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Jun 24 2025

Celebrating Three Years Since Roe’s Historic Reversal

When the United States Supreme Court struck down Roe three years ago today, the horrific 1973 ruling that led to the death of more than 60 million innocent babies, response from the radical left was predictably apoplectic.

“The Ruling Overturning Roe Is an Insult to Women and the Judicial System,” headlined The New York Times Editorial Board.

“By the majority’s reasoning, the right to terminate a pregnancy is not ‘deeply rooted’ in the history and tradition of the United States — a country whose Constitution was written by a small band of wealthy white men, many of whom owned slaves and most, if not all, of whom considered women to be second-class citizens without any say in politics,” wrote the radicals at the Old Grey Lady.

Never mind that The New York Times Editorial Board consists of a small band of elite journalists, the vast majority of whom are white.

And not surprisingly, neither the word “baby” nor “child” was even mentioned in the screed. That’s because radical abortion activists don’t want to talk about the life of the helpless and vulnerable preborn.

Exactly three years since Roe’s reversal, the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans regarding the sanctity of life rages on.

Abortion remains broadly legal in 31 states, soon to be 32 with Montana as of July 1st.  Near total bans exist in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.

Gestational limits are on the books in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Since Roe’s reversal, radicals have pushed to enshrine a “right” to abortion in numerous state constitutions through ballot initiatives. Buoyed by hundreds of millions of corporate dollars and celebrity cheerleaders, their efforts have been largely successful. This past November, after a string of pro-life losses, voters in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota finally beat back the death squad and defeated pro-abortion initiatives.

The exponential rise in chemical abortions has proven to be a sobering and challenging reality for champions of life. So-called “telehealth abortions” are now outpacing surgical ones. Women are receiving dangerous medications in the mail and often taking them without any doctor oversight. Not only are they killing their preborn child, but they’re also putting themselves at grave risk. Complications from use of the abortion pill are real and rising.

A recent study confirms what many have been warning about for years. The abortion pill doesn’t just take the life of innocent preborn babies but also injures and puts mothers’ lives in jeopardy.

“The Abortion Pill Harms Women,” the largest ever examination of its kind, found that nearly 11% of all women who abort their child with mifepristone suffer from life-threatening conditions, including sepsis, infection or hemorrhaging.

Efforts to educate on abortion pill reversal medication are gaining steam. Big tech has tried to block online advertising. Other abortion advocates have called it junk science.

But on this 3rd anniversary of Roe’s demise, we should be encouraged that those years of effort to right such an evil wrong proved successful. It’s a testimony to faith, perseverance and endurance. It’s an illustration of Solomon’s observation: “When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers” (Proverbs 21:15).

It’s a general rule that when the abortion industry protests, innocent life wins.

By some estimates, upwards of 125,000 babies or more who otherwise would have been aborted had Roe not been overturned are alive today. Those are smiles and giggles, hopes and dreams, creativity and possibility that are blessing this world because the Supreme Court finally recognized that our Constitution does not contain a right to abortion.

The battle to protect every life under law continues – but we pause on this important day to give thanks, celebrate, and recommit ourselves to the work left to do.

Written by Paul Batura · Categorized: Life · Tagged: dobbs, pro life, roe

Jun 05 2025

Cruz, Smith Push Congress to Make June ‘Life Month’

Senator Ted Cruz (TX) and Congressman Chris Smith (NJ) introduced a Congressional resolution this week to make June “Life Month.”

The “Life Month Resolution” (H.J. Res. 98) would commemorate the fall of Roe v. Wade, which the Supreme Court overturned on June 24, 2022; honor those fighting to protect preborn babies; and reaffirm America’s commitment to defend life, Cruz and Smith explain.

 “Life is not an accident, and it’s not a coincidence,” Cruz addressed the Senate during the resolution’s introduction Thursday. “It’s a joy and a blessing from God, the foundation of every other right we hold dear.”

In an announcement released Tuesday, Smith expounded, “This resolution affirms that the cruel injustice of abortion need not be forever; Instead, we must defend the [pre]born and show love and compassion to both mother and child through meaningful assistance and support.”

