When it overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Supreme Court eliminated the biggest legal obstacle to advancing the pro-life cause. But our fight has never been a fight against Roe v. Wade. It’s a fight for life – one that is only just beginning.
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court said that regulating abortion belonged in the hands of the people and their elected representatives. Since then, nearly half the states have passed pro-life laws of different kinds – while others have doubled down on their pro-abortion policies.
Pro-abortion states and activists, however, are not content with legally protecting abortion where they live. They are now passing so-called abortion “shield” laws designed to undermine the ability of pro-life states to enforce their own laws.
Normally, states cooperate with each other when, for example, it comes to returning individuals to where they have committed crimes. This cooperation is required by the Constitution, and by multiple agreements that most states have signed.
Abortion shield laws break from that tradition, potentially causing irreparable damage to the interstate comity that has characterized the United States for so long.
But abortion shield laws also undermine traditional medical practice, which has long considered the location of medical care to be that of the patient, not the doctor.
In 2022, for example, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), the board representing state medical and osteopathic boards, adopted a policy stating that the “practice of medicine occurs where the patient is located.” This is true, the FSMB said, even when a patient receives telemedicine: the state of care is the state in which the patient is located.
But states such as California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and Washington have passed laws reversing this principle so that the laws of an abortionist’s state apply.
This poses extreme risks, especially now that a majority of abortions are caused by drugs rather than surgery. It allows abortionists to mail abortion drugs into pro-life states while claiming that a completely different state’s laws apply – even though women receive, use, and (in case of complications) are treated for those drugs under the laws of their home state.
Abortion advocates know this is both nonsensical and dangerous.
The primary authors of this abortion shield strategy <a href="https://review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/02/Cohen-76-Stan.-L.-Rev.-317.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledge</a> that “[s]tandard telehealth practice considers medical care to have occurred where the patient is located.” They also concede that “there are important reasons for defining care as occurring where the patient is located,” and that “shifting the location of care is a significant departure from the standard of care, the provisions of state medical practice acts, and the guidance of professional organizations.”
<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus/?_gl=1*1lail3r*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3MzIyMDEyNDkuQ2owS0NRaUEwZnU1QmhEUUFSSXNBTVhVQk9JSkM0VnNsMFVreURxYXUxVWVEVWdOdjZkNzR2Y1pEeEZQeHVBcGl2R3BLaTdBMjVzT1p5TWFBdG1nRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*NDUxNDQ0NzYwLjE3MzY3ODI2NDY.*_ga*MTc2NzM0NDQ2NS4xNzI4OTA5Nzkx*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTczNjk1NzYwMy4zNDAuMS4xNzM2OTU3NzE2LjYwLjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT</a>
They even admit that “the state where the patient resides typically has the strongest interest” and best means of protecting the safety of the resident patient.
Yet while abortion activists know all of this, for them, nothing comes close to matching the importance of maximizing abortion in this country. Nothing, not even protecting women’s health, can compete with killing unborn children.
Thus, they turn a blind eye while doctors prescribe and provide abortion drugs to patients they will never see in person – and whom they will not treat in the case of resulting complications.
The pro-life cause requires not only passing laws that protect the unborn but also being able to enforce those laws. These abortion shield laws have the same objective as the Supreme Court did in Roe v. Wade: forcing abortion upon states that oppose it. The March for Life calls us to fight for life on these new fronts, meaning it’s not outdated – it’s more important than ever.
* * *
Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

US-POLITICS-ABORTION

Abortion ‘Shield’ Laws: The Next Front In The Battle For Life

Abortion 'Shield' Laws: The Next Front In The Battle For Life

Abortion

Abortion Drug

Dobbs

Heritage Foundation

March For Life

Opinion

Pro-Life Movement

State lawmakers, governors offices, and health departments must urgently address abortion misinformation, a leading pro-life group said in a memo to state officials first obtained by The Daily Wire.
The memo addresses an abundance of pro-abortion misinformation perpetuated since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, when the power to decide abortion laws was returned to the states. The main lie, pushed by Vice President Kamala Harris and top Democrats, is that if a pregnant woman is miscarrying her baby, abortion laws &#8220;tie doctors&#8217; hands from acting to save her life.&#8221;
Harris repeated this lie throughout the last election cycle, as did proponents of pro-abortion ballot amendments like Florida&#8217;s Amendment 4. Major media outlets like ProPublica published &#8220;tragic stories of deaths from abortion drugs and medical malpractice in an attempt to blame the loss of lives on pro-life laws in Georgia and Texas,&#8221; the memo stated.
&#8220;Pro-abortion groups have dishonestly publicized that pro-life laws protecting unborn children prevent pregnant women from receiving care in an emergency,&#8221; wrote Sue Liebel, state affairs director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. &#8220;Whether it’s a ballot measure fight, candidate race or legislative battle, this has been the abortion industry’s number one talking point which many in the Democratic Party have adopted.&#8221;
SBA Pro-Life America&#8217;s <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/pro-life-laws-protect-mom-and-baby-pregnant-womens-lives-are-protected-in-all-states/">research has found</a> that every state abortion law allows for women to receive emergency care and for doctors to &#8220;continue to rely on their reasonable medical judgment.&#8221;
And the organization is calling for state lawmakers to follow the example of several pro-life states: South Dakota recently adopted a <a href="https://doh.sd.gov/healthcare-professionals/medical-education-guidance/#:~:text=House%20Bill%201224,or%20health%2Dthreatening%20medical%20conditions.">Med Ed law that directly educates</a> medical professionals through training materials from the state&#8217;s Department of Health, with input from the state&#8217;s attorney general, medical professionals, and legal experts.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/states-must-urgently-educate-public-on-abortion-laws-to-combat-misinformation-memo/screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5-04-02-pm" rel="attachment wp-att-834371"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-834371 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.02%E2%80%AFPM-486x576.png" alt="" width="486" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.02%E2%80%AFPM-486x576.png 486w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.02%E2%80%AFPM-253x300.png 253w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.02%E2%80%AFPM.png 690w" sizes="(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px" /></a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/states-must-urgently-educate-public-on-abortion-laws-to-combat-misinformation-memo/screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5-04-08-pm" rel="attachment wp-att-834373"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-834373 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.08%E2%80%AFPM-451x576.png" alt="" width="451" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.08%E2%80%AFPM-451x576.png 451w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.08%E2%80%AFPM-235x300.png 235w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.08%E2%80%AFPM.png 668w" sizes="(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px" /></a>
In Florida, the Agency for Health Care Administration released guidance after the state&#8217;s heartbeat law went into effect, <a href="https://ahca.myflorida.com/content/download/25110/file/9-19-24-Notice-to-Providers.pdf">emphasizing that doctors still had the ability to treat pregnant women</a> facing medical emergencies. The agency also sent letters to every doctor in the state, launched a website, and more.
In Nebraska, the memo emphasized, the state health department <a href="https://dhhs.ne.gov/han%20Documents/ADVISORY10282024.pdf">issued a health alert to clarify it&#8217;s 12 week protections for the unborn</a> when pro-abortion groups ran ads confusing the public about when pregnant women could receive care.
<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/gift-guide/">CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE</a>
And in Texas, the state medical board <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-medical-board-to-discuss-exceptions-to-states-abortion-ban/">adopted rules to protect women</a> under the state&#8217;s life at conception law, SBA Pro-Life America emphasized, noting that Texas&#8217;s new rule highlighted the importance of doctors relying on their reasonable medical judgment and noting that the law &#8220;allows for intervention when a serious situation is foreseeable.&#8221;
&#8220;We urge state leaders to act in 2025 to initiate Med Ed solutions to protect the pregnant women of their state,&#8221; the memo stated. &#8220;We hope these efforts will gain bipartisan support as they did in South Dakota and in Arizona, where a Democrat attorney general made clear that women can continue to receive care under their 15-week law. Protecting pregnant women should not be a contentious issue. Republican or Democrat, pro-life or pro-choice – we should all agree that putting women in danger for political purposes is wrong and should be put to an end.&#8221;

