In a victory for unborn children, the Ohio Supreme Court issued a ruling today rejecting a request from abortion businesses to block the state’s heartbeat law that bans abortions when an unborn child’s hearbeat can be detected.

Ohio abortion business filed suit in state court seeking to overturn the newly-minted heartbeat law that has begun saving babies from abortions following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

After the decision, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued an executive order directing the Ohio Department of Health to adopt emergency rules implementing Ohio’s Heartbeat Law. This Executive Order was in response to the federal court lifting the injunction on Ohio’s Heartbeat Law.  Attorney General Dave Yost filed a legal request to lift the injunction due to the United States Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case.

With the Ohio Supreme Court’s decision rejecting the pro-abortion request for an injunction, this means abortions are now banned in Ohio starting at 6 weeks, when an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected.

Michael Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life, told LifeNews after the ruling that he’s delighted by the news.

“The Ohio Supreme Court got it right. What the abortion proponents attempted to do could not be done legally. The good news is that the Heartbeat law will remain in effect and save countless lives today and moving forward,” he said. “Instead of filing frivolous motions, the abortion industry should consider working with Ohio Right to Life to help women and save unborn children in the great state of Ohio.”

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Preterm-Cleveland, Planned Parenthood Greater Ohio and other abortion businesses were behind the lawsuit. In addition to Preterm and Planned Parenthood, plaintiffs include Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio, Women’s Med Group Professional Corp. in Dayton, Northeast Ohio Women’s Center, Toledo Women’s Center and Dr. Sharon Liner, an individual abortionist.

The lawsuit specifically argues the Ohio Constitution’s due process rights under the Due Course of Law Clause protects women’s reproductive autonomy and bodily integrity. The heartbeat law discriminates against women, in violation of the Equal Protection and Benefit Clause, the lawsuit claims.

Leading pro-life groups were elated by the news when the heartbeat law was enacted.

“The Heartbeat Law has been sitting on the sidelines in federal court which could have saved countless lives over the past several years. Starting right now no baby with a beating heart can be aborted in the state of Ohio,” said Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis. “We are grateful that our Attorney General Dave Yost acted swiftly and got the injunction lifted.”

Director of Communications Elizabeth Whitmarsh stated, “Many would have been lackadaisical on this, but because we elected strong pro-life leaders, thousands of lives are protected from abortion starting this very moment. Our Attorney General and Governor saw an opportunity to save lives and they immediately got it done. This is true leadership and should be a model for the how we move forward.”

Mark Harrington of Created Equal added: “Today is a historic day. Not only is Roe dead, but no longer can the beating hearts of humans too young to be born be violently torn apart by abortion in Ohio. The Heartbeat Law can now potentially save dozens of children from being killed by abortion each day. Ohio is on the way to completely ban abortion and protect every human life.”

As LifeNews reported, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, with a 6-3 majority ruling in the Dobbs case that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” — allowing states to ban abortions and protect unborn babies. The high court also ruled 6-3 uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban so states can further limit abortions and to get rid of the false viability standard.

Chief Justice John Roberts technically voted for the judgment but, in his concurring opinion, disagreed with the reasoning and said he wanted to keep abortions legal but with a new standard.

Texas and Oklahoma had banned abortions before Roe was overturned and Missouri became the first state after Roe to protect babies from abortions and South Dakota became the 2nd. Then Arkansas became the third state protecting babies from abortions and Kentucky became the 4th and Louisiana became the 5th and Ohio became the 6th and Utah became the 7th and Oklahoma became the 8th and Alabama became the 9th. This week, Mississippi became the 10th and South Carolina became the 11th,Texas became the 12th with its pre-Roe law and Tennessee became the 13th.

Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia have old pro-life laws on the books but there is question about whether they are applicable and will be enforced.

Ultimately, as many as 26 states could immediately or quickly ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.

The 13 total states with trigger laws that would effectively ban all or most abortions are: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Alito wrote. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

This is a landmark day for the Pro-Life movement and our entire nation. After staining the moral fabric of our country for nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade is no more.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer authored a joint dissent condemning the decision as enabling states to enact “draconian” restrictions on women.

Polls show Americans are pro-life on abortion.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ), an institution once dedicated to ensuring law and order in the United States, looks to have become another pawn for the leftist elite. From categorizing upset Virginia parents as domestic terrorists to going after average Trump supporters, the DOJ continues to subvert the values it’s supposed to protect.

Attorney General Merrick Garland released a statement on June 24 about the Supreme Court decision on the Dobbs case communicating his disdain for the ruling.

The DOJ was very upset at the fact women cannot murder children by citing leftist platitudes about abortion.

“The Justice Department strongly disagrees with the Court’s decision. This decision deals a devastating blow to reproductive freedom in the United States,” the statement read. “It will have an immediate and irreversible impact on the lives of people across the country. And it will be greatly disproportionate in its effect – with the greatest burdens felt by people of color and those of limited financial means.”

Instead of ensuring justice for all U.S. citizens, the DOJ would rather play politics. You would think a department dedicated to justice would adequately understand the Constitution.

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The DOJ then proudly states it will continue to protect and advance reproductive “freedom” and encourages federal agencies to continue to provide abortion.

“Furthermore, federal agencies may continue to provide reproductive health services to the extent authorized by federal law,” the statement follows. “And federal employees who carry out their duties by providing such services must be allowed to do so free from the threat of liability.”

The woke bureaucrats in the DOJ want the department’s main priority to be ensuring that federal workers can spend more time slaving away instead of potentially having a family. Ironic that the department that has titled itself the Justice department will provide funding so the greatest injustice can be carried out.

The DOJ ends its statement with a commitment to protecting the ‘totally’ fundamental American value of abortion!

The statement concludes:

The ability to decide one’s own future is a fundamental American value, and few decisions are more significant and personal than the choice of whether and when to have children. Few rights are more central to individual freedom than the right to control one’s own body. The Justice Department will use every tool at our disposal to protect reproductive freedom. And we will not waver from this Department’s founding responsibility to protect the civil rights of all Americans.

So murdering babies is a fundamental right, but protesting against leftism isn’t? Where’s the justice in that?

As with numerous institutions, the DOJ has surrendered itself to the radical left and now seemingly serves as a puppet for the corrupt Biden regime. To this department, abortion is justice.

LifeNews.com Note: Michael Ippolito writes for NewsBusters, where this item first appeared.

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As pro-abortion radicals rioted and attacked pro-lifers in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade, the network newscasts mostly looked the other way. They offered scant coverage and repeatedly insisted that the last several days have been “mostly” or “largely” peaceful.

MRC analysts looked at every morning and evening newscast on ABC, CBS and NBC, from Friday night (the day of the Supreme Court ruling) through Wednesday morning. In all that time, they allowed 120 seconds to discussing the numerous examples of attacks against pro-life individuals and organizations.

Here are just some of the violence that has happened since Friday:

• In Colorado, a Christian crisis pregnancy center was vandalized and burned.
• In Lynchburg, Virginia, a pro-life center was broken into and spray painted with the following threat: “If abortion ain’t safe, you ain’t safe.”
• Pro-abortion protesters assaulted the Arizona Capitol on Friday night in what State Senate President Karen Fann described as a “thwarted insurrection.” Police fired tear gas into the crowd after they attempted to break into the building, which was in session at the time.
• In Memphis, Tennessee, a pro-abortion protester physically attacked a pro-life protester outside an abortion clinic.
• The Vermont statehouse was broken into and spray painted on the steps was this message: “If abortions aren’t safe, you’re not either.”
• In Reston, Virginia, someone vandalized and set a fire at the St. John Newman Catholic church. They left a spray painted message about the Supreme Court ruling.

So how did the networks respond? On CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News, journalists mentioned attacks against pro-lifers for 26 seconds. On the Today show and NBC Nightly News, the coverage amounted to an additional 26 seconds. ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight allowed 68 seconds. In total, this was a scant 120 seconds devoted to the violence and intimidation across the country.

Instead, the journalists offered a tired cliche to downplay violence: Mostly peaceful. On Monday’s CBS Evening News, Jan Crawford insisted, “Largely peaceful, there were scattered acts of vandalism and another attack on an anti-abortion pregnancy center like this one in Virginia.”

On the same day’s CBS Mornings, she echoed, “Now, over the weekend the protests remained largely peaceful.”

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On the June 27 Good Morning America, Rachel Scott parroted, “The protests were mostly peaceful.” On Sunday’s World News Tonight, Linsey Davis explained, “Most of the marches have remained peaceful.” But reporter Devin Dwyer showcased how this claim didn’t match by quickly mentioning two incidents of violence by abortion supporters:

Peaceful protests over abortion rights punctuated by isolated incidents of vandalism and violence. Windows smashed at the Vermont statehouse. In Colorado, a Christian pregnancy center threatened and burned.

On Saturday’s NBC Nightly News, reporter Ali Vitali chose an odd example for her “largely peaceful” assertion: “The protesters largely peaceful, gatherings once again outside the Justices’ D.C. area homes, Friday.” Considering that, in early June, a man attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh by traveling to his home with guns, this is hardly reassuring.

Of the meager coverage, the attacks on the Arizona State House got the most attention, still a meager 49 seconds. Monday’s Today allowed 15 seconds on the violence. Reporter Jesse Kirsch described the scene: “In Arizona, authorities say groups tried to break into the state Capitol with legislators still in session as state troopers deployed tear gas.”

Arizona State Senator Kelly Townsend tweeted this description on Friday night:

We are currently [here] being held hostage inside the Senate building due to members of the public trying to breach our security. We smell tear gas and the children of one of the members are in the office sobbing with fear.

Doesn’t sound “peaceful,” does it?

Here’s how Fox covered some of the attacks:

Last week, my NewsBusters colleague Bill D’Agostino and I explained how the networks were refusing to cover the pro-abortion terrorist group Jane’s Revenge. They have still failed to say the name of the group out loud, even as violence and harassment is escalating all across the country. Pro-life Americans and organizations are under assault by a radical mob. Journalists have a responsibility to cover these acts of violence before someone gets killed.

LifeNews.com Note: Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center and a contributing writer to NewsBusters, its blog where this item first appeared. Scott’s blogs have been featured in the “Inside Politics” section of the Washington Times and linked to on the Drudge Report. He is a graduate of George Mason University. This originally appeared at Newsbusters.

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Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont claimed Connecticut is the “most family-friendly state in America” while bragging about its “strong” pro-abortion laws in an open letter Thursday to business owners.

Addressing companies in states that protect unborn babies from abortion, Lamont urged their owners to relocate to Connecticut, The Hartford Courant reports.

“Now more than ever is the time to look at Connecticut as the future home of your business,” Lamont wrote in a letter co-signed by Lt Gov. Susan Bysiewicz.

Max Reiss, a spokesman for the governor, told the newspaper that they sent the letter as a press release to news outlets in pro-life states.

Lamont and Bysiewicz asserted that laws allowing unborn babies to be aborted for basically any reason, as Connecticut has, attract businesses and promote economic growth.

“The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means that access to reproductive rights will be decided by individual states,” they wrote. “There are far-reaching implications for businesses and workers located in states likely to severely limit access to [abortion] in the coming weeks.”

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They continued: “We are writing to any business owner that is disappointed in the stance of their current state. If you are looking to relocate to a state that supports the rights of women and whose actions and laws are unwavering in support of tolerance and inclusivity, Connecticut is for you.”

Lamont implied that most Americans support abortion on demand, continuing, “Customers and employees alike will be attracted to states that protect reproductive rights for all.”

However, polling data shows a majority of Americans support legal protections for unborn babies. Consistently, a strong majority oppose taxpayer-funded abortions, which Connecticut allows, and support parental involvement laws, which it does not.

The purpose of Lamont’s letter was to promote the killing of the smallest family members; yet, he claimed that abortion is a Connecticut “value” and the state is “family-friendly.”

“We’re the most family-friendly state in America with access to the best childcare you can find anywhere and a paid family medical leave program that provides necessary time for workers to care for loved ones,” the governor wrote.

However, Lamont supports the killing of families’ youngest, most vulnerable loved ones in abortions – babies in the womb who are unique, living and irreplaceable from the moment of conception.

In 2019, 9,202 unborn babies were aborted in Connecticut, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

Since Roe in 1973, more than 63 million unborn babies and hundreds of mothers have died in supposedly “safe,” legal abortions. The infamous ruling forces states to legalize abortions for any reason up to viability and allows abortions for any reason up to birth.

Now, states are starting to protect unborn babies from abortion again.

In the historic Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling last week, the justices overturned Roe and allowed states to protect unborn babies from abortion again. Thirteen already have done so, and more state are expected to enact pro-life laws in the coming weeks.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, as many as 26 states may ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.

ACTION ALERT: To complain, Contact Gov. Ned Lamont.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis says his administration will appeal a Florida judge’s ruling striking down a pro-life law to save babies from abortions.

Less than one week after the Supreme Court upheld a 15-week abortion ban in the state of Mississippi, a Florida judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a 15-week abortion ban Governor DeSantis signed to save babies from abortions.

The law is estimated to save as many as 5,000 babies from abortions.

“We’re here today to protect life,” Governor DeSantis said at a large ceremony to sign the bill back in April. “We’re here today to defend those who can’t defend themselves.”

But on Thursday, Judge John Cooper issued a ruling blocking the law — siding with abortion businesses who wanted to stop it before it went into force tomorrow to protect babies. The lawsuit comes on state constitutional grounds even though the Supreme Court overturned Roe and lifted federal objections to states protecting the lives of unborn children.

Cooper cited the right to privacy enumerated in the Florida Constitution. Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the Florida Constitution is explicit about the right to privacy, which the Florida Supreme Court has previously and erroneously ruled encompasses the so-called right to an abortion.

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“I’m not here to litigate abortion,” Cooper said. “I’m here to litigate the right to privacy in Florida. I’m not here to litigate Roe v. Wade.”

DeSantis spokesperson Bryan Griffin told the Tampa Bay Times that DeSantis will appeal the decision.

“The Florida Supreme Court previously misinterpreted Florida’s right to privacy as including a right to an abortion, and we reject this interpretation,” Griffin said. “The Florida Constitution does not include – and has never included – a right to kill an innocent unborn child.”

When DeSantis signed the law, the governor said the bill “protects the rights of unborn children starting at 15 weeks. This is a time where these babies have beating hearts. They can move, they can taste, they can see, they can feel pain, they can suck their thumb, and they have brain waves.”

“Life is a sacred gift worthy of our protection, and I am proud to sign this great piece of legislation which represents the most significant protections for life in the state’s modern history,” he said.

“So this will represent the most significant protections for life that have been enacted in this state in a generation.”

The legislation, which would have gone into effect today, bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions if the mother’s life is at risk or the unborn baby has a fatal disorder. It also includes measures to reduce infant mortality and a requirement that abortion facilities report suspected human trafficking cases to the state.

As LifeNews reported, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, with a 6-3 majority ruling in the Dobbs case that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” — allowing states to ban abortions and protect unborn babies. The high court also ruled 6-3 uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban so states can further limit abortions and to get rid of the false viability standard.

Chief Justice John Roberts technically voted for the judgment but, in his concurring opinion, disagreed with the reasoning and said he wanted to keep abortions legal but with a new standard.

