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During a June 22 speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition, former President Donald Trump said that if elected to the presidency again, he would pardon the pro-life activists currently serving jail time for a sit-in style protest at an infamous late abortion facility in Washington, D.C. As reported by the Catholic News Agency, during his speech, Trump specifically mentioned one of the activists, 75-year-old Paulette Harlow, who was sentenced to 24 months in prison for conspiracy to violate civil rights and violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Harlow had been on house arrest due...

With the ideological left’s attempt to erase women, whether through sports, attempting to add “birthing people” in our laws, or denying natural distinctions between men and women, we are grateful Governor Youngkin is doing the opposite. The Governor vetoed a bill (HB 781, D-Herring) this year intended to initiate a task force to evaluate maternal health in Virginia but ridiculously replaced “mothers” with “birthing people.” Last week Governor Youngkin issued Executive Order 32 to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures, and he did it without including contraceptive mandates or woke language such as “birthing people”....

CV NEWS FEED // The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an order barring a pro-life protester from coming close to a Planned Parenthood nurse to protest violated his First Amendment free speech rights and must be overturned. Thomas More Society attorneys, representing pro-life advocate Brian Aish, achieved the unanimous victory, successfully overturning a previous court order that had barred Aish from approaching Planned Parenthood nurse Nancy Kindschy. In 2020, a Trempealeu County judge barred Aish from being near Kindschy, who worked in an abortion clinic in the western Wisconsin city of Blair. According to Associated Press, Aish reportedly told...

CV NEWS FEED // The National Abortion Federation (NAF) has been forced to cut the monthly budget of its hotline in half because funding to directly finance abortions has declined since 2023, according to the nonprofit organization’s CEO, Brittany Fonteno. Fonteno told Bloomberg journalist Kelsey Butler in a June 26 article that there is “less support and less funding,” despite NAF working with a higher number of women seeking abortions. Fonteno’s comments about the decline in abortion funding come amid the Democratic National Committee’s recent pledge to spend over $8 million towards getting pro-abortion candidates elected. News outlet Roll Call...

CV NEWS FEED // Nevada officials have certified a proposed amendment to enshrine abortion in the state’s constitution, slated to appear on the November ballot. According to NBC News, pro abortion organization Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom announced in May that it had gathered over 200,000 signatures from registered voters — exceeding the 103,000 required to advance the proposal for ballot qualification. On June 28, The Nevada secretary of state’s office confirmed the verification of these signatures, affirming that all criteria had been fulfilled for the amendment to be included on the November ballot. In Nevada, abortion is currently legal up...

Today, Vote No On 4 Florida formally launched its multilingual campaign to defeat Amendment 4 on the upcoming November ballot with the unveiling of new websites in both English and Spanish and the rollout of its first campaign video entitled “Not What it Seems” which exposes the deceptive nature and extreme ramifications of Amendment 4. The 2-minute video reveals that while other amendments provide clear definitions, the 34-word Amendment 4 fails to define any of its terms, including crucial words like “viability,” “healthcare provider,” and “patient’s health,” leaving voters in the dark about its true impact. “Amedment 4 was deceptively...

A Department of Health report detailed that there were 10,033 abortions carried out in Ireland last year, a significant rise from the 8,156 terminations carried out in 2022. ... Under Irish law, pregnancies can be terminated without restriction within the first 12 weeks, while a termination can be carried out within 28 days of the birth when there is a risk to the life of the pregnant woman. Terminations can also be carried out within 28 days when there is a risk of causing serious harm to the health of the pregnant woman or when there is a condition present...

President Joe Biden — who recently invoked commitments to a global governance organization as justification to foist abortion and the LGBTQ agenda on the developing world — has done “more damage to Christianity than anyone but the Devil,” a critic of the new policy told The Washington Stand. The Biden administration has often promoted abortion and the LGBT agenda by citing international commitments to provide “sexual and reproductive health” (SRH), although no international treaty covers either concept. Biden recently took yet another step toward redefining that term this month, promoting abortion, the LGBT community, and taxpayer-funded contraception as he marked...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an order barring an anti-abortion protester from coming close to a Planned Parenthood nurse violated his First Amendment free speech rights and must be overturned. The court, controlled 4-3 by liberals, ruled unanimously in ordering that the injunction be dismissed. A Trempealeu County judge in 2020 barred Brian Aish from being near nurse Nancy Kindschy who sometimes worked in a small family planning clinic in the western Wisconsin city of Blair. Kindschy said Aish threatened her by saying bad things would happen to her or her family if she didn't quit her...

