HHS Secretary Becerra Shuts Down Fetal Research Ethics Advisory Board

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra
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Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra shut down an ethics board set up by President Donald Trump to oversee research using tissue from aborted babies. This board could block any research proposals that deemed to be ethically questionable, but now all of those proposals could easily be implemented and paid for using taxpayer dollars.

137 congressional Republicans responded by sending Becerra a letter asking him to reverse his decision. The letter cites documents obtained by Judicial Watch revealing the FDA's routine “orders for eyeballs, livers, skin, brains, skulls, and sometimes fully intact bodies of infants aborted in the second trimester” from Advanced Bioscience Resources. In these exchanges, Advanced Bioscience Resources serves as a middle man between the federal government and Planned Parenthood.

The letter also cites a report by the Center for Medical Progress revealing horrifying experiments done by the University of Pittsburgh using tissue harvested from aborted children. The University grafted tissue from baby scalps onto lab rats and observed how the rats grew human hair.

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AP Poll Shows Strong Opposition to Second and Third Trimester Abortions

A poll released by the Associated Press last week shows that most Americans believe abortion should be restricted or banned after the first trimester.

Unfortunately, 61% of Americans said that abortion should be legal in most or all circumstances during the first trimester. Encouragingly however, 65% said most or all second trimester abortions should be illegal. This increased to 80% in the third trimester.

For second trimester abortions, the poll found that, "34% say they should usually [19%] or always [15%] be legal, and another 30% say they should be illegal in most but not all cases."

Regarding third trimester abortions, 26% said that they should be illegal in most cases, 54% said that they should be illegal in all circumstances.

Statistics from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute indicate that over 100,000 abortions killed unborn babies in the second trimester or later during the year 2017 alone. Clearly government policy on abortion does not reflect public opinion.

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Pro-Life House Members Sign Discharge Petition to Vote on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)

After returning from extended medical leave, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) became the 212th House Member to sign a discharge petition to bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to a vote before the full House of Representatives. As they have in previous sessions of Congress, however, pro-abortion legislators refuse to let the bill even receive a vote.

The petition must receive 218 signatures to bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act out of committee and put it before the full House of Representatives for debate and a vote.

Pro-abortion legislators continue to argue that this legislation is redundant and unnecessary, but this is not true. The 2002 Born-Alive Infant Protection Act (which is often referenced by opponents of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act) does not include an enforcement provision, and therefore has no consequences for abortionists who refuse to provide care for babies who survive attempted abortions. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act requires these babies to be transported to hospitals where they must receive the same degree of care as any other baby.

In the last Congress, pro-abortion representatives blocked the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act for months.

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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to Appeal Decision Overturning 24-Hour Waiting Period

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R)

Last Monday, District Court Judge Mitchell Turner ruled that an Iowa law requiring a 24 hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion was unconstitutional. As many pro-life advocates expected, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds quickly announced that she plans on appealing Judge Turner's decision.

At a news conference last Wednesday at the Iowa Capitol, Gov. Reynolds said, “I absolutely don’t agree with the decision, and that’s what the process is for. Certainly, we’ll be appealing that decision, and we’re pretty confident that we can get the outcome that we’re looking for.”

Judge Truner's decision relied on precedent from the Iowa Supreme Court's 2018 decision regarding a 72 hour waiting period law. That waiting period was decided to be unconstitutional, but the court went even further than that; declaring that women have a fundamental right to have an abortion under the Iowa Constitution.

Five of the seven justices on the Supreme Court have been replaced by pro-life Gov. Reynolds since the 2018 decision. This includes four out of the five justices who were in the majority on that decision.

Legislators have also started the long process of amending the Constitution to guarantee that it cannot be interpreted to secure a right to abortion. If the process continues to be successful, Iowans will have the opportunity to vote on that amendment in 2024.

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North Carolina Gov. Vetoes Bill Banning Discriminatory Abortions

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D)

Last Friday, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) vetoed legislation that would have banned abortionists from aborting babies if they know that the woman is seeking it due to the unborn child's race, sex, or prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

To overcome the governor's veto, “about two Democrats in the Senate and three in the House would need to vote with Republicans in favor of the abortion restrictions,” the Herald Sun reported.

