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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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    Marketing Life: A Mother’s Journey From Planned Parenthood to Global Pro-Life Movement
    At age 18, Nelly Roach sat in a Planned Parenthood clinic with $246 to pay for an abortion.   “I found myself there, as many many people find themselves, in a place where they don't feel that they have any options,” Roach says.   Roach was born into a Catholic family on the small island nation of…
    Virginia Allen
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    CDC Report Reveals Significant Shift in National Abortion Statistics Since Dobbs Ruling
    Pro-life laws in some states are saving lives, according to the annual “Abortion Surveillance” report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s report covers 2022. Roughly half of it accounts for abortion under the Roe v. Wade regime, before the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling that allowed abortion…
    Melanie Israel
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    EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Call for Accountability on Federal Funding for Abortion Giants
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of Republican lawmakers wants to investigate how much federal funding goes to abortion providers including Planned Parenthood. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith, Rep. Robert Aderholt, and Rep. Claudia Tenney led a bicameral letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office requesting a report on federal funding…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Pro-Life Leader: 3 Ways Democrats Are Turning Abortion Into a ‘Sacrament’
    Democrats are making abortion into a “sacrament” by completely eliminating doctors from the process, glorifying the act, and deregulating the procedure, according to the president and CEO of the world’s largest pro-life organization. Shawn Carney is the president and founder of the annual 40 Days for Life campaign, which has just concluded in a record…
    Ann Moreno
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    Former Planned Parenthood Chief Needs Our Prayers, Not a Presidential Medal of Freedom
    In a private ceremony Wednesday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood. Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, this honor is awarded by the president of the United States and is “the nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made exemplary…
    Mary Szoch
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    Which Major Corporations Fund Travel for Abortion?
    At least 42 companies in the Fortune 100 pay for employees to travel for an abortion in states where it isn’t available, according to a new report from the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center. Forty-two companies is likely an undercount because coverage for abortion travel is becoming standard in many health care plans for…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Harris Gambled and Lost in Making Abortion Her Campaign’s Top Issue, Poll Finds
    Many assumed Vice President Kamala Harris, as a woman, would have secured the vote among young women in the 2024 presidential election. However, according to an exit poll from The Associated Press, that was not the case. It turns out at least 40% of Gen Z women who are under the age of 30 chose to vote…
    Sarah Holliday
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    Voters Put Abortion in Their State Constitutions
    Abortion was on the ballot Tuesday in more ways than one. Nationally, Kamala Harris’ campaign increasingly emphasized the issue, claiming that electing Donald Trump again would lead to a “national abortion ban.” And voters in 10 states had the opportunity to amend their state constitutions to protect a right to abortion. Here are the results….
    Thomas Jipping | Andrew Oliver
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    Emergency Room Visits Appear to Rise After FDA Relaxed Abortion Pill Restrictions
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The emergency room visitation rate for abortion complications appears to have increased since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration removed guardrails on the use of the abortion pill. A U.S. federal court on July 13, 2020, temporarily stopped the FDA from requiring that mifepristone, or the abortion pill, be dispensed in…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Harris Wants to Repeal All State Abortion Limits
    Abortion is on the ballot in the 2024 election. It’s literally on the ballot in 10 states, with voters deciding whether to amend their constitutions to guarantee abortion access through most or all of pregnancy. But it’s also on the ballot in the presidential election because the two candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, have…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Isabel Brown: Abortion Is Kamala Harris’ Only Strategy to Win Women
    Kamala Harris’ campaign appears to have only one strategy to earn female votes, says author and conservative social media influencer Isabel Brown.  “To the elected Left today, I think women equal votes for abortion,” Brown says, adding that too many Democrats see women as “a dollar sign associated with the abortion industry.”  While Democrats’ strategy…
    Virginia Allen | Kristen Eichamer
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    Life Is on the Ballot in These States. Here’s What You Need to Know About Abortion-on-Demand Measures.
    There’s a lot at stake Nov. 5. In 10 states, the lives of unborn children—and women’s health and safety—are on the ballot. These measures, if passed, would enshrine abortion as a fundamental right in state constitutions. That means state legislatures essentially would be blocked from meaningfully protecting women and unborn children from abortion. That means…
    Melanie Israel
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    Floridians Challenge Radical Abortion Amendment After Report Reveals Fraud in Petition Process
    Florida pro-lifers filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a pro-abortion group found to have engaged in fraudulent practices to put on the ballot a radical amendment legalizing abortion up to birth. Alan Lawson, a lawyer who is a former Florida Supreme Court justice, filed the lawsuit against the group Floridians Protecting Freedom on behalf of four state…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Exposing the Abortion Pill Drug Cartel’
    Violence, crime, and drug-related deaths in the U.S. have been on the rise for some time now, thanks to Mexican drug cartels, but a new report is revealing that a different kind of cartel is flooding the U.S. with a different kind of drug—namely, abortion pills. A new in-depth study, “Beneath the Surface: Exposing the…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    2 Women Are Dead After Abortion Drug Complications. The Left’s Bid to Blame Pro-Life Laws Is Dishonest.
    Two women in Georgia, along with their unborn children, are dead. If it weren’t for abortion drugs, they might all still be alive. But the abortion industry, the Left, and some in media are blaming Georgia’s abortion law. They’re wrong. Here are the facts of the two tragic cases—and how they could have been prevented….
    Melanie Israel
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    Pro-Abortion Agitators Doxxed Pro-Lifers and Asked for the Names of Their Children Amid Ballot Initiative Battle
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—South Dakota pro-lifers say they experienced physical threats, verbal abuse, doxing, and stalking from a pro-abortion group collecting signatures for its radical referendum ballot measure. Dakotans for Health “used antifa-style actions, lies, and abuse to illegally get Amendment G on the ballot,” according to Chris David, a South Dakota resident and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    On Abortion, Kamala Harris Is the Extremist
    At one point during the Sept. 10 presidential debate, former President Donald Trump accused Democrats of not only supporting unlimited third-trimester abortions, but the “execution” of babies after birth. Once Trump wrapped up his rant, Linsey Davis, one of the ABC News moderators, “fact-checked” the former president, helpfully noting that “there is no state in…
    David Harsanyi
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    FACT CHECK: Did 2 Women Die Because of Georgia’s Abortion Law?
    The pro-abortion lobby and legacy media are lying to you again. This week, shocking headlines portrayed the deaths of two women incorrectly, blaming a new Georgia law that had nothing to do with their tragic deaths. Here’s what really happened: Amber Nicole Thurman died after she took the abortion pill, deregulated by the FDA (with…
    Sarah Parshall Perry
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