Texas and Oklahoma had banned abortions before Roe was overturned and Missouri became the first state after Roe to protect babies from abortions and South Dakota became the 2nd. Then Arkansas became the third state protecting babies from abortions and Kentucky became the 4th and Louisiana became the 5th and Ohio became the 6th and Utah became the 7th and Oklahoma became the 8th and Alabama became the 9th. This week, Mississippi became the 10th and South Carolina became the 11th,Texas became the 12th with its pre-Roe law and Tennessee became the 13th.

Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia have old pro-life laws on the books but there is question about whether they are applicable and will be enforced.

Ultimately, as many as 26 states could immediately or quickly ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.

The 13 total states with trigger laws that would effectively ban all or most abortions are: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Alito wrote. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

This is a landmark day for the Pro-Life movement and our entire nation. After staining the moral fabric of our country for nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade is no more.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer authored a joint dissent condemning the decision as enabling states to enact “draconian” restrictions on women.

Polls show Americans are pro-life on abortion.

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Texas has appealed a judge’s temporary restraining order against its pre-Roe abortion ban so it can fully enforce the law and save babies from abortions.

Texas was the first state to successfully ban abortions before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It’;s heartbeat law prohibited abortions after 6 weeks and included a private enforcement mechanism to avoid being overturned in court.

Following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confirmed that the state’s pre-Roe abortion ban has come into effect to ban aboritons starting at conception.

However, four days after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade, a Harris County judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking some government officials from enforcing its pre-Roe abortion bans against several abortion businesses. The abortion facilities asked the judge to prevent the enforcement of Texas’ pre-Roe abortion bans against these specific abortion companies.

While abortion it still generally banned in the state under the pre-Roe law and still banned after 6 weeks under the heartbeat law, Paxton announced today that he has appealed the ruling so the abortion ban is in full force across the state, and not just everywhere except Houston.

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“The trial court was wrong to enjoin enforcement of Texas’s longstanding prohibitions on elective abortion. I will not hesitate to act in defense of unborn Texans put in jeopardy by plaintiffs’ wrongful actions and the trial court’s erroneous order,” Paxton said in a tweet.

Some DAs are threatening to not prosecute illegal abortions, but the trigger law gives Paxton the power to enforce the law. Under Texas’s trigger law, which will go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court issues its official judgment in the case overturning Roe, Paxton could override local district attorneys and go after abortion businesses and abortion funds.

And although Paxton can’t prosecute abortion practitioners under the law on his own, he can seek civil penalties of up to $100,000 per abortion.

Texas abortion businesses have confirmed they have stopped killing babies in abortions.

As LifeNews reported, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, with a 6-3 majority ruling in the Dobbs case that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” — allowing states to ban abortions and protect unborn babies. The high court also ruled 6-3 uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban so states can further limit abortions and to get rid of the false viability standard.

Chief Justice John Roberts technically voted for the judgment but, in his concurring opinion, disagreed with the reasoning and said he wanted to keep abortions legal but with a new standard.

Texas and Oklahoma had banned abortions before Roe was overturned and Missouri became the first state after Roe to protect babies from abortions and South Dakota became the 2nd. Then Arkansas became the third state protecting babies from abortions and Kentucky became the 4th and Louisiana became the 5th and Ohio became the 6th and Utah became the 7th and Oklahoma became the 8th and Alabama became the 9th. This week, Mississippi became the 10th and South Carolina became the 11th,Texas became the 12th with its pre-Roe law and Tennessee became the 13th.

Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia have old pro-life laws on the books but there is question about whether they are applicable and will be enforced.

Ultimately, as many as 26 states could immediately or quickly ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.

The 13 total states with trigger laws that would effectively ban all or most abortions are: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Alito wrote. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

This is a landmark day for the Pro-Life movement and our entire nation. After staining the moral fabric of our country for nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade is no more.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer authored a joint dissent condemning the decision as enabling states to enact “draconian” restrictions on women.

Polls show Americans are pro-life on abortion.

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As if there aren’t already enough bad takes on the Dobbs decision, celebrity leftists are lining up to see who could outdo each other. Left-wing feminist and propagandist and erstwhile British Royal Meghan Markle just had to add more noise to the discussion.

In an interview with Vogue, Markle said wants the abortion acolytes to channel their fear and anger into action.

Meghan sat down with infamous feminist Gloria Steinem and Jessica Yellin to stoke fears about a post-Roe America. The three harpies spouted a lot of disinformation about abortion and the court’s decision. Meghan, however, gave the worst take on the decision:

“What does this tell women? It tells us that our physical safety doesn’t matter, and as a result that we don’t matter. But we do. Women matter. And this is one of the reasons that I called Gloria immediately. Because in all of it, she reminds me that when you have anger, you have to channel that energy into something that makes a difference. That’s what activism is. It’s about how we show up.”

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The woman who could not handle the responsibility of royalty wanted young women to fight for the removal of the burden of motherhood.

She continued to stoke fears about the potential to overturn lousy court decisions. “This is a blueprint for reversing rights. The ruling is a signal about the future of same-sex marriage, contraception access, and many fundamental rights to privacy,” she cried. “It feels like the tip of the iceberg and is part of why people feel so scared. We have to channel that fear into action.” But, of course, Meghan’s ideas of activism are only good when it is done in support of left-wing causes.

Do not worry; Meghan will not be leaving the political scene anytime soon. “Without question,” she declared. “Being home, seeing what’s happening in our country and feeling energized and motivated, if this is the type of legislation that we need pushed through, then this is a moment that I am absolutely going to show up for. Not just because it’s what we need as women, but it’s what we need as people.” The former Duchess of Sussex, who has her husband on a short leash, will continue to serve the needs of the leftist mob.

Meghan Markle’s interview showed she is nothing more than just another sophist that barks leftist platitudes on command.

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The national March for Life in Washington, D.C. will continue until “abortion is unthinkable,” organization president Jeanne Mancini confirmed this week.

Nearly 50 years ago, pro-life advocates began the March for Life to protest the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, and pro-life advocates have marched peacefully in the capital every January since then.

Even though Roe is gone and states may protect unborn babies from abortion again, Mancini said there still is a need to march for the rights of the unborn, the Catholic News Service reports.

“We will still be having our federal legislative battles,” Mancini said Wednesday on the webcast “Life Beyond Roe.”

She said they still plan to hold a national march every year in Washington, D.C., but the March for Life also wants to focus on state-level pro-life advocacy.

“We will continue to march until abortion is unthinkable,” Mancini said.

Here’s more from the report:

“I would say the voices will have more impact at the state level” as state legislatures that have not already enacted abortion bans begin to debate legislation, she said. “So it’s like less is more.”

March for Life has held state marches in Connecticut, Virginia and California, with ones planned for Pennsylvania in September and Ohio in October.

Next year, Mancini said the plans are to double the number, and over the next six years, to have marches in all 50 state capitals.

The March for Life typically draws hundreds of thousands of pro-life advocates to Washington, D.C. every year to protest peacefully for the rights of unborn babies.

In a historic ruling Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and allowed states to protect unborn babies from abortion again.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority.

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Since the ruling, 13 states have banned abortions and more are expected to do so in the weeks ahead.

For nearly 50 years, Roe forced states to legalize the killing of unborn babies for any reason up to viability and allowed states to legalize abortions without limits up to birth. The ruling made the United States one of only seven countries in the world that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks. As a result, more than 63 million unborn babies have been aborted.

Now, states are allowed to make their own laws regarding abortion again, and Guttmacher Institute researchers estimate as many as 26 will protect unborn babies by banning or strictly limiting abortions. These laws are expected to save hundreds of thousands of unborn babies from abortion every year.

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas confirmed today that some COVID vaccines were developed with cells from “aborted children.”

Thomas is correct, and Politico, despite casting doubt on his comment with words like “claimed” and “suggested,” confirmed as much – though possibly inadvertently.

