By Dave Andrusko Earlier today, NRLC issued a blistering critique of the Democrat-controlled House’s 234-193 vote in support of H.R. 1. We are only two months into the new Congress, and H.R. 1 may have already won the “Euphemism-of-the-Year” award for the bill’s...
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There is So Much Wrong with This “Right”
By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation We as Americans take our rights very seriously. The right to free speech. The right to freedom of religion. The right to peaceable assembly. But there is so much wrong with the so-called...

Major Supreme Court Victory
By Katie Franklin Editor’s note. My family and I will be on our vacation through September 7. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked. In a 5-4 win, the...

Federal Judge rejects New York Attorney General’s Ballyhooed Attempt To Silence Pro-Life Sidewalk Counselors
ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that it has won a significant legal battle on behalf of Christian pro-life sidewalk counselors sued in a New York federal district...
After Supreme Court Decisions, NYT Lead Story Questions Value of ‘Weaponized’ Free Speech
By Clay Waters A few Supreme Court cases just failed to go the left’s way, and now they are trashing the First Amendment they once supposedly revered. New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak gave the reversal his seal of approval in a long lead story for...
UK judge upholds ban on pro-life witness at London abortion center
By Dorothy Cummings McLean LONDON, July 2, 2018 — An English High Court judge has upheld a ban on pro-lifers’ freedom of speech outside a London abortion business even while acknowledging that it violates their “human rights.” Today a judge dismissed Alina Dulgheriu’s...
Supreme Court will not hear appeal in another case of infringing upon pregnancy help centers’ first amendment rights
By Dave Andrusko When last we wrote about the ham-handed campaign waged by the city of Baltimore against the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, the city attorneys were down (pardon the expression) to a Hail Mary pass. They were appealing to the Supreme...

Supreme Court’s NIFLA v. Becerra’s Boost to Medical Conscience
By Wesley J. Smith Justice Thomas can be counted upon to write erudite and narrowly crafted, to-the-point decisions. Such was the case in NIFLA v. Becerra, the ruling upholding the free-speech rights of crisis-pregnancy centers against attack by the State of...
CBS, NBC Ignore SCOTUS Decision on Abortion and Free Speech
By Katie Yoder Two of the three broadcast networks ignored a recent Supreme Court decision on abortion where justices sided with the pro-life movement. Compare that to 2016, when all three covered a Supreme Court decision – but justices sided with abortion supporters...
Supreme Court rejects California law targeting pregnancy resource centers
Court rules in NIFLA v. Becerra that the law "imposes a government-scripted, speaker-based disclosure requirement" WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, applauded...