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The Texas abortion ban is working and not only is the ban protecting babies from abortions it’s helping pregnant women find better alternatives. As LifeNews previously reported, the Texas health department shows just 17 abortions so far in 2023 as the state’s pro-life law has saved tens of thousands of babies from abortions. Texas Health and Human Services Commission recorded only 17 legal abortions in the first four months of 2023, according to a new report by the agency. All the abortions that took place were needed to save the life of the mother or because of medical emergencies.

Golden State Republicans are rejecting calls from moderates to drop pro-life and pro-family platform positions. On Saturday, members of California’s GOP convention voted against a proposal from self-described “moderate” Republicans to drop opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage from the party’s platform, additionally reducing the platform from 14 pages to roughly four.

Abortion is just as inflammable and divisive an issue as ever in the United States, but the rhetoric is changing. The best illustration of the shift in language is the rebadging of one of the leading American pro-choice organisations, NARAL. The shift from “choice” to “freedom” is interesting and merits further discussion. But even more interesting is research by the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion thinktank, which suggests that people have a wide range of views on what abortion is. In an article in the journal Social Science & Medicine, its researchers report on reactions to several vignettes. “Our biggest takeaway is that people do not hold a shared standard definition of what is and isn’t an abortion,” lead author Alicia VandeVusse told NPR. “We found that there’s a lot of nuance and ambiguity in how people are thinking about these issues and understanding these issues.”

In the latest video of Live Action’s Can’t Stay Silent series telling stories of abortion regret, Serena speaks about her experience getting an abortion at just 13 years old after she was raped by an uncle. Despite the circumstances, abortion did not erase the trauma of the sexual assault — instead, it tore apart her family and had a lasting impact on her life.