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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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    This Sheriff Wants More ‘Outrage’ Over Abortion of Black Babies
    According to this sheriff, black lives matter—even the ones in the womb. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has been a vocal critic of anti-police demonstrations in the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. So when Clarke saw New York Times reporter Mitch Smith covering a “die-in” protest on Twitter, he responded. Clarke…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Nicki Minaj: My Abortion Has ‘Haunted Me All My Life’
    In a new interview with Rolling Stone, rapper Nicki Minaj openly discussed her decision to have an abortion, a choice that she says has “haunted me all my life.” While attending the prestigious LaGuardia Performing Arts High School in New York and dating an older man from Queens, Minaj discovered she was pregnant. “I was a…
    Philip Wegmann
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    Why the Abortion Rate Is the Lowest It’s Been Since 1973
    The abortion rate keeps dropping. The latest numbers from the CDC, released last week, show that the abortion rate is the lowest it’s been since 1973, the year the Supreme Court manufactured a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. This raises two important questions: What is the cause of the decline in abortion?…
    Ryan T. Anderson | Sarah Torre
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    Conscience and Abortion Funding Concerns in the CRomnibus
    The CRomnibus released late last night is fraught with the same bloated spending that has propelled the nation further into debt. In addition to serious fiscal concerns with the massive spending bill—not to mention the problems inherent in dropping a 1000-plus-page bill at the eleventh hour—the CRomnibus has some concerning provisions on life and conscience….
    Sarah Torre
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    Clinton Judge Gives Catholic University Temporary Pass on Abortion Drug Mandate
    On Tuesday, a federal court in Tampa, Fla. stopped the Obama administration from enforcing the new and improved version of the Obamacare mandate that employers provide healthcare coverage of abortion-inducing drugs. Ave Maria University, a Catholic school based in Florida, challenged the so-called “accommodation” that allows it to avoid directly providing or paying for coverage…
    Elizabeth Slattery
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    Live Action Rallies Pro-Lifers Outside D.C. Planned Parenthood
    Speakers from several pro-life organizations gathered at a Washington, D.C. Planned Parenthood on Tuesday to protest abortion and the organization’s taxpayer funding. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country and received $500 million in taxpayer funds last year. Lila Grace Rose, the founder and president of Live Action, a pro-life advocacy group,…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Obama Administration Drops Fight Against 3 Businesses Over Abortion Pill Mandate
    Two months after the Supreme Court handed down its Hobby Lobby decision, the Obama administration has abandoned its fight against several family businesses arguing for an exemption from the Obamacare abortion drug mandate. Earlier this year, the businesses won temporary relief from the mandate, which they argue violates their religious beliefs. Yesterday's decision means the administration will…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Why the Abortion Rate Is Declining
    Over the most recent decade for which data are available (2001–2011), the overall U.S. abortion rate, calculated as the annual number of abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age (15 to 44), has dropped, continuing a trend that first appeared in 1980. The decline has been steeper since 1990, with a brief plateau in the…
    Chuck Donovan
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