H.J. Res. 98 calls for the creation of June “Life Month” in light of the following facts:

  • Every human life is equally valuable and protected under the law.
  • America’s founding documents explicitly affirm the equality of all people and their inalienable right to life.
  • American citizens and their representatives are responsible for protecting the rights of vulnerable people, including preborn babies.
  • The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade restored citizens and elected leaders’ rightful ability to protect preborn life.
  • “Faith-based and community organizations, pregnancy resource centers, medical professionals and countless families across the United States” play essential roles in creating a culture of life.

In his remarks on the Senate floor, Cruz highlighted Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision that reversed Roe, as an important inflection point in America’s journey back to its founding, life-affirming values.

“[Roe] was a flawed decision that, for nearly fifty years, enshrined one of the most disturbing notions in our Constitutional history – that the Constitution somehow protects the right to end the life of an [pre]born child,” Cruz summarized.

He continued, “The fact is Roe had nothing to do with the Constitution. … It was the product of judicial activism. That dangerous path took decades to correct.”

Three years later, H.J. Res. 98 not only calls for the symbolic designation of “Life Month,” but for senators and representatives to:

  • “Recognize that every human life is a sacred gift from God, possessing inherent dignity and worth.
  • “Reaffirm the fundamental truth recognized in the Declaration of Independence that life is an unalienable right.
  • “Commend individuals, parents, families, faith-based organizations and communities who work to promote a culture of life.
  • “Urge policymakers to defend the sanctity of human life by enacting laws that protect the unborn and provide resources to empower women and families to choose life.”

The resolution’s language might anger leaders who characterize abortion as “health care,” or a “reproductive right.” But the goal isn’t to indulge the rhetorical games of a radical few. It’s to reaffirm America’s commitment to human dignity and reorient the government toward building a culture of life.

“Let June be the month that we reconnect with the American ideal that every single life has dignity,” Cruz exhorted. “That we are a nation, not of death, but of life — a nation that chooses life.”

Congress isn’t known for its strong stance on protecting life. But cultural renewal starts small.

Focus on the Family and myriad pro-life allies pray Congress will choose life by making June “Life Month.”

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Written by Emily Washburn · Categorized: Life · Tagged: Life, pro life

May 16 2025

RFK Jr. Announces ‘Complete Review’ of Abortion Pill After ‘Alarming’ New Study Reveals Dangers

The Food and Drug Administration will perform a ‘complete review’ of the abortion medication mifepristone, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday in a Senate health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing.

RFK Jr.’s announcement was in response to a line of questioning by Senator Josh Hawley.

Hawley asked the secretary if he was aware of the recently released study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center investigating the over 865,000 mifepristone chemical abortions between 2017 and 2023.

The study revealed that nearly 11% of women who take the pill experience very serious adverse effects including sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection, and emergency room visits.

The rate is 22 times higher than the FDA’s current label, which suggests the rate of adverse effects is only 0.5%.

Secretary Kennedy confirmed that he had seen the study and acknowledged the data was “alarming” and that, at the very least, the label should be updated to reflect its true danger to women.

He then explained he has instructed the director of the FDA to do a “complete review” of the chemical abortion pill and report back to him with the findings.

Secretary Kennedy confirmed the review is a top priority, but didn’t have a deadline for when the work will be finished.

Senator Hawley also asked whether long-standing safety protocols, which were previously required when dispensing mifepristone (like doctor visits, in-person dispensing and screening for ectopic pregnancies), would be reinstated.

Secretary Kennedy clarified that HHS would make recommendations based on the data, but the ultimate decision would come from the White House.

According to Hawley, the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s study on mifepristone is the largest study ever performed on the abortion drug.

President of Focus on the Family, Jim Daly, called the results of the study “chilling” and lamented the abortion industry’s apparent lack of concern about the babies or the women they harm.

For more than half-a-century, the radical abortion industry has been diminishing and discounting the health risks to unsuspecting women whenever preborn life is taken. All those who claim to be advocates for women should be alarmed and convicted by this new research.
We know the abortion kills the girl or boy on the inside, and now research makes clear it also harms the woman on the outside.

A coalition of organizations in the pro-life community have issued a letter asking Secretary Kennedy to reinstate safety protections for women who are prescribed the abortion pill.

The Daily Citizen will continue to update you on this developing story.

Written by Nicole Hunt · Categorized: Life · Tagged: Life, pro life, pro-life

May 16 2025

Arkansas Allocates $2 Million to Pregnancy Help Organizations

Arkansas pro-life lawmakers allocated $2 million worth of grants to pregnancy help organizations in their appropriations process this legislative cycle.

The measure, H.B. 1202, was approved by Arkansas’s Joint Budget Committee, signed by the governor, and is now Act 1006.

The law describes a pregnancy help organization as an entity that “seeks to provide a range of services to individuals facing an unintended pregnancy to encourage pregnant women to give birth to their unborn children.”

The measure seeks to fund organizations that promote infant and maternal wellness through counseling, medical care options, social, emotional and/or material support and assistance with nutritional support.

The law also clearly prohibits any grants going to organizations that “perform, prescribe, provide referral for or encourage abortion.”

Arkansas’ Family Council praised the allocation of $2 million in grant money to pregnancy help organizations, reflecting, “We need to work to make abortion irrelevant and unthinkable as well. Supporting pregnancy resource centers is one way we can do that.”

The new grant allocations will be available to pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, adoption agencies and entities that help provide material support to pregnant women.

According to Arkansas Right to Life, the state has over 50 pregnancy resource centers.

In Arkansas, preborn human life is protected from the moment of conception.

Last November, Arkansas beat back an effort to amend its state constitution to include the so-called right to abortion.

For the fifth year in a row, Arkansas was named the “most pro-life state” in the nation by Americans United for Life. States are ranked according to their policies, including “abortion law, legal recognition of preborn children, bioethics, assisted suicide and end-of-life patient care, and healthcare rights of conscience.”

Click here to see some of the significant policies Arkansas is advancing to promote life-affirming policies in the state.

As reported by the Daily Citizen, there are approximately 2,750 pregnancy resource centers nationwide providing nearly $368 million in free services to clients every year.

The Choose Life Coalition tracks available grant money and tax credits for pregnancy help organizations at the state level. According to their website, 19 states now have funding opportunities available.

Written by Nicole Hunt · Categorized: Life · Tagged: Life, pro life, pro-life

May 15 2025

America Needs Convictional Pro-Life Politicians

There’s a full court press on in Washington, D.C. to strip language calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood from the anticipated reconciliation bill.

According to a House Memorandum, Section 44126 “prohibits Medicaid funds to be paid to providers that are nonprofit organizations, that are essential community providers that are primarily engaged in family planning services or reproductive services, provide for abortions other than for Hyde Amendment exceptions, and which received $1,000,000 or more (to either the provider or the provider’s affiliates) in payments from Medicaid payments in 2024.”

This move to defund abortion giants like Planned Parenthood is long overdue – and causing some representatives to second guess their commitment to get the government out of the business of taking pre-born children’s lives.

 “Should pro-life taxpayers be made to pay taxes used for abortion?” asked Focus on the Family president Jim Daly. “Of course not. The greatness of a nation is measured by many things, but especially by how it treats the vulnerable and defenseless. The use of taxpayer money to support the unfettered killing of innocent life is a tragedy beyond qualification.”

That certain politicians might go wobbly on such a foundational issue might be unsettling, but also an all too familiar consequence of elections and poor judgement.

Noah Webster, who was born just prior to the American Revolution, once warned:

[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

As George Washington was preparing to retire to his beloved Mount Vernon, the nation’s first stated in his famed Farewell Address:

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

In other words, unprincipled men (and women) are likely to use taxpayer funds for unscrupulous causes – especially if the people behind those endeavors are bankrolling their reelection efforts.

Our country is in desperate need of representatives who will support the right things regardless of their electoral implications. We need pro-life individuals with conviction who are willing to surrender their seat in exchange for saving and protecting innocent preborn babies.

Organizations like Planned Parenthood don’t deserve one penny of our hard-earned money. Instead, they should be called to account for the millions of innocent lives they have coldly snuffed out over the last decades.

Please call or email your Representative and politely but pointedly ask them to support the inclusion of Section 44126 of the Reconciliation bill that calls for the banning of taxpayer funds for abortion.  

Photo Credit: Columbia Pictures

Written by Paul Batura · Categorized: Life · Tagged: planned parenthood, pro life

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