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    Will Meeting With Pope Francis Change Biden’s Abortion Views?

    A Catholic American president traveled to Rome on Friday to meet with Pope Francis. There is a very profound and obvious issue they could discuss: Is it OK for a politician of any religious faith, or even none at all, to violate the natural law and support the deliberate killing of unborn babies? President Joe…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers, Ambassadors Commemorate Global Declaration Challenging ‘Right’ to Abortion, Upholding Role of Family

    Lawmakers, ambassadors, and embassy officials gathered Thursday in Washington to commemorate a pro-life, pro-family international declaration signed by the United States during the Trump administration.  President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of the United States from the Geneva Consensus Declaration almost immediately after he succeeded Donald Trump as president Jan. 20.  Speakers at the gathering…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    March for Life Eyes Equality for Unborn Ahead of Major Supreme Court Abortion Case

    The 2022 March for Life will lean into a theme of equality for the unborn, the event's organizers said Wednesday, as they announced the annual march’s theme: “Equality Begins in the Womb.”  “The pro-life movement recognizes the immense responsibility this nation bears to restore equal rights to its most defenseless citizens in the womb,” March…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    UN Health Special Rapporteur Supports Abortion at Expense of Women’s Health

    The United Nation’s top health czar presented her debut report to the international assembly on Oct. 20. While the COVID-19 pandemic provides a point of departure for the presentation, the report’s real focus was abortion.   Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng is the new U.N. special rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health. Her report focuses on the topic of women’s “sexual and reproductive health rights.”  Such reports from international officials may seem irrelevant to pro-life Americans, but…
    Grace Melton
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    House Democrats Pass Bill Aiming to Codify Roe v. Wade, Massively Expand Abortion

    House Democrats passed a bill Friday that would codify Roe v. Wade and massively expand abortions in the United States. The Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021, first introduced in 2013, passed the House by a vote of 218 to 211. The 2021 House version was sponsored by Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., while the 2021 Senate version was sponsored…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Mississippi Attorney General Details Abortion Case That Could Undo Roe v. Wade

    The Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 1 in what some are saying is the biggest abortion-related case of the past four decades.  Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization could result in the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the returning of power to the states to set their own abortion laws, as they did…
    Virginia Allen
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    Governor Restricts Use of Abortion Drugs in South Dakota

    Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order Tuesday restricting the use of abortion drugs in South Dakota. “The Biden administration is continuing to overstep its authority and suppress legislatures that are standing up for the unborn to pass strong pro-life laws,” Noem said in a statement. “They are working right now to make it…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    How These Tech Companies Resist Texas’ New Abortion Law

    Several major tech companies have taken action against Texas's new pro-life law by taking down pro-life websites and funding out-of-state abortions. The Texas Heartbeat Act, which went into effect Sept. 1 and also is known as SB 8, prohibits abortions after the unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, with exceptions for medical emergencies. The new Texas law includes…
    Ailan Evans
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    Fight Over Texas Abortion Ban Reflects Semantics, Societal Decline

    In the matter of a new Texas law banning abortions six weeks after gestation, when a fetal heartbeat can usually be detected by vaginal ultrasound, suppose the headlines had been different? Instead of words like “most restrictive in nation” (The Wall Street Journal) and “Supreme Court refuses to block Texas law” (The Washington Post), along…
    Cal Thomas
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    Psaki Dismisses Male Reporter’s Abortion Question: ‘You’ve Never Faced Those Choices’

    White House press secretary Jen Psaki dismissed a male reporter’s question on President Joe Biden’s Catholicism and abortion by telling the reporter, “I know you’ve never had to face these choices.” EWTN’s Owen Jensen asked the White House press secretary why Biden supports abortion when “his own Catholic faith” teaches that the procedure is morally…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Supreme Court Takes No Action, Texas Abortion Ban Goes Into Effect

    Texas’ highly disputed abortion ban went into effect early Wednesday morning, uninhibited by any action from the U.S. Supreme Court. Abortion providers had filed emergency requests to block the enforcement of the Heartbeat Act (SB 8), which bans abortions after the unborn baby's heartbeat can be detected. The Supreme Court did not intervene, though it still may do so. “It’s…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Democrats Pursue Radical Abortion Agenda, Upending Bipartisan Consensus

    The clock is ticking for Congress to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2022. Congress is also moving forward with implementing tax and spending sprees in the $3.5 trillion budget resolution and a $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill. There’s an issue looming large in these major spending bills: the future of longstanding, bipartisan pro-life policy….
    Melanie Israel
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    Team Biden Works at ‘Behest of Abortion Lobby’ in Defiance of Law, 84 GOP Legislators Say

    U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated federal law when they told the Justice Department to drop a lawsuit against a hospital that forced a nurse to assist an elective abortion, 84 Republican lawmakers say. In a letter Wednesday to the high-ranking Biden administration officials, first obtained by…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Mississippi Abortion Law Gives Supreme Court Opening to Overturn Roe v. Wade

    At least one case slated to be heard in the Supreme Court’s next term promises to be very controversial: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. In Dobbs, the Supreme Court must answer a question it has never addressed; namely, whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional. And Mississippi has just submitted its first arguments to the court on why…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    Biden Administration Set to Ignore Abortion Transparency Requirement

    The public comment period closed on Wednesday for a rule proposed by the Biden administration that would reverse a Trump administration rule regarding program integrity for certain health insurance plans that cover elective abortions. At issue is Section 1303 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. This section of the…
    Melanie Israel
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    Study Says European Laws Limit Abortion Earlier Than Mississippi Law Pending at Supreme Court

    Most European abortion laws limit abortion earlier than the Mississippi law at the heart of an upcoming Supreme Court case, a study released Tuesday found. The pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute released a comprehensive analysis of European abortion laws Tuesday showing that an overwhelming majority of European countries limit abortions to before 15 weeks. “Mississippi’s law brings the…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Pelosi’s Archbishop Rebukes Her for Saying She Supports Abortion as ‘Devout Catholic’

    Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone rebuked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Thursday for calling herself a “devout Catholic” in her defense of taxpayer-funded abortion. “Let me repeat,” the San Francisco archbishop said in a statement. “No one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Abortion Law as ‘Imminent Threat’ to Women

    A federal judge has blocked a law that would have banned almost all abortions in Arkansas, calling it an “imminent threat” to women seeking abortions. District Court Judge Kristine Baker issued a preliminary injunction blocking authorities from enforcing the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection Act until she issues a final ruling, The Washington Post reported. The…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    How Pro-Lifers in This Texas Town Beat Planned Parenthood

    Just one month after Lubbock, Texas, became the state’s largest sanctuary city for the unborn (and the only sanctuary city for the unborn with an active abortion clinic), Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas last week agreed to stop performing abortions within the city limits. This announcement came after a federal district judge dismissed Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit, citing lack of standing….
    Mary Szoch
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    Biden Budget Would Scrap Decades of Consensus on Not Funding Abortion

    President Joe Biden released his budget proposal on May 28 as Americans headed into the long Memorial Day weekend. The “unreasonable and irresponsible” measure, as my Heritage Foundation colleague Matthew Dickerson described it, calls for dizzying amounts of spending across the federal government, paid for by American taxpayers. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet…
    Melanie Israel
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