By Dave Andrusko Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall On Thursday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall asked the Supreme Court to review and reverse rulings which overturned the state’s 2016 Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. The law would...
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22 States join in defense of Alabama’s Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act
By Kathy Ostrowski, Legislative Director, Kansans for Life The governors and attorneys general of 22 states have joined together to file an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief to support Alabama’s ban on dismemberment abortions. U.S. District Judge Myron...
Kansas Supreme Court to hear most important pro-life case ever
By Kathy Ostrowski, Legislative Director, Kansans for Life The Kansas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday morning in the most important pro-life issue ever to be decided in state history: whether a previously unknown “fundamental” right to abortion is part...
Ark. Gov. quickly signs Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act
By Dave Andrusko Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson had five days to sign House Bill 1032-- the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. Yesterday, mere hours after the state Senate joined the state House in overwhelmingly approving a ban on this...
Arkansas soon to be 7th state to enact Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act
By Dave Andrusko And soon there will be seven. This afternoon, the Arkansas Senate joined the Arkansas House in overwhelmingly passing the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. The act, which pro-life Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has five...
State Legislature Overrides Governor Tomblin’s Veto, West Virginia Bans Dismemberment Abortion
WASHINGTON – On Thursday both chambers of the West Virginia Legislature voted to override Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's veto of the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act (S.B. 10/H.B. 4004). Both chambers passed the bill last month by...
West Virginia legislature easily overrides governor’s veto of Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act
Third state to pass the bill By Dave Andrusko Given that last year West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) vetoed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, it came as little surprise that Tomblin yesterday vetoed the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment...
West Virginia Governor must decide today what he will do about Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act
By Dave Andrusko Today is “D” Day for Gov. Earl Ray Tomlin: Decision Day . Under state law, he has until today to decide how to respond to West Virginia’s Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. Tomlin can either signed the law, which passed...
The Pro-life ban on dismemberment abortions in West Virginia: How it came to pass
By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director National Right to Life sent me to the state capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, to work with West Virginians for Life (WVFL) to pass the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. It was the...
Dismemberment Ban Passes West Virginia’s Senate
Despite treacherous weather, hundreds of pro-life West Virginians gathered at the state capitol on Tuesday to rally in support of Senate Bill 10, the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. SB 10 will ban a particularly gruesome abortion procedure in...