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Ohio’s pro-abortion Reproductive Freedom Amendment, passed in 2023, has now been used to block a state law requiring the humane burial or cremation of aborted children. Last week, Ohio’s First District Court of Appeals upheld a ruling against Ohio’s SB 27, which mandated fetal remains be buried or cremated. The appeals court concluded “that the plain language of the Reproductive Freedom Amendment constrains the State’s ability to regulate all phases of an abortion, including conduct occurring after the procedure.” That ruling follows a 2021 decision from the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas preliminarily blocking the law, as well as a 2025 permanent injunction. Ohio Right to Life Executive Director Carrie Snyder describes that court as “the most extreme liberal court that [abortion advocates] can find.” What the Law Addressed While abortion advocates bringing suit against SB 27 focused on the 2023 ballot initiative, pro-life groups focused on the law itself. “The court’s decision to strike down Ohio’s fetal remains law removes a basic standard of human dignity from state policy,” Peter Range, a senior fellow for the Center for Christian Virtue, told The Daily Signal. “With this ruling, the remains of a child aborted at 10, 15, or even 20 weeks may now be treated under Ohio’s ‘infectious waste’ regulations—no differently than other medical waste,” he also warned. Snyder declared it “a tragedy when a human body is treated like trash,” explaining that the law was “a way to address that issue and didn’t burden a woman approaching this decision at all.” Doomed by Lawsuits From the Start Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed SB 27 into law on Dec. 30, 2020, with lawsuits quickly coming before the law even went into effect. The February 25 ruling from the First District Court of Appeals made clear that the Reproductive Freedom Amendment factored into their decision. The decision also read that “the voters of Ohio intended to create a separate, independent state constitutional basis for protecting abortion and abortion providers from State intervention, other than that explicitly allowed by the Amendment. In this regard, the Reproductive Freedom Amendment fills the constitutional void left by Dobbs [v. Jackson]. Nothing in this history or the rationale for the Amendment suggests that the voters intended to excise post-abortion conduct from its protections. Rather, the fact that Ohio voters mobilized quickly to counteract a decision of the United States Supreme Court sends a strong message of their desire to protect reproductive rights.” A press release from the American Civil Liberties highlighted the following passage, “Ohio voters said what they meant. The state may not burden, penalize, or discriminate against those who have an abortion and those who assist them in obtaining one.” Nevertheless, concerns remain about what voters were actually considering. Snyder pointed out that the amendment was not a matter of making abortion “completely legal or completely illegal,” or about medical care for concerns such as miscarriages. “That was not what they were voting on, that was what they thought they were voting on,” Snyder said. “As the court explained, the Reproductive Freedom Amendment protects conduct that occurs before, during, and after a procedural abortion,” countered Jessie Hill, cooperating attorney for the ACLU of Ohio. “While this law has not been in effect for years, today’s ruling will allow our clients to focus on providing essential health care without further interference from the state. We celebrate this ruling as yet another testament to the power of Ohio’s new Reproductive Freedom Amendment, and the first affirmative interpretation from an appellate court.” Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, which was also involved in the case, directed The Daily Signal to a statement from their medical director, Dr. Sharon Liner. “We’re pleased that the court upheld the injunction blocking the cruel burial and cremation law. Abortion is essential healthcare and this law was nothing more than an opportunity to shame and stigmatize our patients. Our focus remains on the health, safety, and dignity of our patients,” Liner said. Reproductive Freedom Amendment Plays a Role Range shared with The Daily Signal that the decision to strike down the fetal remains law was expected. “This outcome is not surprising in light of the 2023 abortion amendment. Ohioans were told the amendment would not eliminate commonsense health and safety standards. Yet we are now seeing laws struck down that were designed to reflect basic respect for human life and to ensure accountability in the abortion industry,” he pointed out. The amendment could be used against other pro-life laws. “The abortion advocates are using this vote from 2023, basically as a two-by-four,” Snyder said. “Voters were not given a drop down list of things that they wanted or didn’t want as far as abortion law, so every single thing that comes up in the category whatsoever, they are pointing to this amendment.” “I do fear that we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg now,” Snyder added. The amendment has further ramifications beyond laws being struck down. Both Range and Snyder expressed concerns about Ohio seeing an increase in abortions in 2025. Despite passing such an amendment, Ohio remains a red state. That’s something of a silver lining, especially compared to neighboring states like Michigan. “If we compare to Michigan, which passed a similar amendment, and they have a very radical pro-abortion majority in the governor and legislature, and so they knocked down every restriction as fast as they could,” Snyder said. “So I think in Ohio, we’re fortunate that we have pro-life majority in the legislature, we have a pro-life governor, we’re able to muffle the impact at least in the short-term.” She also referred to the Ohio Supreme Court as a “much more favorable court” than the lower courts. . The post Ohio’s Abortion Amendment Used to Block Fetal Remains Law appeared first on The Daily Signal.

