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Ohio voters on Tuesday will decide on a ballot measure to make it harder to amend the state constitution, a change conservatives say is needed to protect the state from a radical anti-gun, abortion and education agenda that could soon find its way to other states. It's an issue that has already prompted a massive early vote turnout – one that has some election offices straining to manage the load. "This is gubernatorial-level turnout," said Regine Johnson, deputy director of the board of elections in Stark County. As of Wednesday, more than 533,000 people had voted by mail or in...

Far-Left justice correspondent for The Nation and frequent MSNBC pundit Elie Mystal suggested a "rich White person" take Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to "see the Titanic" amid reports of a missing tourist submersible. Mystal was criticized for "wishing death" on Alito and later claimed it was just a "joke." Responding to a tweet from New York Times columnist David French calling his comments "vile," Mystal said it was a "joke" and included a link to the Supreme Court's Dobbs opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade last year, arguing, "This is vile." Several on Twitter accused Mystal of "wishing death"...

Leading pro-life organizations will hold a “National Celebrate Life Day” rally and gala in Washington, D.C., on June 24, the first anniversary of the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Students for Life of America (SFLA) announced the event in an April press release. The rally will be held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall from 10:30 a.m. to noon and will be co-hosted by SFLA, 40 Days for Life, Live Action, and Pro-Life Partners Foundation. SFLA President Kristan Hawkins said in the release that the first anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision...

Hmmmm. Justice Samuel Alito doesn’t provide the identity of the central figure in the biggest whodunit in Supreme Court history, but he does supply the motive. Alito tells Wall Street Journal reporter/columnist James Taranto about the immediate impact of the leak of the Dobbs opinion on the conservative justices, revealing that Brett Kavanaugh was not alone in facing threats on his life. The leak of the opinion put all six of that wing of the court at risk, Alito claims, and still does to this day.Given all that, Alito says, you have to be out of your mind to think...

JACKSON (LifeSiteNews) — The abortion facility at the center of a challenge to Mississippi’s pro-life law that ultimately led to the reversal of Roe v. Wade has officially shut down. Jackson Women’s Health Organization challenged the state’s prohibition on abortions at 15 weeks, which ultimately led to the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision that reversed Roe and returned the issue of abortion back to the states. The facility has been shut down for months, but news recently broke that confirmed the building will no longer operate as an abortion facility. “Surreal to see the Pink...

Washington D.C., Feb 9, 2023 / 13:35 pm Despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, a federal judge is claiming that the 13th Amendment, which was ratified to abolish slavery, might establish a constitutional right to have an abortion. Under Roe v. Wade, the court previously held that the 14th Amendment protects a right to privacy and a right to privacy protects a woman’s right to decide whether to have an abortion. In the Dobbs decision last June, the court revoked that precedent, stating that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” and that...

An investigation by the U.S. Supreme Court has failed to identify the culprit who leaked a draft Court decision that signaled the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling the legalized abortion at the federal level. On May 2, 2022, Politico published a draft of the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the major abortion case that would eventually overturn Roe v. Wade. The unprecedented leak triggered protests across the country and at the justices' homes that continued for months.

Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace has called out threatening rhetoric by a transgender activist, who tweeted that Supreme Court justices should be 'accosted' and 'never know peace again.' Mace, a conservative who has supported LGBTQ+ rights in the past - including voting for the recently signed Respect For Marriage Act - confronted Alejandra Caraballo at a session on extremist threats at a hearing of the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Caraballo, a trans woman and clinical instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, was speaking at the meeting, titled 'Confronting White Supremacy: The Evolution of Anti-Democratic Extremist Groups and the Ongoing...

CV NEWS FEED // The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to pass the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. There are 130 Catholics serving in the House of Representatives, of which 74 are Democrats and 56 are Republicans. CatholicVote Communications Director Joshua Mercer noted after the vote that out of the 130 Catholics, 89 voted to redefine marriage, while only 40 Catholics voted no. (One member, Rep. Kevin Brady, a Catholic Republican from Texas, did not vote.) “There are 74 Catholic Democrats in the House of Representatives...

The ordinance requires the county to comply with federal law against the distribution of abortion drugs, such as RU-486, through the mail.LEA COUNTY, New Mexico (LifeSiteNews) — A county in New Mexico became the first to establish itself as a “sanctuary” for the “unborn,” joining over 60 cities in passing the ordinance. “An Ordinance Requiring Compliance With Federal Abortion Laws” passed by a 5-0 vote at the December 8 meeting. Lea County borders Texas and pro-abortion activists see New Mexico as a safe haven for women in states like Texas that have restrictions on abortion. The ordinance requires the county...

She’s the smartest person on the Supreme Court, according to Joe Biden. The US Supreme Court on Monday listened to arguments in a case about a Colorado web designer who doesn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples.

Boston, Mass., Dec 4, 2022 / 13:23 pm A Catholic campus ministry center at the University of Nebraska received a death threat Saturday morning in a note signed “Jane’s Revenge,” a calling card used by pro-abortion activists. “If our right to abortion in Bellevue is taken away due to the attempt to pass an abortion ban and it gets passed[,] we will shoot up your Newman Center with our new AR-74 rifles. Sincerely, Jane’s Revenge,” the note, which was posted online, says. The note was addressed to Father Dan Andrews, pastor of the St. John Paul II Newman Center. The...

Since Election Day, I have been engaging in conversations about the political state of the country. In the face of the failed prediction of a red tsunami, many (both on the right and the left) are blaming the Republicans themselves for the disappointing results. Specifically, the two main culprits receiving most of the blame are Donald Trump and the right's pro-life stance (i.e., the Roe reversal). They say that in light of the failure of MAGA policies to win voters, it is now time to leave Trump and the MAGA Republicans behind and move on with more successful strategies. But...

An Idaho Democrat who carried an endorsement from Planned Parenthood learned that the hard way last week after initial reports from election night showed she had won a state House seat that covers parts of three counties, only for one of the counties to learn that those initial reports were incorrect. And the GOP came out on top after all. According to the Idaho Capital Sun, a nonprofit outlet, Democrat Karma Metzler Fitzgerald at first appeared to have won the race for House District 26, Seat B, which represents parts of Blaine, Jerome and Lincoln counties in the south-central part...

[Catholic Caucus] Washington Cardinal Cancels Pro-Life Youth Rally and EucharistHomosexualist Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory has cancelled the annual inter-diocesan youth rally and Eucharist for Life. This Eucharist has been presided over before every March for Life for over 25 years.Gregory hides behind a "consultation process" with other dioceses that wanted to focus on "local work" and "direct their efforts to the March for Life in their state."Tyler Bishop Joseph Strickland wrote on Twitter.com (November 15) that he “must protest” this cancelation: “We have an extremely anti-life President and we cancel our national voice? Yes to state efforts but we desperately...

President Joe Biden made news when he said he wasn't confident in codifying abortion rights legislation Monday, but he seemed to regret saying it, telling a reporter that he "shouldn't have answered" his question. At the end of a solo press conference in Indonesia, after Biden took pre-planned questions from several reporters, NBC's Peter Alexander shouted out whether Americans could expect anything in Congress "as it relates to abortion rights." "I don’t think they can expect much of anything other than we’re going to maintain our positions. I’m not going to get into more questions. I shouldn’t have even answered...

Biden’s big pitch for the midterm elections was the promise that, if Democrats won two more seats in the Senate and held the House, they would codify Roe v. Wade into law.Well, they’ve failed to do that. With a runoff election in Georgia, the best they can hope for is a 51-seat majority in the Senate, and this morning both NBC News and the Daily Caller are projecting that Republicans have flipped the House.Related: Biden’s Desperate Midterm Hail Mary: Give Me Two More Senators and I Promise I’ll Let You Kill Your BabyOn Monday, six days after Election Day, Biden...

President Joe Biden on Monday acknowledged that his promise to legalize abortion nationwide would not come to fruition in the next Congress. “I don’t think there’s enough votes to codify,” Biden said at a press conference in Bali, Indonesia after a reporter asked him about the future of his promises on abortion. The president made the issue of legalizing abortion nationwide a critical part of his midterm campaign message.

Biden delivered remarks after his bilateral meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. Then he took questions from a preapproved list of reporters: “I’m happy to take questions and I’m told there will be four questioners.” Republicans may retake the House of Representatives after a lack-luster performance in the 2022 midterm elections so Biden prepared the Gen Zers for another let down. “I don’t think there’s enough votes to codify [Roe] unless something happens unusual in the House,” Biden said. Democrat voters got played again! Biden promised Gen Z he was going to give them a student bailout and codify Roe v...

By Thanksgiving we'll have a GOP House majority. By mid-December, we may have a GOP 51-49 Senate majority or another 50-50 situation. Not a bad wave if it turns out that way. How much of a role did abortion play in this election? The Democrats want you to think that it was the dam that stopped the red wave. It really wasn't, as Catherine Glenn Foster wrote:If anything was less impressive on election night than the “red wave,” it was the abortion wave. Blue states protected abortion rights as expected, but public officials who supported or enforced limits on abortion...