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20-06-2025
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Young conservative women at summit declare ideology is 'empowering,' about knowing their 'God-given value'
Print Close By Elizabeth Heckman, Gabriel Hays Published June 20, 2025 Young women from across America attending the 2025 Young Women's Leadership Summit (YWLS) said that being a conservative woman means recognizing their God-given value and standing up for American principles even if they've become unpopular. Fox News Digital spoke to several young women at the summit last week about the traits they believe are quintessential to being a conservative woman today. Kelly, from Texas, told the outlet that being a conservative woman means "that we need to uphold America's values and our God-given value." KEY SCOTUS PARENTAL RIGHTS CASES DRAW MCMAHON, MOMS FOR LIBERTY TO RALLY ON COURT STEPS From June 13 to June 15 in Dallas, Texas, the summit hosted by Turning Point USA, featured speeches from prominent conservative leaders like TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, pro-life activist Lila Rose, and women's rights activist and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines. When asked what it means to be a conservative woman, Brianna from Texas told Fox it is "so empowering." Mentioning the Republican Party, she added, "And I just love everything that this party stands for and just really hits close to home for me, especially in Texas." Zairiyah from Texas said it means "loving your country, being powerful, and not afraid to speak up." Natasha, who traveled to the convention from Chicago, said it means "staying true to your values, never forgetting God wherever you are in the world… and being as feminine as you can possibly be." 'MAKE AMERICA HOT AGAIN' SOCIALS BRING YOUNG CONSERVATIVE SINGLES TOGETHER IN NEW YORK CITY Taryn from Los Angeles said that conservative women are "pro-economy, pro-family, pro-babies, pro-health." Emma, a Florida native, said conservative women are "strong and resilient and also nurturing at the same time." Several attendees stressed that being conservative is about not bending to peer pressure or to the will of the crowd. "It means to have strong values and to stand up for what you believe in and kind of go against the curve and not fall along with the crowd," Kate, also from Florida, said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Gabrielle, a Texas native who lives in Colorado, told Fox that being a conservative woman means "standing up for your faith and your values and just not backing down even when your whole state is against you or your whole city." Cassie from Texas said, "To me, it just means being vocal about your values, speaking your truth – like not being afraid of what maybe the media is portraying or like what people close to you are saying." Other young women mentioned how their Christian faith is integral to being a conservative woman. Pennsylvania native Jacinda told Fox, "Being a conservative woman means to me probably following like the principles of the Bible and what Jesus teaches, and just a lot of things like that because I feel like they align really well." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Grace from Florida added, "Holding up values, traditional values that come from the Bible and be able to carry those throughout every aspect of life, to be able to create a foundation for yourself and your family that carries out the Lord's message." Print Close URL
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Yahoo
Pro-life ally: Pro-abortion assault response 'troubling'; Trump's Planned Parenthood funding cut 'great step'
Astonishing footage of a woman assaulting a pro-life activist stunned the internet in early April, when the young advocate was conducting man-on-the-street interviews in New York City before being attacked by a pro-abortion subject. Savannah Craven Antao was assaulted by a woman who consented to an on-camera conversation regarding abortion issues. "Savannah was having these conversations," Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, a pro-life anti-abortion nonprofit organization, told Fox News Digital. "One of them obviously went really south in that the woman that she was speaking with certainly engaged her, seemed pretty friendly but ultimately ended up getting very angry." Pro-life Activist Assaulted, Bloodied During Street Interview About Abortion A video captured by Antao's husband, the cameraman, caught the woman, Brianna J. Rivers, 30, throwing sucker punches. Rivers was later arrested on one count of second-degree assault, according to a report by the New York Post. Antao was left bleeding and in need of stitches. She was taken to the emergency room for treatment. Read On The Fox News App "This woman kind of just marched off yelling profanities," Rose said. "You can't just go punching and assaulting people and sending them to the emergency room for stitches." The response by social media users was divided as some submitted comments in favor of the assaulter, while others were horrified by the attack and feared for their own safety as pro-lifers. 'Abortion Pill' Found To Have 'Severe Adverse Effects' For 1 In 10 Women, Study Finds "It was really troubling to see the response by some, not by all, but by some people," Rose said. "There were again people that supported abortion who said basically Savannah had what was coming to her. How dare she talk to people about this issue? She's going to get hit in the face. As if physical violence for a conversation is somehow justified." However, Rose is hopeful that basic discourse with restraint and without physical violence is still valued among Americans. "There is, I think, a growing group of people who think that violence against people you disagree with politically is okay," Rose said. "And particularly who, because they support the violence of abortion, they think that it's okay then to be violent to people that are born, too, who you disagree with." Abortion issues, a discussion point which has gained inconsistent notoriety among both Republicans and Democrats, were a focal point of the 2024 presidential elections where President Donald Trump ran as a pro-life advocate. Abortion On Demand: These 6 States Allow Women To Get Pregnancy-ending Drugs By Phone Or Online In late March, President Trump withheld tens of millions of dollars in Planned Parenthood funds for possible violation of civil rights laws, according to reports. "I thought this was a great step in the right direction," Rose said. "Planned Parenthood claims that they are about planning parenthood, but they do the exact opposite. They destroy parenthood." "The fact that the Trump administration has removed some funding, I think, is a very positive step. The reality is that, though, the recent action by the Trump administration is only, we're talking about the tens of millions of dollars when there's $700 million that Planned Parenthood is receiving. This is a small step forward but what we need to see from the federal branch is more responsibility and accountability to stop funding abortion providers." In 2024, it was reported that "an estimated 1,038,000 abortions were provided by clinicians in states without total bans in 2024," according to the Guttmacher Institute, a non-governmental organization funded, in part, by Planned Parenthood. Dems Will Make State Sanctuary For Kids' Gender Transitions, Abortion Over Gop Protest Among those who obtained abortion care in 2021-2022, 53% of them paid out of pocket and 30% used Medicaid to fund their treatments, according to the source. "A common rebuttal from, certainly, pro-abortion Democrats, is saying, 'Well, we're not funding taxpayer abortions. We're just taxpayer-funding abortion providers and the reality is the money is fungible,'" Rose said. "Planned parenthood is billing Medicaid and getting government funds for basically all of their other operational expenses and many other of their procedures that ultimately prop up their abortion business." Medication abortions made up 63% of the clinician-provided abortions in 2023, according to Guttmacher. "We need to see the abortion pill, which lands 1 out of every 10 women that take it with serious health consequences including emergency room visits," Rose said of the pill, mifepristone, used in combination with another medication, misoprostol, to terminate pregnancies. "We should see that dangerous drug pulled from the market." In late April, a study conducted by the Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., revealed "severe adverse effects" for nearly 11% of women, more than 1 in 10, who used the abortion drug. "No taxpayer money should be going to them," Rose said. "They should be shut down."Original article source: Pro-life ally: Pro-abortion assault response 'troubling'; Trump's Planned Parenthood funding cut 'great step'
