It’s a sure sign of Christmas when we hear Nat King Cole crooning about chestnuts roasting on an open fire. While few of us have experienced eating such warm roasted chestnuts, we can surely relate to seeing “tiny tots with their eyes all aglow.”
When children experience the bright lights of the Christmas Season, they can hardly open their eyes wide enough to take in all the beauty. From living room Christmas trees to sparkling downtown squares, bright, colorful decorations are everywhere. And, as the lyrics remind us, the bright lights are most exquisite when they are reflected in the eyes and on the faces of children, especially young children. 
What do we really see on these precious little faces? What best describes the look of wonder reflected in the wide eyes of children taking in the lights?
It’s joy.
The innocent expressions of wonder on the face of a child can bring joy to all of us, even when things aren’t stellar for us adults. A child’s perception of this light-filled season can even melt the hearts of all the Scrooges in our midst.
That’s because children don’t just reflect the season; they are represented by the central character in the Christmas story. After all, the Christ Child is the focus of the attention of all the participants in the nativity. The lowly animals, the shepherds, the wise men, and, of course, Mary and Joseph. Our front-yard nativity sets may have all of those frozen figurines at once, even though the story itself plays out over a longer period. Just as the Star of Bethlehem lit that special night more than two millennia ago, the bright lights we see today can brighten even our darkest nights.
Yet the message of joy that still flows from that manger came with its own set of challenges, many of which we still face today. The pregnancy was unexpected. Housing insecurity was real. A government edict forced an ill-timed travel issue. The soon-to-be husband was not the father of the baby. Such challenges have the potential to steal joy, not bring it. And yet, after 2,000 years, we memorialize it on our lawns, over the mantel, or in dioramas that dominate our home décor. No matter the conditions of their conception, babies have a way of bringing joy and smiles.
Carl Sandburg once said, “A baby is God&#8217;s opinion that life should go on.” That is true with every new life, as much as it was with the Christ Child. The next generation is the hope for the future of our families, our communities, and of the world.
The story of Mary and the manger reminds us that every woman should be loved and supported in her pregnancy, despite her immediate circumstances. The spark of life within every child in the womb should be welcomed and nurtured, cherished and treasured. Temporary obstacles should be overcome so that every tiny tot has a chance to be filled with wonder and joy at Christmas. Each of us should do our part to help someone near us, or close by us, or maybe even someone we’ll never get the chance to meet, be able to greet their little one with joy and gratitude.
That is what motivates the life-affirming work of pregnancy help in communities all over the country every day of the year. Whether around the kitchen table in a maternity home or through an ultrasound at a pregnancy medical clinic, or in the placement of a child into an adoptive family, pregnancy help provides real help for real needs to those dealing with temporary challenges.
All pregnancies are temporary, even the unexpected ones. And every life should have a chance to make a positive mark on the world and future generations.
That holy night reminds us of more than the value of just that one child. That “silent night” stands as a powerful proclamation for each of us to welcome the work of God when it comes as a baby. We should make way, or “prepare him room,” for “love’s pure light” to shine into, and through, our hearts at this special time of year and all year long. That’s what empowers each of us to light up with joy and sing, “Joy to the World!”
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Jor-El Godsey is president of Heartbeat International.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Senator Josh Hawley and his wife, Erin, launched a nonprofit to promote family values and encourage Americans to embrace a culture of life. 
The nonprofit, called the <a href="https://lovelifeinitiative.org/about/">Love Life Initiative</a>, will run pro-family national ad campaigns to encourage Americans to raise families and defend life at all stages of development. The group will promote pro-life ballot campaigns and fight against pro-abortion ballot petitions.  
“We believe there needs to be a strong voice advocating for life and making it easier to start a family,” Senator Hawley said. “That is fundamental to who we are as Americans and the future of our country. And it is how we will be judged as a society. This is a generational project, not just about the next election cycle.”
The nonprofit’s webpage pointed to polling that over 50% of Americans identify as pro-choice and a spate of state ballot petition defeats across the country. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, 11 states have passed pro-abortion ballot initiatives, while two states have voted against pro-life petitions. 
“The Love Life Initiative will fight to reverse this trend through thoughtful, far-reaching advertising campaigns that promote the sanctity of life, advance referendums that protect life, and identify and defeat harmful proposals in statehouses across the nation,” the nonprofit’s webpage says. “The Love Life Initiative will remind Americans that life is sacred, life is good, and life is worth protecting.”
In many of the states, spending in favor of abortion has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-abortion-won-ohio-voters-add-abortion-to-state-constitution">widely outpaced</a> spending by pro-life advocates. In a 2023 referendum on abortion in Ohio, abortion proponents outspent pro-life advocates $18 million to $7 million in the final months leading up to the vote. 
“For years, Democrats have drowned out the pro-life narrative and overwhelmed the pro-life agenda. They’ve raised and spent hundreds of millions on infrastructure, advocacy, and advertising—and it’s taken a toll,” the website says. 
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Erin Hawley, a constitutional lawyer for the Alliance Defending Freedom, said that their group wanted to help women choose life instead of ending the life of their unborn children. The Hawleys have three young children. 
“Most women have an abortion because of a lack of support. We want to change that. We want to build a culture that is pro-life and pro-family, and we can do that by providing broader support for women in need,” she said. 
Some advisors close to President Donald Trump were upset with the launch of the nonprofit, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/12/15/trump-advisers-hawley-anit-abortion">reported</a>. They believe that focusing on the pro-life issue would hurt the GOP at the ballot box. Polling viewed by The Daily Wire shows that many Americans value family formation and would like to see some limits on abortion. 
In recent days, pro-life groups and lawmakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-leaders-urge-trump-to-fight-attacks-on-the-unborn-coming-from-inside-his-administration?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=Exclusive&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Pro-Life+Leaders+Urge+Trump+To+Fight+‘Attacks+On+The+Unborn’+Coming+From+Inside+His+Administration">have pressured</a> the Food and Drug Administration to roll back Biden-era rules that allowed for the abortion drug to be shipped through the mail.

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A coalition of pro-life leaders urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to take action against “attacks on the unborn and most vulnerable” they said were coming from inside the White House, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. 
The group, including Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance and Eagle Forum President Kirsten Ullman, called for the Food and Drug Administration to end Biden-era regulations that allowed the abortion pill to be shipped through the mail across the country. They said that the FDA’s current stance on the abortion pill was undermining the pro-life agenda promoted by the Trump administration.
“We do wish to express our deep concern about the actions and rhetoric coming from the current Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We write to bring to your immediate attention this critical threat to your Administration’s pro-life agenda,” the coalition wrote. “We, and the millions of pro-life Americans we represent across this great country, cannot sit idly while attacks on the unborn and most vulnerable are coming from inside the administration.&#8221; 
The FDA has faced criticism from pro-life groups and lawmakers after it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-lifers-demand-answers-from-trump-admin-after-shocking-abortion-pill-approval?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pro-Lifers+Demand+Answers+From+Trump+Admin+After+%E2%80%98Shocking%E2%80%99+Abortion+Pill+Approval">approved</a> a generic form of the abortion pill in October and maintained the mail-order abortion regulations. 
“Most troublingly, the agency has maintained and actively expanded access to the abortion drug mifepristone, while operating under outdated regulations that allow unrestricted telehealth and mail-order prescriptions for the drug. Despite Secretary Kennedy’s requests for review, no meaningful policy restrictions have been implemented,” the pro-life leaders wrote. 
Last week, Senator Josh Hawley <a href="https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/1998806068974240199">sent</a> a letter to Food and Drug Administrator Marty Makary asking about reports that he was slow-walking a study on the dangers of the abortion pill.
The letter was also signed by Center for Urban Renewal and Education President Donald Eason, Faith and Freedom Coalition CEO Mary Thomas, Faith Wins CEO Chad Connelly, Patriot Voices Chair and former senator Rick Santorum, and Priests for Life National Director Frank Pavone. 
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They praised President Donald Trump&#8217;s past actions on abortion, thanking him for speaking at the March for Life, appointing Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, and cutting federal funding for Planned Parenthood. 
Their letter follows a call from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America to fire Makary over his handling of the abortion pill review. The White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-stands-by-fdas-makary-after-accusations-he-slow-walked-vital-review-of-abortion-drugs">has stood</a> by Makary, pushing back on claims that he was slow-walking the abortion pill study. 
The Daily Wire reached out to the White House for comment on the letter.

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Democrat Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation on Friday that conservative advocates say will turn Illinois into a hub for “suicide tourism.” 
The <a href="https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?GAID=18&amp;DocNum=1950&amp;DocTypeID=SB&amp;LegId=161335&amp;SessionID=114">new law</a> allows doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to end the lives of those who are terminally ill and have been given a prognosis of less than six months to live. The bill had been sitting on his desk for over a month after Democrat lawmakers in the state Senate passed the measure a few hours after midnight on Halloween in a 30-27 vote. 
“I have been deeply impacted by the stories of Illinoisans or their loved ones that have suffered from a devastating terminal illness, and I have been moved by their dedication to standing up for freedom and choice at the end of life in the midst of personal heartbreak,” Pritzker said in a <a href="https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/s/0f091ea3-1845-4a06-a5eb-8f487c594841?preview">statement</a> after signing the legislation. 
Conservatives fear that the law will force doctors to promote and make referrals for the deadly practice. It would also bar Christian hospitals from firing doctors or employees who perform assisted suicides. The Thomas More Society, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyond-the-pale-jb-pritzker-could-soon-make-illinois-a-hub-for-suicide-tourism">previously told</a> The Daily Wire that it would sue to block the law if signed, lamented the news. 