HB 453, known as the Human Life Nondiscrimination Act/No Eugenics, would require abortionists to confirm before the abortion that the woman is not seeking an abortion because of any of the following: the actual or presumed race or racial makeup of the unborn child; the sex of the unborn child; the presence or presumed presence of Down syndrome.” This makes it different than legislation in other states, which don't require abortionists to proactively ask questions of pregnant mothers. They just prohibit the abortionist from carrying out an abortion if they happen to learn that the reason is discriminatory.

“This bill simply puts an end to eugenics,” Sen. Amy Galey said in a statement responding to Gov. Cooper's veto. “It shouldn’t be controversial to protect an unborn child with Down syndrome, but Gov. Cooper proves once again that he’s unwilling to stand up for North Carolinians when his left-wing donors demand his loyalty.”

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Pro-life Representatives Advocate for "No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act" on House Floor

HR 18 Sponsor Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)

Pro-life legislators from the House of Representatives delivered speeches this week in defense of H.R. 18, the No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act. The legislation is a response to President Biden's 2022 budget proposal, which is the first in decades to not include Hyde Amendment protections. Without those protections, federal tax dollars will be used to fund elective abortions on demand under Medicaid.

On Tuesday, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) asked that the House consider H.R. 18, and described the importance of Hyde Amendment language:

"Let’s be clear: The Hyde Amendment is not discriminatory. Instead, it’s an essential safeguard that not only protects Americans’ right of conscience, but also has saved more than two million lives from abortion since it was first enacted in 1976.

Until recently, it was also overwhelmingly bipartisan. In fact, one of its most vocal supporters in Congress was then-Senator Joe Biden. He told one of his constituents in 1994, ‘the government should not tell those with strong convictions against abortion, such as you and I, that we must pay for them.’ Well said, Mr. President.

Since then, the purpose of Hyde hasn’t changed.  

The strong convictions of the American people against abortion haven’t changed. In poll after poll, they tell us they strongly support a wall of separation between abortions and taxpayers.

And the science hasn’t changed. If anything, it has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that human life begins at conception."

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) the sponsor of H.R. 18, addressed the House on June 23, asking that Representatives call his bill to a vote. He decried the harm caused by abortion throughout the US:

Over 2.4 million people who would have been aborted instead survived because taxpayer funds were unavailable to effectuate their violent demise.

Growing numbers of Americans continue to be shocked to learn that the methods of abortion include dismemberment of a child’s fragile body including decapitation, and that drugs like RU 486 starve the baby to death before he or she is forcibly expelled from the womb.

The multibillion-dollar abortion industry cleverly markets the sophistry of choice while going to extraordinary lengths to ignore, trivialize and cover-up the battered baby-victim.

By reason of their age, dependency, immaturity, inconvenience, fragility and/or unwantedness, unborn children have been denied justice—and the most fundamental of all human rights, the right to life.

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22 State Attorneys General Petition Congress to Restore Hyde Amendment

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R)

On June 21, a coalition of 22 state attorneys general led by Alabama AG Steve Marshall (R) sent a letter to congressional leaders asking them to restore the Hyde Amendment after it was left out from President Biden's 2022 budget request.

The Hyde Amendment prohibits federal tax dollars from funding elective abortions through Medicaid. Originally introduced by the late Illinois Rep. Henry Hyde, this protection was a bipartisan part of every spending bill since 1976.

Marshall told the Catholic News Agency during a phone interview that “Taxpayers who fundamentally oppose abortion shouldn’t have their tax dollars pay for abortion on demand.”

“We were disappointed to find the conspicuous omission of the Hyde Amendment in the budget proposal that President Biden delivered to Congress earlier this month,” the 22 attorneys general wrote in their letter, arguing that they “have a unique interest in the Hyde Amendment as an important protection for the consciences of the millions of Americans who oppose public funding of abortion.”

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"For the People Act" Fails to Overcome G.O.P. Filibuster

On Wednesday, a filibuster by Senate Republicans blocked H.R. 1, known as the "For the People Act." This bill was written by the Democratic party in response to election reform legislation which was passed in several Republican states, but it also included language that would have impacted the first amendment rights of organizations such as the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and its affiliates (such as the IFRL).

National Right to Life wrote in a letter to Senators,

"Enactment of [H.R. 1] would not be a curb on corruption, but is itself a type of corruption – an abuse of the lawmaking power, by which incumbent lawmakers employ the threat of criminal sanctions, among other deterrents, to reduce the amount of private speech regarding the actions of the lawmakers themselves. Further, this legislation would add a commissioner to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), causing a partisan takeover by significantly increasing the likelihood that the agency could make decisions benefiting the political party in power."

