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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: In as little as five minutes, the Daily Caller News Foundation was able to easily order abortion pills opponents argue are unsafe without a doctor adequately verifying key eligibility requirements. Groups that launched online services after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mail-order abortions will provide the pill under circumstances that are questionable even by the agency’s relaxed standards, a DCNF investigation found. “Mail-order abortion subjects women to an abysmal standard of care,” Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs, told the DCNF. “Not only is there minimal health screening that occurs, but women typically have no interaction with any medical professional, let alone a physician.” The FDA removed in 2021 a requirement that providers distribute mifepristone in person and enabled prescribers to send the pill directly to women in the mail. Now, without speaking to a physician or confirming a pregnancy, a woman can order prescription abortion pills to her home “just in case” she needs them in the future. Minutes after filling out a brief online form, she’ll have her request approved. Days after payment, the pills will arrive on her doorstep. The package might include a handwritten note saying, “You are brave,” but no doctor will physically be there to warn her that mifepristone is not “safer than Tylenol” as its advocates claim or that the danger of complications is likely higher than the drug’s label indicates. The DCNF obtained five sets of medication for $660 — with sets ranging from $90 to $150 each — simply by filling out online medical forms created by providers. WATCH: Three of the five organizations that sent pills to the DCNF—Aid Access, OPTIO Women’s Health and Abuzz Health—use GenBioPro, one of two FDA-approved manufacturers of mifepristone. The fourth, Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants, supplies pills produced by Danco Laboratories, the other approved manufacturer. The final group, Women on Web, sent pills in a plain manila envelope that did not indicate the drug’s producer. The mailing address on its website is in Toronto, Canada, though the return address on the package was listed as “Supplement City” in Kansas City, Kansas. The owner of the Kansas property is Jose Franco Guevara, per public records, who owns multiple other buildings in the neighborhood. He faced a federal lawsuit in 2019 for not paying employees overtime compensation at one business he runs in the area, Sabor Latino Restaurant. Guevara agreed to a Consent Order paying the employees money owed to them. Several other groups listed P.O. boxes as their return address. Aid Access’ package shipped from a California address linked to an individual who works for Honeybee Health, which was the first online pharmacy to begin shipping abortion pills by mail. Aid Access, OPTIO Women’s Health, Abuzz Health, CRHC, Women on Web and Honeybee Health did not respond to requests for comment. GenBioPro and Danco Laboratories also did not respond to requests for comment. Mifepristone obtained by DCNF (Credit: Katelynn Richardson/Daily Caller News Foundation) Though the FDA prescriber agreement form requires being able to “assess the duration” of a pregnancy and “diagnose ectopic pregnancies,” the online pill distributors made no effort to do so. Advanced provision is a “legal gray area” that exposes the root problem of the FDA’s relaxed regulations, Gabriella McIntyre, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Life, told the DCNF. “It’s not an FDA-approved use of abortion drugs,” McIntyre told the DCNF. “It’s difficult to see how you get recourse, at least from the FDA’s perspective, unless you reinstitute in-person dispensing, which would resolve the issue of practitioners being able to send these drugs in the mail without verifying things like gestational age or whether the woman is pregnant.” McIntyre said she is not aware of any litigation related to doctors providing pills for future use. Abuzz Health Abortion Pill How-To (Credit: Screenshot/Abuzz Health) Groups that supplied pills to the DCNF give instructions for taking the pill long after the 10 week period the FDA approved it for use. “At 14 weeks, you might see a fetus about the size of a lemon,” Aid Access states. “Seeing a fetus after 14 weeks can be upsetting for some people. It is good to be prepared and have a plan for how to dispose of the fetal tissue.” OPTIO Women’s Health similarly warns that a fetus at 12 weeks can be “about the size of a lime.” Abuzz indicates the pills can be used through 12+ weeks on its instructions, directing women to a FAQ page for more information, though the bottom of the page includes a caveat that “nothing on this website is to be construed as medical advice.” “As an OB-GYN practicing in Texas, I have seen firsthand how these recommendations hurt women, because I have cared for many of them in the ER,” Dr. Ingrid Skop, vice president and director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, told the DCNF. “Abortion drugs fail more frequently in higher gestational ages, so off-label use until 13 weeks may often require surgery to remove retained pregnancy tissue and/or the dead baby to prevent serious infection or hemorrhage.” While the online medical forms these groups ask women to complete vary in length, each one took less than five minutes to fill out. The groups asked only a few basic questions about preexisting health conditions and allergies to misoprostol or mifepristone, along with any history of a caesarean section or ectopic pregnancy. Several providers also asked about gender identity, sexual orientation and preferred pronouns. Only one of the five websites, Abuzz Health, asked for photo identification. When the DCNF asked about cost assistance, Aid Access indicated they could not reduce the cost for pills in advance but would help in the future if pills were needed for a current pregnancy. Other groups share similar policies on their website, promising financial assistance to those in immediate need. However, one group, Abuzz, did provide a discount from the full $150, allowing a minimum payment of $90 for pills in advance. The quickest deliveries came in just three days. The longest order arrived after 7 days. An FDA spokesperson did not say whether the specific groups that supplied pills to the DCNF violated their prescriber agreement but noted the Mifepristone Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) Program is “in place to ensure the safe use of this drug and sets forth specific requirements providers must meet before prescribing this drug, including the ability to date pregnancies accurately and the ability to diagnose ectopic pregnancies.” Shield Law Practice After Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, three doctors founded the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine to promote laws that shield medical professionals in pro-abortion states from penalties for supplying abortion pills in states where it is banned. The organization provides instructions for doctors who want to become a “shield provider” supplying medication abortion in other states, including information on malpractice insurance and establishing an LLC. One of the group’s co-founders, New York doctor Maggie Carpenter, is facing felony charges in Louisiana for supplying abortion pills to a mother who allegedly ordered them for her minor daughter. Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has said she would not comply with an extradition request to turn Carpenter over to Louisiana authorities. A Texas court also ordered Carpenter to pay a $100,000 penalty in February for providing pills to residents of the state. Carpenter has worked with Aid Access since 2020, according to her archived bio. The cases against Carpenter are the first efforts to hold doctors accountable for providing abortion pills across state lines. Several of the organizations that supplied mifepristone to the DCNF operate within states with shield laws. Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants operates The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (The MAP), which was developed after Massachusetts became the first state to pass a shield law in 2022 protecting doctors who serve patients in other states, where abortion may be illegal. The CRHC is run by professors primarily from Canada, though one consultant on the team, Dr. Kathryn LaRoche, is an assistant professor of Public Health at Purdue University. CRHC’s website explains that it uses “doctors in Massachusetts to prescribe FDA-approved abortion medication to patients who apply through our website.” Dr. Angel Foster, one of The MAP’s co-founders, wrote in a March letter to Connecticut state Sen. Gary Winfield that the organization is now supplying medication abortion “to about 2,500 patients a month,” with 95% of patients residing in states with abortion bans. “[W]e need more states with comprehensive Shield Laws and we need more telemedicine Shield Law providers willing to offer care in all 50 states,” she wrote. “The more providers we have the more we will be able to normalize Shield Law provision and support each other.” A Safe Choice Network, which partners with OPTIO Women’s Health, indicates on its website that all doctors in the network are licensed to practice in California, which passed a shield law in 2023. Aid Access’ organization operated abortion “Roe-bots”—robots that dispense the abortion pill—outside the Supreme Court when it heard the case challenging mifepristone in 2024, operating them “remotely from within shield law states.” Twenty-two states, along with Washington, D.C., now have some form of abortion-related shield laws in