According to Politico, Thomas mentioned the link between abortion and the vaccines in a dissenting opinion Thursday about a New York religious freedom case.

The lawsuit involves 16 health care workers who object to the state COVID-19 vaccination mandate. A majority of the justices refused to hear the case, but Thomas dissented in an opinion joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, according to the report.

In his opinion, Thomas “suggested” that all COVID-19 vaccines were developed using cells from aborted babies, Politico reports.

“They object on religious grounds to all available COVID–19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children,” Thomas wrote.

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Politico cast doubt on the justice’s statement, writing: “None of the Covid-19 vaccines in the United States contain the cells of aborted fetuses. Cells obtained from elective abortions decades ago were used in testing during the Covid vaccine development process, a practice that is common in vaccine testing — including for the rubella and chickenpox vaccinations.”

But this does not refute what Thomas wrote. Quite the opposite, it confirms it.

No cells from aborted babies are in the actual vaccine, but most COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, including those from Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer – were tested, developed and/or produced using cell lines created from aborted babies, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

These cell lines were created with cells from aborted babies and multiplied in a lab “into many cells of the same kind,” the research group explained. “These can be grown indefinitely and further multiplied, creating lines of cells that are sometimes used for science experiments.”

At the time of the lawsuit, all of the available COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. had some connection to abortion – some more so than others.

Pro-lifers and religious leaders have conflicting opinions about the COVID-19 vaccines. Many have recommended that people avoid the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but disagree about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

In the case of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, cell lines created from an aborted baby were used in “animal-phase testing,” but they were not used in the development or production of the vaccines. Because the connection to abortion is small, many say the vaccines are acceptable, especially when no alternative is available. However, others argue that any connection to abortion, even a remote one, makes a vaccine unethical.

Vaccines can be produced ethically with pluripotent stem cells and tissue from placentas, umbilical cords and amniotic fluid — materials that do not require the destruction of human life. In 2018, the Trump administration created a $20 million grant to invest in these ethical research alternatives.

In 2020, in the midst of the COVID pandemic, the Charlotte Lozier Institute identified 17 research groups that were conducting ethical coronavirus vaccine experiments while five that were not. The five using cell lines created from aborted babies in their research include the University of Oxford (AstraZeneca), Johnson & Johnson and the University of Pittsburgh.

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The Supreme Court today told two different federal appeals courts to uphold state pro-life laws following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

With the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe, the nation’s highest court gave states the latitude to pass their own laws on abortion. And with that, the Supreme Court instructed two appeals courts to re-evaluate their decisions on state pro-life laws since their decisions are no longer proper under the Dobbs decision.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to vacate a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit’s in Rutledge v. Little Rock Family Planning Services and remand it back to that court to re-evaluate its ruling in light of the Supreme Court’s decision. The 8th Circuit had suspended enforcement of Arkansas laws protecting unborn life after 18 weeks in gestational age, prohibiting abortions simply because the baby may have Down syndrome, and requiring abortionists to be board-certified or board-eligible in obstetrics and gynecology

Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Denise Harle hailed the decision.

“Every human life is worthy of protection; Arkansas’ laws protect both unborn children and women. And now that the Supreme Court has returned policy decisions of this sort to the states, we trust that the 8th Circuit will conclude that Arkansas’ laws protecting unborn children, the health of pregnant mothers, and the integrity of the medical profession are legitimate,” she said.

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Harle beleives the appeals court will uphold the law now.

She told LifeNews: “Two of the three 8th Circuit judges who ruled against Arkansas felt bound by the Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey but expressed their deep concern for the error of those decisions, noting that ‘each human being is priceless beyond measure.’ States—including Arkansas—have a valid interest in ensuring that their laws respect the life and dignity of the unborn and are protect the health of women based on the latest science.”

Meanwhile, SCOTUS decided to vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit’s decision in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, instructing that court to re-evaluate its ruling. That was a lower court ruling against an Indiana law ensuring that parents are notified if their minor children seek an abortion.

Harle also commented on this decision.

She told LifeNews: “The well-being of both babies and young women is more important than the bottom line of abortionists. All this law has sought to do is uphold the duty and desire of parents to protect their own children rather than allow them to be taken advantage of by others. We trust that the 7th Circuit will conclude, now that the Supreme Court has returned policy decisions of this sort to the states, that Indiana’s law ensuring that parents have the opportunity to be involved in their children’s life-changing decisions is legitimate. No one should desire to prevent a pregnant mother from understanding the true implications of an abortion procedure.”

As LifeNews reported, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, with a 6-3 majority ruling in the Dobbs case that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” — allowing states to ban abortions and protect unborn babies. The high court also ruled 6-3 uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban so states can further limit abortions and to get rid of the false viability standard.

Chief Justice John Roberts technically voted for the judgment but, in his concurring opinion, disagreed with the reasoning and said he wanted to keep abortions legal but with a new standard.

Texas and Oklahoma had banned abortions before Roe was overturned and Missouri became the first state after Roe to protect babies from abortions and South Dakota became the 2nd. Then Arkansas became the third state protecting babies from abortions and Kentucky became the 4th and Louisiana became the 5th and Ohio became the 6th and Utah became the 7th and Oklahoma became the 8th and Alabama became the 9th. This week, Mississippi became the 10th and South Carolina became the 11th,Texas became the 12th with its pre-Roe law and Tennessee became the 13th.

Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia have old pro-life laws on the books but there is question about whether they are applicable and will be enforced.

Ultimately, as many as 26 states could immediately or quickly ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.

The 13 total states with trigger laws that would effectively ban all or most abortions are: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Alito wrote. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

This is a landmark day for the Pro-Life movement and our entire nation. After staining the moral fabric of our country for nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade is no more.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer authored a joint dissent condemning the decision as enabling states to enact “draconian” restrictions on women.

Polls show Americans are pro-life on abortion.

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The DutchNews.nl reported today that Dutch Health Minister Ernst Kuipers announced the intention to extend euthanasia to children, but without changing the law. Kuipers intends to extend the Groningen Protocol, which currently applies to babies, to include children under the age of 12.

An article by Peter McLaren Kennedy for EuroWeekly stated:

The proposed protocol contains seven criteria for euthanasia for those between one and 12. Doctors will have to be convinced the child’s suffering is unbearable and there is no possibility of a cure or a treatment to alleviate the pain.

The diagnosis would have to be fully discussed with the child’s parents as well as the possibility of euthanasia, for which both parents will have to give their permission.

Doctors will also discuss the procedure with the child in a way the child will understand and will only proceed if the child is in no way opposed to it.

In addition, doctors will have to consult at least one independent doctor who will be required to evaluate if all the criteria have been met before euthanasia can take place.

The concept is currently out to consultation with Kuipers to present the final concept in October, when he will also announce when the protocol will come into force.

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In October 2020, Netherlands Health Minister Hugo de Jonge announced that the government would amend or permit child euthanasia. According to the DutchNews.nl:

De Jonge added that current laws would not need to be amended. Rather, doctors would be exempted from prosecution for carrying out an approved euthanasia on a child.

At that time, an effective campaign opposing child euthanasia was established by a group of Netherlands citizens and the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition ran a petition with more than 100,000 people opposing child euthanasia. The Netherlands government did not extend euthanasia to children.

This latest announcement may set a very dangerous precedent. The Groningen Protocol permits euthanasia of newborns who are experiencing current or possible future suffering. If you use the same definitions for children under 12, there will be many euthanasia deaths of children who may have treatable conditions. Further to that, there are many medical conditions that possibly lead to future suffering.

As much as I oppose euthanasia in general, it would be more honest if the Netherlands parliament debated and passed clear legal guidelines rather than avoid the contentious debate and approve a killing protocol that will enable doctors and parents to make lethal decisions in a back room.

