WASHINGTON— A group of Republican lawmakers are urging acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to bring long-awaited clarity to the gruesome deaths of five premie-sized babies recovered from a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic in 2022.
Utah Senator Mike Lee and Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, along with more than 50 other lawmakers, are calling on Blanche to &#8220;comprehensively investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of five preborn children&#8221; whose remains &#8220;were recovered by the Metropolitan Police Department in 2022, after they were allegedly aborted in the Washington Surgi-Clinic operated by the late-term abortionist Dr. Cesare Santangelo.&#8221;
&#8220;For four years, members of Congress have remained alarmed at this clear violation of life and law, but the Biden Administration Department of Justice refused to act,&#8221; the lawmakers write in a letter exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, noting that their remains are in the possession of the D.C. Medical Examiner and calling on Blanche to find out if the babies &#8220;were victims of the crimes of infanticide or partial-birth abortion.&#8221;
Blanche, who has been acting attorney general since April, is in the midst of a confirmation battle on Capitol Hill. Blanche faced the Senate Judiciary Committee last week in a two-day hearing where Republican and Democrat lawmakers alike questioned him about the Trump administration&#8217;s handling of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-nominee-todd-blanche-shuts-down-trump-epstein-claims">Jeffrey Epstein case</a>, among other issues.
Lee and three other signatories of Tuesday&#8217;s letter — Senators Chuck Grassley, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley — all serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Blanche will need their votes to get to a full floor vote, and then for confirmation. As the committee prepares to vote, the signatories are calling Blanche to conduct a &#8220;thorough investigation into the death of each child, including autopsies of the infants and the preservation of all collected evidence.&#8221;
That is not all, however: they also want the babies to be properly buried.
&#8220;We cannot undo the grievous, barbaric acts that killed these children in their most vulnerable stage, but we equally cannot allow such lawlessness and inhumanity to evade our justice system any longer,&#8221; the letter reads. &#8220;Under President Trump’s and your leadership, we are hopeful that these children will finally receive the justice they deserve.&#8221;
A Justice Department official told The Daily Wire on Tuesday afternoon that the DOJ has gathered and reviewed documents related to the DC Five and is in the process of finalizing that process and turning things over to Congress. Should Congress identify any crimes in the DOJ&#8217;s trove of documents, the DOJ will &#8220;certainly investigate those matters,&#8221; the official shared.
“The Department of Justice is aware of the Senators’ request and takes these matters seriously,&#8221; DOJ spokeswoman Kiersten Pels shared. &#8220;As with all allegations of potential criminal conduct, the Department will review the information carefully and will investigate any credible allegations of criminal actions. The Department remains committed to following the facts and the law wherever they lead.”
Pro-life activists Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac originally discovered the baby bodies in boxes outside a Foggy Bottom abortion clinic in 2022 shortly before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-went-to-the-clinic-of-the-dc-abortionist-accused-of-gruesome-crimes-heres-what-i-saw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extensively reported</a> on Washington&#8217;s lack of interest in how these fully formed babies died.
Advocates and Republican lawmakers have sounded the alarm for years about these babies, warning that they appear to have been brutally and illegally aborted in violation of federal law, but the Biden administration took no steps to properly investigate the matter, instead targeting the women who recovered the bodies.
Doctors estimated to The Daily Wire in 2022 that several of the babies were the victims of late-term abortions — and that at least one baby may have been aborted using illegal partial-birth abortion methods, showing “deep lacerations to the posterior neck which presumably correlates to the method of abortion used to end her life.”
&#8220;If this baby girl was alive when the abortionist made these lacerations, then her death directly violated the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (18 U.S. Code § 1531), which criminalizes the partial deliverance of a living child for the purpose of performing an overt act that intentionally takes the life of the child,&#8221; they wrote.
The lawmakers also point to the estimations of pro-life doctors, noting that one baby boy was estimated to be around 28 to 32 weeks, while another baby looked “like he should have been in the nursery” and was “about the same size as [her] granddaughter when she was born.”
Lee and Smith called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to conduct an investigation into the babies in 2022, as The Daily Wire first reported at the time, but the Justice Department never investigated or responded.
&#8220;On the contrary, after two years of inaction, reports indicated that the Department of Justice advised the Chief Medical Examiner to discard the bodies of the infants,&#8221; Lee and Smith write in their letter. &#8220;Fortunately, members of Congress were able to intervene with the Chief Medical Examiner and urge him to preserve the bodies.&#8221;
As recently as April, Republican Reps. Chip Roy (TX) and Andy Biggs (AZ) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fbi-must-investigate-biden-coverup-of-aborted-babies-found-in-dc-lawmakers-say">pushed FBI Director Kash Patel</a> to investigate the babies and their deaths.
Editor’s Note: This piece was updated with additional comment from the Department of Justice.

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Despite countless red flags, leftist activists continue to send out abortion pills indiscriminately all across the country. 
An <a href="https://aaplog.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.06.05-INVESTIGATIVE-REPORT-June-22-2026-at-16.18.01.pdf">investigation</a> shared with The Daily Wire by the American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNs found that activist group Aid Access shipped pills to an investigator from the group posing as a 13-year-old girl who had three prior C-section births. The pills arrived in Indiana after investigator Dr. Christina Francis ordered the pills for a patient with a complicated medical history to see how the organization would respond. 
“What this investigation uncovered is far from anything that could be called healthcare,” the American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNs (AAPLOG) wrote in a letter obtained by The Daily Wire Thursday, sent to top Republican lawmakers. “In fact, it should be considered medical malpractice.”
Restrictions around the mailing of the abortion pill mifepristone were loosened during the Biden administration, meaning pills can be sent out without an in-person appointment. That decision, still in place, occurred as abortion via pill cemented itself as the most common method to end the life of an unborn child. Pro-life activists have urged the Food and Drug Administration to reinstate those guidelines. 
While filling out an Aid Access pill intake form, Francis listed several conditions, including being on blood thinners, having an intrauterine device, and a history of ectopic pregnancy. Those conditions did not deter Aid Access, and pills arrived four days after Francis ordered them. 
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Francis found that Aid Access sent her the pills with no identity verification, confirmation of pregnancy, or any medical consultation despite <a href="https://aidaccess.org/en/">claims</a> on its website that it would have a medical professional review a medical questionnaire answered by those looking for pills. 
“To test the level of medical review and due diligence, we intentionally put red flags in our answers with several contraindications so ridiculous any one of them should have been a hard stop for a physician conducting an in-person screening and informed consent. However, we were shockingly allowed to complete the process,” AAPLOG told lawmakers. 
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1136671" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-15-at-2.06.44-PM.png" alt="" width="822" height="525" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-15-at-2.06.44-PM.png 822w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-15-at-2.06.44-PM-300x192.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-15-at-2.06.44-PM-768x491.png 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px" />Within minutes of filling out her form, Francis received a follow-up email with payment information and no indication that anyone had reviewed the medical information. 
“The intake process did not include a live consultation with a medical professional (such as what would happen with a telehealth visit). Even an asynchronous review of the user’s health information did not occur as the payment link was emailed less than 2 minutes after request submitted,” the investigation found. 
The pills were sent from a generic address in California to Indiana, where medication abortions are technically against the law. Aid Access, which says it ships abortion pills into all 50 states, did not respond to a request for comment. 
AAPLOG warned that the process enabled young children to easily access the deadly pills as well as those who might want to secretly coerce abortions. Several men across the country have been charged with forced abortions via abortion pills they ordered online. 
