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CNN — Two Georgia mothers, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, died in 2022 because of a lack of care most likely tied to the state’s abortion ban, the nonprofit news outlet ProPublica reported this week. Both experienced complications after taking abortion medications, the reporting said — complications, doctors emphasized, that are exceedingly rare and entirely treatable.

Tony Dungy, the first black head coach to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the modern era, recently called out Vice President Kamala Harris for a faith-based post in favor of abortion. In a post on Thursday, Kamala Harris said, “One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree: The government, and certainly Donald Trump, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.” In response, Tony Dungy said on X, “Dear VP Harris: I hear you make this statement all the time. Exactly what ‘faith’ are you...

With all of the things impacting our inflation-ridden, more racially divided, and public-school-failing society, Steph Curry’s highest priority is … abortion. Tragically, the NBA All-Star and Olympic champion, spared from the violence of abortion himself, doesn’t believe that millions of others deserve the same opportunity to live out their God-given purpose. Curry, an ardent Democrat supporter and celebrity at DNC conventions, recently told CNBC that he endorses Kamala Harris and that abortion is “at the top of the list for me.”A professing (seemingly cultural) Christian, Curry wasn’t always so vocally pro-abortion. In a 2022 article, Curry told Rolling Stones magazine...

Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to speak about abortion Friday in Georgia, where two women’s deaths have been tied to a state law that mostly bans the procedure after roughly six weeks. Amber Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat complications that occurred after she took abortion pills. Reported by ProPublica earlier this week, the case is the first publicly reported instance of a woman dying from delayed care tied to a state abortion law.

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver an address in Georgia blaming former President Donald Trump for two deaths in Georgia that, she will claim, were due to the state’s abortion laws, but where the causal links are dubious. Georgia has banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The New York Times reported Wednesday that Harris intends to give a speech based on claims by ProPublica, a liberal outlet, that the law caused the deaths of two women.

When the Rev. Lee Scott publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president during the Evangelicals for Harris Zoom call on Aug. 14, the Presbyterian pastor and farmer said he was taking a risk. “The easy thing for us to do this year would be to keep our heads down, go to the ballot box, keep our vote secret and go about our business,” Scott told the group, which garnered roughly 3,200 viewers according to organizers. “But at this time, I just can’t do that.” Scott lives in Butler, Pennsylvania, the same town where a would-be assassin shot former President Donald Trump...

Some truths are too terrible to accept. America’s polarized political and media landscape allows partisans to exist in their own cloistered worlds, free from facts that might challenge their priors. But no group is as insulated from reality as pro-choicers, who are invariably sheltered from the disturbing position on late-term abortion taken by its fanatical champions in the Democratic Party. SNIP “When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physician,” said Northam.

A blue bus bearing the words “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom” pulled up behind the Pennsylvania Capitol on Wednesday with a message that access to contraception, in vitro fertilization and abortion care hangs in the balance in this presidential election. Among the supporters of Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, on the campaign bus was 22-year-old Kentuckian Hadley Duvall. She spoke at the Democratic National Convention and has appeared in Harris campaign ads sharing her story about being raped and impregnated by her stepfather at age 12. Duvall recalled standing in the bathroom doing a pregnancy test and having no idea...

Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that the death of a young Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill shows the consequences of Donald Trump's actions. Amber Thurman's death, first reported Monday by ProPublica, occurred just two weeks after Georgia's strict abortion ban was enacted in 2022 following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn nationwide abortion rights. Trump appointed three of the justices who made that decision and has repeatedly said he believes states should decide abortion laws. "This young mother should be alive, raising her son,...

When media outlets make biased decisions about what stories to cover or not cover, it activates the availability heuristic, a common logical fallacy. That’s why it’s important to rely on data, not anecdotes – especially when it comes to matters of health. The data tell us that maternal health in the United States is far worse than in economically similar nations. This is a serious problem that goes back decades, and it got even worse during COVID. Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that we are seeing some improvement. American maternal deaths – defined to include deaths...

The first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris took place Tuesday night on ABC News with the two candidates facing off on numerous pressing issues, including abortion. Multiple times, misinformation was shared regarding the current state of abortion laws in the United States — including abortion in cases of medical emergencies and cases of infanticide. Aside from the usual false rhetoric about “Trump’s abortion bans” (which are both figments of the imagination and propaganda), here are four lies told regarding abortion during the debate: LIE #1: Abortions don’t happen in the ninth month of pregnancy....

