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    Catholic Teacher Fired in UK for Answering Questions About ‘Religion and Abortion’
    A school in the United Kingdom fired a teacher for saying she was pro-life, and now she’s fighting the case at an employment tribunal. Sarah Morse, a United States citizen, had been a teacher for over 20 years and had recently begun teaching at Arbroath High School in Scotland when students who were curious about…
    Francesca Cella
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    Virginia’s Abortion Amendment Would Strike Down Statutory Rape Laws, Warns Lawsuit Seeking to Invalidate It for Deceptive Language
    Virginia Democrats have supported a “Reproductive Freedom” constitutional amendment, but critics warn that it would vacate laws against statutory rape, and a lawsuit seeks to invalidate it. “Virginia’s so-called reproductive freedom amendment goes far beyond the issue of abortion,” Josh Hetzler, executive director of the Founding Freedoms Law Center and an attorney for the nonprofits challenging…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How Conservative Candidates Can Win the Abortion Conversation
    The 2026 election season is well underway, and as usual, Democratic candidates are embracing radical, up-to-birth abortion messaging armed with support from Big Abortion.  Once upon a time, some Democrats promoted abortion to keep it “safe, legal, and rare,” or so they said. But in the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the pro-abortion…
    Hannah Lape
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    Look Who’s Back! Winsome Earle-Sears
    Winsome Earle-Sears is back. As the news that former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin had returned to the private sector, aka joining technology capital firm Red Cell Partners as a partner, chairman, and board member, his lieutenant governor returned to the world of three-speeches-a-day campaigning. Why? “Babies and Families,” Winsome Earle-Sears told the crowd at the…
    Joe Thomas
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    Arrington Says the Clock Expired on Blocking Abortion Funding. Hawley Says Congress Has No Excuse.
    House Republicans have been discussing reconciliation for months, with one consistent priority: reinstating the ban on federal funding for abortions. However, the budget resolution to kick-start the reconciliation process, released Wednesday morning, included no directive to block the funding. House Republicans introduced the $95 billion budget resolution with two goals in mind: pass the SAVE…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    5 Things to Know About Likely New South Dakota Congressman
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Republican candidate running for South Dakota’s only House of Representatives seat laid out his Capitol Hill priorities in an interview with the Daily Signal Tuesday. Marty Jackley served as South Dakota’s attorney general from 2009 to 2019 and assumed office again in 2023. Jackley told the Daily Signal he plans…
    Joseph Buff
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    ‘We Are Not Defending What Biden Did’: Blanche Answers Hawley on Abortion Pills
    Sen. Josh Hawley questioned attorney general nominee Todd Blanche about why the Justice Department is in court opposite states that are challenging the abortion pill policy of President Joe Biden’s administration. Louisiana led a lawsuit last year challenging a Biden administration rule allowing abortion drugs to be sent to women by mail without seeing a…
    Fred Lucas
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    IVF Kills More Babies Than Planned Parenthood
    As the Trump administration considers new rules governing in vitro fertilization, the pro-life movement is grappling with a new ethical challenge. For more than five decades, the pro-life movement has focused on abortion and consistently upheld the scientific principle that life begins at conception. But if that principle is true, it cannot stop at the doors…
    Aundrea Gomez
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    Pro-Life AG Suggests a Reason Why the Trump Admin Hasn’t Cracked Down on the Abortion Pill
    Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, faulted the Food and Drug Administration for failing to quickly restrict access to mifepristone, the key drug in the abortion pill regimen. “There’s obviously a political calculus that has gone on in the administration for pro-life issues,” Marshall told the Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. He acknowledged…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Planned Parenthood Plans to Spend Big in 2026 to Keep Accessing Your Tax Dollars
    Planned Parenthood Votes, the political arm of the nation’s largest abortion provider, plans to spend $47 million on the midterm elections, targeting members of Congress who voted to cut funding for the organization. That’s a significant price to gain access to taxpayer dollars, said Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee. “It’s…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Abortion Misinformation Debate That Could Put Women at Risk
    In a recent interview with Tara Palmeri, Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., was unexpectedly asked about the life-threatening ectopic pregnancy she experienced in 2024. The discussion the interview sparked between pro-life and pro-abortion advocates online uncovered the dangerous spread of misinformation surrounding abortion laws. The video interview, titled “What Happens When Pro-Life Congresswoman Cammack Needs an…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    States-Only Abortion Experiment ‘a Failure’: An Inside Look at the Pro-Life Movement’s Federal Strategy
    A pro-life leader told the Daily Signal that returning the issue of abortion to the states was a strategic failure of the movement, adding that pro-life advocates must now turn to a federal strategy. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America, said the movement is “not better off” following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs…
    Joseph Buff
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    Trump Terminates Grants to Planned Parenthood for Pushing ‘Sexually Explicit’ Content on Kids
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday notified more than 50 organizations, including Planned Parenthood affiliates, that they will no longer receive teen pregnancy prevention grants after pushing “sexually explicit” content on kids. The agency sent letters to several Planned Parenthood affiliates, state and local health departments, university systems,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    SCOOP: Members of Congress Told Abortion Pill Safety Review Possible by September
    A few members of Congress were told to expect the Food and Drug Administration’s safety review of the abortion pill to be completed by September, a lawmaker who asked to remain anonymous told the Daily Signal. Pro-life members on the House Appropriations Committee earlier this month considered a provision in a bill funding the Agriculture…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The GOP’s Last-Ditch Effort Behind Closed Doors of Reconciliation 3.0 Meeting
    Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Wednesday called the House Budget Committee to his office for an impromptu closed-door meeting to plan the must-pass “Reconciliation 3.0.” With their deadline approaching, this could be the GOP’s last chance to eliminate fraud and wasteful spending, permanently defund Planned Parenthood, and pass the SAVE America Act. Rep….
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Steve Daines Commemorates Dobbs Anniversary
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Four years ago, on June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, sending the abortion issue back to the people through their elected representatives. On Wednesday, for that anniversary, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., introduced a resolution from the Senate floor…
    Rebecca Downs
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  • opinion

    No, JAMA Didn’t Just Prove That Pro-Life Laws Lead to Worse Miscarriage Care
    The Journal of the American Medical Association is at it again, with yet another downright deceptive pro-choice study, this time alleging that state pro-life laws lead to worse care for pregnant women who suffer miscarriages. Planned Parenthood announced: “JAMA’s study finds that patients in states where abortion is banned at or before six weeks of…
    Jamie Bryan Hall
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    Pro-Life Doctors Urge FDA to Reinstate Abortion Pill Safeguards
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Pro-life doctors are urging the Food and Drug Administration to reinstate abortion pill guardrails stripped during the Biden administration. Four years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion rates are higher than ever because these safeguards are no longer in place. It’s not just babies dying from abortions; mothers’ lives are…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Ohio Group Demands Action on Mail-Order Abortion Pills: ‘This Is About Law and Order’
    As scrutiny surrounds the abortion pill, the Center for Christian Virtue is calling on U.S. attorneys in Ohio to use federal law to take action against mail-order distribution. Aaron Baer, president of the organization, cited the Comstock Act in his letters to Dominick Gerace, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and David Toepfer,…
    Rebecca Downs
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  • opinion

    Virginia State GOP Set to Vote on Radical Democrat Amendments
    The State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia is meeting Saturday morning in Fredericksburg to consider whether to oppose or remain neutral on three highly controversial proposed Democrat amendments to the Virginia Constitution. The amendments cover abortion, same-sex marriage and gender identity, and voting rights for those convicted of felonies. The abortion amendment…
    Austin Ruse
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