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A Texas couple sprang into action as soon as they noticed an abandoned newborn with her umbilical cord still attached while walking on a trail Saturday morning. Daniela Fedele said she and her husband were strolling along Casa Martin Drive in Katy, Texas when they noticed a towel on the ground. Her three-year-old daughter started to ride her bike toward it - before Fedele said she realized something was moving underneath. 'I noticed two little feet moving and then my husband was right behind me with the dogs and I yelled to my husband and I'm like, "Oh my God,...

Believe it or not, abortion wasn’t originally part of the women’s movement, and it wasn’t introduced to the larger women’s movement by women. Instead, it was introduced by two pro-abortion men who wanted to repeal abortion legislation: Bernard Nathanson and Lawrence Lader. Nathanson was a well-known abortionist who eventually renounced his pro-choice beliefs and his connection to abortion groups, exposing the lies he told with NARAL (which he helped to found) to legalize abortion. Lader’s role in the fight to legalize abortion began with Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and went all the way to the Supreme Court and the...

The “father of the abortion movement,” Larry Lader, was heavily influenced by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, about whom he wrote a biography. Planned Parenthood was also steeped in eugenics from its beginning, and boasted a list of eugenics proponents as its board members. Although the two shared a eugenics ideology, Lader would eventually part ways with Sanger over abortion. But it was perhaps Sanger’s warped eugenic ideology that motivated Lader to manipulate the 1960s women’s movement to push for abortion legalization. Lader wasn’t interested in equal rights… just ‘abortion rights’ “Larry never seemed to be interested in the rest...

Elizabeth was 24 years old when she became pregnant. She was unsure of what to do, but her boyfriend began to pressure her to have an abortion. “I was really afraid and not really sure what to do about it,” she said, “and he was pretty clear that he wasn’t going to stick around for this, so — so I scheduled an appointment for my abortion, a chemical abortion.” Elizabeth explained that when she first got the abortion pill regimen she cried for about an hour, unsure if she should take the pills or not. Ultimately, she decided to swallow...

If the number of marriages increased in America, the number of abortions would likely decrease, statistics show. The Pew Research Center reported that in 2021, 87% of women who had abortions were unmarried, meaning that “marriage can make a huge difference if 87% of abortion-determined women are not married,” says pro-life advocate Ben Watson, a former NFL star. It’s not only the unborn that benefit from a society that celebrates marriage, but all children, Watson says. “It’s necessary that men be a part of raising a child and having a commitment to the mother in the form of marriage, because...

The Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act is saving unborn babies’ lives in South Carolina since it was upheld last August by the State Supreme Court. Newly released data from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control shows abortions occurring in South Carolina declined by about 80 percent once the protective Fetal Heartbeat Act became legally effective. “South Carolina Citizens for Life rejoices in these numbers that represent the preservation of these precious little lives,” said SCCL President Lisa Van Riper. “These are our little neighbors who have heartbeats – the most basic manifestation of human life. We...

Granite City, Illinois – The Hope Clinic has done it again. In fact, this abortion facility sends more women to the emergency room than any other clinic in Illinois. The late-term abortion clinic is notorious, not only for having one of the highest rates of abortion injuries, but also for using veiled and vague language in their 911 communications. The Emergency: In this new Operation Rescue report from May 22, 2024, a 31-year-old woman was having – according to the caller –”heavier than normal bleeding” after an abortion procedure. Although the staff caller would not specify the cause, post-abortive bleeding...

The deceptive constitutional Amendment 4 dealing with abortion was back in the news this week. In the state of Florida, all ballot initiatives must have a financial impact statement to properly inform voters of the cost to the state and the taxpayers. Monday, Circuit judge John Cooper issues his ruling stating that outdated information in the financial impact statement “renders it inaccurate, ambiguous, misleading, unclear and confusing.” “In the irony of all ironies, this judge is actually describing Amendment 4 itself” Amendment 4 is purposely vague, deceptive, and misleading. it’s a shame the 4 male Supreme Court justices did not...

Gynuity Health Projects, a research organization conducting clinical trials aimed at expanding access to the abortion pill and overturning the Food and Drug Administration’s safety requirements, is funded by organizations with deep historic ties to the American eugenics movement. Gynuity’s donor list includes organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Planned Parenthood, the Population Council, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Society for Family Planning, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tara Health Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In 1996, the Packard Foundation seeded the pill’s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, Inc.,...

The “Father of Abortion Rights,” Larry Lader, held eugenic beliefs inspired by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger — but on abortion, they parted ways, with Lader being extremely in favor of abortion. Lader and his colleague Bernard Nathanson were the two men most instrumental in pushing the 1960’s women’s movement towards abortion. The reason we know this information, says “Subverted” author Sue Ellen Browder, is because Nathanson, an abortionist who later converted to the pro-life cause, had stories to tell. Image: Larry Lader and Bernard Nathanson. Both men worked against the feminist pro-life movement to push abortion on women. Browder...