(Dana Neely, Getty Images)

States Must Urgently Educate Public On Abortion Laws To Combat Misinformation: MEMO

<div>
Many in our nation see the topic of life only as a cause that divides. Each year at the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., our humble voices and peaceful presence serve as a reminder of the beauty and dignity of every human life, and as an invitation to all Americans to recognize this truth and to serve the most vulnerable.
Now, more than ever, we must come together to witness to the inherent dignity of life.
In the two years since the Dobbs decision, the pro-life community has faced many challenges. We have battled relentless and radical pro-abortion proposals at both the state and federal level. Pro-abortion politicians have been using their power to discredit the life-saving work of pregnancy resource centers at a time when these charitable organizations have been suffering widespread threats, physical violence, and vandalism. Moreover, deadly misinformation campaigns surrounding state-level pro-life protections are scaring doctors and women away from addressing pregnancy-related medical emergencies even though <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/pro-life-laws-protect-mom-and-baby-pregnant-womens-lives-are-protected-in-all-states/#_ftnref1">none of these laws</a> prohibit life-saving care.
Extreme abortion measures that would enshrine a dangerous &#8220;right to abortion&#8221; into several state constitutions will be on the ballot this November. In Massachusetts, Attorney General Andrea Campbell has initiated a national “working group” of state AGs to target the work of pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) and Governor Maura Healy launched a million-dollar<a href="https://www.mass.gov/news/healey-driscoll-administration-launches-first-in-the-nation-public-education-campaign-on-the-dangers-of-anti-abortion-centers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> taxpayer-funded</a> smear campaign aimed at discrediting and destroying them.
Attacks like these harm vulnerable pregnant women who most need the <a href="https://pregnancycarealliance.com/resources/2023-impact-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resources and support</a> that PRCs provide. The result is that PRCs are forced to divert attention and resources from serving women in need, toward defending themselves against political and physical attacks – all because they offer alternatives to abortion. 
Pro-abortion misinformation campaigns promoting the Democrats’ vision of abortion without limits have tragically contributed to the preventable deaths of Georgia mothers Amber Thurman and Candi Miller. Pro-abortion activists, who for two years have been spreading the false narrative that state-level pro-life protections prevent doctors from treating mothers with serious pregnancy complications, are rightly described as “<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/propublicas-misleading-abortion-ban-stories-are-part-of-the-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">part of the problem</a>.” Those who fearmonger about pro-life protections would serve women far better if they admitted that complications from the unsupervised provision of abortion drugs caused the complications leading to Amber’s and Candi’s heartbreaking and untimely deaths.
Some pro-life Americans may feel overwhelmed or discouraged by these and many other challenges we face right now as a community. But while the landscape in which we work towards making abortion unthinkable will always have its ups and downs, the value and inherent dignity of vulnerable women and children never changes. Likewise, our resolve to protect and provide for them must never waver.
That is why for the 52nd National March for Life we chose a theme that reminds pro-life Americans of our roots &#8211; the reasons why we march by the thousands each year in the freezing cold, snow, and rain. We hope that reflecting on this year’s theme: “Every Life: Why We March” will be a source of the renewed energy and focus so needed for this moment. 
We march, not for ourselves, but rather for the pregnant women across the country who are in need of love and support. We march for the innocent unborn children who deserve a chance to live, to have a future, if only they are given the chance. We march also for our neighbors, co-workers, and elected officials who do not yet see the truth: that all human life is intrinsically valuable and worthy of protection.
For the past 52 years and again this year, pro-life Americans will unite from across all generations and all walks of life, with unique backgrounds and stories, to be a peaceful presence and joyful witness to this truth – and to march in love and protection of every human life.
* * *
Jeanne Mancini is president of March for Life.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
</div>

Demonstrators Participate In National March For Life

The Reason We March: 52nd National March For Life Unveils New Theme

Pregnancy

pregnancy centers

Pregnant women

Washington D.C.

