WASHINGTON—Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization, authorities have not determined who leaked the draft opinion.
The failure to track down the Supreme Court leaker has baffled the public and angered many on the Right, who consider the leak a politically-motivated attempt to stop the Court from overturning Roe. The Court conducted an investigation into the leak, but said in January 2023 that they could not identify the leaker — and <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/Dobbs_Public_Report_January_19_2023.pdf">possibly never will</a>.
&#8220;In time, continued investigation and analysis may produce additional leads that could identify the source of the disclosure,&#8221; the Supreme Court&#8217;s 2023 statement said. &#8220;Whether or not any individual is ever identified as the source of the disclosure, the Court should take action to create and implement better policies to govern the handling of Court-sensitive information and determine the best IT systems for security and collaboration.&#8221;
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino revealed in May that the FBI is giving increased scrutiny to the &#8220;leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case,&#8221; among a few other high-profile cases that have not been properly investigated.
&#8220;I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress,&#8221; Bongino <a href="https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1926961051129508247">said in late May</a>. &#8220;If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI.&#8221;
The leak of the draft opinion prompted protests outside the Maryland and Virginia homes of the conservative Supreme Court justices — illegal protests in violation of 18 USC 1507, which prohibits picketing or parading near the home of a judge &#8220;with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice.&#8221;
In addition to the protests, the Dobbs leak prompted attacks on pregnancy centers and churches all across the United States. According to CatholicVote trackers, at least <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker/">96 pregnancy centers</a> and <a href="https://catholicvote.org/tracker-church-attacks/">343 churches have been attacked</a>, vandalized, firebombed, or otherwise terrorized since the leak.
In many cases, vandals spray-painted the messages “if abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either” and autographed the destruction, “Jane’s Revenge,&#8221; a reference to &#8220;Jane Roe,&#8221; the pseudonymous plaintiff in the landmark abortion case.
Radical leftist groups published Supreme Court justices’ addresses online and urged protestors to make the justices uncomfortable in efforts to save Roe. Justice Samuel Alito <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/10/25/justice-alito-roe-leak-made-us-targets-assassination/">has said that the leak</a> made the justices &#8220;targets for assassination.&#8221;
Though both Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) and then-Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) begged the Justice Department to enforce that law as far-Left activists continued their protesting, President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department did not respond to these requests until June 8, 2022, the very same day that authorities arrested Nicholas Roske and charged him with attempting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
<div id="attachment_938781" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-years-later-we-still-dont-know-who-leaked-the-supreme-courts-dobbs-decision/abortion-rights-activists-protest-outside-justices-houses-2" rel="attachment wp-att-938781"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-938781" class="wp-image-938781 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Protesters march past Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s home on June 8, 2022, in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)</div>
“We thought there would be more urgency,” Michael Ricci, who served as Hogan’s spokesman, <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/25/hogans-office-surprised-disappointed-by-lack-of-doj-urgency-in-protecting-justices/">told The Daily Signal in January 2023</a>. “In this climate, there are any number of threats, both specific and vague, against public officials. And we thought there would be more urgency about protecting the perimeter of the justices’ homes, and by extension, their neighborhoods.”
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Far left protestors with @OurRightsDC march by Justice Kavanaugh’s home in the rain. Police stand guard. <a href="https://t.co/4lHnEOvpsK">pic.twitter.com/4lHnEOvpsK</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1617297037057204226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
Authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-arrest-armed-man-near-brett-kavanaughs-home-who-allegedly-wanted-to-kill-the-justice-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> 26-year-old Nicholas Roske in 2022 in Kavanaugh’s Maryland neighborhood, carrying a bag full of weapons and burglary tools, after he called the police on himself. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25476861-roskemts2010325/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Court filings show</a> that Roske described himself as “actively suicidal” and said he wanted to “do something positive before I die” by taking out Kavanaugh before the justice could vote to overturn Roe.
He found Kavanaugh’s neighborhood online, according to court documents, after he saw an article with a “picture of the family’s house,” including the house number.
“I was thinking about — I was thinking about killing Brett Kavanaugh and then killing myself,” he said to the <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25476860-roskesuppmts010325/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officers who arrived</a> on the scene, according to January court filings. “And then I texted my sister that I loved her. And then she called me and she told me not to do it. And then I called 9-1-1-.”
“I saw the news and it was upsetting, and I was already suicidal,” he told detectives later, as he described how he tracked down Kavanaugh’s home and planned the assassination. “And I don’t know. It was something to — it was like a project I guess…”
<div id="attachment_938785" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-years-later-we-still-dont-know-who-leaked-the-supreme-courts-dobbs-decision/abortion-rights-activists-protest-outside-justices-homes" rel="attachment wp-att-938785"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-938785" class="wp-image-938785 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Law enforcement officers stand guard as abortion rights activists with Our Rights DC march in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s house on June 29, 2022, in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</div>
“When I saw the leaked draft, it made me upset and then it made me want to — I don’t know,” he shared. “I was under the delusion that I could make the world a better place by killing him.”
Roske allegedly flew from California to Dulles International Airport after he found Kavanaugh’s home using media photographs of protests outside the justice’s home, protests which began after POLITICO’s May 2022 publication of a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe.
POLITICO itself acknowledged that its publication of the unprecedented leak would stir up controversy. They were <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/08/politico-finalist-draft-opinion-overturning-abortion-rights-00095845">named as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize</a> for the story, though the story <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/politico-pulitzer-prize">did not win the prize</a>.
&#8220;No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">wrote journalists Josh Gerstein and </a><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">Alexander Ward</a>. &#8220;The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.&#8221;

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Three Years Later, We Still Don’t Know Who Leaked The Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision

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&#8220;It looks like a baby. It was on the ground moving.&#8221;
That is what an 18-year-old girl told a pregnancy center employee after taking an abortion pill she ordered online from overseas.
It is just one of the shocking incidents workers in PreBorn&#8217;s pro-life pregnancy center network have experienced as they scramble to help desperate women who show up seeking help after taking the abortion pill.
PreBorn founder Dan Steiner spoke to The Daily Wire about his group&#8217;s harrowing work. He said women often show up at his clinics &#8220;severely traumatized&#8221; after days of severe bleeding.
&#8220;I&#8217;m talking about their mattress being soaked with blood, and that&#8217;s very dangerous,&#8221; Steiner said. &#8220;That trauma is bringing them into our clinics, and it&#8217;s twofold. One is the bleeding, but even more traumatic is that they are delivering the baby on the floor, in their bathroom toilet.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re bringing this into our clinics, like wrapped in washcloths, you know, these little babies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s traumatizing our clinic workers as well.&#8221;
Sometimes, the pregnancy center has an arrangement with a local cemetery to dispose of babies&#8217; bodies in a dignified way. But &#8220;that&#8217;s not the case with a lot of our clinics,&#8221; Steiner said.
Afterward, he noted, women &#8220;have to go back to the scene of the crime, their own bathroom, every day for the rest of their lives.&#8221;
&#8220;This is just a nightmare on steroids,&#8221; Steiner said. &#8220;It definitely kills their baby, but it also kills their hearts.&#8221;
On top of this, women often end up with severe complications after taking mifepristone, the popular abortion drug.
The two-pill chemical abortion regimen — mifepristone, usually followed by misoprostol — aims to end the life of the unborn baby and expel it from the woman’s uterus. However, the drugs sometimes fail to expel all the fetal tissue, which can cause life-threatening complications.
A study released last month shows the abortion pill is many times more dangerous than the FDA claims.
More than one in 10 women suffer “serious adverse events” after taking mifepristone, which can include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis, insurance claim data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-pill-22-times-more-dangerous-than-fda-claimed-new-study-says?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Abortion+Pill+22+Times+More+Dangerous+Than+FDA+Claimed%2C+New+Study+Says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a>.
This is about 22 times higher than what the FDA put on its label for the brand Mifeprex in 2023. The FDA <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> clinical studies saying less than 0.5% of women suffered “serious adverse reactions” to mifepristone.
The pill also has a high failure rate. More than one in 20 women need a second abortion after mifepristone fails, the insurance data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-1-in-20-women-need-second-abortion-attempt-after-abortion-pill-fails?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=More+Than+1+in+20+Women+Need+Second+Abortion+Attempt+After+Abortion+Pill+Fails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.
According to Steiner, the typical woman who comes to PreBorn for help is between 19 and 24, has multiple sexual partners, and likely does not know how far along she is in her pregnancy. That makes taking the abortion pill more dangerous, since it is only designed to be effective in early pregnancy.
Many women also change their minds after taking mifepristone, and frantically search online for how to reverse the drug&#8217;s effects and save their pregnancy.
Heartbeat International is a pro-life organization that reaches those women through its Abortion Pill Rescue Network, which has helped more than 6,000 women reverse their abortions with progesterone.
Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International, said that for most of the women who reach out to them, the experience of abortion was &#8220;not as promised.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not &#8216;just a pill&#8217; and it&#8217;s not &#8216;safer than Tylenol,'&#8221; he told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Once they begin to have significant symptoms, they sometimes call with deep regret and we must get them to care immediately.
Godsey recalled one mother, Sara, who took the abortion pill for her fourth baby because her boyfriend threatened to leave her if she did not.
&#8220;She realized her mistake and said it felt like a darkness had come over her,&#8221; Godsey said.
In desperation, the woman called the Abortion Pill Rescue Network&#8217;s hotline, and the nurse who answered connected her with a clinic that gave her progesterone.
The boyfriend kept his promise and left Sara and the children. But the baby, Isaiah, is now six, in kindergarten, plays soccer, and has a large extended family who &#8220;adore him,&#8221; Godsey said.
But not every story has a happy ending.
One woman took the abortion pill while carrying twins and delivered a &#8220;perfectly formed, deceased, tiny baby boy,&#8221; Godsey said. She called the Abortion Pill Rescue Network to stop the abortion and save her second baby, but it was too late — she quickly delivered a second deceased baby.
&#8220;That evening alone in her backyard she buried her tiny babies,&#8221; Godsey said. &#8220;I often think of her when I hear the lie that abortion empowers women. Instead, it often brings them to their lowest point.&#8221;
Medication abortions are far more common than surgical abortions. Medication abortions made up 63% of all abortions in 2023, up from 31% in 2014, <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/2024/03/medication-abortion-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.
The abortion pill is likely the main factor driving up the country’s total number of abortions in recent years, even in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Abortion advocates have argued that the abortion pill should be more available to order online now that some Republican-led states ban abortion.
A few months before Roe was overturned, the FDA scrapped the requirement that women must obtain abortion pills in-person from a health provider, allowing them to obtain them online through the mail.
Steiner said the FDA engaged in &#8220;ideological, intentional ignorance&#8221; on the dangers of mifepristone.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve known it all along. They would have to know it all along,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If it was Xanax and women were hospitalized because of taking Xanax, pull it!&#8221;
Steiner said that short of pulling mifepristone from the market, he would like to see it slapped with a black box warning, the FDA&#8217;s most serious warning. He would also like to see the Trump administration enforce the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that criminalized mailing abortion material.
Mifepristone was approved by the FDA in 2000.
Godsey slammed the FDA as well, saying the agency has relied on &#8220;highly controlled clinical trials performed by the abortion industry.&#8221;
&#8220;No one even knows how many abortions are happening or how many women are being harmed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t healthcare, and women deserve better.&#8221;

Female patient in hospital gown waits for test results

When The Abortion Pill Goes Wrong, These Pro-Life Groups Pick Up The Pieces

Health Care

The leak of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, and the historic ruling that followed, weren’t just legal landmarks — they were cultural earthquakes.
For millions of Americans, those days are seared into memory, standing alongside the moon landing or the collapse of the Berlin Wall. But Dobbs wasn’t the end of the fight for life — it was the beginning.
For the first time in half a century, Americans could protect the lives of babies in the womb through their state and federal representatives. Red states were ready to run with the ball. Several had trigger laws — laws designed to take effect to protect babies at conception the moment Roe fell — that went into effect when the decision came down. Others, like South Carolina and Florida, moved quickly to pass legislation safeguarding life.
Those bold moves were met with electoral reward: Gov. Ron DeSantis won re-election in a Florida <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ron_DeSantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">landslide</a>, as did Governors<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kim_Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Kim Reynolds</a>,<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_gubernatorial_and_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election,_2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Mike DeWine</a>, and<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_gubernatorial_election,_2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Brian Kemp</a> in Iowa, Ohio, and Georgia, respectively. We very quickly reached the point where half of the states had <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/lifesavinglaws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-life laws</a>.
Now, the pro-life movement has turned to its next major historic battle: defunding Planned Parenthood and dismantling the forced taxpayer funding of the abortion-industrial complex.
For decades, taxpayers have been forced to fund abortion businesses, with the lion’s share of funding coming from Medicaid. With Planned Parenthood responsible for more than <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2022-23-annual-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">400,000</a> abortions annually, Americans have been forced to subsidize the leading cause of death for far too long.
But there’s a plan to end this. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which recently passed the House of Representatives, pulls the plug on Medicaid funding for abortion businesses.
It could have a seismic impact.
After President Donald Trump froze<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/#:~:text=Planned%20Parenthood%20Health%20Systems%2C%20Inc,halted%20by%20the%20Trump%20administration." target="_blank" rel="noopener"> $27.5 million</a> in Title X dollars to Planned Parenthood, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/clinics-begin-closing-as-trump-admin-continues-freeze-on-family-planning-funds-00302504" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a> reported that several Planned Parenthood affiliates were closing or struggling to stay afloat.
<a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/262849/planned-parenthood-shutters-only-facility-in-manhattan-after-decades-of-pro-life-prayers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manhattan’s</a> only Planned Parenthood closed. Four<a href="https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/03/planned-parenthood-shutting-down-4-michigan-clinics-after-trump-administration-cuts-funding/#:~:text=Planned%20Parenthood%20shutting%20down,said%20in%20a%20news%20release.%20%E2%80%9C" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Michigan</a> facilities are shutting down. Two<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/clinics-begin-closing-as-trump-admin-continues-freeze-on-family-planning-funds-00302504" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Utah</a> Planned Parenthoods closed at the end of last month. Four Planned Parenthood facilities in <a href="https://www.iowapublicradio.org/health/2025-05-24/planned-parenthood-to-close-four-clinics-in-iowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a> and four more in<a href="https://www.startribune.com/why-planned-parenthood-is-closing-four-minnesota-clinics-and-laying-off-staff/601362453" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Minnesota</a> are closing.
If that’s the impact of $27.5 million, we don’t have to guess what taking away <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/870/866408.pdf#page=12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$529 million</a> in Medicaid funding annually will do. Planned Parenthood says this would mean<a href="https://x.com/KristanHawkins/status/1925627793745821741" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> 200</a> of their facilities would close.
With Republicans on Capitol Hill energized to stop the forced taxpayer funding of abortion businesses and around <a href="https://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/archive.html?section=polls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60%</a> of Americans against publicly funding abortion, Planned Parenthood is growing desperate. They took out a New York Times <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/05/21/planned-parenthood-celebrity-ad/83766968007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad</a>, which likely cost tens of thousands of dollars, that featured Harry Styles, Megan Thee Stallion, Doug Emhoff’s daughter, Jussie Smollett’s sister, and other celebrities calling for the forced taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
This is just one example of how Planned Parenthood funnels resources into political activism, money that could instead be used to improve basic health standards at their facilities.
Planned Parenthood’s spending priorities have horrific results: a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/planned-parenthood-clinics.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stillbirth</a> after an IUD was placed when a woman was pregnant,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/planned-parenthood-clinics.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> biohazards</a> and raw sewage left to fester in a Nebraska facility for days, and botched <a href="https://flatwaterfreepress.org/dysfunction-turnover-at-omaha-planned-parenthood-clinic-further-limiting-abortion-access-in-nebraska/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HIV and syphilis tests</a>, to name a few. Most tragically, an 18-year-old girl in Colorado <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/latest-news/young-woman-dies-after-late-term-abortion-at-planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> after a late-term abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility earlier this year.
Women on Medicaid will be much better served by community health centers, which already outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/realchoices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15:1</a>. These centers provide much more comprehensive and higher quality care than entities that exist to sell abortions.
We are optimistic this will be the year we defund Planned Parenthood — which would help pro-life Republican candidates win elections in 2026 and 2028. But Democrats, the legacy media, Hollywood, liberal universities, and other woke institutions are doing everything within their power to prevent the greatest human rights victory of our time.
Ballot measures have wiped away pro-life laws in Ohio, Arizona, and Missouri, where Republican leaders failed to fully engage in the battle. Activist courts have stopped states from protecting babies in the womb. Shield laws — designed to give blue state abortionists immunity when they ship abortion drugs into pro-life states — and similar workarounds from the Biden administration allow blue state abortionists to bypass pro-life laws, kill unborn children, and harm women across state lines by mailing abortion drugs.
All of this means that the total number of abortions performed in the United States has increased since the Dobbs decision. While there is no definitive way to calculate the total number of abortions performed each year, a new Charlotte Lozier Institute<a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/new-report-confirms-abortions-continue-to-rise-after-dobbs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> study</a> reveals a startling reality.
The study compiles existing data from pro-abortion entities like the Guttmacher Institute and #WeCount, and shows the total number of abortions is at least 1.1 million annually.
This is not the time to retreat. This is the time to go on offense. Human rights battles are never won overnight. Slavery wasn’t abolished in just a few years, nor was segregation.
The fall of Roe was the start of the most significant human rights movement of our time. Bringing this movement to a successful conclusion will take persistence, unity, and courage.
Now is the time for the pro-life movement to reignite, take the historic step of defunding Planned Parenthood, and to elect leaders who don’t flinch when the stakes are high. We stand on the shoulders of decades of sacrifice and prayer, and, by the grace of God, we believe this could be the year we take the next big step.
Because the fight for life isn’t over.
It’s just getting started.
Marjorie Dannenfelser is president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. She has been called “the woman who brought down Roe.”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Annual March For Life Held In Washington, D.C.