LifeNews.com Note: Alex Schadenberg is the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and you can read his blog here.

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A dangerous lie is circulating on social media again, planting the notion in women’s and girls’ minds that pro-life laws ban life-saving treatment for ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages.

Doctors, pro-life leaders, LifeNews.com and other publications have refuted the false claim numerous times, pointing to clear language in pro-life laws, medical facts, statements by medical professionals and providers.

But it resurfaced again this week after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a historic ruling and states began protecting unborn babies from abortion again.

This week, millions of impressionable women and girls heard from celebrities like Halle Berry and Meghan Markle that pro-life laws will put their lives in jeopardy and ban life-saving pregnancy care, according to The Federalist.

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“The treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is abortion,” Berry wrote in a tweet that amassed hundreds of thousands of responses. “… The treatment for a miscarriage that your body won’t release is abortion. If you can’t get those abortions, you die. You. Die.”

Politicians like Hillary Clinton and the mayor of San Francisco, writers at ABC News, NBC News, the Daily Beast and others spouted similar claims, The Federalist reports.

But they are not true, and the lie could put women’s lives at risk. Women suffering from life-threatening complications could delay seeking medical treatment because of the lie and put their lives at even greater risk.

“My heart is breaking that women are being made to feel fearful by the misinformation that’s out there,” said Dr. Christina Francis, a leading pro-life OB-GYN. “As a pro-life OB/GYN who’s practiced my entire career in hospitals that do not allow abortions, I have never been prevented from safely treating an ectopic pregnancy.”

Pro-life doctors and hospitals have and will continue to treat women suffering from miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies, too, said Francis, of the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNs.

She said treating ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages or other life-threatening conditions in pregnancy are not the same as elective abortions, which is what pro-life laws prohibit. Even the U.S. Food and Drug Administration states that chemical abortions, or abortion drugs, cannot treat an ectopic pregnancy, Francis continued.

“I’ve never needed to perform an elective abortion, and yet I’ve been able to take care of women with ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages throughout my career,” she said.

Treatments for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies are not the same as abortions because the purpose is to save the mother’s life, not to kill an unborn baby. Even Planned Parenthood admits this on its website, lawyer Mary FioRito with the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture pointed out on Twitter this week.

Sharing an image from the abortion group’s website, FioRito wrote: “Catholic hospitals treat women with ectopic pregnancies every day. Abortion clinics don’t. Most abortion practitioners aren’t even ON/GYNs, much less surgeons. Planned Parenthood recommends women go to a local ER to be treated. Not to an abortion clinic.”

The Charlotte Lozier Institute also published a fact sheet this week that explains the facts about miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies and abortion laws.

Legally, most laws that restrict or ban abortions specifically state that treatments for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies are not abortions, and all pro-life laws allow exceptions if the mother’s life is at risk, which includes such situations.

The truth is women’s lives matter to the pro-life movement, too. Many pro-life leaders have suffered miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies and abortions themselves, and they know the heartache of losing a child. The pro-life movement is based on the fundamental belief that every human life is valuable and deserving of human rights, and that includes every mother and every child.

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A United Church of Christ pastor from Ohio boasted about driving women across state lines to abort their unborn babies last week after the state heartbeat law went into effect.

The pastor claimed to be helping women, but mothers and their babies deserve better. Abortions do not heal or save; they harm and kill.

Ohio began enforcing its pro-life law, which protects unborn babies by banning abortions once their heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday.

As a result, abortion facilities had to cancel numerous abortion appointments – an estimated 90 percent in Northeast Ohio alone, the Akron Beacon Journal reports.

Now, babies’ lives are being spared from abortion all across Ohio, but some abortion activists, including supposedly Christian pastors, are trying to thwart the state’s life-saving efforts.

Last week, the Rev. Terry Williams, a UCC pastor in Chillicothe, said a group of pastors organized a carpool to take women to Pennsylvania, for abortions after Ohio abortion facilities were forced to stop.

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“The clinics had to call people on Friday and say, ‘You can’t come in tomorrow. You can’t come in tonight,” Williams told the newspaper. “When that happened, there were multiple carpools of individuals from Akron, Canton and over into Youngstown that drove people to Pittsburgh or up to Erie to be able to get abortion care.”

Williams is part of the pro-abortion group Ohio Clergy for Choice, pastors who support the killing of unborn babies in abortions, as well as Faith Choice Ohio, which promotes abortion as a moral, religious good.

Through the two organizations, Williams and other pastors organize self-managed abortion training events and run a religious charity that provides money for mothers to abort their unborn babies, according to the report.

Notably absent from these “pro-choice” religious advocates is support and encouragement for mothers who choose life for their unborn babies. Many women who abort their unborn babies feel desperate, unsupported and alone. When offered support, however, many reject abortion and choose life for their unborn babies.

True support for pregnant mothers in need comes from the pro-life movement through thousands of pregnancy resource centers and other charities, many of them faith-based. These organizations provide free counseling, pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, baby supplies, financial aid and more to encourage and support families in need and save babies’ lives.

An abortion kills a unique, living human being who, Christianity teaches, is a valuable person created in the image of God. The Bible condemns murder, the harming of children and the shedding of innocent blood, and it recognizes unborn babies as valuable human beings.

True Christianity raises up the most vulnerable, defends the defenseless and offers compassion to the suffering. This is what pro-life advocates, secular and religious, do every day for mothers and babies across the world.

Yet, in the name of religion, some Christian leaders are perverting the truth and leading people astray. In doing so, they are jeopardizing the futures of countless children in society.

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Less than one week after the Supreme Court upheld a 15-week abortion ban in the state of Mississippi, a Florida judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a 15-week abortion ban Governor Ron DeSantis signed to save babies from abortions.

The law is estimated to save as many as 5,000 babies from abortions.

“We’re here today to protect life,” Governor DeSantis said at a large ceremony to sign the bill back in April. “We’re here today to defend those who can’t defend themselves.”

But today, Judge John Cooper issued a ruling blocking the law — siding with abortion businesses who wanted to stop it before it went into force tomorrow to protect babies. The lawsuit comes on state constitutional grounds even though the Supreme Court overturned Roe and lifted federal objections to states protecting the lives of unborn children.

Here’s more:

Cooper plans to issue a temporary injunction against the legislation but said the written order formally pausing the law won’t come Thursday because of time constraints.

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Cooper cited the right to privacy enumerated in the Florida Constitution.

Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the Florida Constitution is explicit about the right to privacy, which the Florida Supreme Court has previously ruled encompasses the right to an abortion. Ultimately, Florida’s 15-week abortion ban is expected to go before the Florida Supreme Court.

When DeSantis signed the law, the governor said the bill “protects the rights of unborn children starting at 15 weeks. This is a time where these babies have beating hearts. They can move, they can taste, they can see, they can feel pain, they can suck their thumb, and they have brain waves.”

“Life is a sacred gift worthy of our protection, and I am proud to sign this great piece of legislation which represents the most significant protections for life in the state’s modern history,” he said.

“So this will represent the most significant protections for life that have been enacted in this state in a generation.”

The legislation, which would go into effect July 1, bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions if the mother’s life is at risk or the unborn baby has a fatal disorder. It also includes measures to reduce infant mortality and a requirement that abortion facilities report suspected human trafficking cases to the state.

As LifeNews reported, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, with a 6-3 majority ruling in the Dobbs case that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” — allowing states to ban abortions and protect unborn babies. The high court also ruled 6-3 uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban so states can further limit abortions and to get rid of the false viability standard.

Chief Justice John Roberts technically voted for the judgment but, in his concurring opinion, disagreed with the reasoning and said he wanted to keep abortions legal but with a new standard.

