A federal judge has blocked Joe Biden’s emergency request to stop the Texas abortion ban, which has saved anywhere between 1,500 and 2,000 babies from abortion.

The Texas heartbeat law went into effect Sept. 1, prohibiting abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy. Unique from other state heartbeat laws, the Texas law includes a private enforcement mechanism that allows people to file lawsuits against abortionists who violate the law and those who help them.

Pro-life leaders in the state estimate as many as 100 babies are being saved from abortion every day while the law is in effect.

United States District Judge Robert Pitman in a one page decision this afternoon denying Biden’s request to block the law while the lawsuit against it continues.

“[T]his case presents complex, important questions of law that merit a full opportunity for the parties to present their positions to the Court,” Judge Pitman, an Obama appointee, wrote. “Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the United States’ Opposed Motion for Expedited Briefing Schedule, (Dkt. 13), is DENIED.”

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The Justice Department argued that the Texas abortion ban will “prevent women from exercising their constitutional rights” and it claimed the ban violated the Constitution, even though there is no Constitutional right to kill babies in abortions.

Biden also argued that Texas had “an unprecedented scheme that seeks to deny women and providers the ability to challenge S.B. 8 in federal court. This attempt to shield a plainly unconstitutional law from review cannot stand.”

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Planned Parenthood’s and other pro-abortion groups’ request to temporarily block the law. However, the court battle is not over.

Late Tuesday, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice interfered in the matter, submitting an emergency request to block the law. A day later, 24 Democrat state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of the request.

“This relief is necessary to protect the constitutional rights of women in Texas and the sovereign interest of the United States in ensuring that its States respect the terms of the national compact. It is also necessary to protect federal agencies, employees, and contractors whose lawful actions S.B. 8 [the heartbeat law] purports to prohibit,” the Department of Justice argued.

Yesterday, Judge Pitman scheduled an October 1 hearing for a longer assessment of Biden’s demand. Pitman scheduled the hearing nearly two weeks later than what the Biden administration wanted.

In 2020, about 54,000 unborn babies were aborted in Texas, and about 85 percent happened after six weeks of pregnancy, according to state health statistics.

The law already is saving lives. While abortion activists say some women are traveling to other states for abortions, they admit that others are having their babies instead.

Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are reaching out to pregnant women across Texas with compassion and understanding, offering resources and emotional support to help them and their babies. Earlier this year, state lawmakers increased support for pregnant and parenting mothers and babies, ensuring that they have resources to choose life for their babies.

About a dozen states have passed heartbeat laws to protect unborn babies from abortion, but Texas is the first to be allowed to enforce its law. Whether the law will remain in effect or ultimately be upheld as constitutional in court remains uncertain, but pro-life leaders are hopeful now that the Supreme Court has a conservative majority.

Though about a dozen states have passed similar heartbeat laws, Texas is the first to be allowed to enforce its law. The others have been blocked by the courts.

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In their ruling late Wednesday, the Supreme Court said the pro-abortion groups did not provide sufficient reasons to justify blocking the law, according to the AP.

“The applicants now before us have raised serious questions regarding the constitutionality of the Texas law at issue,” the majority wrote. “But their application also presents complex and novel antecedent procedural questions on which they have not carried their burden. … In light of such issues, we cannot say the applicants have met their burden to prevail in an injunction or stay application.”

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett made up the majority in the decision. The justices who dissented were Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. Kagan, Breyer and Sotomayor also wrote separate dissents slamming the court for allowing Texas to restrict abortions.

Kelsey Hazzard, a lawyer and leader with Secular Pro-Life, said the justices did not rule on the constitutionality of the law. They basically said “it’s too early for the Supreme Court to get involved” and the lower courts should handle it first, she explained.

The heartbeat law has the potential to save tens of thousands of babies’ lives every year, including 100 every day. Signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in May, it prohibits abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, typically about six weeks of pregnancy. Exceptions are allowed if the mother’s life is at risk. Unique from other heartbeat laws, the Texas legislation includes a private enforcement mechanism that allows people to file lawsuits against abortionists who violate the law.

Texas Right to Life expressed hope that its life-saving legislation will spread to other states and save babies from abortion all across the country.

“Texas Right to Life celebrates this phenomenal victory for tens of thousands of preborn children who will be spared the evil of abortion,” the organization said in a statement. “We are optimistic that the Texas Heartbeat Act will continue to survive ongoing and future legal attacks against this historic policy.”

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear another major abortion case out of Mississippi in October, bringing even more hope that the justices will allow states to protect unborn babies from abortion again.

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On a narrow yet bustling, tree-lined street in the Noho district of Manhattan, there stands an historic brick high-rise building that seems to blend in with the surrounding brick structures that characterize the timeworn neighborhood.

Originally built in 1846, the building has survived through dramatic changes in America from the Industrial Revolution to the Digital Age and stood as a witness to history from the Civil War to the 911 terror attacks to the dark days of the China Virus lockdowns.

Today, the structure has turned down its own dark path of history, serving as the high-volume flagship abortion facility for the giant abortion chain, Planned Parenthood.

The abortion facility was known as the Margaret Sanger Center after Planned Parenthood’s founder, who was a known eugenicist and racist.  Sanger’s goal was to purge the world of what she considered to be “human weeds” in order “to create a race of thoroughbreds.”

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Ambulances are frequently spotted – as recently as yesterday – near the Planned Parenthood offices at the corner of Bleecker and Mott Streets.  These first responders transport women who have suffered serious abortion complications to nearby hospital emergency rooms.

And the Manhattan Planned Parenthood certainly does its part to keep the emergency rooms hopping.

On September 15, 2021, an ambulance responded to a medical emergency at the Manhattan Planned Parenthood and, for the forty-first known time, (33 in the past five years), transported yet another injured woman to a nearby Emergency Room.

Further information about the woman’s condition is unavailable since Manhattan does not respond to Operation Rescue’s public records requests for 911 records.  It is possible that due to the relationship Planned Parenthood has with Mount Sinai Hospital, as evidenced by the frequent use of their ambulances, Planned Parenthood may indeed bypass the quicker 911 exchange and phone the hospital directly for emergency transportation to keep information about the botched abortions out of publicly accessible records.

So why so many medical emergencies at this Planned Parenthood facility?

While questions remain about the specific kinds of abortion complications, there are things we do know that could contribute to them.

The Manhattan Planned Parenthood is a well-known abortion training site for the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning run by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

The Ryan abortion training program is an affiliate of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health based at the University of California San Francisco. The Bixby Center is a notorious population control advocate that promotes the expansion of abortion globally with a multitude of depopulation programs that would have made Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger proud.

This means that inexperienced hospital residents practice a blind surgical procedure on real women at the Manhattan Planned Parenthood, honing their killing skills for future careers as abortionists. This lends itself to the prospect of frequent medical misadventures that culminate in life-threatening medical emergencies.

“The Manhattan Planned Parenthood operates under an umbrella of protection from a radically pro-abortion political apparatus in New York,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “When abortionists believe they will never be held accountable for the harm they cause, it creates a climate where medical and safety practices are bound to deteriorate. It is our position that the Manhattan Planned Parenthood poses a serious danger to the public and should be closed.”

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(C-Fam) President Biden fired the father of a Down syndrome teen from a presidential advisory council on disabilities.

Biden is clearing federal advisory councils of all members appointed by his predecessor, Donald J. Trump, including Down syndrome advocate Kurt Kondrich, who together with his daughter Chloe has promoted bi-partisan legislation to help parents welcome children with Down syndrome.

