• • These 27 Major American Cities are Abortion Free, With No Clinics Killing Babies in Abortions
• • Hilarious Video "The Magical Birth Canal" Destroys the Pro-Abortion Claim Human Rights Begin at Birth

Abortion activists coined the term "abortion desert" several years ago to complain about how fewer unborn babies are being aborted in America.

The term refers to the large areas in the U.S. where abortion facilities do not exist. A new study identified 27 cities as fitting that description.

Market Watch reports the study out of the University of California, San Francisco identified 27 city areas where women must travel at least 100 miles to an abortion facility. Most of the cities are in the midwest, and most are in rural areas - such as Pocatello, Idaho, which has a population of about 50,000.

Other cities include Rapid City, South Dakota; Columbia, Missouri; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Corpus Christi, Texas; Lake Charles, Louisiana; and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

According to the researchers, the northeast region had the lowest number of "abortion deserts." Alice Cartwright, lead author of the study, blamed pro-life efforts for closing abortion facilities and cutting off what she seems to believe is an essential health care service for women.

"In the last five to seven years, because of restrictions that have been passed, clinics have been closing and access to abortion has decreased," Cartwright said.

According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, states have passed 15 pro-life laws so far in 2018 and introduced more than 1,200 others. Abortion activists also complained about how these "abortion deserts" increase travel costs and other expenses related to obtaining an abortion, such as childcare for born children and time off work.

The study, and others like it, have been used to attack pro-lifers, but the picture that they present is very flawed.

Researcher Michael New Ph.D. refuted a similar study in 2017:

The stories emphasize the fact that some women have to travel hundreds of miles to obtain an abortion. However, a closer look at the findings reveals a far more nuanced picture.  According to the study, in 2014 the median distance between a woman of childbearing age and the nearest abortion facility was 10.79 miles. Furthermore, while there exists regional variation in travel distances, relatively few women face exceptionally long travel times. For instance, among the 16 U.S. states the study classifies as Southern, the median distance to an abortion facility was just over 27 miles.  Additionally, in Texas, where recent abortion clinic closures have received national media attention, the median distance in 2014 was only 17.23 miles.

And as Ken Shepherd at NewsBusters pointed out in response to another study in 2014, these so-called "abortion deserts" have a lot to do with supply and demand. Most are in rural areas where populations frequently are older and more conservative, and fewer women want to abort their unborn babies

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   MICAIAH BILGER   JUN 7, 2018 

A hilarious new video pokes fun at one of abortion activists' most bizarre and disturbing beliefs about human rights.

Produced by the Canadian pro-life organization Choice42 (Choice for Two), the video asks viewers to consider the question, "How did you get your human rights?"

Their answer? "The Magical Birth Canal."

"Before a baby or a fetus is born, it's not a human being, clearly," a woman tells the viewers. "But as it passes through the birth canal, something amazing happens that transforms it into a person - with human rights.

"So, what exactly happens in the birth canal that causes this magical transformation? No one knows," she continues. "But popular scientific theories include fairies, aliens or, of course, a mini big bang."

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A California judge has overturned the state's law legalizing assisted suicide, ruling it unconstitutional.

The judge indicated the legislature improperly passed the state law during a special session that was supposed to be specifically devoted to Medicare funding. The judge ruled that the state legislature should not have approved the assisted-suicide law during that special session because the subject of the law fell outside the grounds of the special session.

Euthanasia activists argued in court that assisted suicide is health care and that made it appropriate for the special session. More than 100 people have killed themselves under the law.

Attorneys with Life Legal Defense Foundation told LifeNews that the assisted suicide law sponsors introduced the bill in a special session of the legislature convened by Governor Jerry Brown to address Medicaid funding shortfalls, services for the disabled, and in-home health support services. Life Legal attorneys appeared in court this morning to argue that the End of Life Option Act, which decriminalizes physician-assisted suicide, is not related or even incidental to the stated purpose of the special session. Suicide is not health care, they argued.

Riverside Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia agreed, holding that "the End of Life Option Act does not fall within the scope of access to healthcare services," and that it "is not a matter of health care funding."

Life Legal filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings in March 2018, arguing that the law should be overturned because the manner in which it was passed is unconstitutional.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra opposed the motion stating that legislation passed during special sessions is presumed to be constitutional. The Attorney General also argued that the physicians who sued to overturn the law do not have standing to challenge the End of Life Option Act.