The Biden campaign released an ad last week that personally attacks Supreme Court justices for being beholden to former President Donald Trump.
The <a href="https://youtu.be/_G3ua5TCHnA?si=1k6AHoU4GhR_IKdw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad takes</a> particular aim at the Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-due-rule-trumps-immunity-bid-blockbuster-case-2024-07-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a> earlier this month that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for acts that were within his constitutional powers as president.
&#8220;Nearly 250 years ago, America was founded in defiance of a king under the belief that no one is above the law, not even the president — until now,&#8221; the Biden ad&#8217;s narrator says.
The spot refers to the high court as the &#8220;Trump Supreme Court&#8221; and implies that the justices ignored the law and ruled as Trump wanted them to.
<iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_G3ua5TCHnA?si=dP5t16E06JnZTUDU" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
&#8220;The same Trump Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade ruled that the president can ignore the law even to commit a crime because Donald Trump asked them to,&#8221; the ad&#8217;s narrator says. &#8220;He&#8217;s already led an insurrection and threatened to be a dictator on day one. Donald Trump can never hold this office again.&#8221;
President Joe Biden, 81, has frequently attacked the Supreme Court with its 6-3 conservative majority, especially as the campaign season has heated up.
&#8220;I dissent,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-make-remarks-monday-evening-immunity-ruling-by-supreme-court-2024-07-01/">said</a> Monday evening in response, referring to the court&#8217;s decision on presidential immunity.
Biden has also been particularly focused on the Supreme Court&#8217;s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, claiming the Dobbs decision overturned a constitutional right for the first time in the history of the court.
Biden&#8217;s attacks on the court are unprecedented, experts say.
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-scotus-critiques-considered-unprecedented-experts-say-contrasting-clintons-2000-deference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the idea that Biden is &#8220;really the symbol of constitutional fealty is really alarming.&#8221;
Attorney Mark Paoletta, a personal friend of Justice Clarence Thomas who played a significant role in his confirmation, called the attacks on the court &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;
&#8220;Obama criticized a single case in his State of the Union, which is bad enough, but Biden does a nationwide primetime address to trash the court on immunity… though he did not have the courage or perhaps the mental acuity to take any questions,&#8221; Paoletta <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-scotus-critiques-considered-unprecedented-experts-say-contrasting-clintons-2000-deference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
In 2010, then-President Barack Obama lashed out at the court&#8217;s decision in the Citizens United case, which allowed corporations and other groups to spend independently on political campaigns.
The court &#8220;reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections,&#8221; Obama said during his State of the Union speech that year.
Republicans at the time criticized Obama&#8217;s willingness to attack the court.

