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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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    Patriots’ Benjamin Watson to Produce Documentary on Abortion
    New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson announced Tuesday that he is producing a documentary on abortion. The pro-life father of seven began filming “Divided Hearts of America” in May, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie is budgeted at less than $1 million and is financed by donors and by Watson’s One More Foundation,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Planned Parenthood Sets New Record for Abortions in a Single Year
    It’s been a turbulent last two years at Planned Parenthood, with a leadership shake-up involving the ouster of Dr. Leana Wen as president, and the installment of Alexis McGill Johnson as acting president. But that upheaval didn’t stop Planned Parenthood from having a banner year in providing abortion on demand, as its new report shows….
    Melanie Israel
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    Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Protect Louisiana Abortion Regulations
    The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to protect a contested Louisiana law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. An abortion clinic and two physicians challenging the law, called Act 620, warn that two of Louisiana’s three abortion clinics will close if the regulation takes effect. On Thursday,…
    Kevin Daley
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    New Planned Parenthood Report Shows Increase in Abortions
    The Planned Parenthood Federation of America aborted 345,672 babies during the 2018 fiscal year, the organization’s annual report shows. Planned Parenthood’s 2018-2019 annual report shows that the organization performed 12,915 more abortions during the 2018 fiscal year than the organization did between 2017-2018. The nation’s largest abortion provider performed 345,672 abortions between Oct. 1, 2017, and Sept. 30, 2018,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Pregnant Michelle Williams Says She ‘Wouldn’t Have Been Able to Do This’ Without Abortion
    Pregnant actress Michelle Williams spoke out Sunday night at the Golden Globes saying she “wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose.” The actress, who has a 14-year-old daughter with the late actor Heath Ledger and is expecting a baby with her fiancé and “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail, gave…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Planned Parenthood Targets Los Angeles High Schoolers
    Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday a plan to open 50 health centers at Los Angeles high schools. The nation’s largest abortion provider plans to spend millions to build “Wellbeing Centers” that target high schoolers in Los Angeles County and aims to “create a safe space in each school where students can receive the education and health…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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