It is no small thing to grasp the true significance of current events, let alone their spiritual meaning. Sure, any man can tell you that the southern states seceded because Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, and that they did so because Lincoln aimed to keep slavery out of the federal territories. Few at the time, however, understood the North’s massive economic and logistical advantage over the South, and deduced that beginning a civil war might have doomed the institution of slavery itself. It took an act of astounding genius, however—or perhaps divine inspiration—to see that God brought the Civil War upon America as judgment for the United States’ hypocrisy in denying to black people the freedom we so valiantly fought for in the Revolution. The Second Inaugural On March 4, 1865, a mere 41 days before his assassination and 36 days before the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse that ended the war, Lincoln captured the spiritual significance of an entire war in a 701-word Second Inaugural Address. With heavy poignancy, he noted that both the North and the South “read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other.” “The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully,” Lincoln noted. My favorite two sentences ring like a thunderclap. “Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away,” the president said. “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ‘The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'” With due humility, Lincoln does not dare to state that God brought the Civil War on the United States as the just punishment for slavery, but he firmly suggests as much. He does not suggest that the North, the force fighting for freedom, is guiltless. Perhaps for this reason, Americans have agreed with Lincoln, and honored this interpretation by etching it into the wall of the Lincoln Memorial. Americans may be surprised to hear it, but Lincoln was an unwilling abolitionist. You might say that God forced his hand. Why Didn’t Lincoln Always Support Abolition? Lincoln saw slavery as an evil, yes, but he was willing to put up with it to preserve the union. It’s hard for us, who rightly abhor slavery, to understand the political circumstances at the time. Southern slaveholders had a great deal of power, and the salient political issue wasn’t whether slavery would be abolished but whether slavery would be allowed to spread west into new lands that became their own states. One of the earliest laws in American history, the Northwest Ordinance, excluded slavery from the territories that now make up Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The Founders anticipated that slavery—which they saw as a necessary evil—would disappear because it was growing economically unprofitable. Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin changed that, and by the 1820s, southerners had started defending slavery as a positive good. The 1820 Missouri Compromise drew a line, allowing slavery in territories south of the line but forbidding it in territories above the line. Yet the southern slave interests had so much power in the federal government that they kept demanding slavery north of the line. Lincoln’s political career grew from his opposition to the notion of “popular sovereignty,” which stated that territories north of the line could enter the union as slave or free states based on the votes of white men. Lincoln’s opponent for U.S. Senate in 1858, Democrat Stephen Douglas, supported popular sovereignty. Douglas played a large role in passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which applied this principle to the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The law inspired a mini-civil war in Kansas, as pro-slavery settlers battled anti-slavery settlers for the incoming state’s future. Restrainers like Lincoln didn’t advocate for abolition—abolitionists were considered fringe extremists—but they did champion a return to the older principle of limiting slavery to southern states and territories. The South’s rejection of that compromise—morally flawed though it was—spurred the secession movements. When Lincoln won the 1860 election, those who wanted to expand slavery could not abide a president who wanted to restrain it. The Crucible of War The war itself convinced Lincoln to dismantle slavery. The freedmen in the North proved their mettle on the battlefield. The Emancipation Proclamation, a war measure, only freed slaves in Confederate-held territory in order to encourage revolts there. Only with the ratification of the 13th Amendment did the United States fully abolish slavery—and the states did not ratify that amendment until Dec. 6, 1865, long after Lincoln’s death. Most of us would be foolish to attempt to divine God’s purposes in human events, but Lincoln—like the humble prophet Moses before him—spoke from his own experience what God had been doing. As the Left and the Right seem ever more divided on basic truth and morality, I pray that the Almighty would preserve us from such a fate. From killing babies in the womb to mutilating the bodies of children, I can think of more than one great sin in our country today. There are times when I tremble for my country to remember that God is just. The post Abraham Lincoln’s Greatest Speech Revealed the Civil War’s Divine Meaning appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Minnesota Republican lawmakers introduced resolutions to impeach Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. The resolutions claim corrupt conduct by the two Democratic politicians. “MN Freedom Caucus ends week one with a BIG announcement. Our Freedom Caucus House members just filed articles of impeachment for Tim Walz & Keith Ellison. Time to hold the real frauds accountable,” Minnesota Freedom Caucus stated. MN Freedom Caucus ends week one with a BIG