“This is a dark and sorrowful day for Illinois. When the state signals that some lives are no longer worth living, the most vulnerable pay the price,” said Thomas Olp, the executive vice president at Thomas More Society. “Instead of offering true compassion, support, and care, this law offers a fatal prescription. That is not mercy. It is abandonment.” 
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The Thomas More Society said that the law would put the elderly, disabled, and vulnerable at risk and jeopardize the religious liberty of Christian doctors. 
“By legalizing physician-assisted suicide, the Land of Lincoln has crossed a profound moral and legal red line. As signed into law, this fatal misstep places vulnerable lives at risk, tramples the inherent dignity of human life, and erodes the foundational conscience rights of medical professionals and religious medical practices.” 
Illinois becomes the 12th state to legalize assisted suicide, and is the first Midwest state to do so. Thomas More Society Head of Litigation Peter Breen previously told The Daily Wire that “There’s a significant concern that this is going to turn Illinois into a suicide tourism state.”

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Women who deliver fully formed babies after taking abortion pills are instructed to flush them down the toilet by abortion advocates, a former Planned Parenthood director said on Thursday. 
Mayra Rodriguez revealed the horrific reality of the abortion pill in <a href="https://stopcoercedabortions.com/videos/mayras-story/">new video</a> testimony set to be released Thursday by the group <a href="https://stopcoercedabortions.com/">Stop Coerced Abortions</a>. In the video, which was previewed by The Daily Wire, Rodriguez discussed her experience getting phone calls from women who took abortion pills. 
“The phone calls that strike me the most were the clients with the abortion pills that will call me in the middle of the night and said, ‘So you guys told me to push a blood clot on the toilet, and I tried to do that, but I didn&#8217;t make it, and it’s not a blood clot, it&#8217;s actually a baby. So what do I do?’” she <a href="https://stopcoercedabortions.com/videos/mayras-story/">said</a>. 
“You’re instructed to tell them to go ahead and grab it and throw it in the toilet, and flush.. and don’t look,” she said in the video. She said the client would respond by saying, ‘But, you told me it was just a blood clot, but I can actually see the hands, the feet, the face.’ And they will be crying.” 
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. 
Rodriguez then discussed how in many states today abortion pills were handed out without any idea how far along the pregnancy was and how sometimes women would be unknowingly given the pills in their drinks. She said that abortion pills were the real “back alley abortions.” 
The video featuring Rodriguez is part of a new series on abortion coercion from Stop Coerced Abortion.
&#8220;We must continue to listen to and share these horrific stories so that people know the truth: life in the womb is precious, and abortion coercion is real,&#8221; Live Action founder Lila Rose told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Every day we do not abolish abortion, preborn children are murdered, and mothers suffer through unimaginable physical and emotional trauma.” 
Just last week, a surgeon in Ohio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-surgeon-accused-of-forcing-abortion-pill-on-sleeping-girlfriend?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Ohio+Surgeon+Accused+Of+Forcing+Abortion+Pill+On+Sleeping+Girlfriend">was charged</a> after he was accused of attempting to force his sleeping girlfriend to take an abortion pill. He allegedly ordered the pills from an out-of-state telehealth provider using his estranged wife’s information. 
The video comes as pro-life lawmakers and advocates continue to press the Trump administration to take steps to reverse the regulations implemented by President Joe Biden that allowed abortion pills to be mailed across the country. On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley <a href="https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/1998806068974240199">sent</a> a letter to Food and Drug Administrator Marty Makary asking about reports that he was slow-walking a study on the dangers of the abortion pill. 
“The FDA must act to protect children and mothers. By neglecting to review the dangerous drug mifepristone, Dr. MaKary is dismissing the reality that abortion pills kill preborn children and endanger women. We must end mail-order abortion and ban the abortion pill now,&#8221; Rose told The Daily Wire. 
President Trump told The Daily Wire on Wednesday that he was looking into the reports. 
&#8220;&#8216;ll find out,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re slow-walking anything, but I&#8217;ll find out.&#8221;
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Rodriguez, who worked for Planned Parenthood for 17 years, is currently a witness in a <a href="https://stopcoercedabortions.com/#lawsuit">lawsuit</a> against the abortion giant and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz accusing the state of coercing women into having abortions. The suit says that Minnesota&#8217;s abortion laws violate the 14 Amendment rights of mothers and the Equal Protection rights of their unborn children. 
Other harrowing testimony in the video included Rodriguez saying that Planned Parenthood workers were told to not investigate signs of human trafficking and that a baby who survived an abortion was taken into a room designated for “products of conception&#8221; and left to die. She also recounted looking through trash bins for the discarded heads of babies who had been dismembered in surgical abortion procedures. 
“You understand that what you have been selling has never been freedom, not for the mother and not for the child.  What you have been selling, it&#8217;s pain and darkness, and it&#8217;s bloody. And it&#8217;s all about money in realizing that for 17 years, I helped no one. I helped no one, but I destroyed many.”

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An Ohio surgeon has been accused of allegedly forcing a patient he got pregnant to take an illegally obtained abortion pill that ended the life of her unborn child.
Dr. Hassan-James Abbas was charged last week after investigators said he ordered an abortion pill using his estranged wife’s information and then made his girlfriend swallow the pill against her will. Abbas, whose medical license was <a href="https://elicense.ohio.gov/oh_verifylicensedetails?pid=a0Rt0000002Wpe3EAC">suspended</a> last month, was indicted on December 4 in Lucas County over the incident. 
Abbas, who is set to make a court appearance on December 19, was <a href="https://portal-ohlucas.tylertech.cloud/Portal/DocumentViewer/Index/1A27DE5ADA90791B563DF9AABAE7BB26A8C457B0E146AA636FBE055D3AC08455D17770955D9DFFB76E1BF3C5799EBC6988AF599976280647B5DD924DBC6652BC1B9D797F90A2F9E2CEC2B8E38A145CD5?caseNum=CR2025-01611&amp;docType=Filings&amp;docName=Indictment%20for%20H%20Abbas&amp;eventName=Open%20-%20Indictment%20Filed&amp;docTypeId=28&amp;isVersionId=False">charged</a> with abduction, tampering with evidence, disrupting public services, unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug, identity fraud, and deception to obtain a dangerous drug. 
The indictment comes amid a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-stands-by-fdas-makary-after-accusations-he-slow-walked-vital-review-of-abortion-drugs?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=White+House+Stands+By+FDA’s+Makary+After+Accusations+He+Slow-Walked+Vital+Review+Of+Abortion+Drugs">growing campaign</a> from pro-life activists to push the Trump administration to reverse Biden-era regulations that relaxed the requirements on the mailing of abortion pills. In recent years, medication abortions have become the most common type of abortion, and abortion pills have flowed into states where they are technically illegal. 
An investigation from the State Medical Board of Ohio <a href="https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/med.ohio.gov/formala/57249399.pdf">found</a> that Abbas separated from his wife in October 2024 and began having a sexual relationship with a patient. That patient then told Abbas on December 7 that she was pregnant. 
“You told her that you wanted her to get an abortion, but she stated that she did not want an abortion,” the medical board wrote in a letter to Abbas.
On December 8, Abbas ordered mifepristone and misoprostol from an “out-of-state telemedical abortion provider,” according to state officials. 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. 
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According to the medical board, Abbas used his estranged wife’s name, date of birth, and driver’s license number to have the pills shipped to his home. Ten days later, Abbas allegedly tried to force her to take the pills.
“On Dec. 18, Patient 1 woke up at 4:00 a.m. and saw that you were awake. She fell back asleep and then awoke to you physically on top of her. She thought it was a hug but then, holding her down, you took your fingers and forced a crushed powder inside her bottom lip, beside her gums. You continued to hold Patient 1 down. She fought to get away and ran to the kitchen where she called 911. You took her phone and hung up the 911 call,” officials found. 
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The victim then drove to the hospital, where she reported the incident, and her diagnosis was reported as “vaginal bleeding.” Her baby did not survive. 
Abbas later admitted to ordering the pills during an interview with state officials, but claimed that the woman had agreed to take them, according to the State Medical Board of Ohio. As a result of the suspension, Abbas was placed on administrative leave at the University of Toledo, where he was a surgical resident. 
Pro-life advocates have long warned about the easy availability of the abortion pill and the dangers of the lax mail-order regulations. A 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 the pills were being shipped by shady online activist groups into states like Tennessee with no age verification or prescription requirements in the face of state law banning medication abortion.
Some groups, like Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, have called for Food and Drug Administration Marty Makary to be fired over reports that he is slow-walking a review of the safety of mifepristone. The White House stood by Makary on Tuesday, saying that medical reviews take time.
Pro-life groups and lawmakers were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-lifers-demand-answers-from-trump-admin-after-shocking-abortion-pill-approval">shocked</a> in October when the FDA quietly approved a new generic mifepristone drug made by Evita Solutions.

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WASHINGTON—The head of the Food and Drug Administration is facing heavy fire from the pro-life community amid reports that he slow-walked a review of abortion drugs promised by Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The backlash followed a Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/fda-slow-walking-a-long-awaited-abortion-pill-safety-study">report</a> stating that the FDA had delayed its review of the impacts of abortion drugs, specifically mifepristone — a review promised by both Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. Two people familiar with the matter reportedly told Bloomberg that Makary requested that the review be put off until after the midterm elections.
