Protesters and Politicians Call for PornHub Shutdown After Site Promotes Videos of Trafficking Victims

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Protestors gathered outside the Montreal Headquarters of MindGeek, the parent company of PornHub, to call for the porn site's shutdown. Over the past year, PornHub has been responsible for the promotion of videos depicting the rapes of "verified models" who turned out to be underage victims of human trafficking.

Most recently, it came to light that a 15-year-old girl who had gone missing was shown being raped in 58 separate videos. This girl, like many other victims of human trafficking, was forced into abortion by her captors.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr on March 9 calling for an investigation of the company for its enabling of disgusting abuse.

“The foremost duty of the Department of Justice is to ensure the safety of the American people, especially the most vulnerable among us,” Sasse wrote. “Pornhub must not escape scrutiny. I therefore request that the Department open an investigation into Pornhub and its parent entity MindGeek Holding SARL for their involvement in this disturbing pipeline of exploiting children and other victims and survivors of sex trafficking.”

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Sanders Releases Expansive Pro-Abortion "Reproductive Health Plan"

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On March 7, Vermont Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders released his campaign's pro-abortion plan to significantly increase government spending and access to abortion on a global scale.

The plan, titled “Reproductive Health Care and Justice for All,” takes a variety of steps to normalize, legalize, and distribute abortion services as far as possible. The plan includes codifying Roe v. Wade into law, making birth control and abortion taxpayer-funded under medicare for all, limiting states' abilities to pass pro-life legislation, and repealing the Hyde and Helms amendments.

His plan would go as far as to ban abstinence-only sex education, prevent pro-life pregnancy centers from receiving Title X funding, and restore US funding to the United Nations Population Fund, a colonialist fund designed to make the western problem of abortion an issue in less-developed nations.

These are by far the most radical pro-abortion ideas a strong presidential candidate has ever expressed, and pro-life advocates need to be aware of the growing support for ideas like this.

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New Noise Ordinance in Spokane, Washington is Designed to Limit Protests at Planned Parenthood

The city council of Spokane, Washington approved a measure 6-1 designed to limit protesting outside a local Planned Parenthood clinic. It strengthens currently-existing laws that make it illegal to “willfully or recklessly interfere with access to or from a health care facility” by “making noise that unreasonably disturbs the peace within the facility.” Law enforcement will be able to enforce increasingly harsh penalties for repeat offenders of the new ordinance; which is expected to be signed by the city mayor.

One group, which calls itself The Church at Planned Parenthood, is especially targeted by the rule. The organization regularly holds worship services and prayer vigils outside Planned Parenthood and is likely to bear the brunt of any new laws to limit their peaceful presence.

“We really feel like they just don’t like us there, not that we’re disrupting. So we feel unfairly treated,” Pastor Ken Peters told KREM-TV.

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Mississippi House Judiciary Committee Approves Bill to Ban Discriminatory Abortions Based on Sex, Race, or Fetal Anomaly

On March 3, the Mississippi House Judiciary B Committee approved the Life Equality Act of 2020. The bill, titled House Bill 1295, would ban abortions based on sex, race, or fetal anomalies. The bill will move on to debate in the full House.

“It is the intent of the Mississippi Legislature … to prohibit the practice of nontherapeutic or elective abortion for the purpose of terminating the life of an unborn human being because of that human being’s race, sex, or the presence or presumed presence of a genetic abnormality,” the bill reads.

“The inherent right against discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or genetic abnormality is protected in federal and state laws,” the bill also notes, stating, “Notwithstanding these protections, unborn human beings are often discriminated against and deprived of life.”

Physicians who perform abortions that fall under these conditions could be charged with a felony, have their medical license suspended or revoked, and face up to 10 years in prison. According to CNA, there is an exception for medical emergencies; which seems strange since the medical emergency would be the abortionist's reasoning for performing the abortion and not the discriminatory reasons listed in the bill.

Regardless, emergency deliveries via c-section or induced labor are often more effective than abortion during medical emergencies. Because both methods of removing a child from a mother's womb are faster than abortion, the mother can be treated for her medical issue more quickly. The child may die afterward, but they can still be given a chance at life and a doctor is not intentionally killing them.

