Illinois REACH Act would Mandate Pro-Abortion Sex Education in K-12

An Illinois bill supported by Planned Parenthood would mandate comprehensive sex education for public and charter schools in grades k-12. The bill, titled the REACH Act, would require that students receive unbiased information and non-stigmatizing information about the options regarding pregnancy, including parenting, adoption, and abortion.”

State Senator Ram Villivalam (D) and House Representative Kathleen Willis (D) proposed the bill in February of last year, and legislators are gearing up to push for its passage in 2021.

Given that this education would be "non-stigmatizing", and Planned Parenthood supports this legislation, it is likely that this education would be pro-abortion. Additionally, it is likely that Planned Parenthood will lobby the state to use its own sex-ed materials in public schools. If minors are taught by schools that abortion is a morally acceptable practice that they shouldn't feel bad about choosing, then Planned Parenthood stands to profit. 

Live Action News posted an analysis in which it broke down several other problems with the bill:

• While the REACH Act emphasizes the importance of "consent," it does not inform students about the negative consequences of early sexual activity.
• Students won't be informed about the health risks associated with hormonal birth control, which include blood clots and depression.

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South Carolina Heartbeat Law Blocked by Federal Judge

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson

A South Carolina law that banned the abortion of unborn children whose heartbeats are detectable was blocked by a federal judge last Friday.

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the state after South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed it into law last Thursday. Then, on Friday, Judge Mary Geiger Lewis placed a 14-day restraining order against the law's enforcement until a hearing on March 9. The restraining order is renewable.

In the papers they filed against the state to ask for a restraining order, Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights wrote that over 75 women were scheduled to have abortions over the next three days.

"Heartbeat" abortion bans have been passed in several other states, but none have succeeded after they were challenged in court. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says this time could be different since former President Donald Trump appointed three justices to the Supreme Court during his administration. This would potentially allow the court to overturn Roe v. Wade and other pro-abortion precedents.

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Planned Parenthood Fiscal Year 2020 Report Shows Record High Abortions

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Planned Parenthood's annual report for its fiscal year 2019-2020 shows that the abortion corporation ended a record number of unborn lives and received an increase in government funding over its previous report.

The report showed a total of 354,871 abortions, more than ever recorded by Planned Parenthood before. This is a 3% increase from last year. This averages to one unborn baby killed every 89 seconds.

Planned Parenthood also received $618.1 million in taxpayer funding during its 2019-2020 fiscal year. This is an increase of $1.7 million from the $616.8 million it received from federal and state taxpayer funding in the previous year.

In total, Planned Parenthood's revenue for the fiscal year was about $1.6 billion, and its expenses were only about $1.5 billion. This left the corporation with $69.7 million in excess revenue.

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South Carolina Gov. Signs "Heartbeat Bill," but Planned Parenthood Prepares Lawsuit

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R)

On Thursday, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed the South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act. This law bans any abortions in the state which take place after the aborted child's fetal heartbeat is detected.

The law took effect immediately, but it does include exceptions for medical emergencies, rape, incest, and fetal diagnoses. Doctors who violate the law by aborting a child after their heartbeat is detectable can face felony charges, fines, and jail time.

Pro-abortion House members walked out in protest of the bill during the debate, one going as far as to call it a “farce of a vote about pretend life.”

The vote in the House was very nearly along party lines, with only two Democrats voting in favor of the pro-life bill.

Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights announced that they will file a lawsuit against the heartbeat bill before the end of the day on Thursday, likely preventing the law from taking effect until the suit is resolved.

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Actress Says "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Creator Abused her for being Pregnant

Charisma Carpenter
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Pregnant working women, in addition to all the difficulties and responsibilities that come along with that, often have to deal with discrimination and abuse in the workforce. Employers who want to keep productivity as high as possible or value a woman's physical appearance highly (as they might in the entertainment industry) may go out of their way to encourage working women to have abortions. They sometimes even punish female employees if they choose to carry their children to term. According to actress Charisma Carpenter, that is exactly what happened to her when she worked for Joss Whedon on the set of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

“Joss Whedon abused his power on numerous occasions while working together on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel,” Carpenter wrote in a Feb. 10 statement on Twitter. “While he found his misconduct amusing, it only served to intensify my performance anxiety, disempower me, and alienate me from my peers. The disturbing incidents triggered a chronic physical condition from which I still suffer. It is with a beating, heavy heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at times, destructively.”

