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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Denies COVID-19 Funds to Planned Parenthood
    The Trump administration has acted to ensure that no funds from the new Paycheck Protection Program, set up to assist small businesses battered by COVID-19, will go to Planned Parenthood.  “President Trump is committed to ensuring Paycheck Protection Program money is used for saving jobs at small businesses, not getting the government into the business…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Parental Consent Laws for Underage Girls Seeking Abortion Help Fight Against Human Trafficking
    It is welcome news that Florida is now set to become the sixth state to require both parental consent and notice before minor girls can get an abortion. A bill mandating this has passed both houses of the state Legislature, and Gov. Ron DeSantis has promised to sign it. Ensuring that a child’s parents are involved before any medical or surgical procedure…
    Grazie Pozo Christie
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    World Abortion Leaders Exploit Virus to Push Abortion
    As part of its COVID-19 response, the World Health Organization has declared abortion as an essential service. The U.K. has now issued temporary approval for chemical abortions to be completely done at home. The U.S. abortion lobby continues to call for the Food and Drug Administration to lift restrictions (REMs) off the abortion pill (U.S. brand “Mifeprex”), making way for complete…
    Patrina Mosley
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    Federal Court Supports Texas’ Abortion Ban During Medical Crisis
    A federal appeals court backed Texas’ right to ban abortions during the coronavirus crisis. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the state’s right to temporarily prohibit abortions until April 21 during the coronavirus pandemic in a Tuesday ruling, Politico reported. The court threw out a previous ruling from a lower court blocking…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Twin Cities Politicians Celebrate Abortion Providers
    The City Council in St. Paul, Minnesota, has voted unanimously to designate March 10 as “Abortion Providers Appreciation Day.” The mayor of adjoining Minneapolis proclaimed the same. The City Council’s resolution commemorates the death of Dr. David Gunn, who was shot and killed by a protester outside his Florida abortion clinic on March 10, 1993. …
    Virginia Aabram
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    Pro-Lifers Should Get Same Access to Schools as Planned Parenthood Does
    Many of the political and cultural trends that are anathema to traditional values or free-market conservatism in society today can be traced back to a lack of education, poor education, or education rooted in progressive bias. One college group, Students for Life of America, is attempting to do its part in upending that cycle. Students…
    Nicole Russell
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    Abortion, Separation-of-Powers Cases Go Before Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court will hear cases this week involving hospital admitting privileges for abortion doctors and a separation-of-powers question at the nation’s consumer protection agency. The high court returned from its winter break in late February after a monthlong hiatus. Earlier this term, the nine justices heard arguments in cases involving the Second Amendment, school…
    Elizabeth Slattery | Naila Meese
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    Only 3 Senate Democrats Vote to Protect Babies Who Survive Abortion
    In a setback to pro-life activists, the Senate on Tuesday defeated one bill that would require medical care for babies who survive abortion and another that would prohibit late-term abortions. Only three Democrats voted to protect abortion survivors. “This body ought to be able to stand 100 to zero against that barbarism,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb.,…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Abortion Debate Shows How Media Deploys Language Gymnastics to Serve Left-Wing Goals
    Editor’s note: Two pro-life bills are making their way through the Senate. National Review’s Alexandra DeSanctis noted the absurd language used by a CNN journalist about the legislation and childbirth. Here is a reprint of an article, first published in The Daily Signal, about how the media uses language gymnastics to distort the debate over…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    9th Circuit: Trump Administration Stripping Funding From Abortion Clinics Is Constitutional
    The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the Trump administration can continue stripping federal funding from clinics that offer abortions. The court upheld the Trump administration’s June 2019 declaration that taxpayer-funded clinics must stop referring women for abortions or be stripped of their Title X funding. Judge Sandra Ikuta wrote Monday’s majority…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Woman Says After Her Baby Survived Abortion, Medical Staff Gave Him No Treatment
    Her abortion was supposed to be “100% effective.” That’s what doctors told Sofia Khan when she found out her unborn son had spina bifida. “We were heartbroken,” she told the U.K.’s Sun, “but we made the decision to terminate. We felt it was best for the baby, but even so, I had moments of doubt and…
    Tony Perkins
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    Senate Liberals Try to Make ‘Survivors Protection’ Bill About Access to Abortion
    Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pivoted to abortion rights Tuesday during a hearing on legislation to outlaw the denial of medical care to infants who survive abortions.  The hearing wasn’t intended to be about the right to an abortion, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., pointed out no less than four times during the proceedings.  “This…
    Virginia Aabram
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    Liberals Refuse to Protect Babies Born After Abortion Attempt
    “Can you look me in the eye and tell me that I shouldn’t be alive?” That was the question 14 abortion survivors never got to ask America. Fox Sports, the host of this year’s Super Bowl, refused to air their ad. Maybe it was afraid of creating controversy. Or maybe, it was worried about putting…
    Tony Perkins
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    ‘We’re Talking About Babies’: Ben Sasse Says Born-Alive Bill Is Not About Abortion Access
    Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse defended a born-alive bill Tuesday and told lawmakers the legislation deals with babies born alive and not abortion access. The senator spoke Tuesday morning at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “The Infant Patient: Ensuring Appropriate Medical Care for Children Born Alive.” He emphasized the hearing is not about overturning…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    On TikTok App, Abortion Becomes Hot Topic
    The Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which temporarily banned a U.S. pro-life organization, is becoming a major conversation hub in the abortion debate. Many young American adults have begun using TikTok as a platform to present political opinions, increasingly on the topic of abortion.  Live Action, the organization banned briefly by the app late last…
    Allison Schuster
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    One Woman’s Fight to Ensure No One Has an Abortion Because of Finances
    Emily Berning, co-founder and president of Let Them Live, shares on “Problematic Women” that she saw a gap in the pro-life movement. “Crisis pregnancy centers are amazing. They do so much work and save so many lives, but a lot of them don’t have the funding to pay for rent for women that come in…
    Lauren Evans
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    Watch the Abortion Survivors Ad Too Powerful for the Super Bowl
    Pro-life group Faces of Choice recently created a powerful ad that seeks to show “the many faces of survivors of abortion, to put a face to the ‘choice’ of ending life.” It spent considerable time and money hoping that the ad would air on Super Bowl Sunday. However, according to Faces of Choice Executive Director Lyric Gillett, when they…
    Patrina Mosley
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    Trump Administration Takes on California’s Abortion Funding Coercion
    President Donald Trump wasn’t the only one making history at this year’s March for Life. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar put an even bigger exclamation point on the day when he broke news at Family Research Council headquarters about new action the agency was taking. After four years of watching California attack its…
    Tony Perkins
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    Problematic Women: Teen Vogue Shouts the Merits of Abortion
    Friday is the 47th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. In honor of this special day, we have an episode dedicated to the pro-life movement. We break down the theme of this year’s march, the story of the original pro-life feminists, and some of the big positive and negative news stories surrounding the abortion…
    Lauren Evans | Virginia Allen
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    Half of Pro-Choice Americans Favor Restrictions on Abortion, Poll Finds
    Nearly half of self-described pro-choice Americans actually support “significant restrictions” on abortion, a new poll finds. Marist Poll’s annual survey on abortion, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, found that 40% of those surveyed identified as pro-life and 55% as pro-choice, with 5% undecided. But when the question was rephrased to ask whether those surveyed…
    Virginia Aabram
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