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“My body my choice!” What incredible control we have over our own bodies! Teenage girls can walk into an (obscenely named) Planned Parenthood clinic and get an abortion without parental consent. Young kids can give in to peer pressure and/or decide on a whim that they want to change sexes, even though that is, scientifically speaking, an impossibility. They can do this, too, without consent, parental or otherwise. Yet, somehow, we are not afforded the right to say what can or can’t be forcibly injected into our bodies by way of the COVID-19(84) vaccines. In direct contravention of natural law,...

When Britney Spears testified that she’s on birth control against her will, abortion activists championed her case in the name of “reproductive freedom” and “bodily autonomy.” But pro-life figures recognized it as something else: a “severe human rights abuse.” On June 23, the pop star made headlines after pleading with a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to end the conservatorship that has placed her under her father’s control for the past 13 years. In 2008, after Britney suffered from a public breakdown, Jamie Spears legally assumed control of his daughter’s life and finances. His involvement continued as she released new...

Abortion activists frequently argue that abortion should be a private “choice” between a woman and her doctor. But when millions of taxpayers are forced to pay for that choice – one that results in the destruction of a human life – abortion becomes a public issue in an unmistakable way. On May 28, President Joe Biden released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2022. His $6 trillion plan made headlines for what it included as much as for what it omitted – namely, the Hyde Amendment. The amendment, a budget rider that prohibits federal funding for abortion and is responsible...

"We don't want women to die in childbirth," Kathryn Garcia, who is running for mayor of New York, told me on March 30. The former head of sanitation in the city, she just got a surprise New York Times endorsement, raising her stature in the race to succeed Bill De Blasio. I encountered her when she was giving remarks outside Manhattan's flagship Planned Parenthood in lower Manhattan. When I asked why she would choose an abortion clinic to talk about such a unifying issue as maternal health care, she repeated a few times that she is for a woman's right...

The Biden administration’s dishonest efforts to force taxpayers to fund abortion via Title X have taken center stage. In order to create a victim narrative, HHS pushes some deeply misleading numbers thanks to the new radically pro-abortion HHS Secretary, Xavier Becerra. His department blames the Trump administration’s multi-faceted and pro-life Protect Life Rule for the supposed harm to the uninsured, low-income families, and “people of color.” HHS claims that due to Title X grantees’ withdrawal from the program (namely Planned Parenthood) the program lost over 1,000 service sites. This led, allegedly, to a deep drop of 844,083 Title X clients...

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...

Many in Hollywood regularly applaud abortion storytelling. So when one of their own – filmmaker and Oscar voter Kieth Merrill – declined to watch a film about a teenager’s abortion journey, his actions challenged their narrative. Merrill especially captured the attention of Eliza Hittman, who wrote and directed the abortion-centric film he refused to see: Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Released last year, the story follows 17-year-old Autumn as she travels to New York City to obtain an abortion without parental consent. Hittman publicized Merrill’s decision when she posted an email from him to social media where he recognized abortion as...

Americans should be outraged their government participates in the wide-scale human trafficking operation that created a market for harvesting the organs of murdered infants.This article contains disturbing information about human dismemberment.Last week, legal accountability group Judicial Watch dropped a bombshell: a nearly 600-page report proving the U.S. government has been buying and trafficking “fresh” aborted baby body parts. These body parts, purchased by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to “humanize” mice and test biologic drugs in scientific experiments, came from babies up to 24-weeks-old gestation, just weeks from being born.While Americans may be used to hearing pro-lifers beat the...

When McConnell cares about something — actually cares about it — we see how quickly his tune changes.Defund sanctuary cities. Defund Planned Parenthood. Build the wall. These are just some of things Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promises to do when he takes back control of the Senate — that is, if Democrats dare to strike down the filibuster. It’s a great to-do list, the kind of things the conservative base elects Republicans every few years to do. When President Donald Trump took office in 2017 and the GOP controlled both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, though,...

The Biden administration will not investigate the abortion giant’s transgender profiteering. State departments of health, medical boards, attorneys general, and legislatures must fill the void.As Democrats in the Senate prepare to advance the so-called Equality Act to enshrine transgenderism everywhere possible, whistleblowers have come forward to illustrate the horrifying realities of transgender “medicine.”Their stories also offer a peek into a dark network of institutions hoping to reap massive amounts of taxpayer and insurance company dollars sterilizing their victims, giving them heart attacks, and chopping off fully functioning body parts, all for financial and political gain. Many of the victims of...

The number of lives ended in abortion by Planned Parenthood is staggering. But even one would be too many.Planned Parenthood quietly released its most recent annual report last week for the fiscal year 2019–2020. The document highlighted the hurdles the nation’s largest abortion provider has faced, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Trump administration. And yet, business is booming. Planned Parenthood counted 354,871 abortions for the year 2019–2020 – the highest number ever recorded, according to data tracked by pro-life groups.The aborted unborn are numbers to Planned Parenthood. They should be names.Combining abortion numbers from years past published by pro-life...

You may have heard that a 9-year-old was recently pepper-sprayed by a police officer in Rochester, New York. But did you happen to watch the whole 10-minute video of what transpired? There is so much more going on there than just another police brutality story. It's a window into pain. The police were called to a domestic disturbance. According to the mother, mental illness is involved. It's a sometimes under-the-radar plague in our country -- certainly for the individuals and families suffering from it. And the children! The Pennsylvania Parent and Family Alliance shared one mother's reaction to the incident...

President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday, January 28, 2021, reversing the Trump administration rule blocking abortion businesses and centers that refer patients for abortion from receiving federal funding through the Title X family planning program. The 2018 “Protect Life Rule” required abortion businesses to both fiscally and physically separate family planning/birth control services from their abortion-related business. It also stated that family planning centers must stop referring patients for abortions in order to receive Title X funding. Title X states, “None of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion is a...

It’s been 10 years since mass murderer Kermit Gosnell’s 'House of Horrors' was exposed. Sadly, Pennsylvania still hasn’t learned its lesson.A grand jury report released ten years ago introduced the world to Kermit Gosnell, an abortionist from West Philadelphia who killed born-alive babies, employed teens with no medical experience as anesthesiologists, and crushed countless lives for more than 30 years. For years, government officials and others turned a blind eye to Gosnell’s “House of Horrors.”While some progress has been made in the last 10 years on reducing such atrocities, the conditions that allowed Gosnell to operate his house of horrors...

The recent high-profile police shootings of unarmed black men and women have resulted in the largest civil rights demonstrations in history, demanding that law enforcement and civilians alike recognize that Black lives possess inherent dignity and worth. And nowhere is this demand for the full recognition of the value of Black lives more urgent than in the fight over abortion. Planned Parenthood was established with the goal of reducing the number of Black babies born in America so whites could maintain their dominant status. To this day, Black babies are killed by abortion far out of proportion to their share...

Gov. Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio, has stepped in it again. Dr. Amy Acton resigned as director of the Ohio Health Department in June and then again in August as the governor's health adviser. DeWine subsequently nominated Dr. Joan Duwve to head the state's health department. In nominating Duwve, who most recently served as director of public health in South Carolina, DeWine is quoted as saying: "Dr. Duwve shares my passion for and commitment to children's issues and many other pressing public health issues[.] " This turned into another embarrassment for the governor. Going back to Acton, during her tenure...

The Democratic National Convention didn’t have quite the same sparkle on the small screen, but the themes of this election were clear, including calls to join in the social change urged by Black Lives Matter advocates. There is a big difference between the political organization with that name, which others have well documented, and the principle at stake. As a nation, we should pay attention to things that harm our fellow citizens and work to address those issue. But if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris we’re truly interested in tackling systemic racism, they would defund Planned Parenthood. As Planned Parenthood’s...

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from "Life Is Winning: Inside the Fight for Unborn Children and Their Mothers" by Marjorie Dannenfelser. The CMP videos powerfully confirmed the truth about Planned Parenthood, one it works assiduously to conceal: its business is abortion, not women’s health care. Indeed, a look at the organization’s history reveals that its primary objective has never been serving the health needs of disadvantaged women and families but something much darker. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wrote in theNew York Timesin 1923 that her goal was the “release and cultivation of the better elements in our...

Kamala Harris has been nominated by the Democratic Party to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, and judging from presidential nominee Joe Biden’s physical and mental condition these days, that might not amount to a whole lot of heartbeats. Her ascension would bring to power someone who has made war on the unborn, someone who has already used that power to shred the Constitution’s guarantee of the freedom of the press and persecute an investigative reporter who exposed Planned Parenthood’s efforts to harvest and sell aborted fetal body parts. David Daleiden heads the Center for Medical Progress, the group...

[Gag Alert] Pelosi: Trump Is ‘Projecting Himself’ When He Says Biden Is Against God — He Knows Nothing About Church Pelosi said, “Any time the President says something like that, I think he’s projecting himself. That’s what I think about that. That he should — it’s like him holding up a Bible upside down as if he knows anything about going to church.”She continued, “I don’t care about his fidelity, his devotion, or whatever it is to any religious belief, but shouldn’t everyone make some kind of judgment.