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    Biden’s Big Abortion Lie in His State of the Union Address

    My mom taught me that saying something you know is not true is a lie. President Joe Biden told some whoppers Thursday night in his State of the Union speech, including several about abortion. Biden, for example, vowed to “restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.” No president, of course, can establish…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Pro-Life Tragedy: France Embeds Abortion in Constitution, Other Nations Will Follow

    In an overwhelming 780-72 vote, the French parliament has just enshrined a “right” to abortion in the nation’s constitution. It is the first country in the world to do so. Why? Was there a push to outlaw abortion, which has been legal in France since the 1970s? Was there an effort to lower France’s gestational…
    Melanie Israel
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    Nation’s Largest Pharmacy Chains to Begin Selling Abortion Pills

    Two major pharmacy chains are preparing to place abortion pills on their shelves in select states, according to The New York Times. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in January 2023 that pharmacies would be able to start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone to patients. Officials from Walgreens and CVS drug stores said Friday that they…
    Kate Anderson
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    EXCLUSIVE: 16 Attorneys General Order YouTube to Remove ‘Misleading’ Notice on Abortion Video

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of 16 state attorneys general is calling out YouTube for “misleading” informational posts on abortion videos, warning that the platform is putting women in danger by minimizing the risks of chemical abortions. “Your bias against pro-life and pro-woman messages is un-American; inconsistent with the liberties protected by the First…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Missouri AG Sues Planned Parenthood for ‘Trafficking Minors’ to Get Out-of-State Abortions

    The attorney general of Missouri is suing Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States, for “trafficking minors out of state to obtain abortions without parental consent.” “This is the beginning of the end for Planned Parenthood in the State of Missouri,” Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a statement posted on X,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    NAACP Assailed by Pro-Lifers for Its Support of Abortion ‘Racism’

    A pro-life group has written an open letter to the NAACP, condemning the pro-abortion stance of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.  “Abortion is the ultimate racism. Almost 20 million black babies have been killed since Roe v. Wade,” the letter from the American Life League read. Roe v. Wade was the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that…
    Mary Elise Cosgray
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    Notre Dame’s Silence on Abortion Doula ‘Displays the Rot,’ Catholic Critic Says 

    The Catholic University of America and the University of Notre Dame both hosted an “abortion doula” on campus, but the two Roman Catholic schools responded to the backlash in starkly different manners.   Catholic University fired the host professor within 24 hours of The Daily Signal’s report on an abortion doula’s lecture to one of the…
    Mary Elise Cosgray
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    Abortion Pill Reversal Saved Her Baby Girl’s Life

    Katelynn Perry sat in her bathtub doing Google searches on her phone. Was there a way to save her unborn baby? She had taken the first chemical abortion pill that day and had decided she was not going to take the rest.  After visiting Planned Parenthood, Perry says she “knew that taking that first pill…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘Did Not Align With Our Mission’: Catholic University Fires Professor Who Brought in ‘Abortion Doula’

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Catholic University confirmed to The Daily Signal that it has terminated the contract of the professor who invited a self-declared “abortion doula” to speak to students about coaching women through abortions and “pregnant men” through a “seahorse birth.” Catholic University President Peter Kilpatrick announced to students on Jan. 30 that…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    SHOCKING: Catholic University Brought in ‘Abortion Doula’ Who Coaches ‘Pregnant Men’ Through Giving Birth

    A self-declared “abortion doula” spoke this week to Catholic University of America students about her experiences coaching women through delivering or aborting babies, as well as coaching “pregnant men” to deliver in what she called a “seahorse birth,” according to audio of the class lecture obtained by The Daily Signal.  A Catholic University nursing student described…
    Mary Elise Cosgray
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    Abortion, Sacred Truths, and Politics

    Speaking Jan. 5 in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden said that the 2024 election is about whether “democracy” is “still America’s sacred cause.” But is democracy “sacred”? Is the process by which we make choices “sacred,” or is what we choose “sacred”? This is the time of year we think about the sanctity of…
    Star Parker
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    CDC’s Latest Abortion Numbers: A Sobering Reminder of Monumental Task Ahead

    The most recent report on abortion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out and, as usual, it’s grim. The number of abortions rose from 620,327 in 2020 to 625,978 in 2021. The key drivers in this depressing increase are a greater use of dangerous chemical abortion pills and weakened safety protocols governing…
    Melanie Israel
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    As Planned Parenthood’s Abortion Market Share Goes Up, So Does Its Taxpayer Funding

    To borrow from an old saying, nothing can be certain except for death and taxpayer funding for the abortion industry. At the request of pro-life members of Congress, the Government Accountability Office released the latest round of data detailing how much taxpayer funding goes to Planned Parenthood and other international abortion organizations. From 2019 through…
    Connor Semelsberger
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    Abortion Back on the Docket for Supreme Court Term. This Time It’s a Chance to Check Runaway Agencies. 

    The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to drop virtually all safety precautions for obtaining and using abortion drugs.   The Supreme Court’s involvement in any case related to abortion provokes all sorts of hysteria. But the court’s decision here will not just be about…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Supreme Court to Weigh Major Case on Abortion Pill Approval

    The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it is taking on a case regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the chemical abortion pill mifepristone. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Pediatricians, and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations filed a lawsuit against the FDA in November…
    Kate Anderson
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    Why Do-It-Yourself Abortion Pills Are So Dangerous

    The Biden administration continues removing safety measures for the distribution of do-it-yourself abortion pills, turning local pharmacies into abortion clinics. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration is being sued for approving these dangerous drugs in the first place. After the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization struck down Roe v. Wade,…
    Melanie Israel
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    Nun Hails Legal Victory for Life, Privacy in Pro-Abortion State

    After filing a lawsuit, a Catholic community of sisters in New York has won a victory for life and for privacy. In June 2022, New York passed a law allowing state officials to access pro-life pregnancy resource centers' sensitive information. The state Department of Health was granted permission to investigate pro-life pregnancy centers via demanding…
    Virginia Allen
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    Some Christian Nonprofits Support Abortion, Charity Watchlist Finds  

    Christian organizations are among nonprofits that support the abortion industry, especially since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, according to a “watchlist” that monitors such connections.  “Unfortunately, our research showed that many of these organizations responded to Dobbs by funding abortion,” Hugh Brown, executive vice president of the American Life League, told The…
    Lucy Gilbert
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    Cosmopolitan’s Unintentional, Unironic Reminder That Abortion Is Satanic

    Cosmopolitan magazine is trash. Most sane people would agree. But sometimes Cosmopolitan unironically publishes something that horrifyingly illustrates just how far gone and evil our society, and the culture of death, is. Case in point: Cosmo’s recent post on social media to promote its article highlighting “satanic abortion.” (I’m including screenshots just in case the…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Women ‘Deserve Better’ Than Misinformation on Chemical Abortion, Physician Says 

    The abortion pill ends one life and damages another, Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., said Monday during a panel on chemical abortion held by The Heritage Foundation, referring to the death of the baby and its effects on the mother’s mental health. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)  “We need to…
    Sara Garstka
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