March 10, 2022

Biden Promotes Abortion on International Women's Day

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Joe Biden marked International Women's Day by again touting his support for abortion.

At the beginning of his March 8 statement, Biden made comments that could easily be construed as pro-life if one did not read the entire release.

“Every person deserves the chance to live up to their full God-given potential, without regard for gender or other factors,” Biden said. “Ensuring that every woman and girl has that chance isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s also a strategic imperative that advances the prosperity, stability, and security of our nation and the world.”

The president then listed actions his administration has taken with the intent to improve the status of women. Among them was that his administration "launched a whole-of-government effort to protect reproductive rights."

Biden's support for abortion directly contradicts his earlier statement. Everyone does deserve a chance to live up to their potential, not just those who are born. The girls and boys whose lives are ended by abortion are not given this chance. It is imperative that human rights be extended to all humans.

Wyoming Senate Passes Bill Banning Abortion Pills

The Wyoming Senate has passed a bill aiming to ban abortion pills in the state.

The language of Senate File 83 states that no person “shall manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, sell, transfer or use any chemical abortion drug in the state for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.” Violating the law could carry a maximum penalty of six months in prison and a $9,000 fine.

Wyoming senators passed the bill by a vote of 20-9.

Recent reports, including from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, estimate that the abortion pill regimen accounts for the majority of abortions in the US.

“I believe that abortion is the taking of human life,” said Senator Tim Salazar, the bill’s sponsor. “I believe that there is life in that womb at the moment of conception.”

March 9, 2022

Idaho Senate Approves Texas-Style Heartbeat Law

On March 3, the Idaho Senate voted 28-6 in favor of a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks. The bill uses an enforcement mechanism very similar to Texas's Heartbeat Act, which has so far survived court challenges and remains enforceable.

Just like Texas's law, Idaho Senate Bill 1309 prohibits abortionists from aborting children with detectable heartbeats. This generally happens around the sixth week of pregnancy.

Texas's law allows any private citizen to file civil lawsuits against those who commit, finance, or enable the abortion of protected children. Because the enforcement occurs through civil lawsuits, Texas's law has been able to survive legal challenges.

Idaho's bill has some differences from the Texas law, however. If it is passed into law, only the abortion patient, her direct family members, or the aborted child's father would have the ability to file lawsuits. Additionally, only the abortion provider could be sued, rather than any individual who enabled the abortion.

Next, the bill will go to the Idaho House.

Montana Judge Voids Law Barring Non-Physicians from Committing Abortions

A Montana law prohibiting non-physicians from performing abortions has been permanently voided by District Court Judge Mike Menahan.

The 2005 law was challenged in 2018, after which Judge Menahan issued a temporary injunction barring the law's enforcement. That injunction went on to be upheld by the Montana Supreme Court. Now, it has been permanently voided by Menahan.

“The State has failed to demonstrate a compelling interest in limiting abortion providers to licensed physicians and physician assistants,” Menahan wrote in his ruling. “State has not clearly and convincingly demonstrated a medically acknowledged, bona fide health risk which justifies interfering with a patient’s fundamental right to choose her own health care provider.”

"Once again abortionists sued to lower the standard of care for Montana women in order to further their financial interests in performing as many abortions as possible," said Emilee Cantrell, spokesperson for Attorney General Austin Knudsen. "We are reviewing the order to determine our next steps."

Knudsen has called on Montana's Supreme Court to overturn a 1999 ruling that abortion was a guaranteed right implied by the state constitution's right to privacy. That precedent is currently being used to challenge three other pro-life laws, all of which currently have injunctions prohibiting their enforcement.

One would ban abortions after 20 weeks, the second would require abortion businesses to give women the opportunity to view an ultrasound of their children, and the third would require abortion businesses to see women during an in-person visit before prescribing abortion pills for them.

March 8, 2022

Illinois Bill Would Require Public Universities to Provide Abortifacient Contraceptives

A bill currently going through the Illinois legislature would require public universities to provide emergency contraception pills in at least one vending machine on campus. These pills are known to act as potential abortifacients for very early stages of pregnancy.

