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    Drones Provide Abortion-Inducing Pills to Polish Women
    Last Saturday, abortion-inducing medication flew from Germany to Poland on the world’s first abortion drone in order to help women gain “access to safe abortions” in Poland, where strict abortion restrictions exist. The campaign was launched by several reproductive rights groups, including Women on Waves, an abortion support group for Polish women, along with several…
    Diana Stancy
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    Almost a Third of Abortions Performed at Planned Parenthoods
    Planned Parenthood is performing almost a third of abortions in the United States, according to a new report by Americans United for Life. The report, titled “The New Leviathan: The Mega-Center Report, How Planned Parenthood Has Become Abortion, Inc.,” shows that the nation’s largest abortion provider has gone from performing one in five abortions in…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Unions Made Big Donations to Planned Parenthood in 2014
    Unions are donating money to Planned Parenthood, and members who object are often unable to hold their unions accountable. According to a search of union records on the Department of Labor’s website, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union and United Food and Commercial Workers gave a combined…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Since 2010, Abortion Rate Has Dropped 12%
    The abortion rate is declining in the United States, according to a report by the Associated Press. According to the AP, the abortion rate has dropped about 12 percent since 2010. States that have passed laws to reduce abortion such as Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma, have seen a drop in the number of abortions,…
    Kate Scanlon
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    ‘Say What?’ Planned Parenthood Calls Itself a ‘Safe Haven’ for Newborns
    Planned Parenthood of Northern New England is advertising itself as a “safe haven” for newborns. According to Vermont’s Department for Children and Families, the state’s Baby Safe Haven Law “offers you safe places you can give up your baby—anonymously and legally.” Under the Baby Safe Haven Law, parents may deliver a child younger than 30…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Remembering Kermit Gosnell’s Victims by Protecting Other Women and Children From Abortion Industry
    Today marks the second anniversary of the conviction of Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortionist who brutalized women and routinely killed living, breathing infants in his rundown West Philadelphia clinic. Later today the House is scheduled to vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R. 36, which would limit late-term abortions after 20 weeks, include…
    Sarah Torre
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    Judicial Activism on Marriage, Like Abortion, Can Cause Harms
    Forty-two years ago, in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court tried to settle the abortion debate by declaring the Constitution somehow creates a right to abortion in all 50 states. There is nothing in the Constitution that requires abortion in all 50 states, and that’s why Roe is rightly viewed as an activist decision, as explained in this…
    Ryan T. Anderson
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    Carly Fiorina: ‘Nobody Agrees With’ Democrats’ Abortion Platform
    Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and likely presidential candidate Carly Fiorina criticized the Democratic Party’s platform of abortion on demand during a recent speech. Serving as the mistress of ceremonies at the Susan B. Anthony List’s Campaign for Life Gala in Washington, D.C. last week, Fiorina praised the organization and its supporters for their contributions to…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Where Do GOP Presidential Prospects Stand on 20-Week Abortion Ban?
    In a crowded field of Republican presidential candidates, is there room for agreement on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act? The legislation would prohibit abortion after five months—more than halfway through a pregnancy—except in cases where rape or incest were reported. A recent Quinnipiac poll shows 60 percent of Americans support pain-capable legislation. Do the…
    Kate Scanlon
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    How Liberal Senators Are Trying to Make a Bipartisan Abortion Measure Controversial
    Amid the usual partisan infighting in Washington, there is one policy that for decades has won the approval of liberals and conservatives alike: prohibiting federal dollars from paying for abortions. But now, a handful of liberal senators are backtracking on that commonsense and (up until this week) uncontroversial funding restriction. The occasion on which they’ve…
    Sarah Torre
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    Why Is the Pro-Abortion Lobby Preventing an Anti-Human Trafficking Bill From Passing?
    Let’s be clear, this bill is about helping victims of human trafficking.
    Genevieve Wood
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    Star Parker’s Personal Confession on Why She Is ‘Adamant’ About Ending Abortion
    While speaking at ProLifeCon at the Family Research Council last week, nationally syndicated columnist Star Parker called abortion a “crime against humanity,” and lamented the four children she aborted before her conversion to Christianity. “I got caught up in the lies of the left,” she said, “including their lies about abortion.” Watch the video for the…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Carly Fiorina: ‘Hypocrisy of Liberals’ on Abortion Is ‘Breathtaking’
    Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina criticized House Republican leadership in a speech Saturday for their decision this week to postpone the vote on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, after some Republican House members objected to the legislation. She also took aim at the left as well, saying in her remarks at the Iowa…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Obama Threatens to Veto Bill Prohibiting Federal Funds From Being Used to Pay for Abortion
    As hundreds of thousands of pro-life demonstrators participated in the March for Life in Washington, D.C., to protest abortion, President Obama threatened to veto a bill prohibiting federal funds from being used to pay for the controversial procedure. “I am deeply committed to protecting this core constitutional right, and I believe that efforts like H.R….
    Melissa Quinn
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    Aware of Reported Rape Exception, Women Still Overwhelmingly Support 20-Week Abortion Ban
    Americans care. Washington, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to realize that Americans believe 5-month-old unborn children deserve have to their right to life protected. Or that as a nation, America says that when a child is moving, can hear and has a heartbeat, that child deserves the right to live—and deserves a nation that…
    Katrina Trinko
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    At Last Second, House GOP Leaders Ditch Effort to Pass Bill Limiting Abortion
    House Republican leadership tonight abruptly dropped a bill that would ban elective abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy. According to news reports, female GOP lawmakers raised concerns on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prompting party leaders to scrap a vote on the bill. Prominent Republican members who rallied against the plan to limit…
    Josh Siegel
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    New Poll: 8 Out of 10 Americans Support ‘Significant Restrictions’ on Abortion
    Forty-two years after the passing of Roe v. Wade, how do Americans really feel about abortion? A new Marist poll sponsored by the Catholic organization Knights of Columbus asked Americans if they were pro-life or pro-choice – but they didn’t stop there. The poll’s stated intention was to “understand Americans’ attitudes toward abortion,” including those…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Why Don’t Abortion Advocates Care About Women’s Safety?
    Should abortion facilities have to follow the same standards as other medical clinics? If you thought the answer to that, regardless of your views on abortion, should be “duh,” you’d be wrong. In fact, we had quite the spirited debate on PBS’s “To The Contrary” this week about that.  A provision in a Texas law…
    Genevieve Wood
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    House Republicans Introduce Late-Term Abortion Ban
    With majorities in the House and Senate, Republicans have renewed their push to ban late-term abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. On Wednesday, Reps. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.” In a joint press release, Franks said that his bill would protect “innocent and defenseless children”…
    Philip Wegmann
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    Planned Parenthood Performed 327,653 Abortions in 2013, Accepted $528 Million in Taxpayer Funds
    Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions in 2013—all while accepting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. The organization recently released its 2013-14 annual report, highlighting the “building momentum” and the “explosion of engagement” within Planned Parenthood. “In 2014, Planned Parenthood expanded our reach—and deepened our impact—providing the health care and education that help millions…
    Kate Scanlon
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