Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) |
October 30, 2023
Federal Judge Dismisses Satanic Temple Lawsuit Against Indiana Pro-life Law
October 27, 2023
"Pro-Life Spider-man" Climbs Accenture Tower in Chicago; Raises $20,000 for Pregnant Single Mother
Maine Law Allowing Abortion at Any Stage Takes Effect
October 26, 2023
Pro-Life Rep Mike Johnson Elected Speaker of the House
US Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) |
October 25, 2023
Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Heartbeat Law, Reversing Lower Court Decision
October 24, 2023
Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Against Colorado APR Ban
Bella Health cofounders Dede Chism and Abby Sinnett |
October 23, 2023
Study Shows Many Americans Don't Understand What "Abortion" is
October 20, 2023
University of Pittsburgh Board Confronted Over Research Using Body Parts Harvested from Aborted Babies
Piotrus / Wikimedia Commons |
October 19, 2023
University of New Mexico Charges Pro-Life Student Group over $5,000 to Host Event
“When a university discriminates against students based on the content of their speech, which includes how others might respond to it, that speech is not free. In fact, it is very expensive. As we explain in our letter, UNM officials exercised unbridled discretion by concluding that the group’s critics and opponents might misbehave, which as it turns out, they did not. This is a reason for granting more protection, not higher fees, and we urge the university to rescind the fee and demonstrate it truly values free speech.”
“Pro-life students should not be forced to pay a free speech fine,” said Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins. “The trend of schools using fees and security costs as a deterrent to pro-life student activity is not only unconstitutional, it contradicts the very nature of education itself, in which educators are supposed to bring ideas and people together for an informed and constructive debate.”
October 18, 2023
New York PRC Survey Signals Oncoming Crackdown Against Pro-Life Charities
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) |
October 17, 2023
American Medical Association to Debate Acceptance of Assisted Suicide
"Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.Instead of engaging in assisted suicide, physicians must aggressively respond to the needs of patients at the end of life.Physicians:
- Should not abandon a patient once it is determined that cure is impossible.
- Must respect patient autonomy.
- Must provide good communication and emotional support.
- Must provide appropriate comfort care and adequate pain control."
Two out of the 50 draft resolutions that the AMA will consider during their conference in Maryland from November 10-14 would change this stance. Resolution 4 would reverse the AMA's position, while Resolution 5 would have the AMA adopt a neutral stance.
Both resolutions devalue human life and take steps toward allowing America's medical system to function like Canada's. Patients should not be treated like burdens. They deserve respect and care, even in the face of great difficulty and approaching death.
October 16, 2023
NPR Promotes Pro-Abortion Billboards Encouraging Abortion in Illinois
"The group's founder, Mary Ann Kuharski, said their billboards generate about 500 calls per month, with a slight increase since the Dobbs Supreme Court decision.'We don't argue,' she says. 'We don't use harsh words. We never even use the word abortion on our billboards.'"
For a taxpayer-funded news source that is supposed to be unbiased, NPR's piece appears to serve as free political advertising for pro-abortion groups more than anything else.
This is the second time NPR has promoted Shout Your Abortion and the billboards. The first story was published by NPR Illinois on September 12. This second story, aired on NPR's "Morning Edition" on October 11, went as far as to describe pro-life pregnancy centers as "so-called crisis pregnancy centers." The written version of the same story edited this line to read "often called 'crisis pregnancy centers.'"
October 13, 2023
Biden Rule Would Interpret Pregnancy Nondiscrimination Law to Require Employers to Cover Abortion
“These regulations completely disregard legislative intent and attempt to rewrite the law by regulation. The Biden administration has to enforce the law as passed by Congress, not how they wish it was passed. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act is aimed at assisting pregnant mothers who remain in the workforce by choice or necessity as they bring their child to term and recover after childbirth. The decision to disregard the legislative process to inject a political abortion agenda is illegal and deeply concerning.”
Representatives Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Mary Miller (R-IL) wrote a letter to EEOC chair Charlotte Burrows to demand that the EEOC rewrite the rule.
“The proposed rule defines ‘related medical conditions’ to include ‘use of birth control, menstruation, infertility and fertility treatments, [and] endometriosis,’ among other treatments and conditions,” Reps. Foxx and Miller’s letter reads. “By including treatments and conditions such as these, the proposed rule stretches its interpretation of the PWFA past the breaking point. As explained above, Congress intended the PWFA to address commonplace workplace needs of pregnant workers, such as access to water, additional bathroom breaks, or provision of a stool or chair.”
October 12, 2023
CVS Gives Abortion Pill to Pregnant Mother in Prescription Mistake
photo credit: Mike Mozart / Flickr |
October 11, 2023
Florida AG Asks State Supreme Court to Block Pro-Abortion Ballot Measure
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) |
"As just one example of how misleading this initiative is, the initiative creates a right to abortion through 'viability.' As any mother knows, 'viability' has two meanings when it comes to pregnancy.First, it means whether a pregnancy is expected to continue developing normally through delivery. Doctors can tell during the first trimester, usually around about 12 weeks, whether a pregnancy is viable and would have a much lower risk of miscarriage. For that reason, many women often wait to tell family and friends about their pregnancy until that time.Second, viability is sometimes used to mean whether a baby can survive outside of the uterus, which currently is around 21 to 25 weeks of pregnancy. The two time periods, depending on your definition of viability, are starkly different, and the procedures performed to abort a baby’s life at either time period are dissimilar."
Moody's argument suggests that some voters could interpret the language as prohibiting abortion after 12 weeks gestation, since that is when the first definition of abortion would apply. Since more Americans support abortion during the first trimester, this could draw more voters to support the amendment.
"As attorney general, I have a constitutional and statutory duty to inform the Florida Supreme Court when ballot initiatives will confuse voters. Thus, I will file a brief with the court fulfilling that responsibility," Moody concluded.
Truthfully, the language of this amendment actually allows unlimited abortion. It allows a mother's "healthcare provider" to declare an abortion legal if it would protect the mother's "health." These terms are often interpreted broadly in court, such that the amendment would allow an abortionist (the person profiting from abortion) to declare the abortion necessary to protect a mother's mental or emotional health.
October 10, 2023
Kamala Harris at DNC: Protecting Babies from Abortion After Rape is "immoral"
October 9, 2023
9th Circuit Lifts Injunction Blocking Parts of Idaho Pro-Life Law
Biden's Department of Justice filed suit against Idaho in August of 2022, arguing that the law violated the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). EMTALA requires stabilizing treatment for any conditions jeopardizing an individual's health. The Biden administration argued that Idaho's law's language was too restrictive, and it would have prohibited medical treatment legally required by EMTALA.
On August 24, 2022, District Judge B. Lynn Winmill (a Clinton appointee) issued a preliminary injunction blocking Idaho from enforcing the pro-life law while the case continued. He agreed with the Biden administration that the law conflicted with EMTALA.
The 9th Circuit based its decision on the Idaho Supreme Court's interpretation of the pro-life law. The panel found that the law does not appear to be in conflict with EMTALA.
"The Supreme Court of Idaho clarified that the text of the exception means what it says: If a doctor subjectively believes, in his or her good faith medical judgment, that an abortion is necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman, then the exception applies. Thus the district court’s reliance on declarations of certain doctors claiming that the law would undermine their medical judgement is no longer valid."
Judge Lawrence VanDyke also wrote for the 9th Circuit panel,
"The purpose of EMTALA is not to impose specific standards of care— such as requiring the provision of abortion—but simply to “ensure that hospitals do not refuse essential emergency care because of a patient’s inability to pay.” To read EMTALA to require a specific method of treatment, such as abortion, pushes the statute far beyond its original purpose, and therefore is not a ground to disrupt Idaho’s historic police powers."
While the temporary injunction has been lifted, the DOJ's lawsuit still continues. Biden's DOJ could also ask an 11-judge panel from the 9th Circuit or the Supreme Court to reconsider the injunction.
October 6, 2023
US District Judge Blocks Provisions of Pro-Life North Carolina Law
One provision would have required all abortions after 12 weeks gestation to occur in hospitals. The other provision would have required doctors to confirm a mother's pregnancy before prescribing abortion-inducing drugs.
North Carolina's “Care for Women, Children, and Families Act” passed in May allows abortion until 12 weeks gestation. It includes exceptions for rape and incest up to 20 weeks gestation, and it allows abortion in cases of "life-limiting" fetal anomalies during the first 24 weeks. It allows abortion at any stage if the mother's life is in danger.
Lawmakers argued in a brief that the law protects women from abortion businesses that would unsafely prescribe abortion-inducing drugs without first ruling out conditions such as ectopic pregnancy. A mother with an ectopic pregnancy is at great risk of hemorrhage if she takes the abortion pill regimen.
Further, the lawmakers argued that abortion businesses are often unable to handle the life-threatening complications that can occur during surgical abortions after 12 weeks gestation. Women with post-abortion complications are often transported to hospitals to address these injuries.
Operation Rescue often documents incidents when women are hospitalized after surgical abortions at abortion businesses. Many of the more recent incidents were documented at abortion businesses in Illinois.
Judge Eagles's injunction will remain in effect while Planned Parenthood's legal challenge to the “Care for Women, Children, and Families Act” continues.
October 5, 2023
Gov. Pritzker Says Pornography in Schools Allows Children to "read different perspectives"
“Illinois became the first state in the nation to ban book bans earlier this year,” Pritzker said on X.
“2022 had the most attempted book bans on record for the ALA. It was time for us to act.
Unlike Republicans, I want our children to read as much as they can and to read different perspectives.”
Illinois became the first state in the nation to ban book bans earlier this year.
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) October 2, 2023
2022 had the most attempted book bans on record for the ALA. It was time for us to act.
Unlike Republicans, I want our children to read as much as they can and to read different perspectives. pic.twitter.com/AyD3F3WEXG
Earlier this year, Pritzker signed legislation empowering the state government to remove public funding from libraries and school districts if they enact bans against pornographic materials. The law was written in response to local governments removing progressive sexual materials from public libraries.
Harlem School District 122 is one such district that removed graphic sexual content such as the book "Gender Queer" from its shelves in response to parental backlash.
October 4, 2023
Texas AG Sues Yelp for Deceptively Labeling Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) |
"Yelp’s CEO is entitled to his views on abortion, but he was not entitled to use the Yelp platform to deceptively disparage facilities that counsel pregnant women instead of providing abortions. Yelp appended language to all pregnancy resource center Yelp pages, indicating that those pages 'typically provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite.' That disclaimer is misleading and often untrue because pregnancy resource centers frequently do provide medical services with licensed medical professionals onsite."
Yelp removed the misleading labels after Paxton requested the company to do so earlier this year, but Paxton's lawsuit argues that Yelp "remains liable for penalties and other relief for the duration of its unlawful behavior." The lawsuit seeks an enjoining order preventing Yelp from taking similar actions in the future. It also seeks civil penalties and monetary damages.