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The 2026 midterm elections were about whether people could afford the food they eat, the house they live in, and take care of themselves and their families. That means it wasn’t about abortion, even though there are millions of pro-life voters.
Read →In a poetic story that you just cannot make up, Josh Turek of Iowa became the first U.S. Senator with spina bifida, a congenital neural tube defect.
Read →This month, the Senate may consider Heidi Overton’s nomination to lead the Food and Drug Administration. Before moving forward, it should demand answers about the Biden administration’s most consequential abortion policy: eliminating the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone.
Read →The Trump administration is moving to preserve a potentially seismic financial case against the nation’s largest facilitator of abortions, Planned Parenthood, as Republicans’ midterm collapse threatens to dismantle a powerful engine of anti-abortion litigation in Texas. The Justice Department notified a federal court Friday that it plans to intervene in the Medicaid billing lawsuit seeking […]
Read →As the dust settles after the midterm elections, pro-life Americans have an opportunity to reflect and look ahead. Four states — Idaho, Nevada, Virginia, and Missouri — posed radical abortion measures.
Read →Anti-abortion advocates worry that President Donald Trump may be pushed by the new Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to back down on anti-abortion priorities. Anti-abortion groups are publicly projecting confidence that the president will follow through on their top demands, including that he veto any bill legalizing later-in-pregnancy abortions and reject taxpayer funding […]
Read →U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is overseeing a criminal investigation into the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft decision overturning Roe v.
Read →Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson, a Democrat, says he will end the state’s practice of suing out-of-state doctors who prescribe and mail abortion medication to Texas patients, marking a stark departure from the enforcement strategy of outgoing Attorney General Ken Paxton. Johnson’s announcement follows a historic blue wave in the Lone Star State, where voters […]
Read →Anti-abortion advocates are touting their victory in keeping Idaho’s strict abortion prohibition in place after losing ground in three other states amid the seismic Democratic Party victories nationwide in the midterm elections. Idahoans voted by a comfortable 12 percentage points to keep a near-total abortion prohibition on elective abortion on Tuesday.
Read →Idaho voters rejected a citizen-led ballot initiative to roll back the state’s near-total prohibition on abortion, keeping in place one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. Proposition 1, the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, failed by a vote of 56% to 44% with 95% of the vote counted.
Read →Nevada voters on Tuesday passed an amendment to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitution, permanently protecting abortion through the second trimester, through a second referendum on the measure. Question 6, which will establish a “fundamental right to abortion,” was ahead by a vote of 62.3% to 37.7% with 86% of the vote counted.
Read →Virginia voters on Tuesday passed an amendment to enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution, loosening the restrictions on physicians performing third-trimester abortions in the commonwealth. Amendment 1, which will establish a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom,” passed by a vote of 60.7% to 39.3% when the Associated Press called the race at 9:01 p.m., […]
Read →In Netflix’s House of Cards, Frank Underwood never storms anything. He has no use for tanks or mobs.
Read →Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers has drawn sharp criticism from both sides of the aisle after releasing a direct-to-camera video on social media on Saturday saying he will not take action to restrict abortion rights at the federal level if elected by Michiganders on Tuesday. Rogers, who is in a toss-up contest against Democratic […]
Read →It’s difficult not to envision the Republican mascot — the elephant — with his head in the sand, in an homage to the willfully blind ostrich, when it comes to an issue that will not disappear. Abortion — the social issue of our day — is here to stay, whether or not Republicans have effective […]
Read →The future of Republican policy related to abortion and the Make America Healthy Again agenda in the next Congress largely hinges on whether Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) can manage to win reelection in Kansas.
Read →The midterm elections are coming up, and once again the sanctity of life and abortion are on the ballot. The Dobbs v.
Read →Polish left-wing groups are demanding that President Karol Nawrocki affirm legislation to relax national abortion restrictions, but those close to the leader say they’re wasting their time. The lower chamber of the Polish parliament approved two bills on Tuesday that would decriminalize assisting women to procure an abortion and would reverse a 2020 ruling from […]
Read →Senate Democrats are pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency to drop its study on the presence of abortion pill chemicals in the water supply, which they argue is driven by anti-abortion politics rather than sound science. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen.
Read →Texas Senate Democratic nominee James Talarico sat face-to-face with voters as he was grilled on a wide range of topics, including abortion, antisemitism, the SAVE America Act, the national debt, transgender surgeries for minors, and his faith during a CNN town hall on Wednesday evening. Talarico engaged in a debate with six voters from across […]
Read →President Donald Trump‘s decision to deprioritize abortion as a key issue for the Republican Party during his second administration may have given the GOP a long-term political advantage, strategists and experts say. Abortion dominated the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 presidential election between Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Read →In light of an FDA-purported review of chemical abortion pills, it’s important to note that information currently with the Environmental Protection Agency is extremely relevant. Dr.
Read →Illinois Catholic hospitals and religious healthcare workers can’t be penalized for refusing to inform terminally ill patients of assisted suicide options, a new court order ruled. The Medical Aid in Dying bill, signed into law on Dec.
Read →Vice President JD Vance said he remains open to investigating allegations that Planned Parenthood misused federal funds amid calls from congressional Republicans to probe the organization. During a Thursday press conference at the White House about actions from his White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, cracking down on visa fraud, Vance acknowledged in response […]
Read →Here is what supporters of Virginia’s three constitutional amendments tell voters: The abortion measure merely “codifies Roe v. Wade.” The marriage measure simply “protects Virginia if the Supreme Court overturns Obergefell v.
Read →The Hyde Amendment, first passed in 1976, prevents federal taxpayer dollars from funding elective abortions through Medicaid and has saved over 2.6 million lives according to a Charlotte Lozier Institute analysis. Since the 2022 Dobbs decision, the issue of taxpayer-funded abortion has become more contentious, with many Democratic officials now supporting public funding for abortion, threatening the Hyde Amendment's future.
Read →The Hyde Amendment, a federal restriction on taxpayer-funded abortions enacted 50 years ago, has prevented funding for abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother, and is credited with more than 2.6 million births according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute. However, pro-life Republicans express concern that Democrats, who have increased efforts to repeal the amendment since the overturning of Roe v.
Read →Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAID) program is the fastest-growing cause of death in the country, accounting for 5% of all deaths and surpassing the number of gun homicides in the United States in 2024. The program extends beyond terminal illnesses to include people with mental illnesses, chronic disabilities, and social isolation, with reports of doctors encouraging patients to choose MAID even when other healthcare options exist.
Read →Dr. Heidi Overton, President Donald Trump's nominee for FDA commissioner, avoided direct answers on vaccines, abortion, and vaping policies during her Senate confirmation hearing, frustrating both Democrats and Republicans.
Read →California dropped all charges against anti-abortion activist Anastasia Rogers related to a 14-second Instagram video criticizing Planned Parenthood, and the protective order restricting her sidewalk outreach was terminated. The charges were initially based on claims that her video violated California's Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, but after a diversion program and a deadlocked jury, the court dismissed the case in San Francisco County.
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