It’s long been a devastating and tragic fact: More black American lives have been lost to abortion since 1973 than from every other cause of death combined. In fact, when it comes to black women, the abortion rate is almost five times that of white women.

It’s this startling and heartbreaking reality that has led more than 100 black faith leaders in Ohio to urge voters in the Buckeye State to vote “No” on Issue 1 this November. If passed, Issue 1 would enshrine a so-called right to abortion in the state constitution.

“This is not a party line vote, nor is Issue 1 a Republican or Democrat issue,” the pastors and faith leaders wrote in a joint statement. “This is a moral issue and for the black community in particular, it is a life-or-death matter.”

In calling out the awfulness of the initiative, the pastors noted that while only 13% of the Ohio population is black, 48% of the abortions in the state are performed on black women. In fact, they note how this disparity plays out across the nation, acknowledging that more than 20 million black children across the nation have been killed by abortion.

The right to life is a basic, fundamental principle — but groups like Planned Parenthood with its racist origins callously and indiscriminately work each day towards the destruction of it. Margaret Sanger launched the organization in 1916 with the desire to pursue eugenics and work toward “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”

A federal appeals court ruled that the Linn-Mar Community School District in Iowa most likely violated students’ first amendment rights with a vague “transgender” policy requiring that they “respect a student’s gender identity.”

Parents Defending Education (PDE) filed a lawsuit in August 2022, on behalf of a number of parents and their children, alleging that the policy violated parental rights and free speech. Dozens of family-friendly organizations, including Focus on the Family, filed an amici brief supporting the lawsuit.

PDE President and Founder Nicole Neily celebrated the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, saying:

“We are gratified that the Eighth Circuit upheld the rights of families and students in Linn-Mar. It is never acceptable to prohibit speech with vague terms that allow arbitrary enforcement, especially when compelled student speech is at stake, and this sends a clear message to other districts across the country with similar bullying and harassment policies on the books.”

The court explained that in April 2022, the Linn-Mar School Board adopted a policy titled, “Administrative Regulations Regarding Transgender and Students Nonconforming to Gender Role Stereotypes.”

The regulations directed schools to create a “Gender Support Plan” at the request of a student with sexual identity confusion and to accommodate “transgender students regarding names/pronouns, restroom and locker facilities, overnight accommodations on school trips, and participation in activities.”

When South Carolina native General John C. Fremont died of peritonitis in his Manhattan home on July 13, 1890, the first senator from California, and fifth territorial governor of Arizona, was lauded and remembered as “the pathfinder of the Rocky Mountains,” a pioneering explorer who bravely sought a rail route thru and over terrain to the Pacific Ocean once previously thought both impossible and impassable.

Fremont’s dramatic and adventurous life came to mind considering news that California Governor Gavin Newsom will be appointing Laphonza Butler to fill the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat.

Senator Feinstein, the longest-serving female senator in American history, and a radical abortion supporter, died last Thursday. She was 90.

Butler, who previously served as a senior advisor to then Senator Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign, is currently the president of EMILY’s List, an extreme pro-abortion organization whose stated mission is “to elect Democratic pro-choice women up and down the ballot and across the country with a goal of fighting for our rights and our communities.”

EMILY’s List — a group whose name is an acronym standing for “Early money is like yeast,” has raised and spent upwards of a billion dollars since 2016 to elect well over 1500 pro-abortion women across local, state and federal offices.

Those of a certain age often lament the ideological shift of the Golden State, which once featured Ronald Reagan as its governor.