Health and Human Services Press Secretary Emily Hilliard told The Daily Wire on Tuesday afternoon that the FDA’s comprehensive scientific reviews &#8220;take the time necessary to get the science right,&#8221; adding, &#8220;That is what Dr. Makary is ensuring as part of the Department&#8217;s commitment to gold-standard science and evidence-based reviews.&#8221;
HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon similarly rejected the idea that Makary was acting ideologically, telling Bloomberg the &#8220;assertions that the FDA is slow-walking this review for political purposes are baseless.&#8221;
The White House similarly backing Makary, telling The Daily Wire that Makary is working hard to &#8220;ensure that Americans have the best possible, Gold Standard Science study of mifepristone.&#8221; A White House official also pushed back on the claim that the study is being &#8220;slow walked,&#8221; saying that comprehensive and exhaustive reviews take time.
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&#8220;The White House maintains the utmost confidence in Commissioner Makary, whose leadership at the FDA has delivered and continues to deliver one landmark victory for the American people after another, from cracking down on artificial ingredients in our food supply to conducting the first safety review of baby formula in decades,&#8221; Deputy White House Press Secretary Kush Desai said. &#8220;Uninformed attacks against Commissioner Makary from individuals outside the Administration will not change these facts.”
But a number of high-profile pro-life leaders view the matter differently. They insist Kennedy and Makary promised a timely review of the abortion drugs, and, in their view, wasted time means more babies killed through abortion drugs, and more women harmed by their adverse effects.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, one of the top pro-life groups in the United States, came out swinging on Tuesday morning with a statement condemning Makary, saying he should be &#8220;fired immediately&#8221; and accusing him of &#8220;undermining&#8221; the Trump-Vance pro-life agenda.
&#8220;The FDA is doing nothing while every single day abortion drugs take the lives of children, put women and girls at serious risk, empower abusers and trample state pro-life laws,&#8221; said the organization&#8217;s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser. &#8220;The FDA needs a new commissioner who will immediately reinstate in-person dispensing as it existed under President Trump’s first term and immediately conduct a comprehensive study.&#8221;
&#8220;Commissioner Makary is severely undermining President Trump and Vice President Vance’s pro-life credentials and their position that states should have the right to enact and enforce pro-life protections,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Makary must go.”
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley (R.), who has been particularly vocal throughout the second Trump administration about the need to examine abortion drugs, also slammed Makary on Tuesday, saying that the Bloomberg report suggests the FDA &#8220;lied&#8221; to him and other members of Congress.
&#8220;FDA needs to stop dithering &amp; reinstate the mifepristone safety guardrails,&#8221; Hawley said. &#8220;Nothing less is acceptable.&#8221;
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NEW report saying FDA lied to me and other members of Congress &amp; is not actively reviewing the chemical abortion drug at all. FDA needs to stop dithering &amp; reinstate the mifepristone safety guardrails. Nothing less is acceptable <a href="https://t.co/33LVP5U1aL">https://t.co/33LVP5U1aL</a>
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A pro-life leader who has engaged in conversations with the White House on the topic shared with The Daily Wire that the Tuesday report shattered the confidence of pro-life organizations advocating for the review, confirming inklings of delays that they had already heard.
“I don’t think Senator Hawley is alone in his concerns,&#8221; the leader shared.
Lila Rose, a well-known pro-life activist who heads the pro-life organization Live Action, warned in a <a href="https://x.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1998429557909565477">post</a> on X: &#8220;If Dr Makary will not act as head of the FDA to protect children and mothers he should be fired. Under his watch abortion pills kill preborn children and endanger women and the study he promised is nowhere to be found. End mail order abortion. Ban the abortion pill now!&#8221;
SBA Pro-Life America cites peer-reviewed research that found three-quarters of emergency room visits within 30 days after a woman took abortion drugs were coded as severe or as critical. They also point to studies that found more than one in ten women experience at least one severe adverse event when taking the abortion drugs, and point out that complications can include hemorrhaging, infections, sepsis, and, in some cases, death.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reverse-this-wrong-republicans-push-rfk-to-fix-bidens-abortion-drug-mistakes">reported</a> in late November that 175 Republican lawmakers called on HHS to take “immediate action” to reinstate safety requirements on abortion drugs, highlighting the growing body of evidence showing that the drugs are causing severe and underreported harm to women, asking RFK Jr. and Makary to “at a minimum, reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone.”
Until 2023, the FDA required abortion drugs to be administered to women under a doctor’s supervision. Under President Joe Biden, that and other safety standards were removed, which the Biden White House justified by citing the coronavirus pandemic.
“The need for urgent investigation and review of this drug comes in the wake of the Biden-Harris administration’s egregious action to remove critical safeguards that once applied to abortion drugs, and the FDA’s approval of a new abortion drug generic in September 2025,” wrote the lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN).