The investigation was sent Thursday to Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, as well as Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Rep. James Comer (R-KY). 
AAPLOG urged them to use their “power and purview to restore common sense and basic safeguards for abortion pill distribution as a first step to protect our maternal and fetal patients.”

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A gay couple is suing a single mother for an estimated $600,000 because she refused abortion after potential minor birth defects were discovered by ultrasound.
A surrogate in Canada says a gay couple told her to abort the baby she was carrying — which was created using a donor egg and one of the men&#8217;s sperm — at nearly six months pregnant over a possible cleft palate and a potential minor heart issue. A lawsuit obtained by the National Post says the couple is suing the woman for causing them emotional distress and not keeping them informed in a timely manner.
After the woman, who is not being named, refused to kill the child, the couple allegedly stiffed her on reimbursement for pregnancy-related expenses, lost income, and other costs, which were supposed to be paid per agreement. When the woman tried to take them to small claims court to try to get the $10,000, the couple hit her with an estimated $600,000 lawsuit.
“You know I’m a single mom, you know I have a daughter, and you’re basically suing me for my house. It seems very sh*tty, it’s just awful,&#8221; the woman said. “I just feel used … They didn’t get the perfect child they wanted and they threw me away.”
In Canada, women are not paid enormous sums for surrogacy as they are in America; instead, they&#8217;re only allowed reimbursement for pregnancy-related expenses. The woman in this case said she decided to become a surrogate to help others. She said she was inundated with dozens of requests for surrogacy after she announced her intentions. She added that she chose the gay couple after much consideration.
After the woman told the partners about possible birth defects, which were a cleft lip, a potential cleft palate, and a possible minor heart defect, the couple said in a letter that they wanted their surrogate to kill the child.
“Considering that medical tests indicate that the fetus has, or is likely to have, a genetic, chromosomal or other abnormality or defect, and in accordance with article 8.5 (a) of our surrogacy agreement … we want to inform you of our wish that the pregnancy be terminated,” the gay couple reportedly said. “Although very difficult, this decision is free and informed.”
The request left the woman feeling &#8220;devastated” and a “mess,&#8221; she said.
She ended up delivering a baby boy through an at-home birth, which further upset the gay couple, who reportedly wanted the baby delivered in a hospital because of the suspected birth defects. The at-home birth was agreed upon in their original surrogacy plan.
Surrogacy has become increasingly controversial, with critics arguing that the process turns motherhood into a transaction, preys on the poor, and treats children like a product.
Pro-life activist Lila Rose <a href="https://x.com/LilaGraceRose/status/2077207953451692129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">posted</a> about the lawsuit on Tuesday, writing, &#8220;A same-sex couple is suing their surrogate for $600K after she refused to abort their baby at 22 weeks in Canada. Scans indicated the child had a cleft lip and a possible heart defect,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The little boy was born healthy.&#8221;
&#8220;That child is alive today not because of the men who purchased his life, but because the woman who carried him in her womb protected him. Children are not commodities,&#8221; Rose added. &#8220;Ban surrogacy now.&#8221;
The gay couple declined to comment on the matter, according to the Post.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/surrogacy-is-the-worst-outcome-of-throwaway-culture">Surrogacy Is The Worst Outcome Of Throwaway Culture</a>

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WASHINGTON — Fourteen women who say they were harmed by abortion drugs are urging Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to settle a federal lawsuit over mail-order abortion drugs involving a woman who says she was coerced into aborting her unborn baby by her boyfriend, according to a letter exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire.
The letter comes ahead of Blanche&#8217;s scheduled confirmation hearings, currently set for July 15 and July 16, indicating that Blanche may face questions from Republican senators on the Justice Department&#8217;s attitude toward mail-order abortion drugs. Under President Joe Biden, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made it much easier for women to obtain abortion drugs through the mail without safety precautions.
Pro-abortion advocates have argued that the coronavirus pandemic made it necessary for women to be able to abort their babies at home using mail-order abortion drugs. Opponents of the drugs argue that abortions-by-mail have been found to harm many women and open the door to <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/latest-news/abortion-drugs-fuel-abuse-the-women-poisoned-against-their-will">documented cases of coercion and violence</a>.
&#8220;The Department of Justice must act now to protect women by listening to and standing with Rosalie Markezich, rather than fighting against her in litigation,&#8221; reads a letter sent to Blanche on July 8, signed by Tramelle Jones, Sara Huff, Elizabeth Henschel, Dora Rhode Esparza, Jannette Houston, Grace Cardoso, Abby Johnson, Kelly Lester, Erin Woods, Alani Harmon, Haile McAnally, Shanyce Thomas, McKenzie Kaupa-Thiesse, and Jessica Williams.
The women describe how Markezich, as a young woman in Louisiana, was delighted to discover she was pregnant. Her boyfriend did not feel the same way.
&#8220;She wanted her baby. She worked with children, loved them, and did not reject the thought of motherhood,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;Yet according to her account, her then-boyfriend changed his mind, used her information to obtain abortion drugs by mail from a California abortionist, and pressured her to take them even though she did not want to end her pregnancy.&#8221;
&#8220;We grieve with Rosalie because many of us recognize parts of our own stories in hers: the pressure, the confusion, the fear, the absence of real medical care, and the feeling that the system was designed to move drugs faster than it was designed to protect women. No woman should be forced, pressured, deceived, or abandoned into taking drugs that end her child’s life and place her own health at risk.&#8221;
The women blame the FDA&#8217;s abortion drug policy for putting Markezich in this situation, warning Blanche that the policy is &#8220;the same policy the Department is defending in court&#8221; through Louisiana v. FDA. They urge the acting attorney general to side with Markezich and settle her legal case immediately so that &#8220;abortion drugs are no longer sent through the mail in ways that put women at risk.&#8221;
&#8220;The federal government should not defend policies that make it easier for men, abusers, traffickers, or anyone else to obtain abortion drugs in a woman’s name and pressure her to take them in isolation,&#8221; they write.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America, told The Daily Wire on Wednesday that the current crisis of mail-order abortion drugs is a &#8220;direct result of Biden federal policy.&#8221; Her organization has documented a number of cases of abortion drug coercion and violence across the nation, including the alarming story of a U.S. Army captain sentenced to 12 years in prison who poisoned a female junior soldier with mifepristone and killed their baby.
&#8220;Again,&#8221; she said, &#8220;we implore Acting AG Blanche as the Senate weighs his nomination: please, listen to the survivors and settle the case without further delay.”
A Fifth Circuit panel had previously found that Markezich&#8217;s case was &#8220;strongly likely&#8221; to succeed based on their claim that the FDA mail-order abortion rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act. But opponents of the abortion drugs argue that the litigation will take a long time to resolve while women and babies are continuing to be harmed.
&#8220;Settling this case would send a clear message that women’s safety matters, that coercion is real, that state laws protecting women and unborn children deserve respect, and that the Department of Justice will not ignore the real-world consequences of weakened abortion-drug safeguards,&#8221; write the fourteen women harmed by abortion drugs.
&#8220;We do not all share the same story, the same zip code, or the same season of life,&#8221; they added. &#8220;But we are united in asking the Department of Justice to recognize the harm women have suffered and to act before more women are placed in similar danger. For Rosalie, and for women and girls across the country who may never have the chance to tell their stories publicly, we ask you to act with urgency: side with Rosalie, settle the case, and help restore safeguards that can prevent further harm.&#8221;
Signer Haile McAnally took abortion drugs that were given to her at an abortion center, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America shared, but when she got home, she began hemorrhaging in her bathtub. A friend discovered her and rushed her to the emergency room where she received a blood transfusion and doctors were able to save her life.
