Is this what the Irish people want the healthcare budget spent on? By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Just 24 hours after Ireland's constitutional protection of the unborn ended with President Michael D Higgins' signing into law of the...
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Appeals Court refuses to rehear decision mandating Medicaid funding for Louisiana Planned Parenthood
By Dave Andrusko On a tie vote of 7-7, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday refused to hear a three-judge panel’s decision that stymied efforts by the state of Louisiana to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. The 5th Circuit is currently short...
Arkansas again cuts off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
By Dave Andrusko Two weeks ago, NRL News Today reported that the full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had denied a request to reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision that upheld Arkansas’s determination to discontinue Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. The...
Appeals court denies Planned Parenthood request to rehear defunding decision
By Dave Andrusko On Monday the full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request to reconsider a three-judge panel's decision that upheld Arkansas’s determination to discontinue Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. The lawsuit brought by three Planned...
Let’s end taxpayer funding of abortion in Minnesota
By Paul Stark Minnesota taxpayers have bankrolled elective abortions for low-income women for more than two decades. But the problem is getting worse year after year. In 2015, according to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, taxpayers reimbursed abortion...
Bill headed to Iowa Governor that defunds abortion providers
By Dave Andrusko You have to give the pro-abortion-to-the-core Des Moines Register credit: they don’t even pretend to be non-partisan. (More about that momentarily.) Yesterday, on a party-line vote, the Iowa Senate followed up House approval Wednesday by okaying the...
Trump Administration will defund UNFPA, cites its involvement in China’s coercive population control
By Dave Andrusko WASHINGTON, D.C. The Trump administration announced Monday it will cut off U.S. funding for the United Nations Population Fund, on the basis that the UNFPA’s activities in China are complicit with that nation’s coercive population control program, the...
MCCL backs bills to ban taxpayer funded abortions, require abortion facility licensing
Legislation addresses injustice, women’s safety concerns ST. PAUL — Justice and safety regarding abortion are the focus of two initiatives introduced today in the Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate. A bill to ban taxpayer funded abortions and another to...
Iowa Senate votes to reallocate state funding away from abortion providers
By Dave Andrusko The Iowa Senate, voting strictly along party lines, Thursday voted in favor of SF 2. The bill would reallocate state taxpayer funding away from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to federally qualified health centers and family planning...
Commemorating 40 Years of the Life-Saving Hyde Amendment, Over a million lives saved
Hillary Clinton wants to end the Hyde Amendment Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 6. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” -- the stories our readers have told us they...