The Kondrichs are widely recognized for their substantial work in promoting and protecting the human rights of children with Down syndrome, including Chloe’s Law, a 2014 Pennsylvania law that requires doctors to provide scientific data to expecting mothers whose unborn child may have Down syndrome.

Kurt Kondrich received an appointment to serve on the Presidential Commission for Persons with Disabilities by President Trump in November 2020 for a two-year term.

Kondrich received the demand for his resignation in a September 2 email signed by assistant to the president and director of White House personnel Catherine Russell. It asked for Kondrich’s resignation by close of business. Failing that he would be terminated at 6:00 pm.

Presidential advisory council terminations by the Biden administration are unprecedented. Previous presidents have always allowed appointees from previous administrations to carry out their terms to conclusion. The councils are non-partisan and do not have any executive power, only an advisory role.

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Kondrich is puzzled as to why President Biden would want to fire him specifically.

“I have always said that our disability advocacy was completely bipartisan and focused on defending and protecting people with disabilities from conception to natural death,” Kondrich told the Friday Fax. “We advocate for funding support and services that allow people with disabilities to be fully included in society in a safe environment.”

Kondrich left a 20-year career as a Pittsburgh police officer after his daughter Chloe was born with Down syndrome. Since then the father-daughter team has worked to help dispel the myths surrounding the quality of life for children with Down syndrome.

“Our world needs more people with Down syndrome”, said Kondrich. “They are kind and gentle and live happy and fulfilled lives.”

After learning that Nordic countries like Iceland and Denmark selectively abort almost all people with Down syndrome and view this favorably, Kondrich took his advocacy international speaking at the United Nations in 2017 and 2018.

“Identifying, targeting and terminating a human being who receives a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis because they don’t meet the misguided cultural mandate for unattainable perfection represents the ultimate, extreme form of discrimination, prejudice, profiling, bigotry, intolerance, exclusion and hatred, and it is something none of us should accept or tolerate,” said Kondrich.

LifeNews.com Note: Lisa Correnti writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. This article originally appeared in the pro-life group’s Friday Fax publication and is used with permission.

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There is no comparison between the Texas heartbeat law and the oppression of women and children by the Taliban.

Abortion activists and leftist news commentators have been likening pro-life advocates to the radical Islamic group for weeks, especially after Texas was allowed to enforce its new heartbeat law, which bans abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy.

The problems with this comparison are many. One, pointed out by Kevin D. Williamson, a writer at National Review, is a basic understanding about Islam and abortion.

Compared to Christians and pro-life advocates, “Islamic law is relatively liberal on the question of abortion. The classical view, as I understand it, is that abortion is considered permissible in the first four months of pregnancy,” he wrote.

Williamson referred to an interview in The Guardian, a pro-abortion British news site, with the abortion chain Marie Stopes about its work with the Taliban as further evidence against the comparison. According to the interview:

Councils in Taliban-controlled areas are most likely to justify an abortion based on poverty, said Farhad Javid, country director for Marie Stopes International, the leading post-abortion care provider in Afghanistan. Communities under Taliban influence are often desperately poor and burdened with large numbers of children, Javid said.

Pro-lifers in Texas and other parts of the country are not like the Taliban at all. They believe it is wrong to oppress one human being for the benefit of another. The pro-life movement also knows that the answer to poverty and other suffering is not to kill an unborn baby but to provide support to both mother and child.

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Texas pro-life leaders and lawmakers kept this in mind as they worked to pass the heartbeat law and other pro-life legislation. Earlier this year, the state legislature increased support for pregnant and parenting mothers and babies, ensuring that they have resources to choose life for their babies. This included $100 million for the state Alternatives to Abortion program as well as additional funding for the Healthy Texas Women program.

A more apt comparison might be between the Taliban and abortion activists. Both apparently believe it is ok to oppress and kill innocent human beings.

And as Williamson noted, abortion is an even greater destroyer of human life than the Taliban.

“As barbaric as the Taliban is, American abortionists will end many more young lives this year than the Taliban will, even if their executioners go to working 24-hour shifts,” he wrote. “The Taliban kills publicly in the name of Allah, while we Americans kill privately, in a clinical setting, in the service of Eros. Hurray for us,” he ended sarcastically.

The pro-life movement is working to save babies’ lives and protect mothers from the pain and regret of abortion. In Texas right now, state pro-life leaders estimate the heartbeat law is saving as many as 100 babies from abortion every day.

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The head honcho for liberal billionaire George Soros’s Open Society-U.S. is attacking the Catholic Church for being against President Joe Biden’s grotesque pro-unborn baby slaughter agenda.

Open Society-U.S. Executive Director Thomas Perriello wrote a disgusting op-ed for Politico Magazine headlined: “Biden Is the Most Pro-Family President in Decades. So Why Is the Catholic Church Attacking Him?” Perriello tried to prop up President Joe Biden’s “pro-family” bona fides despite the fact he has supported codifying Roe v. Wade (1973) and was reported to back abortion up until the moment of birth. Perriello instead sought to deflect from abortion altogether as he harangued the Catholic Church: “Rather than criticizing the president over abortion, the Catholic Church should learn from his agenda.”

Perriello specifically chastised the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for being silent amidst Biden’s misleading “Build Back Better” agenda, which he categorized as pro-family. He accused the Church of having “to invent concerns about tax dollars funding abortion services that are not even included anywhere in the bill.” Perriello’s op-ed glosses over the fact that Biden’s recent budget proposal sought to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which would then permit federal funding of abortions. Instead, Perriello ironically said the USCCB’s silence on Biden’s radical leftist agenda is an “absence of moral leadership.” Perriello seemed to forget that his boss is one of the most notorious abortion funders in the U.S. Perriello should not be lecturing anyone about “moral leadership.”

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The Open Society-U.S. director continued spewing bile against the USCCB for its commitment to protecting unborn human babies “as if it is the only [moral issue] — even during a period of dehumanizing and violent attacks against immigrants.” Did Perriello also forget Biden’s policies have caused an immigrant crisis at the U.S. southern border that has led to the “dehumanizing and violent” trafficking of women and children? Perriello even attacked the USCCB for allegedly “politiciz[ing] the Eucharist” by considering the denial of communion to Biden over his radical abortion agenda. He accused the U.S. bishops of “looking like poll-tested politicians.”

Perriello is being hypocritical. He lobbied in his piece for liberal policies as “pro-family” while simultaneously arguing that the sanctity of life need not be a preeminent issue. He continued lambasting the Church:

To this day, the church’s only lobbying priority that may rank higher than abortion is fighting every federal or state law that targets its impunity and limited liability over the sexual abuse saga. At a time when a deeply divided America could benefit from the moral leadership of what the USCCB preaches — confession, contrition and penance — these leaders respond with obfuscation, lobbyists and lectures.

Conservatives are under attack. Contact Politico at 703-647-7999 and demand its magazine distance itself from Perriello’s attacks against the Catholic Church.

LifeNews Note: Joseph Vazquez writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday while on a trip to the United Kingdom that while China is committing genocide against Uyghurs, the “overriding” issue at hand is climate change.

“With their military aggression in the South China Sea, with their continuation of genocide with the Uyghurs in Xinjiang province, with their violation of the cultural, religious priority of Tibet, with their suppression of democracy in Hong Kong and other parts of China as well, they’re just getting worse in terms of suppression and freedom of speech,” Pelosi said while speaking at the Cambridge Union Society Moderated Conversation.

