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By Dave Andrusko On Wednesday, NRL News Today wrote about a decision by an Arlington County judge to allow a lawsuit to go forward, challenging new abortion clinic regulations passed by the Virginia Board of Health in April. (See “Judge allows lawsuit against Virginia...
By Dave Andrusko This process only seems interminable. Presumably someday there will be an end to the arduous process of writing new regulations for Virginia abortion clinics, pro-abortion opposition bordering on hysteria, and legal challenges. But, alas, based on a...
By Dave Andrusko When Vicki Saporta, head of the National Abortion Federation (a trade association for abortion clinics), says, “The anti-choice folks have gotten smarter,” you can pretty much assume that is NOT meant as a compliment. Sure enough, in the next...
By Dave Andrusko When you are dealing with hard-core pro-abortion states, even a small step in the right direction is important. Especially so when the reason the law is passed is because of Planned Parenthood’s misconduct. On Monday the Delaware House passed the...
By Dave Andrusko North Carolina may become the latest state to pass protective legislation in the wake of the murder convictions of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. On a 27-14 vote, the state Senate today passed a measure with a number of ingredients similar to legislation...
By Dave Andrusko Earlier today we posted the letter to the editor Richard Doerflinger sent to the Washington Post. Mr. Doerflinger, associate director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, hoisted the Post’s editorial...
By Dave Andrusko Hmmm. I’ve written two dozen stories, or more, about the battle in Virginia over the state’s abortion clinic regulations and somehow managed to miss that there was another public hearing last week! (There’s another one today as well.) Following...
By Dave Andrusko Commonsense abortion clinic regulations in Virginia are now one step closer to taking effect. Last Friday Gov. Bob McDonnell approved the regulations that were enacted in 2011 with bi-partisan support in the legislature. After a sixty day period...
By Dave Andrusko After the dust settled following last Friday’s vote by the Virginia Board of Health, there are three considerations to keep in mind now (at least for now) that existing abortion clinics will be required to adhere to the new clinic regulations. First,...
By Dave Andrusko As National Right to Life News Today reported, last Friday the Virginia Board of Health reversed itself and said, yes, a law passed to regulate abortion clinics should include existing abortion clinics, not just new ones. A law passed in 2011 mandated...