She wrote that Whedon called her into a private meeting after learning she was pregnant:

“In that closed-door meeting, he asked me if I was ‘going to keep it’ and manipulatively weaponized my womanhood and faith against me. He proceeded to attack my character, mock my religious beliefs, accuse me of sabotaging the show, and then unceremoniously fired me the following season once I gave birth.”

She went on to accuse Whedon of calling her into work at 1:00 AM. This was not long after her doctor told her that she needed to cut back on her working hours, and Carpenter believes Whedon called her purely in retaliation.

Whedon has also been accused of racist conduct by Ray Fisher, who was fired from an acting role as Cyborg in The Flash. Several actors have given statements criticizing Whedon's treatment of others in the fallout of that decision.

Whedon is a supporter of Planned Parenthood and even produced a short film praising the abortion business in 2017.

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Pro-Life Conservative Radio Host Rush Limbaugh Dies at age 70

Rush Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
at the 2020 State of the Union address

After a long-fought battle with lung cancer, pro-life conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday at age 70.

In February of last year, Limbaugh announced that he had been diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. During his State of the Union address shortly afterward, President Donald Trump awarded Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Limbaugh continued to host his radio show while having treatments. After a few months passed, he told listeners that his diagnosis was terminal.

At the end of 2020, he told listeners, “I wasn’t expected to be alive today,” he said. “I wasn’t expected to make it to October, and then to November, and then to December. And yet, here I am, and today, got some problems, but I’m feeling pretty good today.”

Limbaugh openly opposed abortion and Planned Parenthood. He criticized the abortion business and the cultural shifts caused by abortion heavily, especially after the Center for Medical Progress released undercover videos detailing Planned Parenthood's sale of aborted baby body parts.

In another show two years earlier, however, he detailed the "cultural rot and decay" caused by the rise of abortion.

I just want to tell you something. I really think that abortion is at the root — you could do a flowchart — I think abortion is at the root of so much that has and is going wrong in this country. I think that the number of abortions themselves, but what in toto it all means, culturally, in terms of the sanctity of life, how that’s crumbled, I think it’s almost at the root of everything. And if it’s not at the root of everything, it’s clearly had a profound impact on our culture, our society, and our politics, I think in ways that people don’t even stop to consider.

None of it good and it’s caused all kinds of horrible problems that nobody knows how to fix. Because they refuse to even accept that abortion is more than what it is. To most people, it’s just a woman’s right to choose, and it’s nobody’s business, and leave it alone and I don’t want to talk about it.

But it’s really had much more impact on this country than just that. It’s had impact on crime. It’s had a profound impact on our politics. It is at the root of our cultural rot and decay.

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California Bill would Force Doctors to Participate in Assisted Suicide

A new bill introduced in the California Senate would force doctors in the state to participate in assisted suicide. Specifically, the bill would require doctors who object to a patient's request to be killed to still refer their patients to other doctors who are willing to participate in assisted suicide.

An excerpt from California's SB 380 states:

(3) If a health care provider is unable or unwilling to carry out a qualified individual’s request under this part and the qualified individual transfers care to a new health care provider or health care facility, the individual’s medical records shall be provided to the individual and, upon the individual’s request, timely transferred with documentation of the date of the individual’s request for a prescription for aid-in-dying drug in the medical record, pursuant to law.

(4) Failure to provide information about medical aid in dying to an individual who requests it, or failure to refer upon the individual’s request to another health care provider or health care facility that is willing to provide the information, is considered a failure to obtain informed consent for subsequent medical treatments.

(5) Neither a health care provider nor a health care facility shall engage in false, misleading, or deceptive practices relating to a willingness to qualify an individual or provide a prescription to a qualified individual under this part. Intentionally misleading an individual as to the willingness of a provider or facility to participate under this part constitutes coercion or undue influence.

Under this law, doctors who refuse to refer their patients for assisted suicide could be subject to professional discipline or lawsuits for medical malpractice.

Critics of the bill argue that it could also cause doctors to either retire early or leave the state.

