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    Federal Judge Permanently Enjoins Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Abortion Regulation for Catholic Business Group
    Catholic businesses may not be forced to subsidize abortions or fertility treatments, ruled federal Judge Daniel Traynor, a Donald Trump appointee to the District Court of North Dakota, on Tuesday. Traynor granted 9,000 Catholic businesses a permanent injunction against an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rule requiring employers to provide abortion-related leave and other practices contrary to these…
    Joshua Arnold
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    Can States Nix Medicaid Dollars for Abortion Clinics? Supreme Court Justices Appear Divided
    The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case with enormous consequences for federalism and the future of public funding for abortion. The question before the justices: Does the Medicaid Act of 1965 give Medicaid recipients the right to sue states in federal court when those…
    Sarah Parshall Perry | Brynn Bennett
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    Trump Pauses Federal Funding for Some Planned Parenthood Facilities
    The Trump administration is following through on its promise to withhold funding from abortion provider Planned Parenthood.  Nine Planned Parenthood regional affiliates received notice Monday that the federal funding they were receiving through the law known as Title X is being temporarily withheld, according to a report from Politico. The administration is looking into possible…
    Moira Gleason
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    Supreme Court Case Could Allow States to Strip Medicaid Funding from Planned Parenthood
    Praise and worship music clashed with shouts of “Abortion is health care” as pro-life protesters and abortion supporters rallied outside the United States Supreme Court Wednesday during oral arguments in a case that could decide whether states can disqualify Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.  When South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster disqualified Planned Parenthood from…
    Moira Gleason
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    I Worked at Planned Parenthood for 15 Years—Here’s Why It Shouldn’t Get Taxpayer Dollars
    Do states have the right to refuse to give taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities within their borders? As someone who worked at Planned Parenthood for more than 15 years and who knows what they do with that money, I can say unequivocally that they should have that right. One of the…
    Mayra Rodriguez
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    Lawmakers, Pro-Lifers Call for Defunding Planned Parenthood Via Reconciliation 
    When Toni McFadden was a senior in high school, she walked through the doors of a Planned Parenthood clinic hoping to escape her unplanned pregnancy and return to life as normal.   But the abortion pills they gave her didn’t work. One month later, she experienced severe hemorrhaging owing to complications and received no help…
    Moira Gleason
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    GOP Bill Protects Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers From Being Forced to Promote Abortion
    Republican lawmakers announced a bill Monday to prohibit federal and state governments from discriminating against pro-life pregnancy resource centers by requiring them to perform or encourage abortions.  The Let Pregnancy Care Centers Serve Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and four of his Republican colleagues, would amend the Public Health Service Act to “prohibit…
    Moira Gleason
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    Trump May Freeze Millions in Funding for Planned Parenthood, Report Says
    The Trump administration will freeze approximately $20 million in funding for Planned Parenthood, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to the Journal, the administration will put on hold about $120 million in grant funding for “family planning” as it reviews whether recipients are in violation of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Withhold Medicaid Funding From Planned Parenthood
    The Supreme Court could soon strike a blow to America’s largest abortion provider. Amid growing concerns about the quality of care at Planned Parenthood facilities and the fact that taxpayer funding is going to facilities that provide abortions, the Supreme Court could effectively decide whether states can withhold taxpayer dollars from the organization in an…
    Moira Gleason
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    EXCLUSIVE: Senators Demand Documents on How Much COVID-19 Cash Planned Parenthood Illegally Received
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two U.S. senators are demanding documents from the Small Business Administration regarding how much COVID-19 relief aid Planned Parenthood chapters received. Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., sent the letter Friday to Kelly Loeffler, the SBA's administrator. The letter concerns funds from the Paycheck Protection Program, a creation of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Watchdog Debunks Argument Defunding Planned Parenthood Hurts Taxpayers
    Pro-lifers continue to urge the Department of Government Efficiency to defund Planned Parenthood, but they aren't putting all their eggs in Elon Musk's basket. As pro-life groups fight for a provision in the budget reconciliation package to remove federal funding from Planned Parenthood, conservatives warn against allowing pro-abortion misinformation to derail efforts to defund the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Democrats Desert Abortion-Survivor Babies
    The day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated to his second term, Senate Democratic leaders went to the floor to attack a bill that congressional Republicans hoped they could send to Trump to sign into law. It was the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. “Look, it is Donald Trump’s first week as president, and Republicans…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    Ernst Introduces Legislation to Defund Planned Parenthood
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa introduced legislation in the Senate Wednesday to prohibit federal funding for Planned Parenthood after the organization received COVID-19 relief funds. At least $120 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans were provided to affiliates of Planned Parenthood in 2020 and 2021 contrary to “applicable affiliation rules and…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Report Reveals How Abortion Bans Really Affect Women
    Not one Texas doctor has been prosecuted for performing one of 132 “medically necessary” induced terminations of pregnancy, according to a report from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services released Jan. 2. Texas law protects unborn life from six weeks gestation to birth. The ban on abortions prior to six weeks, which took…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Pro-Life Christian Detained for Preaching Gospel, Offering to Adopt Babies at Abortion Clinic
    Police detained a pro-life father and husband outside an Ohio abortion clinic for sharing the Gospel and offering to adopt abortion-minded women’s babies. Still, he plans to return to the clinic this weekend. Zack and Lindsay Knotts have spent the past three Saturdays outside Northeast Ohio Women’s Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, an hour drive…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Defunding Planned Parenthood Is a Matter of Life and Death for Black America
    The prospect that American taxpayers, who morally object to abortion, may no longer be forced to fund Planned Parenthood when President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, feels promising this time around. And according to Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, the newly slated Department of Government Efficiency advisory committee just might lead the charge to…
    John Amanchukwu Sr.
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    ‘Full of Hope’: How Pro-Lifers Convicted for Praying Outside Abortion Clinics Spend Christmas in Prison
    Ten pro-lifers are spending Christmas in prison this year after being convicted for praying outside abortion clinics and trying to persuade abortion-minded women to save their babies. While the advocates for unborn life look forward to freedom, many seek to use their incarceration to share the hope they hold and the true meaning of Christmas…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Supreme Court Set to Consider Medicaid Coverage for Abortion
    A case just taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court—Kerr v. Planned Parenthood—might just be the sleeper hit of the October 2024 term. At issue is public funding for abortion, something that pro-life states have been keen to limit for some time. The justices will consider the following question: Do Medicaid recipients have the right…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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    2 of Every 3 Abortion Facilities in US Shuttered Since 1990, Report Says
    More than two out of every three abortion facilities in the United States have closed their doors since 1990—but abortion still represents “a dark, bloody, hopeless stain on humanity,” according to a new report released Tuesday. A total of 667 abortion facilities currently do business in America, according to Operation Rescue’s 2024 annual survey of abortion…
    Ben Johnson
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    Catholic Health Care System Partners With Pro-Abortion Virtual Women’s Health Clinic
    The Catholic health care system CommonSpirit partners with an online women’s health clinic that offers abortion pills and referrals for surgical abortions. CommonSpirit Health announced in 2021 it would partner with Ask Tia to create “a new front door to health care for women.” The partnership, uncovered by the pro-life organization Save the Storks, “enables…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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