Platform Integrity Project seeks to preserve a pro-life stand in the GOP
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“the initiative encourages the public to encourage and pray for Republican National Committee delegates to preserve the ‘strong pro-life, pro-family and pro-freedom’ elements of the Republican Platform as they meet to draft a new platform in Milwaukee from July 8-9.” - CPost
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PRRI: 36% of ‘pro-choice’ Americans are ‘religiously unaffiliated’
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29% of pro-life Americans are ‘white evangelical protestant.’ - PRRI
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N.C. lawmakers override governor’s veto, enact 12-week abortion ban
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“The measure reduces the ban on nearly all abortions in the state from the current limit of 20 weeks down to 12 weeks. The measure also includes exceptions in cases of rape, incest, fetal anomalies and when a mother’s life is in danger.” - BPNews
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Mississippi Governor Sets the Right Tone on Pro-Life Policy
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“Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has pledged to sign a bill into law that would ensure Medicaid coverage for twelve months of postpartum expenses for the state’s mothers.” - TAC
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Erasing pro-life Christians of color
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“A post-Dobbs narrative breezily associates all anti-abortion activism and policies with racism….Of course, pro-lifers know the truth is precisely the opposite. ” - RNS
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Review - Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing
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“Tearing Us Apart focuses on harm. Indeed, each of the seven chapters is titled some version of ‘Abortion harms X.’ This is a brilliant strategy” - Public Discourse
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Oklahoma governor signs the nation's strictest abortion ban
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“Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.” - C.Index
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Pro-life measures survive in spending bill signed by President Biden
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“The Hyde Amendment and other bans on federal funding of abortion survived months of Democratic attempts to eliminate them and gained enactment in an omnibus spending bill signed by President Biden Tuesday.” - C.Index
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Is Pro-Life only about abortion?
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“We are told that being pro-life requires us to adopt very particular views on contestable issues like environmental, criminal justice, social welfare or immigration policies. This argument often fails at a basic logical level, but worse, it often neuters the moral case against abortion and is used by enemies of the church to prove the church’s purported hypocrisy.” - American Reformer
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