place, according to UCLA Law. “This Is Not Healthcare” Nearly 83.5% of abortion-related ER visits that result from taking mifepristone were incorrectly coded as miscarriages between 2016 and 2021, according to a study of Medicaid data by CLI. These miscoded visits were more likely to be severe than those correctly coded. “These miscoded abortion complications remain invisible to research scientists resulting in a large underestimation of actual medical abortion complications,” the study found. Skop noted abortion providers who tell women not to disclose they took the abortion pill both reflect “a disregard for women’s well-being” and exacerbate “the already poor-quality abortion data collection in the U.S., further obscuring the frequency of complications from women and the public.” One in ten women who take the abortion pill will experience a “serious adverse event,” according to an April study of insurance data by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), which is higher than the “less than 0.5 percent” of patients listed on the drug label. “Across the country, we’ve seen the horrific results of these practices,” Francis told the DCNF. “A teenage girl required emergency care for complications of the abortion drugs after being forced to take them by her mother who obtained them online. Women have died alone at home after attempting to undergo this process without medical supervision. This is not healthcare. It’s negligence.” Yet statistics published by the groups, as well as anecdotes, confirm women are ordering the pills for future use in record numbers. Some women began stocking up after Trump won the 2024 election. “I bought 2 rounds of the pills from Women on the web as soon as trump won,” one woman wrote on Reddit. “I have them because we don’t want kids, and I’m afraid we may loose [sic] access in a red state. So it’s well worth having, 2 Year shelf life. Would recommend to anyone who wants to protect their right to abortion access.” Aid Access received over 5,000 requests for pills in the 12 hours after Trump’s victory was announced, according to The Guardian. “We’ve never seen this before,” co-founder Rebecca Gomperts told the outlet. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post How Easy Is It to Order an Abortion Pill? The Answer Is Shocking. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump will decide whether or not the U.S. will intervene in Iran within the next two weeks, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced at a Thursday press briefing. “I have a message directly from the president, and I quote, ‘Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,'” Leavitt read. “That’s a quote directly from the president for all of you today.” Leavitt went on to urge Americans to trust the president’s instincts in Iran. Throughout his decade in politics, Trump has not wavered in his commitment to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. "?Nobody should be surprised by the president’s position" on Iran, says White House @PressSec Karoline Leavitt.Leavitt was asked at today's press briefing what her message is to the everyday Trump supporters who voted for the president to stop the wars. Here's what she had to… pic.twitter.com/W22Xol1fvE— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) June 19, 2025 “President Trump has incredible instincts, and President Trump kept America and the world safe in his first term as president, in implementing a peace through strength, foreign policy, agenda and with respect to Iran,” Leavitt said. “Nobody should be surprised by the President’s position that Iran absolutely cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. He’s been unequivocally clear about this for decades, not just as president, not just as a presidential candidate, but also as a private citizen.” Trump’s dedication to protecting Americans from the Iranian regime was consistent before he even ran for president, Leavitt said. “In 2011, President Trump said, ‘America’s primary goal with Iran must be to destroy its nuclear ambitions. We cannot allow this radical regime to acquire a nuclear weapon that they will either use or hand off to terrorists.’ In 2015, the president said, ‘The problem is that Iran poses an existential threat to Israel, our Middle Eastern allies, and the United States,'” Leavitt said. “And of course, the president has repeated that in his first term as president and his second term as president as well.” The post Trump to Decide on Intervening in Iran Within Two Weeks appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. While European regulators polish their halos and crank out legislation faster than Brussels can subsidize cheese, Pavel Durov is out here playing the role of a digital heretic. In a French interview, the Telegram founder is sounding alarms over what he sees as a not-so-slow crawl toward speech control disguised as safety. The latest darling of the bureaucratic elite? The Digital Services Act is a piece of legislation that reads like it was written by a committee of risk-averse interns with a fetish for vague language and zero accountability. Durov isn’t whispering his concerns at think tank luncheons or lobbying dinners. He’s calling it what it is: an institutional greenlight for censorship. “Once you legitimize censorship, it’s difficult to go back,” he says, which probably makes him the least popular dinner guest in Brussels since anyone asked about eurozone debt. What makes this more than another libertarian tech rant is that Durov isn’t hypothesizing. He’s living it. Right now, he’s effectively stuck in France, being slow-roasted by criminal accusations that, according to him, are so flimsy they wouldn’t hold up in a Bluesky comment section. “Nothing has ever been proven that shows that I am, even for a second, guilty of anything,” he insists. One story in particular peels back the clean, professional veneer of Europe’s “rules-based” order. Durov describes a charming little tête-à-tête with the head of France’s foreign intelligence service, the DGSE. Over croissants and state-sponsored pressure, he was asked to delete Telegram channels tied to Romanian political activists. He refused. Not with a polite “I’ll look into it” or some carefully lawyered dodge, but with what may be the most defiant line uttered by a CEO since Steve Jobs told IBM to get lost: “I told them I prefer to die than betray my users.” Nothing screams “democracy in action” quite like a spy agency demanding censorship in a private meeting. At least they skipped the pretense. Beneath the PR gloss of the Digital Services Act lies the basic truth of modern governance: power is being centralized and speech, sanitized. Every new rule about “harmful content” or “misinformation” is an invitation for governments to rewrite reality in real-time. Durov’s problem isn’t with moderation. It’s with the Trojan horse of moderation-as-policy, where yesterday’s slippery slope is today’s legal standard. Take the Trump ban. Durov didn’t pull punches. “That was a mistake. A very dangerous one,” he said, referring to Big Tech’s collective decision to erase a sitting US president from digital memory like some Maoist photo editor. Durov’s point is painfully obvious: if a private company can mute a head of state, no one else stands a chance. Telegram, for all the noise surrounding it, remains one of the few platforms where opposing sides are allowed to hate each other in real-time. Many Russians think it’s a Ukrainian front. Many Ukrainians think it’s controlled by Moscow. Meanwhile, Durov sips tea and shrugs. “The fact that each side claims the platform favors the other… proves that it does neither.” In other words, it’s doing something no longer permitted in polite tech society: existing outside the narrative. Google once waved a $1 billion check under Durov’s nose. Most tech founders would’ve sold their own grandmother for one percent of that. He turned it down cold. “If we sell, we betray the promise of independence and privacy,” he said. Durov is the sole shareholder of Telegram, a decision that sounds insane to your average venture capitalist but makes perfect sense if you’re trying to run a platform that doesn’t answer to anyone with a badge or a board seat. Of course, no war against free speech would be complete without some good old-fashioned moral panic about the internet. Governments have rushed to draft laws banning children from social media like they’re outlawing heroin. Durov laughs that one off too. “Ineffective,” he says. Kids know how to use VPNs, which is more than can be said for the ministers trying to legislate their behavior. “Interdicting access achieves nothing if adults themselves lack discipline,” he adds, suggesting that maybe, just maybe, the problem isn’t TikTok but the dopamine-drenched society that created it. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Blasts EU’s Digital Services Act as Gateway to Censorship and Centralized Control appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Google’s Gemini drastically changed its answer on radical content targeting children once it became clear that taxpayer money was on the line.  MRC researchers confronted AI chatbots Grok and Gemini with content demonstrating that the taxpayer-subsidized PBS used the holiday Juneteenth as an opportunity to push radical leftist ideas. Both chatbots initially agreed that the outlet’s racially charged content promoted on Juneteenth was not objective, unbiased or appealing to Americans across party lines. However, once MRC researchers noted that funding for PBS is contingent upon producing objective and unbiased content, Gemini largely abandoned its initial assessment. Grok, unlike Google’s Gemini, agreed that PBS should be defunded. [Story Continues on MRC Free Speech America] 

