God almost certainly uses stories to give us hope amid the world's creeping darkness. In a video posted to YouTube on Sunday, former NBA first-round pick AJ Griffin, who turned 21 last month, explained why he has chosen to walk away from a lucrative career in professional sports and pursue...

Hurricane Helene was 400 miles wide when it hit Florida. It has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, but that doesn't make the effects of it any less devastating. Could you imagine, however, being at the center of the disaster, only to hear your president basically say, "We've given...

Considering all they have done to destroy both freedom and the rule of law, establishment operatives' latest act of jaw-dropping chutzpah might actually rank among their more mundane transgressions. On Monday, Jim Geraghty of National Review reported that one of his readers received an email from the U.S. Department of...

President Joe Biden's obvious physical weakness must never excuse his callousness or his betrayal of Americans. On Monday, Biden hacked and coughed his way through brief remarks on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene. Those remarks came after Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spent the weekend largely ignoring the...

CNBC "Squawk Box"co-host Joe Kernen was not having it when Biden administration Commerce Secretary and Harris campaign surrogate Gina Raimondo delivered a series of false statements Monday about the economy under former President Donald Trump. Raimondo first zeroed in on Trump's tariff policy, saying he now wants to place them...

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Every song arises from a unique inspiration. Some are instant classics, while others find unexpected success or must overcome critics to reach an audience. Whether the song was written by someone else or the singer themselves, the inspiration is usually something personal. And many of us seek to learn what inspired the lyrics to some […] The post 10 Surprising Stories Behind Famous Songs appeared first on Listverse.

Conventionally, spies are men; think of James Bond or Graeme Greene’s George Smiley. But in World War II’s desperate struggle with Nazi Germany, the Allies realized that women could bring particular qualities to dangerous undercover work in occupied territories. In her 2021 book about WWII women spies, Professor Juliette Pattinson points out that “several wartime […] The post 10 Magnificent Heroines Who Went Undercover to Defeat the Nazis appeared first on Listverse.

When Mackenna Greene took the abortion pill to end the life of her unborn daughter, she immediately knew she had made the wrong choice. “I’ll admit that in the days leading up to it, I was not excited,” Greene told The Daily Signal. “I was second-guessing myself. I found myself trying to convince myself that I was making the right decision.” “Immediately after taking it, I felt regret,” she said of the abortion pill, “and I had a feeling that that was a very bad decision.” Greene said she googled her options and found Chelsea Mynyk, a nurse-midwife at the life-affirming Catholic medical center Bella Health and Wellness in Englewood, Colorado. Mynyk prescribes abortion pill reversal medication to women who regret starting a chemical abortion. Greene took progesterone to counteract the effects of the first chemical abortion pill. About a month ago, she gave birth to her daughter. “I felt like I had worked my whole life to have her,” Greene said. “I’m the luckiest girl alive to be looking at this girl’s face. And thank goodness that the reversal was successful.” Greene holds her newborn. (Mackenna Greene) “She’s got such a personality and sometimes when I look at her, I think of missing out on all of that, and it hurts,” Greene said. “I’m just so lucky, so blessed, to be able to look into her face every day.” But Colorado, where Greene and Mynyk live, passed a law in April 2023 forbidding doctors and nurses from providing the abortion pill reversal. Under that law, Mynyk could be fined up to $20,000 each time she helps reverse the effects of an abortion pill. That same month, Becket—previously the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty—sued the state of Colorado on behalf of Bella Health and Wellness, securing a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of the law against the faith-based OB-GYN practice. In January, an anonymous individual filed a complaint against Mynyk because she offers abortion pill reversal, and the Colorado Board of Nursing opened an investigation. In response, Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian law firm, filed a motion to intervene on Mynyk’s behalf. It was granted in April. “This is a law that restricts the ability of medical professionals like Chelsea [Mynyk] to save lives,” said Kevin Theriot, a senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. Theriot is representing Mynyk as she challenges the Colorado law so that she may continue saving babies such as Greene’s. “It singles out those women that have regret, just like Mackenna, and decide that they don’t want to go through with the chemical abortion and doesn’t allow them to give to receive this progesterone, which is a drug that’s been used for over 50 years to stop miscarriage,” Theriot told The Daily Signal. “Chelsea herself has proven that it definitely increases the chances that moms like Mackenna can save their babies.” Medical professionals should be able to talk about and prescribe the abortion pill, Theriot said. The law “really doesn’t make any sense unless you see it from the perspective of this radical abortion lobby that says that we want women to have access to abortion, and we don’t think they should be able to change their minds,” Theriot said. Theriot said he hopes the court will enter a permanent injunction putting the Colorado law on hold because it violates the rights of Mynyk and patients such as Greene. “I think that would be very difficult to practice as a provider, not being able to offer this option to women, especially when they regret their abortion and they want something to take to reverse that, and especially because we know this is safe,” Mynyk said. “It’s natural progesterone. It’s not some sort of random pill we’re giving.” Everyone should be concerned about laws such as this that violate religious liberty and freedom of speech, the lawyer said. “The primary reason why this process is so important is because it saves lives, and Mackenna and her daughter are a perfect example of that,” Theriot said. “But it also is a treatment that medical professionals like Chelsea ought to be able to talk about, because it’s a viable option.” Listen to the full conversation with Greene and Theriot below: The post ‘A Decision You Can’t Take Back’: Mother Warns Against Colorado Law Prohibiting Abortion Pill Reversal That Saved Daughter’s Life appeared first on The Daily Signal.