President Biden Speaks On Administration’s Plan To Combat Delta Variant

Biden Campaign Ad Personally Attacks Supreme Court Justices

Barack Obama

Biden Administration

Biden Campaign

Elections

Executive

Joe Biden

Politics

SCOTUS

Supreme Court

On Monday, the country marks two years since the Supreme Court overturned half a century of legalized abortion nationwide, a tumultuous two years that has held both wins and losses for the pro-life movement.
Since the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> reversed Roe vs. Wade in June 2022, a total of 24 states have passed bans on abortion at 15 weeks or earlier. The Dobbs case dealt with a 2018 Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks.
Bans or restrictions on abortion are currently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in effect</a> in 21 states, namely Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona.
In the other three states that passed abortion bans, Iowa, Wyoming, and Montana, the laws are blocked in court for now.
Already, state abortion bans have resulted in tens of thousands more babies being born per year, a source of great joy for pro-life Americans across the country.
About 32,000 more babies were born per year due to state abortion bans enacted since Roe was overturned, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-abortion-bans-result-in-32000-more-babies-born-a-year-research-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a November analysis by the Institute of Labor Economics. Births have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> in every state that has an abortion ban, the analysis found.
“Since the Dobbs decision, we have gained major ground in the fight for life,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/women-rule/2024/06/21/two-years-later-the-demise-of-roe-00164396" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
However, Dannenfelser warns allies not to take the high court&#8217;s decision for granted.
“This could be the last Dobbs anniversary we celebrate if we don’t win this election. If Joe Biden and the Democrats win, they will nuke the filibuster and pass the [Women&#8217;s Health Protection Act] to ban states from having laws protecting unborn children and mandate all-trimester abortion all across the country,” she said.
Attorney Erin Hawley, who served as co-counsel with Mississippi on the Dobbs case, believes that legally, Dobbs &#8220;one hundred percent&#8221; has more staying power than Roe did. Hawley is senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom and the wife of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
&#8220;Roe from the get-go was just an act of judicial activism,&#8221; Hawley told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Even prominent liberal pro-abortion scholars long criticized the decision for having no constitutional basis at all.&#8221;
&#8220;In contrast, I think Dobbs gets the constitutional analysis exactly correct,&#8221; she said. &#8220;What Dobbs says is that the Constitution nowhere protects the right to abortion, and so that means the states and the people have the ability to protect life.&#8221;
Thanks to Dobbs, she said, many state abortion laws now &#8220;just need to be rational&#8221; rather than meet the &#8220;undue burden&#8221; standard.
&#8220;The undue burden test really hamstrung states. Again, you cannot really protect life at all up until viability,&#8221; she said.
Amid the major legal wins and the tens of thousands of unborn lives saved, however, there have been losses for the pro-life movement as well.
At the ballot box, abortion has not been a winning issue for the pro-life movement.
The public&#8217;s reaction to the Dobbs ruling boosted the flailing Democrats five months later during the 2022 midterms. Voters in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/exit-polls/national-results/general/us-house/0">ranked</a> abortion over inflation or crime as the most important issue in exit polls.
As the 2024 presidential election cycle heats up, Democrats have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-newsom-shares-wild-abortion-ad-showing-alabama-police-pulling-woman-over-asking-for-pregnancy-test" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hammered</a> the abortion issue and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-will-bring-kate-cox-who-left-texas-for-abortion-to-state-of-the-union" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seized</a> on personal stories of women who were prevented from obtaining an abortion in their home state.
Misinformation has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ap-article-makes-dubious-suggestion-abortion-bans-caused-ers-to-turn-women-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spread</a> about women allegedly suffering miscarriages or other adverse outcomes due to state abortion bans.
Ballot initiatives on abortion in Ohio, Kentucky, and Kansas also did not go the way pro-life advocates hoped. This November, more abortion initiatives will appear on the ballot in South Dakota, Colorado, and Florida.
Meanwhile, more abortion cases have reached the Supreme Court, including cases dealing with the abortion pill and emergency room abortions.
Earlier this month in another setback, the court unanimously ruled against a group of pro-life doctors who were pushing for more Food and Drug Administration (FDA) restrictions on mifepristone, one of two drugs frequently taken together to cause an abortion.
The court is also set to rule <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-whats-happening-in-the-idaho-abortion-case-at-the-supreme-court">soon</a> in a case about Idaho&#8217;s abortion ban, the first time the court has considered whether a state abortion ban is constitutional since the demise of Roe. The Biden administration is arguing that Idaho’s abortion ban flies in the face of a federal law, the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment &amp; Labor Act, which requires federally funded hospitals to provide patients with stabilizing care. Idaho bans all abortions except to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape and incest.
Despite the setbacks, the many state bans are a beacon of hope for pro-life advocates, who hope to continue the legal momentum as well as continue to work to change the hearts and minds of pro-abortion Americans.
Meanwhile, women are sharing stories about how overturning Roe saved their babies&#8217; lives.
Baby Jacob&#8217;s birth mother walked into a Florida Planned Parenthood for a late-term abortion, but the state&#8217;s 15-week ban made her change her mind, and she picked Ashley and Dusty as his adoptive parents, the couple shared recently during a video press call with Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
Another mother who joined the call, Neesha, smiled as she described how Georgia’s heartbeat law saved the life of her baby boy, whom she gave up for adoption after initially considering abortion.
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-9096" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://onelink.to/dwapp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1700760801843000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP</a>
“I’ve never seen a baby so happy,” she said. “They do everything I wish that I had the time to do. The way they love him and nurture him and care for him. They support him, they uplift him, they are encouraging to him.”
Neesha added that she does not think adoption is discussed enough. The organizations that help moms are not promoted as much as abortion, she said. If she could do it over again, she said, she does not think she would have chosen a different path for her baby.
“I hope the heartbeat law goes into effect across America because I think a lot of people do not understand the importance of carrying your child and making sure that baby has a life,” Neesha said.
“I believe that there’s help out there,” she added. “There are genuine people who actually care about not just the baby but the mother as well, making sure that she is okay during pregnancy and follow up after.”
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-trump-conservatives-are-pushing-extremism-in-video-marking-2nd-anniversary-of-roe-reversal">Biden Says Trump, Conservatives Are Pushing &#8216;Extremism&#8217; In Video Marking 2nd Anniversary Of Roe Reversal</a>

Mother and baby daughter both look out living room window

Here’s Where The Pro-Life Movement Stands 2 Years After Roe Overturned

Here's Where The Pro-Life Movement Stands 2 Years After Roe Overturned

Pro-Abortion

Social Issues

As pro-life conservatives and Republicans celebrate the second anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden released a video urging Democrats to keep him in the White House for a second term to &#8220;fight like hell&#8221; against &#8220;extremism&#8221; and bring back complete abortion protections in all 50 states.
In a 45-second spot posted by the president&#8217;s account on YouTube on Sunday, Biden quotes his opponent Donald Trump&#8217;s support for the overturning of Roe. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has boasted that he &#8220;was able to kill Roe v. Wade.&#8221;
&#8220;Two years ago, the Supreme Court justices that Trump handpicked helped overturn Roe v. Wade,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Decades of progress shattered just because the last guy got four years in the White House. We know what will happen if he gets another four.&#8221;
The president then blasted Trump&#8217;s supporters as the video showed a clip of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Biden claimed that Republicans will push to ban abortion &#8220;nationwide&#8221; before they target &#8220;IVF and birth control next.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re up against extremism,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;Send me back to the White House and I&#8217;ll fight like hell to restore Roe v. Wade and protect American freedom.
<iframe loading="lazy" title="President Biden on Dobbs and Reproductive Freedom | Biden-Harris 2024" width="500" height="375" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSDzeIWaJjU?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
In a 6-3 decision on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturned</a> the high court&#8217;s 1973 decision that paved the way for the U.S. to become one of the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/us-abortion-laws-worldwide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most radical</a> pro-abortion countries in the world. The 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health ruling was made possible by three Trump-appointed conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney-Barrett — joining Justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito.
While Chief Justice Roberts argued that the Dobbs decision did not need to go as far as overturning Roe, Alito wrote in the majority opinion that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.&#8221;
&#8220;Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division,” Alito added. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Biden and the Democratic Party launched a full-out abortion blitz immediately following the Dobbs decision, which the party says helped mobilize its base for the 2022 midterms, where Democrats across the country outperformed expectations. The pro-abortion side has won at the ballot box every time in the months and years after Roe&#8217;s reversal, even in red states such as Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio.
Earlier this year, Trump came out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-arizona-abortion-law-goes-too-far-that-will-be-straightened-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against</a> Arizona&#8217;s near-total abortion ban and questioned Florida&#8217;s six-week abortion limitations.
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-9096" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://onelink.to/dwapp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1700760801843000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP</a>
“So for 52 years, people have been wanting to end Roe v. Wade to get it back to the states. We did that. It was an incredible achievement,” Trump said in April. “And now the states have it, and the states are putting out what they want. It’s the will of the people. So Florida is probably going to change; Arizona is definitely going to change. Everybody wants that to happen.”
Many Republicans also expressed their support for IVF after the Alabama Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-supreme-court-says-couple-can-continue-wrongful-death-lawsuit-over-destruction-of-frozen-embryos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> in February that frozen embryos should be recognized and protected as unborn children. Just weeks later, with support from Trump, Alabama Republican Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill into law that protected IVF providers following the state Supreme Court&#8217;s decision.

