Category: abortion

San Francisco Takes Step Toward Rescinding 12X State Travel and Contracts Ban

SAN FRANCISCO—The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7–4 on April 25 to rescind the 12X State Travel Ban. The ban is a city administrative code that prohibits city-funded employee travel to 30 listed states and forbids city contracts involving those states. It serves as a boycott of states considered to be restrictive of abortion,…


IN-DEPTH: Pro-Life Women Share How the Abortion Pill Changed Their Lives

As the legal battle over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) controversial approval of the abortion drug mifepristone continues, women whose lives have been personally affected by its use are stepping forward to share their experiences. One of those women is Sarah Hurm, an Iowa mother of four who, in 2018, became pregnant with…


IN-DEPTH: This Mother Was Able to Reverse an Abortion Pill and Save Her Baby’s Life

As the legal battle over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) controversial approval of the abortion drug mifepristone continues, women whose lives have been personally affected by its use are stepping forward to share their experiences. One of those women is Sarah Hurm, an Iowa mother of four who, in 2018, became pregnant with…


ANALYSIS: Haley’s Abortion Speech Can Boost Electability in General Election But Is Unlikely to Swing Primary Voters, Expert Says

News Analysis Nikki Haley’s speech on April 25 on abortion policy makes her a more appealing general election candidate but is unlikely to swing primary voters, according to one prominent elections analyst. In what her campaign billed as a “major policy speech on abortion,” Haley, who is pro-life, didn’t offer concrete legislative or executive proposals…


‘Gift of Faith’: Pregnant From Rape, Mom Rejects Abortion, Places Son With a Family That Gives Priority to God

What does it take to turn an act of evil into an act of love? A college junior who became pregnant from rape drew on faith to acknowledge the value of the innocent human growing inside her womb and made a life-giving decision, choosing adoption over abortion. And to give her child the “gift of faith,”…


The Western US Remains Divided Over Abortion

Idaho and Utah have continued banning or limiting abortions, while Oregon and California are stockpiling abortion pills. Idaho and Utah were two of the 13 states that had trigger laws to make abortions illegal when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. As soon as Roe v. Wade was overturned, Idaho joined the list of…


Senate GOP Blocks Resurrection of Equal Rights Amendment

Senate Republicans blocked the efforts of Democrats on April 27 to revive the long-since-expired Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) a century after it was first introduced. Specifically, the vote was to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed in taking up a joint resolution (pdf) to disregard the deadline that Congress set decades ago for the…


Block on Defense Promotions Over Pentagon’s Travel for Abortion Policy Gains Support

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Tuesday blocked 184 military promotions requested by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) due to his objections to the Pentagon’s new abortion policy. The Republican senator from Alabama has for months put a hold on all civilian nominations and military promotions of general and flag officers until the Department of Defense (DOD) rescinds…


Colorado Governor Signs Bill to Make State a ‘Gender Surgery Sanctuary’ for Minors

Red state bans on child sex-change procedures may soon face powerful challenges from Democrat-controlled “gender-surgery sanctuary” states. A new Colorado law entitled Protections for Accessing Reproductive Health Care is the latest to include legal shields for patients and providers of “gender-affirming health-care services,” noting those are part of “legally protected health-care activity in this state.”…


Nikki Haley Calls for ‘National Consensus’ on Abortion

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has pledged to make finding a national consensus on the divisive issue of abortion her goal if elected president in 2024. Haley made the promise on Tuesday while giving a speech hosted by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List in Arlington, Virginia. “I want to save as many lives…