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The Heritage Foundation released its version of Reconciliation 3.0, a new plan to end federal funding for abortion, combat fraud, and save America $1.5 trillion. The leading conservative policy institute on Wednesday unveiled “Setting the American Opportunity Agenda,” a special budget and spending report for Congress, and House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is ready to act on it. While the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” was successful, the GOP can save Americans even more money, and the foundation says its plan could be the answer. “The OBBB was a major accomplishment in 2025 and had many constructive consequences, but the...

Olivia Plath is speaking out about women's reproductive healthcare choices. The Welcome to Plathville star, 28, shared in a recent Instagram video that she has had two abortions using mifepristone, amid debates over nationwide access to the drug. Mifepristone, according to the Mayo Clinic, is used with misoprostol to terminate pregnancies. "This is probably also a good time to mention something that I've not talked about a lot publicly, but I've actually had two abortions, and for each of those I took mifepristone,” Olivia said in the May 21 video. The wedding photographer acknowledged that past generations didn’t have access...

A police dispatch call from Columbus, Ohio, received a report alleging that a victim's "father held her down" and "tried to force her to take an abortion pill." Accounts of women being coerced or forced to take abortion drugs have become more public and more widespread, as the drugs have become more easily accessible due to online abortion pill dispensaries and mail-order options. Key Takeaways: * On May 28, police in Columbus, Ohio, were notified by dispatch that a father had allegedly attempted to force his daughter to take the abortion pill. * This type of incident appears to be...

Days after progressive group targets acting AG Todd Blanche's law license for Kilmar Abrego Garcia prosecution, conservative group targets "hyper-partisan ideologue" behind President Biden's abortion protester prosecutions. The legal establishment cheered when the California Supreme Court disbarred President Trump's former lawyer John Eastman for concocting a scheme to present alternate, pro-Trump elector slates to then-Vice President Mike Pence in the 2020 election, deeming it an ethics violation, while Eastman portrayed the proceeding as a political prosecution. A progressive watchdog launched a similar effort last week against acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging systemic ethics violations in his prosecution of an...

Two proposed bills threaten to worsen pregnancy outcomes and increase intimate partner violenceShe stays quiet because of her child, my patient tells me. But despite her passivity, her husband always manages to find something wrong with her. He shouts at ungodly volumes, threatening, "Don't make me do something to you that I'll regret!" Another time, "You're making me angry enough to hit you!" She invariably cowers in terror, shielding the child from him. "Like a switch, he shuts it off and turns to our son, smiling, comforting him, even when he's just threatened me. I don't understand it," she weeps...

A radical Democrat congresswoman has filed a new bill to force companies to fund 12 days of paid leave for their employees to kill their babies in abortions. Rep. Yassamin Ansari, an Arizona Democrat, has introduced legislation that would require employers to provide up to 12 days of paid leave per year for workers to have abortions. The Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, H.R. 8158, is the centerpiece of Ansari’s three-bill “H.E.R. Agenda” (Healthy, Equity, Rights) package. It explicitly covers “pregnancy terminations,” which is a whitewashing of the term abortion, along with menstrual pain, miscarriages, menopause symptoms, endometriosis, IUD insertions, vasectomies,...

A new report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) backs up what Live Action News has been reporting: abortion businesses have been violating Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) safety rules, as well as state and federal laws, when selling abortion drugs. Key Takeaways: * A new report from CLI found that 81% of online abortion pill businesses that report their data ship abortion drugs to women whose pregnancies exceed the FDA's 70 days’ gestation safety protocol. * None of the 18 foreign-based companies require identification from customers before ordering the abortion pills. Of those, 17 send unapproved or mislabeled drugs...

A late-term abortionist with ties to LeRoy Carhart has had his medical license placed on probation in Maryland. Key Takeaways: * Tyrone Malloy was hired as the medical director to serve as Carhart's replacement, at his facilities in both Nebraska and Maryland. * He has no license to practice medicine in Nebraska, spent four years in prison due to Medicaid fraud, and has faced numerous malpractice cases. * His medical license in Maryland has now been placed on probation after complaints of substandard care. The Backstory: Carhart, one of the country’s most notorious late-term abortionists with a history of injuring...

In a decision pro-life advocates decried as a betrayal of Nevada’s children, the Nevada Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of a 40-year-old state law requiring abortionists to notify parents before killing a teenagers’ baby in an abortion. The ruling reverses a lower court decision and directs issuance of a preliminary injunction preventing Senate Bill 510 from taking effect while the legal challenge proceeds. The 1985 pro-life law required notification to a parent or guardian — or judicial approval — for abortions involving unmarried, unemancipated girls under 18. It never fully took effect due to prior court injunctions but became potentially...

Pastor Franklin Graham sharply criticized Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico over his false claims about the Bible supposedly being silent on abortion. Graham is calling it “an absolute lie” for the U.S. Senate candidate to claim the Bible does not condemn killing babies before birth. Graham, CEO of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, responded after Talarico, the Democratic nominee challenging Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in November, asserted that his Christian faith somehow allows abortion. “I trust Texas women to make decisions about their own bodies, to shape their own destinies in consultation with their...

