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    Abortion Pill Tragedy in Toledo Once More Making Headlines
    An Ohio woman has filed a lawsuit against her doctor boyfriend after he allegedly forced her to take crushed-up abortion pills. As The Daily Signal previously reported, Dr. Hassan Abbas, a Toledo surgical resident, is facing felony charges after allegedly forcing his girlfriend to ingest crushed-up pills after she informed him that she was pregnant….
    Rebecca Downs
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    EXCLUSIVE: Makary Responds to Report Saying He Slow-Walked Abortion Pill Safety Review 
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said the review of the abortion drug mifepristone is in the “data acquisition phase” following a report saying he is delaying the process. “We do an ongoing review, but we’re also engaging in a robust study that can serve to validate or not…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Judge Blocks Planned Parenthood Defunding…Again
    As part of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which was signed on July 4, Medicaid funding previously funneled into Planned Parenthood and its affiliates was put on hold for one year. This measure, aimed at redirecting taxpayer dollars away from organizations that carry out elective abortions, was hailed by pro-life advocates as a…
    Sarah Holliday
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    EXCLUSIVE: Cornyn Urges Senate GOP to Keep Tax Dollars Out of Big Abortion Pockets
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is urging his colleagues in the Senate GOP to hold the line on preventing federal funds from going to abortions. In a letter sent to his Republican colleagues on the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday, the Texas senator urged his fellow appropriators to protect the Hyde Amendment…
    Jacob Adams
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    EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Move to Help Trump Walk Back Rule Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Illegal Alien Kids’ Abortions
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two lawmakers are working with the Trump administration to roll back a Biden-era regulation forcing taxpayers to pay for unaccompanied illegal alien children in the U.S. to travel to get abortions. Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., and Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., are leading a group of lawmakers in introducing a bill to…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Dangerous Abortion Method Thrust Back Into News After Toledo Tragedy
    A Toledo surgical resident has had his medical license suspended after he allegedly forced a woman he impregnated to take abortion-inducing drugs. In pro-life circles around the state and around the country, this “horrific case” has reignited calls to end Biden-era policies that they claim lead to the proliferation and abuse of these drugs. Dr….
    Rebecca Downs
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    Republicans, Trump ‘Very Concerned’ About Obamacare Deal Funding Abortion, Senator Says
    As pro-lifers vigilantly track if the Trump administration’s deal to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies will include abortion funding, a top Senate Republican said the issue is a priority for his party. “Republicans are very, very, very concerned about that,” Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., told The Daily Signal. Cassidy, chair of the Senate Health, Education,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The Partisan Divide in Sinking US Birth Rates
    A few decades back, a Wall Street Journal editor named James Taranto posited what he called “the Roe Effect.” The idea was spawned by data showing a correlation between a woman’s political views and her views and actions regarding abortion. Taranto argued that, over time, conservative women and families would have more children and liberal…
    Chuck Donovan
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    Grotesque: Newsom Signs Law Allowing Abortion Drug to Be Distributed Anonymously and Nationally
    When Notre Dame des Victoires Catholic school celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, a famous former student taped a video presentation in honor of that moment. This was California Gov. Gavin Newsom. In a press release about its anniversary, the school said: “Located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, NDV remains dedicated to its…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    More Bad News Comes for Planned Parenthood in Ohio
    Planned Parenthood facilities in Ohio have been affected by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4. While a federal lawsuit plays out when it comes to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunding the abortion provider for a year, Planned Parenthood continues to face troubles in…
    Rebecca Downs
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    SCOOP: Trump Moves to Scrap Biden Rule Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Alien Children’s Abortion Travel
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration is moving to roll back a Biden-era regulation that allows taxpayer dollars to pay for unaccompanied illegal alien children in the U.S. to travel to get abortions, The Daily Signal has learned.  President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services is cleaning up the Biden administration regulation…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    New Colorado Clinic Offers Late-Term Abortions for ‘Any Reason’  
    In Boulder, Colorado, women can abort their child into the third trimester of pregnancy.   RISE Collective, an abortion clinic, opened its doors in October and is offering late-term abortions up to 34 weeks’ gestation, just six weeks shy of the average delivery time.  “At RISE Collective, we believe that any reason you have for…
    Virginia Allen
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    Pro-Life Senators Detail Shutdown Debate Over Extending Abortion Subsidies
    Pro-life senators are condemning Senate Democrats for supporting Obamacare enhanced subsidies for insurance plans that cover abortions and gender transitions. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has made extending government health care spending that was intended to be a temporary COVID-19-era benefit a central part of his fight in shutting down the government. Sen. Ron…
    Jacob Adams
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    ‘We’re Triple-Booking’: Pregnancy Centers Expect Surge in Appointments After ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Defunded Planned Parenthood 
    Pro-life pregnancy centers expect an increase in appointments after President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” defunded Planned Parenthood facilities, a center director told The Daily Signal. Trump’s spending bill instructed the federal government to end Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    RFK Says FDA Was ‘Required’ to Approve Abortion Drug
    Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new abortion pill only because of a federal law requirement. In a post on X Thursday evening, Kennedy said the FDA, which is part of HHS, “only approved a second, generic mifepristone tablet because federal…
    Mary Mobley
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    March for Life Won’t Just Oppose Abortion Next Year
    The new president of the March for Life announced that the theme for the 53rd annual march is “Life is a Gift.” On Jan. 23, tens of thousands are expected to gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to march to bring awareness to the hundreds of thousands of abortions that occur in the…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Fights Over Abortion, Transgender Procedures Are Subtexts to Shutdown Fight
    The federal government is currently in shutdown mode after Democrats pushed to continue taxpayer support for health care plans that cover abortions and transgender medical procedures.  In the legislative finagling prior to the shutdown on Wednesday, Democrats pushed to extend the Obamacare enhanced subsidies, which are set to expire on Dec. 31, and use taxpayer…
    Jacob Adams
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    25 Years Later: Abortion Pill Devastation Only Gets Worse
    On Sept. 28, 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion pill mifepristone. Twenty-five years later, the devastation is hard to fully capture. In the wake of mifepristone’s approval, millions of unborn children have been lost—reversing the enduring long-term decline of abortion in America. Meanwhile, their mothers suffered immeasurable harms—emotionally, physically, and spiritually. And…
    Melanie Israel
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    Pro-Abortion Democrat Declines Catholic Award After Pro-Life Backlash, Pope Comments
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Amid mounting pushback, Sen. Dick Durbin, a pro-abortion Democrat from Illinois, declined a lifetime achievement award on Tuesday he was scheduled to receive from the Archdiocese of Chicago. Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, had planned to present Durbin with the honor at the “Keep Hope Alive” Benefit on Nov….
    Melissa O’Rourke
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    FDA Confirms Abortion Pill Review
    The abortion drug mifepristone will finally receive much-requested scrutiny by the Trump administration, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary promised Republican attorneys general. After decades of pro-abortion administrations gradually loosening every last safeguard, the Trump administration’s FDA will conduct “its own review of the evidence, including…
    Joshua Arnold
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