Three Years After Dobbs, The Pro-Life Movement Is Just Getting Started 

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Pro-Abortion

People often say, “Never discuss politics in polite company.” But, considering today’s volatile climate, let’s break that rule.
As a Christian who’s been president and CEO of Care Net since 2012, I’ve seen the abortion debate shift dramatically — especially since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade. Many pro-lifers celebrated, thinking we’d won the war.
But did we declare victory too soon?
For decades, the pro-life goal was clear: overturn Roe through the courts. Every January, faithful pro-lifers marched in Washington, D.C., aiming for the right Supreme Court justices to rule in favor of life. Dobbs seemed like the victory we’d fought for — overruling Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, declaring abortion isn’t a “substantive right” rooted in our nation’s history.
But events since then demand we reflect and consider the serious limits of purely political solutions.
The Democratic Party’s position on abortion hasn’t budged since 2012: abortion on demand, anytime, for any reason. It’s their litmus test. Meanwhile, the Republican stance has shifted.
In 2012, with Mitt Romney as their standard-bearer, Republicans opposed all abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or the mother’s life — exceptions that would make 97 percent of abortions illegal. Today, President Donald Trump says abortion should be left to “the will of the people” at the state level. Other Republicans support six- or fifteen-week bans with exceptions, allowing nearly 98% of abortions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 2024 Republican platform no longer affirms the unborn’s “fundamental right to life” or supports a Human Life Amendment, only opposing late-term abortions — less than 2% of cases.
Here’s the inconvenient truth: when you consider the abortion issue based on both parties’ platforms, both parties are essentially pro-choice now — one has no exceptions, the other has some.
The debate isn’t about bans anymore; it’s about abortion availability.
This shift undermines two core pro-life convictions: human life begins at conception and is worthy of protection, and a baby’s value isn’t determined by conception circumstances. A weeks-based approach — negotiating when it’s acceptable to end a life — compromises these convictions. This should be as non-negotiable as saying it’s wrong to kill an innocent outside the womb.
Pro-choice advocates don’t negotiate. Their conviction — bodily autonomy at all costs — supports abortion up to birth. That’s why they fought Mississippi’s fifteen-week ban in Dobbs, even though it seemed they would lose. But our weeks-based strategy fails morally and practically. Morally, it undermines the baby’s personhood. Practically, compromising on conviction doesn’t inspire others to adopt it. I can’t think of a successful movement — religious, political, or social — where this approach worked.
History shows that compromising on conviction rarely inspires change. Look at slavery. Abraham Lincoln called it “wrong, morally and politically” in 1859, yet his 1861 inaugural address avoided abolishing it, focusing on stopping its spread. He compromised.
Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass shared Lincoln’s conviction but refused to negotiate, linking their actions to ending slavery entirely. Douglass’s clarity pushed Lincoln. By 1865, Lincoln couldn’t imagine a union with slavery, seeing the Civil War as God-ordained “woe” for the offense of slavery.
We need that clarity today. A weeks-based framework doesn’t inspire courage in politicians or the culture. Without acting like Douglass, we won’t get a Lincoln. I’m grateful for pro-life Republicans working to support women at risk for abortion, and for Dobbs. But if the national policy tolerates most abortions, those efforts are muted. Indeed, abortions are up since Roe was overturned, more states have loosened their restrictions on abortion than not, and public opinion has shifted in a pro-choice direction.
Politicians face Pontius Pilate’s dilemma when faced with an innocent Jesus: “Should the shouts of a powerful and vocal crowd sway them to sacrifice the innocent?” The politics of abortion don’t change its morality. In 2012, Republicans had a measure of clarity — I hope they regain it, and Democrats find it, because vulnerable lives are at stake.
Culture shapes politics, and religion shapes culture. The 2023 Ohio ballot initiative, making abortion a constitutional right, passed with 57% support in a “pro-life” state. Exit polls showed Catholics and Protestants voted yes at rates mirroring the broader culture. Worse, 54% of women who have abortions profess to be Catholic or Protestant.
If you lose the pews, you lose at the polls.
Roland Warren is president and CEO of <a href="https://care-net.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care Net</a> and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Abortion-Must-Abundant-Life/dp/0997228539/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GE1540HN1QI0&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.puTuVSrDnqiSL-sbmiDzx4VDsjs8IzGvmM7Mkl9eYtz0brcntZs1IqkZV1FRqnk-iIYazXoiCCXWOQiczInm11PwHrpxCuDiyaoQgJaTcK7JJGMCcfGgg-9__tSGOI__WeCVTB0WvHBmW_2ujDtZl2NqDgLfgWZix08DE1eaXEXdATvQAKHncx-DECpW_gYPu24FR7VRHCXSWeBi0pB3HgRuPUuboOcxRjtQMNJudkk.S9JjGheZ3vdBUxf6tNQG9-DWoSHJFrtISKjQg40kSm4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=The+ALternative+to+Abortion&amp;qid=1747317907&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=the+alternative+to+abortion%2Cstripbooks%2C113&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Alternative to Abortion: Why We Must Be Pro-Abundant Life</a>.
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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Why Politics Alone Will Never Save the Pro-Life Movement