The bill would have created an expansive definition for "the functional equivalent of express advocacy" which would apply to "communications that “when taken as a whole, it can be interpreted by a reasonable person only as advocating the election or defeat of a candidate for election for Federal office." Any organization that gives commentary on the votes or positions of incumbent Congress members could be interpreted to fall within this definition. Thus, these organizations could be forced to keep and report additional records. H.R. 1 would even require these organizations to post identifying information about their financial supporters online, thereby opening them up to harassment and intimidation by those who disagree with them.

By failing to surpass the 60-vote threshold required to overcome a filibuster in the Senate, H.R. 1 cannot pass and limit our freedom of speech.

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Press Secretary Refuses to Answer Whether Biden Believes Preborn Children are Human

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused to answer a reporter's question on Monday when she was asked, "Does the President believe that a 15-week-old unborn baby is a human being?"

Psaki replied to the question, “Are you asking me if the President supports a woman’s right to choose? He does.”

Several pro-abortion politicians have been asked this question recently, since the Supreme Court is preparing to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization this fall. The case is a challenge to a Mississippi law banning abortion at 15 weeks gestation. The Supreme Court's decision has the potential to significantly change how abortion is treated under federal law- perhaps even overturning Roe v. Wade entirely.

A simple "no" would have sufficed. https://t.co/PtohtYL2D5

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 21, 2021

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told CNS news that he would “wait for the Supreme Court decision” rather than tell reporters whether he believed an unborn child should be considered human at 15 weeks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) similarly refused to answer questions about the humanity of an unborn child at that stage of development.

If pro-abortion politicians concede that unborn children are human, which is supported by the fact that unique human genetic code is created during conception, they would also acknowledge that abortion kills human beings. Thus, these politicians would either be denying science or condoning the killing of certain humans. Pro-abortion politicians know how precarious their position is, so they refuse to answer questions like this one.

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Pro-Abortion Advocates Claim Abortion is Good for the Economy

Pro-abortion advocates are citing a new report from the Institute of Women's Policy Research (IWPR) to argue that abortion restrictions hurt the economy. The report estimates that state abortion restrictions cost the economy $105 billion per year, and that allowing unborn babies to be killed at any gestational age for any reason would be worthwhile for its economic benefits.

The study further argues that getting rid of abortion restrictions would cause over 500,000 women to enter the workforce, thereby increasing annual earnings for women by over $1,600 per year.

The IWPR study implies that caring for children is something that women should reject, and it reinforces the idea of pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. Businesses often pressure women to choose abortion if they want to keep their jobs, and the widespread availability of abortion only helps businesses discriminate in this way.

Ending abortion restrictions is not the answer to this problem. It will only amplify it. Childcare resources and support from fathers can empower working women without the sacrifice of unborn children.

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Sen. Cruz Addresses Senate Committee: Pro-Abortion WHPA would “strike down any state laws protecting human life”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

US Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last Wednesday to criticize pro-abortion legislators pushing for the passage of the Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA). If the WHPA is passed into law, it would remove virtually all federal and state protections for unborn children.

Sen. Cruz gave a brief history of abortion in the United States, pointing out that the Supreme Court created a right to abortion that was not written into the Constitution by the founding fathers. Since then, 62 million unborn children have lost their lives to abortion. Now, amidst pressure from pro-abortion forces to "codify" Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court can overturn it, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is sponsoring legislation that would go even farther than current Supreme Court precedent. Current precedent allows states to enact some laws regulating or restricting abortion, but the WHPA would remove that ability entirely.

Here is an excerpt of Sen. Cruz's remarks:

“Many state laws protecting life, laws that protect unborn life from the most inhumane abuses and atrocities, should be completely uncontroversial. I want to highlight three examples of these common sense laws. First are laws that protect infants who are born alive or breathing and crying outside the womb after surviving an attempted abortion procedure. This year alone, the states of Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota, and Wyoming have passed laws requiring physicians to provide medical care to these infants because protecting a child who is born alive shouldn’t be even remotely controversial.