Biden Says Trump, Conservatives Are Pushing ‘Extremism’ In Video Marking 2nd Anniversary Of Roe Reversal

Biden Says Trump, Conservatives Are Pushing 'Extremism' In Video Marking 2nd Anniversary Of Roe Reversal

2024 Election

Conservatives

Donald Trump

The landmark Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade will be more than two years old by the time voters head to the polls for the 2024 election, but Democrats are pushing to make abortion a top-of-ballot issue for Americans.
Democratic Party leaders who gathered at the Lansdowne Resort in northern Virginia for their annual strategy retreat this week said abortion rights will be the most important issue for Democratic candidates as they seek to undo what one party leader called “MAGA abortion bans,” The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4456555-democrats-vow-to-make-abortion-issue-no-1-on-campaign-trail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), the Democratic House whip, told reporters that the fight over abortion will be a priority issue for the party for years to come.
“This is the pivotal issue of 2024. It is the fight that will determine the trajectory of the next four years, and the next four decades,” Clark said.
“Wherever we travel across the country, whoever we talk to, abortion is top of mind for our constituents and for voters,” the Democratic whip added. “Millions of people are suffering under the brutality of MAGA abortion bans. And those in states that still have protected abortion access are scared of the GOP’s march to a national abortion ban.”
Clark’s comments echo the Biden campaign’s recent messaging on abortion as it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-campaign-attempts-to-tie-trump-to-state-abortion-bans-in-new-ad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeks to tie</a> former President Donald Trump to abortion bans passed in Republican-led states following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling in June 2022. Trump, the Republican Party’s presidential frontrunner, has stood by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-boasts-role-ending-roe-wade-abortion-regulations/story?id=106280890" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> he’s “proud” to have appointed three justices who helped reverse the 1973 ruling.
The Democrats&#8217; abortion messaging push comes as immigration and the economy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/immigration-is-now-top-voter-concern-beating-inflation-new-poll-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">top the list</a> of issues for many Americans, and the president faces increasing criticism for his handling of the border crisis.
Last month, the Biden campaign doubled down on the abortion rhetoric, releasing an ad that featured Dr. Austin Dennard, a Dallas OBGYN and mother of three, who obtained an abortion out of state for an unborn child she says had a fetal condition with “absolutely no chance of survival.” In the ad, Dennard slammed Texas’ pro-life laws, saying that her life was “at risk” because of the conservative legislation. She also presented Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as “leaders who will protect” abortion rights.
The Biden campaign ad, however, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-glaring-falsehood-at-the-center-of-bidens-new-abortion-ad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mischaracterized Dennard’s pregnancy</a> as there is no medical evidence that supports the claim that her life was in danger because of the pregnancy, Dr. Ingrid Skop, an obstetrician-gynecologist, previously told The Daily Wire.
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-9096" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://onelink.to/dwapp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1700760801843000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP</a>
“It is incorrect for her to say that she had to leave Texas to protect her life,” Skop said. “The reality is she left Texas because she wanted to terminate a baby who had a life-limiting condition.”
During remarks to reporters in Virginia, Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), a co-chair of Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign, pointed to Dennard’s story as an example of why Democrats continue to make abortion a top issue.
“For those who pretend to believe in exceptions, or hide behind language that says there are exceptions, make no mistake about it: Texas has proven that Republicans do not believe in, and do not want, exceptions — not even when it’s threatening the life of a mother, not even when it threatens her ability to have children in the future,” said Escobar. “This is a very dire moment for American women.”
Democrats have <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-push-abortion-rights-heart-2024-campaign-2023-09-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">credited</a> their better-than-expected showing in the 2022 midterm elections to voters, especially young women, mobilizing around abortion rights in the wake of the Dobbs ruling. The party has also seen success in states such as Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, and Kentucky, where voters have moved to protect abortion rights.

Biden-Harris Campaign Holds Reproductive Freedom Rally

Dem Leaders Push To Make Abortion ‘The Pivotal Issue Of 2024’

Dem Leaders Push To Make Abortion 'The Pivotal Issue Of 2024'

Democrats

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court">Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/clarence-thomas">Clarence Thomas</a> reported taking private jet flights in the spring of last year because of security concerns that followed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leak-of-scotus-draft-on-roe-v-wade-stuns-nation-this-leak-is-the-gravest-most-unforgivable-sin">leak of a Dobbs draft opinion</a>.
The information appears in a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23932793-clarence-thomas-2022-financial-disclosure">financial disclosure</a> for calendar year 2022 that was released on Thursday. It describes the rationale for the method of travel to Dallas in May of that year and states that the trip was paid for by Republican donor Harlan Crow, a longtime friend to Thomas.
&#8220;Because of the increased security risk following the Dobbs opinion leak,&#8221; the report said, &#8220;the May flights were by private plane for official travel as filer’s security detail recommended noncommercial travel whenever possible.&#8221;
The report said the purpose of the reimbursement, which included meals as well as transportation, was for Thomas being a keynote speaker at the American Enterprise Institute&#8217;s Conference at Old Parkland. Also revealed were other trips paid for by Crow in 2022. The report additionally offers details about financial and real estate matters dating back several years to clear up what it said were prior omissions attributed to mistakes or to offer extra information outside a covered period on issues that have <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus">garnered attention in the media</a>.
POLITICO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leak-of-scotus-draft-on-roe-v-wade-stuns-nation-this-leak-is-the-gravest-most-unforgivable-sin">obtained and published</a> a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito in May 2022 indicating Roe v. Wade would be overturned. More than a month later, on June 24, the Supreme Court released Alito’s majority opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and Planned Parenthood v. Casey cases, which overturned the 1973 Roe decision and returned the issue of abortion to the states.
In delivering remarks at the Heritage Foundation in October, Alito said the leak &#8220;made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination, because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us.&#8221;
<a href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-9096" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://onelink.to/dwapp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1693504018745000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1RMMjCvCBOBYdpkw5O_njE">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP</a>
Indeed, a man was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-id-armed-man-who-said-he-wanted-to-kill-supreme-court-justice-kavanaugh-report">arrested in June of 2022 and charged</a> with allegedly attempting to murder fellow conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And GOP lawmakers have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-senators-confront-garland-on-protesters-outside-homes-of-supreme-court-justices">pressed</a> Attorney General Merrick Garland on enforcing a federal law against protests outside Supreme Court justices’ homes.
Chief Justice John Roberts tasked the Supreme Court’s marshal, Gail Curley, with investigating the leak. The inquiry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-releases-final-report-from-investigation-into-who-leaked-dobbs-draft">culminated in a report</a> in January that failed to identify who was responsible.
Thomas and <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/668317219/Alito-2022-Financial-Disclosure">Alito</a> released their 2022 financial disclosure reports on Thursday after receiving 90-day extensions. They have faced <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/key-allegations-against-clarence-thomas-democrats-call-probe-1819296">growing scrutiny</a> from congressional Democrats over concerns that the justices had failed to properly disclose gifts and paid-for trips, spurred by <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183456911/justice-alito-propublica-singer">reports from ProPublica</a>. The filings come after the Judicial Conference <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/new-gift-disclosure-rules-extend-to-us-supreme-court-justices">issued a new guidance in March</a> that reinforced personal hospitality disclosure rules.
A statement delivered to reporters by Elliot Berke, an attorney who assisted Thomas, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-31/justice-clarence-thomas-discloses-trips-paid-for-by-gop-donor">said</a> the new disclosure report &#8220;answers — and utterly refutes — the charges trumped up in this partisan feeding frenzy.&#8221;

Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas Cites Safety Concerns For Private Jet Travel After Dobbs Leak

Judiciary

U.S.

More than a year has passed since the Supreme Court overturned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roe-v-wade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roe v. Wade</a> in its 6-3 ruling in<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-supreme-courts-213-page-decision-overturning-roe-v-wade" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization</a>, and while pro-life Americans cheer the ruling, some believe that the High Court didn&#8217;t go far enough.
Hadley Arkes, the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions, Emeritus at Amherst College, recently <a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2023/06/26/dobbs-a-year-later-the-lady-in-the-hat-and-the-vase/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a column for The Catholic Thing in which he harangued the SCOTUS for not having the guts to weigh in on the &#8220;moral substance of the case.&#8221;
&#8220;It wasn’t a matter of inadvertence: the conservative majority deliberately withheld the premises that are vital to the pro-life movement in going forward now, in the States as well at the federal level, in acting through Congress,&#8221; Arkes said of the majority&#8217;s opinion.&#8221;Most notably, the majority held back from recognizing the human standing of the child in the womb.&#8221;
Arkes, a pro-life advocate since the 1960s, argued that the Roe decision altered American morals, while Dobbs will have no such effect.
&#8220;Roe not merely created a right to abortion; it changed the culture,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It converted abortion from a thing to be abhorred, discouraged, and forbidden, into something approved, celebrated, and encouraged.&#8221;
In other words, as it relates to abortion, politics wasn&#8217;t downstream from culture. The culture was downstream from politics.
&#8220;The conservative justices in Dobbs did nothing to start undoing those moral lessons,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/07/10/anchoring-originalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">author</a> of the book &#8220;Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution&#8221; argued.
There was one highlight for Arkes — but even here, it fell short of his desired goal.
&#8220;The redeeming part of the decision would be found in Justice Alito’s opinion for the majority. He managed to show that there was no principled ground for regarding the small being in the womb as anything less than human,&#8221; Arkes said.
However, if the baby is a human, then a reasonable conclusion would be that it deserves the inalienable rights afforded to all other humans.
<a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://onelink.to/dwapp" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-12510">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a>
&#8220;[Alito] would leave it to others to draw that moral conclusion, whether people in elective offices or perhaps conservative judges in the courts below,&#8221; Arkes noted.
He concluded that ultimately —  because Republican politicians and conservative judges at-large are squeamish on the issue of abortion — Justice Samuel Alito might have to take &#8220;that next step&#8221; in affirming the &#8220;human standing of the child in the womb.&#8221; This would come in a subsequent case dealing with the issue, potentially regarding the abortion pill.
Arkes presents and articulates a thought-provoking viewpoint that articulates why for all its success, Dobbs left much to be desired.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 24: Anti-abortion activists participate in a Celebrate Life Day Rally at the Lincoln Memorial on June 24, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Pro-Life Professor Breaks Down Why Supreme Court Didn’t Go Far Enough When It Overturned ‘Roe’

Pro-Life Professor Breaks Down Why Supreme Court Didn't Go Far Enough When It Overturned 'Roe'

