Abortion Policy, Law & Politics

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Gloria Steinem, the CIA, and the plot to destroy the family

Gloria Steinem, the iconic feminist and abortion-rights activist, worked for the CIA from 1958 to 1962, through the Independent Research Service, largely financed by the agency. She defended the CIA as “liberal, nonviolent and honorable.” But the question is unavoidable: How does her later role as a leader of the sexual revolution and abortion-rights movement fit with the agency’s Cold War mission? John-Henry Westen traces Steinem’s personal and political history, her 1957 abortion, her involvement with the radical feminist group Redstockings, and her eventual emergence as a prominent advocate

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Healing After Abortions: Demica Paige’s Powerful Testimony

Pro-Life Radio is a pre-recorded program paid for by Pro-Life Radio—preserving the sanctity of life in Florida and serving as a loud voice for the unborn. This is Pro-Life Radio with your hosts, Vicky and Bruce Cherry. Bruce: Welcome to another edition of Pro-Life Radio on a Sunday night, coming to you from the John… The post Healing After Abortions: Demica Paige’s Powerful Testimony first appeared on Prolife Radio .

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Scott Stacey|Pro-Life Radio|

How Many Abortions Are Occurring in America Post-Dobbs? A September 2026 Update

Mia Steupert compares national post-Dobbs abortion estimates from different data sources. The report discusses how interstate travel, mail-order medication, and changing state laws complicate estimates of abortion incidence.

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INSANITY: SUNY Purchase Uses Taxpayer Dollars for ‘Reproductive Justice Garden’ with Abortion-Inducing Plants

Yes, you read the headline right. State University of New York Purchase is under fire for using taxpayer dollars to build a “Reproductive Justice Garden” cultivated to grow plants that induce abortions. The public university showed off its garden on Instagram, picturing various poisonous plants, such as cohosh and wormwood — all plants that kill preborn children in the womb. This grotesque display is hosted by a “collaborative, research-focused art project” ... Read More The post INSANITY: SUNY Purchase Uses Taxpayer Dollars for ‘Reproductive Justice Garden’ with Abortion-Inducing Plants appea

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Belfast stands for life, opposing proposed City Hall lights celebrating abortion

Bernadette Smyth speaking at the Rosary Vigil for Life in front of the City Hall. Photo: Martina Purdy. " data-medium-file="https://www.irishcatholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/3.01-300x234.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.irishcatholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/3.01-1024x798.jpg" /> The pro-life cause unites all Christians, Bernadette Smyth, Chairwoman of Precious Life, told The Irish Catholic following a Rosary Vigil for Life in front of Belfast City Hall on August 30, when hundreds gathered in prayer in response to Belfast City Council’s plans to illuminate the City Hall in celebr

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Belfast City Hall shouldn’t be a billboard for abortion

Franciscan priest, Fr Antonio, from the Franciscans of the Renewal community in Derry, at the Rosary Vigil for Life on Sunday. Photo: Martina Purdy. " data-medium-file="https://www.irishcatholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/6.01-300x227.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.irishcatholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/6.01-1024x776.jpg" /> Abortion is a ‘David and Goliath’ fight - and we all know how that turned out. But securing the right to life for unborn children is going to be a long battle before victory is won. While David had five stones, we Catholics have five decades on our rosaries -

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The Dáil is returning – and so is the battle over the Three-Day Wait

Photo: Houses of the Oireachtas. " data-medium-file="https://www.irishcatholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/10_01-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.irishcatholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/10_01-1024x683.jpg" /> Women are finding their voices about how appallingly they have been failed under the current abortion regime. Their stories are far too serious for the Government to gloss over, writes Eilís Mulroy When the Dáil returns after the summer recess, one of the most consequential political battles of recent times will resume. The attempt… The post The Dáil is returning –

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With Pro-Abortion Speech Law, New Jersey’s War on Women Continues

New Jersey Governor Mike Sherrill signed a bill on Aug. 20 that many fear will be used to undermine the First Amendment and prohibit Americans from praying outside abortion facilities. According to the Catholic News Agency, the bill will implement a sort of “bubble” zone around reproducti... The post With Pro-Abortion Speech Law, New Jersey’s War on Women Continues appeared first on The Human Life Review .

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National Right to Life Endorses Senator Jon Husted for Election to the U.S. Senate

National Right to Life announces its endorsement of Jon Husted for the Ohio Senate election. The organization cites his voting record and support for abortion restrictions and other policies it considers protective of vulnerable human life.

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'Without guardrails': Abortion pill manufacturer refuses to disclose revenue

A Senate inquiry investigated abortion-pill manufacturers and the financial information they provided or withheld. The limited disclosure of revenue by these manufacturers complicates efforts to scrutinize the industry's incentives and accountability.

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Three Years After Issue 1, Ohio Is Seeing What “Abortion Access” Actually Means

We constantly hear that abortion should be “between a woman and her doctor.” Yet here, fewer and faster encounters with patients and greater clinic throughput are described as progress. Does that sound like a trusted doctor-patient relationship or more like an assembly line? The post Three Years After Issue 1, Ohio Is Seeing What “Abortion Access” Actually Means appeared first on Ohio Right to Life .

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