&#8220;I am supporting Rosalie because, like so many women, I fell prey to the propaganda surrounding the abortion pill — and it nearly took my life,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. &#8220;I received mine in person at a clinic and still suffered serious medical complications; now these drugs are being shipped across the country with little to no oversight. For the health and safety of women, we have to do better — that starts with immediately stopping the mail shipment of these pills.&#8221;
Another signer, Jessica Williams, shared that she was pressured to abort her child by her estranged husband and ordered the drugs online through chat, with no screening. The abortion drugs shipped across state lines to a hotel where she picked them up, took them, and then immediately regretted her choice and called a pregnancy center where she obtained abortion pill reversal.
She named her baby daughter, who survived and is thriving, Kaylee Grace, partially after the pregnancy center that helped her.
&#8220;Every woman deserves to make decisions free from coercion or pressure and with appropriate medical support, screenings &amp; safeguards,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The abortion pill carries an FDA black box warning label, as it is not an over-the-counter drug and comes with real risks to the lives of both mother and baby.  I am a nurse and a woman who has experienced coercion from a partner to take the pill, but my child was saved by abortion pill reversal. Some women and children are not that fortunate because of mail-order drugs.&#8221;

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EXCLUSIVE: Women Harmed By Abortion Drugs Send A Message To Todd Blanche

While Americans hang their flags and light their fireworks on July 4, our elected officials just handed Planned Parenthood a gift: our tax dollars. On the 250th birthday of the greatest nation on earth, Congress chose the abortion industry over the lives of future American citizens. On a day with so much to celebrate, we’re forced to mourn the millions left behind by this choice.
The very nation that was founded on the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has betrayed the first of those rights. Innocent children will continue to be killed while we, the taxpayers, are forced to prop up the nation’s largest perpetrator of abortion.
The irony is astonishing.
Planned Parenthood caused the deaths of <a href="https://tracking.us.nylas.com/l/c142ced763394a9887996526c1d7bba3/2/ee33f2cdb0b8e582a2efb9b8fc2cec5715fcc579686d46975b6d20a6b31b76d2?cache_buster=1782221895">434,450 children</a> in the 2024-2025 fiscal year. In just one fiscal year, nearly half a million children are gone because of one American business.
Planned Parenthood has been able to do this by convincing vulnerable women that taking the life of her child will solve her “problems.”
That’s not true.
Add to these horrific numbers the tens of millions lost since abortion on demand became the status quo with the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which paved the way for Planned Parenthood to become the largest abortion operation set on dismantling the family unit.
Planned Parenthood told my then-fiancée (now wife) and me the same “better life” lie 34 years ago.
Afraid and with no one telling us life was a viable choice, we chose to end the life of our first daughter, Sarah, at Planned Parenthood. To this day, we deeply regret the decision we made years ago.
That’s why my heart is heavy today.
It’s weighed down by the knowledge that many more parents will know the grief that racked my wife and me for three decades.
Why?
In large part because the leaders who have taken an oath to protect those they’re elected to serve have turned a blind eye to the destruction Planned Parenthood is causing in their own communities.
Our story is just one out of thousands that proves how misleading Planned Parenthood continues to be.
American society has been desensitized to the true meaning and impact of abortion. Women are sold this lie that abortion is healthcare when, in reality, an abortion creates additional distress for a woman and her child.
Behind each abortion decision is a mother desperately seeking solutions to instability in her life, whether it’s related to her housing, employment, or education.
She may feel pressure from her partner, family, or friends to get an abortion.
She feels that her environment is less than ideal for raising a child.
But when mothers are asked what they would do if their <a href="https://tracking.us.nylas.com/l/c142ced763394a9887996526c1d7bba3/3/147005978930e99d90f22734a30491621b4eabda6bb024f09b817eaabf488b7a?cache_buster=1782221895">circumstances</a> were different, a majority say they would prefer to parent.
A woman who walks into Planned Parenthood is told that an abortion will offer her a better life. One that frees her from financial burdens, provides safe, stable housing, and offers the emotional support she longs for. But Planned Parenthood isn’t making any of this a reality for women. They’re only offering to end the life of a child in the name of “healthcare.” On the other hand, when a woman is given real solutions to the crises, she’s more likely to reject an abortion.
Today, our nation’s most powerful lawmakers made a choice to continue funding the destructive work of Planned Parenthood rather than standing courageously in the gap for the mothers and children preyed upon by a business that’s operating with the bottom line in mind.
American mothers deserve the best. They deserve encouragement and the promise that it’s possible to be a mom and live a life that brings joy and fulfillment.
Now more than ever, we need to stay committed to American moms and families. No matter where these women find themselves, they deserve to know the truth about abortion and the deep wounds it leaves in its wake.
The pro-life movement needs Americans to stand with us. We need to support moms who feel lonely and vulnerable. We need people who are willing to hold the predatory abortion industry accountable. Planned Parenthood won this battle, but the war is far from over. While this renewed funding slows our progress towards ending abortion, we continue to demand the complete defunding of Planned Parenthood.
All life deserves protection, just as our Founding Fathers intended. Let’s honor their vision for America by making abortion unthinkable and unnecessary.
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Jeff Bradford, president and CEO of <a href="https://tracking.us.nylas.com/l/c142ced763394a9887996526c1d7bba3/4/d3b63ae22d170026f4fa2a70ae0b469f64bf578ea19f631b3cc6602ea1742825?cache_buster=1782221895">Human Coalition</a>, is a former business leader who built and led multiple companies before dedicating his career in 2012 to advancing Human Coalition’s mission to save preborn children and grow it into one of the nation’s largest pro-life organizations.

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Two hundred fifty years ago this week, our Founding Fathers declared the self-evident truth “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Most Americans know this phrase by heart. However, <a id="m_4061674854836230776OWA07270982-2b1c-cac0-c335-20e8a2f1ea32" title="https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3960" href="https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3960" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid%3D3960&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1782401549605000&amp;usg=AOvVaw21NXy2lfge7h8Evcxo--EE">polling released</a> by Quinnipiac University just a month ago found that barely one-third of Americans think our nation is “living up to the ideal.”
While many of those polled still firmly believe our nation’s best days are ahead of us, we certainly have work to accomplish, starting with equal rights for the preborn child.
After all, the Declaration of Independence noted our God-given rights in particular order: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our Founders knew that without life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are impossible.
Public discourse on abortion has shifted away from when life begins, especially after Roe v. Wade was overturned. This is a settled fact. Biologists, who Americans agree are the most qualified group to determine when life begins, <a id="m_4061674854836230776OWAf52da664-3608-ac37-f313-a2cf1acb4a11" title="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36629778/" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36629778/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36629778/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1782401549606000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0CfXk2T_ky1aUsJpd6itDy">nearly unanimously agree</a> that life begins at conception. America now faces the question of personhood.
But knowing when human life begins, have the Founders failed to answer the question of personhood for us? By no means. &#8220;All men are created equal,” according to the Declaration, comes without qualification.
As a nation, we have been forced to self-correct time and time again after we have attempted to qualify what it means to be a legal person. Even the Constitution, signed only 11 years after the Declaration, fell from the founding standard of equal rights and accommodated slavery under the Three-Fifths Compromise.