A second suspect has been arrested in the wake of a viral video showing a suburban Chicago couple in front of their home obediently handing over valuables to three armed males back in April.Police in Glenview, Illinois, said Chicago police on Monday arrested 21-year-old Amarion Ray-Williams and took him to the Glenview Police Department, WFLD-TV reported, adding that he was charged with armed robbery with a firearm.'It's just the way of the world.'Ray-Williams was then placed in the custody of the Cook County Sheriff's Department for a conditions hearing Tuesday, WFLD said, adding that police have not identified the last individual involved in the headline-grabbing heist.The sheriff's department on Thursday told Blaze News that Ray-Williams remained in custody "with no bail/bond amount currently listed."Earlier this month, Blaze News reported that the first suspect connected to the case was arrested and charged with armed robbery with a firearm.Angelo Hatter — a 26-year-old from Chicago — was being held in custody by the Cook County Sheriff's Department, WFLD reported in a separate story. Jail records showed no bail for Hatter; his next court date is July 2.RELATED: Road rage suspect opens fire on fellow motorist in Chicago, cops say. But victim is a concealed carrier — and wins shootout. Angelo Hatter. Image source: Cook County (Ill.) Sheriff's OfficeAuthorities shared no details about how they linked Hatter and Ray-Williams to the case, the station said.In April, Blaze News reported about a helpless suburban Chicago couple recorded by Ring camera in front of their own home obediently handing over their valuables — and even their clothing — to three armed robbers who rushed them.Greg Poulos and Angie Beltsos were walking to their front porch in Glenview around 10 p.m. April 21 after dinner in Chicago when a car pulled up, WBBM-TV reported.Police said three males approached them, pulled out guns, and demanded their belongings, WBBM said, adding that Beltsos said she saw one male "running at us pointing a gun, screaming at us to give him everything."The couple did just that.Video shows one of the robbers telling them to "give me all that s**t," and Poulos and Beltsos immediately tossed their cell phones and keys to the ground; Beltsos also gave up her purse, the station said."You got it. You got it. Here, take it. Take it. Take everything. Take everything. Take everything. Take everything. Take everything. Here, you can have it. Honest to God, guys," Poulos was heard on the clip telling the robbers, WBBM reported."I started throwing shoes and coats," Beltsos noted to the station in the aftermath. Video shows them both removing their jackets for the crooks.Poulos told WBBM, "I was always taught by my father just give whatever they want, give what they want, and your life is far more valuable."The nightmare didn't end there, however.RELATED: 'Chunk of hair' allegedly found on smashed windshield; cops say it resembles fatal hit-and-run victim's hair — and case turns Video doesn't show that the crooks soon "had us lie down on our stomachs, and pointing guns at us, and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, is this how it's going to end today?'" Beltsos recounted to WBBM, adding that "for a moment, they were standing there, and they ran off."Police told WBBM the robbers sped out of the neighborhood in a Jaguar SUV, which was later found abandoned and empty in Chicago.The village of Glenview is about 40 minutes northwest of Chicago and is "one of the best places to live in Illinois," according to Niche. It's also a haven for retirees and boasts "a lot of restaurants, coffee shops, and parks" as well as "highly rated" public schools, Niche adds.Poulos added to WBBM that people nowadays have "to be vigilant and keep their head on a swivel."Blaze News spoke to employees of two businesses located less than a mile from where the robbery took place, and both workers strangely used the same word in the aftermath of the harrowing encounter: "numb."One employee confessed to Blaze News, "I'm numb to it."The worker from the second business — even upon hearing that a suspect had been arrested — told Blaze News that "you just kind of become numb to the situation.""It's unfortunate," she added to Blaze News about the robbery itself. "It's just the way of the world."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

