Other wins include laws that require women to make an extra doctor’s visit 24 to 72 hours before having an abortion, instituted in 14 states.Īt one point during his broadcast that morning, Duggar sought out a few of his siblings, finding them on brownish grass along the Mall. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.), in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a religious company’s right to limit employee birth control options, to be among AUL’s victories. She considers the Hobby Lobby case ( Burwell v. Republican Party leaders Rick Santorum and Lindsey Graham were among the speakers, as was Charmaine Yoest, the president and CEO of Americans United for Life, who boasts that her organization has instituted more legislative roadblocks to abortion in the past two years than anyone has in the past decade. ![]() This particular morning, he was reporting via a sometimes-faulty live feed to ProLifeCon, happening at the Family Research Council headquarters nearby. The oldest of the 19 children featured in TLC’s (now retired) reality show 19 Kids and Counting, he has been in front of cameras since his teens. A cameraman followed after him as he approached people with colorful signs that said things like “Crusaders for Life.” Two women who-as they explained into Duggar’s mic-had been born to sexually assaulted mothers held pink and blue signs that read “Conceived by Rape.”īystanders that day may have recognized Duggar’s wholesome-looking baby face from television. The 27-year-old Duggar, then executive director of the conservative Family Research Council’s lobbying arm, was holding a microphone. “The Lord is definitely shining down on us,” said Josh Duggar, wandering around the Mall with coffee, wearing jeans and a tie under his trench coat. ![]() The previous year on this day, when anti-abortion activists gathered on the National Mall for the annual March for Life, it had been a frigid 15 degrees. It was 40 degrees in Washington, D.C., on the morning of January 22, 2015, the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v.
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