Rep. Barbara Hernandez (D-83) introduced HB4247 late last year. On March 3, the bill passed the House, and it has been referred to the Senate.

Emergency contraceptives (such as Plan B, Ella, or the morning after pill) work by either preventing ovulation, preventing fertilization, or by preventing embryos from implanting in the mother's womb. If the pill prevents an embryo from implanting, then it aborts the child.

This legislation encourages sexual activity among public college students, funds abortion through the use of taxpayer dollars, and continues to enable the myth that women should end the lives of their unborn children if they want to pursue a career.

March 7, 2022

DeSantis to Sign 15 week Abortion Ban

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)
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On March 3, Florida's Senate passed a bill that would prohibit abortion after 15 weeks gestation. The bill had already passed the Florida House, and Gov. Ron DeSantis signaled his intent to sign it into law "in short order."

Florida's legislation includes two very stringent exceptions.

The first exception can occur when “the termination of the pregnancy is necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life or avert a serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman other than a psychological condition.”

The second exception can occur if two doctors certify that the child has a "fatal fetal abnormality" that would "in reasonable medical judgment, regardless of the provision of life-saving medical treatment, is incompatible with life outside the womb and will result in death upon birth or imminently thereafter."

Republican lawmakers rejected an amendment to the bill that would have created exceptions for incest, rape, and human trafficking. Sen. Kelli Stargel, the bill's sponsor, argued that it would be wrong to include such an exception. She argued that a child should not “be killed because of the circumstances in which it was conceived.”

President Biden responded the following day in a tweet, writing, “My administration will not stand for the continued erosion of women’s constitutional rights.”

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Ohio Judge Blocks Abortion Survivors Protection Law

Hamilton County Court
Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway (D)
A county judge in Ohio has blocked a new law that would have provided protection for newborns who survive attempted abortions.

Hamilton County Court Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway issued a Temporary Restraining Order against Senate Bill 157 on March 2. This was the desired response from the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, which sued the state late last month.

After being signed into law, Senate Bill 157 was set to become effective on March 23. The law requires physicians to provide medical care for infants who survive abortion. Additionally, abortion businesses would be required to have physicians on staff with admitting privileges at local hospitals. To separate taxpayer dollars from abortion, doctors who work for publicly funded hospitals or universities would not be allowed to contract with abortion businesses to fulfill this requirement.

In her ruling, Judge Hatheway wrote that the pro-abortion organizations will "likely" succeed in their claim that the law “violates [their] due process rights to continue to operate its business and its staff’s due process rights to pursue their professions.” 

March 4, 2022

Supreme Court Rules AG Cameron Can Defend Pro-Life Law

Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron
The Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision that Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron can defend a pro-life law after another state official refused to do so.

When pro-abortion Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear refused to defend a law prohibiting dismemberment abortions after 11 weeks gestation, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron stepped forward to defend the law. A lower court argued, however, that he had entered the process too late. Daniel fought a legal battle all the way to the Supreme Court for the right to defend this law, and this week he succeeded at the highest court.

“We applaud the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court for recognizing the right of a state officer to defend a state law when a pro-abortion governor refuses to do so,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life.

“Changing political winds do not give state officials the right to ignore a law passed by the duly-elected members of the state legislature and signed into law by a predecessor in the governor’s office,” Tobias continued. “It is outrageous that a lower court would act to prevent the attorney general of a state from defending a duly passed law.”

South Dakota Passes Law Requiring Women to See a Doctor Before Taking Abortion Pills

By a remarkable margin of 32-2, the South Dakota Senate voted on March 2 to pass a bill requiring women to have in-person examinations before chemical abortions (abortions using the abortion pill regimen). The bill already passed the House and is set to be sent to pro-life Gov. Kristi Noem's desk.

Noem, who introduced the legislation, is expected to sign it into law. After the bill passed, Noem tweeted,

"My legislation to ban telemedicine abortions passed the Senate and is on its way to my desk! With this bill, we will protect both unborn babies and their mothers from this dangerous procedure."

Many pro-life states are taking action to protect women from potential complications from self-managed abortion procedures involving abortion pills. If doctors do not verify the gestational age of the child or check for rare pregnancy conditions such as ectopic pregnancy, women can face deadly complications. Women who take abortion pills later in pregnancy or have ectopic pregnancies can suffer from severe hemorrhaging. If they do so while alone at home, which is becoming more common as abortion businesses prescribe pills via telemedicine, the risk to a woman's life is much higher.

Mail distribution of abortion pills was prohibited under FDA regulations until 2020. The FDA argued that suspending the regulations would mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Under the Biden administration, the FDA announced that the rule would be dropped completely.

March 3, 2022

Biden's Abortion Comment on Ash Wednesday: "I'm not gonna make a judgement for other people."

With ashes on his forehead following his observance of Ash Wednesday, President Biden was asked by a reporter why he supports Roe v. Wade as a Catholic.

"I don't want to get into a debate with you on theology, but you know..." Biden started to say before being nudged by First Lady Jill Biden.

"Anyway, I'm not gonna make a judgment for other people," Biden concluded. He refused to answer further questions on the subject.


As President, Biden has made those decisions for other people. His administration has enabled abortion businesses to distribute abortion pills through the mail and reinstituted policies that give millions of taxpayer dollars to abortion businesses. He has gone as far as supporting legislation that would codify a right to abortion into federal law. Such legislation would undercut virtually all pro-life state laws in existence.

Biden's choices have expanded abortion in the United States, against the will of pro-life Americans who do not want their tax dollars to fund the killing of innocent children.

Biden Advocates for Abortion Expansion During State of the Union Address

In President Biden's State of the Union Address on March 1, Biden reiterated his support for expanding abortion in the United States.

While Biden advocated for abortion, just a day after the Women's Health Protection Act failed to pass a cloture vote in the US Senate, he did not say the word abortion or acknowledge the millions of American lives that have been ended by abortion since the Roe v. Wade decision.

“Advancing liberty and justice also requires protecting the rights of women. The constitutional right affirmed in Roe v. Wade—standing precedent for half a century—is under attack as never before,” Biden said.

“If we want to go forward—not backward—we must protect access to health care. Preserve a woman’s right to choose. And let’s continue to advance maternal health care in America.”

While Biden chose to avoid using the word "abortion," it is clear that Biden is advocating for the advancement of abortion rather than actual maternal health care.

In the time since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, it is estimated that over 63 million children have been killed through abortion. This is not health care. Mothers deserve support, including health care, but their children also deserve protection under the law.

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March 2, 2022

Planned Parenthood and ACLU Sue Ohio over Abortion Survivors Protection Law

On Feb 25, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood filed a joint lawsuit over an Ohio law protecting babies who survive attempted abortions.

Ohio's Born-Alive Infant Protection Act protects babies who survive failed abortions by requiring that medical professionals provide immediate medical care. The bill was signed into law by Gov Mike DeWine in Dec 2021.

The law also requires abortion facilities to maintain a written transfer agreement with a local hospital or qualified consulting physician. To separate tax dollars from abortion businesses, the law also prohibits doctors who work for public hospitals and universities from contracting with abortion businesses as consulting physicians.

Some abortion businesses claim that it is too difficult to comply with the law, and they are suing the state to have it blocked. The law is scheduled to take effect on March 23, but a judge could issue a temporary injunction to prevent this.

Senate Rejects Bill Creating Federal Right to Abortion

On March 1, the US Senate brought the Women's Health Protection Act to a cloture vote. This bill would have created a federal right to abortion on demand during all stages of pregnancy and ended virtually all pro-life state laws. The motion failed by a vote of 48 (opposed) to 46 (in favor).

47 Republican Senators were joined by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin voting against the bill.

To overcome a filibuster, the cloture vote would have required a total of 60 votes. This means that pro-abortion lawmakers were 14 votes short of the majority they needed to move forward with this bill.

Illinois Senators Dick Durbin (D) and Tammy Duckworth (D) were among the 46 Democrat Senators who voted in favor of the legislation.

The House of Representatives voted 218-211 last September to approve the Women's Health Protection Act, and President Biden has signaled that he would sign the bill. Without a cloture vote in the Senate, however, the bill cannot move forward.

March 1, 2022

Thomas More Society Takes Action Against Groups Violating Texas Heartbeat Act

The Thomas More Society took preliminary steps to take legal action against two abortion groups which have each enabled the abortion of unborn children with detectable heartbeats.

Texas's Heartbeat Act prohibits the abortion of unborn children with detectable heartbeats. Any person who knowingly aids or abets an abortion can be sued under this law, potentially facing a fine of $10,000.

The Thomas More Society wrote in a press release that it has filed petitions for pre-lawsuit discovery against leaders of the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity and the Texas Equal Access Fund. According to the group, the directors of both groups "have admitted in court that their organizations paid for at least one abortion of an unborn child in Texas that had a detectable heartbeat."

“If they are funding abortions in violation of the Texas Heartbeat Law, they can be held accountable,” said Thomas More Society Tom Brejcha. “…This is an attempt to see whether there are violations and, if so, seek accountability. In other words, it’s not just a toothless statement or aspirational ideal. It’s an applicable and effective law with teeth.”

Guttmacher Data Shows Majority of Abortions are Chemical Abortions

The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute recently released new data revealing that chemical abortions have surpassed other types of abortions in the US.

Guttmacher's numbers come from a survey of abortionists who provided data for the year 2020. In that year, 54% of abortions were chemical abortions. Chemical abortions are simply abortions committed through the use of the abortion pill regimen.

The Guttmacher Institute has not yet finalized its study, writing that the 54% number was based on "preliminary findings from ongoing data collection." The group plans to release final estimates in late 2022. While the percentage could change, Guttmacher wrote that it does not expect the number to go below 50%.

In 2020, the FDA suspended safety regulations that required abortion pills to be distributed in-person at abortion businesses. The change was advertised as being a temporary measure meant to slow the spread of COVID-19, but as many pro-life advocates suspected, those regulations were never reinstated. Instead, FDA officials dropped those safety regulations completely.

National Right To Life Director of Education and Research Randall K. O'Bannon said, “Promoters of these pills like to trumpet high safety rates, but they neglect to mention that with hundreds of thousands of women taking these pills, even a couple of percentage points of women hemorrhaging, dealing with infections, and ectopic pregnancy, represents thousands of women desperately seeking emergency medical treatment, which may or may not be nearby.”

February 28, 2022

Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to Replace Breyer on Supreme Court

On Feb 25, President Biden announced that he will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.

Jackson is currently a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. When she worked as a private practice attorney, Jackson represented pro-abortion advocacy groups, including NARAL Pro-Choice America.

National Right to Life pointed out that Joe Biden was asked in 2020 by The New York Times what he would look for in a Supreme Court nominee. He told them:

"They have to have an expansive view of the Constitution. Recognize the right to privacy, unenumerated rights that exist in the Constitution… that means I know they will in fact support Roe v. Wade."

"President Biden made a campaign promise to impose an abortion litmus test on his nominees and we think it is extremely important that Senators take the time to carefully examine Judge Jackson’s record and her judicial philosophy, said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who will interpret the Constitution according to its actual text and history rather than one who would trample the Constitution to promote the radical pro-abortion agenda of the Democratic party and Biden administration."

February 25, 2022

Life-Threatening Emergency Documented at Aurora Planned Parenthood

Ambulance at the Planned Parenthood in Aurora, IL
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A newly released 911 recording and incident report reveal that a woman suffered a life-threatening injury after a second-trimester abortion at the Planned Parenthood abortion business in Aurora, Illinois.

The abortionists at Planned Parenthood suspected that they tore a hole in the woman's uterus, an injury that can cause severe hemorrhaging and future infertility. The bleeding caused by such an injury is life-threatening. Planned Parenthood did not prioritize the woman's life during this emergency, however. When employees called 911 to request an ambulance for the patient, they asked that the ambulance respond without using sirens.


Not using sirens slows the response time of emergency vehicles, as they will have to navigate traffic normally. The time lost could be put to use saving the life of a person suffering from a medical emergency, but abortion businesses often request no sirens anyway.

