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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 | Sarah Parshall Perry
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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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