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Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Introduced in US House

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)

This Monday, New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith (R) introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the US House. The law would ban most abortions after the child reaches 20 weeks gestation- when some medical experts believe babies are able to feel pain.

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has introduced a similar ban in the Senate.

Unfortunately, since votes on this issue are nearly party-line, the law is unlikely to pass. Only 142 representatives (less than one-third of the 435 total representatives) in the House co-sponsored Smith's bill.

20-week abortion bans passed the House in 2015 and 2017, but they failed in the house on both occasions.

The most recent bill of this type was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Graham in 2020. It failed to gain the needed 60 votes, however. That vote also closely followed party lines, with four exceptions. Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted in favor of the bill, but Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted against it.

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"Miracle Baby" Survives Risky C-Section Procedure at 25 Weeks

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Nicole Truhill gave birth via C-section at Tucson Medical Center (TMC) in Tucson, Arizona after complications put both her and her baby's lives at risk. Born after only 25 weeks gestation, doctors said that her baby, Henry Augustus Truhill, only had a 50% chance at survival. To everyone's relief, Henry survived the process and is now even breathing on his own.

Nicole was diagnosed with placental abruption according to Tucson Local Media. This condition deprives the unborn child of oxygen and can cause the mother to hemorrhage. The family also said that Nicole had pre-eclampsia, a complication that results in extremely high blood pressure and can require an emergency C-section.

“When baby Henry was born, there was a tense stillness in the room until a tiny cry was let out, which provided Mom, Dad and hospital staff a small sense of relief,” TMC officials wrote in a press release.

“I have never seen something so beautiful, small and fragile in my whole life,” Kyle said. “I felt overwhelmed with emotion in that moment…gratitude, a sense of miracle, relief and sheer terror all at the same time. I’ve never cried so much in my whole life as I have this week. We just want our baby to live.”

Doctors say that Henry may have to stay at TMC until the beginning of June, but are hopeful that he will make a full recovery.

The family says that Henry has gained seven ounces since his birth on Feb. 1.

If he had been born just two weeks earlier, some hospitals in the US would not have provided any care to help Henry survive. In 2020, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the HHS to investigate instances in which hospitals denied care to preemies simply due to their gestational age. Preemies as young as 21 weeks have survived if given proper medical care. Without enforcement by the executive branch, more hospitals may be able to deny care- and the right to life- to preemies under the Biden administration.

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Operation Rescue Highlights Medical Emergencies Caused by Abortion Clinics in 2020

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Not only does abortion kill innocent unborn children- it poses significant health risks to the women who have them.

Operation Rescue is an organization that helps shed light on the medical emergencies caused by abortion clinics across the US. Sidewalk counselors and pro-life bystanders who witness medical emergencies can send information to Operation Rescue, which then helps inform pro-lifers and expectant women by calling attention to these stories.

Last week, Operation Rescue published a 13-minute video highlighting the 67 medical emergencies and one maternal death reported to them during 2020. This number is lower than the 100 it recorded in 2019, due in part to some clinics being temporarily closed during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as fewer pro-life advocates protesting or sidewalk counseling. It is important to note that there are likely far more medical emergencies caused by abortion clinics that pro-life advocates did not make Operation Rescue aware of.

In its final tally, Operation Rescue recorded the following types of medical emergencies during 2020:

• Unknown complication: 27
• Hemorrhage: 20
• Uterine perforation/internal injuries: 6
• Sick/vomiting: 6
• Severe pain: 3
• Possible heart attack or stroke: 3
• Seizures: 2
• Sedation overdose: 2
• Not responding/unconscious: 2
• Incomplete abortion: 1
• Life-threatening complication from the abortion pill: 1
• Maternal death: 1

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Thailand Legalizes Abortion Through 12 Weeks

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The nation of Thailand has now legalized the practice of abortion on demand through 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Thai legislators rejected a proposal to legalize abortion through 24 weeks of pregnancy, but it did end up legalizing abortion through 12 weeks for any reason. Abortion remains legal after that point if the pregnancy resulted from rape, giving birth poses a physical or mental health risk to the mother, or if the baby is diagnosed with a disability.

