A recent YouGov poll found that 47% of Americans <a href="https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54403-what-americans-think-about-overpopulation-birth-rates-and-children">view overpopulation</a> in the United States as a “very or somewhat serious problem,” while only 41% say the same about low birth rates.
The consequences of such inverted priorities are already catastrophic. America’s total fertility rate has collapsed to roughly 1.6 children per woman — far below the 2.1 replacement level needed to sustain a population without immigration.
But don’t share those statistics with Sunny Hostin over at “The View.”
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“It’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children,” said Hostin. “&#8230;when you now know, in this country, there is this affordability crisis and for a two-person household — a married household — you need over $400,000 for childcare.”
Now, you may think planning an armored car heist à la Michael Mann’s 1995 classic “Heat,” is reckless, but according to Hostin, I need <a href="https://alltherightmovies.com/feature/25-interesting-facts-about-heat/">$1.6 million</a> to take care of my eight children. Anything less and they <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/2038665904431497635">would be</a> impoverished, uneducated, homeless, and starving.
A taken-aback Ana Navarro then blurted out, “over the lifetime of a child, or what? A year?”
“No, a year,” Hostin said.
Hostin’s fearmongering would be laughable if it weren’t so effective. In April, the CDC announced that America reached a <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr043.pdf">record low</a> in births in 2025, down 1% since 2024 and 23% since 2007. With an estimated population of 342 million, the United States witnessed <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr043.pdf">3,606,400</a> births last year. In 1966, however, America saw a similar number, <a href="https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1967/demographics/P25-368.pdf">3,661,000</a> births, drawn from a population of less than 200 million.
Hostin was born in October 1968, six months after Stanford professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-of-the-most-evil-men-in-history-just-died">Paul Ehrlich</a> published his landmark book, “The Population Bomb.” When every single one of Ehrlich’s predictions — from mass starvation in the 1970s to global mineral shortages in the 1980s — turned out wrong, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1990.
Only 10% of Americans held a favorable opinion of Ehrlich at the time of his death, according to <a href="https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54403-what-americans-think-about-overpopulation-birth-rates-and-children">YouGov</a> — not too shabby given that only 20% of respondents knew who he was. And yet a full 100% of us have been living in his world — or at least his narrative — ever since he sounded the false alarm that human beings are a form of pollution.
The MacArthur Foundation tipped its cap to Ehrlich’s checkerspot butterfly expertise, but anyone can study the “behavior of an invertebrate population”. His true genius lay in marketing to other spineless populations. 
“A pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation,” the award <a href="https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1990/paul-r-ehrlich">citation</a> says. 
Paul Ehrlich may have been perennially wrong as a scientist, but he had a generational talent for scaring the wits out of dimwitted media personalities, craven politicians, cunning public health authorities, unimaginative screenwriters, and over-imaginative teachers. Exactly the type of marks a good con artist would need to capture if he were going to advance a narrative at war with reality. 
It worked.
On the same episode of “The View,” Sara Haines said, “The world has over 8 billion people. We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies. We have arrived.&#8221;
Socially, the fallout is devastating. Smaller families mean fewer siblings, weaker extended kinship networks, and the erosion of the “social capital” that once bound communities together. Low fertility <a href="https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/635c69dc-6a5a-467b-b7b0-3ab906fb4a94/the-consequences-of-declining-fertility-for-social-capital.pdf">reduces</a> community participation, trust, and mutual support — the very glue of civil society. 
Militarily, the danger is existential. Fewer young Americans mean a smaller pool of potential recruits at the exact moment great-power competition intensifies. The Pentagon already struggles with recruitment shortfalls; an aging, childless society cannot field the force required to deter adversaries like China. 
Economically, the math is brutal. A shrinking native-born workforce cannot support the entitlement programs built for a growing population. Social Security and Medicare face insolvency as the ratio of workers to retirees plummets. Every country that has experienced persistent sub-replacement fertility has seen its GDP growth slow, innovation shrivel, and burden younger generations with crushing tax loads to fund the vacations of the old.
The problem with effective propaganda campaigns is that they are hard to reverse. South Korea serves as a warning. In 1960, the average South Korean woman had six children. After decades of state-backed “family planning” and “voluntary” sterilization services lovingly provided by USAID, fertility fell below replacement and eventually below 1. The Clinton State Department <a href="https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/gli/gli_sep1998.pdf">lauded</a> South Korean population control as one of America’s standout achievements.
No 20th-century public intellectual better apprehended how misanthropic an elite could be. Gilded Age robber barons were at least honest about their rapacious need for more; the postwar meritocrats of the 1960s thought themselves too enlightened for greed but enjoyed all that money just the same. Then, along came a Stanford butterfly researcher, insisting that your neighbors’ kids are hurting the environment, and if only you kept more resources for yourself, nature would heal.
A growing cohort of Americans, particularly young Americans, is waking up to the fact that Paul Ehrlich was wrong all along. And Sunny Hostin’s fearmongering, not the science, has always been the point. Gallup found that 43% of Americans aged 18-29 now say the ideal family will have more than 3 children — a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/694640/americans-ideal-family-size-remains-above-two-children.aspx">13% jump</a> from the same cohort in 2011.
I remember the halcyon days of 2011 well. I welcomed my second daughter that year. Back then, the majority of my peers told pollsters that “Two is too many!” As Millennials settle into middle age, that number has plummeted by more than 20%. 
We are older and wise enough to know to turn the channel when “The View” comes on. Besides, chances are Michael Mann’s “Heat” is playing on some random cable channel at the very same time.
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Terry Schilling is president of the American Principles Project.