“Second are laws that protect unborn children from being killed by horrific dismemberment abortions. These abortions, known as dilation and evacuation, or D and E abortions, are horrendous. They have no place in civilized society. In these abortions, a physician cuts and rips apart the unborn child’s body and extracts piece by piece, arm by arm, leg by leg. What moments before had been a living human being. The unborn child dies the same way as an adult would die who had been dismembered – by bleeding to death as his or her body is torn apart. If an individual murdered an animal in this way, tearing apart a kitten or a puppy, everyone would understandably be horrified and demand that the individual be prosecuted. How can it be that unborn children should be protected less than animals?

“Third, are laws that protect unborn children from being killed because of their immutable characteristics, such as race, sex, or disability status. These are anti-eugenics laws. Plain and simple. Right now, 67 percent of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down Syndrome in the United States are aborted.”

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Pro-Life Women at Senate Hearing Testify Against Radical Abortion Bill

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On June 16, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on the recently reintroduced Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA). This bill would end most abortion restrictions across the country, including Illinois's parental notification law.

The precedent of Doe v. Bolton allows abortion through all nine months of pregnancy if the abortionist can say that the abortion benefits the "health of the mother" in some way. Abortionists can even argue that having an abortion will improve a woman's mental health. The WHPA would expand this by eliminating state laws limiting abortion. These would include parental notification laws, conscience protections for pro-life physicians, mandatory ultrasound laws, and informed consent laws.

National Right to Life President Carol Tobias said that the legislation is so far-reaching that calling it the "Abortion Without Limits Until Birth Act" would be more accurate.

Catherine Foster, President and CEO of Americans United for Life, testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution to oppose the WHPA. In her testimony, she said,

"The Women’s Health Protection Act would effectively ban all lifesaving, state protections for women considering abortion, and for our youngest preborn children, including those upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, for women considering abortion, for children before viability, and even for many late-term viable children.

These include protections for women and children from dangerous and painful late-term abortion, laws that prevent children from being eugenically aborted because they may have Down syndrome, and laws guaranteeing that children born alive during an abortion are provided basic medical care.

Informed consent standards, gone. Health and safety standards, gone."

At the age of 19, Foster was forced into an abortion by staff who physically held her down while she objected to the procedure.

“They took my money, my agency, my child, and an irreplaceable part of my health and well-being as a woman,” she said. “They gave me no information and no support, and they rushed me out the door. No doctor-patient relationship. No informed consent. No medical care. This is my story. And it’s the story of countless American women — past, present, and if this Congress succeeds, future.” 

Saline abortion survivor Melissa Ohden also testified in front of the committee. In her testimony, she challenged Senators to reconcile the rights of those who survive failed abortions with the harm caused to them by the WHPA.

“We’re citizens of this country who were denied their basic right to life,” Ohden said. “We’re members of a marginalized, unprotected population that continues to experience trauma, as abortion access is lauded as a right to be pursued. As our tax dollars go to fund the very act meant to end our lives, which has left deep emotional, mental, and — for many — physical scars. As our experiences and suffering are overlooked or played down as political fodder…. However, when we hear stories about abortion, the narrative is woefully one-sided. I’m here today to ask if there’s space in this abortion narrative for stories like mine, the men and women who are alive today after survived failed abortion procedures.”

If the WHPA is passed into law, it will have lasting consequences for abortion rights in pro-life and pro-abortion states across the country.

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Texas Gov. Signs Trigger Law Banning Abortion if Roe v. Wade is Overturned

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R)

Last Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill banning all abortions if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide, each state will have the ability to decide whether abortion is legal within its borders.

HB 1280, otherwise known as The Human Life Protection Act, would make Texas one of the first states to outlaw abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned. That could happen soon, since the Supreme Court agreed last month that it will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That case concerns a Mississippi law that bans abortion at 15 weeks gestation.

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Texas HB 1280 comes into effect 30 days later. All abortions in the state will become illegal to the extent that the new court ruling allows. The law does have exceptions for when a mother's life is at risk.

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Pro-Life Group Files Complaint over Planned Parenthood PPP Loan

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Pressure continues to mount on the Small Business Administration regarding enormous loans they continue to send to Planned Parenthood affiliates even though they are ineligible. New Hampshire Right to Life filed a complaint last week regarding a $2,717,300 loan issued to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.

The Paycheck Protection Program was set up in March 2020 to provide small businesses with less than 500 employees the ability to pay their employees during government lockdowns. Despite the fact that Planned Parenthood is an enormous business with far more than 500 employees, the corporation took advantage of the program to take millions of dollars meant for small businesses.

