Hawley Targets Plan C, Senator's Sister to Run for Full Term, Bishops Defend Law Enforcement - 7/21/26

An organization accused of helping abortion pill dealers evade state and federal laws could soon face a Justice Department probe. I'm Josh Mercer with your Morning LOOPcast. Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has referred the abortion pill group Plan C to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. He says the left-wing dark money operation serves as a referral and logistics hub connecting women with foreign clinics and online vendors that mail Mifepristone into states. ...whose pro-life laws forbid it, sometimes without prescriptions or medical consultations.

Catholic Votes' Tom McCluskey praised Hawley, saying, "...it is two years past time for the Trump administration to hold these groups accountable." South Carolina's newest senator wants to keep the job. Darlene Graham, appointed to fill the seat of her late brother Lindsey Graham, announced that she will seek a full six-year term to the Senate. President Trump has already endorsed her, but she faces a crowded Republican primary field that includes Congressman Ralph Norman and Russell Frye. Special election is August 11. The U.S.

bishops are calling for humane immigration enforcement, but also standing up for the officers who enforce the law. Bishops Daniel Garcia and Brendan Cahill affirmed the government's legitimate authority to enforce immigration laws and condemned both racial profiling and the vilification of law enforcement. The power of the state, they wrote, must always be exercised within the limits of the moral law. Today is the Feast of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, a gifted preacher, linguist, and doctor of the church. Go to zeal.co for the rest of today's loop, and while you're at it, subscribe to get the loop in your inbox every morning. Again, that's zeal.co.