The View’s “Behind The Table” Podcast

First Came Overpopulation Panic, Then Came The Birth Collapse

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A congressional candidate running as a &#8220;100% pro-life&#8221; conservative with a “titanium backbone” once said a Georgia law banning abortion after an unborn baby’s heartbeat could be detected was “counter” to the majority of society and passed to satisfy the far right. 
Former Hollywood executive Ryan Millsap, who&#8217;s running for Congress in Georgia&#8217;s 10th Congressional district, says he is fully pro-life. But years ago he said that the state’s heartbeat law was bad for business and urged lawmakers to reconsider pro-life protections, according to multiple interviews unearthed by The Daily Wire. 
Millsap said Georgia&#8217;s heartbeat law, signed by Governor Brian Kemp in May 2019, was out of step with the western world in an interview with Deadline. He was CEO of the production company Blackhall Studios at the time. 
“It was a scary time for those of us in the entertainment industry because a law like that would certainly put Georgia in a very awkward position relative to the modern English-speaking world,” Millsap <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/06/reopening-hollywood-ceo-georgia-blackhall-studios-production-hub-1202956336/">said</a> in June 2020. “It is a huge disadvantage if you live in a state that has laws on its books that are counter to the majority of society.”
In the same interview, Millsap said that the law was only passed because Kemp was bowing to the far right.
“The governor’s farthest-right support base wanted it and the governor’s farthest right support base asked him for it and … played a key role in getting him elected,” he said. “That put him in a very complicated position. … I believe the political winds required a bill.”
After the bill was first passed by the legislature, Millsap said that boycotts from film studios targeting the state were economically, not politically driven. He said Hollywood was not “trying to impose its values” on the state. 
“The production companies don&#8217;t care, necessarily, about the moral consequences, one way or the other, of a law. They care about their supply chain and business. And when we pass laws that disrupt their supply chain, it makes us less competitive to London or Canada,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A75WXKgdj20">said</a> in October 2019. “I think that the biggest worry is just whether or not Georgian politicians understand the value of the entertainment industry, understand that it&#8217;s a non-political set.” 
Millsap also suggested that an injunction blocking the law after it went into effect allowed “business as usual” to move forward, but that the state had “some ground to make up” politically. 
The heartbeat law went into full effect in October 2024 when the state Supreme Court ruled in its favor. At least 12 Republican-led states have enacted heartbeat or total bans on abortion. 
“Ryan Millsap is a husband and father who believes in the miracle of life, has always been 100% pro-life and supports the state’s law now that the issue has been settled,&#8221; his campaign told The Daily Wire. &#8220;He believes that the Dobbs decision was correctly decided and that states should address this issue and that no federal funds should be used for abortion.”
Millsap, who launched his campaign last month, is running as a political outsider and is campaigning on deporting illegal immigrants, banning congressional stock trading, and supporting cryptocurrency. 
“I&#8217;m running to smash the status quo and fight back against the radical Left and the RINOs. I bought into their lies, too. But COVID and Antifa made me realize they sold us out,” he said in his campaign launch ad.
He <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/03/provocative-film-executive-enters-georgia-house-race-with-4m-pledge/">told</a> the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he was running &#8220;because we need someone with a titanium backbone who doesn&#8217;t care about climbing the political ladder but is running to defeat the radical left once and for all and end the reign of radical lunatic liberals and impotent RINOs in Congress.&#8221;
The other two candidates running for the district are plumber Jeff Baker and state Rep. Houston Gaines. The Daily Wire reached out to both to ask for their position on abortion. 
Gaines <a href="https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/55445#17113">voted</a> for the heartbeat bill during his time in the legislature shortly after he flipped a state House seat back Republican. 
“As a Christian and a conservative, I&#8217;m proud to be pro-life and will always stand up for what&#8217;s right. When Democrats tried to threaten me, I stood strong and passed Georgia&#8217;s Heartbeat Bill,” Gaines told The Daily Wire. “While my opponent joined Hollywood to fight Georgia&#8217;s Heartbeat Bill with everything he had, we got it done. Georgia stands for life.”
Baker said he is &#8220;100% pro-life with exception to health of mother. Abortion in any other respect is murder and is against my Christian beliefs.&#8221;
&#8220;I would support a Constitutional Amendment that states life begins at conception,&#8221; he added.
Gaines has been endorsed by House GOP leaders like Reps. Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, and Tom Emmer.
A debate for the GOP candidates is set for April 26.

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A California judge dismissed the case against pro-life investigator David Daleiden over undercover videos he released over a decade ago, showing Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts. 
Judge Brian Ferrall of the Superior Court of San Francisco approved the dismissal on Wednesday following an agreement between Daleiden and the state of California. The decision comes after state officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-finally-drops-prosecution-of-journo-who-exposed-planned-parenthood-with-damning-videos">agreed last year</a> to end the prosecution against Daleiden, but pro-abortion activists attempted to intervene and block the deal. 
“As promised, the final charge has been DISMISSED and the case completely expunged — after a couple months&#8217; administrative delay, and a truly bizarre last-minute ‘April Fool&#8217;s’ attempt by [Planned Parenthood] and [the National Abortion Federation] to overturn the State&#8217;s agreement,” Daleiden <a href="https://x.com/daviddaleiden/status/2039499385256751230">posted</a> on X. 
Court records show that groups like the Feminist Majority Foundation and the National Abortion Federation filed motions seeking to block the dismissal. 
The case against Daleiden was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-made-a-damning-planned-parenthood-video-disappear-now-its-public">launched</a> in 2016 by then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who would go on to become vice president during the Biden administration. It was over the videos released in 2015 by the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life organization founded by Daleiden. The recordings showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue and organs. 
After the footage was released, California authorities raided Daleiden’s home and seized materials, claiming the videos were illegally recorded. The legal battle has stretched on for nearly a decade. 
In January 2025, the Center for Medical Progress said California prosecutors had agreed to end the case against Daleiden and fellow investigator Sandra Merritt. 
“The agreement — a negotiated settlement with zero punishment — is in exchange for a new ‘no contest’ plea by Daleiden and Merritt on a single video recording charge. It involves no jail time, no fines, no admission of wrongdoing, and no probation,” the Center for Medical Progress said at the time. 
According to the group, the no-contest plea would be entered as a misdemeanor and later converted to a not guilty plea before being dismissed and expunged.
The dismissal drew praise from Daleiden&#8217;s supporters, including Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Department, Harmeet Dhillon, who had previously represented him.
&#8220;Praise God! One of my favorite clients of all 33+ years of law practice in service to advancing liberty!!&#8221; Dhillon <a href="https://x.com/HarmeetKDhillon/status/2039875112871113095">said</a>.
Live Action President Lila Rose also celebrated the outcome, saying, &#8220;After a decade of California bureaucrats attempting to prosecute, bankrupt and imprison [Daleiden] for his courageous and groundbreaking pro-life reporting, they have officially FAILED.&#8221;
&#8220;David beat Goliath, and he’s only getting started,&#8221; she added.

Pro-Life Activist David Daleiden Appears In Court Over Planned Parenthood Video Sting

He Exposed The Grim Reality Behind Planned Parenthood. His Decade-Long Battle Is Finally Over.

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WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is extending Biden-era loans to Planned Parenthood for a final year, The Daily Wire can first report, putting the White House at odds with pro-life leaders.
The White House paused the Biden-era grants in 2025, prompting a slew of legal challenges from Planned Parenthood and allied organizations. The Department of Health and Human Services unfroze the grants in January, prompting massive outcry from pro-life activists. <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/14/why-hhs-restored-planned-parenthood-funding/">Some pro-lifers told The Daily Signal at the time</a> that the administration didn&#8217;t have a choice, since it withheld the funds to Planned Parenthood without amending 42 U.S. Code Part 300, which concerns family planning grants.
The Daily Wire began hearing rumblings on Monday evening that Planned Parenthood would receive that funding through next year. White House spokesman Kush Desai confirmed to The Daily Wire on Tuesday morning that the White House has come up against &#8220;significant legal challenges&#8221; in stopping the money from the Biden era Title X grants, but noted that this year will be the last that Planned Parenthood is funded by the grants.
“The administration has issued the fifth and final year of Title X grants that were locked in place during the Biden presidency,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;The administration faced significant legal challenges in stopping any of these dollars from going out.&#8221;
&#8220;Title X funds cannot be used for abortions by law and, consistent with President Trump’s Executive Order on Enforcing the Hyde Amendment, the Administration remains committed to realigning the Title X program with the President’s pro-life and pro-family agenda going forward,&#8221; Desai said.
He noted that HHS will soon be releasing a new Title X funding opportunity for the next five-year funding cycle, one that will prioritize life and promote the administration&#8217;s pro-family agenda.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continue &#8220;to faithfully execute the One Big Beautiful Bill’s defunding of Planned Parenthood in Medicaid spending, and the Administration continues to scrap millions of taxpayer funding for the international abortion industry,&#8221; he said.
Key leaders in the pro-life movement are still distraught at the idea of Planned Parenthood receiving so much money from the government. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America, argues that funding the abortion giant means &#8220;propping up a business whose main purpose is to end the lives of innocent unborn children.&#8221; And she warns that failing to defend the unborn will cost the GOP at the polls in the midterm elections.
<div id="attachment_1069297" style="width: 894px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/citing-legal-challenges-trump-admin-extends-biden-era-planned-parenthood-awards-another-year/us-politics-abortion-trump" rel="attachment wp-att-1069297"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1069297" class="wp-image-1069297 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-961522424-884x576.jpg" alt="" width="884" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-961522424-884x576.jpg 884w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-961522424-300x195.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-961522424-768x500.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-961522424.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px" /></a>Trump addresses the Susan B. Anthony 11th Annual Campaign for Life Gala in 2018 (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;This is an inexplicable slap in the face to the pro-life GOP base,&#8221; she said on Tuesday. &#8220;Three out of 4 GOP base voters support defunding Planned Parenthood. One third of those voters say they’d be less enthusiastic about voting this November if the GOP abandons pro-life policies.&#8221;
Pro-life leaders are already angry that the Trump FDA has newly approved an abortion drug, has not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reverse-this-wrong-republicans-push-rfk-to-fix-bidens-abortion-drug-mistakes">reinstated safety measures on abortion drugs</a> removed under the Biden administration, and kept a Biden FDA rule alive, allowing abortion drugs to be shipped to states that have banned them. The movement was also aghast when the president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-republicans-should-be-flexible-on-rule-that-bars-taxpayer-funded-abortions">suggested lawmakers</a> should be &#8220;flexible&#8221; on the Hyde Amendment.
Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life, said that she and others have been told that Planned Parenthood is getting the funds because &#8220;the rules require it.&#8221;
&#8220;Let’s talk about that,&#8221; she <a href="https://x.com/KristanHawkins/status/2038807191071932476">posted</a> on X. &#8220;If we are going to claim we must follow &#8216;the rules&#8217; to fund abortion vendors, then we should also enforce the law that prohibits mailing Chemical Abortion Pills. The Comstock Act is already federal law, and it makes it ILLEGAL to traffic dangerous abortion drugs by mail. That law is being ignored thousands of times every single day, as we said in our letter to [Attorney General Pam Bondi] JUST EARLIER TODAY.&#8221;
She added: &#8220;The Trump Administration doesn’t get to ignore federal law when it comes to the predatory abortion industry and then reward the same industry with more taxpayer dollars!&#8221;

President Trump Returns To The White House From Florida

Citing Legal Challenges, Trump Admin Extends Biden Era Planned Parenthood Awards Another Year

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Rosalie Markezich wanted to have her baby.
For a brief stretch, she allowed herself to imagine motherhood. Then came a car ride she still struggles to talk about. Her boyfriend, who had a history of volatile behavior, began shouting that the pregnancy would “ruin” his life. Rosalie said she felt cornered. She swallowed chemical abortion pills that had arrived by mail days earlier, and hoped it wouldn’t be too late to vomit them in the bathroom when she arrived home.
Rosalie maintains that she did not order the pills and that it was her boyfriend who used her name and information to obtain the drugs online. There was no in-person medical visit or physical exam. Nor was there any screening for coercion or abuse. The pills were simply delivered to her home address.
What happened next unfolded the way chemical abortions typically do: cramping, heavy bleeding, and isolated suffering.
One day, Rosalie was dreaming about her baby; the next, her child was gone.
<a href="https://adflegal.org/article/rosalie-markezich-story/">Rosalie’s story </a>raises an uncomfortable question that has received little attention in the heated post-Dobbs debate: What happens when abortion moves almost entirely through the mail and into the hands of whoever controls the mailbox?
Many medical professionals and “women’s rights activists” are silent about a medical crisis when women need them the most. Blatant examples of domestic abuse and coercion involving chemical abortion drugs are met by many in leadership positions with apathy rather than outrage. Many pro-abortion activists within the medical community and beyond ignore or attack <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/263725/study-of-over-865000-abortion-pill-patients-11-percent-suffer-serious-adverse-events">studies </a>showing that the chemical abortion drugs themselves are inherently dangerous and can cause hemorrhaging, infection, and worse. They don’t seem to care that <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/National-Voter-Survey-Executive-Summary-.pdf">70% of Americans </a>support doctors screening for potential coercion before prescribing abortion medication.
A Louisiana court recently heard arguments in Louisiana v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a case brought on behalf of Rosalie and the state of Louisiana, which asks that the FDA restore the in-person dispensing requirement for dangerous abortion pills. The lawsuit highlights how mail-order abortion is causing direct harm to young women. Its necessity damningly indicates the failure of our nation’s highest institutions to protect women from mail-order-abortion related abuse and complications.
What happened to Rosalie — and many other women in recent years — ought to have sparked national outrage. Yet an FDA review of the abortion pill, mifepristone, drags on, and the Department of Justice asked the court to delay the proceedings, noting a lack of “immediate harm.”
In 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed the in-person visit required before chemical abortion drugs could be prescribed, allowing abortion drugs to be ordered online and delivered by mail for any reason, in any state, by any person. Two years later, 63 percent of all abortions in the U.S. relied on pills mailed from a prescribing clinician. Given the ease of access, it is safe to say that number is <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/2024/03/medication-abortion-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020">growing</a>.
For Rosalie and hundreds of thousands of other women across the country, this removal of the in-person doctor&#8217;s visit destroyed any chance of catching a possible ectopic pregnancy. It also eliminated the possibility that her doctor could detect signs of abuse or coercion.
As a board-certified OB/GYN with over 20 years of experience caring for women, I have always believed that healthcare should never promote or intentionally harm patients. Before 2021, most of the medical community agreed that women’s health and safety must be prioritized. However, the rise of mail-order chemical abortion has completely transformed the medical landscape.
Rather than voicing caution and concern, pro-abortion advocates instead promote the lie that chemical abortion is “safe as Tylenol,” and that tele-abortions are “healthcare.”
Rosalie disagrees. The FDA’s rollbacks allowed her abusive boyfriend to use her name, email, and address to order chemical abortion drugs online without her or her doctor’s knowledge or input. This stripped Rosalie of her consent, as well as medical guidance for follow-up appointments, where a doctor could have detected domestic abuse and helped. Most importantly, it stole her motherhood.
Like Rosalie, women across America are suffering from mail-order abortions. Last summer, an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-man-accused-drugging-girlfriend-abortion-pills-cause-miscarriage">Illinois </a>man was accused of drugging his girlfriend, causing her to experience a severe medical emergency. Just months before that, a <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/north-texas-man-charged-capital-murder-girlfriends-forced-abortion-case">Texas </a>man was charged with murder after drugging his girlfriend’s drink, causing her to be rushed to the emergency room with severe bleeding. In the fall of 2025, another <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-attorney-poisoned-pregnant-wife-abortion-medication-sentenced-18-rcna138065">Texas </a>man was convicted of drugging his wife seven separate times, leaving the woman with subsequent mental and physical trauma. In November 2025, a Florida man <a href="https://www.kbtx.com/2025/11/03/man-killed-18-year-old-girlfriend-after-she-refused-get-an-abortion-prosecutors-say/">killed his preborn child </a>and his pregnant girlfriend because she refused to have an abortion.
In a cruel and ironic twist, states across the country have prioritized the protection of chemical abortion drugs over women with new laws aiding and abetting traffickers and abusers. So far, <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/abortion-shield-laws-pro-abortion-states-seek-to-force-abortion-on-life-affirming-states/">19 states </a>plus the District of Columbia have passed “shield laws,” protecting abortionists and abortion “facilitators” from criminal, civil, and professional consequences when they violate other states’ abortion laws. The most extreme shield laws explicitly protect abortionists who send abortion drugs to women and girls in states where the abortionists do not have licenses to practice medicine. In short, these laws protect anyone providing an abortion, regardless of whether they are qualified to do so and regardless of whether a woman is being coerced or forcibly drugged.
My heart breaks for the women who have been victimized by abortion drugs, as well as the lives lost because of them. Like Rosalie, they deserve better than forced abortions and complications at the hands of abusers. They deserve better than propaganda or silence from medical professionals who swore an oath to do no harm.
The court can right this wrong by requiring the FDA to reinstate basic safeguards on medication abortion drugs.
If we truly care about women like Rosalie, we must rise above partisan objectives and demand better of women’s healthcare.
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Dr. Christina Francis is an OBGYN and CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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She Didn’t Order The Abortion Pills. Yet They Showed Up At Her Front Door.

