Kentucky 16th to enact Pain-Capable bill By Dave Andrusko Still another reminder that elections have consequences. Pro-life Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin today signed two pro-life bills into law: the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (SB5) and a bill that offers an...
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National Right to Life responds to Supreme Court decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt
WASHINGTON – By a vote of 5-3, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck provisions of HB2, a Texas law requiring abortion clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers and requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in case...
How Planned Parenthood, both nationally and in Texas, is aggressively increasing its market share through the creation of state-of-the art ‘mega-clinics’
By Teresa Stanton Collett Editor’s note. This is reposted from “Symposium: Ensuring abortion safety in a declining market for abortion services.” Collett is a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. The views she expresses are hers alone. Whole...
Obama Administration files brief with Supreme Court opposing Texas pro-life law
By Dave Andrusko When it comes to the absence of surprise, this ranks right up there with NARAL Pro-Choice America endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. (See “Betcha you didn’t know this about Hillary Clinton.”) Yesterday the Obama Administration filed a...
Will Supreme Court hear challenge to Texas pro-life law?
By Dave Andrusko The next phase in the ongoing litigation over portions of Texas’s 2013 omnibus pro-life bill will be whether the Supreme Court hears a challenge to an appeals court decision that upheld most of HB 2. Meanwhile, after nearly a year of being out of...
Supreme Court issues stay on portions of Texas’s H.B. 2 while it consider whether to hear pro-abortionists’ appeal
By Dave Andrusko On Monday, the last day of the current term, the Supreme Court agreed to issue a stay thus allowing nine Texas abortion clinics to remain open while the Justices consider whether to hear an appeal of two provisions of Texas’ omnibus H.B. 2 that had...
Abortion chain to open facility in New Mexico to skirt Texas abortion restrictions
By Lauren Enriquez Big Abortion has proven once again that its main concern is the bottom line. Amidst lamentation over so-called “lack of access to abortion care” in Texas, rather than provide that access by building law-compliant abortion mills, Whole Woman’s...
Appeals Court to hear challenge to Texas pro-life law September 12
By Dave Andrusko On September 12, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments from the state of Texas and the Center for Reproductive Rights which is representing a coalition of abortion providers over whether Texas will be allowed to enforce a...
Why the Fifth Circuit Decision on Admitting Privileges Matters
By Barbara Lyons, Executive Director, Wisconsin Right to Life On March 27, a three-judge panel on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a Texas law which requires an abortionist to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. A similar law was...
Pro-abortionists file another lawsuit challenging portions of Texas’ HB 2
By Dave Andrusko Another day, another lawsuit. On Wednesday, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) announced it was filing another two-part attack on provisions of Texas’s omnibus HB2. They targeted the admitting privileges provision and the requirement that...