Pelosi: Yes, China’s committed “genocide” against the Uighurs; “having said that,” the bigger, “overrriding” issue is “working together on climate” pic.twitter.com/xfk2jPgXTH

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“So human rights, security, economically. Having said all of that,” Pelosi continued, noting she has relations with China, “We have to work together on climate. Climate is an overriding issue and China is the leading emitter in the world, U.S. too, developed world too, but we must work together. So we have to have a level of communication on whether it’s COVID-19, whether it’s terrorism, whether it’s climate. We still have to have some communication and dialogue with China on that.”

Pelosi isn’t the only prominent Democrat to seemingly look past human rights abuses in order to focus on climate change. Special Climate Envoy and former Secretary of State John Kerry said in April while the U.S. may have “differences on human rights” with China but the two must work together to fight climate change.

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China’s 2019 greenhouse gas emissions exceeded those of the U.S. and the rest of the developed world combined for the first time, with the nation responsible for 27% of global emissions. The U.S. came in second at 11% while India came in third at 6.6%, according to Rhodium Group. The group expects China to lead 2020 emissions but data has not been finalized.

The communist nation has set up internment camps to hold mainly Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities. The camps are surrounded by concrete walls and patrolled by armed guards. Axios estimates China has detained up to two million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in so-called “re-education camps.” China claims the camps are detention centers used in part for their “war on terror,” claiming threats of Uyghur separatism and Islamist terrorism.

One teacher at the Dabancheng center, however, called the facility “worse than hell” and described hearing sounds of people being tortured with electric batons and iron chairs, The Associated Press reported.

Both the Biden administration and Trump administration have confirmed China is engaging in genocide against the Uyghur Muslims, noting China is involved in “imprisonment, torture, rape, forced sterilization … [and] draconian restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, and freedom of movmement.”

Pelosi is in the United Kingdom to participate in the G7 Heads of Parliament Conference which begins Friday.

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Kamala Harris has made a career out of promoting abortion. And with Texas banning abortions and making front page news virtually every day over the battle to keep the ban in place, Harris has been even more vocal than usual about making sure babies lose their lives a million times a year.

Harris took to Twitter today on the official Vice President account to make sure everyone knew she thinks there’s a Constitutional right to kill babies in abortions, even though nothing in the Constitution expressly or implicitly confers a right to end the lives of unborn children.

“Our Administration will always fight to defend the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies. It is non-negotiable,” she said about herself and ardent abortion advocate Joe Biden.

Our Administration will always fight to defend the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies. It is non-negotiable.

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 16, 2021

We responded to the tweet with a graphic making it clear that an unborn baby is not a pregnant woman’s body.

An unborn baby has a separate body. pic.twitter.com/KDqNueRspl

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Other Twitter users were unimpressed with her tweet.

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– “… does women include the child brides that your Afghan Covid ridden refugees are bringing into the USA… Will you, Kamala, be the first to speak out against this atrocity? I’ll be waiting for your tweet.”

– “Not killing babies should be non-negotiable.”

– “Great news, just protect the rights of the unborn baby too.”

– “As the rest of us are fighting to make our own decisions for healthcare.”

– “Unless it’s about the vaccine. Such frauds.”

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The first day of school is an important milestone for every child, but for 4-year-old Davey Bates and his parents, the occasion is especially meaningful.

Before he was born, Davey was diagnosed with a rare congenital disorder and doctors gave him a slim chance of survival, according to The Sun.

Worse, they strongly advised his parents, Sami and Paul Bates of Mirfield, in Yorkshire, England, to abort him — not just once but five times.

But the Bateses prayed for a miracle, and today their son is healthy and thriving. He recently began his first day of school with thousands of other children across England.

When the Bates family became pregnant with their third child in 2016, Sami said they thought of it as a “happy accident.”

She said they were not planning to have more children because she had undergone surgery three years earlier to remove pre-cancerous cells from her cervix. The results of surgery caused complications while she was pregnant with Davey, and she was told to be on bed rest, according to the report.

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“I did my best, but with two toddlers to look after, it wasn’t easy,” she said.

The worst news was still ahead, however.

During her 20-week ultrasound appointment, Sami said the doctor discovered serious problems with her son’s organs. Eight weeks later, he was diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), or a hole in his diaphragm that can cause the intestines and stomach to migrate to the chest and restrict lung development, the Daily Mail reports.

Sami said the doctors gave Davey a 15-percent chance of survival and “strongly advised” her to have an abortion – a recommendation that they repeated four times, according to the report. Each time, however, she and her husband refused.

“It was as severe as a case of CDH as the doctors had ever seen – and with just one in 10,000 babies born with this horrific condition, it felt so unfair,” she said. “It just seemed impossible that he could survive outside of my womb, but we couldn’t live with ourselves if we didn’t at least give him a chance.”

The news of their son’s diagnosis broke their hearts, and they prayed for a miracle.

On July 18, 2017, Sami was induced and Davey was born weighing almost 6 pounds, the report states. A short time later, he was rushed to surgery to reposition his organs.

“It was 50-50 if he’d make it, Paul and I held his tiny hands and said our last goodbyes, saying we would never forget him,” his mother remembered. “He had that massive operation that evening, and our prayers were answered – it had gone as well as could be expected.”

Days later, another miracle happened. When Sami got up early one morning to see Davey, she said she saw three surgeons around his bed, staring at him in disbelief.

“One of them turned to me and said: ‘We don’t know how he did it, but your little boy is a rock star!’” she said.

After just 20 days in the hospital, Davey was deemed well enough to go home. Since then, his health has continued to improve. His mother said he had a second surgery at age 2, but otherwise he is doing well.

This month, he began school for the first time – a significant moment for his whole family.

“Now he’s simply full of life, running around and constantly smiling,” his mother said.

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There is always a predictable response from pro-abortion activists, politicians and the news media to any pro-life measure. They’ll exploit the horrific tragedy of rape.

Rape is one of the most violent things one human can do to another. Victims need wholeness and healing, not abortion profiteers and activists waving the latest pink euphemistic signage. Mainstream media isn’t interested, either, in presenting anything other than a pro-abortion narrative.

They deliberately miss opportunities to share the valuable perspective of rape survivors who’ve rejected the violence of abortion. One of the most powerful stories is that of Nancy Kelly. She personified courage. At a Students for Life rally in Montgomery, Alabama, she shared that her healing from rape came from her twins conceived in it.

In my travels as an international public speaker, I’ve heard from women who’ve become mothers through rape (an estimated 50% of whom choose abortion). A common thread in their journeys (even from those who are post-abortive) is that children are the only redemptive part of such horrific violence. Highlighting this reality is the story of Kathy Barnette whose mother was raped at the age of 11. It’s hard to imagine such an inhumane violation of a child, but the mother and daughter story of inexplicable courage defies what we’re constantly told.

I was conceived in rape but adopted in love. I am the 1% used to justify 100% of abortions. And I’ve been callously told numerous times by activists, college professors and politicians that I “should’ve been aborted.” Did any of us control the circumstances of our conception? Then why do some pretend they can be arbiters of inherent human value?

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In MSNBC’s The Grio (a color-based “news” outlet), Texas’ Heartbeat Act (SB8) is blasted as “a perfect example of rape culture.” In the article, activist Kimiya Factory weaves a typical pro-abortion tale: “When we’re talking about abortions, we’re talking about situations of domestic violence where a child can be brought into a circumstance that they should not have to withstand. We’re talking about instances of rape and molestation and incest.”