Operation Rescue, a pro-life organization that documents medical emergencies at abortion businesses, writes that this is the 12th documented hospitalization since Aurora Planned Parenthood opened in 2012.

California AG Moves to Exclude Evidence from Daleiden Trial

CMP Investigative Journalist David Daleiden
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The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) continues to fight a legal battle against the state of California, which has pressed charges against the CMP for its undercover journalism exposing abortion businesses' practice of harvesting and selling body parts from aborted children. In a recent development, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a request to exclude evidence that would help the CMP establish the legality of its undercover journalism.

In 2015, the CMP started releasing recordings of undercover conversations with employees of Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses. Those conversations exposed that Planned Parenthood was illegally profiting from the sale of fetal body parts and that the abortion business was altering abortion procedures for the purpose of harvesting more intact body parts.

California has accused the CMP of breaking state privacy laws during its investigation, but those laws expressly allow undercover recordings if they are intended to reveal evidence of violent crimes. That exception is the focus of the CMP's defense, and it is the focus of the evidence that the state of California is attempting to block.

The evidence in question is sworn testimony from former Orange County District Attorney and former Superior Court Judge Tony Rackauckas. He is willing to testify that his office responded to CMP recordings by taking action against Da Vinci companies, which admitted to selling body parts harvested from aborted children.

In response to California's attempt to block Rackauckas's testimony, CMP attorneys filed a statement:

"The AG castigates Mr. Daleiden as an agent provocateur who sought only to damage Planned Parenthood. Mr. Rackaukas[‘] testimony would be extremely relevant to Mr. Daleiden’s credibility and character concerning his search for violent crimes. In addition, there is probably no greater expert on what constitutes evidence of all crimes than the five-term District Attorney of Orange County, Tony Rackaukas."

February 24, 2022

Virginia Withdraws from ERA Revival Effort

The Commonwealth of Virginia is withdrawing from radical efforts pushing the Archivist of the US to certify the long-expired Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution.

On Feb 18, Virginia submitted a motion to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. In that motion, Virginia Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson wrote that he now agrees that the ERA is dead.

The ERA, as interpreted by pro-abortion activists, could create a constitutional right to abortion. Fortunately, three-fourths of the states are required to ratify a constitutional amendment. This did not happen before the ERA's ratification deadline of March 22, 1979. This deadline was written into the original amendment, but radical pro-abortion activists have chosen to ignore it.

Between the years 2017 and 2020, the legislatures of Nevada, Illinois, and Virginia voted to "ratify" the dead amendment. After Virginia voted in favor of the amendment in January 2020, these radical activists argued that the amendment had surpassed the 38-state minimum required to ratify an amendment. This, of course, refuses to take into account both the deadline and the fact that many states that voted to ratify the amendment 40+ years ago might now hold different stances.

Finally, Virginia has come to understand the ruling of Judge Contreras, who ruled in Virginia v. Ferriero that the ERA's deadline expired decades ago. In his decision, he said that it would be "absurd" for the Archivist to certify the ERA as part of the Constitution. His ruling follows a streak of decisions by federal judges who have all ruled that the amendment is dead.

4th Circuit Ruling Upholds Injunction Blocking South Carolina Heartbeat Law

On Feb 22, a three-judge panel upheld a district court's ruling blocking South Carolina's new heartbeat law while it is being challenged in court.

The "South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act" was passed into law in 2021. Immediately afterward, abortion businesses filed a lawsuit to block it. US District Court Judge Mary Lewis issued a ruling to temporarily block the law on Jan 27.

The law would prohibit abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detectable, which happens at the sixth week of gestation. Additionally, the law requires abortion businesses to perform ultrasounds on each abortion patient, display the results of those ultrasounds to women, and offer women the opportunity to listen to the child's heartbeat if one is detected.

Twenty states filed an amicus brief siding with South Carolina's defense of the new law. They argued that the ultrasound provisions could exist separately from the six-week abortion ban, but the 4th Circuit disagreed in its 3-0 ruling.

"These provisions serve to carry out the six-week abortion ban and make little sense without the ban. As such, the district court did not abuse its discretion by declining to sever the remaining portions of the Act," Judge Stephanie Thacker wrote in the court's decision.

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