Only three-fifths of the slave population, nearly all of them black Americans, counted when factoring state representation and taxation, and none were given the rights to own land, marry, or be educated, much less vote. Under the law, they were still wrongfully regarded as property, not humans endowed with the inalienable rights our nation should have always recognized.
Not even President Abraham Lincoln’s <a href="https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html">Emancipation Proclamation</a> nearly 100 years later provided a complete remedy to former slaves. Freed from the institution of slavery itself, black Americans would still suffer under Jim Crow laws and continued racism after Lincoln declared “that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.”
While the 14th Amendment, namely <a id="m_4061674854836230776OWA171b170d-107a-63f4-bf5a-f1ffac3be3cc" title="https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment" href="https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1782401549606000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0HY4aVJ6uArgWEYW-H79ZH">the Equal Protection Clause</a>, established no citizen would be denied “the equal protection of the laws,” another century elapsed before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, upheld enforceability of equal rights for black Americans, including among private individuals and businesses.
Signers of the Constitution also failed to recognize and protect the rights of women, allowing others later to interpret the phrase “all men are created equal” to be qualified by sex. The U.S. movement for women’s suffrage fought for decades for the right to functional equality with men — first among this, the right to vote. It took the 19th Amendment to ensure no citizen was denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.
America has persevered, correcting these tragic distortions of the equal rights our nation was founded upon, but she has still failed to recognize the preeminent right to life that is core to any other rights our nation has historically transgressed.
After 250 years, we have still failed to recognize the personhood of the preborn child, even as the 14th Amendment revived the language of the Declaration, stating “nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
Abortion systematically denies preborn children due process. The right to life cannot be qualified by whether a human is born or preborn; otherwise, we undermine the spirit and ideals upon which this nation was founded.
On America’s 250th birthday, we must return to the founding principles we declared self-evident in 1776, first among these, life.
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Kristan Hawkins is president of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, with more than 1,700 groups on middle and high school, college and university, and medical and law school campuses in all 50 states. Follow her <a id="m_4061674854836230776OWAb523a394-8768-772b-322c-3a476b6f473a" title="https://twitter.com/kristanhawkins?lang=en" href="https://twitter.com/kristanhawkins?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/kristanhawkins?lang%3Den&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1782401549606000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0UmNV8M4599irY9MRYD5HY">@KristanHawkins</a> or subscribe to her podcast, <a id="m_4061674854836230776OWAa5e88b98-a0f7-126b-83bc-c62e9d4dd9fb" title="https://kristanhawkins.com/podcast/" href="https://kristanhawkins.com/podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://kristanhawkins.com/podcast/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1782401549606000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2hUh7hfDsZ-YwcUOxRMAap">The Kristan Hawkins Show</a>.
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On July 4, 2026, American taxpayers celebrate the 250th birthday of our nation, but they&#8217;ll also begin giving money again to the largest abortion organization, Planned Parenthood. That&#8217;s unless Congress acts.
Last summer, Congress included a one-year “defund” provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The law blocked Medicaid payments to certain abortion organizations for “the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment” of the law, July 4, 2025. Simply put,  Planned Parenthood and similar organizations were cut off from federal Medicaid reimbursement for one year. That year is coming to an end.
Some Republican lawmakers apparently think this is a difficult political question. It is not.
The whispered argument in Washington, D.C., is familiar: It is the summer of an election year. Do we really want ads saying, “Congressman X defunded Planned Parenthood”? Won’t Democrats accuse Republicans of taking away women’s health care? Won’t Planned Parenthood spend millions telling voters Republicans are extremists?
Of course they will. That is the point. The attack ads are coming either way.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund is publicly campaigning against House Republicans over defunding. Its own press room announced a new investment of nearly $2 million to keep House Republicans from “defunding” Planned Parenthood, after a prior $1.5 million campaign on the same issue. Its 2026 endorsements page says “the stakes could not be higher,” attacking President Donald Trump and Republicans, warning that anti-abortion lawmakers want to make the Medicaid defund permanent.
Republicans face a choice. They can be attacked for defunding Planned Parenthood after actually defunding Planned Parenthood. Or they can be attacked for defunding Planned Parenthood after quietly letting the money flow again.
The first option is a fight that can be won and is good public policy. The second is political malpractice.
The case against funding Planned Parenthood does not require hyperbole. It requires reading Planned Parenthood’s own documents. Planned Parenthood is not a local charity that stumbled into politics. It is the nation’s largest abortion organization. Its 2024-2025 <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/6a/19/6a191461-a0ad-4ea0-8118-aa9184c24a31/digital-2025-ppfa-annualreport-c3.pdf">annual report</a> lists 434,450 abortions committed, each of which is a precious child killed. The same year, they reported $832 million in government reimbursements and grants. It also lists tens of millions of dollars spent on explicit sexual education, public policy, and advocacy expenses.
The organization says its health centers provide hormone therapy and other “gender-affirming” services. Its website lists estrogen and anti-androgen hormone therapy, testosterone hormone therapy, puberty blockers, surgery referrals, and transition support. Planned Parenthood has been described as the second-largest provider of gender hormone therapies in the United States. And they offer nothing to minors who <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/planned-parenthood-offered-hormones-had-no-answers-when-detransitioner-sought-help-undercover-probe-finds">regret</a> transitioning.
Add it up. Planned Parenthood kills hundreds of thousands of preborn children through abortion, pushes ideological sex education, provides <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/assets/1781815371-planned-parenthood-transgender-agenda-official-copy.pdf">gender-transition services</a>, and then turns around to politically mobilize against the very lawmakers debating whether to subsidize it.
This is the organization some Republicans are considering returning to the taxpayer trough.
There is a saying in politics: You cannot beat something with nothing. True. But there is another lesson Republicans should&#8217;ve learned by now: You cannot appease a political machine into silence.
If Republicans extend the defunding, Planned Parenthood and its allies will say Republicans defunded Planned Parenthood. That would be accurate. Fine. Let the argument be had honestly.
If Republicans fail to extend the defunding, Planned Parenthood and its allies will still say Republicans defunded Planned Parenthood, threatened basic care, and tried to shut down clinics. The ads will not disappear. The mailers will not be recalled. The pro-abortion activists will not send thank-you notes. The only people who will notice the retreat are the voters Republicans count on to knock doors, write checks, make calls, and turn out in ugly political weather.
That is the forgotten political cost here: base demoralization.
For pro-life voters, defunding Planned Parenthood is not the ceiling. It is the floor. It is the least a Republican Congress can do. Many of these voters have accepted that change is hard and comes slowly. They have accepted imperfect bills, narrow margins, Senate rules, court fights, and half measures dressed up as strategy. But asking them to accept nearly a billion taxpayer dollars flowing back to the abortion industry, after Republicans had already stopped it for a year, is a different thing.
Republicans should not fund their opposition.
The ads are coming. The accusations are coming. The headlines are coming. Let’s at least reap the reward while bearing the cost.
Defund Planned Parenthood and defend that defunding without flinching. Better to be attacked for taking the hill than mocked by your own voters for abandoning it.
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Noah Brandt is the Vice President of Communications &amp; Government Relations at Live Action

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“Can you help me?” I asked over the phone.
Many conversations occurred, but the response was the same.
“No.”
At first glance, I may seem like an unlikely candidate to conduct an undercover investigation, but as the victim of cross-sex hormones and radical ideology, I feel it is my duty to help expose facilities such as Planned Parenthood.