The vast majority of abortions have nothing to do with rape or incest. Even the radically pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute doesn’t make such assertions. In its study “Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions” Guttmacher reveals that 0.4%-1.3% of respondents claimed to be victims of rape (not sure why there’s a range), and less than half a percent claimed to be victims of incest. State statistics (here, here, and here) show even far lower numbers. In Florida, 0.1% of abortions were for rape and .01% were due to incest. In Louisiana, 0.5% were attributed to rape and incest. Part of the problem is that only seven states even require rape-related abortion statistics to even be reported.

Also, the notion that the actual violence of abortion is better than possible domestic violence once born is such an extreme mentality. We don’t kill people because they might (or do) experience adversity.

To the abortion activists who constantly exploit rape with impunity, I ask this simple question: “If I were to concede that tragic (less than) 1%, would you agree to end the other 99% of elective abortions?” Of course, the answer is always the same: either silence or an emphatic “no.” It’s because this automatic-go-to defense of abortion really doesn’t have to do with rape. It’s why they always vehemently protest pro-life bills that include exceptions for rape and incest.

Let’s keep in mind, this is the same movement that announced a massive “March For Choice” event to protest the passage of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act in on June 5, 2003. Five days later, Planned Parenthood, The National Organization for Women and NARAL “joined forces” to demand the protection of what most consider the most barbaric form of abortion — partial birth abortion. Planned Parenthood claims “there is no such thing as partial birth abortion.” Really? See one here. (WARNING: It is insanely graphic.) How any of these extremist abortion groups could defend this is unconscionable.

Big Abortion and its allies continually insist partial birth abortions were a myth and that late term abortions are “extremely rare” as if to dismiss them as trivial. Abortions beyond 21 weeks gestation occur at a higher percentage than those from rape: 1.2%.

None of it’s trivial. Every human being deserves the right to life, born and unborn.

The resistance to Texas’ SB8 and all other pro-life measures isn’t about rape. It’s about an ideology that pretends that abortion is healthcare and that women aren’t equal without its violence. I call it fake feminism. Where are their demands to punish the rapists? Where’s their outrage when abortionists sexually assault their patients? Where are their demands to hold abortion businesses responsible for failing to report rape? Planned Parenthood has been sued in state after state for such failure (here, here, here and here). The $2 billion abortion empire’s actions allow predators to keep on harming, but that’s not enough to spur any fake feminist protests.

Planned Parenthood’s staunchest supporter, Whoopi Goldberg, infamously defended a famous rapist saying that director Roman Polanski’s drugging and raping of a 13-year-old wasn’t “rape rape.” The abortion giant’s own celebrity spokespeople have joked and lied about rape. Not-so-funny comedian Sarah Silverman asked: “Who’s gonna complain about a rape joke? Rape victims? They don’t even report rape. They’re traditionally not complainers.” Actress Lena Dunham, whose vile book Not That Kinda Girl boasted about how she molested her younger sister, lied about being raped and lied to cover up the crime of an accused rapist. Of course, her book tour was sponsored by Planned Parenthood.

Fake feminists help to aid and abet rape culture, whether intentionally or not. Abusing the criminal act of rape to justify more violence is reprehensible and reveals that abortion activists truly have no defense for limitless abortion-on-demand.

The Department of Justice, led by a radically pro-abortion Attorney General, just sued Texas over SB8. AG Merrick Garland unsurprisingly called the law “clearly unconstitutional.” Roe v. Wade, which allowed the unrestricted commercialized killing of the unborn and the harming of their mothers, was and is clearly unconstitutional. This is the same AG who suspended all federal executions back in July saying: “The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States but is also treated fairly and humanly [sic],” he said.

So, criminals, including rapists, deserve to be treated fairly and humanely but not unborn children? My biological father deserved punishment for the crime he committed, but those like him are afforded far more protection and dignity than those conceived in rape. The Supreme Court, never one for consistency, delivered a ruling in 1977 in Coker v. Georgia declaring the death penalty to be “cruel and unusual.” The justices concluded: “Although rape deserves serious punishment, the death penalty, which is unique in its severity and irrevocability, is an excessive penalty for the rapist.” That same Roe Court ruled just 4 years prior that an unborn child (regardless of how he or she was conceived) could be killed for any reason. That’s undeniably cruel and unusual.

May we never forget, either, that Roe v. Wade began with a lie. Norma McCorvey, aka Jane Roe, lied that she had been raped. The exploitation continues nearly five decades later. Through the organization I cofounded, The Radiance Foundation, I’ll keep on fighting for the most marginalized among the marginalized. Why? Because every human life, planned or unplanned, has purpose.

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Unborn babies in Texas will continue to be saved from abortion for now, despite the Biden administration’s efforts to stop the life-saving new heartbeat law.

On Wednesday, a federal judge scheduled a hearing for Oct. 1 to consider the U.S. Department of Justice’s emergency request to block the Texas law, The Epoch Times reports.

The two week delay is unusual because the Biden administration asked for a hearing immediately, but it means unborn babies and mothers will continue to be saved from the pain and death of abortion.

The Texas heartbeat law went into effect Sept. 1, prohibiting abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy. Unique from other state heartbeat laws, the Texas law includes a private enforcement mechanism that allows people to file lawsuits against abortionists who violate the law and those who help them.

Pro-life leaders in the state estimate as many as 100 babies are being saved from abortion every day while the law is in effect.

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Two weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Planned Parenthood’s and other pro-abortion groups’ request to temporarily block the law. However, the court battle is not over.

Late Tuesday, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice interfered in the matter, submitting an emergency request to block the law. A day later, 24 Democrat state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of the request.

“This relief is necessary to protect the constitutional rights of women in Texas and the sovereign interest of the United States in ensuring that its States respect the terms of the national compact. It is also necessary to protect federal agencies, employees, and contractors whose lawful actions S.B. 8 [the heartbeat law] purports to prohibit,” the Department of Justice argued.

U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, an appointee of pro-abortion President Barack Obama, is assigned to the case. On Wednesday, he scheduled the requested hearing for Oct. 1, instructing Texas officials to file their response by the morning of Sept. 29 and the Biden administration to provide a reply before the hearing.

According to the Epoch Times, Pitman scheduled the hearing nearly two weeks later than what the Biden administration wanted. As a result, the law will remain in effect for now, continuing to save babies from abortion.

CNN pointed out that even if Pitman does grant the federal government’s request for a preliminary injunction, some abortion facilities may not start aborting unborn babies again right away.

According to the report: “… under the law, a clinic could still be liable if it performed an abortion prohibited by the law while the court’s order was in effect, if that same order was later reversed by a higher court.”

Here’s more from CNN:

“Judge Pitman seems to be going by the book here,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN legal analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.

“The Court of Appeals already cut off his effort to hold a similar hearing in the challenge to SB8 brought by Texas abortion providers,” Vladeck said. “By not issuing a temporary restraining order here, he’s effectively preventing Texas from asking the Court of Appeals to also block this hearing before it happens.”

In 2020, about 54,000 unborn babies were aborted in Texas, and about 85 percent happened after six weeks of pregnancy, according to state health statistics.

The law already is saving lives. While abortion activists say some women are traveling to other states for abortions, they admit that others are having their babies instead.

Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are reaching out to pregnant women across Texas with compassion and understanding, offering resources and emotional support to help them and their babies. Earlier this year, state lawmakers increased support for pregnant and parenting mothers and babies, ensuring that they have resources to choose life for their babies.

About a dozen states have passed heartbeat laws to protect unborn babies from abortion, but Texas is the first to be allowed to enforce its law. Whether the law will remain in effect or ultimately be upheld as constitutional in court remains uncertain, but pro-life leaders are hopeful now that the Supreme Court has a conservative majority.

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Portland, Oregon is one of the most liberal cities in America — so much so that its mayor allowed Antifa and other domestic terrorists to take over portions of the city, threatening residents and closing down businesses.

Not only does Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler not care about his own city’s residents, he doesn’t care about women and children in the state of Texas. Wheeler pushed his city to respond to the Texas abortion ban, which has saved at least 2,000 babies from abortions so far according to some estimates.

So how did Portland respond? It has decided to protest the ban by sending $200,000 to abortion businesses to kill more babies in abortions.

Wheeler and three city commissioners voted in favor of the resolution on Wednesday. Commissioners Carmen Rubio, Dan Ryan, and Jo Ann Hardesty all voted yes.

Commissioner Mingus Mapps delivered the one dissenting vote.

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“The vote I take today is one of the most difficult votes I’ve had to make,” said Mapps during his comments before voting. He said while there were parts of the resolution he supported, he also believed that “allocating $200,000 of Portland taxpayer dollars to fund reproductive care for women from Texas is a highly unusual expenditure which does not advance a meaningful legal or legislative challenge to Texas’ unconstitutional anti-abortion law.”

Mapps noted that he put forth three alternatives or compromises to the resolution, including an amendment that would remove the expenditure from the resolution and delaying the vote to allow time for public testimony. The majority of the council disagreed with these proposals.

As the second-to-last to vote on the resolution, Wheeler said:

“With regard to the criticism that this is money that should not be spent, I want to be clear, that once people make the decision to come from anywhere to our community to take advantage of the health care opportunities that exist here, we are going to serve them alongside people who are from the city of Portland. And so the dollars that would be going toward this effort are in fact for people who will walk into health care providers in our community, particularly those who do not have access or experience barriers to access, I think it is very important that we make this statement with $200,000.”

Using the typical language of abortion activists — calling killing babies health care — Portland has decided to fund abortions instead of funding actual health care or legitimate and tangible support for pregnant women. Women in need should receive help in the form of child care, education assistance, medical care, insurance needs, baby items, etc. While pregnancy centers offer this kind of actual support for women every day, abortion activists just fund more abortions — leaving women still in need.

The Texas law is already saving hundreds of babies from abortion, as some abortion centers have stopped abortions completely or stopped doing 80-90% of them.

The Biden administration continued its interference in Texas’s efforts to save babies from abortion Tuesday, filing an emergency request with a Democrat-appointed judge to block the new state heartbeat law.

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The Biden administration hurriedly pushed through a new pro-abortion rule to benefit Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups at the expense of American taxpayers, according to a document leaked to The Federalist this week.

The leak involves the Biden administration’s plans to eliminate a measure that protects taxpayers from being forced to secretly fund the killing of unborn babies in elective abortions through Obamacare.

“… the Biden administration [is] flouting the regulatory process in order to push through a massive financial favor to the powerful and lucrative abortion industry,” Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway responded.

The rushed process shortchanges the American people, who strongly oppose taxpayer-funded abortions, but it benefits the billion-dollar abortion industry. Planned Parenthood alone spent at least $45 million to support Joe Biden and other pro-abortion candidates in 2020.

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The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, requires insurance companies that provide taxpayer-subsidized health plans under the law to collect separate premium payments for elective abortions.

In 2014, however, a Government Accountability Office report found that the requirement was not being followed. Later, the Trump administration issued a rule clarifying that insurance companies must send separate bills for abortion coverage so that taxpayers are not forced to fund it.

However, the Biden administration rule reverses Trump’s action and allows abortion coverage to be hidden in with the monthly premium again.

Any time a presidential administration wants to make a new rule, it must go through a regulatory process that involves a public comment period and a legal responsibility to read and respond to the comments before implementing the rule.

According to the new leaked document, however, the Biden administration rushed through the process, providing little time for public comments and even less time to respond to them.

“To me this signals that unfortunately [the Biden administration] has already made up its mind about all of these complicated issues and is rushing to finalize the rule without really considering the public comments and frankly without giving the public enough opportunity to weigh in on a number of controversial provisions,” Randy Pate, former director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at HHS, told The Federalist.

The rule was finalized just 50 days after Biden introduced it on July 1, according to the leaked document. That means the public had only 28 days to comment (an abbreviated time-frame that federal regulations say should only be used for national security emergencies); then the Biden administration took only two weeks to respond to those comments and finalize the rule, the report noted.

In contrast, the Trump administration gave the public twice as long to comment on a pro-life rule that it implemented ending the hidden Obamacare abortion fees, Hemingway pointed out.

Here’s more from the report:

Less than two weeks after an already abbreviated period of time for the public to review and comment on the proposed regulatory change, Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services finalized a regulation that violates the clear language of Obamacare in order to benefit Planned Parenthood and other corporate abortion interests. The leaked document, dated August 10 and more than 300 pages long, was then sent to the Office of Management and Budget for final approval, according to multiple sources familiar with the federal rule making process. OMB posted confirmation of receipt August 19, a mere 50 days after the major rule change was first proposed to the public.

Prior to the leak, Republican lawmakers blasted the rule itself as illegal and unethical in a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra .

“The purpose and effect of the Proposed Rule, in tandem with partisan legislative efforts to expand the ACA, will be to increase taxpayer funding for abortion on demand to the financial benefit of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry,” 26 senators wrote in a letter led by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, earlier this summer.

This is not the first time the Biden administration has flaunted the law to help the abortion industry. Earlier this year, Planned Parenthood received millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief money meant to help struggling small businesses, even though it was ineligible for the funds. Biden’s administration also recently dropped a lawsuit against a taxpayer-funded hospital that allegedly tricked a pro-life nurse into helping abort an unborn baby in violation of her rights.

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A man who stabbed a pregnant woman multiple times in Belgium will not be prosecuted for the death of her unborn baby.

On Monday, in the Belgian province of Liège, a man, named only as Aslan, stabbed a woman numerous times in the face and neck after an argument broke out. The mother is currently in hospital in intensive care, but her unborn baby did not survive.

The man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder but prosecutors say no charge can be brought for the death of the unborn baby because the baby was not yet recognised as a person under Belgian criminal law.

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“A choice we make”

Criminal lawyer Rik Vanreusel told the BBC that in Belgium a baby in his or her mother’s womb does not exist as a legal entity. This means that if someone were to harm or kill an unborn child, intentionally or not, there are no grounds for prosecution.

He said this legal principle about unborn babies was “a choice we make” and noted that abortion was one reason why the law was structured in this way.

Right To Life UK spokesperson, Catherine Robinson, said: “It is unsurprising that a society that values abortion cannot, at the same time, value the life of the child who dies through an assault on his or her mother”.

“Belgium’s law, callous as it is, is at least consistent. It accords no status to the life of the unborn child whose life can be ended legally or illegally without any means to prosecute those who are responsible. If only the law was instead consistent in its regard for life in and outside the womb”.

LifeNews Note: Republished with permission from Right to Life UK.

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Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley called on Google Wednesday to explain its recent censorship of pro-life ads.

In a letter addressed to Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, Hawley called on Google to explain why ads placed by the pro-life organizations Live Action and Choose Life Marketing had been “seemingly censored.”

Among other questions, the Missouri senator asked Google what contact its executives and leaders have had with abortion advocacy organizations in the last month, and what steps it has taken to ensure that ad eligibility decisions are not affected by Google employee bias.