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For years, Britain has prided itself on avoiding America’s bitter abortion wars. That pride came from a “settled” law that the public took as a “pragmatic compromise.” But a recent vote in Parliament has shattered that illusion, generating the first national debate in the United Kingdom on the issue in almost 60 years.
Since 1967, abortion has been permitted in Britain for any reason up to 24 weeks (almost 6 months) — already far later than in most of Europe — with complete allowance up to birth in cases involving serious risk to the mother’s life or health, or fetal disability.
But last week, Britain’s House of Lords backed a change that decriminalizes abortion outside the existing legal framework. In plain terms, while abortions carried out through the NHS will still operate within a regulated general 24-week limit, no laws will exist to deter women from ending their pregnancies outside that system — including at full term, for any reason whatsoever.
This isn’t hypothetical. It has already happened.
In 2010, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-19621675">Sarah Catt,</a> 35, from North Yorkshire, aborted her baby at 39 weeks — days before her due date. She didn’t carry out this abortion because of any medical crisis. She and her baby were perfectly healthy. Rather, she had the abortion because she was having an affair, and didn’t want her partner to find out.
Sarah was prosecuted under the law for killing her viable, late-term baby, but the changes pushed through by politicians means she will be fully pardoned — as if her actions were never immoral.
These cases are rare. But they matter, because they expose the very boundary the law once enforced — and what can happen when that boundary disappears.
The activism in support of the recent vote to change the law gained momentum in the past few years due to a small increase in the number of women investigated for potentially illegal abortions, following the introduction of pills-by-mail or &#8220;pills-by-post.&#8221; This Covid-era scheme enabled women under ten weeks pregnant to order abortion pills by phone, and take them with no in-person examination or medical supervision.
Following the pandemic, the government made the scheme permanent — despite evidence that it opened women’s health up to far greater risk. Around 20 women <a href="https://righttolife.org.uk/news/over-10000-women-needed-hospital-treatment-after-using-abortion-pills">per day</a> in 2020 had to be admitted to the hospital after taking the pills alone at home. Ambulance dispatches and emergency calls responding to abortion pill concerns <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/ambulance-dispatches-and-999-calls-responding-to-abortion-pill-concerns-have-risen-by-64-since-2019-gb-news-investigation/359311">rose by 64%</a> following the scheme’s introduction.
Without scans or examinations, ectopic pregnancies requiring urgent medical care are missed; and crucially, gestational ages are not confirmed. Relying on women to self-report how far along their pregnancy carries a minefield of risks.
The court case of Carla Foster exposed the danger of this approach. Carla, 44, obtained abortion pills after telling a provider she was less than ten weeks pregnant. In reality, she was around 34 weeks along. She took the pills at home to end the life of her fully-developed baby in utero, went into labour, and delivered a stillborn daughter, whom she later named &#8220;Lily.&#8221;
Lily was viable, healthy and pain-capable. She could have survived if simply allowed to be delivered alive. Foster later described being “haunted” by the experience. Nobody wants to see women go through this trauma; nobody wants to see developed babies, capable of survival, being killed at this late stage. The pills-by-post scheme should have been scrapped to prevent this happening again. Instead, parliamentarians removed the legal deterrents that prevent more women from following in Carla’s footsteps.
Across most of the continent, abortion on general grounds is limited to the first trimester — typically between 12 and 15 weeks. Britain’s 24-week limit is already by far one of the most permissive. Stripping away the legal enforcement of that limit is not a minor adjustment, but a radical departure.
Perhaps most striking is how out of step this is with public opinion. While most Britons support legal abortion in some circumstances, <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2183929/abortion-birth-voted-lords-legalised-infanticide">less than</a> 1% support abortion up to birth for any reason. 
In other words, this is not the result of overwhelming democratic demand. It is a top-down redefinition of moral boundaries — one that the public has barely begun to grapple with.
Even in Britain’s typically muted political landscape, alarm bells are starting to ring. Senior figures, from Reform MP Suella Braverman to Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, have broken the long-standing bipartisan reluctance to engage on this issue, warning that removing legal guardrails up to birth goes too far. In a country that has spent decades avoiding this debate, that shift alone is telling.
The British parliament has sent a signal that no abortion, no matter the reason, can ever be judged as immoral. The British public will now have to decide if they agree — or if it’s time to finally reopen the conversation, and look into how our laws can be better structured to support both mothers and their babies to thrive.
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Lois McLatchie Miller (@LoisMcLatch) is a writer and commentator from Great Britain.

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WASHINGTON—The nominee to serve as United Nations Secretary General is a pro-abortion extremist who is unfit to serve in the role, Republicans told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire.
The bicameral group of lawmakers, led by Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, told Rubio on Thursday that former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet &#8220;does not match the qualifications&#8221; President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration is seeking in the next secretary general, given her record of pro-abortion advocacy and the support she has from abortion proponents around the world.
As one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the United States has the power to veto Bachelet&#8217;s selection to be the next Secretary General. The lawmakers urge Rubio to instruct U.N. Ambassador Michael Waltz to exercise that veto.
&#8220;Dr. Bachelet’s resume reveals a pro-abortion zealot intent on using political authority to override state sovereignty in favor of extreme agendas,&#8221; the lawmakers write. &#8220;She has both overtly attacked pro-life laws — including those of the United States — and sought to weaken them through intimidation and coercion.&#8221;
Bachelet served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as Executive Director of United Nations Women, and as the president of Chile. In each of these roles, the Republicans stressed, she has pushed for abortions of unborn babies as a woman&#8217;s right. President Donald Trump actually pulled the United States out of U.N. Women in January 2026, saying that participation in U.N. Women is contrary to U.S. interests.
&#8220;Dr. Bachelet has repeatedly prioritized an extreme abortion agenda at the expense of state sovereignty,&#8221; the lawmakers told Rubio. &#8220;She is an unsuitable candidate, and the United States, as a permanent member of the Security Council, should veto Dr. Bachelet’s selection.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1066457" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-republicans-press-rubio-to-block-pro-abortion-zealot-un-secretary-general-nominee/chile-election-runoff-vote" rel="attachment wp-att-1066457"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1066457" class="wp-image-1066457 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2251241254.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Chile&#8217;s former president (2006-2010 and 2014-2018) Michelle Bachelet speaks to the press after casting her ballot during the presidential runoff election in Santiago on December 14, 2025. (Photo by Raul BRAVO / AFP via Getty Images)</div>
The United States has previously emphasized that it wants a Secretary General who shares the American vision of &#8220;returning the UN to its founding purpose of maintaining international peace and security,&#8221; as Ambassador Dorothy Shea argued in October 2025, during remarks at a United Nations Security Council Briefing. &#8220;The next Secretary-General should reject initiatives that fall outside the Charter’s founding purpose, prioritize accountability and transparency, and respect state sovereignty.&#8221;
The lawmakers argue that Bachelet would not match such a vision, and that she would instead promote &#8220;divisive ideologies.&#8221;
&#8220;However, Dr. Bachelet’s previous promotion of an extreme abortion agenda suggests that, if selected as the next UNSG, she would 
continue the UN practice of engaging in &#8216;the propagation of divisive ideologies that undermine national sovereignty and stir controversy rather than bring member states together to address issues of common concern.&#8217;  Her demonstrated ambitions and priorities, outlined below, conflict with the United States determination to bring the UN &#8216;back to the basics.'&#8221;
They note that Bachelet, when she served as the High Commissioner for Human Rights, deplored the United States Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022, calling the decision a &#8220;major setback,” a “huge blow to women’s human rights,” and a decision that “strips autonomy” from women. They note that she described abortion as &#8220;firmly rooted in international human rights law,&#8221; saying that the procedure, which brutally ends the life of a human baby, &#8220;is at the core of women and girls’ autonomy.”
Since Bachelet has set the precedent of &#8220;using her office to attack United States pro-life law,&#8221; she cannot be trusted to respect the United States&#8217; &#8220;right to enforce pro-life laws and policies, include the Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance policy and the executive order Enforcing the Hyde Amendment,&#8221; the Republicans argue.
Bachelet has spent her career arguing for more abortions and fewer pro-life laws: in 2022, as the lawmakers point out, she said that &#8220;restrictive abortion laws and practical barriers pose a threat to human rights&#8221; and praised the weakening of pro-life laws in Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico.
&#8220;The truth is that killing an unborn child by abortion can never be construed to be a human right,&#8221; the Republicans wrote. &#8220;Every person — born and unborn—deserves to have his or her human rights secured and protected.&#8221;
They also point to a 2020 fact sheet from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, published under Bachelet&#8217;s purview, that claims &#8220;treaty body jurisprudence has indicated that denying women access to abortion can amount to violations of the rights to health, privacy and, in certain cases, the right to be free from cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.”
Failure to abort babies is &#8220;a form of gender based violence against women, which can amount to torture and/or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,&#8221; the fact sheet asserts. The Republicans argue that these claims are in contradiction to the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a document signed by the United States and 30 other nations affirming there is no international right to abortion.
Bachelet has also failed to oppose coerced abortion in China, traveling to the nation at the invitation of the Chinese Communist Party in order to investigate reports of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the lawmakers tell Rubio.
&#8220;She should have honestly identified the atrocities committed by the CCP against the Uyghurs as a genocide,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;Instead, she released a watered-down report literally minutes before her term expired. She allowed the CCP to blatantly shield itself from an honest assessment and to sidestep responsibility for its horrific human rights abuses. In an appalling failure of leadership, Dr. Bachelet crumbled under pressure and enabled the CCP to manipulate the visit for its own advantage.&#8221;
As she campaigned for the Chilean presidency, Bachelet promised to weaken the country&#8217;s pro-life law that protected all unborn babies. She followed through by authoring a bill legalizing abortion and sending it to Chile&#8217;s Congress. The bill was approved and established into law, allowing abortions when the baby was a risk to the mother&#8217;s life, had fatal fetal abnormalities, or was the result of a rape.
While the change in law might seem minimal or even standard for Americans, for Chileans, the law change was a cultural shift and a door opened to future pro-abortion laws.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.