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Connecticut Considers Plan to Give $2 Million to Planned Parenthood

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont

In his proposed budget, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont would give Planned Parenthood of Southern New England $2.1 million in state funding. The goal of this increased funding would be to replace Title X funding that Planned Parenthood opted out from after the Trump administration made new rules for Title X recipients to follow. Under the rules, recipients can no longer perform, recommend or refer patients to abortions. They also cannot co-locate with organizations that do perform abortions.

The Connecticut funding increase was debated at a March 5 public hearing held by the Human Services Committee. There, Blawie, who has worked at a Title X funded clinic in New Haven, Connecticut, was one of the citizens who spoke against the funding increase:

“...If more money is truly needed, Planned Parenthood could comply with Title X or else leverage the brand recognition and extensive fundraising network at its fingertips. Strong financial resources that are the envy of most non-profits. This is deep-pocketed political advocacy masquerading as health care. The state of CT faces billion-dollar deficits for the next several years. There’s an old saying that a budget is the skeleton of government, stripped of all ideology and rhetoric. What exactly are we spending money on? With our state drowning in red ink and so many crucial needs still unmet this proposal would constitute a flagrant misuse of scarce resources.”

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Tik Tok Video Shows Girl Celebrating During Surgical Abortion

A video in which a young woman celebrates during her second abortion went viral this week. Titled  “Abortion Time! Take 2,” the video shows the young woman cradling her early pregnancy bump before smiling, laughing, and dancing in a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic where she is shown undergoing an ultrasound-guided vacuum aspiration abortion. She smiled at the camera while her legs were suspended in stirrups as she laid in a bed.

The video has been viewed millions of times and has sparked controversy about what kind of content should be allowed on a social media platform clearly aimed at younger audiences. This kind of edgy, mature content designed to upset pro-life advocates should not have a place on a platform with a large middle-school-aged userbase.



This is not the only instance of edgy pro-abortion content on the platform, either. Tik Tok has allowed a variety of videos showcasing edgy abortion humor on its platform, including a video of a girl pretending to do a gender reveal for her unborn child before announcing that she had an abortion.

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UK Website Exposed for Illegally Shipping Abortion Pills Overseas Without Prescriptions

Carole Novielli, a writer at Live Action News, wrote an investigative article detailing her experience exchanging messages with a customer service representative at SafeAbortionRX, a UK website which ships abortion pills to the United States. In her conversation with a representative who went by "Casey," she learned that the website was even willing to illegally ship abortion drugs to Americans who don't have prescriptions.

“Our products are prescription drugs and we strictly DO NOT dispense them without a healthcare professional’s advice slip or prescription,” their prescription policy states. It showed room for exceptions lower down the page, however: “If you feel that the medication is an urgent necessity for you and do not have a prescription, please contact our healthcare experts on the live chat or support team.”

SafeAbortionRX was willing to sell Carole abortion kits including the abortion pill regimen Mifepristone and Misoprostol. The first of these pills starves an unborn child by reducing the transfer of nutrients from a mother's body to her child. The second induces labor to remove the deceased child from the mother's womb. The website recommends minimal clinical supervision during the abortion process, but women who access these drugs via the internet without prescriptions can easily attempt to carry out abortions on their own, possibly hurting themselves in the process.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Accused of Threatening Pro-Life Supreme Court Justices

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Outside the Supreme Court

"I want to tell you, Gorsuch! I want to tell you, Kavanaugh! You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."

That's what Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer yelled outside the Supreme Court at a pro-choice rally on Wednesday. It's an emotionally charged statement that has been interpreted by some as a threat of violence against pro-life Supreme Court Justices if they don't interpret the law in the way that Chuck Schumer would like. Chief Justice John Roberts responded with what many are calling a "rare rebuke."

“Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” Roberts said. “All members of the court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.”

Did Senate Democrat leader Schumer just threaten two conservative justices? Where is the media?

“I want to tell you Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsuch: You have unleashed a whirlwind, and you will pay the price”pic.twitter.com/MellytNNp5

— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) March 4, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized the New York Senator openly on the Senate Floor Thursday:

"...The Democratic Leader traveled to the workplace of two judges, and in front of a crowd of activists, he told those judges “you will pay the price” and “you won’t know what hit you.” 

If any American had these words shouted at them from a sidewalk outside their office, they would hear those threats as personal. And most likely they would hear them as threatening or inciting violence."

