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The state of Texas has aggressively fought to uphold the integrity of its abortion ban in court by ensuring that abortionists and abortion companies in other states don’t flood Texas with illegal abortion pills. Thanks to the Tuesday mid-term election, Texas will be flooded with the dangerous abortion drugs that kill babies and injure thousands of women. Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson said he will no longer pursue lawsuits against out-of-state abortionists who mail chemical abortion drugs into the state, a shift that pro-life leaders warn will allow abortion pills to flood Texas unchecked. Johnson, a Democrat who won election...

Exit poll data from tens of thousands of voters allow analysts to investigate narratives surrounding the 2026 election with empirical data. For example, was the Republican collapse due in part to a loss of support from evangelicals? The answer is both no and yes. On one hand, evangelicals supported Republicans at a rate similar to previous elections. According to the 2026 exit polls, 82% of voters who self-identified as “white evangelical or born-again Christian” voted Republican. That compares to 82% in 2024, 83% in 2022, 76% in 2020, 75% in 2018, and 81% in 2016. Even before that, 78% of...

A Massachusetts law allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy is in effect as of Sunday, November 8, after an emergency filing by Democrat Governor Maura Healey prevented the law from being suspended as more than 113,000 residents called for its repeal, well over twice the number needed to put repeal on the ballot in 2028. The law allows elective abortion through all nine months for any reason based on the “professional judgment” of an abortionist and forbids any external medical review from overriding it, making the Bay State the latest of a dozen U.S. states to legalize abortion on...

Today, U.S. Representative Sheri Biggs (R-SC) introduced the “Don’t Flush Babies Act” in Congress, a bill that would require a “do not flush” warning label on chemical abortion pill packaging. Liberty Counsel Action worked closely with Rep. Biggs’ office to draft the bill. The bill is a response to the approximate 700,000 chemical abortions happening at home annually where human fetal remains, biohazardous medical waste, and active pharmaceutical compounds are being flushed down the toilet into municipal water systems that are not designed to filter out such contaminants. “Every year, women are traumatized by seeing the remains of their aborted...

A woman is facing felony and misdemeanor charges after she allegedly posted about wanting to kick a pro-life display booth at Miami University, in Ohio. Key Takeaways: * Nineteen-year-old Alexandra Patterson was arrested and charged after she allegedly posted a threat against Miami University pro-life students to a social messaging app. * In the message, she suggested that either dining dollars would be available to anyone who would 'kirk' a pro-life student table or that she herself was willing to 'kirk' the table in exchange for dining dollars. * The post was a reference to the September 2025 assassination or...

Singer Harry Styles has been dubbed a 'Planned Parenthood champion' for his recent invitation to have Planned Parenthood affiliates distribute condoms and abortion information during each show of his 30-night residency at New York City's Madison Square Garden as part of his "Together, Together" Tour. Key Takeaways: * Harry Styles has been dubbed a 'Planned Parenthood champion'. * As part of his "Together, Together" residency at Madison Square Garden, he invited Planned Parenthood to set up tables to hand out Planned Parenthood condoms and abortion information. * Styles' lifestyle brand Pleasing also collaborated with Planned Parenthood to distribute "I'm with...

The November 3 midterm elections largely devastated conservatives, as a blue wave rolled over the country, seizing Republican strongholds. The performance of the pro-choice party subset proved no exception. Pro-choice incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) lost reelection to Democrat Troy Jackson in a hotly contested race. Pro-choice Republican candidate Michelle Tafoya also lost her Senate race in Minnesota to Democrat Peggy Flanagan. Republican Mike Rogers was defeated by radical Muslim Abdul El-Sayed (D) in the race for the Michigan U.S. Senate seat after Rogers made a controversial commitment not to fight the state’s liberal abortion law. “The people of Michigan...

It’s now legal to kill babies up to birth in Massachusetts. Gov. Maura Healey on Friday used an emergency preamble to put into effect a law that permits abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy based solely on an abortionist wanting to sell an abortion that kills a baby up to birth. Her decision overrides a citizen petition that gathered more than 113,000 signatures to suspend and potentially repeal the measure. The filing came just two days before Chapter 188 of the Acts of 2026 was scheduled to take effect on Nov. 8. By declaring the law an emergency, Healey blocks...

Yesterday, I told our student leaders in 1,700 chapters that Tuesday night hurt, and that our anger can’t become a retreat. Today, I want to tell Republicans in Congress what that means for them. Republicans control the House and the Senate until noon on January 3rd. Government funding runs out on December 11th, so Congress is coming back to town whether it wants to or not. I know a number of leaders are on Capitol Hill this week drawing up the GOP’s to-do list before the gavels change hands. So let me save them some time. The Pro-Life Generation has...

Nevada voters approved Question 6 on Tuesday, placing a right to abortion in the state constitution and delivering a heartbreaking setback for unborn children and those working to protect them. The measure passed with approximately 63 percent of the vote. It was the second and final required approval after voters first backed it in 2024. The amendment establishes a constitutional right to abortion until fetal viability but essentially up to birth because an abortionist can sign of on late-term abortions for any reason. Abortion has been legal in Nevada up to 24 weeks under a 1990 statute; opponents said the...

An Instagram post celebrating abortion has exposed the fact that many Americans believe women should avoid having multiple abortions and/or using it as a form of birth control. It also showed the damage that the idea of 'subjective truth' has done to younger generations, leading them to believe that when human life begins is a matter of individual opinion rather than scientific fact. Key Takeaways: * In a recent social media post, a woman expressed support for women who have multiple abortions (which directly and intentionally end the lives of preborn human beings), even saying that there is no such...

A onetime West Point cadet who admitted in federal court to surreptitiously ending his girlfriend's pregnancy is now facing a civil lawsuit over the 2022 episode, Fox News reports. The woman, identified only as Jane Doe, filed suit against Caleb T. Suh in New York state supreme court on Oct. 28, accusing him of assault and battery and seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Suh was charged and pleaded guilty in the case in June; it's not clear what, if any, disciplinary action he may have faced at West Point. Doe did report the incident to West Point's Army Criminal Investigation...

Cherry Hill, NJ — Another woman has been rushed to the hospital following a serious medical complication at Cherry Hill Women’s Center in New Jersey. This time, the patient was 25 weeks pregnant when she suffered a uterine perforation during an abortion procedure likely performed by abortionist Lisa Perriera. A 911 recording obtained by Operation Rescue captures Perriera personally calling emergency dispatch to report the injury. Throughout the call, Perriera seems careful not to say whether or not she is the one responsible for the life-threatening injury. “Hi, um, this is Doctor Perriera at Cherry Hill Women’s Center,” she begins...

Idaho voters defeated a ballot measure that pro-life advocates said would have legalized abortions up to birth, eliminated parental consent requirements and opened the door to taxpayer funding of abortions. With 77% of precincts reporting, Proposition 1 was trailing 53.8% to 46.2%, according to unofficial results. The citizen-initiated statute, known as the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, sought to create a right to “reproductive freedom and privacy” that included a so-called right to kill babies in abortions up to birth. Pro-life leaders described the measure as one of the most extreme of the 2026 election cycle. Blaine Conzatti, president of...

Missouri voters rejected a constitutional amendment Tuesday that would have repealed the state’s 2024 right to abortion and restored protections for unborn babies. With 91.1 percent of precincts reporting, “No” led 55.45 percent to 44.55 percent on Amendment 3. The measure would have eliminated the constitutional right to abortion approved by voters two years ago, restricted abortion to cases of medical emergency, fetal anomaly, rape or incest, and limited the rape and incest exceptions to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. It also would have enshrined a ban on mutilating children with so-called sex change procedures for minors in the...

Republican U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds defeated Democrat David Jolly in Florida’s gubernatorial election Tuesday, securing the governorship for the GOP and preserving the state’s pro-life policies. With more than 97 percent of the vote counted, Donalds led with roughly 50 percent to Jolly’s 48.7 percent, according to state tallies. Early returns had favored Jolly before Election Day ballots from Republican strongholds, particularly the Panhandle, narrowed and then reversed the margin. Donalds, who is pro-life and represents Florida’s 19th Congressional District, will succeed term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis and become Florida’s first Black governor. His running mate, former state Sen. Bryan Avila,...

Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday that embeds a fundamental right to kill babies in abortions up to birth in the state constitution. With 52.83 percent of precincts reporting, the Associated Press showed “Yes” leading 60.09 percent to 39.91 percent on Question 1. Other early tallies showed a similar margin. Pre-election models had given the measure better than a 98 percent chance of passage. The pro-abortion side reportedly spent as much as $5 million buy the vote and run ads lying to voters about what the amendment would do. The amendment establishes that every individual has the fundamental right...

Republicans flipped the governorship of Guam on Tuesday as Vicente “Tony” Ada, a legislator with a record of supporting pro-life laws on abortion, defeated pro-abortion Democrat Sen. Therese Terlaje. In unofficial final results released early Wednesday by the Guam Election Commission, Ada is the winner of the close race. Ada and running mate E.J. Calvo received 15,945 votes (51.45 percent). Terlaje and Sabina Perez received 14,925 votes (48.15 percent). The Republican ticket’s lead of roughly 1,020 votes ended eight years of Democratic control of Adelup under term-limited Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero. Sen. Therese Terlaje called Ada to concede on behalf...

Republican Sen. Ashley Moody defeated Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon in Florida’s special U.S. Senate election Tuesday, Decision Desk HQ projected shortly after the final polls closed. With more than 90 percent of votes counted, Moody led with roughly 50.2 percent to Nixon’s 48.7 percent, a margin of about 115,000 votes, according to multiple tallies. Independent candidate Neil Gillespie received about 1 percent. The result keeps the seat in Republican hands through early 2029, the remainder of the term Marco Rubio vacated to become secretary of state. Moody, appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in January 2025 after serving two terms...

WASHINGTON D.C. (09-24-2026) – Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins announced that its attorneys at First & Fourteenth have filed a notice of intent to sue the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for failures to follow the “Endangered Species Act” (ESA) to address harm from a progesterone blocker to more than 1,500 protected creatures in all 50 states. Hawkins noted: “In 2000 at the beginning of the Clinton Administration, chemical abortion pills were forced on the U.S. market, with all kinds of promises made, promises broken by abortion promoters — all with the FDA’s rubber stamp, signing...