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Source: Courtesy of Deanna FortinThe Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer funding from going toward abortion, is under threat by lawmakers. But pro-life organizations are stressing the importance of the amendment – and estimate that nearly 2.5 million people are alive today because of it. Here’s the story of one of those people. Deanna Fortin, an attorney from Louisiana, says that she and her siblings are alive today because of the Hyde Amendment. She first wrote about her story in 2017 for the Independent Journal Review, in a piece called, “The Hyde Amendment Saved My Life.” Since then, her story has...

Abortion is critical to the freedom and imagination of Americans, according to the head of Planned Parenthood. But in reality, it’s the reason why millions don’t exist today – their freedom lost along with their lives.In an interview that went largely unnoticed by the media, Alexis McGill Johnson spoke about the “dire” landscape for “abortion rights” on the podcast Undistracted. In an April 8th episode, the president of the nation’s largest abortion provider attributed new abortion restrictions to “this last gasp of patriarchy.” Among other things, she criticized President Biden for not using the word “abortion,” accused pro-life politicians of...