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CV NEWS FEED // In the wake of the 2024 election, the president of Students for Life is calling on pro-life advocates to remain engaged, emphasizing that despite recent victories, the movement still faces significant challenges ahead. In a November 6 letter, Kristan Hawkins celebrated one of the biggest wins for the pro-life movement, which came from Florida. The state’s extreme abortion amendment was defeated, an outcome anticipated to save tens of thousands of lives this year. This victory was hard-won, Hawkins reported, with support from Governor Ron DeSantis and key contributions from pro-life groups. Other pro-life measures succeeded too,...

On Tuesday, voters in Missouri narrowly passed an amendment writing abortion into the Missouri Constitution. On Wednesday, Planned Parenthood filed a sweeping lawsuit challenging virtually all of Missouri’s good, pro-life laws. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, and the organization consistently opposes policies that protect women and unborn children from abortion. Wednesday’s lawsuit challenges Missouri’s many pro-life measures, including the state’s good laws that: Prohibit abortion except to save the life of the mother Require abortionists to give women information about abortion’s risks, consequences, and alternatives Require abortionists to give women 72 hours to consider all options before...

U.S. Olympic gymnastics legend Simone Biles calls on President Joe Biden to “make some things shake” in his final weeks as president before President-Elect Trump takes the oath of office. Following President-Elect Trump’s sweeping electoral victory in Tuesday’s election, Biles took to X and told President Biden to make big moves on behalf of women. “Mr Biden, I need you to stand up, straighten your back and make some things shake before your departure,” Biles wrote, ending the post with “xoxo the women in America.”

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...

SNIP That was why, of all the big shocks during Election Night, the hard shift of Latino voters to Donald Trump did not surprise me in the least. The speed at which it came to pass may have surprised me, but the fact it happened did not. Ever since Trump did better with Latino voters in 2020 — after he called Mexicans drug dealers, rapists and criminals in 2016 — I’ve been cognizant of this shift. And I’ve spent a lot of time trying to work out what’s behind it, particularly when it comes to Latino men. The warning signs...

Harris, 60, replaced President Biden, 81, atop the Democratic ticket in late July and quickly surged in polling while raking in about $1 billion over a six-week period — massively out-raising Trump, 78, and providing the resources to drive home her early advantage over the Republican nominee. Her failure to seal the deal outraged Democrats, including those who worked in the Biden-Harris administration and on her campaign. “I’ve worked on five presidential campaigns. I knew this would be hard. Others acted like they knew they were going to win,” said one person who chipped in during the final stretch of...

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the guest author. On Tuesday, November 5, Amarillo residents will cast their final votes on Proposition A – a local ordinance that would protect unborn children by further prohibiting abortion and abortion trafficking. While many Amarillo residents have already chosen to cast their votes for or against the measure during early voting, many remain undecided of how they will be voting on the historic measure. The pro-life measure was brought to Amarillo by Jana May, a resident of Amarillo who wanted to see her city pass an ordinance...

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Saturday called New Yorkers who vote for Republican House candidates “anti-American” and “anti-women” — a smear that sparked furor across the Empire State and beyond. “If you’re voting for these Republicans in New York, you are voting for someone who supports Donald Trump and you’re anti-women, you’re anti-abortion, and basically, you’re anti-American,” Hochul said on MSNBC. “You just trashed American values and what our country is all about — over and over.”

Far-left former soccer star Megan Rapinoe is predicting a “grim” and “violent reality” if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election. Appearing on the A Touch More podcast on Wednesday, Rapinoe and Sue Bird railed about the 2024 election, especially women’s “reproductive rights,” according to Fox News. Unsurprisingly, the two left-wing athletes proudly touted their support for Kamala Harris, with Rapinoe saying, “We have a really amazing opportunity to elect a Black woman in this country. And for me, that is really important.”

CV NEWS FEED // Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of the Archdiocese of Denver will hold a Eucharistic Procession around Planned Parenthood on November 2. Denver Catholic reports that the annual event will begin at Marisol Health Denver, a ministry of Catholic Charities that offers OB-GYN and social services to women in need. The Eucharistic procession will go around Planned Parenthood’s property and will be followed by Benediction and a Mass at Marisol Health’s garden. “The unborn have no voice in the fight for their rights and their lives,” Archbishop Aquila said in a recent column for Denver Catholic. “The ability...

As election day draws closer, pro-life groups have been sounding the alarm about a proposed constitutional amendment to the state ballot that would grant Montanans nearly unlimited access to induced abortion (the direct and intentional killing of preborn human beings). The constitutional initiative known as CI-128 has been heavily funded by pro-abortion groups such as abortion giant Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. The national ACLU and ACLU of Montana have planned to spend the most they have ever spent on Montana — $1.3 million — on abortion-supporting campaigns they hope will reach the state’s voters. The pro-life Women Speak Out...

Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho have filed an amended lawsuit in federal court, claiming their “sovereign” interest in “protecting… citizens” was violated by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to expand access to the abortion pill to mail-order dispensing. The lawsuit, State of Missouri; State of Kansas; State of Idaho v. FDA, filed on October 14, 2024, in Amarillo, Texas, is “asking US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to rollback efforts the Food and Drug Administration has taken over the past eight years to ease access to the drug, such as allowing it to be dispensed through the mail,” CNN reported....

Changing Constitutions over obscure gender/family issues: A direct attack on the Irish Constitution (the attack miraculously lost) is now being followed with a similar attack on the New York State Constitution.The trick in Ireland was to say 2 Constitutional Amendments were needed to better support nontraditional families: it was all about supporting women and families, nothing more. But then, why didn’t the language specify how it would help them?The language was confusing and ambiguous, as it so often is. However, seven parties supported it and two opposed it. The Parliament voted in favor. The media were all for it. Then,...

Revealing themselves to be little more than little Christ-hating pagans and paganettes, a delegate of United Church of Christ impastors took time away from attending the denomination’s General Synod to travel to a Milwaukee Planned Parenthood clinic following Sunday’s worship session. Here, they joined staff and delegates to hold a service of blessing and solidarity for the abortuary, highlighting the devilish denominations’ long-standing history of promoting, defending, and entrenching the murder of babies. The event, which took place in 2019 but which we just heard about, was covered in the UCC’s denominational website, where they explain: The Rev. Traci Blackmon,...

CV NEWS FEED // Bevelyn Beatty Williams turned herself in to federal prison on Wednesday after the Biden-Harris Department of Justice charged her with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for preaching the Gospel outside of a New York abortion facility. Before surrendering herself into federal custody, Wiliams and her husband, Ricky Williams, released a video on Facebook and TikTok detailing how the ordeal has affected their family. “Thanks to the Biden/ Harris administration. My husband is becoming a single father today,” wrote Williams. “While I turn myself into federal prison for 3 1/2 years for...

Vice President Kamala Harris will virtually attend the historic Al Smith dinner on Thursday evening, the Archdiocese of New York confirmed to Fox News Digital. "VP Harris will appear via a pre-recorded message," the communications director for the Archdiocese of New York, Joseph Zwilling, told Fox News Digital on Thursday. Harris will be the first presidential candidate in 40 years to not physically attend the Catholic charity event – since 1984 when failed presidential Democratic candidate Walter Mondale skipped. Former President Trump will attend and address the sold-out audience during the event Thursday. Harris' snub of the historic Catholic charity...

Taxpayers are picking up the tab for Big Abortion in a big way — probably bigger than anything the average taxpayer would imagine. Taxpayer dollars are not only directly funding abortion, but are also paying for abortion facilities, abortion referral hotlines, abortion websites, and even abortion training in several states. MILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING Taxpayers in various states are now funding abortion, as private donations to abortion funding agencies allegedly dry up. National Institute for Reproductive Health (NIRH) President Andrea Miller admitted as much in an interview with NPR, stating, “We’ve seen unrivaled action across states and localities at the...

Maternal Abortion Injuries Continue in Illinois and Other States Where Abortion Rates Increase Flossmoor, Illinois – Once again the myth of “safe abortion” has been proven to be just a myth. On August 20, yet another woman was rushed to the emergency room after an abortion procedure – an occurrence which comes as no surprise in Illinois, a state which has become an abortion destination. The mother underwent an abortion at Planned Parenthood in Flossmoor and sadly joined the list of many women who have become victims of the abortion cartel’s greed. An employee from Planned Parenthood called 911 to...

News reports indicate Planned Parenthood is consolidating its facilities in Missouri. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, and its regional affiliate Planned Parenthood Great Plains is responsible for its facilities in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas. Now that Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma have generally prohibited abortion except to save the life of the mother, the organization has opened a new abortion facility in southeast Kansas, and it intends to close its facility in Joplin, Missouri — just north of Fayetteville, Arkansas. The St. Louis Business Journal reports the Joplin facility will close January 1. Planned Parenthood also intends...

Pro-life activist Heather Idoni, who was imprisoned by the Department of Justice under the Biden administration for trying to rescue the unborn at a late-term abortion clinic in Washington D.C., continues to suffer gross mistreatment at the hands of the U.S. Marshals. Idoni and her husband, who are both heavily involved in pro-life work, have five biological children and have adopted 10 boys from Ukraine. Heather has been behind bars since August 2023 and has been convicted and sentenced in two trials — one in Washington, D.C. and another in Nashville, Tennessee — on charges of violating the pro-abortion FACE...