Governor Ron Desantis has tapped former state Senator Jay Collins to fill the slot vacated by former Lt. Governor Jeanette Nunez who was selected to be the President of Florida International University. Desantis called the Collins “the Chuck Norris of Florida Politics.”
Desantis made his announcement in Tampa on Tuesday.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has opened an investigation into recent accusations that two Fairfax County public school employees arranged and funded abortions for two teenage girls without parental consent.
The Republican governor announced on August 13 that he had directed the Virginia State Police to launch a criminal investigation into accusations that Centreville High School social worker, Carolina Diaz, with the full backing of principal Chad Lehman, had scheduled appointments and paid for two minors to abort their unborn children without so much as calling their parents.
According to statistics from Planned Parenthood’s own annual report, 96.9% of pregnant people who came to its facilities had abortions. They provided support with a miscarriage only 0.9% of the time.
Planned Parenthood committed 187 abortions for every one adoption referral. They gave prenatal care to only 1.7% of pregnant people at their facilities—and that number has been dropping every year. Services for prenatal care are down 63% since 2013.
So, the vast majority of pregnant people who go to Planned Parenthood wind up getting abortions. How many of them decided on abortion before going to Planned Parenthood, and how many came in undecided and were talked into an abortion by employees, is impossible to know.
(LifeSiteNews) — The vast majority of the so-called “telehealth” abortion business assists residents of pro-life states break laws protecting preborn babies from abortion, according to a new paper.
Medpage Todayreports that the study, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), examines data from 118,338 chemical abortion pill packs dispensed over a 15-month span (the beginning of July 2023 to the end of September 2024) by the pro-abortion group Aid Access (whose founder Rebecca Gomperts was one of the study’s co-authors).
It found that 84 percent of those packs were sent to states that do not allow abortion pills to be prescribed without seeing a doctor in-person.
The Justice Department on Tuesday accused George Washington University of showing “deliberate indifference” toward antisemitism and harassment of Jewish, American Israeli, and Israeli students and faculty, in violation of federal civil rights law.
In a notice of findings sent to GWU President Ellen Granberg, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said the university failed to take meaningful action despite receiving multiple complaints about antisemitic incidents in spring 2024, when pro-Palestinian protesters descended on campus. Some protesters were seen in videos threatening and harassing Jewish students. Investigators concluded the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination by recipients of federal funding.
As Planned Parenthood shutters brick-and-mortar facilities, it is driving clients to its new online services business model which increasingly relies upon telehealth – including the mailing of abortion pills. Its “Virtual Health Centers (VHCs)” are popping up across the country as part of a larger restructuring plan put in place years ago.
Key takeaways
In 2020, Planned Parenthood began offering telehealth services at all of its affiliates (49 at the time).
The pressure to remain financially solvent has driven Planned Parenthood to create and expand its Virtual Health Clinics as well.
Though multiple affiliates have announced the closures of brick-and-mortar facilities, many of those affiliates have also announced the expansion of their telehealth offerings and launch of Virtual Health Clinics.
TORONTO, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A petition submitted to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow demands an end to taxpayer funding of “pride” events.
Earlier this month, Gregory Tomchyshyn, Canadian Campaigns Director for Citizen Go, dropped off a petition to Chow calling for her government to end its lavish spending of taxpayer dollars on LGBT events, including the “Toronto Pride” parade.
“Mayor Olivia Chow and Toronto City Council just handed $350,000 in taxpayer money to Pride Toronto, despite the event’s history of public nudity and indecent displays in full view of families and children,” the petition read.
REGINA, Saskatchewan (LifeSiteNews) — Saskatchewan courts are allowing an appeal against the province’s pro-family laws protecting children from LGBT ideology in schools.
In an August 11 decision, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled 4-1 to allow an appeal by LGBT activists against Saskatchewan’s “Parents’ Bill of Rights” to proceed through the court system but it has not blocked the law from taking effect.
“It is the government’s position that parents do have a right to be involved in their children’s education, the classes they choose, the decisions that they’re making,” Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe told reporters after the decision was announced.
