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Some truths are too terrible to accept. America’s polarized political and media landscape allows partisans to exist in their own cloistered worlds, free from facts that might challenge their priors. But no group is as insulated from reality as pro-choicers, who are invariably sheltered from the disturbing position on late-term abortion taken by its fanatical champions in the Democratic Party. SNIP “When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physician,” said Northam.

When media outlets make biased decisions about what stories to cover or not cover, it activates the availability heuristic, a common logical fallacy. That’s why it’s important to rely on data, not anecdotes – especially when it comes to matters of health. The data tell us that maternal health in the United States is far worse than in economically similar nations. This is a serious problem that goes back decades, and it got even worse during COVID. Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that we are seeing some improvement. American maternal deaths – defined to include deaths...

The first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris took place Tuesday night on ABC News with the two candidates facing off on numerous pressing issues, including abortion. Multiple times, misinformation was shared regarding the current state of abortion laws in the United States — including abortion in cases of medical emergencies and cases of infanticide. Aside from the usual false rhetoric about “Trump’s abortion bans” (which are both figments of the imagination and propaganda), here are four lies told regarding abortion during the debate: LIE #1: Abortions don’t happen in the ninth month of pregnancy....

A pregnant woman’s Rh factor (an immunoglobulin protein) is important information to know. If a woman’s blood is Rh negative and her baby’s is Rh positive, this could cause problems for her future pregnancies if left untreated. As OBGYN Dr. Ingrid Skop explained (emphasis added), “Evaluation of Rh status and provision of Rhogam, if indicated, has long been the standard of care for early pregnancy loss, including elective induced abortion. This action will prevent a mother from mounting an immune response to her future unborn children. If Rhogam is not given and isoimmunization occurs, 14% of untreated infants will be...

DEMOCRATS’ VIOLENT RHETORICDemocrats say political speech leads to violence. So, here is a short list of Democrats’ violent rhetoric and behavior. – Hillary Clinton: ‘Civility Can Start Again’ If Dems Win Back House or Senate (Oct. 9, 2018) [video]– Dem. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s hostile rhetoric: “This moment has to be a call to arms.” (May 9, 2022) – Democrat Ohio Senate candidate Tim Ryan: “We’ve got to kill and confront that movement” – Dem. Senator Mazie Hirono: Fighting the pro-life movement “is literally a call to arms in our country.” – Joe Biden identified MAGA Republicans as a major...

Three individuals charged with targeted attacks on pregnancy help organizations in Florida were sentenced in federal court this week. Caleb Freestone was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to intimidate employees of pro-life pregnancy help centers. His co-defendants, Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella Rivera, were sentenced to 30 days in prison and 60 days of home detention. Freestone, along with Smith-Stewart and Rivera, attacked pregnancy help centers in Florida that provide alternatives to abortion, vandalizing them with threatening messages including, “If abortions aren’t safe than niether [sic] are you,” “YOUR TIME IS UP!!,” “WE’RE COMING for...

Whether you like it or not, your government will now make you pay for women you’ve never met to kill their unborn babies! An unchallenged court ruling has officially made Nevada the 18th state to start spending Medicaid funds on “free” abortions for low-income women. This decision argues that denying coverage through the taxpayer funded program violates Nevada’s “Equal Rights Amendment” adopted in 2022. “With this victory, more Nevadans will be able to make the best personal medical decisions for themselves and their families,” cheered Erin Bilbray-Kohn, executive director of the Silver State Hope Fund, in a statement obtained by...

In 2023, Operation Rescue received an email from a whistleblower about illegal activity at a notorious abortion clinic in Bellevue, Nebraska. The whistleblower stated that felon abortionist Tyrone Malloy, who lost his medical license for fraud, would be illegally seeing patients the following day. The email was received days after late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart died, on April 29, 2023. Carhart previously owned and operated the facility, and his daughter, Janine Weatherby, assumed the role of administrator after his death. Operation Rescue and a local resident of Bellevue, who observed on-site clues supporting the whistleblower’s claims, filed complaints with the Nebraska...

On September 6, a Cole County, Missouri Circuit Court judge ruled against Missouri’s proposed Amendment 3, also known as the “Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative.” In the judgment released late Friday, the judge found that Missourians for Constitutional Freedom and Dr. Anna Fitz-James, who are leading the campaign effort to pass Amendment 3, ran afoul of state law. The judgment follows a lawsuit against Amendment 3 filed on August 22, 2024, by Thomas More Society attorneys, and rules favorably on the allegation that the Amendment 3 initiative petition violated state law by failing to provide voters with a list of...

A state judge in North Dakota has issued a ruling overturning the state’s abortion ban that protects the lives of unborn children. Although no abortion centers operate in the state, the ruling makes abortion legal for the time being while the case continues. “Pregnant women have a fundamental right to choose abortion before viability exists,” North Dakota District Judge Bruce Romanick wrote, even though the Supreme Court ruled no such right exists. The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Red River Women’s Clinic, arguing that North Dakota’s SB 2150 was so vague that it put...

