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A Florida pastor criticized pro-life lawmakers this week for advancing legislation to protect unborn babies from abortion, asserting that the choice to kill an unborn baby is ok because “God gave us free will.” In a guest column at the Orlando Sentinel, the Rev. Terri Steed Pierce claimed the Florida heartbeat bill is “unacceptable” and “not of God.” She is the lead pastor of Joy Metropolitan Community Church, which was “created for and by the LGBTQ+ community.” “God gave us free will, so how did elected officials become the moral authority over how we live our lives; especially those who...

A new peer-reviewed study from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) has found that women whose first pregnancy ends in abortion are “likely to have more pregnancies, more abortions, and more miscarriages than women whose first pregnancy ends in a live birth,” according to a CLI press release. The study utilized 17 years of anonymized Medicaid claims data from the 17 states which use taxpayer funds to cover abortion through their Medicaid programs. Data from 5,453 continuously eligible Medicaid beneficiaries between 1999 and 2015 was analyzed; women who were age 16 in 1999 were organized into three groups based on the...

Following the US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, CNN's Melissa Bell takes a closer look at life in Poland - where abortion has been restricted for 30 years. video is 5 minutes long