Texas and Oklahoma had banned abortions before Roe was overturned and Missouri became the first state after Roe to protect babies from abortions and South Dakota became the 2nd. Then Arkansas became the third state protecting babies from abortions and Kentucky became the 4th and Louisiana became the 5th and Ohio became the 6th and Utah became the 7th and Oklahoma became the 8th and Alabama became the 9th. This week, Mississippi became the 10th and South Carolina became the 11th,Texas became the 12th with its pre-Roe law and Tennessee became the 13th.

Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia have old pro-life laws on the books but there is question about whether they are applicable and will be enforced.

Ultimately, as many as 26 states could immediately or quickly ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.

The 13 total states with trigger laws that would effectively ban all or most abortions are: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Alito wrote. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

This is a landmark day for the Pro-Life movement and our entire nation. After staining the moral fabric of our country for nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade is no more.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer authored a joint dissent condemning the decision as enabling states to enact “draconian” restrictions on women.

Polls show Americans are pro-life on abortion.

LifeNews Note: The photo below depicts an unborn baby at 15 weeks.

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In politics, victory is rarely the end of anything; usually it’s just the beginning. Whether an election, passage of a bill, or a court decision, success always presents winners with new and more difficult responsibilities. Pro-life conservatives should have this iron law of politics in mind as we celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

With Roe v. Wade finally overturned, the conservative movement faces a new and even larger challenge. That task is rebuilding the public institutions that Roe has helped to corrode over the last 49 years.

Roe was not just a court case. It was a cancer injected into America’s constitutional order in 1973, and which has been metastasizing ever since. There is not a single major public institution today that is pro-life, nor a single institution the American people still trust.

Overturning Roe is a kind of constitutional surgery—the removal of a tumor so that the patient, our republic, can finally start to heal.

But 49 years is a lot of institutional decay to come back from. And with Roe gone, major political, cultural, journalistic, and commercial enterprises across the country will begin lobbying for abortion maximalism in every city hall and state house in the country, and on Capitol Hill.

Conservatives’ only hope for contending with the left’s discredited but still incumbent institutions is to build our own. Some may say that’s Pollyannaish. But in a post-Roe world, that assertion is self-evidently wrong.

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The Supreme Court’s originalist majority, led by Justice Clarence Thomas, is one institution the right has rescued from constitutional vandalism. Dobbs, along with other decisions on school choice, religious freedom, and the Second Amendment, could open new avenues of constitutional entrepreneurism in coming years.

With Roe now gone, the right must build: new institutions, new projects, new outreach to communities we have not reached before. And there is no better issue to lead with than the right to life.

The coming crash of the university-industrial complex under the weight of America’s Great Recession baby bust will create new opportunities, too, for conservatives to reimagine our role in higher education.

The stunning success of the unabashedly patriotic “Top Gun: Maverick” augurs well for conservatives’ prospects in a diversifying entertainment industry desperate for audiences.

If San Francisco is recalling woke school board members and district attorneys, you can bet similar opportunities exist throughout our society.

With Roe now gone, the right must build: new institutions, new projects, new outreach to communities we have not reached before. And there is no better issue to lead with than the right to life.

Liberals often ask what, after Roe, conservatives will say to women suddenly faced with carrying unplanned pregnancies to term. It’s a fair question, one we need to answer.

What local, state, and federal policies need to change to make sure new moms and babies get the support they need? What new organizations, schools, or businesses need to be created to meet some of those needs—helping young couples, single moms, and their kids?

After Roe, the operative word in building a culture of life is building.

We are proud to say the American Cornerstone Institute and The Heritage Foundation are two of the institutions pro-lifers can build on. We are fighting to protect the lives of the unborn and be voices for those who do not have one yet. But in a post-Roe era, our work will have to grow.

The pro-life movement must become more entrepreneurial, more strategically diverse, and much more ambitious. Yes, we have to meet the abortion industry in every legislative chamber at every level of American government.

At the same time, we have to create a new, more pro-life society around the men, women, and children in challenging or unplanned pregnancies. That’s a new role, and all pro-lifers should embrace it. We have to be more than activists; we have to be architects, investors, and cultural bricklayers.

Teaching the success sequence—getting a high school education, working full time, and marrying before having children—will equip young Americans to make healthy decisions. Ensuring our welfare programs don’t penalize marriage and discourage work will set up mothers and children for long-term success. And emphasizing the importance of fatherhood will give children a better future.

Heritage’s new Innovation Prize project will award more than $1 million this year to new research, litigation, and organizations that can help build the policy agenda and civil society Americans need to thrive. ACI’s Little Patriots project will help parents counterprogram their kids’ anti-American schools—helping the next generation of citizens learn about their history and founding principles, starting with the inalienable right to life.

These are just two examples of gaps pro-life conservatives need to fill in post-Roe America. Overturning Roe is conservatives’ greatest victory since the end of the Cold War. With it will come a new era of work, responsibility, and opportunity, for which we must be ready.

In the fight for life, that’s what winning looks like.

LifeNews Note: Dr. Ben Carson is a pro-life former surgeon and served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021.  Dr. Kevin Roberts is president of the Heritage Foundation. He serves as the seventh president in Heritage’s 48-year history.

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Joe Biden is calling on Senate Democrats to make a one-time exception to the filibuster rules in order to force a bill through the chamber that would legalize abortions up to birth nationwide. Such a bill would essentially override the ability of states to protect babies from abortions following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

But Biden has a major roadblock between that goal and the reality of forcing the most radical pro-abortion bill ever through the upper chamber of Congress: Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema.

The two Democrats have previously opposed changes to the filibuster and that stance apparently hasn’t changed despite the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe.

As CNN reporter Manu Raju posted on Twitter, “Manchin’s position opposing reducing 60-vote threshold for filibuster also hasn’t changed despite Biden’s comments, per spox.”

NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur confirmed that as well.

“For those wondering: Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin remain opposed to a filibuster exception for Roe/abortion protections, per their offices, despite Biden’s call today,” he reported on Twitter.

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After the leak of the Dobbs decision in may, Manchin confirmed then that he would not change his position on the filibuster to allow for passage of the extreme pro-abortion bill.

The filibuster is a protection of democracy,” Manchin told reporters at the time.

Sinema was on the same page then as well, saying that “protections in the Senate safeguarding against the erosion of women’s access to health care have been used half-a-dozen times in the past ten years, and are more important now than ever.”

Biden laid out his call for a one-time change to the filibuster earlier today.

“I believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the Congress votes to do that” Biden said during a speech at the NATO summit.

“If the filibuster gets in the way, it’s like voting rights, it should be we provide an exception for this,” Biden continued.

The filibuster ensures that that rights of the minority in the Senate are protected and would require 60 votes for passage of a radical bill to legalize aboritons up to birth in every state in America because pro-life Republicans and Democrat Senator Joe Manchin would object to a vote on the bill. Without the filibuster, Democrats would have a hard time getting the measure through the chamber because Manchin would vote against it and there is the possibility that pro-abortion Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.

When the Senate defeated cloture on the bill earlier this year, Manchin, Collins and Murkowski all voted to uphold the filibuster.

The legislation is the misnamed Women’s Health Protection Act and not only would it legalize abortions up to birth nationwide, it would overturn every pro-life law in America.

Democrat leaders and many mainstream news outlets portray the bill as an effort to simply “codify the right to an abortion” in the U.S. in response to the likelihood that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade later this year. The bill would:

• Eliminate all state and federal parental consent laws in relation to abortion
• Eliminate all state informed consent laws, including those that allow women to view an ultrasound prior to abortion
• Prevent states from passing laws to protect babies at 20 weeks, thereby joining countries like North Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, and the Netherlands in not protecting unborn children later in development
• Force doctors and nurses opposed to abortion to lose their jobs, and Catholic hospitals could lose public funds unless they perform abortions
• Eliminate decades-long limitations on direct taxpayer funding of abortion – including the popular Hyde Amendment, which has saved more than 2 million lives since enacted

In short, the legislation would overturn all federal and state pro-life laws and make it illegal for elected officials to even introduce pro-life legislation.