In a recent study, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin examined data from Aid Access. This self-identifying “non-profit” telehealth abortion service ships Mifepristone and misoprostol to women in all 50 states. The authors of the study claimed that telemedicine has become a crucial access point for lower-income pregnant women seeking abortions.
Oh, the ignorance of the highly educated.
The study’s glowing headline attempts to frame telehealth abortion as a lifeline for the poor. But when you pull back the curtain, you find a system that offloads risk onto women, shields abortionists from accountability, and leaves some of the most vulnerable in our society alone in pain, sometimes delivering fully formed babies into toilets.
After Roe v. Wade was mercifully overturned in 2022, Aid Access saw usage of its services spike in states with strong pro-life protections. The study found that telehealth abortions were more than twice as high in these states. Why? Abortion providers are skirting protective pro-life laws by mailing pills into states where unfettered abortion is no longer the law of the land.
The latest episode of HBO Max’s hit series Hard Knocks featured a powerful segment on a Buffalo Bills player’s Christian faith.
The moment came during this season’s second episode, which aired on the aforementioned streaming service Tuesday night. The episode featured profiles on several prominent Bills players, including safety Damar Hamlin.
Most Americans are likely familiar with Hamlin from Buffalo’s January 2023 matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals, during which he had to be driven off the field in an ambulance after abruptly going into cardiac arrest. The University of Pittsburgh alum appears to have made a full recovery in the years since, and returned to the Bills’ lineup as a regular starter in 2024.
While the Hard Knocks segment on Hamlin mentions his freak accident and charitable advocacy for CPR training, the more significant part of the profile is the focus on his Christian faith.
President Donald Trump spent the last few months of his 2024 campaign promising to force taxpayers to foot the bill for a procedure that routinely destroys human life. His plans to pave the way for Americans to make “more babies” by subsidizing in vitro fertilization, however, are allegedly on hold.
The Washington Post reported that as of Sunday, Trump’s White House is allegedly “backing away from proposals discussed internally to mandate IVF coverage for the roughly 50 million people on the Obamacare exchanges.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told WaPo that Trump “pledged to expand access to fertility treatments for Americans who are struggling to start families” and is still “committed like none before it to using its authorities to deliver on this pledge.” As of now, however, that goal reportedly does not include taxpayer-funded IVF.
WaPo’s chief economics reporter Jeff Stein painted the decision as “another apparent L from this admin for the conservative natalists.”
Lebanese journalist Khoder Taleb, publisher of the Jareeda website, and former advisor to the Lebanese Prime Minister discussed talk of a peace agreement with Israel during a July 24, 2025 broadcast on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah–Lebanon). He asked what kind of peace can be made with “criminals” and “child killers.” Taleb said that the current situation is worse than the Nazi Holocaust in Germany, adding: “I wish the Nazis would have burned all those Jews.” He cited a hadith describing Muslims fighting Jews on Judgment Day and said that Jerusalem and Palestine will be liberated. Also appearing on the broadcast was British-Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan.
Khoder Taleb: “What peace are we talking about? Peace with criminals? Peace with killers? With child killers? I say this for history’s sake, this is worse than the Nazi Holocaust in Germany. I say this on live TV: I wish the Nazis would have burned all those Jews.
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“On [Judgement] Day, the trees and the rocks will say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ This is what we believe in. This is our historical imperative, as Muslims at least. Jerusalem will be liberated. Palestine will be liberated. If not today, then tomorrow. That’s fine, but we must not surrender.”
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, declared: “We now overrule those decisions [Roe and Casey] and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.” Following the Dobbs ruling, several Republicans — including President Trump — said abortion was now in the hands of the states. “The states will determine … whatever they decide must be the law of the state,” Trump insisted.
While I disagree with the notion that abortion should be regulated solely at the state level, the reality is that most pro-life protections have historically been advanced at the state level. During my time in the Louisiana legislature, I authored and passed numerous laws defending the sanctity of life.
Since Dobbs, 41 states have acted to protect the unborn in some form. Twelve now have comprehensive protections beginning at conception, while 28 have established gestational limits.
Yet, despite this, abortion hasn’t decreased. In fact, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, abortions have increased more than 10% since Dobbs, rising from roughly 930,000 to over one million annually — more than 2,800 abortions each day.
