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House Speaker Mike Johnson is planning a rare fourth reconciliation package to defund Planned Parenthood, according to sources, but it is unclear if he can succeed.
The 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunded Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, for one year, but that provision expired on July 4, 2026. Pro-life members pushed for extensions of the defunding provision in both reconciliation 2.0 and 3.0 bills, but both efforts were unsuccessful. The Senate’s process of reconciliation, used for certain budget-related items, bypasses the filibuster, requiring only a simple majority vote for passage instead of the usual 60 votes.
The White House-approved reconciliation 3.0 package includes policy priorities such as Iran war spending and voter ID legislation, but it does not address the millions in funding to Planned Parenthood. ---More...
Virginia’s Abortion Amendment Would Strike Down Statutory Rape Laws
Virginia Democrats have supported a “Reproductive Freedom” constitutional amendment, but critics warn that it would vacate laws against statutory rape, and a lawsuit seeks to invalidate it.
“Virginia’s so-called reproductive freedom amendment goes far beyond the issue of abortion,” Josh Hetzler, executive director of the Founding Freedoms Law Center and an attorney for the nonprofits challenging the amendment, told the Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.
“Among other wild consequences, it will eliminate statutory rape laws for consenting minors, since the amendment provides an unqualified ‘fundamental right to reproductive freedom’ to every ‘individual,’ without any limitation on age,” Hetzler warned. “This is wrong and extremely dangerous for Virginia.” ---More...
Pro-Abortion Group Sells Onesies for Babies Celebrating Abortion Pills
When Donald Trump’s pick to run the Justice Department promised to take action against the dark forces behind the abortion pill explosion, he probably didn’t expect to start anytime soon. That all changed Thursday when Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pulled back the curtain on a sinister underground network trying to pump mifepristone into all 50 states. Plan C, an under-the-radar organization that’s coaching people to break the law, has been a one-stop shop, helping women (and predatory men) get their hands on a drug that seriously hurts almost 11% of the moms who take it. This criminal operation, Hawley demanded, needs to stop.
Although most Americans have never heard of Plan C, the group has been around since 2015, quietly devising ways to bypass the law and, in their words, “normalize[e] the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail.” On their website, they proudly admit, “We envision a near future in which the ability to end a pregnancy is in the hands of the person who seeks it.” Notice that they say “person,” not “woman,” suggesting that they’re quite fine offering their services to men who are looking for a stealthy way to poison or coerce their significant others. ---More...
Massachusetts Bill Would Expand Abortions Up to Birth
A critical decision is happening now at the Massachusetts State House.
The House Committee on Ways and Means is considering H.2370, “An Act prioritizing patient access to care,” and members of the committee are being asked whether they support advancing this bill.
According to sources inside the State House, the committee is preparing to move the bill forward. We need your help to make sure legislators hear from citizens before this happens.
H.2370 would eliminate Massachusetts’ current 24-week limit on abortion and allow abortions later in pregnancy based on the undefined standard of a physician’s “professional judgment.” ---More...
Scurry County, Texas Becomes 24th County in America to Ban Abortion
On Tuesday, July 21st, the Commissioners’ Court of Scurry County, Texas (pop. 16,932) considered an ordinance “Outlawing Abortion Within the Unincorporated Area of Scurry County, Declaring Scurry County a Sanctuary County for the Unborn.” After a presentation from Right to Life Across Texas, the measure was adopted in a unanimous 4-0 vote by County Judge Dan Hicks and Commissioners Terry Williams, Doug Scott, and Shawn McCowen. Commissioner Jeff Mitchell was not in attendance for the vote.
When making the motion to adopt the measure, Commissioner Shawn McCowen stated, “This is a no-brainer. I don’t even know why we are discussing it.” Commissioner Terry Williams, who seconded the motion, agreed. In adopting the measure, Scurry County became the 24th county in the nation and the 22nd county in Texas to pass a Sanctuary County for the Unborn Ordinance. Scurry County follows the Texas counties of Mitchell, Goliad, Cochran, Lubbock, Dawson, Jack, Shackelford, Camp, Shelby, Hopkins, Dickens, Howard, Motley, Crosby, Borden, Hall, Hood, King, Sterling, Lynn, and Collingsworth. Scurry County is the 8th county and the 15th political subdivision to pass such a measure in 2026. ---More...
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