Bans on partial-birth abortions, sex-selection abortions and taxpayer-funded abortions would be gone if the bill passes. Laws that protect women and girls would be eliminated, too, including parental consent for minors and informed consent laws that ensure mothers receive basic facts about their unborn baby’s development before going through with an abortion.

The bill passed the House last year, so if Democrats can get it through the Senate the radical pro-abortion measure will certainly be signed into law.

As LifeNews reported, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, with a 6-3 majority ruling in the Dobbs case that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” — allowing states to ban abortions and protect unborn babies. The high court also ruled 6-3 uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban so states can further limit abortions and to get rid of the false viability standard.

Chief Justice John Roberts technically voted for the judgment but, in his concurring opinion, disagreed with the reasoning and said he wanted to keep abortions legal but with a new standard.

Texas and Oklahoma had banned abortions before Roe was overturned and Missouri became the first state after Roe to protect babies from abortions and South Dakota became the 2nd. Then Arkansas became the third state protecting babies from abortions and Kentucky became the 4th and Louisiana became the 5th and Ohio became the 6th and Utah became the 7th and Oklahoma became the 8th and Alabama became the 9th. This week, Mississippi became the 10th and South Carolina became the 11th,Texas became the 12th with its pre-Roe law and Tennessee became the 13th.

Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia have old pro-life laws on the books but there is question about whether they are applicable and will be enforced.

Ultimately, as many as 26 states could immediately or quickly ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.

The 13 total states with trigger laws that would effectively ban all or most abortions are: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Alito wrote. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

This is a landmark day for the Pro-Life movement and our entire nation. After staining the moral fabric of our country for nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade is no more.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer authored a joint dissent condemning the decision as enabling states to enact “draconian” restrictions on women.

Polls show Americans are pro-life on abortion.

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A Kentucky judge has temporarily blocked the state’s abortion ban that went into effect following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Hours after the Dobbs decision, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced an advisory opinion indicating that the Kentucky Human Life Protecting Act, which bans abortions statewide, is now in effect.

Kentucky enacted the Human Life Protection Act, now codified at KRS
311.772, in March 2019. The Kentucky General Assembly passed the law by a
bipartisan vote in both chambers. The Act prohibits abortion in most circumstances.
Generally speaking, it states that no person may knowingly cause or aid in “the
termination of the life of an unborn human being.” KRS 311.772(3). Performing a
prohibited abortion is a Class D felony, but pregnant mothers who receive an abortion
are not subject to any criminal liability. KRS 311.772(3)(b), (5)

The prohibition on performing abortions in KRS 311.772 became effective on
June 24, 2022, the date on which the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs.

But Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the pro-life law under the state constitution and requested a retaining order against it while the lawsuit proceeds. That was granted today by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Mitch Perry.

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Cameron criticized the decision, saying the state would be challenging the decision.

“In the wake of an historic victory for life at the nation’s highest court, today, one judge in Kentucky has, without basis in the Kentucky Constitution, allowed two clinics to resume abortions. We cannot let the same mistake that happened in Roe v. Wade, nearly 50 years ago, to be made again in Kentucky. We will be seeking relief from this order,” he said in a statement.

“The U.S. Supreme Court made it abundantly clear in Dobbs that decisions about the protection of life should be decided by the states and the people through their representatives. Our General Assembly clearly expressed Kentucky’s support for life by passing the Human Life Protection Act with bipartisan support.  We will do everything possible to continue defending this law and to ensure that unborn life is protected in the Commonwealth,” he added.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling, Attorney General Cameron has taken action to ensure Kentucky’s pro-life laws take effect, after many were tied up in court for years.  He has asked courts to allow the Commonwealth’s heartbeat law (SB 9, 2019); prohibition of discriminatory abortions (HB 5, 2019); prohibition of live dismemberment abortions (HB 454, 2018); and the Humanity in Healthcare Bill (HB 3, 2022) to take effect.

The Human Life Protection Act prohibits abortions in the Commonwealth unless necessary to protect the life of the mother. 

Since the abortion ban went into effect, MW Women’s Surgical Center, one of the two abortion businesses in the state, says it has canceled around 200 abortions.

As LifeNews reported, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, with a 6-3 majority ruling in the Dobbs case that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” — allowing states to ban abortions and protect unborn babies. The high court also ruled 6-3 uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban so states can further limit abortions and to get rid of the false viability standard.

Chief Justice John Roberts technically voted for the judgment but, in his concurring opinion, disagreed with the reasoning and said he wanted to keep abortions legal but with a new standard.

Texas and Oklahoma had banned abortions before Roe was overturned and Missouri became the first state after Roe to protect babies from abortions and South Dakota became the 2nd. Then Arkansas became the third state protecting babies from abortions and Kentucky became the 4th and Louisiana became the 5th and Ohio became the 6th and Utah became the 7th and Oklahoma became the 8th and Alabama became the 9th. This week, Mississippi became the 10th and South Carolina became the 11th,Texas became the 12th with its pre-Roe law and Tennessee became the 13th.

Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia have old pro-life laws on the books but there is question about whether they are applicable and will be enforced.

Ultimately, as many as 26 states could immediately or quickly ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.

The 13 total states with trigger laws that would effectively ban all or most abortions are: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Alito wrote. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

This is a landmark day for the Pro-Life movement and our entire nation. After staining the moral fabric of our country for nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade is no more.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer authored a joint dissent condemning the decision as enabling states to enact “draconian” restrictions on women.

Polls show Americans are pro-life on abortion.

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A Michigan public prosecutor said he will enforce a state pro-life law that bans killing unborn babies in abortions even if others refuse.

In a statement Monday, Christopher Becker, a public prosecutor for Kent County, said state officials should not ignore laws that they don’t like – a comment aimed at Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. A pro-abortion Democrat, Nessel has said she will not enforce the pro-life law.

“I will abide by whatever laws are passed by the legislature or by voter initiative down the road. That is the proper role of a prosecutor,” Becker said. “At this time, however, there is a validly passed statute which has been upheld by the Court of Appeals in the past, and I will not turn a blind eye and ignore it. To do so, in my opinion, would be improper.”

Michigan has a 1931 abortion ban that should have gone back into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week. However, a state judge who donates to Planned Parenthood recently blocked enforcement of the law, saying it “likely violates the state constitution,” Townhall reports.

As a result, Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities still are aborting unborn babies in the state, according to Bridge Michigan.

However, some lawyers have raised questions about the extent of the judge’s order and whether county-level prosecutors still may enforce the pro-life law, according to Bridge Michigan.

Lawyer David Kallman, who represents Republican prosecutors in Kent and Jackson counties, thinks they can.

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“If there’s any prosecutor in this state right now today, and the police came to them with a investigation showing a doctor performed an abortion in violation of the statute, a prosecutor could prosecute right now — today — if they wanted to,” Kallman told Bridge Michigan.

Here’s more from the report:

Nessel’s office emailed county prosecutors a copy of that opinion indicating they do not have authority to enforce the 1931 ban while the injunction remains in place, according to court filings.

But asked Friday whether she is confident in that analysis, Nessel declined to take a legal position, saying it’s a debate that may end up playing out in courts.

Becker told the news outlet that he has not received any cases yet about alleged violations of the abortion law, but he will consider them on a case-by-case basis if he does.

“I’m not going to say yes (to prosecution) for sure, because every case is dependent on the facts that are brought in,” Becker said. “But I think the clearest thing I can say is, I’m not ignoring this law. It’s a validly passed statute. I’m not ignoring it, and we’ll go from there.”