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Most Americans, including Democrats and independents, want to change a federal government policy allowing abortion pills to be mailed with impunity throughout the United States, according to polling obtained by The Daily Wire. 
Over two-thirds (67%) of Americans surveyed said they would support the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reinstating an in-person doctor visit requirement for accessing an abortion pill via the mail, polling for the 85 Fund conducted by CRC Research showed. That included 72% of Republicans, 68% of independents, and 63% of Democrats. About 27% of Americans opposed reinstating the in-person requirement. 
Pro-life leaders, who have blamed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-dobbs-more-babies-are-still-being-aborted-in-the-united-states">increasing abortion rates</a> across the country on mail-order abortions, touted the polling as a reason for the FDA to revoke the Biden-era policy allowing pills to be shipped without a doctor’s visit. 
“It&#8217;s overwhelmingly clear that Americans support reinstating the in-person dispensing requirement to protect women taking mifepristone,” Christina Francis, the CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs, told The Daily Wire. “As physicians caring for women and babies every day, we see the devastating impact that the FDA&#8217;s relaxed standards are having on women&#8217;s health and safety.” 
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The polling was conducted from March 12-18 and sampled 1600 likely voters randomly selected from opt-in panel participants. Those surveyed were 33% Republican, 34% independent, and 32% of Democrats, with 31% identifying as pro-life, 39% as pro-choice, and 27% as somewhere in between.
Seventy percent of those surveyed also said they would support the FDA making an in-person medical evaluation required before and after taking an abortion pill, while 62% said they were more likely to support an in-person requirement after learning that some men were coercing women into having abortions. Nearly half of Americans (49%) said they would be less likely to support their representative if they supported abortion pills being shipped without a medical evaluation. 
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The Trump administration has promised to conduct a safety study of the abortion drug, but pro-life advocates have grown impatient. They say the allowance of mail-order abortion pills allows women and leftist activists to ship pills into states where medication abortion is technically illegal. The FDA has said that reimposing the in-person requirement would interfere with the ongoing safety study. 
A Georgia woman was recently charged after investigators said she took eight abortion pills before her baby was delivered alive and survived for about an hour. &#8220;I know my infant is suffering, because I am the one who did the abortion. I want her to die,&#8221; the woman allegedly told nurses at the hospital.
Tens of thousands of abortions have been carried out in states like Texas and Tennessee with pills shipped in by activists and abortion doctors. Pro-life groups say the FDA policy allowing pills to be shipped without the in-person requirement effectively nullifies state laws.
States like Louisiana <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blatantly-unlawful-red-state-challenges-fda-over-mail-order-abortions">have sued</a> the FDA to reverse the mail-order regulations. That lawsuit was joined by a woman named Rosalie Markezich, a woman who says her ex-boyfriend ordered illegal abortion pills from California and then coerced her to take them to end the life of her unborn child.
“Voters could not be speaking any more clearly on abortion drugs flooding the mail, driving up abortion rates and undermining protections for women and children,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told The Daily Wire. “They recognize this is an urgent public health and safety crisis that demands a return to common sense, like in-person doctor visits that were required under the first Trump administration.” 
Previous polling has found similar results, including one from Cygnal that found large majorities of Republican primary voters said they would be less enthusiastic to vote in the midterm elections if GOP leaders shy away from pro-life policies
&#8220;A broad consensus exists around the dangers of mail-order abortion drugs and the risks they pose to women’s health and safety,” said David Bereit, the executive director of the Life Leadership Conference. “A majority of Americans, across the political spectrum, express serious concern that eliminating in-person medical oversight increases the likelihood of complications, coercion, and undetected abuse.”

