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One of the nation’s most influential medical organizations wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post calling for abortion with no restrictions. 

The advertisement frames Republican presidential candidates as extreme for supporting legislation that would protect unborn babies from abortion.

Several Democrat-run states have no limits on abortion, and Democrats have supported legislation that would allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said during the Republican presidential primary debate that he would “stand of the side of life” if he were elected president, but he did not clearly state whether he would support federal abortion restrictions.

Abortion giant Planned Parenthood has launched its first campaign advertisement of the 2024 presidential election cycle in Wisconsin, ahead of the first Republican primary debate in Milwaukee this week.

Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office is hoping to draw high-skilled workers and companies to the state and away from red states by marketing Michigan’s lax laws around abortion and LGBT+ issues as “freedom.”

A mother filmed herself undergoing the chemical abortion process and posted it to TikTok, Newsweek reported Saturday.

A federal appeals court issued an order on Wednesday halting two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) actions which loosened restrictions around mifepristone, the first pill used in a two-drug chemical abortion regimen.

Pro-abortion groups have begun the push for a ballot measure in Arizona ahead of next year’s election that would enshrine the right to abortion into the state constitution. 

Cassidy rebuked the Biden administration for transforming a bipartisan effort to support pregnant women in the workplace into a rule that would make employers facilitate their employees’ abortions.

With the failure of Issue 1 in the Ohio special election, a youth-oriented pro-life organization is looking to galvanize young voters ahead of the state’s November election, when abortion on demand will be on the ballot.

In the Ohio special election on Tuesday night, Issue 1 — a measure that would have raised the threshold to pass amendments to the state constitution from 50 percent plus one to 60 percent — failed, with media outlets calling the election less than two hours after polls closed.

A federal judge has halted an Illinois law passed last week that targets pro-life pregnancy centers for so-called “deceptive practices” that dissuade women from aborting their unborn babies.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction this week, blocking Idaho from acting if a medical provider refers a woman to abortion services in other states. 

Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced this week that his state is spending more than $23 million on programs for out-of-state abortion seekers.

Abortion clinics in Indiana have stopped ending the lives of unborn babies in anticipation of a pro-life law that is expected to take effect.

A law went into effect in Minnesota on Tuesday that changes abortion reporting laws by no longer requiring abortionists to report when a baby is born alive in an abortion.

A pro-parent, pro-life group launched a $5.5 million ad buy on Tuesday ahead of the August 8 special election in Ohio that will determine how the state Constitution can be altered moving forward. 

Planned Parenthood has paid for six billboard locations throughout Idaho’s Treasure Valley to direct pregnant women to out-of-state abortions, KTVB7 reported. 

Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill on Thursday that would target pro-life pregnancy centers by cracking down on so-called “deceptive practices” that dissuade women from women from aborting their unborn babies.

Health officials in Houston, Texas, are grappling with a syphilis outbreak among the population.

The United Church of Christ, a left-wing denomination of Christianity that often goes against Biblical teachings, announced this week that it passed a resolution titled “Denouncing the Dobbs Decision and Proclaiming Abortion is Healthcare.”

The vandalism of the Ohio pregnancy care center included messages saying, “fund abortion,” “liars,” “fake clinic,” and, “abort God.”

Iowa Republicans passed a bill late Tuesday evening to protect the unborn from abortion once a heartbeat can be detected, which is around six weeks of pregnancy.

Women whose first pregnancies end in abortion are associated with a higher risk and likelihood of mental health issues than women whose pregnancies ended in live births, a peer-reviewed study found.

The state’s Terminated Pregnancy Report found that the number of abortions performed in Indiana increased 13.3 percent from 2021.

Iowa Republicans released a proposal for a fetal heartbeat bill that will be debated and voted on in next week’s special legislative session.

The Maine Legislature passed a bill on Thursday that would allow abortions at any time during pregnancy if deemed “necessary” by a doctor.

A coalition of left-wing groups in Ohio submitted the signatures on Wednesday needed to place an extremely broad, anti-parent abortion amendment on the fall statewide ballot. 

A majority of Americans support the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overruled Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion to individual states, a new Rasmussen Reports poll found.

Maine state Senate Democrats blocked a proposed amendment on Tuesday to a late-term abortion bill that would have placed a four-year moratorium on the trafficking of fetal remains left over from late-term abortions.

During the 2022 midterms, former pro-abortion Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) launched a webpage on the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) website providing information about abortion and encouraging Nevadans to report pro-life crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) if they are “concerned about misleading services.”

Saturday marks one year since the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision — a precedent that enabled abortions of an estimated 64 million unborn babies.

Americans of varying political backgrounds are finding common ground in the abortion debate even though “much of the coverage on the issue of abortion in the year since the Dobbs decision portrays America as deeply divided,” a poll found.

New York state legislators sent a bill to Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk on Tuesday that would legally shield doctors who prescribe abortion pills to women in states that have laws protecting unborn babies.

The Biden White House has a slate of pro-abortion events planned ahead of the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on Saturday — a decision which overruled Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion to individual states.