Donald Trump

Pro-Life Movement

Republican Party

Today is the annual March for Life Rally in Washington, which I&#8217;ll be attending along with pro-life activists from all over the country. It&#8217;s easy to forget that our wonderful &#8220;pro-life&#8221; Republican presidents prior to Donald Trump wouldn&#8217;t even show up in person to the March For Life.
Trump was the first president to break that mold, when he became the first sitting president of either party to attend the event in person back in 2020. Then, just two years later, thanks to judges Donald Trump appointed to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade was overturned. A generational goal of pro-life activists was finally accomplished — sparing the lives of millions of children.
In the wake of this historic victory, Democrats retaliated. The Biden DOJ commenced a wave of illegitimate prosecutions targeted at peaceful pro-life protesters all over the country, from Washington to Tennessee to Michigan. Here&#8217;s how these prosecutions worked. First, the DOJ alleged that the protesters were violating the &#8220;FACE Act,&#8221; which protects &#8220;access&#8221; to abortion facilities. Then, the Biden DOJ invoked the &#8220;KKK Act,&#8221; otherwise known as the &#8220;conspiracy against rights&#8221; act. That&#8217;s a law that has nothing to do with abortion facilities. It&#8217;s a Reconstruction-era law that was intended to prevent the KKK from intimidating black people from voting or serving on juries.
By pairing these two laws together, the DOJ was able to pursue felony charges and extremely lengthy prison sentences for these peaceful pro-life demonstrators. Every single person attending one of these protests at an abortion facility could be accused of being a &#8220;conspirator&#8221; — even if they didn&#8217;t step foot in the facility itself. This is a legal approach that was never even considered to be possible when the FACE Act was debated in Congress, back in the early 1990s. In fact, Senator Ted Kennedy explicitly stated at the time that, &#8220;if an individual does violate this law for the first time, it is not a felony.&#8221;
That would be news to 75-year-old Paulette Harlow. She&#8217;s the mother of six children, including four kids she adopted. Harlow was sentenced last summer to 24 months in federal prison for &#8220;conspiracy against rights&#8221; and Face ACT violations. This is an obviously outrageous sentence that was issued by D.C. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. In particular, the judge completely ignored the fact that Harlow was in very poor health. As Harlow&#8217;s husband stated during sentencing, &#8220;I feel like Paulette is dying. In my heart, I think she’s having a hard time staying alive.&#8221;
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Instead of responding to this information in any way, the judge appeared to mock Harlow&#8217;s faith, saying she should, “make an effort to remain alive” because that is a “tenet of [Harlow’s] religion.” Paulette Harlow was sentenced to home confinement, until federal officials could find a prison that could handle her medical needs.
Outside the courthouse, Harlow emphasized that she wasn&#8217;t violent in any way. And just looking at her, you can tell that she doesn&#8217;t deserve to spend 24 months in a federal prison. She&#8217;s obviously not a threat to anyone. Watch:
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If you can look at that elderly, infirm lady and think that she deserves two years in federal prison for sitting outside of an abortion clinic, then you simply a bad person, if not a lunatic. As Harlow&#8217;s lawyers at the Thomas More Society have <a href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d954d4e4ad424df7819d46/6787e6eb978c3844c48bed30_TMS%20Pardon%20Petition%20Cover%20Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a>, this prosecution gets even more unlawful when you look at the cases the DOJ chose NOT to prosecute over the last four years. 
Specifically, the DOJ failed to prosecute, &#8220;almost any of the more than 170 incidents of violence against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches nationwide in the wake of the leak of the Dobbs decision.&#8221; There were at least 86 Catholic churches and 74 pregnancy resource centers that were targeted post-Dobbs. One of those resource centers received a threat, &#8220;If abortions aren’t safe, neither are you.&#8221; And yet, when The Daily Signal <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/10/26/dojs-kristen-clarke-pro-abortion-activist-enforcing-law-pro-lifers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reached out</a> to the DOJ and the FBI to see if any of these cases were being investigated, they didn&#8217;t get a response.
In other words, the DOJ was clearly targeting pro-life protesters specifically because of their religious beliefs. They were applying the law to different groups of people in different ways. That is unconstitutional. It is unethical. And the point of it was to intimidate pro-lifers into silence. That&#8217;s why they arrested these people like they were terrorists. They hit Paul Vaughn&#8217;s home like he was bin Laden. Watch:
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This was an especially incredible prosecution by the DOJ, because it was clear to everyone Paul Vaughn wasn&#8217;t even blocking access to the abortion facility in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Video evidence proved that. Instead, the DOJ accused Paul Vaughn of &#8220;stalling&#8221; the police negotiators, outside the facility. So again, they&#8217;re treating anyone remotely associated with these protests as a violent terrorist.
But yesterday Donald Trump put an end to these political prosecutions. He signed pardons for nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life demonstrators, including Paulette Harlow and Paul Vaughn. Watch:
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Between these pardons and the repeal of Roe, there is now absolutely no question that Trump has done more for the pro-life cause than any other Republican president in history. It&#8217;s not even close.