This comes just two months after Argentina legalized the practice of abortion within its own borders. 

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YouTube Permanently Bans LifeSiteNews for Criticizing Vaccines' Use of Aborted Fetal Cell Lines

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After LifeSiteNews made several videos arguing against the use of COVID-19 vaccines that used cells derived from aborted children during their research and/or production, YouTube has permanently banned the pro-life organization from posting videos there.

YouTube, which is owned by Google, uses a "three-strikes" policy when enforcing its rules against video creators. YouTube channels will gain a strike when they post a video that Google believes violates the website's guidelines, and three strikes within 90 days will result in a channel's permanent removal. The strikes recently gained by LifeSiteNews were all related to YouTube's COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to the tech giant. Google said that LifeSiteNews had created “content that promotes prevention methods that contradict local health authorities or WHO.”

Before the channel was removed, LifeSiteNews had accrued 300,000 subscribers and had a regular show with an average of 50,000 views.

LifeSiteNews editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen told CNA, “Our best guess is that the channel was taken down for our frank and factual discussion of the controversy around abortion-tainted medicines and vaccines. The origins of these vaccines and their association with abortion is acknowledged by the vast majority of scientists. Prior strikes were given for speaking the truth about COVID lockdowns and the presence of aborted fetal cells in the vaccines.”

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New Study Suggests Abortion Pill Complications are Underreported

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A study recently published by Issues in Law & Medicine analyzed adverse events reports involving mifepristone (the first pill in the two-part abortion pill regimen). Titled, “Deaths and Severe Adverse Events after the use of Mifepristone as an Abortifacient from September 2000 to February 2019,” it suggests that adverse events- including death- are not being properly tracked.

The largest reason that abortion pill complications may be underreported is that abortion clinics often aren't involved in the aftermath of those complications. The study found that over 60% of surgeries initiated due to abortion pill complications were handled by a different medical facility than the one that provided pills to the patient. If the abortion clinic is never made aware of a complication, it will not report it.

Live Action News has reported instances in which the abortion industry has told women to say that medical problems stem from miscarriage rather than the abortion pill if they have to go to the emergency room. This would further limit the number of reports that the FDA receives showing the dangers of mifepristone.

The study's authors wrote,

“Many of the AEs [adverse events] experienced by women were unknown to the abortion provider until the follow-up examination, which is troubling considering the poor follow-up rate and elimination of the requirement for an in-office follow up visit. Some of the patient deaths were not known to the abortion provider until they saw the death in an obituary or were contacted by an outside source.”

Other studies indicate that between 5% and 8% of women seek follow-up care at an urgent care clinic or the emergency room. This would suggest that thousands of women require medical attention after taking mifepristone every year.

Live Action News writes,

"Five to eight percent is no small number and may represent anywhere from 17,000 to 27,000 possible emergency or urgent care visits in one year, based off the most recent data (2017) showing 339,640 medication abortions were committed nationally out of 862,320 total abortions reported."

The study goes on to say that the quality of reports received by the FDA varies drastically. Researchers said that many of them "didn’t even have enough information to tell the FDA or anyone else what actually happened to the woman."

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New Report Shows Abortion Facilities in 21 States Violated Informed Consent Laws

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A report recently released by Americans United for Life (AUL) documented health code violations at abortion facilities in 39 states across the country. While the other 11 states do not inspect abortion facilities at all, the report still found that "more than 300 facilities in 39 states were cited for more than 2,400 health and safety deficiencies between 2008 and 2020, including hundreds of significant violations of state laws meant to ensure basic health and safety."

AUL's report, titled "Unsafe," tackles a variety of issues including "the dangers of chemical abortion drugs, abortionists’ disregard for patient safety, and their failure to report the trafficking and rape of young girls."

One topic in the report that stood out to pro-life advocates was the sheer number of clinics that violated state informed consent laws. These laws require abortion facilities to inform women about the risks involved with abortion or about alternatives to abortion.

Unsafe placed these violations into several categories, including:

• Failure to obtain required informed consent at the required time, such as on the same day of procedures or within the state’s required window of time;
• Failure to have the appropriate licensed staff member obtain the required informed consent;
• Failure to post or provide patients with contact information for complaint hotlines;
• Failure to post clinic’s license information in a place where patients could easily see it.

