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The DuPage County Board voted 10-5 at its Tuesday meeting to remove the Republican congressman’s name from the building and related offices in Wheaton. While Democrats and Republicans voted along party lines on the issue, Democrats Lynn LaPlante and Lucy Chang Evans abstained from the vote and expressed disappointment that the matter was raised. […] “Here in DuPage County, public buildings serve all people, regardless of race, gender, faith or … economic status,” board Chair Deb Conroy, a Democrat from Elmhurst, said ahead the vote. “This resolution reinforces the notion that the buildings on this campus support the rights of...

Ohio Democrats are looking to make a statement in favor of killing unborn babies by abortion by introducing the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.” The bill, which will be introduced by Democrat state Reps. Anita Somani and Tristan Rader, would make it illegal for men to have sex without trying to create a child, Local12 reported. The bill is modeled after similar legislation introduced by Democrat Mississippi state Sen. Bradford Blackmon. “Fair is fair, right?” Somani said in video posted to Bluesky. “If this legislature is so dedicated to regulating women’s bodies and their access to contraceptives and abortion care...

In a powerful demonstration of support for reproductive rights, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed new legislation designed to strengthen New York’s position as a sanctuary for reproductive health care in America. The bill, known as S.36A/A.2145A, allows healthcare providers who prescribe medication used for abortions to have the name of their practice appear on prescription labels rather than their own. This measure aims to protect the privacy of medical professionals in an era of increasing hostility toward reproductive healthcare, both from state governments and the federal level. “Reproductive freedom will always be protected in the State of New York — and...

The biggest abortion business in America is not happy that President Donald Trump pardoned two dozen pro-life Americans. As LifeNews reported, Trump signed an executive order pardoning the 23 pro-life Americans Joe Biden imprisoned for protesting abortion. “This is a great honor to sign this,” Trump said, condemning Biden’s lawfare, especially targeted at “elderly people.” Please subscribe to the LifeNews YouTube channel for the latest pro-life videos. Many of the pro-life advocates who Joe Biden targeted with lawfare were praying or singing at abortion centers in an attempt to save babies or help moms choose life instead of abortion. But...

New York Times Highlights Christian and Jewish ‘Blessings’ for Abortion ClinicsThe New York Times has published a glowing article in praise of Christian and Jewish ministers who conduct “blessings” of abortion clinics in America.A Baptist minister, a Presbyterian pastor, and a Jewish cantor walked quietly through an abortion clinic where they “blessed the exam tables and their stirrups, the boxes of disposable gowns and the cushioned chairs in the recovery room,” the Times notes approvingly in Friday’s article.“Through a ritual blessing of the year-old clinic,” the piece states, the faith leaders “wanted to show that religion could be a source...

The Satanic Temple of Iowa is hosting the “family-friendly” “Satanic Holiday Joy” at the Iowa State Capitol this coming Saturday, where they tell attendees to expect, along with handing out coloring pages and an ornament decorating station for the kids, “Satanic holiday carols, a large Satanic altar and display, a devilish Sol Invictus/Saturnalia ornament making station, and ritual!” They will also have a costume contest with prizes for whoever dresses up as the best ‘Krampus,’ which is a horned, half-goat, half-demon figure from Central and Eastern European folklore who punishes children who misbehave. We last wrote about TST after they...

Police in Concord are investigating after someone vandalized a Satanic Temple holiday display at the State House. The statue, which the city sanctioned after explaining it was allowed because of the First Amendment, was unveiled Saturday night and was damaged shortly after. Visitors to the State House on Tuesday could see a Christmas tree, nativity scene and Bill of Rights display, but the Satanic Temple holiday display was taken down after it was damaged. The display depicted the pagan deity Baphomet and the Satanic Temple's seven fundamental tenets. In one hand, the figure held an apple to honor Isaac Newton...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit-run America Magazine op-ed blames ‘misogyny’ for Trump winning Catholic voteThe heterodox Jesuit-run America Magazine published an op-ed earlier this month that blamed 'misogyny' for Catholics voting overwhelming for Trump, going as far as accusing St. Thomas Aquinas and Church teaching as being in error.The heterodox Jesuit-run America Magazine published an op-ed earlier this month that blamed 'misogyny' for Catholics voting overwhelming for Trump, going as far as accusing St. Thomas Aquinas and Church teaching as being in error. Absent female authority in the church, and given this theological throughline, it is not surprising that female authority is...

Planned Parenthood has been providing “viable nonanomalous” babies killed in “elective abortions” to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for experimentation, according to a new report. Published by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the emails detail a “Research Plan” that documents the harvesting of babies for experimentation on their bodies. The plan was submitted to and approved by UCSD’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) in 2018. The heavily redacted communications were obtained by the group via open records request. According to the records reported by CMP, researchers unveiled plans in their submission to “collect tissues from fetuses ranging from...