During the campaign, there were some conservatives who doubted that. Some of them even suggested that pro-lifers shouldn&#8217;t vote for Donald Trump. But that was always a very bad idea, as I argued at the time — and now everyone can see that. For the first time in history, pro-lifers have a true advocate in the White House. What the hell did George Bush ever do for the pro-life cause? What did Ronald Reagan do? They treated pro-lifers like the red headed step children of the conservative movement. Trump — even though he is personally more moderate on the abortion issue than I am — is actually delivering major wins for the cause.
He actually accomplishes things — things that seemed impossible not too long ago. And he&#8217;s not stopping. Donald Trump is now single-handedly reversing a wave of lawfare against pro-lifers who were punished, in cruel and inhumane ways, because of their religious beliefs.
In fact we&#8217;ve had so much success on this issue in the last few years that some conservatives think the March For Life is pointless. But events elsewhere in Washington prove otherwise. As you might have heard, every Democrat in the Senate just voted against a measure that would have required doctors to provide life-saving medical treatment to infants born alive after a botched abortion. They&#8217;ve temporarily blocked the bill, because in the Senate, as of now, you need 60 votes to clear a filibuster and force a vote. Even the &#8220;reasonable Democrats&#8221; like noted slob John Fetterman voted in favor of infanticide.
Here&#8217;s what Fetterman <a href="https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1882157782377611475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;I’ve always stood on the side of Roe and a woman’s right to make her own health care choices. It’s absurd to mandate criminalization because of those choices. Any bill that does so, including the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act, is a NO from me.&#8221;
In other words, he&#8217;s saying that women have the right to murder their children even after they&#8217;re born. Of course, this is the natural extension of Democrats&#8217; pro-abortion logic. And in this case, he&#8217;s just coming right out and saying it. So no, I don’t want to hear another word about so-called “moderate” Democrats. A lot of people have been saying that about Fetterman lately, but there&#8217;s no such thing. I don&#8217;t know how many times we need to learn this lesson. Even the moderate, mainstream Democrats believe that infant children outside the womb have no inherent right to life.
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If you look at the text of the law, that becomes very clear. Here&#8217;s what the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/6/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law requires</a>: &#8220;Any health care practitioner present at the time the child is born alive shall — “(A) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age; and “(B) following the exercise of skill, care, and diligence required under subparagraph (A), ensure that the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.&#8221; And then the law states, &#8220;A health care practitioner or any employee of a hospital, a physician’s office, or an abortion clinic who has knowledge of a failure to comply with the requirements of paragraph (1) shall immediately report the failure to an appropriate State or Federal law enforcement agency, or to both.&#8221;
This is not some hypothetical scenario. It happens more often than you might think. In Florida, 14 babies were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yes-democrats-support-ending-the-lives-of-babies-who-survive-abortions">reported</a> to have survived abortions in 2023, and 16 babies survived abortions in 2022. In Michigan, 122 babies were involved in so-called &#8220;failed abortions,&#8221; and we have no information as to what happened to them afterwards. In Tim Walz&#8217;s Minnesota, as we&#8217;ve previously discussed, at least five abortions resulted in a live birth in 2021 — and instead of receiving life-saving measures, at least two of those infants received &#8220;comfort care.&#8221; They soon died. And instead of outlawing this, the state of Minnesota decided to simply stop posting records from these failed abortions. So now they can kill infants and not tell anyone.
On the Senate floor, Chuck Schumer made an attempt to defend infanticide. Here&#8217;s how he framed the argument:
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First of all, he claims that the bill is redundant. He suggests it&#8217;s already illegal to commit infanticide. But as we just established, many states are currently allowing doctors to kill infants after they&#8217;re born, by providing them with a lesser standard of care. The doctors are allowed to do this, and no one reports them for it. The law against murder is clearly not being enforced in these contexts. That&#8217;s why we need this legislation. It enhances the reporting requirements surrounding this barbarism, so that doctors can&#8217;t keep hiding it.
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If you parse what Schumer is saying, he&#8217;s trying to argue that some women decide to kill their children when it&#8217;s clear that they&#8217;re going to have serious, life-altering medical problems. And then when those children manage to survive the abortion, he&#8217;s saying we should allow these women to &#8220;finish the job,&#8221; so to speak. But again, having a life-altering medical problem doesn&#8217;t mean you deserve to die. You are entitled to the same degree of care as anyone else with that life-altering medical problem. That&#8217;s what the bill requires. What if a four year old child has an accident on the playground and ends up disabled for life? Would it be okay with Chuck if the child’s parents decided to simply suffocate him with a pillow and throw him in a dumpster out back? Apparently so. Because that’s what his own logic would justify.
Democrats&#8217; decision to block this bill proves two things. First of all, it shows that the Democrat Party is still radically, horrifically, satanically extreme — despite whatever concessions to &#8220;moderates&#8221; they claim to be making. And secondly, it demonstrates that, despite all of our victories in recent days and years, we still have a lot of work to do. The pro-life movement has never had more power than it has right now. And at this moment, after the overt embrace of infanticide that we just saw in Congress, it&#8217;s clear that we need to use it.

