Healthcare & Policy News
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OB-GYN Responds to Biden’s Touting Abortion During State of the Union
President Joe Biden took a few moments of his second State of the Union address to advocate abortion, and invited a guest who was personally affected by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in June. Amanda Zurawski and her husband Josh were seated in first lady Jill Biden’s box during Biden’s speech Tuesday…Virginia Allen -
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FACT CHECK: Biden Touts Reopening of Schools After COVID-19, but Republicans Were a Year Ahead of Him
President Joe Biden opened his State of the Union address Tuesday with, “Two years ago, COVID had shut down our businesses, closed our schools, and robbed us of so much. Today, COVID no longer controls our lives.” While Biden now celebrates victory over COVID-19 and the ending of pandemic school closures, his appointees and poor…Tony Kinnett -
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FDA Lacks Authority to Approve Abortion Pills, Claims First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit. The Left Is Apoplectic.
Liberals are predictably apoplectic about a recent case that makes a first-of-its-kind claim: that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration never had the authority to approve the chemical abortion pill mifepristone when it did so in 2000. In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs—a coalition of national medical associations and doctors experienced in caring for pregnant and…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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National COVID-19 Emergency Will Soon End. States Need to Start Rolling Back Biden’s Medicaid, Food Stamp Expansions.
The official end of the COVID-19 emergency is near. That’s good news. It’s now up to the states to finish the job. The House of Representatives voted Feb. 1 on a joint resolution ending the national COVID-19 emergency and a bill to terminate the Department of Health and Human Services’ public health emergency declaration. At the…Nina Owcharenko Schaefer -
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Lessons From COVID-19: How Governments Abuse Public Health Crises to Gain and Maintain Power
Many COVID-19 restrictions and mandates have been rolled back, but the infrastructure remains in place, “ready and waiting for the next declared public health crisis,” Dr. Aaron Kheriaty says. Kheriaty, a psychiatrist who directs the Bioethics and American Democracy program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, chose to speak out against the…Virginia Allen -
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Pfizer Execs Must Come Clean on COVID-19 Viral ‘Mutation’ Experiments to Hill Committees
Dr. Jordon Trishton Walker, a director of research and development for the Pfizer Corp., recently became an overnight internet sensation. The reason: In a set of rambling remarks to an undercover Project Veritas reporter, Walker outlined how the company could mutate viruses in a lab and do so to create new vaccines, while speculating on…Robert Moffit -
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EXCLUSIVE: America First Legal Demands Answers From CDC on ‘Abhorrent’ Transgender Activism in Schools
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—America First Legal has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, demanding records related to the CDC's "self-assessment tool" urging teachers, administrators, school health staff, and others to advocate LGBT causes in school. "It’s abhorrent that federal tax dollars are going to pay…Tyler O’Neil -
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What Biden Said When Asked About Catholic Bishops and Abortion
President Joe Biden appeared to deny that the Catholic Church is calling for the end of taxpayer-funded abortion in an exchange Monday. After Biden exited Marine One, EWTN correspondent Owen Jensen brought up the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ statements on abortion. “Catholic bishops are demanding that federal tax dollars not fund abortions,” Jensen said to…Michael Ippolito -
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The Left Abuses State Constitutions for More Than Protecting Abortion Rights
Abortion advocates are setting their sights on the states after the Supreme Court last year declared that the U.S. Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion.” They are not only attacking pro-life laws under state constitutions, but they are also trying to change those charters to explicitly protect abortion. Successful campaigns in Michigan, California,…Thomas Jipping -
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House Votes Expose Democrats as Pro-Violence, Abortion-Loving, Infant-Hating Extremists
President Joseph Robinette Biden last fall accused Republicans of “doubling down on an extreme position” on abortion. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., shrieked: “With Roe now out of their way, extreme MAGA Republicans are gleefully charging ahead with their deadly crusade to punish and control women’s health decisions.” Well, look who’s extreme now. Pelosi’s successor,…Deroy Murdock -
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If a Pro-Abortion Activist Went to the March for Life
The Daily Signal went to the 50th March for Life in Washington, D.C. and asked pro-life advocates the questions pro-abortion activists would like to ask. We asked, why do you want to control women’s bodies, because Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has said that pro-life lawmakers are really advocating for “controlling women’s bodies.” And why do…Virginia Allen -
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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Take Aim at College Campuses Distributing Abortion Drugs
Republican lawmakers are introducing pro-life legislation ahead of the March for Life aimed at protecting babies with Down syndrome and stopping college campuses from distributing abortion pills to students. Introduced by Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy in the House and Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines in the Senate, the Protecting Life on College Campus Act…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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UK Army Veteran Fined for Silent Prayer Near Abortion Facility: ‘What Is the Nature of Your Prayer Today?’ Cops Ask
English authorities accosted a British army veteran as he prayed silently in front of an abortion facility in Bournemouth in November, later issuing the man a 100-pound fine (about $123.65). Adam Smith-Connor, the veteran who prayed, told authorities he was praying and was aware that the area around the abortion facility is governed by a…Tyler O’Neil -
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Poll: Majority of Americans Support Protecting the Unborn, Limiting Abortion to Early in Pregnancy
Almost 70% of Americans support limiting abortion to the first three months of pregnancy, a survey by the Knights of Columbus-Marist Poll released Wednesday revealed. Sixty percent of the survey’s respondents said they oppose using tax dollars for abortion services domestically, while 78% oppose funding abortion services abroad. “Nearly 7 in 10 Americans believe abortion…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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A Checklist for House Select Subcommittee on COVID-19 Pandemic to Hold Government Accountable
The House of Representatives in the new 118th Congress is off to a good start. In adopting a set of innovative rules governing its parliamentary deliberations, the new House Republican majority has authorized the creation of a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic with broad jurisdiction. After three years, and more than 1 million deaths…Robert Moffit -
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New Abortion Numbers Don’t Show Whole Picture, Especially With Do-It-Yourself Abortions on the Rise
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute each released new reports last November about abortion data for 2020, showing conflicting reports of a decrease in abortions versus a significant increase. While the lack of clarity in the number of abortions is alarming, the spread of do-it-yourself at-home abortions means that…Melanie Israel -
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The New Abortion Battleground
Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, pro-life Americans will March for Life in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands will march, as they have marched since 1973. But this year, it is different. This year, the march will take place, for the first time, in an America where Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the…Star Parker -
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FDA Has Made Abortion ‘Wild West’ With Rule Change on Drugs, OB-GYN Says
The Food and Drug Administration has permanently changed its restrictions on abortion drugs. Following an official rule change in early January, women no longer need to see a doctor in person to be prescribed chemical abortion pills. The move, according to OB-GYN Dr. Ingrid Skop, is opening women up to the “Wild West” of abortion. …Virginia Allen -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Introduce Bill to Nullify FDA Rule Change on Abortion Pills
A group of House Republicans have introduced a bill to place restrictions on chemical abortion pills. If enacted, access to abortion pills would be limited to in-person distribution. The legislation would nullify recent rule changes from President Joe Biden’s Food and Drug Administration that allows the abortion drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol to be prescribed to…Virginia Allen -
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Not Just Misinformation: In Emails to White House, Facebook Admits Suppressing ‘Often-True Content’ on COVID-19 Vaccines
Facebook told an official at the Biden White House that the Big Tech company not only suppressed misinformation but took action against the "virality" of "often-true content" regarding the COVID-19 vaccines. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey released the documents earlier this week. Bailey obtained them through a court case, Missouri v. Biden, alleging that some…Tyler O’Neil