He said the law allows for the prosecution of doctors who abort unborn babies, not mothers.

“To dispel any confusion about the law, [it] does not allow for charges to be filed against the woman seeking or getting an abortion,” Becker said.

If the law is enforced, it would save nearly 30,000 unborn babies from abortion every year.

However, both Planned Parenthood and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed separate lawsuits challenging the law earlier this year.

Michigan has a pro-life Republican legislature, but pro-abortion Democrats hold the offices of governor and attorney general.

In a historic ruling Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and allowed states to protect unborn babies from abortion again.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority.

Since the ruling, 13 states have banned abortions and more are expected to do so in the weeks ahead.

For nearly 50 years, Roe forced states to legalize the killing of unborn babies for any reason up to viability and allowed states to legalize abortions without limits up to birth. The ruling made the United States one of only seven countries in the world that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks. As a result, more than 63 million unborn babies have been aborted.

Now, states are allowed to make their own laws regarding abortion again, and Guttmacher Institute researchers estimate as many as 26 will protect unborn babies by banning or strictly limiting abortions. These laws are expected to save hundreds of thousands of unborn babies from abortion every year.

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Joe Biden is calling on Senate Democrats to make a one-time exception to the filibuster rules in order to force a bill through the chamber that would legalize abortions up to birth nationwide. Such a bill would essentially override the ability of states to protect babies from abortions following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

“I believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the Congress votes to do that” Biden said during a speech at the NATO summit.

“If the filibuster gets in the way, it’s like voting rights, it should be we provide an exception for this,” Biden continued.

The filibuster ensures that that rights of the minority in the Senate are protected and would require 60 votes for passage of a radical bill to legalize aboritons up to birth in every state in America because pro-life Republicans and Democrat Senator Joe Manchin would object to a vote on the bill. Without the filibuster, Democrats would have a hard time getting the measure through the chamber because Manchin would vote against it and there is the possibility that pro-abortion Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.

When the Senate defeated cloture on the bill earlier this year, Manchin, Collins and Murkowski all voted to uphold the filibuster.

The legislation is the misnamed Women’s Health Protection Act and not only would it legalize abortions up to birth nationwide, it would overturn every pro-life law in America.

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Democrat leaders and many mainstream news outlets portray the bill as an effort to simply “codify the right to an abortion” in the U.S. in response to the likelihood that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade later this year. The bill would:

• Eliminate all state and federal parental consent laws in relation to abortion
• Eliminate all state informed consent laws, including those that allow women to view an ultrasound prior to abortion
• Prevent states from passing laws to protect babies at 20 weeks, thereby joining countries like North Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, and the Netherlands in not protecting unborn children later in development
• Force doctors and nurses opposed to abortion to lose their jobs, and Catholic hospitals could lose public funds unless they perform abortions
• Eliminate decades-long limitations on direct taxpayer funding of abortion – including the popular Hyde Amendment, which has saved more than 2 million lives since enacted

In short, the legislation would overturn all federal and state pro-life laws and make it illegal for elected officials to even introduce pro-life legislation.

Bans on partial-birth abortions, sex-selection abortions and taxpayer-funded abortions would be gone if the bill passes. Laws that protect women and girls would be eliminated, too, including parental consent for minors and informed consent laws that ensure mothers receive basic facts about their unborn baby’s development before going through with an abortion.

The bill passed the House last year, so if Democrats can get it through the Senate the radical pro-abortion measure will certainly be signed into law.

As LifeNews reported, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, with a 6-3 majority ruling in the Dobbs case that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” — allowing states to ban abortions and protect unborn babies. The high court also ruled 6-3 uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban so states can further limit abortions and to get rid of the false viability standard.

Chief Justice John Roberts technically voted for the judgment but, in his concurring opinion, disagreed with the reasoning and said he wanted to keep abortions legal but with a new standard.

Texas and Oklahoma had banned abortions before Roe was overturned and Missouri became the first state after Roe to protect babies from abortions and South Dakota became the 2nd. Then Arkansas became the third state protecting babies from abortions and Kentucky became the 4th and Louisiana became the 5th and Ohio became the 6th and Utah became the 7th and Oklahoma became the 8th and Alabama became the 9th. This week, Mississippi became the 10th and South Carolina became the 11th,Texas became the 12th with its pre-Roe law and Tennessee became the 13th.

Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia have old pro-life laws on the books but there is question about whether they are applicable and will be enforced.

Ultimately, as many as 26 states could immediately or quickly ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.

The 13 total states with trigger laws that would effectively ban all or most abortions are: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Alito wrote. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

This is a landmark day for the Pro-Life movement and our entire nation. After staining the moral fabric of our country for nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade is no more.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer authored a joint dissent condemning the decision as enabling states to enact “draconian” restrictions on women.

Polls show Americans are pro-life on abortion.

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Joe Biden plans to meet with pro-abortion Democrat governors Friday to discuss ways to keep unborn babies being killed in abortions now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.

Axios reports the president scheduled the meeting right after he returns from his European trip. It did not mention how many governors have been invited or who plans to attend.

In a historic ruling last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe and returned the abortion issue to the states. Immediately afterward, some states took action to protect unborn babies from abortion while others did the opposite.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, for example, issued an executive order banning state agencies from using “time, money or other resources” to help pro-life states prosecute abortionists who break their laws. In Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers called a special session to repeal the state pre-Roe state abortion ban, but the legislature rejected it. Both are Democrats.

Meanwhile, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed spending an additional $145 million specifically for abortions in his annual budget plan. The money would be used to fund elective abortions for women whose insurance does not cover it, government promotion of abortion, travel and lodging expenses for women who have to travel for abortions and incentives for medical students to become abortionists.

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Oregon lawmakers also budgeted $15 million to expand abortions in their state this year.

In California and Vermont, lawmakers also passed proposed constitutional amendments to enshrine the so-called “right” to abort unborn babies in their state constitutions. Voters will have the chance to reject or approve the amendments on the ballot in November.

Last week, Biden decried the Supreme Court ruling Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health as “extreme” and “un-American” because it allows states to protect unborn babies from abortion again.

“It’s a sad day for the country in my view, but it doesn’t mean the fight’s over,” Biden said.

He urged Congress to pass an extreme pro-abortion bill that would force states to legalize abortion on demand again and force taxpayers to pay for abortions. The Democrat-controlled U.S. House passed the bill, but the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected it in September.

Biden said voters can change that if they elect more pro-abortion lawmakers to Congress in November.

“This fall, we must elect more senators and representatives who will codify a woman’s right to choose into federal law,” he said. “We need to elect more state leaders to protect this right at the local level. We need to restore the protections of Roe as law of the land.”

One of the ways Biden plans to keep allowing Americans to abort unborn babies is through mail-order abortion drugs. Last year, his administration began allowing the abortion drug mifepristone to be sold through the mail without a doctor’s visit or direct medical supervision. Mifepristone is used to abort unborn babies up to 10 weeks of pregnancy and now accounts for more than half of all abortions in the U.S., according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Biden promised to “protect a woman’s access” to mifepristone and fight against states that ban the abortion drug.

The Biden administration’s position on abortion is radical and out of touch with most Americans. Polls consistently show that a strong majority of Americans oppose taxpayer-funded abortions and support strong limits on abortion, especially after the first trimester. LifeNews highlighted 14 recent polls here.

Since Roe in 1973, more than 63 million unborn babies and hundreds of mothers have died in supposedly “safe,” legal abortions. The ruling made the United States one of only seven countries in the world that allowed elective abortions after 20 weeks.

Now, experts predict as many as 26 states will protect unborn babies’ right to life by banning abortions, resulting in hundreds of thousands of babies’ lives being saved.

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