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good news from Minnesota

Here is an article from the National Right to Life News reporting the good news that a bill to legalize assisted suicide has been withdrawn. The article reports: “More than two hours of public testimony on S.F. 1880 included 17 physicians, nurses, attorneys, and members of the disability community who warned of the grave dangers […]

Supreme Court holds oral argument in Texas abortion case

Here, from LifeNews and National Right to Life News, are reports on yesterday’s oral argument in the Texas abortion case. Supreme Court Holds Hearing on Texas Law Saving Tens of Thousands of Babies From Abortion http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2016/03/behind-the-scenes-as-the-supreme-court-hears-first-abortion-case-since-2007/#.Vth69UnSnIU  

Briefs in the Whole Woman’s Health case

Here is a post from Teresa Collett (as posted on the Mirror of Justice blog by Greg Sisk) concerning the Whole Woman’s Health case (the Texas abortion case currently pending before the United States Supreme Court).   On March 2 the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, a […]

US Supreme Court refuses to review decision invalidating North Dakota’s heartbeat law

On Monday January 25, 2016, the US Supreme refused to review the 8th Circuit’s decision invalidating North Dakota’s heartbeat law. (MKB Mgmt. Corp. v. Stenehjem, 795 F. 3d 768 (8th Cir. 2015).) The North Dakota law banned abortions when the unborn child has a detectable heartbeat. The Eighth Circuit considered itself bound by the Supreme Court’s decisions […]

New poll shows Americans are increasingly pro-life

On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and of the annual March for Life, I thought it fitting to post this recent story about increasing support for the pro-life position. New Poll Shows Americans are Pro-Life on Abortion as Roe v. Wade Turns 43

US Supreme Court refuses to hear case involving Arkansas’s Heartbeat Law

Here is a link to a LifeNews story on the Supreme Court’s January 19, 2016 refusal to review a federal court of appeals decision holding unconstitutional the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act. The Arkansas law required abortionists to perform tests to determine whether the unborn child’s heart was beating and also prohibited abortions if a heartbeat was detected […]

Scotusblog symposium on Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole.

Below is a link to a very helpful scotusblog symposium on Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, the abortion case that will be argued before the US Supreme Court in early March of 2016. This case involves the constitutionality of a Texas abortion law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at local hospitals and requiring abortion clinics […]

7th Circuit invalidates Wisconsin abortion law

Here is a link to a LifeNews story on the Seventh Circuit’s decision in Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc. v. Schimel. The court–by a 2-1 vote–invalidated Wisconsin’s law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. The US Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a similar case involving a Texas statute. The Seventh Circuit’s […]

Supreme Court to hear important abortion case

Here is a link to a report on Scotusblog about the Court’s grant of cert in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole. The Court will address two provisions of a Texas statute: a requirement that the doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their office and that abortion facilities meet the […]

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