By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director Editor’s note. This story appeared in the April online issue of National Right to Life News at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsApril2015.pdf. The next online edition of the “pro-life newspaper of record”...
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Florida Senate joins House in passing 24-hour waiting period, bill headed to Governor’s desk
By Dave Andrusko As anticipated, the Florida Senate today joined the Florida House in overwhelming supporting a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion. Friday’s 26-13 Senate vote in favor of HB 633 came after about an hour of debate. The Florida House...
Key Pro-Life Protections Continue Progress This Week In Tennessee Legislature
"The purpose of this legislation is to recognize and codify that women and girls deserve all available facts and information in order to make a careful and fully informed decision and to provide them the time that is necessary to make that decision." By Brian Harris,...
Knights of Columbus poll finds that large majorities in support of pro-life legislation and believe abortion is morally wrong
By Dave Andrusko Editor's note. This ran on January 22, the 43rd anniversary of the noxious Roe v. Wade decision. Each year, right around the annual March for Life, the Knights of Columbus releases the results of a poll on abortion conducted for the KOC by the highly...
Breakthrough pro-life laws approaching critical stage
In the past week we've seen overwhelming votes in state legislatures to: 1) ban abortions when an unborn baby is developed enough to feel pain; and 2) ban dismemberment abortions. It's tragic the Supreme Court won't let us pass laws that protect the lives...
Texas legislators brilliantly defend the need for abortionists to have admitting privileges, and for abortion facilities to meet ASC standards
By Dave Andrusko There have been so many interruptions—all accomplishing important goals—that I have not had a chance to finish a brief submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by 69 pro-life Texas elected officials. But I’ve gotten far...
Pennsylvania Remains a Leader in the Fight for Life
By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation A national group that tracks legislation recently claimed that Pennsylvania is losing ground, as far as the fight for life is concerned. Thankfully for Pennsylvanians, this is actually...
Pro-life laws do reduce abortion
By Kathy Ostrowski, Kansans for Life Legislative Director A snarky taunt hurled at pro-lifers through the years has been, "If you are against abortion, just don't have one!" With the Guttmacher Institute study concluding that abortions are at a 30-year low, as...
NARAL Virginia Targets pro-life laws passed in 2012
By Dave Andrusko This falls under the familiar category--that elections have consequences. In a conference call with reporters last week NARAL Virginia Executive Director Tarina Keene targeted a law passed but never fully implemented that required an ultrasound...
Further reflections the day after pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute‘s gloomy report is issued
By Dave Andrusko Yesterday a few hours after it was issued, we attempted to place in context the quasi-hysterical report issued by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute (“Guttmacher bemoans avalanche of pro-life legislation, misses entirely the reasons why”)....