In April 2026, <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/">Live Action</a> asked me to investigate the organization, known mostly for performing over 400,000 abortions per year. What many don’t know is that Planned Parenthood also specializes in providing dangerous cross-sex hormones, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfoZCtbvdhM">often to minors</a>, without any oversight.
This has become a lucrative business for them. On their website, they state that Planned Parenthood is “proud to provide gender-affirming care” such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and social and legal transition support.
But what if you want to de-transition? That’s what I wanted to find out.
Live Action’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMk6wPMp1Sc">latest undercover investigation</a> reveals the truth about Planned Parenthood’s ruthless one-way pipeline that aggressively pushes vulnerable people, including minors, into abortion and “gender-affirming care,” but abandons them when they experience regret, complications, or a desire to reverse course.
Up until last summer, this was paid for by the American people, and if Congress doesn’t extend the one-year defunding measure that was put in place, the destruction will continue on our dime. Taxpayers should not subsidize this evil. Congress and the Trump administration must extend the defunding of Planned Parenthood before the current restrictions expire on July 4, 2026.
Picture this: You’re scared, you’ve made a mistake, and you want to take it back. So you call the only place you think can help.
“Hi. Do you have services to reverse any of the side effects of cross-sex hormones?”
I called Planned Parenthood facilities all over the country. From New York to Alaska, from Idaho to Washington, D.C., the answers were similar. “We don’t provide those services,” and “I don’t have any information on that.”
The responses revealed a troubling pattern. While Planned Parenthood promotes pathways into gender transition, facilities were unable or unwilling to provide any support to detransition. When pressed about other side effects, such as infertility or surgical consequences, they provided nothing.
A few years ago, I went through a similar scenario, and these calls brought back the pain, fear, and helplessness I felt. What a horrific experience for young people to go through. First, they are told this will help them, but when it fails, there is no one to pick up the pieces.
This reaction isn’t surprising and parallels exactly how Planned Parenthood approaches abortion. Decades ago, when Live Action’s Lila Rose went <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/video-series-investigations">undercover</a> at Planned Parenthood facilities, the results were the same. They don&#8217;t provide healthcare. Instead, they prioritize profit over true care.
Planned Parenthood pushes abortion as the only option for women in crisis, often sending them home to commit the abortion alone. Take the life-altering experience of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DYA1F4kRllm/">Shanyce Thomas</a>, who, after taking the abortion pill at home, returned to the office with severe physical pain, only to be turned away. Days later, Shanyce contracted sepsis, almost dying in a nearby emergency room.
Planned Parenthood has established an evil pattern with its patients. Instead of “do no harm,” they harm and then do nothing. Yet before the defunding, this organization received over $800 million in taxpayer money.
That’s why we must act now. American taxpayers should not fund child abuse or the destruction of preborn children. I urge Congress and President Trump to extend the defunding of Planned Parenthood quickly and indefinitely. America must protect the vulnerable rather than fund those who profit from harming them.
<a href="https://www.liveaction.org/defund-planned-parenthood-2026">Defund Planned Parenthood</a> now.
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/chooocole/?hl=en">Chloe Cole</a> is a detransitioner, speaker, and influencer focused on exposing the abuses of childhood gender transition, debunking radical ideology and igniting optimism.

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Four years after the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling ending the bloody legacy of Roe v. Wade, pro-life activists struggle to confront a new challenge that has proved just as difficult: mail-order abortion pills.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe, many activists believed that states would be empowered to end abortion without the interference of the federal government. Now pro-life leaders say federal regulations and state shield laws are allowing leftist activists and organizations to flood states — where medication abortion is technically illegal — with abortion pills. 
&#8220;We find that the abortion drug has usurped the sovereignty of those states, and that people like Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, are determining policy for pro-life states, to the extent that now 15,000 children a month are dying, in pro-life states that have strong pro life protections,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said during a Tuesday call attended by The Daily Wire. 
“That is the definition of failure,” she added. 
While red states responded to Roe with trigger laws prohibiting doctors from administering abortions, blue states enacted so-called “shield laws” designed to protect those who illegally ship abortion pills across the country from prosecution. 
Medication abortions, which are the most common abortion method, are facilitated by a woman taking mifepristone and misoprostol. After a pregnant woman takes mifepristone, the unborn child is cut off from the nutrients it needs to survive and is effectively starved to death. Misoprostol is then taken to induce labor and expel the deceased baby from the mother. 
A previous Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-leftist-networks-flood-red-states-with-risky-abortion-pills-with-no-consequences">investigation</a> found that leftist activist groups send foreign-made abortion pills into states with the only requirements being an address and some form of payment online. One <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ordering-abortion-drugs-is-as-easy-shopping-on-amazon?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Abortion+Drugs+Now+Arrive+As+Fast+As+An+Amazon+Package">recent study</a> from the Charlotte Lozier Institute identified eight online pill providers that use so-called shield laws to ship pills into states where medication abortion is technically illegal. 
Many pro-life leaders say the problem could be greatly addressed if the FDA rescinded a Biden-era policy that allowed abortion pills to be dispensed through the mail. The FDA is currently conducting a safety study of the abortion pill and said it won’t adjust policy while the study takes place
Dannenfelser has urged the Justice Department to settle a lawsuit filed by the state of Louisiana against the FDA’s abortion policy. The suit says that the FDA&#8217;s policy prevents Louisiana from enforcing its restrictions on medication abortions. 
“There is a record of this administration certainly challenging injustice, and running straight towards the battle,” she said. “That&#8217;s the kind of courage that we&#8217;ve come to see and desire.”
A spokesman for the Justice Department told The Daily Wire that it asked the judge to give the FDA more time to review its Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy for the abortion drug. 
“On behalf of the FDA, the Justice Department has requested more time from the court for the FDA to complete its review of mifepristone REMS, ensuring our federal health agencies can change their policies without judicial interference,” the spokesman said. “As the Supreme Court recognized in a unanimous ruling less than two years ago, it is the role of the FDA — not the federal courts — to evaluate drug safety data and impose appropriate precautions.”
Largely fueled by the availability of the abortion pill, some estimates indicate that abortions have actually <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-dobbs-more-babies-are-still-being-aborted-in-the-united-states">increased</a> since Dobbs. 
“No, we&#8217;re killing more babies today,” said Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Iowa-based Family Leader, when asked if the pro-life movement is better off than it was four years ago. “We&#8217;re being more creative in how we kill more babies than they were.”
He said that they used to be worried about people traveling out of state to Illinois for abortion but that now the “abortion destinations [are] in your mailbox.”
Grappling with the problems of the abortion pill, some pro-life leaders say the overturn of Roe also created problems for the Left that should not be ignored. 
Shawn Carney, the CEO of 40 Days for Life, said that pro-abortion activists now have to make the case for abortion as a positive good and cannot hide behind Supreme Court precedent.  
“They just had to say, ‘It&#8217;s the Supreme Court, it&#8217;s the law of the land, and that&#8217;s it,’” he told The Daily Wire. “So when Dobbs got rid of Roe, they had to start talking about abortion, and that hasn&#8217;t gone well because they&#8217;ve never had to do that. They never had to have any kind of basic talking points on why abortion is good, what it is as a surgery, how it operates.”
Recently, Rep. Brandon Gill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rising-gop-star-presses-abortion-advocate-to-name-favorite-method-of-murdering-babies">went viral</a> for exposing the brutal nature of abortion during an exchange with a pro-abortion advocate who repeatedly refused to answer when asked about her preferred method of abortion. 