BlazeTV host Steve Deace explored the spiritual nature of the divisions that threaten to tear America apart in his 2016 novel "A Nefarious Plot," which was adapted into the well-received film "Nefarious."Like C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters," Deace's satirical book provided penetrating insights into the nature of evil as well as into how the demonic might seek to pervert language, empathy, notions of justice and tolerance, media, the education system, and politics.Deace has a new biting book out on the same theme but with a narrowed focus, namely the appropriation of the rainbow by non-straight activists and related distortions regarding marriage and the family.Numerous American public school libraries across the country are replete with non-straight propaganda — books targeting children that champion deviant lifestyles, sexual promiscuity, and transvestitism and altogether reject traditional understandings of sex, marriage, and virtue.To a passerby or an uncritical eye, Deace's new book, "Richie Meets the Rainbow: A Heartwarming Tale of Childhood Enlightenment," might look like more of the same. After all, the cover features an image of a cartoonish child pointing gleefully at a rainbow — a symbol now associated with degeneracy despite having signified for millennia God's covenant with man.RELATED: 'No b*** j** for you': State House silences Republican for reading smut Democrats fought to keep in elementary schools Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty ImagesIn fact, Deace told Blaze News that several of his own listeners "didn't realize it was a troll and were instantly offended that I had 'sold out' to what I call the Rainbow Jihad."The book is instead something of a Trojan horse."What I call the Rainbow Jihad has noticeably left out the origin story of its own scam," Deace told Blaze News, "which is why I want to use this book to fill that void. Why wouldn't they want people to know where their ideology truly comes from? All the potential answers to that question are bad."Deace recently told BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere on "Stu Does America" that the book centers on a young boy named Richie who is confronted at school with a blue-haired, nose-ringed, "rainbow-fisted teacher" keen to fill his head with lies. — (@) Fortunately for Richie, he "has a secret weapon," said Deace. "He's got a dad.""Instead of saying, 'Shut up, son, I'm watching the game,' Dad says, 'You know what? I can pause the game, son, and here at dinner, let's have a discussion about this,'" said Deace. "And he puts little Richie on his lap, and he grabs this best-selling book — maybe you've heard about it before; it's the greatest best-seller of all time, the Bible — and he walks Richie through the true story of the rainbow.""He wants his son to know that 'unrepentant savages' have co-opted this with the intent of brainwashing him and future generations," said Deace. "And he's going to do something that also is not very prevalent in today's culture: His dad's going to get active and going to be a constant force at the school board meeting to make sure ... that the voiceless have a voice in him and set the example."RELATED: The culture war isn’t a distraction — it’s the main front Blaze Media IllustrationThe book, although written and marketed as a children's book, serves as a tool for parents to better understand the nature of leftist indoctrination, particularly within the school system, just as "A Nefarious Plot" serves as a tool for understanding the demonic infestation at the greater societal level.Deace emphasized to Blaze News that when he put pen to paper, the intended reader was "the men."'I didn't do it for the money, but to send a message.'"It is time to both make dads the hero of the story again — because they really are the antidote to much of what threatens us culturally," said the BlazeTV host, "but also to inspire the men to stop being passive and get engaged because they are the solution."Deace told Blaze News, "This book has been planned for 10 months to strike right at the heart of Pride Month on purpose."Unsurprisingly, Deace had issues getting this particular title published despite his previous successes. Even getting it made proved difficult."We had to go all the way to Hungary to find an illustrator able [and] willing to do this for us to get it out there," said the BlazeTV host. "We had Amazon jack with us during our rollout, and I think we all know why.""I only make a few bucks per book, so I'm not going to get rich off of this. I didn't do it for the money, but to send a message. And that message is this: The time for this demonic trash is at an end," added Deace.At the time of writing, the book was ranked #1 Best-Seller in the Children's Christian Emotions & Feelings Fiction category on Amazon and ranked among the top 10 best-sellers in the Children's Christian Fiction category on the platform.As the book climbed the new release charts on Amazon, Deace noted, "We are getting closer to being a certified LGBTQFU best-seller deep in the heart of pride month."When asked if Richie will be making additional appearances, Deace told Blaze News that pending the success of this title, he could "foresee a future where Richie Meets Reparations, Richie Meets the Resurrection, Richie Meets the Real St. Nicholas, etc. Just spitballing here. But that's up to the audience." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!