College

The American medical establishment markets itself as a champion for all patients’ dignity and pretends to be an ally of marginalized women. But in its passionate support of abortion, in the very arguments it uses to justify that support, the medical establishment is actually upholding a destructive, defeatist, and racist philosophy.
In the wake of the Dobbs decision that removed federal abortion protections and returned power to the states to make their own abortion laws, the president of the American Medical Association published a statement <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/dobbs-ruling-assault-reproductive-health-safe-medical-practice">condemning</a> the Supreme Court decision as an immoral intrusion of government into the private affairs of patients and their physicians. In July of 2022, a few weeks after the Dobbs decision, the AMA published a follow-up <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/access-abortion-and-women-s-health-what-research-shows">article</a> on their website, arguing that abortion bans would have dire effects on women’s overall health. In October of that same year, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article calling abortion access a <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2209737">racial justice issue</a>. These publications from medical elites reveal a racist mentality and insidiously devalue human life, especially the lives of those facing genuine hardship.
In his statement, AMA President Jack Resneck called the Dobbs decision an “assault on reproductive health” and “safe medical practice.”
In one noteworthy section of his statement, the president asserted: “Access to legal reproductive care will be limited to those with the sufficient resources, circumstances, and financial means to do so—exacerbating health inequities by placing the heaviest burden on patients from Black, Latinx, Indigenous, low-income, rural and other historically disadvantaged communities that already face numerous structural and systemic barriers to accessing health care.”
In the AMA’s follow up article posted a couple weeks after Dr. Resneck gave his statement, AMA contributing news writer Tanya Albert Henry pointed to research conducted by University of California San Francisco faculty that suggests that women seeking abortions who are denied those abortions face worse health and economic outcomes than women not denied abortions. The San Francisco researchers conducted a five-year study of 956 women who wanted abortions, 231 of whom were prevented from getting abortions by state laws. While the study looked at multiple areas of life, including physical and mental health, Henry’s article placed much emphasis on the women’s economic situations. According to Henry, the study found that women who did not receive abortions were more likely to raise their children alone, “live in households that drop below the poverty level,” and “lack enough money to pay for food, housing and transportation.” Diana Greene Foster, the director of the research, said that “Access to abortion enables women to have children at a time when they have more resources – financial and emotional — to devote to their children.”
The heads of the AMA think they are promoting human rights and protecting their patients from injustice. But there’s just one problem. Ending a pregnancy ends a human life. Even if you reject the scientific fact that human life <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/first-trimester-babies-complex/?gad=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwgqejBhBAEiwAuWHioGNykDgEAOmIjrEViBsMinTWEapZVxIK2uPKBgcYeqjKEMd7ddWY-BoC0lkQAvD_BwE">begins</a> at fertilization, when an embryo with unique DNA is created, there is no denying that the pregnancy, without interference, will result in the birth of a new human being. With that indisputable fact in mind, the AMA’s pro-abortion arguments take on a morally ghoulish character.
President Resneck thinks it a travesty that “black, Latinx” and “low income”women cannot access abortion as easily with Roe reversed. Resneck believes the world would be a better place if fewer black, Latino, and poor children were born. For him, being black and living in poverty is such a hard, miserable existence with so much suffering involved that it would be better to be killed in the womb than to endure that horrible fate.
Diana Foster and the other University of California San Francisco researchers share President Resneck’s mindset when it comes to poverty. They think that if mothers struggle financially while trying to raise their children, resulting in those children not always having their needs met, it would be better for those children not to have a chance at life at all.
These medical experts believe so strongly that systematic oppression is embedded in this country and cannot be overcome. For them, racism is ubiquitous and unavoidable. Poverty is inescapable. Children who come from hard backgrounds can never rise above their past. Giving birth to them is dooming them to misery. The kind, humane thing to do is to cut their lives short. This thinking is hideous. Medical experts, who know abortion ends a life, should not be advocating for the termination of any woman’s pregnancy, no matter her race, no matter her situation. Every human being, from the moment of conception, deserves the same respect. Every human life, once created, has a right to exist. No matter how many studies they conduct, medical experts have no right to assert that black or brown children or children from poor families are any less capable of making a better future for themselves than any other children.
The authors who wrote the New England Journal of Medicine article linking abortion and racial justice make a different point, but it’s a point just as defeatist as the AMA’s arguments. They point out the high maternal mortality rate among black women and argue that abortion is safer for these women than carrying their babies to term. In other words, because there are parts of the country where certain black women do not have access to the potentially life-saving care they need during pregnancy, we need to ensure that they can abort their babies. Why is that the solution? Why not invest resources into researching and addressing the causes of pregnancy complications and maternal mortality among black women so that their lives and their babies’ lives can be saved?
The AMA and the New England Journal of Medicine are not wrong to point out the real hardships that many pregnant women face in this country. But their insistence that impoverished and marginalized women will be better off if they can abort their babies is racist and classist. These leading medical institutions should not be focusing an ounce of their energy on fighting the Dobbs decision. Instead, they should be working to improve maternal medicine so that pregnant women have better health outcomes. 
Emmie Lo is a writer and Latin teacher currently living in Jacksonville, Florida. You can read her personal blog at <a href="https://blindgirldreaming.blogspot.com/">blindgirldreaming.blogspot.com</a> and follow her on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/Teabooksgirl">@teabooksgirl</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Female doctor holding hands of her patient at hospital room