A special judge in Monroe County, Indiana, has denied a request by Planned Parenthood to broaden the medical exceptions under which abortions would be allowed under state law. Indiana’s abortion law, SB 1, protects nearly all preborn children in the state from abortion. Abortion is only permitted in cases of rape and incest, if there is a “lethal fetal anomaly” before 20 weeks, and when “abortion is necessary when reasonable medical judgment dictates that performing the abortion is necessary to prevent any serious health risk to the pregnant woman or to save the pregnant woman’s life.” The law also requires...

While a substantial number of Christian colleges continue to maintain ties with Planned Parenthood, one pro-life organization is celebrating that over a dozen schools have taken action this year to address concerns about their ties to the nation's largest provider of abortions and cross-sex hormones for youth confused about their sex. The Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement, a project of the pro-life advocacy group Students for Life of America, released a report highlighting the findings of its 2024 Christian Schools Project. The data for the report is based on research conducted throughout the 2023-2024 academic school year, culminating with outreach...

A Christian university named after arguably the most famous Protestant reformer in the Reformed Tradition, John Calvin, has become an icon for liberalism. Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan and is associated with the Christian Reformed Church denomination which has its roots in the Netherlands and is largely influenced by the early twentieth-century theologian, Abraham Kuyper. Today, The Christian Reformed Church is a full-fledged liberal denomination that boasts inclusivity and progressivism throughout its layers of organizational structure, including at Calvin U. Calvin University is home to a number of student organizations, one of which is...

Do you know how many eggs a woman has? If not, ABC’s Jimmy “non-sequitur” Kimmel believes you are not allowed to be pro-life because on Wednesday’s show, Kimmel and his liberal audience guffawed at self-described pro-lifers not being able to answer questions about female anatomy that they certainly would not be able to answer themselves. Kimmel teed up a man-on-the-street segment by hyping Tuesday night’s debate, “Kamala Harris forcefully defended a woman's right to choose last night, it was very effective, and it got me wondering about how much some of these people who seem to know what's best for...

MSNBC’s Morning Joe is the kind of “news” program that laments that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are supposedly portrayed as two equal candidates when, according to them, the latter is a lying liar who lies all the time and the former is just a normal candidate. However, for their Wednesday post-debate analysis, the assembled cast cheered Harris spreading fake news about pro-lifers, claiming the debate was “the most comprehensive beatdown” they’ve seen. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson claimed, “It was just the most comprehensive beatdown I have ever seen on a debate stage and I'm including the Trump-Biden debate...

On the night of the debate – when late-term abortions would again be dismissed as a phony issue – NBC Nightly News ran a promotional piece about Colorado late-term abortionist Warren Hern, who has been a radical pro-abortion crank for 50 years. Lester Holt began: “And tonight we visit one state where women are traveling to obtain a rare and often misunderstood form of the procedure later in pregnancy.” It’s “often misunderstood” when you kill a baby in utero with an injection to the heart and then remove the corpse. Reporter Dasha Burns promoted abortion in this one-sided piece, focused...

During Tuesday night’s debate with Kamala Harris, Donald Trump called out Tim Walz’s extremely radical and, frankly, diabolical abortion stance as governor of Minnesota, but for PBS’s Christiane Amanpour, the fact that Trump even brought it up made him “very, very extreme,” while her panel labeled it "extraordinarily stupid." Amanpour styles herself as a journalist, but when abortion comes up for discussion, she becomes a full-on activist, “So, women were front and center. That as, an issue, was, you know, really something very important. The idea that women in America have now been denied their rights over their own bodies,...

New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum made Wednesday’s paper with the smugly confident post-presidential debate “Media Memo,” “ABC’s Matter-of-Fact Moderators Built Factual Guardrails Around Trump.” Fifteen minutes into Tuesday’s debate, former President Donald J. Trump was delivering a circuitous answer about his stance on abortion rights when he made a statement with no basis in reality: that a governor had condoned executing babies after birth. Linsey Davis, one of the evening’s moderators from ABC News, did not let that one slide. “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,”...

CV NEWS FEED // Women who end their pregnancies with abortion pills are significantly more likely to report to an emergency room with severe medical issues than women who have surgical abortions or live births, according to new data primarily authored by a researcher with the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute. The research, primarily conducted by researchers from the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, was published in August and compared hundreds of women’s emergency room (ER) visits between 2004 and 2015. The researchers categorized the women into four groups. Three were comprised of women who had had a chemical abortion, surgical abortion,...

Four days of maneuvers in the South China Sea involving three Italian warships a US Navy vessel and... In Australia COVID freedom activist Monica Smit winning a court fight over two of her arrests during COVID lockdowns... Explosions in the Odessa region of Ukraine... A North Dakota district judge ruling against a six-week abortion law in the state... Turkey's Justice Minister says international arrest warrants will be issued for the killing of Turkish-American citizen by Israeli soldiers... US politics four national polls today... Russian President Vladimir Putin says that any decision to use long-range missiles by the US and other...