Mark Houck, a Catholic anti-abortion activist who was accused of assaulting a 72-year-old clinic volunteer outside aPlanned Parenthoodin Philadelphia, was acquitted Monday of charges that he instigated the encounter to intimidate the organization’s workers, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The Department of Justicecharged Houk with two countsof violating the Freedom of …
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Jane’s Revenge’s “first communiqué” was posted online on May 8, the same day the empty headquarters of an anti-abortion group, Wisconsin Family Action, were set on fire, and a few days after a draft of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe was leaked publicly. A message was left on the …
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Hugh Brown has just ducked off the showroom floor at the March for Life Expo inside in a downtown D.C. Marriott. The executive vice president of the American Life League has been glad-handing all day — his feet hurt, but he’s upbeat. “It seems very busy,” he says. “It’s good …
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The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine does not have a robust online presence. Its website consists of a generic landing page that appeared in July, a month before the organization was legally incorporated in Amarillo, Texas. There’s no phone number, no email, no physical address, no board of directors listed. A …
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After long claiming that evangelicals would never abandon him, former President Donald Trump is now accusing one of his most prized voting blocs of “disloyalty.” In a Monday interview with Real America’s Voice, Trump called hesitance from evangelical leaders to endorse his campaign a “sign of disloyalty.” “Nobody has ever …
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There are 7,386 state lawmakers in the United States of America. Together, they’re responsible for more discretionary spending each year than the entire federal government. They are also, for the most part, total amateurs: inexperienced part-time elected officials, woefully underpaid and understaffed, vastly outnumbered by armies of lobbyists whose only …
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Texas’ abortion bounty law, SB 8, put an end to virtually all abortions in the state when it took effect in September 2021. Even though it carries no criminal penalties, the threat of expensive and time-consuming civil lawsuits was enough to scare most of the state’s providers into compliance with …
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When it was clear, late on election night, that a majority of Kentucky voters had rejected a measure that would have carved the right to abortion access out of the state’s constitution, Tamarra Wieder, the director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates of Kentucky, headed to a dive bar in Louisville …
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“The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion,” Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the Supreme Court’s majority opinion striking down 50 years of federal protection for abortion earlier this year. The words unleashed chaos across the U.S., casting patients and providers into …
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On Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel ramped up for midterm elections. The host took on former President Donald Trump, Dr. Oz, and Herschel Walker all in the opening monologue. Yet the highlight of the night went to Kimmel’s wife and the show’s co-head writer, Molly McNearney, who literally …
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