NEWS SHORTS FOR FRIDAY
Missouri Becomes the 5th State to Opt Out of Taxpayer-Funded Abortion
Today, Americans United for Life (AUL) was victorious in the passage of SB 793, a Missouri bill which will prohibit insurance plans participating in new state health insurance exchanges from providing abortion coverage. The bill also enhances the state’s existing informed consent law to ensure that women receive essential information about health risks and alternatives before choosing abortion.
“Today, the people of Missouri are closer than ever to a new law that prevents taxpayer-funded abortion,” said Mary Harned, Staff Counsel with Americans United for Life. “This outstanding bill also contains important protections for women in the state who have a right to know that they face serious health risks when choosing abortion.”
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Mexican state celebrates after court upholds protection for unborn
Numerous organizations in the Mexican state of Queretaro celebrated a ruling by the State Supreme Court upholding legal protection to the unborn from the moment of conception.
The ruling ratified the constitutional reform approved by the Queretaro Legislature last September.
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Pregnant mom to be charged with killing her preborn baby if DUI
A pregnant GA woman, who led police on a high speed chase, will likely be charged in the death of the 24-week-old baby she was carrying.
Police said Jessica Bruce, 21, refused to stop her car Wednesday night when they tried to pull her over for speeding. Bruce fled, struck a car, spun into oncoming traffic and was hit by another car, totaling her vehicle and killing the fetus, authorities said....
Investigators said Bruce, who was clocked by radar driving 85 mph in a 65 mph zone in a suburban neighborhood outside Atlanta, needed to be cut from the wreckage of her car and taken to the hospital. The woman in the 1st car she struck was also taken to the hospital....
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State High Court Judgette Steps Away From Abortion Lawsuit Source
Alaska Supreme Court Justice Morgan Christen is stepping down from hearing a lawsuit against a ballot initiative that would make doctors tell a teenage girl's parents before she could get an abortion. The lawsuit against the initiative was filed by Planned Parenthood, and Christen was a board member of Planned Parenthood during the mid-1990s. The Alaska Family Council had sent out e-mail alerts Tuesday and Wednesday, urging its members to contact the state judicial conduct commission and complain that Christen had a conflict of interest and shouldn't be participating in the case.
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How, By God's Grace, We Got The 'Personhood Amendment' On The Ballot - Round One
A few weeks ago it became "official". The Mississippi Personhood Amendment will be on the ballot in 2011. The brief meeting with the Secretary of State and small, sometimes contentious/ sometimes humorous press conference that followed was the culmination of a year of signature collection and many years of planning and preparation.
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Pro-Aborts Rally, Urging Florida Gov. Crist to Kill Pro-Life Ultrasound Bill
Pro-abortion protestors gathered Thursday in cities across Florida to protest the pro-life HB 1143 - just one part of a barrage of pressure against Governor Charlie Crist to try to force him to veto the measure.
Crist, who has a mixed record on abortion, recently said that although he considers himself "pro-life," he may veto the landmark bill out of a reluctance to "impose my will on others."
Planned Parenthood has launched a massive statewide campaign calling on him to veto the bill since it was passed by the state legislature April 30: rallies have been held in Orlando, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, and West Palm Beach.
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Illinois Federation for Right to Life
2600 State Street, Ste E
Alton, IL 62002
Phone: 618.466.4122
Web: www.ifrl.org
E-mail: mail@ifrl.org
