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Black Leaders Seek Pro-Life Ruling in Alabama on Equal Protection Grounds
African American leaders are asking the Alabama Supreme Court to ensure equal protection under the law for black women and unborn black babies in the state targeted by the abortion industry. In November 2018, Alabama voters backed a state constitutional amendment, called Amendment 930, that explicitly recognizes and protects the rights of unborn children in… -
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Trump Moves to Expand International Pro-Life Policy
The Trump administration has proposed a rule to expand a ban on use of U.S. tax dollars to pay for abortions abroad so that it would include federal contracts and subcontracts that receive U.S. global health assistance. Two of the largest federal contracting agencies, the Defense Department and the General Services Administration, were joined by… -
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100 Years After the 19th Amendment, Pro-Life Women Are Still Treated as Unequal
Aug. 26 marks the historic 100th anniversary when the 19th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution and America finally recognized women’s right to vote. Yet today, some women are still treated as unequal. Not treated as unequal to men, but as unequal to other women. The fact is, many on the left want to… -
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Police Arrest Man for Pulling Gun on Pro-Life Activists Outside Planned Parenthood
Police arrested a man for pulling a gun on pro-life protesters and making a “threatening statement” to the activists outside a Delaware Planned Parenthood last week. Officers from the Dover Police Department responded Friday morning to calls from a group of pro-life protesters outside the Planned Parenthood – Dover Health Center in Delaware, according to a… -
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University Instructor Warns Anti-BLM, Pro-Life Views ‘Grounds for Dismissal’
An Iowa State University instructor’s syllabus warned students that anti-Black Lives Matter and pro-life viewpoints are “grounds for dismissal.” Instructor Chloe Clark’s English 250 syllabus includes a “giant warning” advising students that only certain views would be permitted during her classes. “I take this seriously,” she notes at the end of the warning. “Any instances of othering… -
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Remembering Pro-Life Trailblazer Mildred Jefferson
As the nation prepares to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and looks back on the impact of women throughout the last century, we should remember one woman who broke not just gender barriers but racial barriers, and influenced the course of the nation: Mildred Jefferson. Jefferson was a bona fide pro-life icon…. -
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Abortion Advocates in Major Pro-Life Loss
The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday that a pro-life law violates the rights of both women and abortion providers in Louisiana. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with liberal members of the court in the close 5-4 ruling. “The Louisiana law imposes a burden on access to abortion just as severe as that imposed by the Texas… -
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Pro-Life Women Can’t Let UN Commission Distort Women’s Rights
The annual two-week meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women was supposed to kick off this week, flooding Turtle Bay in Manhattan with feminists and advocates of every stripe. The event draws delegates from around the world and thousands of representatives from nongovernmental organizations to New York each March to discuss issues… -
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Why Frederick Douglass Would Be Pro-Life Today
Abolitionists and the pro-life movement share a similar respect for the sacredness of human life. Frederick Douglass "was a strong proponent of the black family" in the mid- to late 1800s, says the Rev. Dean Nelson, a Baptist pastor who is executive director of Human Coalition Action. Nelson joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss… -
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What You Need to Know About Louisiana’s Pro-Life Law as Supreme Court Decides Its Fate
Another abortion case is before the Supreme Court. The high court heard oral arguments Wednesday in June Medical Services v. Russo, involving a Louisiana law requiring that doctors who perform abortions at clinics must have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey breaks down the case with Louisiana Attorney General Jeffrey… -
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This Pro-Life Democrat’s Law at Heart of Supreme Court Abortion Case
Legislation at the center of an abortion case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday originally was introduced by a black, pro-life, female Democrat in the Louisiana state Senate who says the measure will “make sure women are protected.” Louisiana state Sen. Katrina Jackson in 2014 introduced the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, or Act 620, which… -
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What You Need to Know About 2 Major Pro-Life Bills in the Senate
This week, the Senate is set to vote on two pro-life bills widely supported by the American public—but that’s not the story radical pro-abortion activists are telling. Both the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act enjoy widespread support with Americans across the political spectrum. But in Congress, where radical… -
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Pro-Life Is ‘Today’s Civil Rights Issue,’ Black Anti-Abortion Activists Say
African American pro-life leaders decry what they call the eugenics mentality of abortion providers perpetuating the high abortion rate among black women and urge promoting crisis pregnancy centers as an anti-abortion outreach to minority communities, as an alternative to Planned Parenthood. The black anti-abortion activists also say the right to life is the civil rights… -
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Be Inspired, Heritage Foundation President Exhorts Young Pro-Life Activists
A personal connection to their cause drives her daily, Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James told a gathering of young, pro-life Americans in Washington. “When you have been at this for 40 years, you cannot imagine the joy of seeing a crowd this size,” James said Saturday to more than 3,000 attendees, most of them… -
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I’m Pro-Life. Here’s What Happened When I Attended the Women’s March.
Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” As a history major, I study human rights violations like slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Holocaust. Historians usually note that mass conformity and silence are what most drive these crimes against… -
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Pro-Life Women Stand in the Shoes of Early Suffragists
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote and catapulted them out of the shadows of dependence into the full sunlight of long-awaited civic freedoms. The right to vote was only the beginning of a long list of goals achieved by the early women’s right… -
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‘Pro-Life Is Pro-Woman’: What to Expect From 2020 March for Life
“Life Empowers: Pro-life Is Pro-Woman” is the theme of this year’s March for Life, set to take place Friday in the nation’s capital. Since 1974, the March for Life has gathered to remember the lives lost since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion, and to remind America that each life has value…. -
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Supporting ‘Medicare for All’ Isn’t Pro-Life
Christian social teaching tells us to look after the needy and the impoverished, and this certainly includes matters of health and illness. Because of this, American conservatives, who are in large part Christian, often are criticized for opposing the specific policy prescriptions of the left such as single-payer health care. In particular, pro-life advocates are… -
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Pro-Life Policies Growing ‘Like a Steady Drumbeat,’ Abortion Analyst Says
Pro-life policies within the United States are growing “like a steady drumbeat,” according to an abortion analyst. State trend analyst for the Guttmacher Institute Elizabeth Nash spoke out about the increase in pro-life legislation across the United States in an interview with BuzzFeed News. The analyst, who works in Guttmacher’s Washington, D.C., office and has studied abortion legislation at the state… -
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From a Hallmark Movie, a Powerful Pro-Life Message
At first, “A Christmas Love Story” has all the hallmarks—if you’ll excuse the pun—of a typical Christmas TV movie. A single lady choir director, Katherine, gets her youth choir geared up for the holidays. A young man, Danny, shows up as a volunteer for the props—but as soon as the choir director exits the room,…