Senator McConnell went on to reference the shooting against Congressional Republicans at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia back in 2017; implying that Schumer's comments could lead to more deadly violence.

Sen. Schumer responded to Sen. McConnell's criticisms by giving a half-apology. "I shouldn't have used the words I did, but in no way was I making a threat. I never, never would do such a thing and Leader McConnell knows that. And Republicans who are busy manufacturing outrage over these comments know that too."

He justified his statement by saying he was passionate about the subject matter of the Supreme Court case, which he claimed was a woman's constitutional right to choose. This is false. The Louisiana law being debated in the Supreme Court does not limit a woman's right to have an abortion. It simply requires abortionists to maintain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in case there are complications- making abortion clinics consistent with other outpatient surgical facilities in the state of Louisiana.

Regardless, Sen. Schumer said, "My point was that there would be political consequences for President Trump and Senate Republicans if the Supreme Court with the newly confirmed justices stripped away a woman's right to choose."

Pro-life groups such as Operation Rescue, a pro-life group that highlights the danger of abortion by publicizing 911 calls made after abortions, have called for Sen. Schumer's resignation, but it seems unlikely at this point.

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Movieguide Apologizes after Pro-Life Film "Unplanned" was Scrubbed from Hallmark Awards Show. Show will be Reissued.

The film Unplanned tells the story of Abby Johnson, a former director at Planned Parenthood who eventually became a pro-life advocate. Unplanned was nominated for a Movieguide award in the categories of "best film for mature audiences" and the "Faith and Freedom Award." A Movieguide award show was aired on the Hallmark Channel on February 24, but all references to Unplanned were completely edited out of the show. Lead actress Ashley Bratcher took notice and targeted a flurry of social media posts at Hallmark. Now, Hallmark has directed Movieguide to re-edit the video of the award show so it can be aired once again including the pro-life film.

“We have scheduled the MOVIEGUIDE® Awards to re-air on Hallmark Drama on Monday, March 9th at 10 PM.,” Movieguide founder and publisher Ted Baehr told LifeSiteNews. “It will also be available on the TV Everywhere app. All telecasts will include mentions of the film, ‘Unplanned’ and its lead actress, Ashley Bratcher. We at Crown Media [Hallmark] extend our sincere apologies to Ashley.”

Baehr also told LifeSiteNews that he advocated for Unplanned's nomination to the award show, but in the end, it was up to Movieguide videographer Jeremy Carroll to edit the three-and-a-half-hour ceremony down to a 42-minute version for television. Before Hallmark directed Movieguide to re-edit the show, he defended Carroll's decisions. “I’m not going to go to my editor…and tell him he shouldn’t have cut it,” Baehr said. “I’m sure he cut it for good reasons, and I’m sure he’d make the right decisions and I trust my editors.”

Baehr has since called and apologized to Ashley Bratcher personally.

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Supreme Court Hears Arguments Regarding Louisiana's “Unsafe Abortion Protection Act”

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo. The case is a challenge to Louisiana’s “Unsafe Abortion Protection Act,” which helps women receive care during the medical complications which may occur during an abortion procedure by requiring abortionists to maintain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

The law was passed to create consistency between abortion clinics and other outpatient surgical centers, which were already required to maintain admitting privileges with hospitals. Abortionists argue that imposing consistent regulations on their business is unfair, however, because it puts an undue burden on women seeking abortions. The interesting thing about that argument is that no independent women are challenging the law; only abortionists are. This is a law designed to protect women from medical complications which can occur during a surgical procedure by ensuring they can be swiftly admitted to a hospital by an abortionist when necessary. The law does not place any burden on women who seek abortions. It only places a burden on abortionists who don't seek admitting privileges to nearby hospitals.

Justice Samuel Alito made a point of emphasizing this fact. “You think that if the plaintiff actually has interests that are directly contrary to those individuals on whose behalf the plaintiff is claiming to sue, nevertheless that plaintiff can have standing?” he said during arguments.

National Right to Life President Carol Tobias gave this statement outside the Supreme Court:

"...Hospital admitting privileges are called 'privileges' for a reason. A doctor must meet certain requirements established by the hospital before he or she is allowed to practice there. Those privileges are usually given to doctors based on credentials and performance. 