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The good news: Bible reading is up across every demographic in America in 2025. The bad news: certain politicians and activists are using those hallowed words as partisan narrative building to launder radical ideology into the language of faith.
They aren’t coming to the Word. They’re mining it.
James Talarico is the most prominent current offender. The Democrat nominee for Texas Senate — think “pick me” Pastor Pete — has made a habit of weaponizing the Lord&#8217;s Divine Writ to sanctify progressive politics. On Joe Rogan’s podcast, he even used the Annunciation to justify abortion.
“I say all of this in the context of abortion. Before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent … Go back and read this in Luke.”
Okay — I did.
In Luke 1, the angel Gabriel appears to Mary and announces: &#8220;You will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus &#8230; The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.&#8221; Mary responds: &#8220;Here I am, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.&#8221;
Mary’s humble, faithful acceptance of a unique divine calling — the Incarnation of God Himself — is not a theological permission slip for abortion on demand. The exegetical gymnastics required to arrive at this conclusion are impressive, to say the least. But Talarico isn’t doing theology. He’s doing politics.
And Talarico is not unique in his weaponization of scripture. Progressives have swarmed any comment section touching immigration, social policy, or religious liberty, and you’ll find the same three or four Bible verses deployed like rhetorical grenades (they think they’re so creative). &#8220;What happened to love thy neighbor?&#8221; &#8220;Jesus was an immigrant.&#8221; &#8220;There isn&#8217;t a single Christian who&#8217;s actually read the whole Bible.&#8221;
The angry agnostics thought they had us there! Their words are meant to sting. They’re also increasingly incorrect.
I am on day 198 of the Bible in a Year with Father Mike Schmitz. Every morning, I sit with passages and prophets most material heretics never touch — astonished at the sheer magnitude of wisdom and meaning within those pages. And I can tell you: what’s being weaponized in op-eds and cable hits is a fraction of a fraction of what’s actually there.
Today, it was Isaiah that stopped me cold. Isaiah’s taunt against the king of kings of Babylon — and by extension Lucifer himself — reads:
“How the oppressor has ceased! How his insolence has ceased! The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, that struck down the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution … Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come … &#8216;You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!&#8217; Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering. How you have fallen from heaven!”
It is visceral, sweeping, and devastating. It is the story of what happens when a being given every gift and capability turns those gifts towards pride and domination; when free will is used for evil.
There is a reason we don’t hear that passage quoted by the activists cherry-picking Scripture for social media. It doesn’t fit the narrative. It never does.
What I’ve found, page by page, is that the Bible is far stranger, far harder, and far more demanding than the domesticated version, either Nationalist or Progressive, being peddled by its political appropriators. It doesn’t bend easily to any agenda — it’s harsh. It can also drastically improve your life if you let it. But it resists those who approach it not as the living Word of God, but as a rhetorical arsenal.
Reading it completely — and understanding it — is its own form of resistance. It’s how you know when you’re being lied to. It’s how you develop the intellectual grounding to defend the faith, not just feel it. And in an era when leaders and loudmouths are increasingly mocking Christianity, that groundedness isn’t optional; to me, it’s essential.
For myself, reading the Bible has been transformative. Father Mike doesn’t just read the text &#8211; he explains the scripture, makes it digestible, and allows me to apply these teachings to my life in a way that has made each day lighter.
It’s changed how I think, how I argue, how I deal with shortcomings, and frankly, how I respond when someone online tells me I’ve never opened a Bible.
I have. I’d recommend you do the same.