“Under your leadership, HHS and FDA can reverse this wrong,” they conclude. “We urge you to immediately reinstate the REMS requiring in-person dispensing of mifepristone and to expedite the promised review by the FDA into the dangers of abortion drugs.”

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A leftist federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama issued an order on Tuesday blocking the Trump administration from cutting funding going toward organizations like Planned Parenthood that end the lives of unborn children. 
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26327752-talwanipppi120225/">ruled</a> that the Department of Health and Human Services cannot cut off Medicaid funding going toward Planned Parenthood. Talwani sided with California and other Democrat-led states that sued to keep Medicaid funding flowing to Planned Parenthood affiliates.
Talwani wrote that HHS failed “to provide clear notice as required by the Spending Clause of the United States Constitution” to the Democrat-led states. Medicaid funding for abortion-promoting entities was cut off for one year by a provision of the GOP-backed “Big, Beautiful Bill.” 
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit previously overturned another <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26089904-ppfavkennedyca1091125/">decision</a> from Talwani that sided with Planned Parenthood in a suit over the provision. 
Talwani’s decision was met with criticism from pro-life advocates. 
“The Democrats and their radical activist judges are desperately seeking to thwart the will of the people and bail out the Big Abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is federal law passed by Congress and signed by the president,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser.
“This fight is not over. The pro-life movement will work tirelessly to ensure the Democrats do not prevail and taxpayers are never forced to pay a dime to prop up Big Abortion businesses,” Dannenfelser added. 
Talwani has a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-who-prevented-trumps-deportation-of-500k-migrants-volunteered-for-obama-elizabeth-warren">history of leftist activism</a> and has volunteered for and donated to prominent Democrat politicians, including Obama and Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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The federal judge <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Indira+Talwani">donated</a> a total of $1,725 to Democrat politicians and the Democratic Party, including $1,000 to former Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), $350 to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and $100 to Obama. Talwani also gave another $275 to the Democratic National Committee.
Talwani explained on her Senate questionnaire that she also volunteered to knock on doors for Obama in 2008 and volunteered to canvass on behalf of Elizabeth Warren in 2012. 
She has sided against the Trump administration in other rulings, including decisions to revoke Temporary Protected Status for half a million migrants, and a 2019 ruling said Immigration and Customs Enforcement was allowed to arrest illegal aliens on courthouse grounds in the state of Massachusetts.

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Supreme Court justices ranging from conservative Clarence Thomas to liberal Elena Kagan pressed the state of New Jersey on Tuesday about its expansive investigation targeting a Christian pro-life crisis pregnancy center. 
The justices heard arguments about whether a Christian pregnancy center can challenge a wide-ranging subpoena from the New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin that demanded donor information. The case hinges on whether the subpoena had the impact of chilling supporters of  First Choice Women’s Resource Centers and is entitled to relief in federal court. 
During oral arguments on Tuesday, many of the justices appeared skeptical of the arguments made by Sundeep Iyer, a lawyer for the state of New Jersey. 
In one exchange, Justice Thomas pushed Iyer on why the subpoena was issued to First Choice. 
“Did you have complaints that formed the basis of your concern about the fundraising activities here?” Thomas asked.
Iyer responded by saying that they had complaints about crisis pregnancy centers in general, but not specifically First Choice. Thomas then suggested that New Jersey had “no factual basis” for believing that the pregnancy center was deceiving donors and that the subpoena was a “burdensome way to find out whether someone has a confusing website.”
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Another key question in the case is whether the subpoena could be considered “chilling” because it had not yet been approved by a court. Justice Kagan, one of the court’s liberals, pushed Iyer on that question. 
“I think here, too, you would make the same argument is that an ordinary person, one of the funders for this organization or for any similar organization, presented with this subpoena, and then told, ‘But don&#8217;t worry, it has to be stamped by a court is not going to take that as very reassuring,’” Kagan said. “Why isn’t that right?”
Other justices, including Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and John Roberts, were also critical of New Jersey’s interpretation of the subpoena it had issued. 
First Choice has centers in five of New Jersey’s largest cities, including New Brunswick, Newark, Morristown, Montclair, and Jersey City. Services include free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and options counseling. They also offer a parenting program that provides essential needs such as baby clothes and diapers. 
“This court has long safeguarded the right of association by protecting the membership and donor list of nonprofit organizations like First Choice,” said Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer Erin Hawley. “Yet the attorney general of New Jersey issued a sweeping subpoena, commanding on pain of contempt that First Choice produce donor names, addresses, and phone numbers, so his office could contact and question them. That violates the right of association.”
Platkin first subpoenaed First Choice in November 2023, asking for ten years of documents related to its promotion of the abortion pill reversal, information they provided to clients and donors, personnel records, and copies of every advertisement the centers had run. 