“When I spoke with Mark Zuckerberg about a similar issue in September 2019, he acknowledged the danger of bias on the parts of content reviewers in this area, particularly where pro-life activist groups like Live Action are concerned,” Hawley wrote. “But if your company’s behavior is any indication, those concerns have gone unaddressed.”

“Rather, ” the senator continued, “your company appears to have taken a page out of the progressive left playbook and has started targeting pregnancy resource centers and pro-life activist organizations for disfavor.”

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The senator said that Choose Life Marketing, a Missouri company that works with pro-life pregnancy resource centers, found that its ads running for a client in the Washington, D.C., metro area were not running, “even though Google designated them as eligible to run.”

“Worse,” the senator wrote, “Choose Life Marketing was unable to obtain an explanation from your company. Notably, even a cursory investigation reveals numerous examples of Planned Parenthood advertising directly to internet users that it offers abortions, contrary to Google’s stated policies.”

Live Action said in a press release Tuesday afternoon that Google had banned the promotion of “all” the organization’s ads, including its “Baby Olivia” ad as well as one about the Abortion Pill Reversal hotline, which is managed by a team of medical professionals, according to the pro-life group.

Google told the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday evening that it does not permit ads “with unproven medical claims” and that “medical experts have raised serious concerns about abortion reversal pills,” citing an advocacy post from the pro-abortion American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists claiming abortion reversal pills are not backed up by science.

Live Action’s Baby Olivia ad did not violate Google’s policies and is “allowed to run as an ad,” a Google spokesperson told the DCNF, adding, “We have corrected the label that temporarily blocked its ability to be promoted.”

“Beyond protecting users from medical harm, our policies do not distinguish between promoting pro-choice and pro-life messages,” the spokesperson said. “Advertisers are allowed to offer either abortion or abortion-alternative services. When doing so, both must prominently disclose which type of service they offer so that users have full transparency and can make their own decisions.”

“This would not be the first time that political considerations have influenced your company’s ad eligibility decisions,” Hawley told Google. “In the summer of 2020, under pressure from the cryptic partisan organization ‘Center for Countering Digital Hate,’ Google threatened the conservative website The Federalist with removal from the Google Ads platform, based on the contents of its comments section. Something similar appears to be happening here.”

Google did not immediately respond to a Wednesday request for comment from the DCNF.

LifeNews Note: Mary Margaret Olohan writes for Daily Caller. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience.

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Thousands of mothers and babies have been spared from pain and death thanks to the abortion pill reversal treatment.

But big tech companies and abortion activists are repressing this life-saving information, telling mothers that it is “dangerous” to save their babies’ lives.

Earlier this week, in answer to the demands of radical pro-abortion activists, Google banned two prominent pro-life organizations’ ads informing women about the possibility that their abortion may be reversed and their baby’s life saved. Live Action and Heartbeat International said they are appealing the decision.

“At the request of abortion activists, @Google has just BANNED all of @LiveAction’s pro-life ads, including those promoting the Abortion Pill Reversal treatment, a resource that has saved 2,500 children to date,” Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action, wrote on Twitter.

Their advertisements were wide-reaching and vital to mothers who immediately regret taking the abortion drug mifepristone, the first of two prescribed to abort unborn babies up to 10 weeks of pregnancy in the U.S. More than 2,500 mothers have successfully undergone the abortion pill reversal treatment and saved their babies’ lives, according to the Abortion Pill Rescue Network.

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According to The Guardian:

Facebook has served “abortion reversal” adverts 18.4 [million] times since January 2020, according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), promoting an “unproven, unethical” and “dangerous” procedure.

Google shows the adverts on more than four-fifths of searches related to abortion across a number of US cities, according to the CCDH research, targeted at search terms such as “unwanted pregnancy” and “abortion pill”.

Pro-abortion groups have been lobbing unfounded attacks against the abortion pill reversal treatment for years, making baseless claims about it being dangerous and unethical. But research and medical experts confirm that it is safe and effective for both mother and baby.

Thousands of mothers’ and babies’ stories are proof as well. One mother, Rebekah Buell, said her son Zechariah is alive today because of the abortion pill reversal procedure.

Buell said she was in college and suffering in an abusive marriage when she went to Planned Parenthood and took the first abortion pill. However, she immediately regretted what she had done. After a quick online search, she found AbortionPillReversal.com and was connected to a doctor who performed the reversal treatment and saved her son’s life.

“Having a baby doesn’t ruin your life, it just changes it,” Buell said. “I’ve met so many women who regretted having abortions but never met a woman who regretted having her child. Abortion is so permanent. It’s forever. It’s going to change your life.”

The abortion pill reversal treatment works by counteracting the abortion drug mifepristone, or Mifeprex, the first of two drugs typically taken to abort and then expel the unborn baby. Mifepristone makes the uterus inhospitable to new life by blocking the hormone progesterone. The reversal procedure involves giving the mother doses of progesterone to counteract the abortion drug. The abortion pill reversal procedure does not work after the mother takes the second drug, misoprostol, one or two days later.

OB-GYNs who offer the treatment say it works very similarly to a hormonal treatment that has been used for years to help prevent miscarriages.

The American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a 2,500-member OB-GYN medical group, is one of the medical groups that supports the life-saving treatment.

Abortion activists conducted their own study on the treatment but halted it after several women suffered complications from the abortion drug. Later, they misrepresented the results to attack the abortion pill reversal protocol.

The abortion drug currently is used for about 39 percent of all abortions in the U.S., according to the Guttmacher Institute.

However, the Biden administration stopped enforcing FDA safety regulations on abortion drugs earlier this year, and pro-life leaders fear that number will increase. The action means abortion facilities may sell abortion drugs through the mail after a just brief online consultation.

This makes the need to inform women about the abortion pill reversal protocol even more vital. A dozen states have passed legislation to inform women about the life-saving treatment, and pro-life organizations are spreading the word, too.

Anyone who has taken the first abortion pill and wishes to stop the abortion is urged to immediately visit www.abortionpillreversal.com or call the Abortion Pill Reversal hotline at 877-558-0333.

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Cyndi Lauper, the 1980s hit singer known for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” advocated for the killing of unborn babies in abortions Sunday during the MTV Video Music Awards.

In a reference to her most famous song, Lauper told the audience that “girls just want to have … control over our bodies,” meaning abortion, Breitbart reports.

“I won a Moon Person at the very first VMAs in 1984,” Lauper said before presenting an award Sunday. “Things are a little different now.”

“Yeah, girls still want to have fun. But we also want to have funds, equal pay, control over our bodies, you know, fundamental rights,” she added and then raised her fist in the air.

Other celebrities – including Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria, Pink and children’s author Judy Bloom – also have been advocating for abortions over the past two weeks in response to the new Texas heartbeat law. The law, which went into effect Sept. 1, prohibits abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy, and could save tens of thousands of lives every year.

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Lauper did not mention the Texas law in her speech Sunday, but posts on her Twitter account confirm that she opposes it. On Sept. 1, the day when the law went into effect, she shared a post from the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas that read: “Abortion is health care. Abortion is essential. Bans off our bodies.”

She also shared a comment from actress Kerry Washington slamming the life-saving law as a violation of women’s “reproductive freedom.”

Lauper has advocated for abortion in the past, too. Earlier this year, she joined Amanda Shires, Sheryl Crow, Linda Perry and other musicians in releasing a song promoting abortion for the 48^th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, according to the report.

Though about a dozen states have passed heartbeat laws, Texas is the first to be allowed to enforce its law. The others have been blocked by the courts.

