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6 Takeaways From House Freedom Caucus’ COVID-19 ‘Accountability’ Hearing
The House Freedom Caucus hosted a COVID-19 accountability hearing Thursday at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.) The hearing, which lasted roughly two and half hours, addressed topics such as lockdowns during the pandemic, vaccine efficacy, and the impact of Big Tech censorship. Here are six takeaways. 1. America is…Samantha Aschieris -
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Uncovering COVID-19’s Origin Just One of Many Pandemic Questions for Congress to Answer
The origin of COVID-19—whether natural or the product of a lab—is a crucial yet unresolved issue. Minority staff of a key Senate committee, however, just took a big step forward in solving the mystery. In an “Interim Report” dated October 2022, the Republican staff concludes: While precedent of previous outbreaks of human infections from contact…Robert Moffit -
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1 State Seeks to Prevent Its Own Roe Among Midterm Choices on Abortion
Having returned the issue of abortion “to the people and their elected representatives” in June with a watershed opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court paved the way for a flurry of state-level activity regulating abortion. Since the high court issued its Dobbs opinion, 13 states have fully outlawed abortion, and…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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Vacuuming, Moaning: NPR Plays Abortion on Air
On Thursday morning, NPR played an abortion on air. NPR’s Michigan “Morning Edition” on Thursday featured Kate Wells explaining that a Michigan woman aborted her 11-week-old baby at Northland Family Planning in metro Detroit. “Like many patients at Northland, she said I could record her procedure,” Wells, a reporter, says of the mother in the…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Polls Reveal the Central Flaw in Democrats’ Abortion Midterm Strategy
President Joe Biden and his party fear a defeat at the polls next week amid historic inflation, high gas prices, and rising crime in Democrat-controlled cities. Facing the prospect of a Republican wave election, Democrats have turned their focus to abortion, banking on the overturning of Roe v. Wade to motivate voters. While polling appears…Tyler O’Neil -
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Anne Hathaway Calls Abortion ‘Another Word for Mercy’
Actress Anne Hathaway called abortion “mercy” on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday. Hathaway joined the show’s all-female panel and shared her perspective on abortion, saying, “My own personal experience with abortion, and I don’t think we talk about this enough—abortion can be another word for ‘mercy.’” Hathaway added: “We know that no two pregnancies are…Virginia Allen -
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Tim Ryan, Who Twice Voted for Unlimited Abortion, Now States He Is Against Late-Term Abortions
Tim Ryan now says he is against most late-term abortions, despite having voted for and repeatedly touted his support for legislation allowing unlimited abortions. “I don’t think we should have abortions later in the term unless there’s a medical emergency,” he told Fox News hosts Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier. “I think we go back…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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EXCLUSIVE: Claudia Tenney Demands Transparency on Planned Parenthood’s Massive COVID-19 Loans
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is calling on the Small Business Administration to explain why it forgave $67 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans to Planned Parenthood affiliates—loans that these abortion clinics should never have gotten in the first place. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, Tenney and her Republican colleagues told Inspector…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Abortion Clinic Moves Across a State Line. It Isn’t Getting a Warm Welcome.
A small city in Virginia is taking action to protect the unborn and restrict abortion there. The five members of the Bristol, Virginia, City Council voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a resolution that would prevent new abortion clinics from entering the city and place restrictions on the current clinic. The pro-life resolution is…Virginia Allen -
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Why Are Feds Still Funding EcoHealth Alliance When Its COVID-19 Role Remains Unresolved?
The world is trying to recover from COVID-19, the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish flu, and a lot of questions remain concerning the origins of the virus and the role of U.S. taxpayer-funded research in China. Nonetheless, the National Institutes of Health recently awarded $650,000 to EcoHealth Alliance, the nongovernmental organization that’s at the…Robert Moffit -
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Cities Tap $222M in Federal COVID-19 Relief for ‘Guaranteed Income’ Programs
Democrats’ American Rescue Plan, sold as helping the nation recover from the economic crisis sparked by COVID-19, provided funds to begin “guaranteed basic income” programs in at least two dozen cities across the country. More than $222 million from the legislation has gone to some of America’s largest cities—including Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Seattle, New…Fred Lucas -
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Whatever CDC Says About COVID-19 Vaccinations for Kids, It’s Up to States
Parents, pay close attention. An advisory committee has recommended unanimously that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention include COVID-19 vaccines in its childhood immunization schedule for next year. The CDC is expected to adopt the recommendation. The CDC’s immunization schedule is the standard list of vaccines used by pediatricians for childhood vaccines, including shots…Robert Moffit -
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UK Newspaper Takes Pro-Abortion Deception to Next Level
The pro-abortion industrial complex is at it again. The Guardian, a U.K.-based newspaper that reaches an estimated 8.8 million readers each day across all platforms, on Wednesday published an article suggesting that until 10 weeks of pregnancy, the unborn baby is only white tissue material. The Guardian article, “What a pregnancy actually looks like before…Emma Waters -
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Here Are the States Rejecting Mandatory COVID-19 Shots for Kids
At least 11 states have rejected or are expected to reject a recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that pediatricians give COVID-19 shots to children along with other vaccines. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unanimously decided Thursday to add COVID-19 shots to the children’s immunization schedule, which some schools and states use…Reagan Reese -
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Biden Forgets Democratic Party Supports Unrestricted Abortion
President Joe Biden appeared to forget Thursday that his administration — and the majority of the Democratic Party — supports unrestricted abortion. The president spoke with reporters outside The White House on Thursday afternoon where he was questioned: “Should there be any restrictions on abortion at all?” “Yes, there should be,” he responded. Pressed as…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Pentagon Establishes Abortion Travel Fund for Service Members, Abortion Providers
The Department of Defense announced Thursday that the Pentagon will pay for service members and their dependents to travel to abort their unborn babies. A Pentagon memo obtained by The Daily Signal says that it will establish “travel and transportation allowances for Service members and their dependents, as appropriate and consistent with applicable federal law…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Democrats Stake Midterm Election Hopes on Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision in Dobbs. It May Not Be Enough.
In the months since the U.S. Supreme Court issued what many consider its most significant decision in five decades, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (overturning the court’s earlier creation of a fictitious “constitutional” right to abortion in Roe v. Wade), the nation has inched closer to the Nov. 8 midterm elections. And with control…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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Stacey Abrams Claims Abortion Access Could Relieve Inflation Woes
Abortion access could help to alleviate concerns over high inflation rates, according to Stacey Abrams, the Democrat nominee for governor in Georgia. “Abortion is an economic issue,” Abrams told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday. Abrams was asked what she would do as governor about “the cost of gas, food, bread, milk … to alleviate…Virginia Allen -
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GOP Lawmakers Call on Biden Administration to Reverse COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate as ‘American Hero’ Faces Discharge
A group of Republican lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to reassess the U.S. Coast Guard’s policy for “religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccination order," which will likely force the involuntary discharge of a service member whom President Joe Biden thanked last month for his "heroic work." Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., along with 16…Samantha Aschieris -
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Biden Promises to Codify Roe in What Some See as Last-Ditch Midterm Abortion Effort
President Joe Biden announced that if Democrats win the House and Senate in the midterm elections this November, the first bill he would send to Congress would codify Roe v. Wade. Biden remarked at the Democratic National Committee event this Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision violated women’s’…Gillian Richards