“The SBA has already determined that the Planned Parenthood affiliate structure is such that it was unlawful to apply for the PPP funds; therefore, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England should return the taxpayer funds,” said Jason Hennessy, president of New Hampshire Right to Life.

Just last month, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that the SBA had not responded to the Senate Small Business Committee's inquiry as to why Planned Parenthood affiliates continue to receive PPP loans. Affiliates have received over $90 million in loans so far.

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Sen. Hyde-Smith Questions FDA Commissioner on Abortion Pill Regulations

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)

On June 10, U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) criticized the FDA for its regulatory inconsistencies regarding abortion pills, and pushed the agency to conduct a review of the risks mifepristone has to women's health.

Mifepristone is the first part of the two-pill chemical abortion regimen. It starves and asphyxiated an unborn child by blocking the pregnancy hormone progesterone, which facilitates the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to the child. This year, the Biden administration had the FDA "temporarily" stop enforcing REMS regulations governing the distribution of mifepristone for the remaining duration of the pandemic. Since then, the administration predictably announced that it is considering whether it will end those regulations altogether.

Sen. Hyde-Smith questioned Dr. Janet Woodcock, the acting commissioner of the FDA, during a Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to voice her concerns about this potential change in FDA policy.

“The FDA decision is alarming because this drug is dangerous. The limited data we do have shows unacceptable rates of complications for women and girls,” Hyde-Smith said.

“I am particularly struck by the inconsistency of FDA’s actions. For instance, the FDA and CDC imposed a pause on the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine after reports of blood clots in some women.  At the same time, FDA is expanding the approval for chemical abortion pills that have much, much higher risks of blood clots than the J&J vaccine,” she said.

Hyde-Smith also pointed out that 20% of reported complications from mifepristone were life-threatening or resulted in death.

Hyde-Smith asked Woodcock to "mandate the collection of complete and accurate information of all adverse events related to this drug... so that the FDA has complete and accurate data for its review for this abortion pill."

In response, Woodcock grinned and gave a snide remark: “I will have to look at the conditions of the REMS. All serious events need to be reported to the FDA.  So let me look into that, but it may well be that if a person has a headache after using this drug that that may not have to be reported because it’s a non-serious, self-limited event.”

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Uyghur Refugees Describe Forced Abortion by Chinese Government

The Associated Press recently spoke with survivors of the Uyghur genocide in China who fled to Turkey. They told disturbing stories of the horrible experience Uyghur Muslims face at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, including forced abortions and torture.

Bumeryem Rozi is one of these survivors. The mother of four told the AP that authorities took her and other pregnant women to get forced abortions in 2007. She was pregnant with her fifth child at the time, but she said she complied because she feared how the government might retaliate against her family.

“I was 6 1/2 months pregnant,” Rozi, 55, told the AP. “The police came, one Uyghur and two Chinese. They put me and eight other pregnant women in cars and took us to the hospital. They first gave me a pill and said to take it. So I did. I didn’t know what it was. Half an hour later, they put a needle in my belly. And sometime after that I lost my child.”

The AP also spoke with Semsinur Gafur, a former obstetrician-gynecologist who worked at a village hospital in Xinjiang during the 1990s. She said that she and several other female clinicians would travel from house to house with a mobile ultrasound machine to check if any women were pregnant.

“If a household had more births than allowed, they would raze the home,” Gafur said. “They would flatten the house, destroy it. This was my life there. It was very distressing. And because I worked in a state hospital, people didn’t trust me. The Uyghur people saw me as a Chinese traitor.”

China continues to deny that it is committing genocide against the Uyghur people. Through its one-child policy, which has since increased to a three-child policy, the Chinese Communist Party additionally requires the deaths of unborn children of all races.

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Woman Raising Funds to Buy Closed Abortion Business to Heal Post-Abortive Women

When she was only 13 years old, Serena Dyksen was taken to abort her baby conceived during a sexual assault. Dr. Ulrich Klopfer, the man who aborted her baby, passed away in 2019, after which it was discovered that he had hoarded the remains of over 2,000 aborted children at his home in Will County, Illinois. Dyksen hopes to turn his closed workplace into “a place of healing for women who have been hurt by abortion.”

Klopfer commuted to South Bend, Indiana where he worked at an abortion business called "The Women's Pavilion." The facility has since closed and is now available for sale.