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Pregnancy centers across the country that support vulnerable women in blue states like California, New York, and Illinois have all faced legal challenges for promoting the abortion pill reversal protocol.

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Pregnancy centers across the country helped a record number of women in 2024 with millions of dollars’ worth of medical and support services as pro-lifers grapple with challenges from aggressive Democratic officials, according to a new report. 
The <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/A-Legacy-of-Life-Love-2025-Rising-to-the-Occasion-with-Unwavering-Care.pdf">report found</a> that 3,799,816 men and women were served across 2,775 pregnancy resource centers in 2024. Services provided by the pregnancy centers were estimated to be valued at around $452,475,801. At the same time, an estimated 12,330 unborn babies were being aborted per month through pills sent by “shield laws” enacted in blue states to protect left-wing activists. 
“As the landscape of abortion in America following the Dobbs decision has rapidly changed, pregnancy centers continue to offer steadfast, professional care to women and families,” said Charlotte Lozier Institute executive director Karen Czarnecki.​ “It’s imperative that pregnancy centers continue to increase the availability of services—walking alongside women, men and families to provide love, education and support so they can courageously choose life.”
The report was compiled by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, Care Net, Heartbeat International, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, and Option Ultrasound Program by Focus on the Family. 
It found that the pregnancy resource centers served over a million new clients in 2024 and provided over $116 million in material support, a 48% increase from 2022. Material support includes providing families with items such as diapers, baby wipes, car seats, strollers, clothing, cribs, and other essentials. 
Eight out of ten pregnancy centers provide free or low-cost medical services, and over 10,000 medical professionals work at the facilities, according to the report. 
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Around one-quarter of the clinics provided abortion pill reversal services. The service “provides a chance to rescue the pregnancy soon after the ingestion of the first abortion drug through the administration of the hormone progesterone,” according to the report. As of June 2025, over 7,000 babies had been saved thanks to the abortion pill reversal, according to statistics included in the report. 
At the same time, pro-lifers are dealing with a surge in mail-order abortions as activists and abortionists ship pills into states where medication abortions are illegal. States like New York have passed shield laws to protect abortionists from being punished if they ship abortion pills into states like Texas or Tennessee. Pro-life lawmakers and activists have struggled to contain the spread of these pills and have urged the Trump administration to take action to crack down on FDA regulations that allow for abortion pills to be sent through the mail.
Pregnancy resource centers that have promoted the abortion reversal pill protocol have found themselves under scrutiny from Democratic officials in blue states like New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois. 
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case on Wednesday on whether a Christian pregnancy resource center in New Jersey can challenge an expansive subpoena from New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin requesting documentation on the center’s donor base.
New York Attorney General Letitia James <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-attorney-general-hit-with-another-lawsuit-over-her-targeting-of-pro-life-groups">sued</a> 11 pregnancy resource centers and the group Heartbeat International for their support of the abortion pill reversal protocol. In California, pregnancy centers were <a href="https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/court-compels-acog-to-turn-over-documents-and-communications-in-ag-bontas-lawsuit-to-silence-pro-life-pregnancy-centers">also sued</a> for their promotion of the abortion pill reversal.
Other Democrat lawmakers have opposed pregnancy centers because they don&#8217;t encourage or promote abortion. In 2022, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-happy-about-getting-google-to-suppress-crisis-pregnancy-centers">called</a> for pregnancy centers to be shuttered entirely. &#8220;Shut them down all around the country,” Warren said.
Included in the report were testimonials from women who were assisted by pregnancy resource centers. One of the stories included was that of Aagust, a Florida woman who found out she was pregnant in nursing school and took an abortion pill. After regretting the decision, she was able to get in contact with the Mosaic Sexual Health Clinic, a pregnancy resource center, that helped her save her baby. She ended up delivering the baby and naming him Carter Jay.
&#8220;He is the smartest, most active little boy ever and I love him so much,&#8221; she said. &#8220;God used Mosaic to save my baby and I am forever grateful.&#8221;

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The New Jersey attorney general’s battle against a Christian pregnancy resource center will take center stage at the Supreme Court next week as Democrat officials ramp up the lawfare against pro-life organizations. 
On December 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a Christian pregnancy center, can fight back in federal court against New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s attempt to gain access to its donor lists and promotion of the abortion pill reversal. Platkin issued a wide-ranging subpoena targeting the crisis pregnancy center as part of an investigation into whether they had lied about their services. 
“If our attorney general can bully us, it can happen in other states that promote abortion. It&#8217;s our hope that our efforts will result in protection for pregnancy centers across the nation. There is such a great need in New Jersey for women to consider all of their pregnancy options and not think that abortion is their only option,” Aimee Huber, the executive director of First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, said in a press call. 
