Plus: Fact-Checking 3 Claims at Democrats’ ‘Voter Suppression’ Hearing
January 21 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Americans gather today for the 49th annual March for Life. To greet them, we offer a look ahead from five pro-life leaders to a day when abortion on demand is no more. House Democrats get the facts wrong in accusing Republicans of “voter suppression,” Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, prescriptions for driving down inflation from four Heritage Foundation policy experts. Plus: conservatives press the FDA on unreliable prenatal tests; Senate Republicans question federal funding for abortion providers; and a new poll finds Americans want to curb abortion. Forty-five years ago today, President Jimmy Carter pardons an estimated half a million men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War.
If Roe is overturned, abortion wouldn’t be automatically outlawed. Rather, states would have an opportunity to further protect life, culminating in a national debate in the halls of Congress.
“We are concerned that [these tests] ... could be a predatory financial windfall for manufacturers and directly result in the termination of innocent human life,” write GOP lawmakers.
The District of Columbia just instituted a whole new level of systemic racism. And it disproportionately affects the black population—the District’s largest racial group.