The law has the potential to save tens of thousands of babies from abortion. In 2020, about 54,000 unborn babies were aborted in Texas, and about 85 percent happened after six weeks of pregnancy, according to state health statistics. That means more than 100 unborn babies with beating hearts may be spared from abortion every single day.

Whether the Texas law will remain in effect or ultimately be upheld as constitutional in court remains uncertain, but pro-life leaders are hopeful now that the Supreme Court has a conservative majority.

Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are reaching out to pregnant women across Texas with compassion and understanding, offering resources and emotional support to help them and their babies. Earlier this year, state lawmakers increased support for pregnant and parenting mothers and babies, ensuring that they have resources to choose life for their babies.

Women may call or text 1-800-712-4357 or chat online with OptionLine, a 24-hour bilingual hotline run by Heartbeat International that has helped connect millions of women to pregnancy and parenting resources.

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The pro-life cause has just secured a major victory for the unborn and their mothers, with further protections possible soon — if its champions stay courageous and don’t flinch. The Supreme Court’s decision to leave the Texas Heartbeat Act standing was an unexpected blessing and has resulted in an estimated hundreds of abortions prevented thus far. The goal of the pro-life movement has always been to make abortion illegal and unthinkable. Texans are doing just that, in defiance of the undemocratic stifling of debate wrought by the Supreme Court years ago . . . and we should celebrate it and support them. Political leaders need to speak up — this law has the potential to save a hundred or more unborn children with beating hearts from the brutality of abortion each day it is in effect.

The Heartbeat Act was co-authored by eleven pro-life women legislators, debated and voted on by the 181 members of the state legislature, approved with a bipartisan majority, and signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott. It is both the result of and a response to 50 years of undemocratic rule by unelected judges imposing their own policy views and calling it constitutional law — taking the fundamentally political questions surrounding this primal issue out of the hands of legislatures, making it impossible for states to enforce their legitimate interest in protecting unborn life in any substantial way.

Instead of resolving conflict over abortion policy, the Court’s prior actions have provoked it — as former justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once observed — and left our politics profoundly unsettled. After five decades, states are more eager than ever to challenge the status quo. Some 500 pro-life bills have advanced at the state level this year alone, more than at any point since Roe v. Wade, with approximately one in five being enacted into law.

This fall, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could give states the flexibility they deserve. The central question in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is whether state legislatures have a role, before viability, in making their own laws that reflect the deeply held values of the people who live there. Because of decades of work by pro-life advocates to elect leaders who would appoint constitutionalists to the bench, finally we have a Court willing to face that question head-on.

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The pro-life movement goes into this momentous opportunity standing firmly on the pillars of science, public consensus, and moral justice.

Advances in technology over the past five decades reveal the humanity of the unborn child and the breathtaking complexity of life in the womb. We know that by six weeks, the child’s heart is beating about 98 times a minute. Even Planned Parenthood’s website concedes that human beings at this young age have a heart, at the same time they stop more than 354,000 hearts a year and counting.

Six-week-old unborn babies have a developing spinal cord and brain — which has divided into three primary sections responsible for sensing and decision-making, moving and tracking objects, and vital body functions. By ten weeks they have arms, legs, fingers, and toes, and they can kick and jump. By 15 weeks, they have fully formed noses, lips, eyelids, and eyebrows — and by that point if not earlier, they can feel pain, exhibiting hormonal stress responses to painful procedures. They are treated as patients by fetal surgeons, who administer anesthesia as standard care in order to treat conditions such as spina bifida right in the womb.

But thanks to the Supreme Court’s radical and hopelessly convoluted precedents, the United States is one of only seven countries in the world — including China and North Korea — that permit abortion on demand, for any reason, up to the point of birth. The strong majority of Americans agree this is too extreme, something they share with 47 out of 50 European nations that limit elective abortion prior to 15 weeks.

Mississippians set their limit at 15 weeks. In the future, other states might come up with widely different laws — but that’s how democracy works, and the chance to protect unborn children and mothers the way many states desire would be a welcome improvement.

This case presents us with a clarion call to love both mother and child. Unsurprisingly, Texas is leading the way in compassionate care for women facing unplanned pregnancies, with state and private programs providing real assistance to meet their material and emotional needs. “Alternatives to Abortion” began in 2006 and provides support services to pregnant women. Last session, the Texas legislature expanded funds for this program to $100 million. In addition, the Healthy Texas Women program helps low-income women with family-planning resources and health-care needs.

And if that isn’t enough, approximately 200 pregnancy center locations across Texas — nearly ten times the number of abortion centers — offer support and resources, typically at no cost, that profit-driven abortion businesses won’t deign to provide. In contrast to pregnancy centers that love and serve women even after a choice to abort, “abortion funds” facilitate one choice only — ending the life of a child.

The American people are not missing this crucial moment. Victory is within reach, but not inevitable — it’s ours to lose, if we fail to find our voice. I urge pro-life leaders everywhere to have courage, speak up, and be bold in defending the vulnerable ones who depend on them so much.

LifeNews Note: Marjorie Dannenfelser is president of the national pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List and author of “Life is Winning: Inside the Fight for Unborn Children and Their Mothers.”

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Democrat attorneys general in 24 states joined the Biden administration Wednesday in urging a federal judge to block a life-saving new Texas law.

The Hill reports Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy submitted the amicus brief on behalf of the two dozen state officials, pleading with the court to allow abortion on demand in Texas again.

“Today, virtually no one can obtain an abortion in Texas,” the attorneys general argued in their brief. “In order to obtain abortion care, patients now have to travel out-of-state, which makes abortion for many people too difficult, too time-intensive, and too costly.”

Their brief supports a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice challenging the Texas heartbeat law. Late Tuesday, the department submitted an emergency request to block the law.

The heartbeat law went into effect Sept. 1, prohibiting abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy. Pro-life leaders in the state estimate as many as 100 babies are being saved from abortion every day.

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Two weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Planned Parenthood’s and other pro-abortion groups’ request to temporarily block enforcement of the law. However, the court battle is not over.

Healy and the other attorneys general argued that the law is a “direct contravention” of the Supreme Court precedent under Roe v. Wade.

“By banning nearly all pre-viability abortions within Texas, the law, Senate Bill 8 (SB8), violates nearly 50 years of Supreme Court precedent affirming the constitutional right to an abortion,” Oregon Attorney General Elen Rosenblum, who signed onto the brief, said in a statement. “The Texas legislature sought to circumvent other Supreme Court rulings by giving enforcement authority to private individuals instead of the government in an ‘unprecedented attack on our constitutional order’ and the rule of law.”

The attorneys general also argued that the private enforcement mechanism in the law, which allows private individuals to sue abortionists and others who help abort unborn babies, essentially is an “across-the-board ban on constitutionally protected activity.”

Reuters reports U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, an appointee of pro-abortion President Barack Obama, has been assigned to the case.

In its filing Tuesday, the Biden administration argued that the heartbeat law violates the Fourteenth Amendment and the precedents set by Roe v. Wade.

“It is well-settled that the Fourteenth Amendment prevents states from banning abortion before a fetus is viable,” it told the court. “Because S.B. 8 has that effect, it is plainly unconstitutional under binding precedent.”

It also claimed the law “irreparably injures” the federal government by violating the Supremacy Clause, according to the report.

In response, a spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who signed the law, emphasized the need to protect unborn babies’ right to life.

“The most precious freedom is life itself,” spokesperson Renae Eze told the Associated Press. “Texas passed a law that ensures that the life of every child with a heartbeat will be spared from the ravages of abortion.”