If the abortion industry is really worried about women, they should want an admitting privileges requirement, in order to reassure women that they are getting good care. If admitting privileges are not required, the door is open for all substandard doctors to start performing abortions in LA."

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West Virginia Passes Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

On Monday, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act into law. The bill is similar to a federal senate bill that failed to reach the 60 votes required to be called to a vote. The law mandates that babies born alive during an attempted abortion be provided "the same degree" of medical care that would be provided “to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.”

According to the Associated Press, Gov. Justice said it was, “unbelievable, to tell you the truth, that we have to do such a thing. So today we’re going to put a stake in the sand that says for us, for us at least we stand for life and we stand for the right stuff.”

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CNN Refers to Abortion Survivor as "fetus that was born"

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When CNN reported on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, the news organization clearly showed its pro-abortion bias through its nonsensical word choice. CNN reported that the legislation would “require abortion providers to work to ‘preserve the life and health’ of a fetus that was born following an attempted abortion as they would for a newborn baby.”

No medical professional would refer to a baby who was born despite an attempted abortion as a fetus. This language would only ever be chosen to sterilize the idea of refusing medical care to a child. It is purposefully confusing to trick readers into rationalizing infanticide.

“The bill we’re voting on doesn’t change anyone’s access to abortion […] It is about babies that are already born,” Senator Ben Sasse said on the Senate floor after citing CNN's article. “Newsflash, CNN: if you’re a baby and you’ve been born and you’re outside a momma, nobody calls that a fetus. You just want to call it a fetus because you don’t want to cover the actual story that’s being voted on in the U.S. Senate today.”

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New Indiana Bill Requires Abortion Clinics to Tell Women Considering Abortions about Humane Disposition Law

In the aftermath of the discovery of the late Ulrich Klopfer's hoard of over 2,000 aborted children at his home, the Indiana state government enacted a law requiring abortion clinics to treat the remains of aborted children with respect. In many cases, aborted children are seen by abortion clinics and hospitals as "medical waste," but the Indiana law requires abortion clinics to have the bodies of aborted children cremated or buried.

Now, a new bill has been sent to Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb which would require abortion clinics to provide women considering abortions complete information about the humane final disposition law. Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter gave this statement:

“Indiana’s current humane final disposition law, as upheld by the Supreme Court, contains grey areas we believe abortion clinics use to keep women in the dark, especially when it comes to drug-induced abortions. This bill addresses these areas and makes sure women get all the facts, including the reality that a drug-induced abortion will result in an aborted baby. We will continue working for a day when no child is aborted in Indiana. Until that day comes, this bill will make sure these children are never again treated like common medical waste in our state.”

The law would also require abortion clinics, crematoriums, and funeral homes to keep accurate logs of aborted bodies as they are sent from place to place and respectfully set to rest. These logs will make bodies easier to track and prevent people like Klopfer from being able to get away with taking and hiding bodies.

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Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Votes Fail in Senate

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin (D)
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On Tuesday, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act failed to reach the number of votes required to end debate and bring the two bills to a full vote.

The cloture vote (the vote to end debate) ended 53-44 for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and 56-41 on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. A minimum of 60 votes was required to end the democrat-led filibuster. The votes were mostly along party lines, with notable Illinois Democrats Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth siding to block final votes.

These bills, while unlikely to pass the House of Representatives, would be crucial legislation to protect unborn life in the United States. It is disappointing that partisan politics divides politicians too much to even call these bills to a vote. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act does not even limit abortions. It simply ensures that children born alive despite an attempted abortion will receive the same level of medical care as babies born under normal circumstances.

While it is more predictable that pro-abortion advocates would block the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, that does not make it any less acceptable that they would do so. Pro-lifers need to ensure that pro-life politicians are sent to Washington in the upcoming election and hold them accountable so that they make the protection of ALL life a priority.

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CA Attorney General to HHS: “California will take no ‘corrective action.’” CA will Continue to Force Churches to Cover Abortion

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra wrote in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the State has no plans to stop forcing private employers, including churches and religious organizations, to fund health insurance plans with abortion coverage.

The HHS Department’s Office for Civil Rights issued a Notice of Violation to the state of California in January. The Notice declared that California's law forcing employers to cover abortion was a violation of the Weldon Amendment. The amendment allows the federal government to withhold funding from states which discriminate against “any institutional or individual healthcare entity” because they don't “provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.”

