The 50th Annual March for Life in Washington D.C. This Friday







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The 50th Annual March for Life in Washington D.C. This Friday

By: Nicole Hunt


Pro-life Americans have been marching for life in the nation’s capital for 50 years–since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade. This year’s march is truly historic as it is the first march since Roe was overturned, and the power to decide abortion policy was rightly returned to the people and their elected representatives.

Now Congress and every state in the nation hold the power to influence and change abortion policy to protect the preborn.

This year’s March for Life reflects the new circumstances the pro-life movement faces. In the past, attendees would march to the U.S. Supreme Court, calling for Roe’s reversal and restoration of Constitutional order. This year, on January 20th, participants will march to the “new front in the battle for life” at the United States Capitol.

The theme for this year’s march is “Next Steps.” Organizers of the march say that the event will honor all those that have gone before them to advocate for life and “present the strategic plan for building a culture of life.”


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Pro-Life House and Senate Members Introduce Bills to Stop FDA Chemical Abortion Rule



By: Zachary Mettler






A group of Republicans in the House of Representatives are joining together to introduce two bills that would reverse the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) rule permitting women to access the abortion pill via telemedicine and through the mail. Companion bills will also be introduced in the U.S. Senate. The House bill, the “Protecting Life from Chemical Abortions Act,” along with the Senate bill, the “SAVE Moms and Babies Act of 2023,” would stipulate that women can only access the abortion pill in person – which until 2020, had been the FDA’s policy for two decades.


Additionally, the bills would:

- Prevent the executive branch from declaring an abortion-related public health emergency.
- Stop the FDA from waiving the “in person dispensing requirement” for the abortion pill and other safety regulations for chemical abortion drugs.
Another House bill, the “Nullifying President Biden FDA’s Abortion Pill Final Rule,” would reverse the FDA’s January 3, 2023, decision making the abortion pill more widely available.

On January 3, the FDA changed its “Mifepristone REMS Program” to make the first drug of the abortion pill easier to obtain, permitting retail pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens to dispense the pill. Previously, the FDA only allowed the abortion pills to be dispensed by clinics, medical offices and hospitals.






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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case of Christian Postal Worker Denied Sundays Off



By: Bruce Hausknecht





In a hugely important lawsuit concerning the rights of religious American workers’ vis-a-vis their employers, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a former U.S. postal worker, Gerald Groff, whose request for Sundays off to observe the Sabbath was denied by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

In 2012, Groff, a Christian, began looking for a job that would allow him to honor the Sabbath on Sundays. Knowing the post office was closed on Sundays, he applied and was hired as a postal carrier in Pennsylvania. In 2013, the USPS signed a contract with Amazon to deliver packages on Sundays, and began scheduling postal workers, including Groff, to work on Sundays.

At first, the postmaster exempted Groff from Sunday work shifts so long as he covered other shifts throughout the week. In 2015, however, he was told he would be required to work on Sundays when he was scheduled, or else, he’d have to find another job. Groff transferred to another city’s post office which had not implemented Amazon Sunday deliveries, which lasted until 2017, when such deliveries began.

Groff asked to be accommodated so that he could observe the Sunday Sabbath, and his supervisors worked around his schedule for a period of time if other workers were willing to cover for him on Sundays. When others couldn’t cover his shift, he was disciplined for failing to report for his scheduled shifts. Ultimately, Groff faced termination for his repeated absences, and resigned instead.









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Captain Kangaroo, Adventures in Odyssey & the Call for Gentle Childhood Programming




By: Paul Batura






Maybe it’s because Bob Keeshan, better known as “Captain Kangaroo,” grew up just a few miles from our family home on the south shore of Long Island. Or might it be because my father would sometimes spy him on the Long Island Railroad, a fellow commuter jockey making his way into Manhattan? Then again, it might just be because his show was downright funny and entertaining, and as a four-year-old, I liked to laugh.

It’s probably a mixture of all three reasons that well over 45 years later, I still think of “The Captain” from time to time. He passed away in 2004.

“Captain Kangaroo” first hit the airwaves on October 3, 1955. It wasn’t his first show, though. He had previously played the role of “Clarabelle the Clown” on The Howdy Doody Show. He had joined NBC after serving in the United States Marines. But as the kindly, mustached host of his program, Keeshan would become a household name for three decades. How did he choose to play and shape the role of the “Captain”?

“I was impressed with the potential positive relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, so I chose an elderly character,” he once reflected.

It was from that seasoned perch that Keeshan’s character, along with Mr. Green Jeans and others, modeled civility, kindness, empathy, and gentleness. Kids gravitated to him. Parents trusted him.







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Women Athletes Rally at NCAA Convention to ‘Keep Women’s Sports Female’



By: Jeff Johnston







A group of women athletes and their supporters protested at the NCAA Annual Convention, hosting a press conference and a “Tell the NCAA: Stop Discriminating Against Female Athletes Rally.”

The rally, on Thursday January 12, was held in opposition to NCAA policies that allow male athletes who “identify as” female to compete in women’s sports, “exclude young women from their own teams,” and threaten privacy and safety in locker rooms and showers.

Texas Values President Jonathan Saenz tweeted about the event, which took place in San Antonio.

Marshi Smith is a former NCAA and PAC-10 champion swimmer from the University of Arizona, and co-founder of Independent Council on Women’s Sports. She read a demand letter, telling the NCAA it would face a lawsuit unless it changed its policies.

The letter was from three attorneys with Jackson Bone Law, on behalf of ICONS, and states:

“We write as attorneys on behalf of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), a network of current and former collegiate and professional women athletes and their families, to put you on official notice that your practice of allowing male athletes on women’s teams constitutes illegal discrimination against women on the basis of sex. We hereby demand that you take direct and immediate action to establish rules to keep women’s collegiate sports female.”









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