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April 19, 2024

Poll Shows More Americans Side With Trump on Abortion Than Biden, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - A new poll shows more Americans side with former President Donald Trump than with Joe Biden on who should decide abortion law... In recent comments, Trump indicated he thought states should decide the issue of abortion law and whether to protect babies from abortion. Biden,on the other hand, wants Congress to pass a law re-implementing Roe v. Wade and allowing abortions up to birth... But a new Newsweek poll shows more Americans believe abortion restrictions should be decided by states rather than the federal government.

April 19, 2024

Louisiana Senate Unanimously Passes Bill to Stop Coerced Abortion Via Deceptive Use of Pills, by Calvin Freiburger

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSite News - The Louisiana Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday to criminalize giving a pregnant woman abortion-inducing drugs without her knowledge or consent, motivated by the personal ordeal of the lead sponsor’s own sister... Abortion is generally illegal in the Bayou State, but SB 276 would establish the additional crime of “coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud,” defined as “knowingly and intentionally engag(ing) in the use or attempted use of an abortion-inducing drug on a pregnant woman, without her knowledge or consent, to cause an abortion.”

April 19, 2024

Opinion: Just Like Democrats And Joe Biden, Mike Johnson Supports An Open Southern Border, by Eddie Scarry

By Eddie Scarry, The Federalist - House Speaker Mike Johnson supported shutting down the Southern border until it got in the way of his real priorities: sending money abroad. There’s a very simple logic to the Democrat position on Ukraine: Its continued welfare sponsored by American taxpayers is very important, but it’s not more important than maintaining an open Southern border for the world’s criminal and destitute to flood the nation (again, sponsored by American taxpayers). ....

April 19, 2024

Bill Maher: The Prophet We Need? by Lauren De Witt

By Lauren De Witt, Crisis Magazine - Bill Maher, of all people, exposed the lie behind the Republicans' supposed opposition to abortion... HBO’s Real Time host and longtime leftist Bill Maher made headlines this past weekend when he chastised Republicans’ ever-shifting stance on abortion in a panel discussion on the Arizona Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling upholding a near-total abortion ban. The Arizona Court took up the case in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which Republicans, including former President Trump, rightly take credit for.