There were a number of circumstantial reasons why the particular amendment in Kansas was defeated. For one thing, it was drafted well before the Dobbs decision was handed down, and the pro-life organizers in favor of the measure likely failed to anticipate the onslaught of outside money and […]
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Biden Signs New Executive Order on Abortion Rights
President Joe Biden signed an executive order to help ensure access to abortion in light of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this summer to eliminate the constitutional right to the procedure. The President said the order helps women travel out of state to receive abortions, ensures health care […]
Kansas Votes to Continue to Shed Innocent Blood
Abortion rights forces scored an upset victory in Kansas on Tuesday when voters rejected an amendment that would have allowed the state legislature to ban the procedure. The vote, which comes just six weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, means Kansas will remain one of the few red […]
Kansas First to Vote on Abortion Amendment After Dobbs
The amendment on Tuesday’s ballot would not ban abortion, but would allow the Legislature to do so. “We know that they will ban it as soon as they can,” says Zack Gingrich-Gaylord, communications director for Trust Women, which operates an abortion clinic in Wichita. “We can read the room. They have […]
Pro-Life Dems Warn Party on Its Extreme Abortion Stance
As much of the country awaits a US Supreme Court decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade, national democrats are calling for a focus on abortion rights during midterm election campaigns. But some in the party call that the wrong move. Currently there are just two democrats in Congress who oppose […]
Pro-Lifers Attack Proposed Michigan Abortion Amendment
Advocates of legal abortion in Michigan have proposed a constitutional amendment that pro-life critics say is so poorly written it would do more than just remove legal protections for unborn children. It would affect almost everything related to pregnancy, threatening parental consent requirements […]
Pro-Life Democrat Slams Party As 'Extreme' on Abortion
A Democratic state representative from Connecticut is criticizing her own party's platform on abortion as "extreme," saying pro-life Democrats like her are being shunned. Connecticut state Rep. Trenee McGee, a Democrat who represents New Haven and West Haven and was elected last year, said […]
The 'Forced Birth' Falsehood
The argument that pro-life laws "force women to give birth" betrays the mistaken premise undergirding the pro-abortion case: They believe sex without any consequences is a fundamental right, bolstered ultimately by an adjacent right to kill any child who may come into being solely as the […]
National Right to Life Endorses Herschel Walker
Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker received an endorsement from a prominent anti-abortion organization. "National Right to Life is pleased to endorse Herschel Walker for the U.S. Senate," Carol Tobias, the organization's president, said in a statement. "Herschel […]
Biden's New Budget Omits Hyde Amendment
President Biden's new budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, like his budget proposal last year, omits the Hyde amendment, which prohibits federal money from directly reimbursing abortion businesses for the cost of abortion procedures. "Today President Biden talked about how his budget […]