NFL player Benjamin Watson clapped back at Alyssa Milano after she argued that women of color would be hurt by abortion bans and restrictions.

Milano appeared on CNN last week where she talked to Chris Cuomo about her call for a “sex strike.” Milano argued that all women should abstain from sex until such a time that they regain the ‘right’ to have an abortion. The actress pointed to privilege when talking about recent pro-life legislation passed in Georgia, Alabama, Ohio, etc. saying that “women of privilege” will not be affected by the abortion restrictions in the same way as women of color.

6) If Roe is overturned this will be catastrophic for the women most at risk.

Government is never bigger than when it’s in our uteruses.

We must take a stand against the @GOP legislating our bodies. That means you too, men! Fight with us. We need you. #SexStrike

— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) May 13, 2019

Milano told Cuomo “I feel like any woman of privilege that lives in one of these states — if this goes through — they’re gonna be able to travel to a state to get a safe reproductive health care.”

She continued, “But for the women of color, for the women that are marginalized, for the women that are low-income communities, for the women that are most at-risk, this bill will be catastrophic.”

Milano’s comment sparked…

The Pennsylvania Democratic representative who harassed pro-lifers outside an abortion clinic and sparked a backlash within the pro-life community is apologizing to Planned Parenthood supporters. 

“I’m sorry to have created this distraction,” State Rep. Brian Sims writes in a Planned Parenthood fundraising email.

The email was first reported by Salena Zito, a reporter for the New York Post and a CNN columnist.

Sims posted a video in early May showing him harassing and chasing a pro-life woman up and down a sidewalk in front of a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood. He claimed she had no “moral right” to be there. He also called her an “old white lady” four times. Earlier, he had posted a video showing him berating pro-life teenage girls in front of the same clinic. In both videos, he asked the audience to help him find the names and addresses of the pro-life protesters.

The videos ignited a backlash and led to a pro-life rally in front of the same clinic attended by some 1,000 people, Christian Headlines previously reported. 

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider.

“If you saw any of the national coverage of my actions throughout the last 10 days, I wanted to send an apology,” Sims writes in the email. “I recognize that my behavior was aggressive and that I acted in an inappropriate way. For…

Illinois police have opened an investigation into beleaguered Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald after multiple claims surfaced that the pastor sought a hitman to commit murder. 

“A subject came in and filed a report and we are doing an investigation based on that report,” Wilmette Deputy Police Chief Pat Collins told The Christian Post.

That report was filed by Chicago radio personality Mancow Muller, a former church member. A similar but separate report was also filed with police in Bartlett, Illinois by Emmanuel “Manny” Bucur, a deacon at HBC and former confidant and volunteer bodyguard for MacDonald. Harvest recently fired MacDonald following accusations of bullying, mismanaging finances, inappropriate touching and other actions.

Muller made his allegations of murder-for-hire public during a recent podcast, saying that MacDonald asked him at least twice in 2018 if he knew a hitman. Muller said he thought the prominent pastor was joking but, during another conversation in December, it became clear to him MacDonald was “really serious.” According to Relevant magazine, Muller went on to say he believed the target was one of MacDonald’s rivals.

“And at that moment I realized I was in a cult, this guy was bad and I couldn’t support it any longer. Do I think he was kidding? No. I think he really wanted me to find a…

At least 11 midwestern and southern states are under severe storm warnings today as a slew of dangerous weather conditions continues to batter the states.

According to AccuWeather, over the weekend and into Monday, severe weather broke out across the central and southern Plains spawning more than two dozen tornadoes across the region. Reporters in Sky 5 helicopter’s for Oklahoma’s local ABC News syndicate even captured two tornadoes side-by-side, touching down at the same time over Logan County, Oklahoma, Time Magazine reports. The storm system produced dangerously high winds, severe thunderstorms and flash flooding which particularly affected Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. 

According to NBC News, the storm caused tremendous damage to building structures and homes, but no deaths have been reported at this time. 

News outlets warn residents of Texas and Oklahoma to expect more severe weather on Tuesday, as violent thunderstorms are expected to produce damaging winds of at least 75 mph, hail storms producing 2-inch hail or larger and more tornadoes. NBC News reports that a tornado was confirmed to have touched down Tuesday morning near the Tulsa International Airport forcing passengers to run for cover. No injuries or fatalities have been reported so far. 

NBC News reports that areas in the central Plains are still at high risk for flash flooding, as…

The conventional wisdom that says pro-life laws are a Republican-only issue may be challenged soon in Louisiana, where a Democratic governor has signaled support for a heartbeat bill banning abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy.

It wouldn’t be the first time Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has bucked his party’s platform. Last year he signed a bill prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks. In 2016, he signed a bill requiring a 72-hour waiting period before obtaining an abortion. Both are being challenged in court. 

The nation has 23 Democratic governors. Edwards is the only one who is pro-life, according to The Times-Picayune. 

“My position hasn’t changed. In eight years in the legislature, I was a pro-life legislator,” Edwards told media members last week, according to CNN. “When I ran for governor, I said that I was pro-life. And so that’s something that’s consistent.”

He added: “The people of Louisiana are overwhelmingly pro-life.”

Ben Clapper, executive director of Louisiana Right to Life, said Edwards “has a good record with us.” 

Louisiana’s heartbeat bill, SB 184, makes it unlawful to “knowingly perform an abortion with the specific intent of causing or abetting the termination of the life of an unborn human being when a fetal heartbeat has been detected.” It makes exceptions for the life or the mother and to “prevent a…