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By Dave Andrusko The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing oral arguments today in an appeal brought by the state of Texas, challenging a lower court decision that overturned the state’s Texas Dismemberment Abortion Ban. After a five-day trial over Senate Bill 8...
By Dave Andrusko Newcomers to the pro-life camp may not be aware that the debate over partial-birth abortions changed the trajectory of the abortion debate. Even Gallup conceded that the publicity “likely caused more Americans to identify as pro-life.” This in spite...
Editor’s note. The following statement was issued by South Carolina Citizens for Life, following Thursday’s vote in the state Senate. A proposal to ban dismemberment abortions lost out for reasons explained below. South Carolina would have been the tenth state to ban...
By Dave Andrusko When pro-life Gov. Matt Bevin signed House Bill 454, Kentucky became the latest state to ban the vicious and gruesome practice of dismemberment abortions. Eight states had already passed bans on dismemberment abortions: Kansas (2015); Oklahoma (2015);...
By Dave Andrusko As still another illustration of the maxim that elections have consequences, the Kentucky House of Representatives Monday overwhelmingly passed House Bill 454 which would ban what supporters call “cruel and gruesome” dismemberment abortions. The...
By Dave Andrusko For the third time in less than a week, a state legislative body has advanced a bill that would ban the horrific practice of dismemberment abortions. On Wednesday, the Kentucky House Judiciary Committee approved HB 454 which would outlaw the savage...
By Dave Andrusko By an overwhelming 72-42 margin, Florida’s House of Representatives Thursday approved HB1429, a bill which would outlaw the savage procedure of killing a living unborn child by ripping and tearing the baby apart limb by limb. The ban on dismemberment...
South Carolina GOP Urges Passage By Holly Gatling Last year, the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion (H3548) passed the South Carolina House by an overwhelming, bi-partisan vote of 89-17. On February 15 it passed the Senate Medical Affairs Subcommittee...
HARRISBURG, Pa. –Preborn babies in Pennsylvania would no longer have to undergo brutal dismemberment abortions, under a bill passed Tuesday by the PA House of Representatives. Senate Bill 3, which has already passed the PA Senate, would ban abortions in which living...
By Dave Andrusko With a consistent track record of hostility to pro-life legislation, today’s decision by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin striking down Texas’s Dismemberment Abortion Ban came as no surprise. Judge Yeakel’s 27-page -long decision followed a...