GLASGOW, Ky. (TNND) — A Kentucky man was charged with attempted fetal homicide after investigators said he allegedly replaced his pregnant girlfriend’s prescription medication with an unknown substance, according to authorities. Kentucky State Police identified the suspect as 26-year-old Abdulah Mohmand, of Bowling Green. State police said troopers were contacted on Monday around 7:30 a.m. by a woman from Glasgow who reported concerns about the safety of her unborn child after learning her prescription medication had allegedly been switched. The woman told investigators she believed her boyfriend, Mohmand, replaced the medication with another drug. Following an investigation, state police said...

America’s biggest abortion business is closing down yet another center, saying it doesn’t get enough customers. Planned Parenthood’s Gainesville, Florida center will shut down next month due to declining patient volume, the abortion giant announced this week. The organization said the center will permanently close on June 26. The Gainesville Planned Parenthood Health Center doesn’t do abortions on site but sells the abortion pill and makes surgical abortion referrals. It also mutilates patients with trans drugs. The abortion group announced the closure on social media Wednesday. “While this was an incredibly difficult decision, it does not change our commitment to...

No Investigations, Regulation, or Discipline has Followed Fort Collins, CO — Earlier this week, Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation made national news after finally obtaining the unredacted autopsy report for Lexi Arguello, a young girl who died from a catastrophic complication after a late-term abortion at Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado. However, Lexi is not the only woman that has fallen victim to Colorado abortion clinics, which are no longer required to be licensed or inspected. Radical abortion policies within the state have resulted in countless injuries, and the intentional lack of oversight coupled with overly redacted...

Whitmer won't give them money to keep operating, which suggests that abortion doesn't really matter anymore Livonia — Gov. Whitmer refused an emergency request by Planned Parenthood of Michigan for $5 million last week, telling them to go find the money elsewhere. The retaliation by Lansing Democrats was swift, led by State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky. Pohutsky, a strong advocate for Planned Parenthood, exploded in anger. “You can’t say you’re going to fight like hell and then not do the bare minimum when they’re in need,” she told The Detroit News. Two prominent Democrats fighting? Heavens to Murgatroyd, this must be...

(Rapper) Tekashi 6ix9ine is facing intense criticism online after telling guests at a gender-reveal party, reportedly in front of livestream cameras, that he would have urged his girlfriend, Aliday Alter, to have an abortion if their unborn baby had been a girl. The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, made the remarks during the event, which was filmed and shared by TMZ, where the couple ultimately discovered they were expecting a boy. The backlash centres not only on what Tekashi 6ix9ine said in that moment, but on who he is and what his public record already contains. Alter announced...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas – A Montgomery County man accused of secretly giving a pregnant woman an abortion pill that killed their unborn baby, has been officially indicted by a grand jury. The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Jon Rueben Demeter was indicted Thursday on an abortion charge and injury to a child. The abortion charge is a first-degree felony carrying a punishment of five years to life in prison. KPRC 2 News reporter Corley Peel obtained a search warrant revealing new details about how Demeter allegedly administered the drug without the woman’s knowledge or consent. According to the warrant,...

Iowans will need to see a doctor in person to receive abortion medication under a new law Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed. The Tuesday, May 19, signing came as Republican-led states across the country aim to restrict access to abortion pills, usage of which has increased since the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade. A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling temporarily preserved access to mail-order prescriptions after Louisiana challenged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's expanded access. But the medication's future remains uncertain as the legal battle plays out. The bill, House File 2788, will require Iowans seeking abortion medication,...

A 13-year-old seventh-grader at Drake Middle School in Colorado’s Jefferson County Public Schools was barred from reading her pro-life slam poem aloud in class along with other students. She was prevented even though staff acknowledged it met all assignment requirements, according to the student’s family. The assignment asked students to write and present slam poetry about a world conflict they felt passionate about. The girl chose the topic of abortion and prepared a poem that referenced biblical verses, Dr. Seuss literature and statistics on abortions since Roe v. Wade. School staff told the family the poem satisfied every rubric criterion...

The abortion pill doesn't 'bring down your period,' 'prevent a potential life,' or 'remove pregnancy tissue.' It kills living human beings. Key Takeaways: The abortion pill is a drug that carries the intent to kill. Women are told that their babies are mere tissue at these first stages of life, but this is a marketing tactic to sell the abortion pill to vulnerable women and teens. Children develop rapidly in the womb. Just two weeks post-fertilization, their brains are beginning to form, and by 21 days, their hearts are already beating. Though marketed and dispensed even later in pregnancy, the...

A retired Baptist minister has been criminally convicted for preaching the Gospel near a Northern Ireland hospital that performs abortions.Pastor Clive Johnston, 78, a former president of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, was found guilty on May 7 at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court on two charges under Northern Ireland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act 2023 for preaching on John 3:16 near the abortion buffer zone located outside of Causeway Hospital.Pastor Johnston must pay a fine of £450 (approximately $600) and now has an official criminal record, according to The Christian Institute, which has supported his legal defense.The Abortion...