Supreme Court allows Texas heartbeat act to stay in effect and lets providers sue state
The Supreme Court will allow Texas’s Heartbeat Act to stay in effect, but it will allow abortion providers to sue Texas over the law.
U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in biggest abortion case since Roe. Here are key takeaways.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act. The law bans most abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation.
Roper: Everyone should hate Proposal 5
“Personal reproductive autonomy” as something that “shall not be denied or infringed” is not a clear concept, which is why everybody with a shred of common sense and imagination should be adamantly opposed to this becoming the law of our land.
Title X taxpayer funds to flow back to abortion businesses after Biden admin makes rule change
President Joe Biden’s administration is revoking a rule that prevented federal family planning aid from going to health centers that performed or referred abortions. The new rule allows Title X federal funds to go to health centers which refer patients for abortions.
Symposium on life discusses what’s at stake for unborn with Vermont’s Proposal 5
On Saturday, hundreds of attendees of a symposium sponsored by the Vermont Right to Life Committee heard multiple speakers discuss what’s at stake for the unborn in Vermont if constitutional amendment Proposal 5 passes next year.
Rep. Anne Donahue: We look back on eugenics, slavery in horror — maybe someday abortion, too
The day may come when we express our apology for the disregard of the human lives that are in utero in the same way we did this year for those lives we devalued 70 and 80 years ago in Vermont’s eugenics policies.
Tom Evslin: Does Bernie Sanders oppose vaccine mandates?
If government can’t tell people what to do with their bodies, it can’t tell them they have to be vaccinated. Not even a U.S. senator gets to have it both ways.
Biden DOJ asks federal judge to block SCOTUS-approved Texas abortion law
The Department of Justice asked a federal judge late Tuesday night to block Texas’ Heartbeat Act, which prohibits abortions after the baby’s heartbeat can be detected.
Archbishop slams Catholics Biden, Pelosi for condemning new Texas abortion law
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone emphasized Sunday that Catholics have a duty to challenge pro-abortion politicians like President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Texas abortion ban goes into effect, ‘effectively overturns Roe v. Wade’
Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northrop warned Monday that if the law is not blocked within the next two days, “Texas politicians will have effectively overturned Roe v. Wade.”
Shannara Johnson: The full barbarism of abortion practices is coming to light
We don’t get to nod understandingly anymore and say something like, “Well, I don’t really agree with abortion, but everyone should be free to make their own decision.” That was me just a few years ago, and I’m deeply ashamed of that fact.
Sununu urged to veto abortion ban provision in state budget
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is being urged to veto a provision in the proposed state budget that would ban abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy.