Jessica Prol Smith

Letitia James’ Crusade Against Abortion Pill Reversal Is Also Killing Free Speech @JessicaProl thefederalist.com/2026/04/17/let…

Yesterday, outside a small courtroom in NYC: “We’re here today to be a voice for the voiceless. We’re here to offer hope. And we’re here to let the attorney general know we will not be silenced.”

“Kudos to this administration for calling out the weaponization of a powerful federal agency against grassroots efforts desiring only to help women avoid the physical and emotional perils of abortion. Peaceful, pro-life citizens, whether in pregnancy centers or on sidewalks, should never fear their own government. Every woman deserves love and compassion during her pregnancy, not a politically powered abortion lobby."   - Jor-El Godsey

Can confirm the anecdotal truth.

@logasmi Aww... 🍕😘 Dude, I was just cleaning out the leftovers.

Find yourself a queen like @JessicaProl that makes homemade brisket pizza.

On the basis of a legal opinion from DOJ OLC, the Dept of Veterans Affairs recently reverted to its longstanding rule of not providing abortions through VA medical benefits. Senate Dems @SenBlumenthal are now trying to overturn that rule. That effort should and must fail. Taxpayer-funded VA abortions are not permitted by the law & are not what Americans want.

"Pregnancy centers make sure she hears the words that changed my life: 'You're not alone. You matter. And there is hope.'" Powerful testimony from a mom, overcomer, and leaders who now serves women through pregnancy resource centers.

Three boats ran and now all three have been captured. Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the Bertha without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. The vessel was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean and attempted to evade. From the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, we tracked it and stopped it. No other nation has the global reach, endurance, or will to enforce sanctions at this distance. International waters are not a refuge for sanctioned actors. By land, air, or sea, our forces will find you and deliver justice. The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies freedom of maneuver in the maritime domain.

On a road trip to vacation in Florida, and we’ve officially hit the reading-aloud-the-Chronicles-of-Narnia-to-the-kids phase of life. Life doesn’t get much better than this.

@Katy_Faust “I just want Jesus” (a version of “preach the gospel”) “We don’t want to provide ‘stumbling blocks’” by saying inconvenient things about sex or gender

Common excuses for Christians to avoid engaging in the culture war: - Don’t be political. - Just preach the gospel. - God isn't a democrat or a republican What else have you heard?

Elizabeth was a cashier at Lowe's, barely scraping by, when she found out she was pregnant. Planned Parenthood told her she could start a chemical abortion that day—or try to get back on the packed schedule later. Feeling cornered, she took the first pill. She hadn't even left the building when she learned the baby's father wanted to keep their child. And it hit her—she'd wanted that too, all along. She tried to throw the pill up. Then she found a number buried on page 3 of Google: the Abortion Pill Reversal helpline. A nurse answered. A doctor called back in 15 minutes. By that evening, she'd started treatment. Her beautiful baby daughter was born healthy in January 2024. Now California's Attorney General is suing @HeartbeatIntl and @Realoptionsc, the very groups that helped Elizabeth—claiming it's "fraud" to tell women about Abortion Pill Reversal. He wants crippling fines, a permanent gag order, and censorship. This is playing politics in the courtroom with real lives at stake, plain and simple. That's where Thomas More Society comes in. We took this case, and after two years of hard-fought litigation, we've taken the state's arguments apart piece by piece and found zero consumer complaints. Zero evidence that APR is harmful. Our hearing is April 15. We'll keep fighting to keep that phone line ringing.

End mail-order abortions. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the Biden-era abortion-by-mail scheme has allowed thousands of abortion drugs to flow into Louisiana each year. We're calling on the FDA to put a stop to it. Yesterday, they submitted their reply brief in our lawsuit, Louisiana v. FDA. With @AGLizMurrill, we’re asking the Court to end illegal mail-order abortions now. They agree that Biden’s scheme is unlawful, but they want to spend another year or more conducting a study. Justice delayed is justice denied. Stand with Rosalie and the State of Louisiana.

"Heartbeat International welcomes efforts to protect and inform pregnant students regarding the resources available to help them continue their pregnancy and adjust to motherhood. No student should face discrimination or additional obstacles to an unexpected pregnancy. S. 3627, the Pregnant Students' Rights Act acknowledges the invaluable work offered by the pregnancy help community and supports our vision for a world where every new life is welcomed. "We're disappointed that the Senate couldn't garner the votes for this bill, because protecting pregnant students shouldn't be a partisan issue. "Regardless, our pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, medical centers, and adoption agencies offer invaluable support to moms and families--and we will continue to do so." -Jor-El Godsey, President of Heartbeat International @jorelg

“Heartbeat International welcomes federal efforts to protect the pregnancy help community from unjust discrimination. Our pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, medical centers, and adoption agencies offer invaluable support to moms and families--often without a dime of federal taxpayer funds. Every state should promote practical, life-affirming help for moms unexpectedly pregnant. States that protect unborn life and promote maternal health should be permitted to partner with members of our community to offer effective care. “H.R. 6945, Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act levels the playing field and helps ensure that pro-abortion politicians can't exclude us from strategic and compassionate partnership." @jorelg, President of Heartbeat International

“Today’s [Senate HELP] briefing established what we already know: Women across our country face profound harms from the use and coercive abuse of chemical abortion drugs. The Biden Administration irresponsibly eliminated key safety protocols for these dangerous drugs. Our affiliated nurses and consultants within the pregnancy help movement have firsthand knowledge of how these reckless changes have empowered traffickers and abusers, endangered minors, and left women to suffer complications — including hemorrhage, incomplete abortion, and infection — alone and without medical care." - Heartbeat president, @jorelg See the full release here: heartbeatinternational.org/news-media/pre…

This Executive Order from President Trump, from less than a year ago, seems relevant today: whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

Today’s subtle reminder that today’s spot in history isn’t the only one. What a gobsmacking find. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hun…

@BenSasse And the ending will be better than we know how to anticipate. Keep on keeping on.

@BenSasse I’m praying for you, Melissa, and the “kids” (you’re right; they are dazzling young adults.) May you run the rest of this race—however many laps our Lord gives you—with endurance and genuine hope.

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses