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The deceptive constitutional Amendment 4 dealing with abortion was back in the news this week. In the state of Florida, all ballot initiatives must have a financial impact statement to properly inform voters of the cost to the state and the taxpayers. Monday, Circuit judge John Cooper issues his ruling stating that outdated information in the financial impact statement “renders it inaccurate, ambiguous, misleading, unclear and confusing.” “In the irony of all ironies, this judge is actually describing Amendment 4 itself” Amendment 4 is purposely vague, deceptive, and misleading. it’s a shame the 4 male Supreme Court justices did not...

Gynuity Health Projects, a research organization conducting clinical trials aimed at expanding access to the abortion pill and overturning the Food and Drug Administration’s safety requirements, is funded by organizations with deep historic ties to the American eugenics movement. Gynuity’s donor list includes organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Planned Parenthood, the Population Council, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Society for Family Planning, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tara Health Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In 1996, the Packard Foundation seeded the pill’s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, Inc.,...

The “Father of Abortion Rights,” Larry Lader, held eugenic beliefs inspired by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger — but on abortion, they parted ways, with Lader being extremely in favor of abortion. Lader and his colleague Bernard Nathanson were the two men most instrumental in pushing the 1960’s women’s movement towards abortion. The reason we know this information, says “Subverted” author Sue Ellen Browder, is because Nathanson, an abortionist who later converted to the pro-life cause, had stories to tell. Image: Larry Lader and Bernard Nathanson. Both men worked against the feminist pro-life movement to push abortion on women. Browder...

Disturbing correspondence from a co-counsel of Roe v. Wade, the decision which legalized abortion nationwide, reveals that a eugenics and population control ideology has long been behind the push for the abortion pill’s availability. The abortion pill, which has ties to the manufacturer of the deadly gas Zyklon-B used by the Nazis during the Holocaust, was introduced under the name RU-486 (“RU” for Roussel-Uclaf, the French manufacturer of the pill, and “486” for the drug’s serial number). The abortion pill was eventually brought to the United States by groups with ties to eugenics, and today, eugenics-connected groups are funding the...

The Population Council, the eugenics organization credited with bringing the abortion pill (RU-486) to the United States, turns 65 this month — but it is nothing to celebrate. In 1952, John D. Rockefeller III founded the Population Council and served as the organization’s first president. According to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Population Council, Inc., was incorporated following Rockefeller’s Conference on Population Problems, “…to stimulate, encourage, promote, conduct and support significant activities in the broad field of population.” Like its founder, the Population Council’s other members were concerned about population issues — and, like other population organizations such as Planned Parenthood,...

In talking about her experience taking the abortion pill, Tami laments that she was not given any options when she visited the abortion facility. “They did not offer to show me an ultrasound image of my baby,” she says. “I was not given any pregnancy resources or told about adoption.” She notes that she was also misled about what the experience would be like. “I was told that I would experience slight cramping and bleeding and pass some blood clots, but no more than a normal menstrual cycle — it was nothing like they had told me.” Tami says she...

In another emotional video in Live Action’s “I Saw My Baby” series, Salome describes coming to the realization that she had killed her child after taking the abortion pill. “After taking the abortion pill, I felt like my inside was being torn and sliced to pieces. I had blood all over my legs and went into the tub to wash them,” she explained. “Right before the fetus came out I started vomiting everything that I had in my system that morning. And then I bled more and I hurt more. And I started praying curled up in the blood in...

Patricia was told “there was nothing to worry about” when she received the abortion pill from her doctor. In the latest video from Live Action’s “I Saw My Baby” series, she describes the horrifying reality of what actually occurred. Patricia says her doctor downplayed the severity of taking the abortion pill, telling her that she “would have some bleeding, and possibly clotting, and that complications resulting from pills were rare. I believed him,” she says. However, she explains that within one hour of taking the abortion pills at home, she knew the doctor was lying. “I was in the worst...

Facing pressure to have an abortion — her second abortion, Courtney went to the abortion facility and was given the abortion pill. She later said it was harder on her than her surgical abortion had been because this time, she felt like the actual killer. Believing that telling the abortion workers that she had changed her mind would make them “mad,” Courtney went through with an abortion she didn’t want. She was told it would be easy. It was anything but easy. “They told me it was just a pill as safe and as easy as taking a Tylenol. They...

In a recent op-ed on Fox News, one woman described her harrowing abortion pill experience, warning against the widespread push for easy chemical abortion access and describing her belief that the FDA has “betrayed” women in unraveling abortion pill safeguards. Author Elizabeth Gillette says she went to Planned Parenthood and was given the abortion pill, even though the doctor never looked at her medical history or told her about potential complications or risk factors (of which there are many). A “no test” protocol in dispensing the abortion pill has become common. “Nothing was said about any side effects,” Gillette writes....

