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  • Democrats Seek To Fulfill Promise Of Until-Birth Abortion In Virginia

    01/06/2020 8:08:49 AM PST · by Kaslin · 15 replies
    The Federalist ^ | January 6, 2020 | Ashley Bateman
    As the next General Assembly is set to open January 8, pro-abortion leaders in the Senate and House are making good on their promise to push a radical agenda in the legislature In VirginiaÂ’s November election, Democrats won the majority of seats in both the state House and Senate. With Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam at the helm, the state is blue for the first time in 26 years.Lead Democratic candidates campaigned on a radical abortion platform, promising to make abortion through the ninth month of pregnancy accessible and remove other restrictions. Abortion-related groups were the second-largest single-interest donor category in...
  • What You Need to Know About New Abortion Bills Coming in 2020

    12/10/2019 5:28:57 PM PST · by Morgana · 8 replies
    Yahoo ^ | Dec, 10, 2019 | Kristi Pahr
    In the spring of 2019, a wave of anti-abortion laws swept through the country drawing ire and support in equal measure. Bills in Ohio, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, and other states promised to crack down on both those who sought abortions and those who provided them. The bills, which promised to be the toughest restrictions since abortion was legalized in the landmark Roe vs. Wade case in 1973, were all signed into law but then subsequently blocked by district courts, effectively halting their implementation. A new round of bills have been announced recently that take an even more hardline stance on...
  • llinois Pushes Abortion at Any Time for Any Reason, Indiana Pro-Life Bill Upheld at Supreme Court

    05/28/2019 3:08:46 PM PDT · by stars & stripes forever · 29 replies
    CBN NEWS ^ | 5/28/2019 | Charlene Aaron
    Lawmakers in Illinois have advanced what could be the nation's most liberal abortion law. Supporters say the measure is necessary to counter other states' actions to restrict abortion and the threat to overturn Roe v. Wade – the Supreme Court ruling that created abortion rights. Illinois state House Democrats voted to replace the state's abortion law with a measure that would make abortion a primary right in the state.
  • These States Are Voting On Abortion Bills In The Midterms. Here’s What You Should Know

    10/15/2018 3:49:49 PM PDT · by Morgana · 6 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | October 15, 2018 | Grace Carr
    Voters in Alabama, West Virginia and Oregon will cast their ballots in November against or in support of bills amending their state’s abortion laws. Alabama’s proposed constitutional amendment, “Statewide Amendment 2,” will ask voters to affirm that “the constitution of this state does not protect the right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.” It would also “recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children.” “The real aim is to ban abortion, but that’s not what you see in the language. This is just very broad. We have seen some split among conservatives...
  • India media storm over 10-year-old pregnant rape victim

    08/07/2017 5:28:08 AM PDT · by Ennis85 · 9 replies
    BBC News ^ | 7th August 2017 | BBC News
    A 10-year-old girl who is pregnant and has been refused an abortion is at the centre of a media storm in India. The BBC's Geeta Pandey travelled to the northern city of Chandigarh to piece together her story. "We have seen lots of cases of teenage pregnancies involving 14 to 15-year-olds, but this is the first ever case that I have seen of a 10-year-old," said Mahavir Singh, of the Chandigarh State Legal Services Authority. Mr Singh has been involved in a case which has shocked Chandigarh and the rest of India, that of a 10-year-old girl who became pregnant...
  • What the Battle Over Abortion Will Look Like in 2015

    01/03/2015 5:07:11 PM PST · by Morgana · 3 replies
    US News and World Report ^ | Dec. 31, 2014 | Tierney Sneed
    The recent surge in abortion laws -- more were enacted between 2011 and 2013 than in the previous decade -- met both success and defeat in court challenges in 2014. That fight over women's access to abortion likely will continue in the months to come, as both houses of U.S. Congress will be Republican-led, as will even more state houses. What issues will be at the battle lines? Ten states have laws in place banning abortion after 20 weeks; Nebraska was the first to pass theirs, in 2010. Proponents argue that 20 weeks is when a fetus can begin to...
  • Ramsey wants to limit new Tenn. abortion laws

    12/12/2014 12:35:45 PM PST · by Morgana
    Knoxville News ^ | Dec 12, 2014 | Eriz Schelzig, Associated Press
    NASHVILLE — The approval of a constitutional amendment to give the state Legislature more power to regulate abortions in Tennessee may have opened the floodgates to proposals from Republican lawmakers in the upcoming session, but Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey said Thursday that he doesn't expect most of them to be enacted.
  • Abortion issue returning to Nevada Legislature in 2015