First Choice has centers in five of New Jersey’s largest cities, including New Brunswick, Newark, Morristown, Montclair, and Jersey City. Services include free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and options counseling. They also offer a parenting program that provides essential needs such as baby clothes and diapers. Since 1985, they have aided over 36,000 women. 
Represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, First Choice sued Platkin after he subpoenaed them in November 2023 for ten years of documents related to its promotion of the abortion pill reversal, information they provided to clients and donors, personnel records, and copies of every advertisement the centers had run. 
“There were no allegations of wrongdoing,” Huber said. “It was simply a fishing expedition. Receiving the subpoena was completely overwhelming. We are a small nonprofit, and the idea of compiling so much information was completely daunting.”
In June 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case after First Choice’s lawsuit hit snags at the federal district court and appeals court levels. The official question granted by the court is as follows: “Whether a federal suit challenging a subpoena issued by a state attorney general is justiciable if a state court has not yet issued an order directing the recipient to comply with the subpoena.”
Responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case, Platkin said that the subpoena he issued was lawful and accused First Choice of hiding information about its operations. 
“First Choice—a crisis pregnancy center operating in New Jersey—has for years refused to answer questions about their operations in New Jersey and the potential misrepresentations they have been making, including about reproductive healthcare,” Platkin said. “I remain committed to enforcing our fraud laws without fear or favor against anyone who would harm or violate the rights of our residents, no matter how powerful the entity on the other side.”
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Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer Lincoln Wilson said that the central question before the high court was whether First Choice had the right to challenge Platkin’s subpoena in federal court. 
Fundamentally, though, Wilson said the case was about First Choice’s associational rights. 
“Any organization, right or left, no matter which side of the aisle you&#8217;re on, there needs to be the ability to keep this information confidential,” he said. “And if the government can just go ahead on a pretextual theory and demand that you turn over the names of your donors, then everyone in this country is less free.”
The Trump administration is backing First Choice with the Justice Department filing an <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1412671/dl?inline">amicus brief</a> arguing that First Choice should be allowed to pursue its federal lawsuit. 
“A party has standing to challenge a subpoena, and such a challenge is ripe, if the party faces a credible threat that the government will bring proceedings to enforce the subpoena. Because petitioner satisfies that test, this suit is justiciable,” the Justice Department wrote.  
Pregnancy centers across the country that support vulnerable women in blue states like California, New York, and Illinois have all faced legal challenges for promoting the abortion pill reversal protocol. 
The protocol is a method <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/abortion-pill-reversal-a-record-of-safety-and-efficacy/">backed</a> by pro-life organizations where a woman can take a prescribed dose of bioidentical progesterone to potentially reverse the effects of Mifepristone and save an unborn child if she changes her mind at the last minute about going through with the abortion.
New Jersey has enshrined abortion into the state’s constitution and has no pro-life protections in place. Huber said that the expansive abortion laws created an environment where anyone offering an alternative would be targeted. 
“Our state has done everything they could to make New Jersey a sanctuary state for abortion,” she said. “Since pregnancy centers like ours do not perform or refer for abortion, we are targets for a government that disagrees with our views.”

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A conservative group announced Wednesday that it plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to help maintain pro-life majorities in Congress.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and its partner political action committee, Women Speak Out, will spend $80 million to fund canvassing, digital advertising, voter contact mail, and early voting campaigns in key Senate and House races across the country. The group said it hopes to make at least 4.5 million visits across the country with a focus on battleground races in Iowa, Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina. 
“Republicans simply cannot win without their pro-life base, especially in midterm elections when overall turnout drops. Pro-life voters are the heart and soul of the Republican Party,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America. “Our mission is to fire up pro-life Americans who do not consistently vote in midterms and convince persuadable voters to reject the Democrats’ extreme all-trimester abortion agenda.”
Pro-life voters were a significant part of the coalition that helped President Donald Trump win his surprising victory in 2016 after he promised to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. 
During the 2024 presidential election, SBA Pro-Life America said it contacted 10 million voters across eight battleground states. 
Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican who defeated incumbent Democrat Jon Tester in Montana last year, praised SBA&#8217;s efforts to support his campaign.
“SBA was there from the beginning,” he said. “They knocked over 100,000 doors in our state with 600,000 voters. That’s a massive amount. And the most important thing they did was shatter the narrative that we were somehow radicals because we wanted to protect the lives of unborn children.”
As a result of the election victories in 2024, Republicans in Congress were able to defund Planned Parenthood for a year in Trump’s signature “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
In recent years, Democrats have also campaigned heavily on abortion. Before the 2022 midterm elections, many Democratic candidates focused their messaging on the overturning of Roe. Former Vice President Kamala Harris embraced the same strategy during her presidential run last year and urged the Senate to overturn the filibuster to pass laws codifying a nationwide right to abortion.

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