A pregnant woman’s Rh factor (an immunoglobulin protein) is important information to know. If a woman’s blood is Rh negative and her baby’s is Rh positive, this could cause problems for her future pregnancies if left untreated. As OBGYN Dr. Ingrid Skop explained (emphasis added), “Evaluation of Rh status and provision of Rhogam, if indicated, has long been the standard of care for early pregnancy loss, including elective induced abortion. This action will prevent a mother from mounting an immune response to her future unborn children. If Rhogam is not given and isoimmunization occurs, 14% of untreated infants will be...

Three individuals charged with targeted attacks on pregnancy help organizations in Florida were sentenced in federal court this week. Caleb Freestone was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to intimidate employees of pro-life pregnancy help centers. His co-defendants, Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella Rivera, were sentenced to 30 days in prison and 60 days of home detention. Freestone, along with Smith-Stewart and Rivera, attacked pregnancy help centers in Florida that provide alternatives to abortion, vandalizing them with threatening messages including, “If abortions aren’t safe than niether [sic] are you,” “YOUR TIME IS UP!!,” “WE’RE COMING for...

Whether you like it or not, your government will now make you pay for women you’ve never met to kill their unborn babies! An unchallenged court ruling has officially made Nevada the 18th state to start spending Medicaid funds on “free” abortions for low-income women. This decision argues that denying coverage through the taxpayer funded program violates Nevada’s “Equal Rights Amendment” adopted in 2022. “With this victory, more Nevadans will be able to make the best personal medical decisions for themselves and their families,” cheered Erin Bilbray-Kohn, executive director of the Silver State Hope Fund, in a statement obtained by...

Under the hot desert sun less than 40 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border last week, Representative Gabe Vasquez, Democrat of New Mexico, lashed out against Republicans who talk about abortion as a “states’ rights” issue, charging that their real agenda is to place severe limits on women’s access to health care. “That is now the de facto position of folks who want to limit women’s reproductive health care,” Mr. Vasquez told about 50 people at a groundbreaking for a new, $10 million state-funded reproductive health clinic. “We’ve seen the consequences of what this means for women.” It is a message...

In 2023, Operation Rescue received an email from a whistleblower about illegal activity at a notorious abortion clinic in Bellevue, Nebraska. The whistleblower stated that felon abortionist Tyrone Malloy, who lost his medical license for fraud, would be illegally seeing patients the following day. The email was received days after late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart died, on April 29, 2023. Carhart previously owned and operated the facility, and his daughter, Janine Weatherby, assumed the role of administrator after his death. Operation Rescue and a local resident of Bellevue, who observed on-site clues supporting the whistleblower’s claims, filed complaints with the Nebraska...

On September 6, a Cole County, Missouri Circuit Court judge ruled against Missouri’s proposed Amendment 3, also known as the “Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative.” In the judgment released late Friday, the judge found that Missourians for Constitutional Freedom and Dr. Anna Fitz-James, who are leading the campaign effort to pass Amendment 3, ran afoul of state law. The judgment follows a lawsuit against Amendment 3 filed on August 22, 2024, by Thomas More Society attorneys, and rules favorably on the allegation that the Amendment 3 initiative petition violated state law by failing to provide voters with a list of...

A state judge in North Dakota has issued a ruling overturning the state’s abortion ban that protects the lives of unborn children. Although no abortion centers operate in the state, the ruling makes abortion legal for the time being while the case continues. “Pregnant women have a fundamental right to choose abortion before viability exists,” North Dakota District Judge Bruce Romanick wrote, even though the Supreme Court ruled no such right exists. The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Red River Women’s Clinic, arguing that North Dakota’s SB 2150 was so vague that it put...

A special judge in Monroe County, Indiana, has denied a request by Planned Parenthood to broaden the medical exceptions under which abortions would be allowed under state law. Indiana’s abortion law, SB 1, protects nearly all preborn children in the state from abortion. Abortion is only permitted in cases of rape and incest, if there is a “lethal fetal anomaly” before 20 weeks, and when “abortion is necessary when reasonable medical judgment dictates that performing the abortion is necessary to prevent any serious health risk to the pregnant woman or to save the pregnant woman’s life.” The law also requires...

While a substantial number of Christian colleges continue to maintain ties with Planned Parenthood, one pro-life organization is celebrating that over a dozen schools have taken action this year to address concerns about their ties to the nation's largest provider of abortions and cross-sex hormones for youth confused about their sex. The Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement, a project of the pro-life advocacy group Students for Life of America, released a report highlighting the findings of its 2024 Christian Schools Project. The data for the report is based on research conducted throughout the 2023-2024 academic school year, culminating with outreach...