In 2020, about 54,000 unborn babies were aborted in Texas, and about 85 percent happened after six weeks of pregnancy, according to state health statistics.

The law already is saving lives. While abortion activists say some women are traveling to other states for abortions, they admit that others are choosing to have their babies instead.

About a dozen states have passed heartbeat laws to protect unborn babies from abortion, but Texas is the first to be allowed to enforce its law. Unique from other states, the Texas law includes a private enforcement mechanism that allows people to file lawsuits against abortionists who violate the law and those who help them.

Whether the Texas law will remain in effect or ultimately be upheld as constitutional in court remains uncertain, but pro-life leaders are hopeful now that the Supreme Court has a conservative majority.

In 1973, the court took away the states’ ability to protect unborn babies from abortion under Roe v. Wade, and instead forced states to legalize abortion on demand. Roe made the United States one of only seven countries in the world that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks.

Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are reaching out to pregnant women across Texas with compassion and understanding, offering resources and emotional support to help them and their babies. Earlier this year, state lawmakers increased support for pregnant and parenting mothers and babies, ensuring that they have resources to choose life for their babies.

Polls show Americans support heartbeat laws. An April poll by the University of Texas-Austin found that 49 percent of Texans support making abortions illegal after six weeks of pregnancy, while 41 percent oppose it. In 2019, a national Hill-HarrisX survey also found that 55 percent of voters said they do not think laws banning abortions after six weeks – when an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable – are too restrictive.

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The controversy over a Texas pro-life law has led some to make  irresponsible remarks, and no one has topped Attorney General Merrick Garland. The law, which forbids doctors from performing an abortion on a mother carrying a baby whose heartbeat can be detected, provoked Garland to make totally unfounded claims of violence on the part of pro-life activists.

On September 6, Garland said, “We will not tolerate violence against those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services, physical obstruction or property damage in violation of the FACE Act.” This indictment of pro-life activists is without merit. Indeed, it is a despicable smear against them.

If pro-life Americans are so violent, Garland should be able to rattle off the names of abortionists whom they have killed. In the 21st century, there have been four such killings: one in 2009 and three in 2015. Two men, both ex-cons, were responsible, and neither was assisted or associated with a pro-life group. They acted alone.

In 2009, Dr. George Tiller was killed by Scott Roeder. When it happened, I condemned it. “We have to get the message out that life means we have to respect all life,” I told CBS Evening News, “including somebody as bad as Dr. Tiller was.”

Tiller, by his own admission, performed over 60,000 abortions. His specialty was killing babies in utero who were nearly born, or were partially born. Hence his nickname, George “The Killer” Tiller.

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Roeder was a deranged man who was hardly representative of pro-life activists. He had been diagnosed as schizophrenic, and got into trouble when he stopped taking his medication. His wife testified that she thought he was bipolar, and his brother also spoke about his mental problems. He had previously been arrested for carrying explosives, and he spent time in prison for other violations.

In 2015, Robert Lewis Dear Jr. killed three people in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He had previously been arrested and convicted for carrying a “long blade knife” and illegal possession of a loaded gun.

His mental state was worse than that of Roeder’s. A judge ordered him to undergo a mental competency exam to see if he was sufficiently competent to represent himself. After fielding the results, the judge ruled that Dear was not mentally fit to stand trial: he cited findings that he suffered from a “delusional disorder.” Dear was sentenced indefinitely to a Colorado state mental hospital.

It makes no sense for anyone who champions the abortion-rights cause to worry about being killed because of the Texas law. Roeder and Dear were lone wolfs, both of whom had a criminal record and mental problems.

Garland, being a pro-abortion proponent who works for our “devout Catholic” pro-abortion president, has been noticeably silent on threats to pro-life activists. Yet just this summer innocent pro-life Catholic demonstrators were harassed by pro-abortion militants in Brooklyn, New York, and a Catholic church in Louisville, Colorado was defaced with pro-abortion slogans.

On September 13, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who dismissed a challenge to the Texas law, was subjected to intimidation when his home was descended upon by pro-abortion activists. This came following a threat by extremists from ShutDownDC to “directly” confront Kavanaugh and his family.

If Garland were even-handed, he would know that pro-life Americans have been violently attacked and been subjected to death threats for many years. There have been bomb threats against Catholic churches,  firebombings of Catholic school busses with pro-life signs, calls for violence against pro-lifers on college campuses, and widespread acts of church vandalism.

And lest we forget, while the killing of unborn babies is legal, the fact remains that abortion clinics are a much more deadly place for children than they are for those who do the killing. Think about that, Mssrs. Garland and Biden.

LifeNews Note: Bill Donohue is the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

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New Hampshire leaders rejected a series of contracts with Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups Wednesday, choosing instead to give taxpayer-funded family planning money to groups that do not abort unborn babies.

In Depth NH reports the state Executive Council voted 4-1 along party lines to reject the contracts with the abortion groups.

Facilities with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and two independent abortion facilities in Concord and Greenland were defunded, according to The Union Leader.

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The council did approve contracts funding four other clinics that do not do abortions, New Hampshire Public Radio reports.

The funding is used to provide family planning services such as birth control, STD and cancer screenings for low-income residents. Though the contracts do not allow tax dollars to be used for abortions, Republican leaders said they indirectly supported the groups’ abortion practices.

“You can’t pay a secretary half out of one pot of money and half out of another pot of money,” said council member David Wheeler, R-Milford. “These are the rules now and they have to be followed.”

Students for Life Action praised the council for taking bold action to defund the billion-dollar abortion chain Planned Parenthood and support real health care.

“Our state laws should have the goal of preserving life, not ending it,” said Students for Life New England regional coordinator Mariah McCarron. “Abortion has taken the lives of one quarter of my generation, and with nine student groups in the state, we are standing up for those who may be lost to abortion.”

New Hampshire voters elected a Republican-majority legislature last year that has been passing pro-life legislation. Earlier this year, lawmakers included an item in the state budget requiring an audit of family planning funds to ensure that no tax dollars are being used for abortion. They also passed a late-term abortion ban.

Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican with a mixed record on abortion, criticized the council for rejecting the contracts, according to In Depth NH.

“I brought these contracts forward because I support them, just as I have every year as governor, because they protect women’s health and it is the right thing to do,” Sununu said. “Today’s action to vote down funding like cancer screenings and other women’s health services is incredibly disappointing and not something I agree with.”

But Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life Action, said the council was listening to New Hampshire voters.

“After SFLA engaged in New Hampshire, the State Executive Council has voted NOT to fund Planned Parenthood with tax dollars,” her organization said in a statement. “Thank you, Councilor Dave Wheeler for his bold action. Elections matter and so does grassroots engagement. Way to go, NH!”

Planned Parenthood has aborted more than 8 million unborn babies since abortion became legal nation-wide in 1973. Its most recent annual report showed a record number of abortions in 2020: 354,871, which is about 40 percent of all abortions in the U.S.

Meanwhile, the same report showed that many of Planned Parenthood’s actual health services continue to decline. It provided less contraception, sterilizations, cancer screenings, adoption referrals and other women’s health services than the previous year, mirroring a continued downward trend.

Its patient numbers also have been dropping steadily over the past decade amid numerous reports of alleged unethical and illegal activities by Planned Parenthood, including selling aborted baby body parts, botching abortions that killed women, covering up the sexual abuse of minors, discriminating against pregnant and racial minority employees, exploiting young girls by selling cross-sex hormones and more.

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