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    49 Senate Democrats Vote for Extreme Abortion Bill
    If it was a “show vote,” then it did its job. When Democrats decided to put the most extreme abortion bill ever drafted on the Senate floor, it showed people plenty. If anyone was under the illusion that President Joe Biden’s party was remotely reasonable on the issue of life, they learned pretty quickly that…
    Suzanne Bowdey
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    Pro-Abortion, Anti-Women Politicians Target Pregnancy Centers
    We could be living in a post–Roe America by the time you go on summer vacation, based on the (egregiously) leaked Supreme Court draft opinion, with the official decision scheduled to be announced within the next two months. While many Americans are preparing to better serve women facing unplanned pregnancies, radical pro-abortion politicians are focusing…
    Jeanneane Maxon
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    Democrats’ National Abortion Bill Replaces Word ‘Woman’ With ‘Person’
    Democrats’ latest abortion bill does not include the words “woman,” “women,” or “female.” Instead, the bill uses the word “person” to refer to those who bear and give birth to children.  The Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on legislation called the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is…
    Virginia Allen
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    Democrats Seek to Pass What Could Be World’s Most Permissive Abortion Bill
    Senate Democrats are seeking to pass legislation to remove all restrictions on abortion in every state. If they’re successful, America would be one of the world’s most liberal nations in access to abortion, surpassing China.  The Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that Democrats say would codify the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe…
    Virginia Allen
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    We Hear You: A Leaked Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion’s Future
    Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience expressed joy that the Supreme Court appears posed to reverse Roe v. Wade and dismay at the leak of a draft majority opinion. Here's a sampling of what's in the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I read with interest Douglas Blair's report on the protests Saturday evening…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Democrats Push Radical Abortion Bill Far More Expansive Than Roe
    The Senate on Wednesday is expected to vote on whether to end debate on S 4132, the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022. Even though a similar vote on the virtually identical HR 3755 failed on Feb. 28, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quickly set up this repeat in the wake of the leaked…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Parishioners Thwart Abortion Activists’ Attempt to Derail Mass at Los Angeles Cathedral
    Parishioners at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles ushered pro-abortion protesters out of their church Sunday, thwarting their attempt to disrupt the service, according to footage posted by the Catholic News Agency. During the church service, pro-abortion demonstrators walked between pews toward the front of the church in an apparent…
    Laurel Duggan
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    Time to Highlight Democrats’ Abortion Extremism
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will hold a vote on a bill codifying abortion’s legality so that voters, he contends, can “see where every senator stands.” Though Schumer believes this is a political slam dunk for Democrats, it presents a magnificent opportunity for Republicans to make their case. Though many conservatives have rightly avoided prematurely…
    David Harsanyi
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    Left’s Reaction to Leaked Supreme Court Abortion Decision Exposes Its Misanthropy
    News of the potential downfall of Roe v. Wade has prompted wailing and gnashing of teeth from the pro-abortion left. Though it might appear strange to deem a political party that proclaims empathy and equality as its highest virtues “misanthropic,” there is nothing that suggests a hatred of mankind quite like the practice and promotion…
    Julia Dandoy
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    Democrats Quietly Scrub Abortion Bill Language Saying Men Can Get Pregnant
    The latest version of the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would effectively make abortion a statutory right, scrubbed references to transgender and nonbinary people’s pregnancies as well as language related to “reproductive justice.” Earlier versions of the bill used language tying race and transgenderism to the issue of abortion in its nonbinding “Findings” section. Sen. Richard Blumenthal,…
    Laurel Duggan
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    Woman Who Survived 2 Abortion Attempts Shares Her Message to Pro-Choice Activists
    Denisha Workizer was in her 40s when she learned her mother had tried to abort her not once, but twice.  With the Supreme Court apparently set to overturn its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, Workizer says, she wants pro-abortion activists to consider that we “empower women by empowering life.” “It’s not empowering for a…
    Virginia Allen
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    Adoption Provides Actual ‘Choice’ in Abortion Debate, Advocate Says
    If you visited the Supreme Court in the days following the leak Monday night of a draft majority opinion in the abortion case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, you would have seen many signs saying, “My body, my choice.”  Choice means options, and it implies empowerment. But that isn’t the message of…
    Virginia Allen
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    I Had an Abortion. Here’s Why I Want Roe Reversed.
    The recent leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court potentially striking down Roe v. Wade is as shocking as it is gratifying. Shocking because, if adopted by the court, the opinion would reverse a horrendous decision America has been suffering under for nearly 50 years. And gratifying because, even though I myself had…
    Cathy Harris
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    Leftists See Much More Than Abortion at Stake in Dobbs Decision
    This week, an anonymous leaker violated generations of Supreme Court norms by passing on to Politico a draft decision by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Mississippi, the case considering overturning Roe v. Wade (1973). That draft decision, reportedly supported by a majority of the court, including Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and…
    Ben Shapiro
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    ‘They’re Protesting Our Lives’: Abortion Survivor Speaks Out on Roe v. Wade Debate
    The debate over whether Roe v. Wade is about to be reversed is personal for abortion survivor Melissa Ohden.  After what is said to be a draft of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in the pending abortion-related case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked Monday night—indicating that the court is poised to…
    Virginia Allen
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    Democrats Seize on Roe v. Wade Reports to Call for Court-Packing, Federal Abortion Laws
    Top Democrat lawmakers called for Congress to enact pro-abortion legislation as well as pack the Supreme Court after a Monday evening leak reportedly revealed that the court will likely overturn Roe v. Wade. Following a report from Politico that a majority of justices had reportedly voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats called for court-packing and for the codification…
    Laurel Duggan
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    Amazon to Foot the Bill for Employees’ Abortion Tourism
    Amazon will fund up to $4,000 in annual travel expenses for employees seeking abortions, according to a company spokesman, joining several other large corporations with similar policies. The company announced in an internal message that it will cover travel expenses for abortions when an employee cannot obtain one within 100 miles of their home and…
    Laurel Duggan
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    How Safe Haven Laws Help Make Abortion Unnecessary
    A “distressful life and future” threatens women unless they have the ability to avoid the burden of unwanted parenthood via abortion. So reasoned Justice Harry Blackmun in his 1973 Roe v. Wade majority opinion, which deemed elective abortion a newfound constitutional right. Yet, decades after the Supreme Court’s grim assessment of the options available for…
    Leanna Baumer
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    Mainstream Media Cheer When a ‘Fetus’ Dies in Abortion Darkness
    Abortions are violent acts ending in death. The badly named “mainstream media” loves them. The Washington Post, which claims to hate things “dying in darkness,” boasted April 10 of a new pro-abortion law passed in Maryland over the veto of Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican. Reporters Erin Cox and Ovetta Wiggins gushed, “The new law…
    Tim Graham
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    At 85, She Has Stood for Unborn Outside Planned Parenthood, at Supreme Court, and Before Congress
    For more than 20 years, Eleanor McCullen has taken time every week to stand outside a Planned Parenthood clinic and offer help to women in crisis pregnancies.  At the age of 85, McCullen says she has been a part of saving the lives of about 300 babies from abortion. She adds that it’s not about…
    Virginia Allen
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