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After Being Shot, Elderly Pro-Life Woman Keeps Speaking for Unborn
LAKE ODESSA, Michigan—Joan Jacobson literally took a bullet for the pro-life cause in September. Jacobson, 83, is a retired nurse who lives in Lake Odessa, Michigan, 40 miles east of Grand Rapids. A volunteer with Right to Life, during election season she began knocking on doors in her community to educate voters on an… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Midwife Conference Bans Pro-Life OB-GYNs Amid Threats to Decertify Those Who Spread Abortion ‘Misinformation’
Medical organizations in the birthing field have vocally endorsed abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. A prominent group of pro-life obstetricians and gynecologists found itself excluded from a national midwifery conference over its views on abortion, The Daily Signal can exclusively reveal. The pro-life group is also raising… -
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Kanye West, Antisemitism, and Candace Owens
Let’s begin with an indisputable fact. What Kanye West, aka Ye, is saying about Jews is antisemitic. Why? Because “the Jews run everything” is pure libel. That’s why Jews are not paranoid in being deeply troubled by such sentiments. If widely believed, they will almost inevitably lead to persecution of Jews. Now, let’s turn to… -
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‘Extreme’ California Proposition Allows for Unlimited Abortions, Pro-Life Opponents Warn
A proposition put forward by California Democrats would allow abortions at any time and for any reason, pro-life advocates are warning, emphasizing that the media and Democrats are downplaying such concerns because Californians do not support late-term abortion. Proposition 1, titled the “Constitutional Right To Reproductive Freedom,” is a legislative constitutional amendment that would change… -
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Jewish University Launches New Strategy Amid Religious Freedom-LGBT Conflict
An Orthodox Jewish school at the forefront of the battle for religious freedom has presented an interesting compromise: Rather than endorse the LGBT student club that is currently suing the school for recognition, it will launch its own club that it says will help LGBT students while obeying the Law of Moses. Yeshiva University announced… -
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Judge: Man Who Shot Elderly Pro-Life Woman Will Go to Trial
A Michigan judge decided Wednesday that there is enough evidence to send to trial a man who shot an elderly pro-life woman who was canvassing against abortion at his home. “It’s clear to me that Mr. [Richard] Harvey did fire a warning shot to send a message to Ms. [Joan] Jacobsen, and then he also… -
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‘I Perform for an Audience of One, and That Is God’: Kanye West Speaks Out in Pro-Life Interview
Kanye West may not be the first name that comes to mind when people think of the 2024 presidential race, but the rapper (who now goes by Ye) proudly declared, “I’m pro-life,” and that he lives his life to serve God alone before making a fleeting reference to a possible presidential campaign in two years’… -
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Stop the Attacks Against Peaceful, Pro-Life Americans
In the five months since someone leaked a draft majority opinion by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade—which the high court officially did June 24—pro-life Americans have faced a wave of violent attacks. Pro-abortion politicians from President Joe Biden on down haven’t just been silent about the attacks on pro-life organizations. They’ve helped fan… -
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Sanders, Warren Demonize Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Amid Post-Roe Rash of Violence
Vandals have targeted about 70 pro-life pregnancy resource centers since the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overruled Roe v. Wade, but Senate Democrats have unleashed their own attack on these pro-life centers, demonizing them as potential “surveillance infrastructure” to power “pregnancy- and abortion-related… -
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Since When Does Freedom From Discrimination Require Destroying Religious Freedom?
An op-ed Wednesday in The Washington Post laid out how the left is attempting to dismantle what Congress once unanimously recognized as “undergird[ing] the very origin and existence of the United States”: religious freedom. Specifically, Louise Melling, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, argues in the op-ed that the constitutional right to… -
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Pro-Life ‘Trigger’ Laws Take Effect in Idaho, Tennessee, Texas
Life is now officially protected in three more states. Idaho, Tennessee, and Texas have anti-abortion “trigger” laws—pro-life laws restricting abortion—that went into effect Thursday. The three states are among more than a dozen states to pass trigger laws protecting the unborn that would take effect following the Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling in… -
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Abortion Fight Must Be ‘Solved Politically,’ Pro-Life Organization Says
A national conservative organization’s leader says a major takeaway from Indiana’s recent abortion ban is that the only way to win the abortion fight is for pro-life Americans to get involved politically “I think the big lesson for the abortion fight is that this has to get solved politically,” Terry Schilling, the president of the… -
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Is Kansas a Pro-Life or Pro-Choice State? Voters Will Decide
Kansans are headed to the polls Tuesday to decide how their state will address the issue of abortion. Voters are asked to vote yes or no on an amendment to the Kansas Constitution, known as Value Them Both, that says no “right to abortion” exists in the state. “The Value Them Both amendment has… -
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Litigation in State Courts Puts Pro-Life Laws on Hold
Long before American independence, legislatures were enacting laws to restrict the killing of human beings before birth. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court put a stop to those pro-life efforts by manufacturing a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade and taking away the legislative power to protect life in this way. But on… -
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‘We’ll Raise That Baby’: Pro-Life Courage From NCAA Coach
“The right choice is to have the courage to let the unborn be born.” A devout Catholic college football coach made headlines last week for publicly taking a firm pro-life stance. Coach Jim Harbaugh of the University of Michigan Wolverines spoke at a pro-life fundraiser, along with his wife, Sarah. The Detroit Catholic covered the couple’s individual… -
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Chemical Abortion Is Next Pro-Life Battlefield
The Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” returned “the authority to regulate abortion … to the people and their elected representatives.” That effort will be more complicated than when the court took that authority away 49 years ago in… -
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Biden Calls Pro-Life Agenda ‘Extremist’ While Rolling Out Executive Order on Abortion
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday promoting abortion. “This is a moment, the moment, a moment to restore the rights that have been taken away from us and the moment to protect our nation from an extremist agenda,” Biden said, repeating himself as he spoke to the nation from the White House. … -
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How Pro-Abortion District Attorneys Aim to Derail Pro-Life Laws
In the wake of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade and returning the issue of abortion to the American people and their local elected representatives, a gaggle of leftist district attorneys said they won’t enforce laws enacted to protect the unborn. Some of those rogue district attorneys are from pro-life states and might… -
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90 Democrat Prosecutors Refuse to Enforce Pro-Life Laws
With the fall of Roe v. Wade, 90 left-leaning attorneys general and district attorneys across the country have pledged to not enforce criminal charges related to laws protecting the unborn. In a joint statement, the prosecutors emphasized that although they have varying personal and moral beliefs on abortion, they are united in the “firm belief that… -
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Mississippi’s Governor Is Building Pro-Life Culture. Will Rest of America Follow?
The Supreme Court decision Friday that overruled Roe v. Wade and did away with the premise that there’s a constitutional right to an abortion was in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case originated in Mississippi and was the linchpin in the greatest victory for the pro-life cause in the past…