Dyksen is the founder of the pro-life organization She Found His Grace. Through a recovery program that includes Bible studies and Christian counseling, She Found His Grace helps women recover from past abortions through a program that includes Bible studies and Christian counseling. If she hopes to purchase the closed abortion business so she can do more:

"The women would be able to use this space as safe haven. The goal is to help them find their healed voices so they can help other women choose life. We know when women find their healed voices after abortion, abortion minded women are 85% more likely to keep their babies because they are hearing the truth first hand of how abortion has devasted their lives. We would offer weekly abortion recovery classes. This space would also offer a place for the community to come heal around our prayer garden and remembrance wall."

Dyksen has started a crowdfunding campaign to help raise the $200,000 needed to buy the building.

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Kentucky AG Files Brief with Supreme Court to Defend Dismemberment Abortion Ban

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron

On Monday, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed a brief with the US Supreme Court arguing that he must be allowed to defend Kentucky's House Bill 454. This 2018 law bans dismemberment abortions, but the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction blocking its enforcement.

After the Sixth Circuit made its decision, pro-abortion Kentucky Gov. Andrew Beshear refused to defend HB 454, which was passed under the previous administration. Cameron attempted to intervene and defend the law, but the Sixth Circuit denied him the ability to do so.

A coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in December, defending Cameron's right to defend his state's law. Part of that brief reads,

"The Sixth Circuit panel majority deprived the Commonwealth of Kentucky from seeking complete appellate review of the District Court’s injunction invalidating one of its duly enacted laws. And it did so on purely procedural grounds, holding that the Kentucky Attorney General could not intervene to vindicate state law on appeal because a single state officer had decided to abandon defense of a law passed by both houses of its Legislature and signed into law by its [previous] Governor."

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Senate Passes NIH Funding Bill Enabling Human-Animal Chimera Research

On June 9, the US Senate passed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), also known as the "Endless Frontier Act," by a vote of 68-32. The bill grants billions of dollars to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) but does not ban the use of aborted baby cells to create human-animal hybrid embryos. Since the NIH is expected to end its moratorium on this research, and American universities are already conducting it, some federal tax dollars could go directly to this disturbing research.

Indiana Sen. Mike Braun introduced an amendment to the bill that would have banned the creation of human-animal embryos, but it failed by a vote of 49-48.

The problem that this legislation creates is amplified by the fact that Biden has reversed Trump policies which blocked research using tissue harvested from elective abortions.

“Currently the National Institutes of Health does not do this research and we need to keep it that way,” Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said, “Researchers who are attempting these horrific once-science-fiction experiments should focus on valuing the dignity of human life, not trying to genetically merge and manipulate humans and animals.”

If "The Endless Frontier Act" also passes the House of Representatives, billions of dollars will be available for NIH use in immoral experiments.

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6 Ohio Pro-Life Activists Arrested at Abortion Clinic

Police arresting Father Fidelis Moschinki on June 4

Six Ohio pro-life activists were arrested on June 4 and 5 on charges of trespassing after they entered abortion businesses and counseled women against abortion.

Those arrested include a Catholic priest and an 18-year old.

The activists were participating in a Red Rose Rescue mission; inspired by Canadian pro-life activist Mary Wagner. She repeatedly enters abortion businesses and offered red roses to pregnant mothers inside. In this instance, the Red Rose Rescuers offered roses and cards with the phone numbers of local pregnancy centers. The card includes the message: “You were made to love and to be loved ... your goodness is greater than the difficulties of your situation. Circumstances in life change. A new life, however tiny, brings the promise of unrepeatable joy.”

Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller, who organized the Red Rose Rescue missions, was one of the people arrested during the event. She was held for five hours before being released by police. When describing the rescue missions, she said, “Our goal is to talk to moms one on one and give them a hope that they otherwise wouldn’t have. They’ve already gone past the sidewalk counselors on the sidewalk and so this is our last effort to reach them before they walk down a hallway to abort their baby.”

“They deserve a defense,” Miller said. “They deserve someone to stand up and witness for them. So that’s why we don’t leave them. We remain in solidarity with the victims of abortion. And that’s why we don’t leave. And that’s where the possibility of arrest is going to come in, because when the police order us to leave we very politely refuse and tell them why.”

Miller has a pretrial hearing set for June 22.

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