announcement. Our Freedom Caucus House members just filed articles of impeachment for Tim Walz & Keith Ellison. Time to hold the real frauds accountable. You need to be following: @BenDavis_MN @MNREPMIKEWIENER @DrewRoachMN pic.twitter.com/4UBLM7p8xx — Minnesota Freedom Caucus (@FreedomCaucusMN) February 26, 2026 KVRR shared further: The resolution accuses Walz of “violating his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the laws of this state” and cites his response to the state’s fraud cases. An impeachment is unlikely since it requires a majority vote in the House. This is not the first attempt by Republican lawmakers to impeach Walz. A resolution to impeach the Democratic governor was introduced in 2021 over his COVID-19 emergency declaration. According to FOX 9, the resolution to impeach Ellison accuses him of “undermining” the FACE Act by “defending the anti-ICE protesters and journalists who protested at a St. Paul church.” The full Articles of Impeachment of Keith Ellison pic.twitter.com/BL9MvXlkeR — Ben Davis (@BenDavis_MN) February 27, 2026 FOX 9 has more: The Minnesota Constitution allows for impeachment on the grounds of “corrupt conduct in office or for crimes and misdemeanors.” Given the party balance in both the House and the Senate, an impeachment of Walz and Ellison seems unlikely. An impeachment requires a majority vote in the House. If successful, the impeached official is suspended and the case moves to the senate for trial. In the Minnesota Senate, a supermajority vote, or two-thirds vote, is required for conviction and removal from office. Currently, the Minnesota House is split evenly between Republicans and Democrats, meaning every Republican would need to vote for impeachment and at least one DFL member would need to flip sides. In the Senate, Democrats hold a one-seat majority. It’s worth pointing out Gov. Walz ended his campaign for re-election in January while Ellison is seeking a third term as attorney general.

A report by Iran International claimed that Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, has been named the country’s next Supreme Leader. “Iran’s Assembly of Experts elected Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba as the next Supreme Leader under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards, informed sources told Iran International,” the outlet stated. MOJTABA KHAMENEI Senior Israeli officials have assessed that Iran will announce Khamenei's son Mojtaba as his successor, according to Israel's Ynet news. Meanwhile, Iran International reports that he has already been elected leader 'under pressure from the Revolutionary… pic.twitter.com/h4SLajVQv7 — The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) March 3, 2026 Sky News Australia provided further coverage: Ynetnews also reported: Senior Israeli officials said they assess that the Assembly is expected to formally announce Mojtaba Khamenei as successor in the coming hours. The reported decision comes after Iranian media earlier said members of the 88-member Assembly of Experts were not inside the building in Qom that Israel struck earlier Tuesday and would soon declare a replacement for the supreme leader, who was killed at the outset of Operation Roaring Lion. According to earlier reports, Israel struck the “Council of Experts” as they were meeting to select a new Supreme Leader. BREAKING: Israel Reportedly Just Took Out 90+ Shia Clerics “Council of Experts” As They Were Voting On The New Supreme Leader! More from the New York Post: Following the attack, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency claimed that the building was an old structure that was no longer used by the assembly for its meetings. It remains unclear how many members of the assembly, if any, were inside the building and casting a ballot when the building was hit. Viral images from Qom allegedly show the building that housed the Iranian leaders, with the structure left in complete ruins following the blast. The bombing ultimately left the building “flattened,” but no injuries or deaths have yet been reported as a result of the strike, The Jerusalem Post reported. Iran’s leadership was plunged into chaos following Khamenei’s death on Saturday, with the country’s constitution tasking the Assembly of Experts to name a new successor.

The “MSM” is tripping all over itself today trying to claim that Marco Rubio said yesterday that Israel forced the USA into striking Iran. Here’s a short clip of a reporter trying to twist his words: BREAKING: Sec. Marco Rubio EVISCERATES reports that the US only struck Iran because Israel forced us to “If you’re gonna play my statement, play the WHOLE statement! Not CLIP it to reach a narrative you want, OK?” “This was a question of *timing* as a joint operation, NOT a… pic.twitter.com/rgqg0n8fEI — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 3, 2026 But Marco was having none of it. He immediately shut down the reporter for twisting his words, and now I’m going to prove to you that he is 100% right. And the “MSM” reporter is 100% wrong, which I know will come as a huge shock!  [sarcasm alert] Here is the FULL CLIP with no editing from yesterday where you can see his comments have been taken completely out of context. Watch here: He’s being taken grossly out of context. He says “no” when asked directly whether Israel prompted the strikes. He then explained 1) This was happening regardless 2) Only that the *specific timing* was related to Israel striking Khameni. And *we* gave them the intel to strike. https://t.co/S5szvJ7SAY — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 3, 2026 He makes completely clear the decision was made by President Trump and the decision had already been made. It was going to happen. The only question was as to timing. But the “MSM” willfully spun it 180 degrees from what he actually said. Absolutely disgusting.