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WASHINGTON – This week, Idaho is expected to become the latest state to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Yesterday, the Idaho state House of Representatives, by a 54-14 vote, approved the bill backed by the state's Senate chamber, and it is expected...
By Jennifer Popik, J.D., Director of Federal Legislation Editor’s note. Pro-life Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) was appointed to fill out the term of pro-life Sen. Thad Cochran, who resigned for health reasons. She will compete against pro-abortion Democrat Mike...
By Dave Andrusko It is nice, very nice, to be able to do a wrap up each day, no matter how brief, of the latest pro-life gains in the state legislatures. Good for the soul. Just as I was about to post this entry, Mary Spaulding Balch, NRLC Director of State...
Alabama Citizens For Life held a well attended Pro-Life Legislative Day rally on the Statehouse steps, March 31. Cheryl Ciamarra, Alabama Citizens For Life Legislative Director, who moderated, held up an anatomically correct fetal model while she asked the crowd of...
By Dave Andrusko When last we wrote about U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, an Obama appointment, she had just heard a challenge to Indiana’s new law that bars aborting a child solely because of a prenatal diagnosis of disability or race. She quickly gave...
By Dave Andrusko Just after midnight when the Texas Senate passed HB 2, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (who presides over the Senate) tweeted that “Love wins tonight as the Texas Senate stood firmly on the right side of history.” The Texas Senate has just finished rejecting...
By Andrew Bair The debate over the Texas Preborn Pain bill revealed the face of the abortion movement. On June 25th, the last day of the first called Special Session, abortion advocates caused a disturbance in the Senate chamber, resulting in the removal 75...
By Kathy Ostrowski, Legislative Director, Kansans for Life Editor’s note. This is excerpted from an update distributed by Kansans for Life. SB 141, banning sex-selection abortions, was passed favorably out of the Senate Public Health & Welfare committee on...
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. The following was distributed by National Right to Life’s affiliate, Kansans for Life. On Wednesday the State Senate passed the House substitute for Senate Bill 36 and the bill now goes to Gov. Sam Brownback. Kansans for Life had...
By Colm Willis On Wednesday the Oregon state legislature held its first hearing on a pro-life bill since 2005. The Oregon House Judiciary Committee took testimony on HB 3512. The April 6 hearing marked Oregon’s entrance into the current national debate over laws to...