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    SCOOP: Billionaire Abortion Doula Gives Thousands to Influence This Senate Race
    Dozens of individuals and political action committees affiliated with abortion and transgender services have donated thousands to former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, as he gears up to face current Republican Sen. Jon Husted in a bid to return to Washington. One of Brown’s supporters is a billionaire abortion doula, an heir to an Oklahoma oil…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    EXCLUSIVE: Records Reveal Planned Parenthood’s 14-Point Post-Dobbs Strategy for State AGs to Target Pro-Lifers
    A month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood issued marching orders for state attorneys general to target crisis pregnancy centers and issue abortion-friendly legal opinions. State actions after the July 12, 2022, memo suggest Democrat attorneys general followed much of the 14-point plan pushed by the nation’s largest abortion provider. On…
    Fred Lucas
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    National Media Skip Extreme Pro-Abortion Law in Massachusetts
    On Aug. 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it “closing the gaps” in “abortion rights protections.” Abortion foes call it “abortion until birth,” making it legal to dismember fully formed babies, limb from limb. The “mainstream” media called it nothing. You couldn’t find…
    Tim Graham
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    Obama Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Redirect Teen Pregnancy Funds Away From Planned Parenthood Affiliates
    A Barack Obama-appointed judge partially blocked a Trump administration effort to curb Planned Parenthood funding in a teen pregnancy prevention program. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper of the District of Columbia on Wednesday also called the administration’s promotion of abstinence-only education a means to “defy social reality.” The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program funded about 50…
    Fred Lucas
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    Texas Saved Baby Gabriel. What Would Talarico Do?
    When a California couple wanted their surrogate, McKenna West, to abort the baby she was carrying, she fled to Texas. There, pro-life laws and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton helped save the baby, ensuring he got the care he needed. But as Democrat state Rep. James Talarico challenges Paxton for Senate, it raises the question—what…
    Lauren Washburn
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    Why Do Flock Cameras Need to Be About Abortion?
    Flock cameras have been a hot news topic, bringing together those who might not normally be on the same side of a policy debate. Like many issues, though, especially when it comes to cautious allies, the nuances of certain views ought to be further examined. Who are among those opposing Flock cameras? Abortion activists in…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Massachusetts’ New Abortion Law Is a Tragedy
    This Monday in a crowded room of people beaming with pride and excitement, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey smiled for the cameras as she enthusiastically signed legislation legalizing abortion for any reason, at any time, right up to the moment of birth. It’s hard to overstate just how jarring and bizarre this is. A room full…
    Melanie Israel
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    ‘One of the Greatest Ironies in the Universe’: Will Don Lemon Overturn the Central Law Defending Abortion Clinics?
    Former CNN host Don Lemon did something unusual Friday—he asked a court to invalidate part of a major law that protects abortion clinics. That’s right, the left-leaning opponent of President Donald Trump is aiming to overturn part of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the notorious FACE Act that abortion activist groups urged…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    2 Million Visits to Voter Homes: A Pro-Life Group’s Huge Canvassing Push
    America’s largest pro-life voter contact program announced that their canvassers have already made more than two million visits to voters’ homes this election cycle, according to an exclusive press release obtained by the Daily Signal. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and its partner Women Speak Out PAC contact low-turnout voters through door-knocking, advertising, voter contact…
    Francesca Cella
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    Catholic Teacher Fired in UK for Answering Questions About ‘Religion and Abortion’
    A school in the United Kingdom fired a teacher for saying she was pro-life, and now she’s fighting the case at an employment tribunal. Sarah Morse, a United States citizen, had been a teacher for over 20 years and had recently begun teaching at Arbroath High School in Scotland when students who were curious about…
    Francesca Cella
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    Virginia’s Abortion Amendment Would Strike Down Statutory Rape Laws, Warns Lawsuit Seeking to Invalidate It for Deceptive Language
    Virginia Democrats have supported a “Reproductive Freedom” constitutional amendment, but critics warn that it would vacate laws against statutory rape, and a lawsuit seeks to invalidate it. “Virginia’s so-called reproductive freedom amendment goes far beyond the issue of abortion,” Josh Hetzler, executive director of the Founding Freedoms Law Center and an attorney for the nonprofits challenging…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How Conservative Candidates Can Win the Abortion Conversation
    The 2026 election season is well underway, and as usual, Democratic candidates are embracing radical, up-to-birth abortion messaging armed with support from Big Abortion.  Once upon a time, some Democrats promoted abortion to keep it “safe, legal, and rare,” or so they said. But in the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the pro-abortion…
    Hannah Lape
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    Look Who’s Back! Winsome Earle-Sears
    Winsome Earle-Sears is back. As the news that former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin had returned to the private sector, aka joining technology capital firm Red Cell Partners as a partner, chairman, and board member, his lieutenant governor returned to the world of three-speeches-a-day campaigning. Why? “Babies and Families,” Winsome Earle-Sears told the crowd at the…
    Joe Thomas
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    Arrington Says the Clock Expired on Blocking Abortion Funding. Hawley Says Congress Has No Excuse.
    House Republicans have been discussing reconciliation for months, with one consistent priority: reinstating the ban on federal funding for abortions. However, the budget resolution to kick-start the reconciliation process, released Wednesday morning, included no directive to block the funding. House Republicans introduced the $95 billion budget resolution with two goals in mind: pass the SAVE…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    5 Things to Know About Likely New South Dakota Congressman
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Republican candidate running for South Dakota’s only House of Representatives seat laid out his Capitol Hill priorities in an interview with the Daily Signal Tuesday. Marty Jackley served as South Dakota’s attorney general from 2009 to 2019 and assumed office again in 2023. Jackley told the Daily Signal he plans…
    Joseph Buff
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    ‘We Are Not Defending What Biden Did’: Blanche Answers Hawley on Abortion Pills
    Sen. Josh Hawley questioned attorney general nominee Todd Blanche about why the Justice Department is in court opposite states that are challenging the abortion pill policy of President Joe Biden’s administration. Louisiana led a lawsuit last year challenging a Biden administration rule allowing abortion drugs to be sent to women by mail without seeing a…
    Fred Lucas
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    IVF Kills More Babies Than Planned Parenthood
    As the Trump administration considers new rules governing in vitro fertilization, the pro-life movement is grappling with a new ethical challenge. For more than five decades, the pro-life movement has focused on abortion and consistently upheld the scientific principle that life begins at conception. But if that principle is true, it cannot stop at the doors…
    Aundrea Gomez
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    Pro-Life AG Suggests a Reason Why the Trump Admin Hasn’t Cracked Down on the Abortion Pill
    Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, faulted the Food and Drug Administration for failing to quickly restrict access to mifepristone, the key drug in the abortion pill regimen. “There’s obviously a political calculus that has gone on in the administration for pro-life issues,” Marshall told the Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. He acknowledged…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Planned Parenthood Plans to Spend Big in 2026 to Keep Accessing Your Tax Dollars
    Planned Parenthood Votes, the political arm of the nation’s largest abortion provider, plans to spend $47 million on the midterm elections, targeting members of Congress who voted to cut funding for the organization. That’s a significant price to gain access to taxpayer dollars, said Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee. “It’s…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Abortion Misinformation Debate That Could Put Women at Risk
    In a recent interview with Tara Palmeri, Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., was unexpectedly asked about the life-threatening ectopic pregnancy she experienced in 2024. The discussion the interview sparked between pro-life and pro-abortion advocates online uncovered the dangerous spread of misinformation surrounding abortion laws. The video interview, titled “What Happens When Pro-Life Congresswoman Cammack Needs an…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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