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas has relocated to a new facility that it built in Central El Paso, and according to the pro-life Southwest Coalition for Life, the abortion giant used a fake name during the process. Planned Parenthood began building the new multi-million dollar facility last year under the name “Pima Medical,” said Southwest Coalition in an email. The new building is located just 16 miles from an abortion facility in New Mexico, where Planned Parenthood staff can easily refer women for abortions that are illegal in Texas. “[Planned Parenthood’s] history in El Paso tells a troubling story,” said...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards at a private ceremony, the White House said. Richards, the daughter of the late Texas Gov. Ann Richards, left the reproductive health care organization in 2018 after leading it for 12 years. Earlier this year, Richards revealed she was battling glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer – the same that killed Biden’s son Beau. Biden posted on X that it was his "honor" to award Cecile Richards the Medal of Freedom, and shared a photo of him, first lady Jill Biden,...

Tens of thousands of people are expected in Washington ahead of Inauguration Day in January to protest President-elect Donald Trump and policy priorities that they say will undermine the rights of women, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and racial and religious minorities. The demonstration, dubbed the “People’s March on Washington,” is scheduled for Jan. 18, two days before the inauguration. It is being organized by leading civil rights, racial justice and reproductive health organizations, including the Women’s March and Abortion Access Now, a coalition of organizations including the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the National Women’s Law Center. Organizers estimate 50,000 people...

Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks claims her band would have ended in the 1970s if she hadn’t ended the life of her unborn child. Nicks told CBS News Sunday Morning that she had an abortion in 1979, conveying that she believed she wouldn’t have been able to handle both being a mother and singing in Fleetwood Mac — so she chose the band. The Fleetwood Mac singer also suggested that she thought it would be better for the unborn child to die rather than to have him or her “have their feelings hurt” over her music endeavors.

A campaign marked by Donald J. Trump’s apocalyptic extremes has turned even darker in its final days.With voting already underway in battleground states, the former president on Friday escalated his threats to prosecute and imprison a wide range of people involved in elections and politics. Hours later, on the hugely popular “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, he said that the “enemy within,” a phrase he has used to describe political opponents, poses a bigger threat to the nation than North Korea.For eight years, Democrats have warned that Mr. Trump’s political ambitions have fueled some of the nation’s deepest divides. But...

A new survey shows a proposed abortion amendment in Florida obtaining enough support to narrowly pass. The survey was conducted by the University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab (PORL) and released on Monday, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. Support for the abortion amendment reached 60 percent, which is the requirement for any proposed constitutional amendment to pass in the state. Thirty-two percent are opposed to the measure and eight percent are undecided.

ABC airs pro-life ad showing aborted babies during The View, comparing hosts to Nazis‘These are dead human beings, murdered by abortion that you promote,’ said presidential candidate Randall Terry in a powerful pro-life ad with images of aborted babies that ABC was forced by law to air during The View. ‘A vote for Kamala is a vote for murdered babies.’A hard-hitting pro-life ad that aired during ABC’s popular daytime talk show The View highlighting that aborted so-called “fetuses” are actually murdered children has infuriated the broadcast world, including the show’s co-hosts, whom the ad compared to Nazis because of their...

First, we need to dispense with the silly use of the word “fetus.”No one talks about their fetus’s due date or asks when your fetus is due. Use of the word is an insidious, but successful use of propaganda to distance pro-abortionists from the reality of their position.A baby is only a fetus when someone wants to kill a baby and doesn’t want to take responsibility for their position. How badly has America’s moral compass been broken when people who want to keep unborn babies alive are smeared as the extremists instead of those who demand fealty to unfettered abortion....

Donald Trump is stuck. He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues. His instinct is to promise the moon, and he’ll say anything to get a vote — or just to get out of a room. He also knows, however, that he has no choice but to dance with the date that brought him. He can’t abandon the groups, interested parties and constituencies that put him in the White House to execute their agenda — to exercise their will. The problem comes when most voters don’t want what your partners hope to do with the power...

Attitudes on abortion are deeply entrenched and have motivated voters across the American political landscape for decades. But in a post-Roe world, with abortion access sharply limited or at stake in several states, voters who want to protect abortion rights are increasingly energized. Although the economy remains the No. 1 issue for voters, a growing share of voters in swing states now say abortion is central to their decision this fall, according to New York Times/Siena College polls earlier this month. This represents an increase since May, when President Joe Biden was still the Democratic presidential nominee. And by a...

Speakers and delegates at this year’s Democratic National Convention chastised Pro-Life laws and swore to make the United States one of the most pro-abortion countries on planet earth. Abortion was celebrated more than ever, and that was evident by the speakers chosen for the event. When it came time for the Texas delegation to cast their votes, former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, a native Texan, took the mic to introduce Kate Cox to speak. Cox, who Richards called a “Texas heroine,” garnered national media attention in December when she sued the state to abort her preborn child diagnosed with...