Disturbing correspondence from a co-counsel of Roe v. Wade, the decision which legalized abortion nationwide, reveals that a eugenics and population control ideology has long been behind the push for the abortion pill’s availability. The abortion pill, which has ties to the manufacturer of the deadly gas Zyklon-B used by the Nazis during the Holocaust, was introduced under the name RU-486 (“RU” for Roussel-Uclaf, the French manufacturer of the pill, and “486” for the drug’s serial number). The abortion pill was eventually brought to the United States by groups with ties to eugenics, and today, eugenics-connected groups are funding the...

The Population Council, the eugenics organization credited with bringing the abortion pill (RU-486) to the United States, turns 65 this month — but it is nothing to celebrate. In 1952, John D. Rockefeller III founded the Population Council and served as the organization’s first president. According to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Population Council, Inc., was incorporated following Rockefeller’s Conference on Population Problems, “…to stimulate, encourage, promote, conduct and support significant activities in the broad field of population.” Like its founder, the Population Council’s other members were concerned about population issues — and, like other population organizations such as Planned Parenthood,...

In talking about her experience taking the abortion pill, Tami laments that she was not given any options when she visited the abortion facility. “They did not offer to show me an ultrasound image of my baby,” she says. “I was not given any pregnancy resources or told about adoption.” She notes that she was also misled about what the experience would be like. “I was told that I would experience slight cramping and bleeding and pass some blood clots, but no more than a normal menstrual cycle — it was nothing like they had told me.” Tami says she...

In another emotional video in Live Action’s “I Saw My Baby” series, Salome describes coming to the realization that she had killed her child after taking the abortion pill. “After taking the abortion pill, I felt like my inside was being torn and sliced to pieces. I had blood all over my legs and went into the tub to wash them,” she explained. “Right before the fetus came out I started vomiting everything that I had in my system that morning. And then I bled more and I hurt more. And I started praying curled up in the blood in...

Patricia was told “there was nothing to worry about” when she received the abortion pill from her doctor. In the latest video from Live Action’s “I Saw My Baby” series, she describes the horrifying reality of what actually occurred. Patricia says her doctor downplayed the severity of taking the abortion pill, telling her that she “would have some bleeding, and possibly clotting, and that complications resulting from pills were rare. I believed him,” she says. However, she explains that within one hour of taking the abortion pills at home, she knew the doctor was lying. “I was in the worst...

Facing pressure to have an abortion — her second abortion, Courtney went to the abortion facility and was given the abortion pill. She later said it was harder on her than her surgical abortion had been because this time, she felt like the actual killer. Believing that telling the abortion workers that she had changed her mind would make them “mad,” Courtney went through with an abortion she didn’t want. She was told it would be easy. It was anything but easy. “They told me it was just a pill as safe and as easy as taking a Tylenol. They...

In a recent op-ed on Fox News, one woman described her harrowing abortion pill experience, warning against the widespread push for easy chemical abortion access and describing her belief that the FDA has “betrayed” women in unraveling abortion pill safeguards. Author Elizabeth Gillette says she went to Planned Parenthood and was given the abortion pill, even though the doctor never looked at her medical history or told her about potential complications or risk factors (of which there are many). A “no test” protocol in dispensing the abortion pill has become common. “Nothing was said about any side effects,” Gillette writes....

'It's a bigger problem than people think," FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin tells Fox News Digital ..."We have just lost our damn minds when it comes to criminal prosecution," healthcare defense attorney Ron Chapman told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Ninety-five percent of cases do not go to trial, because prosecutors can find fuzzy statutes to get such high maximums or even mandatory minimums at play, which force innocent people to plead guilty. And that's what we're dealing with — we're dealing with tons of innocent people who may not be innocent of all the crimes, but they're innocent of...

New research has confirmed that increasingly fewer Millennials and Gen Zers are having children, and there is a “scary” reason why. More than half of 18- to 34-year-olds are choosing not to have children due to financial challenges, according to newly released data from Australian research company the Red Bridge. Of the young people choosing not to have children, 35 percent are university-educated, and 33 percent are earning more than $2,000 a week. Just under half don’t own a home. Kos Samaras, director of Red Bridge, said the research is a sign of the times, and young people are financially...

Gallup released the results of the annual poll on abortion. It found that 54 percent of Americans identify as “pro-choice.” That is an increase of two percentage points since last year’s Gallup poll. This poll also found that a record 32 percent of U.S. voters would vote only for a candidate who shares their views on abortion. In their analysis, Gallup indicates that these trends helped Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections and anticipates that they will be beneficial to Democrats running for office in 2024. Overall, there is much less here than meets the eye. First, Gallup found a...