The HHS Office for Civil Rights stated that if California fails to comply with federal law, it may face “limitations on continued receipt of certain HHS funds.”

California will not back down with its violations, however. “California will take no ‘corrective action,’” said Xavier Becerra. He argued that the Obama administration found no problems with the California requirement, which began in 2014.

It could easily be argued that pro-abortion bias may have affected the Obama administration's enforcement of the Weldon Amendment.

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Title X "Protect Life Rule"

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On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 in favor of the Trump administration's "Protect Life Rule" which prevents organizations that provide abortions or refer patients to abortions from receiving Title X funding for their family-planning services from the government.

Judge Sandra Ikuta wrote in the majority opinion that the Supreme Court approved similar regulations in 1991 with Rust v. Sullivan and that the Protect Life Rule is “less restrictive in at least one important respect.” In the majority opinion, she stated “a counselor providing nondirective pregnancy counseling ‘may discuss abortion’ so long as ‘the counselor neither refers for, nor encourages, abortion,’” wrote Ikuta.

Planned Parenthood has called upon Congress to reverse the Protect Life Rule, which it calls a "gag rule."

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Daleiden and Merrit Charges Heard in San Fransisco Superior Court

David Daleiden at Pro-Life Summit 2020
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David Daleiden and Sandra Merrit, undercover journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood for harvesting and illegally trafficking body parts from babies, are facing charges of illegal recording under California privacy law. Their defense team appealed the original guilty verdict to San Fransisco Superior Court and hope to get all charges dropped to protect the field of undercover journalism.

"David and Susan face 10 years- a decade- in San Quentin Penitentiary if those felony counts were to be upheld," said Peter Breen, senior counsel for the Thomas Moore Society representing the undercover journalists. "[This is] the first time and only time undercover journalists have ever been charged with that illegal taping law in California. And again, all of these tapes were taken in public exhibit halls and public restaurants. There was nothing done wrong by David and his team."

Breen says that his team is prepared to appeal this case all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Florida Governor to Sign Parental Consent Bill

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

In his state of the state address, pro-life Florida governor Ron DeSantis asked the Florida House of Representatives to pass a parental consent bill which would require a minor's parents to be involved in their daughter's decision to have an abortion. His request has now been answered.

On February 20, the Florida House of Representatives passed HB 265 with a majority of 75 to 43. When the bill reaches Governor DeSantis's desk, he is expected to sign it and pass it into law.

Sen. Kelli Stargel, a sponsor of the original bill that passed the Senate, said her legislation is “not a pro-choice or pro-life bill.” Stargel added, “This is about whether or not you’re going to have adults involved in difficult decisions with children.”

Polling showed 73% bipartisan support for the parental consent bill among Floridians.

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California Lawmakers Receive Valentines Bags from Planned Parenthood with Message: "Don't F*** with us."

California lawmakers reportedly received "goody bags" last week with a message from Planned Parenthood. They included condoms with the words "Don't F*** with us. Don't F*** without us." The bags also included a piece of paper with a short poem:

"Roses are red 

Violets are blue 

Planned Parenthood promotes safe sex 

Now your office can too!"

The idea apparently being that legislators could distribute these condoms to workers in their legislative offices. Senate Republican leader Shannon Grove went to Facebook to express her disappointment on Valentine's day:

“We confirmed several offices received this ‘gift’ from Planned Parenthood, including mine. Really???? This is how PP communicates with members of the state legislature. Good thing I stopped a group of kids from seeing in my office…… #Crass #disgusting #Vulgar.”

Of course, Planned Parenthood's business model is not built on promoting safe sex. It is built on promoting abortion and profiting off vulnerable women who don't feel like they have any better options.

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Supreme Court to Begin Hearings on Louisiana's "Unsafe Abortion Act" Next Month

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On March 4, the United States Supreme Court will begin hearings in June Medical Services v. Phillips, a case deciding the constitutionality of a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges to a nearby hospital.

"The Unsafe Abortion Act" requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility. The requirement is designed to keep women safe in cases when women are injured during abortion procedures. This would also have the side-effect of ensuring only qualified physicians perform abortions since hospitals review a doctor's experience before granting admitting privileges.

The state of Louisiana originally lost its case in District Court before winning in the Fifth Court of Appeals. It will be the first abortion-related case to be heard by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

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