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    US’ Permissive Abortion Laws Highlight Need for Federal Protections, Study Finds

    A recent study is declaring U.S. abortion law to be “far more permissive than the vast majority of the world.” In its 2024 report on “Gestational Limits on Abortion in the United States Compared to International Norms,” published last week, the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the U.S. is one of only eight countries in the…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    Letitia James Sues Pregnancy Centers Over Abortion Pill Reversal Claims

    New York State Attorney General Letitia James sued multiple crisis pregnancy centers Monday for saying they can reverse abortion pills. James, a Democrat, targeted 11 crisis pregnancy centers in New York, accusing them of “misleading” pregnant women about whether medication abortion may be reversed, according to the court filing. James claimed that the centers, along with…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Planned Parenthood Checklist: More Abortions, Less Actual Health Care, More Tax Dollars Than Ever

    Planned Parenthood’s 2022-2023 annual report is out. Unlike last year’s annual report, now we’re finally able to see how the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade is affecting Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers and bottom line. Spoiler alert: Abortions and government funding are at all-time highs. Actual health care for things such as cancer screening…
    Melanie Israel
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    Missouri AG Predicts ‘Negative Findings’ in Probe of Planned Parenthood’s Transgender Business

    Planned Parenthood has refused to produce records that could prove it has irreversibly harmed children without parental consent as part of its booming transgender business, possibly in collusion with the Biden administration, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey revealed this week. Numerous transgender clinics in Missouri, including those affiliated with Planned Parenthood, have failed to comply…
    Ben Johnson
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    Newly Appointed 4th Circuit Judge Married to Pro-Abortion Christine Ford Lawyer

    Recently appointed 4th Circuit Judge Nicole Berner is legally married to the pro-abortion lawyer who represented Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her. The Washington Post describes Berner as “the first openly gay judge and the first labor lawyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Must Defend Catholic Churches From More Expected Pro-Abortion Attacks, Leader Says

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A prominent Catholic organization is calling on the Department of Justice to defend Catholic churches from anticipated pro-abortion attacks, pointing to the disparities in the DOJ’s enforcement of a law protecting both abortion clinics and churches. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, CatholicVote President Brian Burch calls on…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Shifts Singles’ Attitudes Toward Sex, Dating

    An unintended but interesting consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade has been a significant decrease in America’s “hookup” culture. In the first year after the high court’s overturning of easy abortion access, 78% of surveyed singles indicated that the lack of federal abortion protections affected their sex and dating lives,…
    Arthur Goldberg
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    Pregnancy Center Slams FBI For Failure to Arrest Pro-Abortion Firebombers

    Staffers at a pro-life pregnancy resource center in Rochester, New York, are criticizing the FBI for failing to provide any kind of status update of investigations into pro-abortion vandals’ attacks on the pregnancy center. Nearly two years after the initial June 2022 attack, CompassCare pregnancy medical center says that the FBI has put up billboards…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Debunking the Supposed ‘Historical’ Christian View That Abortion Is OK

    I’m not going to take “theological advice” from a pro-abortion Christian, and neither should you. Bradley Onishi, who describes himself as a former evangelical minister, wrote an opinion piece for Politico titled, “Why Christians—and Republicans—Should Reconsider the Premise that ‘Life Begins at Conception.’” In the article, the writer argues that protecting the unborn is “not settled Christian…
    Sarah Holliday
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    Safety of Women Hangs in Balance After Oral Arguments on Abortion Pill Regulation

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two combined cases regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of abortion drugs. In Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration, the court below—the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals—had concluded that the FDA’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to drop the safety rules…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Abortion Drug’s Adverse Event Reporting Should Be Cause for Concern at the FDA

    Abortion is a very controversial topic, but drug safety isn’t. Keeping America’s drug supply safe is a nonpartisan endeavor. Whatever one’s political leanings, everybody wants safe, effective drugs, and a full disclosure of known safety risks. Because of that, the Food and Drug Administration is supposed to remain agnostic when it comes to politics, up…
    David Gortler
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    EXCLUSIVE: Rubio Calls for DOJ to Investigate Planned Parenthood’s Handling of Aborted Baby Tissue

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is calling for a federal investigation into reports that Planned Parenthood is providing aborted baby body parts to the University of California San Diego in exchange for “valuable consideration”—while also maintaining intellectual property rights over the fetal tissue. “If confirmed, this relationship represents a flagrant…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Videos Show Planned Parenthood Circumventing Abortion Law by Dismembering Babies, Pro-Life Journalist Alleges

    Planned Parenthood officials appear to discuss mutilating the bodies of living babies to bypass federal law against partial-birth abortions in previously unseen undercover videos obtained by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress.  Center founder and self-described journalist David Daleiden told The Daily Signal that the footage, revealed Tuesday at a House hearing, adds to Planned…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Rubio to GOP: Don’t ‘Shy Away’ From Exposing Democratic Abortion Extremism

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio responded to GOP consultant Kellyanne Conway’s abortion advice by urging lawmakers to expose Democratic extremism. Last week, Conway urged Republicans to stop highlighting that their Democratic opponents support unfettered abortions of unborn babies, though Democratic Party leaders and most Democratic politicians have repeatedly refused to specify any protections for…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Kellyanne Conway Tells GOP: Stop Saying Democrats Support Abortion Up Until Birth

    GOP campaign consultant Kellyanne Conway urged Republicans to stop highlighting that their Democratic opponents support unfettered abortions of unborn babies, suggesting instead that Republicans focus on consensus. Conway laid out an abortion-related political strategy Wednesday during Politico’s Health Care Summit, at which she also touched on her support for both TikTok and in vitro fertilization….
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘I SURVIVED’: Late-Term Abortion Survivor Busts Left’s Abortion Myths

    A survivor of a late-term abortion, Melissa Ohden, shared her story in an interview with The Daily Signal.  “I survived a failed saline-infusion abortion,” Ohden told senior reporter Mary Margaret Olohan on Thursday, “about four years after [1973’s] Roe v. Wade.”  “The intent of that toxic salt solution was to poison and scald me to death,” she…
    Mary Elise Cosgray
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    Kamala Harris Makes Celebratory Visit to Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic

    Vice President Kamala Harris spent Thursday afternoon visiting a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Minnesota. The visit, which makes her the first vice president to do so, is intended to demonstrate President Joe Biden’s administration’s dedication to promoting abortion in the post-Roe v. Wade era. The visit is a historic first. While a celebratory visit…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Pro-Life Groups Urge University of Houston to Remove Pro-Abortion Statue 

    The University of Houston is facing backlash from pro-life organizations over a pro-abortion statue on campus grounds.   The university canceled the exhibit’s official presentation ceremony, but the pro-life groups also called for the school to remove the statue outright. The monument, a golden woman with two thick braids resembling ram’s horns, stands about 18 feet…
    Mary Elise Cosgray
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    Investigation Reveals Gender, Abortion Services Masquerading as Health Centers in K-12 Schools

    A trend of installing “health centers” in K-12 public schools has led to students being offered disturbing services without parental knowledge or consent, an investigation by a leading parental rights group has found. Progressive education activists claim that so-called school-based health centers and other “wrap-around services” improve academic performance and behavior by giving students daily…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Pauvre Enfant: An American (Abortion) in Paris

    The French woke up and chose violence. On Monday, France became the world’s only country to explicitly enshrine a right to abortion into its constitution. The French Parliament overwhelmingly approved it, 780-to-72—a greater than 10-to-1 spread. Fittingly, they held their vote in the Palace of Versailles, one of the epicenters of French Revolution violence. The…
    Catherine Glenn Foster
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