ROME — ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday urged more than a million Catholic youths to “spread your enthusiasm and the witness of your faith” when they return home to some 150 countries, during a Mass closing a weeklong encounter with the next generation of faithful.
“Aspire to great things, to holiness, wherever you are,’’ Leo urged the young faithful. “Do not settle for less. You will then see the light of the Gospel growing every day, in you and around you.”
The young people camped out in sprawling fields southeast of Rome overnight after attending a vigil service for the Jubilee of Youth on Saturday, also presided by Leo who has been ferried to and from Vatican City by helicopter.
The Vatican said more than 1 million young people were present, along with 7,000 priests and 450 bishops.
The special Jubilee celebration is part of the Holy Year that is expected to draw 32 million people to the Vatican for the centuries-old pilgrimage to the seat of Catholicism.
The week has been a joyous gathering marked by bands of youths singing hymns as they move down cobblestoned streets, praying rosaries in piazzas and standing for hours at the Circus Maximus to confess their sins to priests offering the sacrament in a dozen languages.
Arguably, the most alarming consequence that comes from the increasingly popular practice of renting wombs, however, is that surrogacy can be easily exploited by pedophiles and abusers to gain proximity to children.
One such example surfaced this week after internet sleuths discovered that one of the two men seen in a viral video celebrating a baby’s monthly milestones by kissing the boy’s face is a convicted pedophile.
Less than 10 years before Brandon Mitchell bought his son via surrogacy, the then-high school chemistry teacher earned himself several criminal charges for attempting to solicit images from a male teenage student. Subsequent investigation by law enforcement yielded more than 12,000 texts between the teacher and child as well as several pieces of sexually explicit media.
(LifeSiteNews) — Catholic and Orthodox bishops and other heads of churches in the Holy Land issued a statement charging Israeli authorities with facilitating repeated Israeli settler terrorist attacks upon Christians and other Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
After a second assault upon the Christian town of Taybeh in as many weeks on Monday, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem (PHCJ) issued a statement decrying the “prevailing climate of impunity” for such crimes of aggression by Israeli settlers backed by Israeli authorities who fail to hold these terrorists accountable.
The prelates, including Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, expressed their “unwavering condemnation following yet another violent assault” against the Christians in this town. “Several vehicles were set ablaze, and hateful graffiti was sprayed — an unambiguous act of intimidation directed at a peaceful and faithful community rooted in the land of Christ.”
Former physician assistant student is suing college, alleging discrimination and breach of contract
A former student is suing Springfield College for $500,000, alleging the school violated her civil rights and discriminated against her religious beliefs after she was required to observe an abortion procedure.
Alina Thopurathu, an Indian-American Catholic who was studying to be a physician assistant, claims the institution also breached its contract with her when she was kicked out of the program, according to a copy of the lawsuit, obtained by The College Fix.
After expressing concerns about the abortion, she alleges the private Massachusetts college began “sabotaging her stellar academic record,” which ultimately led to her being dismissed.
Her situation was met with support from a national pro-life organization, Students for Life of America.
“The Hippocratic Oath ensures that doctors or those studying to be physicians are guided by the principle- ‘First, do no harm.’ Putting a baby to death violates that oath and violates Life,” spokesperson Michael Allers told The College Fix in a recent email.
Largest Teachers’ Union in United States Erases Jews From the Holocaust
The nation’s largest teachers’ union plans to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not mention Jews, according to its 2025 handbook, which references “victims of the Holocaust from different faiths” and teaches that Israel was founded through “forced, violent displacement and dispossession,” its most recent guide for members shows.
The National Education Association, which represents nearly three million public school teachers and education workers, outlined the priorities in its 2025 handbook. The NEA publishes the document each year as a guide on the group’s priorities and strategic goals for the association’s national and state leaders, staff, and members. It includes the NEA’s bylaws and is updated with any new resolutions and policy positions the union has endorsed.
The news comes amid a surge in both anti-Semitism and anti-Israel extremism at public schools and within teachers’ unions themselves. The NEA Representative Assembly—the union’s parliamentary body—passed a resolution to boycott the Anti-Defamation League’s Holocaust education materials earlier this month, a vote the union’s leadership rejected.
Forty Baptist leaders representing 22 states this week delivered a letter to President Trump urging his immediate action to stop the mail-order distribution of the abortion drug mifepristone, which now accounts for more than 60 percent of all U.S. abortions.
The letter outlines how a federal policy–carried over from the Biden administration–continues to allow abortion drugs to be dispensed without an in-person consultation with a doctor or medical professional, placing the health and safety of women at serious risk. It also notes that these drugs are being distributed by mail in violation of the Comstock Act, even into states that have enacted pro-life laws following the historic Dobbs decision. Despite these state laws, the continuation of this federal policy under the Trump administration is effectively nullifying the pro-life laws of these states.
A former student is suing Springfield College for $500,000, alleging the school violated her civil rights and discriminated against her religious beliefs after she was required to observe an abortion procedure.
Alina Thopurathu, an Indian-American Catholic who was studying to be a physician assistant, claims the institution also breached its contract with her when she was kicked out of the program, according to a copy of the lawsuit, obtained by The College Fix.
After expressing concerns about the abortion, she alleges the private Massachusetts college began “sabotaging her stellar academic record,” which ultimately led to her being dismissed.
Her situation was met with support from a national pro-life organization, Students for Life of America.
(LifeSiteNews) — A newly published secular study found that Vatican II “triggered a decline” in worldwide Catholic Mass attendance relative to religious service attendance of other religions, including Protestant Christianity.
By examining the religious service attendance rates for 66 countries as far back as 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that “compared to other countries, Catholic countries experienced a steady decline in the monthly adult religious service attendance rate starting immediately after Vatican II” in 1965, the final year of the council.
Catholic countries were defined as those with a Catholic population of 50% or greater and included nations such as Ireland, Italy, Austria, France, Brazil, the Philippines, and Mexico.
A graph representing the researchers’ data shows that monthly religious service attendance in Catholic countries decreased by at least 20 percentage points relative to that of all other countries as well as relative to “Christian” countries, with a significant decline seen first in the period from 1965 to 1974. Mass attendance in Catholic countries fell on average by four percentage points per decade from 1965 to 2015.
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party praised one of his newest pro-life MPs, Andrew Lawton, for telling his story about almost dying by suicide, and for raising awareness of a bill that seeks to stop euthanasia from being expanded to those with mental illness.
“I want to thank Andrew for bravely coming forward to tell his story to try and help others suffering with their mental health,” wrote Poilievre on X last week.
Poilievre then thanked another one of his MPs, Tamara Jansen, for “leading the effort with Bill C-218 to protect these people and get them proper health care and treatment, not assisted suicide.”
As reported by LifeSiteNews, Conservative MP Lawton, who almost died in a suicide attempt 15 years ago, recently launched an initiative to help those struggling with mental illness choose life and to help stop a plan by the Canadian government to expand euthanasia to those with mental illness.
Starmer looked pathetic in front of Trump yesterday. Trump really put him in his place, humiliated that spineless coward. So This was a slimy way to get back at him. He is laughing stock of U.K.
So Starmer just announced the UK will recognize “Palestine” as a state in September. Butt-hurt Starmer will give Hamas terrorists a state rewarding the most brutal, savage massacre in modern history. No mention of the hostages still be held by these subhumans.
Starmer has humiliated the UK in front of our key allies like US and Israel
He and Labour have handed Hamas a propaganda victory.
Twenty-two states filed a lawsuit on July 29 challenging a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
The lawsuit, filed by attorneys general from Democratic-led states and the governor of Pennsylvania, seeks to block a provision in the legislation that bars organizations providing abortion care and that received more than $800,000 in Medicaid funding in fiscal year 2023 from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. This includes Planned Parenthood health centers.
The states alleged that the provision targeted Planned Parenthood for its abortion advocacy, arguing that it violates the spending clause and First Amendment protections by retaliating against the organization.
The provision would deny low-income individuals access to cancer screenings, testing, and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, and family planning services, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also argues that the provision would cripple the states’ medical healthcare ecosystem and force them to use state funds to keep affected health care centers operational.