In Illinois, the report showed that Advantage Health Care (which is located in Dale, IL) and Whole Woman's Health of Peoria were caught violating informed consent laws.

20 other states were also found to have facilities that violated informed consent laws.

Click here to go to AUL's website and download the report.

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Researchers Conclude Third-Trimester Preborn Children React to Pain

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A group of researchers studying whether preborn children can feel pain recently released a new study indicating that the answer is likely "yes."

The study involved thirteen mothers with babies between the gestational ages 28 and 34 weeks. Five of these babies had diaphragmatic hernias requiring intrauterine surgeries. The other babies were placed in two different control groups.

The group undergoing the surgery received an injection of anesthesia, and those children were recorded via ultrasound for 45 seconds before and after the injection. One control group was stimulated with acoustics while being recorded, and the other group was recorded after the mother sat in a quiet, dark room for five minutes.

Researchers who did not know which babies were which analyzed the facial expressions of the ultrasound images to find indicators of pain. 

According to Live Action News,

"The researchers watched for brow lowering, eyes squeezing shut, deepening of the furrow of nose and lip, open lips, horizontal mouth stretch, vertical mouth stretch, and neck deflection. Each baby received one point for each action that was present."

On their seven-point scale, the researchers found that the group which experienced injections scored no lower than five, and scored about six on average. The control groups, on the other hand, scored in a wide range between zero at the lowest and four at the highest.

After analyzing the results, the researchers concluded “[O]ur data indicate AP [acute pain] group participants exhibited an acute nociceptive-related [pain-related] facial response, that may have been experienced as pain.”

This would suggest that unborn children in the third trimester would in-fact feel pain. During that trimester, abortionists often practice dilation and evacuation abortions, which involve tearing the arms and legs off an unborn child before crushing its skull. This is because the child has grown too large to be removed from a mother's womb by other means.

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Iowa Legislators to Consider Pro-Life Constitutional Amendment

Iowa legislators will soon consider a constitutional amendment declaring that their constitution neither grants a right to abortion nor requires the state to fund abortion. If the amendment is approved by both houses, the people of Iowa will have the ability to vote on it in 2024.

The amendment would add Iowa to the growing list of states considering such amendments. Louisiana voters accepted their state's "Love Life" Amendment last month, and the Kansas legislators approved the "Value them Both" Amendment just two weeks ago.

Iowa's amendment, similarly to the others, simply states, “Iowa does not recognize, grant, or secure a right to abortion or require the public funding of abortion.”

These amendments will allow states to ban abortions within their borders if Roe v. Wade is overturned at the federal level. They will also allow state governments to withdraw funding to abortion clinics if judges previously found that their constitutions implied a right to abortion. This is the case for Iowa, which had a 72-hour waiting period law overturned when the Iowa Supreme Court opined, “a woman’s right to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy is a fundamental right under the Iowa Constitution.”

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Pro-Life Woman Wins Final US House Race of 2020

New York Rep. Claudia Tenney (R)

Last Friday, pro-life Republican Claudia Tenney declared victory in the close race for New York's 22nd congressional district seat. This comes after the courts took months to check ballots and ensure the integrity of the election- largely at the request of Tenney's Democratic opponent.

When a state judge certified the results on Feb. 5, Tenney led by the slim margin of 109 votes over Democrat Anthony Brindisi.

“We celebrate a record-breaking 30 pro-life women elected to the House as proof that life is winning in America,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, on Friday.

Ironically, Brindisi tweeted on Feb 5: "I am shocked and surprised by this decision because of the countless errors and discrepancies that have occurred throughout this initial count. I believe a full audit and hand recount is the only way to resolve this race."

Tenney's rematch with Brindisi, whom she had lost to in the 2018 election cycle, was the final race to be certified.

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Daily Caller: SBA is Hiding Communications with Planned Parenthood over $80 Million in PPP Loans

Emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show that the Small Business Administration (SBA) hid its communications with Planned Parenthood regarding Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. This comes after Republican lawmakers asked for an investigation into how the abortion giant received $80 million PPP loans meant for small businesses and non-profits.

