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    Mifepristone: Another Reason to Assert the Sanctity of Life

    The abortion issue won’t go away, as so many politicians wish it would. It persists because the discussion and debate are about our very existence. What is life? The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade, which has defined the abortion landscape in the United States…
    Star Parker
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    Johnson Doing ‘Everything He Can’ to Extend Planned Parenthood Defund: Pro-Life Rep

    Speaker Mike Johnson has assured some members of Congress and pro-life leaders that he will try to stop the resumption of Planned Parenthood funding, but he faces opposition from Democrats and even members of his own party.  Johnson told Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and other members of Congress that he is working…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    • News

    DEFYING SCOTUS? NJ AG Tries to Force Pregnancy Center to Turn Over Donor Info Despite Supreme Court Ruling

    One day after a defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court, New Jersey’s attorney general appeared to flagrantly disregard the ruling that her office’s demand for donor information harmed a pregnancy center’s First Amendment rights. Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed a motion in state court, asking the court to lift its temporary stay on the subpoena…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    • News

    Alito Pauses Appeals Court Decision, Keeping Abortion Pill Available via Mail

    The Supreme Court temporarily restored access to abortion drugs through the mail on Monday, pausing a ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The circuit court on Friday temporarily blocked a Food and Drug Administration rule allowing abortion pills to be dispensed through the mail. The court ruled that Louisiana was likely to…
    Fred Lucas
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    • Opinion

    Pro-Choicers Recognize That Abortion Is Too Evil to Even Describe 

    A recent clip of Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, questioning a pro-abortion law professor in a congressional hearing over the FACE Act has gone viral over the last week.   In the clip, Rep. Gill—who gained notoriety last year by confronting the CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, with a variety of her prior radical statements about race—asked American University Washington College of Law professor Jessica Waters if…
    John Gerardi
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    US Court Blocks Mail-Order Access to Abortion Drugs, for Now

    REUTERS—A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a federal rule allowing the abortion drug mifepristone to be dispensed through the mail, significantly curtailing access to the drug nationwide and particularly in states that have banned abortion.  A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the state of Louisiana…
    Reuters
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    • Opinion

    Supreme Court Fist Pumps for the First Amendment

    Today, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a religious nonprofit that provides counseling and resources to pregnant women in New Jersey, had established a present injury to its First Amendment associational rights to confer standing to challenge a subpoena from the state to disclose private donor information. First Choice does…
    Cully Stimson
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    New Jersey AG Violated Pregnancy Center’s Free Association by Demanding Donor Info, Supreme Court Says

    The Supreme Court delivered a unanimous rebuke to New Jersey Democrat Attorney General Matthew Platkin for his demand that a pro-life pregnancy center hand over its donor information. Platkin had issued a subpoena to First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, seeking to prove that the pregnancy center was misleading donors. The Supreme Court cited NAACP v….
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Congress Questions Legitimacy of FACE Act

    A House Judiciary subcommittee is scrutinizing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to determine if the Biden‑Harris administration has used the federal law to target pro‑life advocates. “As we just saw with the Department of Justice’s recent indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, important work is being done to hold left‑wing activist…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    • Opinion

    Prosecuting Women Won’t End Abortion

    I remember sitting in the waiting room at Planned Parenthood, hands folded in my lap, telling myself I had no other choice. I was afraid and alone. It was the kind of fear that makes you feel lonely even in a crowded room. I had walked in that day fully intending to go through with…
    Nelly Roach
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    • Opinion

    Dick Durbin’s Defining Flip-Flop

    Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who has served as the Senate’s Democrat whip for more than 20 years, went down to the Senate floor on Jan. 21, 2025, to speak about a bill aimed at protecting the lives of certain newborn babies. He was against it. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, as described in…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    • Opinion

    Lasting Pro-Life Solutions Require Federal Action

    The widespread availability of abortion pills in the years since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision is one reason the total number of abortions has gone up since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Not only have 12 states enshrined unlimited abortion into their state constitutions, but blue states are undermining…
    Melanie Israel
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    • News

    Hawley Warns Billions Could Fund Transgender Surgeries, Abortion Without Action From Johnson

    Senate leadership this week directed Republicans to pass a budget resolution narrowly aimed at immigration enforcement funding, but some congressional leaders say the scope should be widened to address abortion and transgender surgeries for minors. While budget resolution talks have attempted to stay focused on funds for Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, House…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    • Opinion

    ALITO: A Fitting Tribute to the Justice Who Overturned Roe v. Wade

    As rumors swirl that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito might retire at the end of this term, allowing President Donald Trump to name his replacement before the 2026 midterm elections, the justice could not have wished for a better send-off than Mollie Hemingway’s masterful and well-researched biography. “Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    • Opinion

    434,450 Reasons to Defund Planned Parenthood

    Planned Parenthood released its 2024-2025 annual report over the Easter weekend. Every year, the publication provides a glimpse into Abortion Inc.’s medical and financial data. It was a record-breaking year for abortions. Taxpayer funding was at an all-time high.  It’s been almost four years since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe…
    Melanie Israel
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    • Opinion

    Will Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Abortion and ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ in 2026? 

    On July 4, American taxpayers are set to resume funding one of the nation’s largest providers of so-called “gender-affirming care” for children, which also just happens to be the nation’s largest provider of abortion. If that’s not a killjoy for America’s 250th birthday, I don’t know what is. Last year, President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) defunded…
    Hannah Lape
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    • Opinion

    I Went Undercover as a 13-Year-Old Anemic Looking for Abortion Pills

    Champions for abortion pill access claim that abortion drugs are medical care, that it is a “simple healthcare intervention,” and that we do not need to worry about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rolling back safety protocols.  But the truth is, it’s become nothing more than online commerce—not telemedicine. An April 7 ruling granted the…
    Dr. Christina Francis
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    • News

    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Released Millions to Planned Parenthood—Here’s How He Can Defund It Forever

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration has a plan to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal family planning funding, sources familiar with the matter tell The Daily Signal. The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it was extending Biden-era family planning grant awards to Planned Parenthood, sparking criticism from pro-lifers. However, the White House has…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    • Opinion

    Abortion Is the Worst Way to Celebrate America 250

    Planned Parenthood just can’t wait until July 4, 2026. That’s the day taxpayers will have to start subsidizing the abortion industry all over again.   How did this happen? Answer: The defunding of abortion providers has an expiration date. The reason? Weak negotiating by Senate Republicans. The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President…
    Joshua Mercer
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    • News

    ‘You Guys Need to Close Down’: Abortion Pill Survivor Has a Message for Planned Parenthood 

    A team of doctors entered Shanyce Thomas’ hospital room to explain what had happened and why she could no longer have children. She never imagined her trip to Planned Parenthood would lead to multiple surgeries and a medically induced coma. Looking back nearly six years later, Thomas says her “message to Planned Parenthood is that…
    Virginia Allen
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