Category: Federal Legislation

Going back to September of 2022, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has been ringing the alarm on the Biden administration’s work to force taxpayers to fund abortions, a violation of a number of federal laws. Thank you for your diligence Senator Tommy Tuberville.

COLUMBUS, Ohio— Ohio Right to Life condemned Congresswoman Emilia Sykes who introduced legislation that would penalize pro-life pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) while encouraging more violence and vandalism towards them. The legislation comes less than a week after an Ohio Pregnancy Center, Bowling Green Pregnancy Center, was attacked by the abortion extremist group Jane’s Revenge. Since last year, PRCs and other …

To their great shame, the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate defeated a Republican effort to stop the Biden Administration’s illegal order to turn Veterans Affairs hospitals into abortion centers. Thank you to Senator Tuberville for leading this effort.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— In a vote on Wednesday afternoon, the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate defeated a Republican effort to stop the Biden Administration’s illegal order to turn Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals into abortion centers. The resolution failed in a vote of 48-51. All Democrats voted against the resolution except for Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) who voted for …

By Sen. Tommy Tuberville Federal law permits the U.S. military to only provide abortions in very narrow circumstances: rape, incest, and threat to the life of the mother. Yet, the Biden administration has turned our Department of Defense into an abortion travel agency. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did it using a memo—without congressional approval. Under a policy announced Feb. …

By Jennifer Popik, JD, Director of Federal Legislation Editor’s note. This appears on page one of the March edition of National Right to Life News. As the Biden Administration attempts to expand abortion at every turn, Congress has limited options in fighting back so long as President Joe Biden holds the veto pen.  One option that Congress …

There seems to be no end to the craziness and brazenness of the abortion industry. Read the whole story.

By Jennifer Popik, J.D., Director of Federal Legislation National Right to Life With the first month of the new 118th Congress now complete, there is a great deal of pro-life activity to celebrate.  That said, the pro-abortion Biden Administration show no signs of slowing down the push to expand abortion.  In Tuesday night’s State of the …

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, legislation that protects infants who survive an attempted abortion to ensure they receive the same care as any other newborn. The U.S. House of Representatives, with the help of U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, passed its version of …

What appears below is the text of a letter sent by NRLC to the U.S. House of Representatives on February 1, 2023, opposing a measure (H.J. Res. 25) that purports to make the 1972 “Equal Rights Amendment” a part of the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote during March on whether to …

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on Tuesday reintroduced the American Values Act , legislation to permanently enact and expand existing prohibitions on the use of U.S. foreign assistance …

By Tierin-Rose Mandelburg On January 26, House Democrats introduced a bill that would reverse the Hyde Amendment, the bill that banned federally funded abortions. The left wants to make abortion even more easily accessible, and use our hard earned money to do so.  The bill is called the “Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance …