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The family of Tierra Walker sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this week, alleging that Texas’ abortion ban blocked care that would have saved her. Medical facts already on the record, and an obstetrician who reviewed the case, point to a different cause: untreated preeclampsia and a decision to send a high-risk patient home, not […]

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Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday recalled the Second Vatican Council’s condemnation of abortion, euthanasia and voluntary suicide as acts “against life itself,” and said Catholics should use that teaching to judge today’s political projects. The pope spoke at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square, continuing a series of catecheses on Vatican II. He turned […]

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Last week, Alliance Defending Freedom Of Counsel Erin Hawley told Morning Wire there is “no way for a state to protect life if a doctor from New York or California can simply mail an illegal [abortion] drug to someone’s doorstep.” In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. As a result, abortion is prohibited […]

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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Ohio appeals court Judge Matthew R. Byrne, who has a career of pro-life work, to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The vote was 52-45. President Donald Trump nominated Byrne on the recommendation of Ohio’s two Republican senators and Vice President JD […]

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Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, and other pro-life lawmakers today called on the Trump administration to reissue a rule to ensure taxpayers know whether their Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance plans provide coverage for abortion services. The request was prompted by a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published […]

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The 50th anniversary of the life-saving Hyde Amendment is about as good an illustration of the adage that “one man’s meat is another man’s poison” as you’ll ever get. Pro-abortionists loathe this rider to the annual Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appropriations bill and have spent five decades doing their level best to […]

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When questions arise about tighter government controls on mifepristone, abortion-pill advocates routinely point to studies reporting that medication abortion is highly effective and that serious complications are “extremely rare.” But a closer look at one widely cited study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)  raises serious questions about how those conclusions are reached […]

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A new peer-reviewed study by Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) researchers used Medicaid data to identify a history of pregnancy loss, which includes miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion, as risk factors for severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in future pregnancies. SMM is defined as a life-threatening complication during pregnancy or delivery. SUPPORT LIFENEWS! If you want to help […]

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Control of Congress will be decided over the next seven weeks. Starting this month, The Daily Signal is introducing a new show — “Midterm Report” — all about the 2026 elections. The debut episode covers the first Republican National Committee Midterm Convention, held last week in Dallas, and features two guests who arrived at the […]

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A Catholic couple in Massachusetts had their daughter taken away by the state under the guise of child abuse after refusing to affirm her so-called transgender identity. In 2024, the 15-year-old child was removed from the home of Joseph and Arlene Kutzko after they say she was secretly socially “transitioned” at Algonquin Regional High School. […]

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The brother of the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial said his sibling’s Catholic faith had nothing to do with the vote that deadlocked the jury, defending the decision as one based on the evidence after Clancy admitted killing her three young children. “I don’t think religion had anything to do with […]

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A new report from the U.S. government’s nonpartisan watchdog agency revealed that federal taxpayers subsidized 1,719 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) that covered elective abortions for an estimated 4.4 million individuals this year alone. The report also showed that 683 more abortion-covering QHPs were available through the ACA than when GAO issued […]

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235 to zero. This is the disparity in Gov. Josh Shapiro’s public messaging on X between abortion and adoption since he took the governor’s office. In a review of the @GovernorShapiro X account, since he became governor (and to the date of this article’s publishing), Josh Shapiro has mentioned abortion 128 times and used an abortion euphemism another 107 times. In total, the number of mentions by Governor Shapiro of abortion or abortion euphemisms on […]

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Two women have filed a federal lawsuit against Planned Parenthood affiliates, alleging they were pressured into unwanted abortions at Minnesota abortion facilities in 2020 and 2021 and that the abortions violated their constitutional rights. The 80-page proposed class-action complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. It seeks to represent […]

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Last week, YouGov, in conjunction with St. Louis University, released the results of a recent poll of over 900 likely Missouri voters. The poll contained a question on Missouri’s Amendment Three, which would remove the right to an abortion from Missouri’s constitution and prohibit gender transition procedures for minors. The results indicate that Amendment Three […]

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The term “sexual and reproductive health and rights,” or SRHR, did not appear out of nowhere. It grew out of a political problem. For years, the United Nations and Western governments spoke openly about “population control.” But that language generated resistance, particularly from developing countries that had every reason to distrust wealthy nations telling poorer […]

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Attorney General Andrea Campbell has just approved our petition to repeal Governor Healey’s radical abortion-up-to-birth law! Now it’s time to get to work collecting necessary signatures. We need your help! Our statewide effort is underway to suspend and repeal Massachusetts’ new full-term abortion law. That law, which will allow abortions to be performed up to […]

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Catholic Bishop Michael Burbidge says he has never before asked every priest in his diocese to do what he requested this weekend: read a letter at Mass urging Catholics to oppose two Virginia constitutional amendments on abortion and marriage. Across 70 parishes serving more than 430,000 Catholics in Northern Virginia, worshippers heard Burbidge warn against […]

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Virginia is on the brink of making history once again. In only a week’s time, the opportunity for individual citizens to change the course of our state’s place in the current struggle to protect human life begins in earnest. Early voting begins on September 18th. Every single vote matters because a simple majority will defeat the Unlimited […]

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Four women have filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the corporation of refusing them accommodations while they were pregnant. The women are suing under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which forbids businesses that employ 15 or more workers from denying reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees. The women are being represented by the […]

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