The activists could spend up to 11 years in prison for conspiring to enact a blockade at a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.

Just three of the top nine Republican candidates have said they would sign a federal abortion limit sought by a prominent pro-life group.

In the year following Dobbs, accurate reporting on any story even remotely tangential to abortion is not to be expected.

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.”

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.

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.