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By Dave Andrusko In early 2017 the Kentucky legislature passed two new pro-life bills. One was the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (SB5) which then PPFA President Cecile Richards described as “shameful.” SB5, which has not been challenged, forbids aborting...
By Dave Andrusko If you could work your way through Justice Stephen Breyer’s 40 page majority opinion, obliterating portions of Texas’ HB 2, there are two inter-related conclusions that virtually leap off the page. First, he comes close to charging Texas with bad...
By Dave Andrusko We posted a number of stories yesterday--and will more today-- about Monday’s abysmal Supreme Court ruling gutting two portions of the 2013 pro-life omnibus Texas law, HB 2. In this post, after a few words about the 5-3 decision in Whole Woman’s...
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. If you want to peruse stories all day long, go directly to nationalrighttolifenews.org and/or follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/daveha There has been a boatload of brilliant pro-life commentaries, decrying the Supreme Court’s decision...
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act not challenged By Dave Andrusko In its succinct and to the point statement this morning, National Right to Life lamented the Supreme Court’ 5-3 verdict that struck down two provisions of HB2, Texas’s omnibus 2013 law. Justice...
By Dave Andrusko For whatever reasons of High Court protocol (or politics), Justice Stephen Breyer did the heavy lifting in today’s Supreme Court decision gutting the 2013 omnibus Texas pro-life law, HB 2. His majority opinion ran 40 pages. It was left to a mere...
By Dave Andrusko It’s happened before, so it came as little surprise that as the Supreme Court whittled its way through its remaining “controversial” cases yesterday, the justices left until next week--the last week of the current session--its ruling on Texas’s...
By Dave Andrusko From a pro-life perspective, it’s been a busy morning of [non-] news. Scotusblog.com, which many of us rely on for the latest updates on Supreme Court happenings, wrote the following. The Court released its opinions in five cases. On Thursday, we...
By Dave Andrusko Once again, the Supreme Court today did not issue a ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt— the pro-life 2013 Texas law known as HB 2. At issue are two provisions: (1) that abortion clinics meet the same building standards as ambulatory...
Editor’s note. This appeared in the June digital edition of National Right to Life News. Along with the many news stories, commentaries, and analyses, this editorial can be read at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsJune2016.pdf. I trust you are reading the June...