“The left has never had to articulate why abortion&#8217;s good, and now that they have to, because it&#8217;s state by state, they can&#8217;t,” Carney said.
Carney did say that the mail-order abortion was the largest challenge for the pro-life movement. 
“The mail order abortions, which was started under Biden during COVID, that is the biggest problem right now that we face &#8230; because we don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s getting these pills. We don&#8217;t know how they&#8217;re using them,” he said. 
“We&#8217;re sending these two pills that are designed to kill a baby to just some random apartment. We have no idea who gets it. They don&#8217;t have to sign for it,” he added. 
He also said that the pro-life movement should not underestimate the opportunities to work in deep blue states. While they can’t change laws on the ground, they can change minds and hearts, Carney said. 
Carney also praised President Donald Trump as the most “pro-life president ever” and said he thought criticism of the president’s approach to the issue was “over the top” and “unprofessional.” 
Trump appointed the Supreme Court justices who overturned Dobbs and has taken numerous actions to cut off federal funding for abortions. During his first week back in office, Trump issued pardons to nearly two dozen pro-life activists who were targeted by the Biden administration. 
“This Department of Justice remains committed to advancing President Trump’s pro-life agenda, including through dismissing criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits against peaceful pro-life advocates targeted by the previous administration, and using the FACE Act to protect pro-life pregnancy centers,” a DOJ spokesman told The Daily Wire. 
Some elected Republicans at the state level are embracing a new approach that involves criminalizing abortion for all involved, including the mother. Laws in states like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-bill-would-classify-abortion-as-murder">Tennessee</a> and South Carolina were proposed this past legislative cycle that would treat abortion as murder.
These kinds of laws, which are opposed by traditional pro-life groups, are supported by groups like the Foundation to Abolish Abortion which says they are the only guaranteed way to end abortion. Foundation to Abolish Abortion President Bradley Pierce told The Daily Wire that laws aimed at going after suppliers were not enough. 
“These abortion regulations cannot be enforced against the established supply chain of abortion pills from overseas, and cannot be reliably enforced domestically unless and until the Supreme Court makes a decision regarding shield laws,” he said. “That is why lawmakers must establish equal protection for preborn babies, applying the laws against homicide within their own jurisdictions against every willful participant in abortion.”
Pierce said that “abolition” bills “deter both the supply and demand of abortions” and are the Christian approach to ending abortion. He says his group will continue to work with state lawmakers on drafting similar legislation. 
“In order to advance abolition bills, we are recruiting and educating state lawmakers, providing them assistance as they draft and introduce equal protection legislation, and making the case for abolition in the public square,” he said. “Other abolitionists across the country are also launching and growing grassroots efforts to elect more Christian lawmakers who champion equal protection.”
While Democrats campaigned heavily on restoring Roe in 2022 and 2024, public opinion is roughly unmoved, <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/711401/dobbs-lasting-impact-abortion.aspx">according</a> to Gallup polling. Recent numbers show that roughly 49% of Americans want abortion to be legal in only a few cases (32%) or illegal in all (17%) cases while 48% say abortion should be legal in all (33%) or most (15%) circumstances. 
In 2025, over half of Americans (51%) identified as pro-choice, including 61% of women and 41% of men. In comparison, 43% of Americans said they were pro-life, including 54% of men and 32% of women.

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Four years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision seemingly opened the door to saving more lives, abortions are sadly increasing and countless women across America are suffering because of the growth of dangerous mail-order abortion.
The Food and Drug Administration’s rollback of safeguards, which previously ensured women saw a doctor to rule out life-threatening complications before taking abortion drugs, leaves women directly in harm’s way. The lack of safeguards also reinforces the false narrative that the science of mifepristone is settled and that mail-order abortion drugs are safe.
As an ob-gyn and medical director of four pregnancy centers in North Carolina, I regularly see firsthand that nothing could be further from the truth.
Increasingly, women are turning to our centers to get the guidance and medical evaluation they want and know they need when taking abortion drugs. They show up throughout the week with critical questions: Are the drugs they received in the mail real? Can we give them an ultrasound to rule out ectopic pregnancy or verify the gestational age of their pregnancy? Are the side effects they’re experiencing normal?
Women realize the need for ongoing medical care throughout the abortion process, despite the government and abortion advocates’ attempts to convince them they don’t need it. And a growing body of scientific data reflects their concerns about appropriate mifepristone safeguards.
A 2025 report found <a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWAafe2a973-3cd0-316a-3105-02144b43afba" title="https://eppc.org/publication/insurance-data-reveals-one-in-ten-patients-experiences-a-serious-adverse-event/" href="https://eppc.org/publication/insurance-data-reveals-one-in-ten-patients-experiences-a-serious-adverse-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eppc.org/publication/insurance-data-reveals-one-in-ten-patients-experiences-a-serious-adverse-event/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw357SpZ2y-nPj_DyGqx6rG4">one in 10</a> women taking the drug will experience a serious adverse event. The FDA’s own data admits that <a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWAceddeb49-d441-4914-811b-79f906ce4ef8" title="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf" href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2kBIlZOo5UDeqYiKBbG9A2">one out of 25 women</a> taking mifepristone ends up in the emergency room. <a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWA1e36e7ea-34c0-2543-f5a0-b2fda50a444f" title="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-risks-and-complications-of-chemical-abortion/" href="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-risks-and-complications-of-chemical-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-risks-and-complications-of-chemical-abortion/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0YUdxQNc3wcZ4-pLU5RYv1">Other data</a> reveal that mifepristone has four times the complication rate of surgical abortions and that serious adverse events from mifepristone may be up to <a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWAe28760d1-27b3-ccdd-f9bb-bc7c54c4beea" title="https://eppc.org/publication/insurance-data-reveals-one-in-ten-patients-experiences-a-serious-adverse-event/" href="https://eppc.org/publication/insurance-data-reveals-one-in-ten-patients-experiences-a-serious-adverse-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eppc.org/publication/insurance-data-reveals-one-in-ten-patients-experiences-a-serious-adverse-event/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw357SpZ2y-nPj_DyGqx6rG4">22 times higher</a> than previously believed.
Obstetricians and gynecologists across this country treat women who have experienced the negative side effects of mifepristone — hemorrhaging, infections, or even needing a transfusion or emergency surgery. The drug devastates women physically and <a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWAb47d60e6-7217-1f93-68ed-b4c1914040ec" title="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-abortion-and-mental-health/" href="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-abortion-and-mental-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-abortion-and-mental-health/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1RQNli77d0c3SvbR2rQ9Wr">emotionally</a>. I remember a patient who called and shared how horrible her experience was with chemical abortion in her dorm room. She told me, “I am going to need to see a therapist.”
