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    Dozens of Business Leaders Advocate Abortion Access: ‘Don’t Ban Equality’

    More than 180 business owners, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, signed a letter protesting restrictive abortion legislation and published a full-page ad in The New York Times. Business owners banded together to “stand up for reproductive health care” by posting the ad in Monday’s print edition titled “Don’t Ban Equality,” which says abortion bans are “bad for…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Democratic Louisiana Lawmaker Defends State’s Abortion Ban

    Bucking her party’s fervently pro-choice stance on abortion at the national level, a Democratic state lawmaker in Louisiana is hailing that state’s enactment of legislation that would prohibit abortion after detection of a fetal heartbeat. Appearing on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” Monday on the Fox News Channel, Louisiana state Rep. Katrina Jackson said a…
    Joshua Q. Nelson
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    I’m an OB-GYN. Here’s My Take on Whether Abortion Is ‘Safer Than Childbirth.’

    “Pregnancy kills, abortion saves lives.” So proclaimed a recent New York Times commentary by Dr. Warren Hern. Talk about clickbait. The fact is, abortion ends life.   A fetus is a living human being. The human heart starts beating in early pregnancy. Hence, the recent rise of “fetal heartbeat laws,” designed to protect life. In Roe…
    Ingrid Skop
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    How a Pro-Choice Celebrity Responded When a Lawmaker Asked Her About an Abortion Survivor

    E! may have canceled her show, but actress Busy Philipps isn’t complaining. Maybe now she’ll have more time for her real passion: lobbying Congress for infanticide. Tuesday morning, the former “Dawson’s Creek” star was on Capitol Hill explaining why abortion survivors—like the one sitting three seats away—had no business being born. While the states pass…
    Tony Perkins
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    Problematic Women: Miley Cyrus Celebrates Abortion In the Weirdest Way

    On this week’s edition of Problematic Women, we discuss Taylor Swift’s decision to get political and advocate for the so-called Equality Act, Miley Cyrus’ $175 pro-abortion sweatshirt, President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley unapologetically standing up for the beliefs of pro-life women….
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Why I, as a Black Pastor, Must Speak Out on Abortion

    In recent months, multiple states like Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana have passed laws to curb access to abortion. The left and the mainstream media are spinning a narrative that a draconian cabal of lawmakers is unjustly trying to take power away from women, and that under these laws women will face unspeakable horrors as they…
    Nathaniel Thomas
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    Judge’s Decision Means Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Remains Open

    A judge in St. Louis, Missouri, ruled to temporarily block the state from preventing the state’s only Planned Parenthood from performing abortions on Friday. Judge Michael F. Stelzer issued a temporary restraining order in favor of Planned Parenthood, according to NBC. The state would have been the first without one abortion clinic. The clinic would have closed…
    Henry Rodgers
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    Missouri Could Become the First State Without an Abortion Clinic

    Attorneys for the state of Missouri and Planned Parenthood met in court Thursday in a battle over whether or not Planned Parenthood’s only remaining abortion clinic in the state would be able to remain open. The license for Planned Parenthood’s last Missouri abortion clinic expires Friday, and in a press briefing on Wednesday, Missouri Gov….
    Rachel del Guidice
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    The Supreme Court Delivered a Mixed Verdict on 2 Indiana Abortion Laws. Here’s What That Means.

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a provision of Indiana law that requires abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains, while declining to review a portion of Indiana’s law—struck down by a lower court—that banned abortions on the basis of sex, race, and disability. Although the Supreme Court’s opinion in Box v. Planned Parenthood…
    Melanie Israel
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    As Court Declines to Hear Case on Race-Based Abortions, Thomas Warns About Tie Between Abortion, Eugenics

    The Supreme Court reinstated an Indiana law Tuesday requiring abortion clinics to cremate or bury fetal remains. In an apparent compromise, however, the justices declined to review a second provision of the Indiana law that banned abortions on the basis of sex, race, or disability. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said both provisions—which…
    Kevin Daley
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    Abortion Debate Shows How Media Deploys Language Gymnastics to Serve Left-Wing Goals

    “Pregnancy Kills. Abortion Saves Lives.” That was the headline on an absurd opinion article in The New York Times, deploying Orwellian language to turn the abortion debate on pro-lifers and comfort those who support abortion on demand. While the conversation over Alabama’s new abortion law has drawn out some wild arguments from the left, it’s…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    No, Abortion Isn’t a Constitutional Right

    In the past several weeks, a bevy of states have passed extensive new restrictions on abortion. Alabama has effectively banned abortion from point of conception. Georgia has banned abortion from the time a heartbeat is detected, as have Ohio, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Missouri has banned abortion after eight weeks. Other states are on the move…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Alabama and Georgia Abortion Laws on Right Track

    When we talk about “pro-life” in our national discussion about abortion, “life” is understood to be about the unborn child in the mother’s womb. But it would serve us well to expand our understanding about what “pro-life” means. We should understand that respecting the sanctity of life is key to the values and behaviors in…
    Star Parker
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    ‘Unplanned’ Is Driving Abortion Workers Out of the Industry

    The pro-life movie “Unplanned” surpassed all expectations in theaters, and is now leading abortion workers to leave the industry. In this episode, Rachel del Guidice talks to Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood worker, about the stunning trend. Plus: Alabama is set for a legal showdown after passing a law that bans abortion. Thomas Jipping…
    Daniel Davis
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    How Equality Act Would Promote Abortion

    In the history of bad bills, there are a lot of doozies. Just in the last handful of months, we’ve had a Democratic grab bag of everything from abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Green New Deal. But nothing—not even Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., crusade against airplanes and cows—compares to the one measure that out-radicals…
    Tony Perkins
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    She Survived an Abortion Attempt. Now, She Defends Life.

    It was just last month that the House failed to pass a bill protecting babies who survive an abortion attempt. Our executive editor, Rob Bluey, was able to sit down with a woman who survived just that—an abortion attempt, something few can imagine. Gianna Jessen is now a pro-life activist, and today, we bring you…
    Daniel Davis
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    California Bill Would Turn College Health Centers Into Abortion Clinics

    The California state Senate Education Committee recently approved Senate Bill 24, known as the College Student Right to Access Act. The bill would add a new chapter to state education code to require student health care clinics at all 34 California public colleges and universities to “offer abortion by medication techniques”—aka “the abortion pill”—starting on…
    Patrina Mosley
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    We Hear You: Jussie Smollett, Judicial Activism, and Abortion Survivors

    Editor's note: We begin with some reaction from The Daily Signal's audience to Chicago's about-face in the strange case of a TV actor, then on to some responses to news not covered elsewhere. Join in by writing to [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I look at the photo of actor Jussie Smollett accompanying your podcast…
    Ken McIntyre
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    They Had Twins at 26 Weeks. Now They’re Advocating Protecting Babies Born After Abortion Attempt.

    As House Republicans attempt to force a vote on protecting babies born alive after abortion, activists from around the country came to advocate for these children’s lives. Rachel del Guidice speaks to the Balek family, who came from South Carolina to attend the event put on by Heritage Action, the lobbying and advocacy arm of…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    ‘Unplanned’ Threatens America’s Innocence on Abortion. But It Also Offers Hope.

    In so many ways, abortion is like other atrocities that blot the pages of history. It’s like slavery because it turns certain human beings into the property of others. It’s like the Holocaust because it writes off a whole segment of the population as being “life unworthy of life,” and so sends those human beings…
    Daniel Davis
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