    12/02/2014 10:17:54 AM PST · by Morgana · 3 replies
    Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | November 30, 2014 | LAURA MYERS
    A Nevada law on the books for 30 years requires girls younger than 18 to tell at least one of their parents before getting an abortion, but it’s never been enforced because of a successful legal challenge. Now, with the Republican takeover of both houses of the Nevada Legislature, fueled by an influx of fresh-faced conservatives, anti-abortion advocates say they’re going to take another run at reviving the statute. “One of our highest priorities has been the parental notification law,” Melissa Clement, president of Nevada Right to Life, said. “We’ve always played defense because there hasn’t been enough (anti-abortion) lawmakers...
  • 70 new anti-abortion laws OK'd in 22 states, second most ever

    01/04/2014 6:50:05 PM PST · by Libloather · 8 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 1/02/14 | PAUL BEDARD
    Some 22 states enacted 70 new provisions to target abortion last year, the second most ever, prompting an outcry from Planned Parenthood, which accused “out-of-touch Tea Party politicians” with using “every underhanded trick in the book to get these laws passed.” A new report from the Guttmacher Institute said that the 70 provisions were second in number to the nearly 90 approved in 2011. The group said that 205 abortion restrictions were approved over the past three years, more than the 189 enacted during the previous decade. The report also noted that many states increased access to abortion, such as...
  • Assisted Suicide, Human Rights and Wrongs

    05/30/2010 2:08:53 PM PDT · by DanMiller · 2 replies · 170+ views
    Opinion Forum ^ | May 30, 2010 | Dan Miller
    As with most controversies many on all sides of the issue present persuasive arguments. I suspect that most people would nevertheless prefer not talk about it. Death is not a pleasant thing to consider despite its universality and despite the great rewards said to be available in Heaven for those who credit that concept. In my view, the question is an intensely personal and serious one to be answered by individuals according to their own lights rather than dictated by what the government, family, friends, other people’s religious organizations or even majority opinion may consider proper. Those who have religious...
  • UN Data Show Banning Abortion Doesn't Increase Maternal Mortality

    02/19/2006 7:43:35 PM PST · by Coleus · 12 replies · 876+ views
    Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute ^ | 02.17.06 | Bradford Short
    Dear Colleague, One of the old chestnuts of the pro-abortion movement has turned rotten. They say laws against abortion result in higher maternal mortality. New statistics direct from the UN indicate they couldn't be more wrong. In fact, it seems pro-life nations actually have lower maternal mortality rates. This information must be used immediately by everyone concerned about this issue but particularly by those in countries where abortion is against the law: Ireland and Poland especially. Spread the word far and wide. Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse President Action Item: Read the report here.UN Data Show Banning Abortion Doesn't Increase...
  • Anti-Abortion Advocates? Bring 'Em On, Texan Says -Planned Parenthood faces Roe v. Wade challenge

    03/12/2006 10:03:10 PM PST · by weegee · 15 replies · 2,798+ views
    New York Times ^ | Published: March 10, 2006 | By ROBIN FINN
    CECILE RICHARDS, the new and instantly embattled president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, would like those retro "folks" — her word — intent on knocking her organization, and the entire abortion rights movement, off the map to know she takes after her maternal grandmother That would be the tall, whip-thin woman who, nine-months pregnant and bedridden, took a timeout from home-birthing a future governor of Texas — Ms. Richards's mother, Ann — to wring the neck of the chicken her family was having for dinner. Plucky. "I love the idea of that story, and I'm sure it's true,"...
  • Is Lawrence Worse Than Roe?

    06/28/2003 7:08:52 AM PDT · by Polycarp · 696 replies · 1,535+ views
    CRISIS Magazine - e-Letter ^ | 6/27/03 | Deal Hudson
    Is Lawrence Worse Than Roe? CRISIS Magazine - e-Letter June 27, 2003 ********************************************** There has been a lot of lot of talk since yesterday's Supreme Court decision in the case of Lawrence v. Texas, a dispute over Texas' law making sodomy illegal. The Supreme Court overturned that law by a vote of 6 to 3, saying that such laws "demean the lives of homosexual persons" and infringe upon their right to privacy. Let me tell you right now: Lawrence is a devastating decision, worse than most people think -- and for reasons that haven't fully dawned on them yet. I...