The activists could spend up to 11 years in prison for conspiring to enact a blockade at a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.
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Most GOP candidates aren’t on board with 15-week federal abortion ban
Just three of the top nine Republican candidates have said they would sign a federal abortion limit sought by a prominent pro-life group.
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Don’t believe the headlines: a Nebraska teen didn’t go to jail for having an abortion
In the year following Dobbs, accurate reporting on any story even remotely tangential to abortion is not to be expected.
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Appeals court restricts access to abortion pill, setting up potential Supreme Court review
The president of the March for Life said in the group “is encouraged by the 5th Circuit’s acknowledgment of the FDA’s reckless decision to lift critical safeguards related to the administration of powerful drugs used in chemical abortion.”
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Ron DeSantis trades barbs with pro-life group over interview comments on abortion
Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida traded barbs with a national pro-life group July 31 over comments he made on enacting abortion policy at the federal level.
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Most voters don’t want unlimited abortion. But they don’t trust their states to set restrictions.
Dobbs did not dictate abortion policy at any level, but in overturning Roe after nearly 50 years, the court ruling did restore the right of states to set their own abortion policies.
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Joe Biden vows to push Congress to codify Roe, while pro-lifers celebrate first anniversary of Dobbs
The Supreme Court “took away a constitutional right from the American people,” Biden, a Catholic who supports legal abortion, said in his statement marking the Dobbs anniversary.
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Adoption, foster care and celebrating birth mothers: The pro-life movement’s post-Roe causes
After Dobbs, the pro-life movement must take the lead in supporting foster and adoptive parents—and in letting birth mothers know there is no stigma in giving a child a new chance at life.
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A pro-life OB/GYN looks back on the end of Roe v. Wade
America spoke with Dr. Bruchalski in May to discuss the future of the pro-life movement after the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
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UK woman jailed for two years for aborting her baby almost a month before due date
A U.K. woman was sentenced to 28 months imprisonment for having an abortion when she was 32-34 weeks pregnant, whose jailing was supported by an English Catholic bishop.