Posts by Melanie Wade

By Matt Mayer, published April 12, 2024, The Federalist With a supermajority Republican trifecta, it is stunning how little Ohio Republicans get done and how often they lose consequential battles. For 15 years, Republicans have controlled Ohio’s legislature, with supermajorities in both the Ohio House and state Senate. For eight years, John Kasich served as…

By Anthony Iafrate, published April 6, 2023, LifeSite News In the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and various states enacting pro-life legislation, the Biden administration has pushed hard to increase the number of abortions being committed throughout the country. As part of that effort, the FDA in January changed its rules to allow chemical…

By David Harsanyi, April 10, 2024, The Federalist Abortion on demand, for any reason, until birth, funded by taxpayers. That’s the modern left’s position on the issue. Democrats are so dug into their extremism that they can’t even support bills that compel “doctors” to keep babies who survive a homicide attempt alive. Perhaps most American voters don’t care enough.…

After abortion attempts, two women now bound by child By Amber Ferguson, originally published April 6, 2024, The Washington Post HOUSTON — It had been nearly a year since Evelyn had seen Olivia in person, and she had grown nervous about a planned reunion. When she finally arrived at the three-story townhouse where a party…

By Kristan Hawkins, originally published April 7, 2024, Townhall.com It’s not exactly Christmas morning, but the sense of anticipation among those who care about the human rights issue of our day is running high. The presumed Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump, told reporters that an announcement about his preferred abortion policy was imminent. Given recent rumor-based…

By Ben Johnson, originally published April 1, 2024, The Washington Stand The Biden administration’s efforts to increase abortion pill “access” primarily benefit the abortion industry, but they will also prove invaluable to one of that industry’s key demographics: abusive husbands and boyfriends. Too little of the feminist movement’s commentary has “centered” their victims: the women…

On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon sits down with Trevor Polo, strategist for Protect Life Michigan (PLM), to discuss the results of a new PLM report on the effectiveness of abortion victim photography, how the pro-life movement should respond to various post-Roe challenges, and more. Polo begins the show by discussing the basic framework of…

By Fatima Gunning, originally published April 2, 2024, LifeInstitute.net A hospital in Prague performed a curettage abortion procedure on the wrong woman due to what is being described as a tragic consequence of a language barrier.  It was reported that on the 25th of March an expectant mother attended Bulovka University Hospital for a routine scan,…

By Jordan Boyd, originally published April 4, 2024, The Federalist Pro-lifers warned that abortion activists would exploit Issue One in Ohio to undo every layer of protection for women and unborn babies, but their cries fell on deaf ears. Now, just four months after Ohioans voted to pass the constitutional amendment declaring “every individual has a…

By Victoria Bergin, originally published March 30, 2024, LiveAction Teen mom Cate Gartner made it through the first round of auditions for American Idol Season 22 with an original song. “The Place That I Call Home” was written for her son Cooper while she was pregnant with him.  In the video of her audition, which aired…