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Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free

Biden's Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free

Chuck Schumer

FACE Act

March For Life

Opinion

Amidst pro-life infighting over Donald Trump’s stance on abortion, one woman facing prison time for her anti-abortion activism is urging her fellow pro-lifers to back the former president. 
Eva Edl, an 89-year-old survivor of a communist concentration camp who was recently found guilty of charges related to praying outside of an abortion clinic, said that denouncing Trump over his views on abortion is not the best way forward for the movement.
“I do not think that pro-life groups should denounce Trump, but they should rather try to educate him on the value of human life,” Edl told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. 
“How can we expect Trump to know this truth when most pastors have not taught this biblical fact to their own congregation, and were silent throughout the years while pro-abortion voices devalued human life?” she said. “He needs to know that God created human life in His own image.” 
Edl is one of many pro-life activists recently found guilty of engaging in a conspiracy against rights and violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for peacefully praying outside an abortion clinic. She survived a World War II-era death camp before escaping to the United States, and has since devoted her life to protecting unborn babies.
Her Wednesday remarks refer to controversy over Trump’s stance on pro-life laws, such as Florida’s law <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-he-will-vote-no-on-radical-florida-pro-abortion-initiative">protecting unborn babies</a> once they have a detectable heartbeat, which Trump has criticized as too strict. While Trump has a strong pro-life record — his Supreme Court nominees helped overturn Roe v. Wade, and he is staunchly against late term abortions — he has repeatedly said as of late that abortion laws should be left up to the states. He also pledged last week to be &#8220;great for women and their reproductive rights,&#8221; comments that prompted some activists to suggest that pro-life voters should not support Trump in November.
Edl says she has &#8220;some dear friends who feel it would violate their conscience to vote for Trump,&#8221; and said they will &#8220;abstain from voting altogether.&#8221; But she says her &#8220;conscience&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t allow her to do the same.
“It seems to me that we are one election away from communist rule in our country,” she reflected. “We are given only two choices: two candidates in the Communist Democrat Party or two candidates in the compromised Republican Party.”
“I believe that, if I do not vote, I actually end up voting for the communist Democrat Party by default,” Edl continued. “This would trouble my conscience greatly.” 
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil,” Edl said, quoting a line often attributed to German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed for his opposition to Adolf Hitler. “God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
Under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Justice Department has utilized the FACE Act to targe pro-life activists for trying to stop abortions from taking place.
The FACE Act <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/protecting-patients-and-health-care-providers">prohibits</a> use of force, obstruction, or property damage intended to interfere with “reproductive health care services.” The law theoretically protects houses of worship and pro-life pregnancy resource centers, but the Biden-Harris Justice Department has overwhelmingly used it to prosecute pro-life activists like Edl. 
The president’s Republican critics, among them Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Texas Rep. Chip Roy, have accused the Biden-Harris administration and its Justice Department of weaponizing the FACE Act, particularly given the hundreds of pro-abortion attacks on pregnancy centers and Catholic churches since the May 2022 leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion showing Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned. 
Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/19/exclusive-congressman-calls-fbi-directors-bluff-demands-evidence-investigations-pro-abortion-violence/">data obtained by Roy</a> shows that the department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division has charged 24 FACE cases against 55 defendants since January 2021. Only two of those 24 cases originated from attacks on pregnancy resource centers — though FBI Director Christopher Wray claimed to Congress on July 24 that the FBI has focused more attention on pro-abortion violence against pro-life facilities. 
“This data is particularly troubling in light of the fact that there have been at least 90 individual cases of attacks on pro-life organizations and pregnancy resource centers since the May 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion for the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case,” Roy wrote in an August 19 letter to the FBI. 
Edl was accused by the Biden administration in February 2023 of conspiring to deny women seeking abortions of their constitutional rights. She was one of several participants in peaceful protests at two Michigan abortion facilities in 2020 and 2021. 
Her co-defendants also charged in the conspiracy are Cal and Eva Zastrow, Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Joel Curry, and Justin Phillips. The conspiracy charge could land each of them in federal prison for up to 10.5 years and saddle them with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
The charges stem from a peaceful demonstration where the group sat and stood outside of the Northland Family Planning Clinic in Sterling, Michigan alongside a group of other pro-life activists. Edl and Idoni face an additional charge for a pro-life protest the two of them attended at the Women’s Health Clinic in Saginaw, Michigan. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/god-wins-in-the-end-89-year-old-pro-life-activist-speaks-out-ahead-of-high-stakes-trial">Asked by The Daily Wire</a> in early August how she was feeling about her upcoming trial, Edl emphasized her trust in God. She also pointed to the cross necklace she had around her neck, the same necklace she wore when the forces of Yugoslavian communist dictator Josip Broz Tito rounded up her family because they belonged to the Danube Swabians ethnic group.
“It doesn’t matter how it turns out, God wins in the end,” she said.

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EXCLUSIVE: Death Camp Survivor Facing Prison Time Urges Pro-Life Groups To Back Trump

Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elizabeth-warren" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Warren</a> claimed in a Wednesday interview that her former colleague Kamala Harris&#8217; &#8220;biggest accomplishment&#8221; while serving as vice president was being the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion clinic.
Warren made the comment during an interview with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, arguing that Harris&#8217; willingness to lean in to issues that were not always comfortable to talk about made her well-suited to her new role as the Democrats&#8217; de facto 2024 presidential nominee.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenWarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenWarren</a> on Harris’ biggest accomplishment as VP: She was the &#8220;first vice president in history to visit an abortion clinic&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/v2CpjHnebB">pic.twitter.com/v2CpjHnebB</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1816115893966864644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;What do you think has been her biggest accomplishment since she&#8217;s been vice president?&#8221; Collins asked.
&#8220;Oh, I have to say, since the Dobbs opinion, the way that she has rallied women and friends of women, also called men, around this country on the issue of abortion, and just taken it home,&#8221; Warren raved.
Warren went on to praise Harris for being the &#8220;first vice president in history to visit an abortion clinic,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Go get &#8217;em!&#8221;
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&#8220;You know, she&#8217;s someone who talks openly about things that were kind of challenging for some people to talk about, but also to talk about it with —&#8221; Warren continued.
&#8220;President Biden didn&#8217;t even mention the word abortion,&#8221; Collins agreed.
&#8220;But Vice President Harris has, and she&#8217;s talked about it with compassion, but also with a sense of what is right,&#8221; Warren said. &#8220;How can we be a country that half of America lost rights because of an extreme Supreme Court put in place by Donald Trump.&#8221;
In stark contrast to Harris, former President Donald Trump also made history when he became the first sitting President of the United States to address the largest annual pro-life gathering, the March for Life.

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‘Go Get ‘Em!’: Elizabeth Warren Says Kamala Harris’ Biggest Accomplishment Is Visiting An Abortion Clinic

'Go Get 'Em!': Elizabeth Warren Says Kamala Harris' Biggest Accomplishment Is Visiting An Abortion Clinic

Elizabeth Warren

Kamala Harris

Media

Politics

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.
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&#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.