Republican lawmakers have repeatedly claimed that Planned Parenthood obtained the PPP loans illegally, but the SBA has so far declined to comment on those accusations.

“Americans have a right to know why their tax dollars went to Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinics instead of struggling small businesses, non-profits, and churches,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told the Daily Caller. “The Small Business Administration ought to disclose how Planned Parenthood affiliates gamed the system to illegally receive PPP loans—and then refer those affiliates to the Department of Justice for prosecution.”

The Daily Caller issued a Freedom of Information Act request to the SBA in May 2020, and now they have received heavily redacted emails showing previously unreleased communications between the SBA and Planned Parenthood employees.

According to the Daily Caller, some of those emails appeared to discuss the concerns regarding whether the loans were legal.

The Daily Caller wrote:

"Due to the redactions, it is not clear what the SBA decided or how the SBA rationalized its decision. However, one May 18, 2020 email from an SBA employee to a Sun Trust email address said that the SBA did not have the ability to make a final determination on eligibility as 'these decisions are the responsibility of the applicant and the lender.'

The email noted that an unnamed applicant met the needed 501(c)(3) criteria.

'If other eligibility criteria is met then the submission may be eligible,' the email said."

The SBA also actively avoided answering the Daily Caller's questions about an email with the subject line "PPP funds in new account." SBA spokeswoman Megan Moore originally told the Daily Caller that the financial director's name was left unredacted by mistake. She also said that the SBA could not release information on applicants who “did not ultimately receive a loan.”

The Daily Caller knew, however, that Planned Parenthood of Northern England had received $2.72 million. When the news outlet pushed Moore to explain, she acknowledged that what she had said was false, but insisted that she still couldn't provide information about communications with Planned Parenthood. This included communications between the SBA and Planned Parenthood of New England that happened after its PPP loan was issued.

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48 Senators Say They Will Oppose Spending Not Protected by the Hyde Amendment

Montana Sen. Steve Daines (R)

Last Friday, 48 Republican senators sent a letter to Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declaring that they would oppose any spending bills that do not contain the Hyde amendment (which is supposed to prevent federal tax dollars from paying for abortions) or other pro-life protections.

Every Republican senator signed the letter except for Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski. No Democrats signed the letter.

A copy of the letter was received by the National Review Online, which wrote:

"'Abortion is not health care; rather, it is a brutal procedure that destroys the life of an innocent unborn child,' the letter states. 'The Hyde Amendment reflects a consensus that millions of pro-life Americans who are profoundly opposed to abortion should not be coerced into paying for it or incentivizing it with their taxpayer dollars.'"

The National Review writes that Montana Sen. Steve Daines, who founded and chairs the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, spearheaded the effort.

Daines, in a statement to the National Review, said, “We have a message for Democratic leader Schumer: We will vote to block any radical, pro-abortion agenda. That includes any bill that undermines the Hyde amendment and other longstanding pro-life protections.”

Because 60 votes are required to overcome a filibuster, these senators hold enough votes to block any abortion-promoting legislation from being passed.

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Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Voted Down

In a roll call vote in the Senate last Thursday, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act failed to meet the 60 votes required to be passed as an amendment to the 2021 Budget Resolution.

All 50 Senate Republicans supported the amendment, along with Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA). All other Senate Democrats voted against the amendment. This meant that the final vote was 52-48, but a simple majority is not enough to pass legislation in the Senate.

The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act requires health care professionals to give the same degree of care to a child born during a failed abortion as they would to any other child born at the same gestational age. It further requires them to immediately transport the baby to a hospital.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), when arguing against the bill, referenced the infamous abortionist Kermit Gosnell. He said that because Gosnell was convicted of three counts of murder in 2013 for killing newborn babies, current federal laws already address the issue of babies being killed after they survived abortions.

National Right to Life President Carol Tobias disagrees. “Senator Durbin’s comments regarding convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell were disingenuous,” she said. “Kermit Gosnell was discovered not because he was killing babies born alive but because law enforcement was conducting a raid on Gosnell who was suspected of selling prescriptions for narcotics.”

“This vote shows just how extreme the majority of Senate Democrats are,” said Tobias. “This bill is not about abortion but pro-abortion groups and their allies in the Senate have tried to make it about abortion.”

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