The larger medical community refuses to acknowledge the growing evidence against mifepristone because it fears this will undermine its avid support for unrestricted abortion. Leading <a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWA6251b325-6ee0-4854-69e3-b514939170eb" title="https://www.acog.org/-/media/project/acog/acogorg/files/advocacy/amicus-briefs/2026/20260223_louisiana-usfda.pdf?rev=8a3aa82f29e3430f847dea56d7f65b0d" href="https://www.acog.org/-/media/project/acog/acogorg/files/advocacy/amicus-briefs/2026/20260223_louisiana-usfda.pdf?rev=8a3aa82f29e3430f847dea56d7f65b0d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.acog.org/-/media/project/acog/acogorg/files/advocacy/amicus-briefs/2026/20260223_louisiana-usfda.pdf?rev%3D8a3aa82f29e3430f847dea56d7f65b0d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2px2aAUfIiDIMNsZ1QByhF">medical groups</a> such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continue promoting the lie that a visit to the ER after taking mifepristone isn’t serious or that the science on mifepristone’s safety and effectiveness is “<a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWA0777e898-67cc-866e-925c-00bbc3281a77" title="https://www.rev.com/transcripts/senate-hearing-on-abortion-drugs" href="https://www.rev.com/transcripts/senate-hearing-on-abortion-drugs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.rev.com/transcripts/senate-hearing-on-abortion-drugs&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1_VsKmHpm0jPZtb6xdG6DJ">longstanding and settled</a>.&#8221;
The women showing up at my clinics aren’t buying these lies. They are rightly concerned that they don’t have medical accompaniment when taking dangerous, high-risk drugs.
And as a medical professional with 28 years of experience working in women’s health, and who completed Ph.D. training in methods of scientific research, I am shocked at this distortion from fellow medical professionals.
The concept of questioning science and challenging assumptions has produced countless discoveries in medicine over the years.
I’ve witnessed many instances where the prevailing scientific consensus was later refined or even overturned after further studies. For example, medical professionals long believed that stress produced stomach ulcers, but further inquiry revealed that a <a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWA2c7882b9-9e6d-256f-f200-8980034a691b" title="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01206-6/abstract" href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01206-6/abstract" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01206-6/abstract&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2vpQn_afaaa2CWfe63TNAS">bacteria</a> called Helicobacter pylori was also related to the development of ulcers. Outdated ideas on <a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWAaa3d8696-15ee-1639-0072-bddc69288e92" title="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4026979/" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4026979/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4026979/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Y-ObQtsrjRN22_7ZGJYZ8">neuroplasticity</a> crumbled under renewed investigations revealing that contrary to popular belief, adult brains can reorganize and form new neural connections throughout life.
And in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, new studies have challenged prior knowledge and led to improvements in areas such as preventing preterm labor, labor after cesarean sections, and more. Rather than stifling investigation in each of these cases, scientists and medical professionals celebrated them as evidence that scientific discovery was ameliorating our health.
The pro-abortion medical community’s refusal to question or even consider the possibility that women may be <a id="m_-7804896960961876211OWAef1ea58b-de84-548c-c309-8b75cc58b5f1" title="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-risks-and-complications-of-chemical-abortion/" href="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-risks-and-complications-of-chemical-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-risks-and-complications-of-chemical-abortion/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781872097897000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Q76X4xBM44uxIdouSxS50">harmed</a> by mifepristone is incredibly telling. Our responsibility as physicians is to minimize harm. The refusal to examine evidence honestly, particularly when data and experience reveal that abortion drugs endanger women, is a failure of our duty as healers to protect the women we care for.
The purpose of medicine is health and healing. It is ultimately the responsibility of the physician to protect our patients, not a narrative. Women deserve a medical community that examines evidence with humility and curiosity. In medicine, when complication rates or serious adverse events occur after clinical trials in real-world patients, we carefully reassess their use. Mifepristone should be no exception.
Obstetrics and gynecology is the most unique specialty in medicine because we care for two patients at the same time: a mom and her baby. Dismissing the risks of mifepristone and the plethora of data on its dangers exposes not only a bias but also a failure to care for both patients.
Women deserve rigorous medical guidance grounded in evidence, not politics. Medicine can and must do better.
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Dr. Susan Bane is a board-certified ob-gyn who serves as the medical director of four pregnancy centers in North Carolina. She is chair of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists Action.

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A pro-union bill making its way through Congress with Republican support faces opposition from Christian business leaders who argue it could be used to advance a pro-abortion and transgender agenda without the consent of workers or employers.
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5408/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faster Labor Contracts Act</a>, which passed the House last week with support from 210 Democrats and 20 Republicans, stipulates that either side in a labor dispute may request federal mediation after a 90 day period. If an agreement is not reached within 30 days of federal mediation, the conflict goes to a 3-person arbitration panel that is then empowered to impose labor contracts that can be binding on the parties for up to two years.
The Senate version of the bill is sponsored by outspoken social conservative Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) who says that the bill will help workers assert their rights against woke corporations. But according to the Christian Employers Alliance, the bill could have significant <a href="https://x.com/JoinCEANow/status/2064348783203508259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ramifications</a> for religious workers and employees.
The organization, which successfully <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/christian-employers-alliance-v-us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-i/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defeated</a> a Biden-era mandate for employers to pay for transgender procedures, sent a letter to House lawmakers last week urging them to oppose the measure. They say that the bill would allow arbiters to embed woke provisions into binding contracts without final consent from workers or employers.
“Christian employers are increasingly concerned that collective bargaining agreements are being used to advance provisions involving abortion coverage, gender-transition procedures, DEI mandates, pronoun policies, and other ideological requirements that directly implicate matters of conscience and religious belief,” Christian Employers Alliance President Margaret Iuculano told lawmakers in a letter obtained by The Daily Wire.
Iuculano told The Daily Wire that her organization is not opposed to the measure because it directly mandates any of the policies in question, but because of the binding arbitration provision that kicks in after 120 days if the two sides can&#8217;t make an agreement.
&#8220;Because the legislation relies on binding arbitration to impose first contracts when negotiations fail, provisions of this nature could become part of an arbitrator-imposed agreement without the consent of either the employer or the employees,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. &#8220;For Christian employers, that raises serious concerns about religious liberty, conscience protections, healthcare freedom, and the ability of faith-based organizations to govern their workplaces consistent with their sincerely held beliefs.&#8221;
A Hawley spokesman told The Daily Wire that these objections were “absurd” and a way for big business to target the proposal.
“These absurd allegations about a strong bill to protect working people just show that giant corporations are desperate to kill legislation that would help American workers while they invest billions in DEI insanity,” a Hawley spokesman said. “Senator Hawley’s bill aims to put a shot clock on labor negotiations to stop corporations like Amazon from dragging their feet after workers win a vote to unionize fair and square.”
Hawley’s spokesman said that existing federal law protected religious employers.
“Federal law already shields religious employers, and under this bill any third-party arbitrators are mutually chosen by the bargaining parties, not by the government,” the spokesman said.
The terms imposed by the bill would allow the union and the employer to select one representative for arbitration. They would then have an opportunity to select a third arbitrator agreed to by both sides. If they can not agree on a third party within 14 days, the federal government would put in place the third person.
The Senate version is cosponsored by Republican Senators Roger Marshall (KS) and Bernie Moreno (Ohio) alongside 14 Democratic lawmakers.
Opponents of the bill argue that unions have historically promoted left-wing social policies, policies that could be imposed during the arbitration process.
For example, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the unions supporting the legislation, once <a href="https://teamster.org/2019/11/teamsters-lgbtq-caucus-holds-annual-meeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoted</a> a “Pride at Work” guidance <a href="https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/caucuslgbtqprideatwork.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> steeped in transgender ideology that features the so-called “gender-bread person.”
The document features a section called “Five Reasons LGBTQ Working People Need a Union,” including that “people in unions help ensure LGBTQ working people have their healthcare needs met,” including “gender confirmation surgery.”
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Some affiliate groups, such as the Teamsters Local 117 in Washington, proudly <a href="https://www.teamsters117.org/abortion_rights_are_worker_rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declare</a> that “abortion rights are worker rights.”