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Democrats would never win another majority in Congress if Americans knew where they stood on the issues. The Democratic Party supports and promotes positions opposite the views held by a large majority of Americans.
Democrats are against any form of verifiable voter identification or common-sense changes to promote honest elections. They promote gender surgeries on children, boys in girls’ bathrooms, and men in women’s sports. They support abortion until the day of birth. They celebrate aberrant lifestyles with parades and Pride Month. They are soft on crime and oppose adequate policing for safe communities. They support open borders and promote amnesty, citizenship, voting rights, and welfare benefits for illegal immigrants. They oppose school choice and support government-run healthcare. They support bigger government and higher taxes. And few Americans know that Democrats are the party of slavery, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, and they led the longest filibuster in Senate history to block the Civil Rights Act.
How do Democrats continue to get elected? Americans don’t know the truth because no one tells them the truth.
The most important part of any political campaign is to drive up the negatives of your opponent. The second most important part is to drive up your own positives. Republicans are counseled by their pollsters to campaign on issues voters agree with, so they run all around their districts and states criticizing their opponent and talking about border control, safe communities, voter identification, and the like. The problem is they rarely associate the wrong side of these issues with their real opponent — the Democratic Party.
Elections are between Republicans and Democrats. Over 95% of the voting decisions for the 2026 midterms have already been made based on perceptions of the two political parties. Even independents will vote based on whether they want Republicans or Democrats in power. Candidates and issues are secondary — they may change the perception of the parties, but the final decisions will be based on voter preferences for one of the two political parties. Trump changed the perception of both parties among some Black Americans when he challenged them with “what have you got to lose?” This question was a permission slip for a few Black voters to change their vote from Democrat to Republican. 
“Brand” is an odd term to use in politics, but it is the most important aspect of any election. There are only two relevant brands on the ballot: Republican and Democrat. For decades, Democrats have been denigrating the Republican brand with cries of racism, hate, bigotry, opposition to Social Security and Medicare, and support for the rich and big corporations. They’ve done a good job. Voters often agree with Republicans on almost every issue but still vote Democrat because they have been convinced Republicans are essentially evil.
Republicans and Republican-aligned organizations and media have been … well … stupid. You’ll hear them blame the Biden border, woke corporations, biased media, DEI hiring, Somali fraud, the Schumer shutdown, liberal politicians, and, far, far too often, they blame the Left. None of these will be on the ballot in November. Just listen to Republican leaders or any Republican aligned media, and you’ll likely hear them blame just about everything on the Left. They might as well blame everything on the boogeyman.
Trump’s recent State of the Union address should give all Republicans and Republican-aligned organizations a tutorial. He understands branding better than anyone in the world. Trump used most of his speech to set up and bash “crazy” Democrats while thanking Republicans for assisting his success.
Republicans only have a few months to drive up the negatives of the Democratic Party, but they have plenty of ammunition. Just remember it’s the Democrat open border, Democrat daycare fraud, Democrat shutdown, Democrat child mutilation, and all the rest. The Republican messaging strategy should not be to convince Democratic voters they have been wrong in the past, but to convince them the Democratic Party has changed: it is now controlled by radical progressive Democrats or crazy Democrat Socialists. Republicans should always put a negative word or phrase in front of Democrats to remind voters the Democratic party has left them — because it has.
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Jim DeMint is a former Senator from South Carolina and a best-selling author. His latest book is &#8220;What the Bible Really Says about Creation, End Times, Politics and You.”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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An infamous Pennsylvania abortionist convicted of murder for killing babies born alive during illegal late-term procedures has died while serving multiple life sentences in prison, state officials said Monday. 
Kermit Gosnell, 85, died March 1 after being transported from the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon to a hospital. He had been serving multiple life sentences following his 2013 conviction on three counts of first-degree murder. His West Philadelphia abortion facility was dubbed the “House of Horrors.” 
The Gosnell case drew national attention after pro-life advocates highlighted the brutal nature of his abortion practice. Many of the gruesome details came out during his 2013 trial and through a grand jury <a href="https://cdn.cnsnews.com/documents/Gosnell%2C%20Grand%20Jury%20Report.pdf">report</a>. 
“This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women,&#8221; the Pennsylvania grand jury report said. &#8220;He regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors.” 
Testimony during the trial described the practice in detail. Steven Massof, one of Gosnell&#8217;s former employees, explained the process. “We call it a transection, but it’s literally a beheading,” he testified. 
Massof estimated that around 100 babies had their spinal cords snipped. He said he “felt like a fireman in hell. I couldn’t put out all the fires. … I would run around with scissors.”
The grand jury report documented one case involving a 17-year-old whose baby was delivered at around 30 weeks. According to the report, the infant was &#8220;breathing and moving&#8221; before being killed.
“He was breathing and moving when Dr. Gosnell severed his spine and put the body in a plastic shoebox for disposal. The doctor joked that this baby was so big he could ‘walk me to the bus stop,’” it said. 
Gosnell denied that any infants were born alive, claiming that movements observed by staff were involuntary.
During the trial, jury members were shown pictures of unborn babies who had been killed by Gosnell, showing how their skulls had been crushed and spinal cords cut. 
Other workers stated that Gosnell stored baby parts in jars in a refrigerator and routinely did abortions past 24 weeks of gestation. “The bigger the baby, the more he charged,” the grand jury report stated. 
The investigation further found that Gosnell&#8217;s clinic operated in unsafe and unsanitary conditions. The grand jury described blood-stained furniture, improperly sterilized instruments, and the storage of fetal remains throughout the facility.
“It was a baby charnel house,” the grand jury said.
Gosnell was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a woman who died in his facility during an abortion. 
Additionally, he <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/philadelphia-doctor-pleads-guilty-running-pill-mill">pled guilty</a> to federal charges related to running a pill mill out of his facility and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including oxycodone, alprazolam, and codeine.

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Planned Parenthood’s Illinois chapter has agreed to pay $500,000 after the federal government investigated allegations that the branch discriminated against its white employees. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said there is reasonable cause to believe the organization segregated its employees by race into “affinity networks.”
Many firms have “affinity networks,” which allow employees to join employee groups with those to whom they feel similar. However, at other companies, these networks are voluntary, not mandatory. Planned Parenthood had mandatory &#8220;affinity caucuses” segregated by race, and employees of other races were not allowed to participate.
Every week, staff were required to attend one- to two-hour sessions of segregated racial affinity caucuses or DEI training. At DEI training sessions, white employees were reportedly the target of harassment and derogatory statements such as: they “are white and do not feel racism the same way that non-white patients feel” and “white supremacy is exerted at every level of oppression.&#8221;
EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas said, “Segregating employees by race violates the core promise of our nation’s civil rights laws.” Lucas added in her statement that Title VII guarantees equal treatment for every employee and “those protections equally apply to white workers.”
Planned Parenthood employees alleged that the company even restricted the benefits of white employees. “Planned Parenthood also denied white employees access to time off that it granted only to black employees,” the report read. Along with the $500,000 settlement, Planned Parenthood fired the manager responsible for the misconduct that the investigation uncovered. The EEOC says the investigation was prompted after multiple employees brought forward their concerns.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-illinois/newsroom/statement-in-response-to-august-21-article-from-buzzfeed-news-statement-in-response-to-august-21-article-from-buzzfeed-news?utm_source=chatgpt.com">obtained</a> a press release from the Illinois Planned Parenthood affiliate that may have been the start of the organization’s discriminatory practices.
Planned Parenthood of Illinois said in a response to a BuzzFeed News article, &#8220;Despite not having the details of this particular incident, we recognize that Planned Parenthood has been complicit in upholding systemic racism. Moving forward, [Planned Parenthood of Illinois] is deeply committed to being anti-racist and ensuring that our work is not performative, that there is no divide between our words and actions.”
They added, “As part of this work, we’ve created spaces for honest conversations about race and are providing multiple channels through which staff have opportunities to share their lived experiences with leadership.”
The Illinois Planned Parenthood is not the only affiliate to release statements on racism in their organization. Nineteen out of the 49 Planned Parenthood affiliates have issued statements.
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest said, “We must confront how white supremacy of the past and present continues in the institutions we are a part of today including our own organization.&#8221;
The Virginia affiliate said that they acknowledge “our past and our present participation in white supremacy and are committed to stopping, learning, growing and living our values through the hard and uncomfortable work of progress.”
None of the statements released by the Planned Parenthood chapters specifically addressed discrimination allegations against white employees or white patients.

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