'It's a bigger problem than people think," FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin tells Fox News Digital ..."We have just lost our damn minds when it comes to criminal prosecution," healthcare defense attorney Ron Chapman told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Ninety-five percent of cases do not go to trial, because prosecutors can find fuzzy statutes to get such high maximums or even mandatory minimums at play, which force innocent people to plead guilty. And that's what we're dealing with — we're dealing with tons of innocent people who may not be innocent of all the crimes, but they're innocent of...

New research has confirmed that increasingly fewer Millennials and Gen Zers are having children, and there is a “scary” reason why. More than half of 18- to 34-year-olds are choosing not to have children due to financial challenges, according to newly released data from Australian research company the Red Bridge. Of the young people choosing not to have children, 35 percent are university-educated, and 33 percent are earning more than $2,000 a week. Just under half don’t own a home. Kos Samaras, director of Red Bridge, said the research is a sign of the times, and young people are financially...

Gallup released the results of the annual poll on abortion. It found that 54 percent of Americans identify as “pro-choice.” That is an increase of two percentage points since last year’s Gallup poll. This poll also found that a record 32 percent of U.S. voters would vote only for a candidate who shares their views on abortion. In their analysis, Gallup indicates that these trends helped Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections and anticipates that they will be beneficial to Democrats running for office in 2024. Overall, there is much less here than meets the eye. First, Gallup found a...

Every single Republican U.S. Senator on Wednesday signed a statement of “strong” support for legal in-vitro fertilization (IVF) across the country. “Senate Democrats have embraced a Summer of Scare Tactics – a partisan campaign of false fearmongering intended to mislead and confuse the American people,” read the statement signed by all 49 members of the Senate Republican Conference. “In vitro fertilization is legal and available in every state across our nation. We strongly support continued nationwide access to IVF, which has allowed millions of aspiring parents to start and grow their families.” New: All 49 Senate Republicans sign onto statement...

The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate has been busy attempting to federally declare certain reproduction-related issues as “rights,” including a “right to contraception,” which Republicans resisted on several grounds. In addition, a bill was introduced in an attempt to declare in vitro fertilization (IVF) a “right.” This plan was rejected with nearly unanimous opposition from Republicans, according to USA Today. However, Republicans who voted against The Right to IVF Act aren’t necessarily opposed to protecting IVF. In fact, they had their own proposed bill to protect it — one which was rejected by Democrats the day prior. The Right to IVF Act,...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a case filed against the Food and Drug Administration for wrongfully expanding access to mifepristone, the first of two drugs utilized for medical abortions. The lawsuit was brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of a group of medical professionals known as the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. When originally approved by the FDA in 2000, mifepristone could only be prescribed by a licensed physician after an in-person appointment and required an in-person follow-up to ensure that the abortion had been completed “safely.” In 2016, the Obama administration expanded the list of who could...

Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) introduced by pro-life Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne. This amendment bars the Biden Administration from funding or reimbursing service members for costs associated with abortions. It garnered support from a majority of Republicans but faced opposition from most Democrats, resulting in a vote of 214-207. Essentially, this amendment overturns the current Pentagon policy of reimbursing travel expenses for service members seeking abortions in states where it’s legal, but where the service member is stationed in a state where babies are protected from abortion. Some...

A common argument made by pro-abortion advocates in support of infanticide is that abortion is needed in cases of rape - an “exception” to laws against baby murder that even many pro-lifers believe should be legal. Generally, those who have strong feelings about abortion in the case of rape or incest are misinformed, going off of what someone has told them instead of looking at the facts. The left’s constant harping on rape and incest clauses would lead one to believe the situation is common. That would be a lie. An article by Life News reveals that more than 95...

This week’s issue of The Economist, the world’s most respected news magazine, features the iconic Rosie-the-Riveter under the headline “Meet America’s Most Dynamic Political Movement”. Intriguing. What’s old Rosie up to now, 80 years after D-Day? It turns out that The Economist is touting abortion activism -- not just as the most dynamic, but as the noblest, bravest, most altruistic, most democratic movement in the US in 2024. Its leader (editorial) describes it as: “a revolt of millions of Americans who think government has little business inserting itself into private decisions … [a] movement [that] will restore or fortify the...

A Safe Haven for Newborns celebrated the milestone of more than 400 babies safely surrendered earlier this spring. A Safe Haven for Newborns was founded in 2001 under the Gloria M. Silverio Foundation. This was her husband Nick’s vision to remember his beloved wife who had died in a car accident. The Silverios were unable to have children, as Gloria had suffered two miscarriages. As he was mourning his wife, Silverio was up late one night, flipping through a magazine and came across a story concerning the rise in infant abandonment. The next morning, he announced to staff at the...