“In America today, I cannot think of a single healthcare procedure that elected officials have used the legislative process to take choice away from men. Abortion rights are worker’s rights. The labor movement must take a critical stand and continue the fight for equal access to healthcare for all its members,” the union said after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Kara Deniz, the assistant director of communications for the Teamsters, argued that complaints about abortion and transgender funding were attempts by companies to &#8220;misdirect&#8221; about the legislation.
&#8220;This is a complete misdirection to basically facilitate their goal to try to stampede and block a bill that is having tremendous bipartisan support. Republicans and Democrats are supporting this bill,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think they even have those concerns. To be quite honest, I think that these &#8216;concerns&#8217; are being brought up on behalf of the corporations.&#8221;
Deniz said the goal of the Teamsters was to cut down on the lengthy negotiating process and would not impact the issues of abortion or transgenderism.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s very unchristian to stand in the way of such legislation when it&#8217;s going to help people afford to live, and afford to be able to have a contract, and to not get hurt and injured on the job and be unsafe for 460 plus days because the employer refuses to give a contract,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s incredibly unchristian.&#8221;
The AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, has created model collective bargaining language demanding healthcare coverage for abortion and transgender procedures, including from out-of-state providers.
“All health plans offered to bargaining unit members shall cover comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services, including contraceptives, abortion services (procedural and pharmaceutical), and gender-affirming care,” the <a href="https://aflcio.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/Abortion%20Model%20CBA%20Language.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">model language</a> says.
Similarly, the Service Employees International Union has called for local unions to bargain for so-called trans-inclusive healthcare.
Thomas Beck, a labor lawyer who previously served on the Federal Labor Relations Authority, said that the worries of organizations like the Christian Employers Alliance are legitimate.
“I think it&#8217;s absolutely a concern,” he told The Daily Wire, noting the track record of unions pushing for abortion and transgender coverage. “They&#8217;re all proudly staking out these very progressive positions on some of the highest profile social issues of our time. And essentially they&#8217;re making it clear that they want to argue for these protections in collective bargaining agreements.”
Beck believes that arbitrators would see abortion coverage or transgender procedure coverage as an easy win to hand unions and that the end result of the legislation would lead to a binding government regulation imposed via arbitration.
Vinnie Vernuccio, the president of the Institute for the American Worker, said one problem with the legislation is that union members did not get a final vote on the labor contract with it went to arbitration.
“It&#8217;s going a bridge way too far to say the remedy for contract negotiations taking too long is to invite government bureaucrats and take away the ability of workers to vote on a contract,” he told The Daily Wire.
Hawley’s spokesman said the broader objections to the bill were a cloak for woke corporations to oppose worker-friendly legislation. The spokesman noted that employers get to be part of the process in selecting the representatives to oversee arbitration.
“It’s ironic that some of the biggest opponents of this legislation also promote the trans flag on their websites. Senator Hawley is fighting for the American worker, rather than the same Big Business who stands with the radical left to push woke, transgender ideology,” the spokesman said.
When asked about concerns with the bill, Reagan McCarthy, a spokeswoman for Moreno, told The Daily Wire that the senator was “proud to be a part of the legislative effort to protect working families. Working class Americans helped elect President Trump, and Republicans must be the party of workers, not Wall Street.”
Some corporations have moved to push for abortion coverage without union pressure. Corporate giants like Amazon, Apple, and JPMorgan all came forward after the Roe decision and announced that they would pay for women to travel to end the life of their unborn child.
Before passing, the proposal likely would have to go before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, which could be an uphill battle with Republican control of the committee. It would also need to pick up around ten more Republican supporters to get past the filibuster and would need President Donald Trump&#8217;s signature.

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Four years ago, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson, ending nearly 50 years of Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.
Roe had been based on an absurd lie, one that turned the American founding on its head. The Declaration of Independence, the very first words our nation spoke, states unequivocally that every human being is equal from the moment of his or her creation, and is endowed by God with an inalienable right to life that all governments are bound to protect.
Roe read the Constitution in the opposite direction, requiring states and the federal government to actively deny the right to life to unborn human beings. As a result, more than 60 million American children were killed.
Dobbs ended that era of constitutional interpretation, but it didn’t stop the deaths. Since the end of Roe, abortions in America are up, not down, rising most recently to more than 1.1 million each year. That’s about 200,000 more than in the final years of Roe v. Wade.
One reason for the increase: Biden changed federal regulations of abortion-inducing drugs, as part of what courts have characterized as an intentional strategy to undermine pro-life states. Now, activists in blue states can prescribe and ship these pills to “patients” in pro-life states whom they have never even seen or examined — including <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/latest-news/abortion-drugs-fuel-abuse-the-women-poisoned-against-their-will">abusers</a> who are poisoning women with these abortion drugs or coercing them into taking them.
Most Congressional Republicans and most pro-life states have called for the Biden rules to be scrapped. It’s easy to understand the urgency: many states with strong pro-life laws on the books now have more abortions within their borders each year than they did under Roe v. Wade.
But the federal government has been slow to act and is actively fighting lawsuits trying to force a change. Why? Because many federal officials feel that, after Dobbs, protecting life is no longer their problem.
Some still mistakenly believe that the Constitution forbids the federal government from recognizing or protecting unborn children’s right to life in any way. Because of this, they view federal pro-life action with deep suspicion. States, they argue, are the only ones with the authority to protect the right to life — and should be free to choose whether to protect it or whether to attack and deny it without any limitation: even up until birth, or even across state lines.
This maximalist “states-only” position simply isn’t what the Constitution, or Dobbs, says. The Constitution allows states to protect life, but it doesn’t forbid the federal government from trying to do so, too. The 14th Amendment, in fact, explicitly charges Congress with the duty and authority to ensure the equal protection of the laws and to ensure that no state deprives anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process.
Contrary to a pure states-only view, the Dobbs decision left every existing federal protection of the unborn — including a federal ban on partial-birth abortion — completely intact. As Justice Kavanaugh wrote, the Court, by finding that the Constitution didn’t require abortion, simply returned authority to the people’s elected representatives and the normal democratic process, both in the states and in Congress.
America was founded a quarter-millennium ago on the claim that legitimate governments must secure the God-given rights of every human being.
The party of Lincoln was founded 78 years later to ensure that those rights were protected federally to the maximum extent possible. The signature achievement of America after the Civil War was to put those protections squarely and clearly into the United States Constitution, and to give Congress the authority to enforce them.
The states-only philosophy is the legacy, not of Lincoln or the Founders, but of Jefferson Davis and Stephen A. Douglas. For them, as with the states-only maximalists of today, the height of the American ideal was to give each state perfect freedom to define its own “domestic institutions” however it liked. Whether these institutions were compatible with the God-given rights espoused in the Declaration was deemed immaterial.
We should acknowledge, with Lincoln, that this is a recipe for tyranny under the guise of freedom. The Founders had meant what they said, and they were right. All governments are bound to recognize the inherent and equal rights of every human being. There is no moral right for any government to restrict those basic rights to one favored class of people.
Thanks to Lincoln’s efforts and the Fourteenth Amendment, there’s no Constitutional right for any state to do so, either. Four years after Dobbs and 250 years after the Declaration, it’s time for our leaders to reject the lie that lies at the heart of Roe and to affirm, once again, that all men really are created equal.
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Marjorie Dannenfelser serves as president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. She has been called “the woman who brought down Roe.”

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