Politics

By Chris Woodward, OneNewsNow - Self-described "progressives" often use the terms mentioned in the same sentence, but a GOP congressman – and many others – says "abortion" is not "health care."… Yesterday, Representative Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) introduced the Abortion Is Not Health Care Act, which would end the Internal Revenue Service's treatment of out-of-pocket abortion costs as a medical expense… "Most people don't realize that you can claim an abortion as an out-of-pocket medical expense under the IRS code and get a deduction for that"…

By Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY - "We're clearly in the throes of major social change with regard to women getting married and choosing to have children," Donna Strobino, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told NBC News. "There's no question that part of the explanation for that is economic. It's very expensive to raise children these days. And in part it’s social – all the changes in women’s roles."

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - Pennsylvania Democrats apparently will not take any action against state Rep. Brian Sims after he bullied pro-lifers in his district, including an older woman and three young teenage girls… Rep. Brian Sims’ actions reflect the worst in how people should behave and treat one another in a civil society,” Pennsylvania Republican leaders said in a statement Wednesday. “We expect him to accept full responsibility for his egregious and unacceptable behavior and to pledge that he will meet the high standards that the people of Pennsylvania have for their elected officials.”

By Michael Brown, The Stream - A civil war is coming to America. Only this time it will be abortion, rather than slavery, that divides the nation. And while I hope with all my heart that it will not be a physically violent war, the ideological conflict will certainly be intense… We witnessed some of this during the hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, when the opposition to his confirmation was fierce to the point of screaming and pounding at the Senate’s doors… This brought to my mind the famous line, “Hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned”…