After a brief leak of the decision documents yesterday on the Court’s website, the Supreme Court of the United States today formally issued its guidance in the Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States cases by choosing to return them to a lower court. The ruling lifts a stay on an injunction limiting enforcement of Idaho’s Defense of Life Act previously put in place by a federal district court order. This means Idaho hospitals receiving Medicaid funding must allow abortions to be committed as “stabilizing care” in compliance with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). However,...

Abortion is no longer “between a woman and her doctor” in Michigan, where a judge blocked enforcement of three of the state’s pro-life laws on the basis that they now contradict a state amendment that created a constitutional ‘right’ to abortion. On Tuesday, Judge Sima Patel of the Court of Claims placed a preliminary injunction on the state’s 24-hour-waiting period for abortion, as well as a requirement that only physicians can commit abortions. She also blocked a portion of a law that requires abortion businesses to give their clients information about adoption and depictions of the fetus. The injunctions were...

CV NEWS FEED // A Tennessee senator and a Nashville attorney are suing Tennessee over the recent abortion trafficking law, which criminalizes adults who help obtain abortions for minors without their parents’ permission. According to the Associated Press, the law would punish any adult who “intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports” a minor to get an abortion without their parents’ consent. The law would go into effect on July 1, and Tennessee would be the second state after Idaho to enact such a law. Idaho’s similar statute has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge since November 2023. Tennessee Rep. Aftyn...

CV NEWS FEED // The Delaware Senate has approved legislation requiring Medicaid and most private health insurance plans to cover abortion. According to the Associated Press, Democratic senators passed the legislation on a party-line vote, though it still needs to be approved by Democratic Gov. John Carney. The bill does include an exemption allowing churches and religious employers to seek a waiver from covering abortions, but other insurance providers must provide abortions without charging copays or applying deductibles. The coverage would be limited to $750 per person per year. The bill is one of many recent anti-life laws, as Delaware...

Good news! We recently reached a favorable settlement for our clients at Heartbeat of Miami, a faith-based ministry that provides life-affirming services and support to women and couples facing unplanned pregnancies in Hialeah, Florida. While we cannot publicly discuss the specifics of the settlement quite yet, the vandals associated with Jane’s Revenge who sought to injure, intimidate and interfere with access to Heartbeat of Miami, and several Florida pregnancy resource centers, will be held to account. Last year, First Liberty and volunteer attorneys from Lawson Huck Gonzalez filed a federal lawsuit seeking to hold accountable the individuals who defaced and...

Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade, states have been allowed to pass their own abortion laws. As certain states began to pass stronger protections for preborn human beings, other states began to eliminate protections — and ‘abortion travel’ became a hot-button issue. Some companies began funding abortion travel as a “benefit” to employees, and abortion funds began to pay for airfare, hotels, and the like in order to assist women living in pro-life states to obtain abortions in states where abortion was more available. Since that time, the Guttmacher Institute...

On Friday, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled to uphold the state’s law protecting preborn children from being killed by abortion after about six weeks gestation (four weeks post-fertilization), when a prenatal heartbeat can be detected. Previously, babies were legally allowed to be killed up to 22 weeks gestation in the state. A preborn child’s heart begins to beat by around day 22 after fertilization, even before it has formed four chambers. “As the heartbeat bill finally becomes law, we are deeply committed to supporting women in planning for motherhood, and promoting fatherhood and its importance in parenting,” said Gov. Kim...

Here is the video journos say does not exist. Straight from Ralph Northam.

The Mayor of Monroe North Carolina, has done the Lord’s work by issuing a proclamation recognizing the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Mayor Robert Burns, who also “encourages all citizens to reflect on the significance of this decision” explains “It’s my honor to release a Proclamation on the momentous occasion that happened two years ago: the overturning of Roe V. Wade…I believe and hope for a day when abortion will ultimately end, but until that day, I will be a voice for the voiceless in and out of the womb. “ In a message on X, Mayor...

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — Rep. Bob Good introduced the Life Act on Thursday, legislation that outlaws abortions of unborn babies “to the fullest extent at the federal level” by prohibiting federal dollars from being used for abortions. The Virginia Republican’s bill, which builds on a consensus from House Republicans to provide stronger enforcement mechanisms for pro-life laws, bans federally regulated health care programs from using funds to pay for abortions and federally regulated health plans from covering abortions. The bill protects mothers whose lives are in danger but does not make exceptions for rape or incest and would...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is warning that abortion proponents in the state are preparing to smuggle a radical ballot measure across the finish line in November. “Because all of the Southeast has various forms of pro-life legislation, Florida would become the abortion mecca of this region—and maybe one of the abortion meccas of the entire world, because it would be one of the most liberal abortion regimes anywhere in the world,” the Republican governor warned during a Zoom call Thursday with hundreds of pastors and faith leaders. “This amendment is written maybe more liberal than New York and California, but...