The Medical Establishment’s Racist, Classist Argument For Abortion 

The Medical Establishment’s Racist, Classist Argument for Abortion 

American Medical Association

New England Journal of medicine

Poverty

Readers Pass

Pro-life activists, students, and organizations will gather in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington, D.C.</a>, on Friday for the annual <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/march-for-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March for Life</a> for the first time since the Supreme Court’s historic decision to strike down <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roe-v-wade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roe v. Wade</a>. 
The gathering comes just days before the 50th anniversary of Roe, in which the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to abortion. With Roe gone, pro-life groups and legislators now see an opportunity to expand protections for life even as deep blue states further entrench abortion in their own state laws and constitutions. 
&#8220;The pro-life movement has just experienced a major victory in the fall of Roe v. Wade, but our work to build a culture of life is far from complete. This year’s march will reflect upon the Dobbs decision as a critical — and celebratory — milestone but will also be a time to look forward to the next steps, such as the need to continue marching annually in Washington, D.C., as well as expanding marches in the states, to advance legal protections for the unborn,” March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said in a statement obtained by The Daily Wire. 
Mancini added that the next steps for pro-lifers included supporting maternity homes and pregnancy resource centers for women in need of assistance. 
One such group that serves pregnancy centers in the U.S. and around the world is Heartbeat International, a network of pregnancy resource centers with over 3,000 affiliates. The group, which received a surge of phone calls in the months following the leak of the Dobbs draft decision, argued that the end of Roe is only the beginning of the pro-life movement.
“The mission has not changed for us or our centers at all. What we have seen is this shift, primarily to the growth of the abortion pill,” Andrea Trudden, communications director for Heartbeat International, told The Daily Wire in an interview. Heartbeat International manages the Abortion Pill Rescue Network, a group that provides resources to help reverse pill abortions.
Medication abortions, which <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/02/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions">now account for over 50%</a> of all abortions according to some estimates, are only expected to increase, especially with the FDA’s removal of abortion pill restrictions under President Joe Biden. 
One reason is that abortion pills, which can be mailed, are seen as a potential way for those seeking abortions to bypass state laws. In Texas, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/abortions-in-texas-plummet-nearly-99-months-after-dobbs-ruling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">some estimates</a> show abortions down as much as 99% post-Dobbs, though activist groups are still concerned about the prevalence of the abortion pill. 
Trudden said that the rise of the abortion pill narrows the window of preventing abortions, meaning that they need to be “faster” in responding to needs and providing care. She said that Heartbeat International would be working to provide more comprehensive care to women and increase the technological reach of the organization.
“As we continue to follow what the abortion side is doing, we do need to, and are planning to, adapt a little bit more as well,” Trudden said. “We are working with technology to be able to provide similar care [remotely] as to what she would receive inside a center as well.”
While the work of pro-life organizations remains very much the same in terms of providing resources and care to women, pro-abortion and pro-life legislators have taken opposite paths to approach the post-Roe legal world. 
While some action at the congressional level has been attempted, most of the legal battles will likely be at the state level thanks to the Supreme Court.
States like California, Vermont, and Michigan have all put abortion into their state constitutions while broad abortion bans have gone into effect in states like Alabama and Tennessee. In Kansas, a pro-life amendment failed at the ballot box in August, leading many pro-abortion advocates to declare that the Dobbs decision would be a hindrance to Republicans and the future of pro-life legislation. 
State abortion bans are challenged by the overwhelming number of corporations and even cities that have offered or want to provide funding for women to travel out of state to get an abortion. Additionally, despite the Supreme Court’s decision, lower courts have still proved to be a problem for pro-life laws in states like South Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona. 
Tennessee’s ban, which was triggered by the Dobbs decision, is already facing potential challenges, even though the state is overwhelmingly Republican. The upcoming legislative session is expected to debate adding exceptions to the law, with some Republicans arguing that exceptions for rape and incest should be added. 
While some Republicans have watered down their response to abortion, others in many states are now pushing for the <a href="https://freethestates.org/get-involved/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full abolition</a> of abortion, arguing that Republicans have no excuses now to not fully protect life. 
While legal questions remain, pro-lifers remain steadfast in their beliefs and continue to march. Noah Collazo, a Liberty University freshman, is joining about 500 other students and Morse Tan, the dean of Liberty University School of Law and former U.S. Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice, in marching in D.C. 
“We’re about to head to Washington, D.C., to stand for pro-life and for the legislators there who are standing for freedom and for the protection of the unborn,” Collazo said in a statement to The Daily Wire before getting on a bus to head to the march. “It’s definitely cool seeing all these people so early in the morning — so many of us showing up to stand for what we believe in.”

House GOP on Biden

Pro-Lifers Celebrate First March For Life Since SCOTUS Victory, Plan For Future

Roe v. Wade's Long And Brutal Legacy

George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jonathan-turley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Turley</a> laid into the Supreme Court on Thursday after reports revealed that they had been unable to determine who leaked an early draft of their decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization.
The court released a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-releases-final-report-from-investigation-into-who-leaked-dobbs-draft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> Thursday afternoon — and despite calling the leak a &#8220;misguided attempt at protest&#8221; and a &#8220;grave assault on the judicial process,&#8221; they said that investigators had analyzed evidence and interviewed anyone who may have had or seen a copy of the draft, yet still came up empty: &#8220;The team has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence.&#8221;
Turley made it clear that he was not impressed, saying in a brief Twitter thread that he believed a failure to identify and punish whoever had leaked the draft would only lead to more leaks in the future.
&#8220;The Supreme Court&#8217;s report indicates that they cannot isolate the culprit among the over 80 possible suspects for the Dobbs leak. It is an admission that is almost as chilling as the leak itself,&#8221; Turley began.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
&#8230;It will likely revive concerns over whether the FBI should have been asked to take the lead on the investigation. The Court is only a few blocks from the world&#39;s leading forensic investigatory body&#8230;
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1616159583348875264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
&#8220;It will likely revive concerns over whether the FBI should have been asked to take the lead on the investigation. The Court is only a few blocks from the world&#8217;s leading forensic investigatory body,&#8221; he added.
Turley went on to say that anyone who might feel compelled to leak a future decision would not have any reason to fear repercussions, adding, &#8220;Thus far, the culprit succeeded in not just leaking the opinion but evading detection.&#8221;
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
&#8230;The proposed changes in security are unlikely to meaningfully reduce the danger of such leaks. The nature of the Court&#39;s work requires a free flow of drafts and memoranda. That is why we hope to achieve through deterrence what was not achieved through ethics&#8230;
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1616160499955126272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
He then argued that the court&#8217;s suggested security changes would not do much to prevent similar leaks in the future — but it might discourage the justices and clerks from freely circulating memos and decision drafts as they have in the past.
Turley&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1616160850246791169" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overall conclusion</a> was simple: a failure to find and punish the leaker would only make future leakers feel as though they are justified in taking similar actions whenever they saw fit to do so.
&#8220;In this age of rage, this danger will only grow. Someone felt that they had license to leak. Some others may now feel that they have the impunity to do so,&#8221; he said.

House Hearing On U.S. Park Police Attack On Protesters At Lafayette Square Park

‘This Danger Will Only Grow’: Jonathan Turley Takes Supreme Court Apart Over Failure To Find Leaker

Jonathan Turley Takes Supreme Court Apart Over Failure To Find Leaker

Courts

Jonathan Turley

Leak

Menu