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By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRLC Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. Dr. O’Bannon is NRLC’s expert on a host of topics, including what are now called “medication” or “medical” abortions, which refers to the two-drug chemical abortion “technique.” As...
By Dave Andrusko Pro-abortion Montana Gov. Steve Bullock not only vetoed a bill to require abortionists to be in the presence of the women who are taking abortifacients, he did so on the last day of the legislative session. Not being in the presence of the aborting...
By Dave Andrusko As of Monday morning, there are now 19 states that require abortionists to perform in-person exams when they use chemical abortifacients. Idaho Gov. C. L. "Butch" Otter signed the bill into law after it passed both houses of the legislature by...
By Dave Andrusko After a lengthy run-up, the issue of webcam abortions will come squarely before the Iowa Supreme Court this Wednesday. The Des Moines Register’s Tony Leys, who has covered the issue for the state’s dominant newspaper, dropped a new piece of...
By Dave Andrusko Proving last week’s 13-4 vote in the Idaho House State Affairs Committee was no fluke, the full house today voted 55-17 in favor of House Bill 154. The measure would require abortionists to perform in-person exams when they use chemical...
By Dave Andrusko Earlier this afternoon, Arkansas became the latest state to require that abortionists be in the same room as the pregnant woman when she receives chemical abortifacients. So-called webcam abortions are premised around just the opposite. The...
By Dave Andrusko As we reported last month, Polk County District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell upheld a 2013 decision by the Iowa Board of Medicine which declared that Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s use of webcam abortions was unsafe. Unless Farrell or...
By Dave Andrusko The Des Moines Register reported this morning that Polk County District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell has ruled that the Iowa Board of Medicine was within its authority to require abortionists to be physically present when dispensing chemical...
By Dave Andrusko If there is a common thread in the by-the-numbers pro-abortion response to any pro-life initiative, it is that the public sides with our benighted opposition. As we have demonstrated a hundred times, this is not so. The latest in a long line of...
By Dave Andrusko With the new rule on web-cam abortions scheduled to take effect next week, lawyers for the state of Iowa and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland will meet tomorrow in Polk County District Court to thrash out PPH’s challenge to a ruling by the Iowa...