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

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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.
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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.
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“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.

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Two women shared this week their stories of how overturning Roe v. Wade saved their babies ahead of the second anniversary of the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling next week.
The two mothers joined Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America for a video press call on Thursday ahead of June 24, the anniversary of the landmark Dobbs <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a>, which reversed nearly 50 years of legal abortion nationwide.
One mother, Ashley, described how she and her husband, Dusty, struggled to have children but were able to adopt their one-year-old son, Jacob, after his birth mother decided against having an abortion.
Jacob&#8217;s birth mother had attempted to obtain an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Florida when she was six months pregnant, but the state&#8217;s 15-week abortion ban prevented her from doing so, and she decided to continue her pregnancy, Ashley said.
&#8220;Just three months later my husband and I received a call that we&#8217;ll never forget. We were told a baby boy had just been born, and his mother had chosen us as his adoptive parents,&#8221; Ashley said. &#8220;My husband and I are beyond grateful, thankful, and appreciative to Jacob&#8217;s birth mother for her sacrificial decision and her courage in pursuing adoption.&#8221;
&#8220;Without the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision, Florida&#8217;s pro-life law, and her willingness to choose life rather than pursue abortion elsewhere, our little family and our special almost two-year-old baby boy would not be alive today,&#8221; she added. &#8220;This Dobbs anniversary marks two years of babies whose lives have been saved, with one of those being Jacob&#8217;s.&#8221;
&#8220;Jacob not only has a big heart. He is also gentle and kind. He is full of innocence and purity. He loves Jesus, people, and anything trucks related,&#8221; Dusty said.
Another mother, Neesha, smiled as she described how Georgia&#8217;s heartbeat law saved the life of her baby boy, whom she gave up for adoption after initially considering abortion.
&#8220;My baby is adopted, and he&#8217;s thriving. I got a chance to see him. Last week was his one-year birthday,&#8221; Neesha said. &#8220;I got to choose the parents.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen a baby so happy,&#8221; she said. &#8220;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.&#8221;
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, she said, she would not have chosen a different path for her baby.
&#8220;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,&#8221; Neesha said. &#8220;Whether you&#8217;re able to provide for the child or not it doesn&#8217;t give you the right to terminate your pregnancy just because of your situation at the moment because situations can change.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe that there&#8217;s help out there,&#8221; she added. &#8220;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.&#8221;
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&#8220;It&#8217;s women like you that make it possible for us,&#8221; one-year-old Jacob&#8217;s father Dusty told Neesha on the call.
The Dobbs case dealt with a 2018 Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks.
In 2020, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed an appeal of the Fifth Circuit&#8217;s decision that brought the case to the Supreme Court.
&#8220;It&#8217;s really hard to believe that it&#8217;s been two years,&#8221; Fitch said during Thursday&#8217;s video call. &#8220;Two years since the court let loose its hold on this abortion policy-making and gave it back to the people.&#8221;
&#8220;This Mississippi Dobbs case was a victory for women and children across our country,&#8221; Fitch said.

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President Joe Biden drew criticism on Tuesday for drawing attention to his Catholic faith by making the sign of the cross at a campaign event promoting abortion access in Florida.
Biden was in Florida to attack his likely opponent in the 2024 presidential race, former President Donald Trump, over his support for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-whoopi-goldberg-claims-overturning-roe-violates-her-religious-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court&#8217;s decision</a> in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization, the case that resulted in the overturning of 1973&#8217;s landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade. The president blamed Trump for creating an opportunity for Florida to pass the &#8220;Heartbeat Bill,&#8221; which bans abortions around the sixth week.
&#8220;This extreme Florida law is going to impact 4 million women in the state,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s be real clear. There&#8217;s one person responsible for this nightmare. And he&#8217;s acknowledged, and he brags about it — Donald Trump.&#8221;
As another speaker at the event was railing against Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for signing the &#8220;Heartbeat Bill,&#8221; Biden crossed himself.
&#8220;This. Is. VILE! President Biden makes the Sign of the Cross at an abortion rally in Florida! You cannot be Catholic and support abortion! You cannot invoke GOD and promote Death!&#8221; CatholicVote posted, sharing video of the president on X.
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White House staffers and legacy media have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-psaki-biden-devout-catholic">described</a> Biden as a &#8220;devout Catholic.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden&#8217;s decision to make the Sign of the Cross in support of abortion extremism is a despicable charade that attempts to co-opt a sacred practice in support of his new abortion religion. His gesture openly mocks the Christian belief in the sanctity of life. There is no divine support for destroying the lives of innocent children, and he should know better. Biden&#8217;s gesture suggests he is either terribly naive, or senile, or callously indifferent to the foundational beliefs of millions of Christians in America,&#8221; CatholicVote President Brian Burch added.
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Making the sign of the cross, according to Catholic tradition, invokes multiple meanings. <a href="https://www.simplycatholic.com/six-reasons-why-we-make-the-sign-of-the-cross/#:~:text=The%20Sign%20of%20the%20Cross%20is%20a%20profession%20of%20faith,Father%2C%20Son%20and%20Holy%20Spirit." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simply Catholic</a> laid out six of them in a post, ranging from a reaffirmation of faith as stated in the Apostles&#8217; Creed to a reminder of baptism.
&#8220;On one level, then, making the sign is a defensive move, declaring our inviolability to the devil’s influence. But, more importantly, the sign is also an offensive weapon, helping us reclaim with Christ all that Satan lost at the cross,&#8221; the post continued. &#8220;Like tossing off a dirty shirt or blouse, making the sign indicates our stripping ourselves of our evil inclinations and clothing ourselves with the behaviors of Christ.&#8221;

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