August 29, 2022
Idaho Trigger Law Partially Blocked by Federal Judge
August 26, 2022
Judge Issues Injunction Blocking Biden Abortion Rule in Texas
"The EMTALA statute requires that Medicare hospitals provide all patients an appropriate medical screening, examination, stabilizing treatment, and transfer, if necessary, irrespective of any state laws or mandates that apply to specific procedures. Stabilizing treatment could include medical and/or surgical interventions, including abortion. If a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the health or life of the pregnant person — or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition — that state law is preempted."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took the Biden administration's guidance as a threat to defund hospitals in pro-life states, and he responded by filing a lawsuit against the administration. When filing the lawsuit, Paxton's office stated,
"This Biden Administration’s Abortion Mandate has the effect of requiring doctors and hospitals to choose between performing abortions in violation of State law or caring for women as they always have while incurring fines and the loss of federal funding.
Texas law has long permitted doctors to perform abortions when the life of the mother is at risk. That is still the law. EMTALA does not empower the federal government to change that. EMTALA requires hospitals to treat patients the same regardless of their ability to pay; it does not authorize the federal government to commandeer the practice of medicine."
In his ruling to place a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration's EMTALA guidance, Judge Hendrix took a hard stance against the DHS:
"That Guidance goes well beyond EMTALA’s text, which protects both mothers and unborn children, is silent as to abortion, and preempts state law only when the two directly conflict. Since the statute is silent on the question, the Guidance cannot answer how doctors should weigh risks to both a mother and her unborn child. Nor can it, in doing so, create a conflict with state law where one does not exist. The Guidance was thus unauthorized. In any event, HHS issued it without the required opportunity for public comment. As a result, the Court will preliminarily enjoin the Guidance’s enforcement against the plaintiffs."
August 25, 2022
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Biden's Attempt to Remove Coverage for Natural Family Planning
August 24, 2022
Walmart Announces Plan to Pay Abortion Costs and Travel Expenses
August 23, 2022
Michigan County Judge Blocks 1931 Abortion Ban
August 22, 2022
Planned Parenthood to Spend $50 Million on Midterms
August 19, 2022
City of Nashville, Tennessee Now Requires Businesses Seeking Grants and Tax Breaks to Report Whether they Pay for Abortion Travel
Federal Judge Reinstates North Carolina 20-Week Abortion Ban
“...leaving the injunction in place wrongfully heightens confusion because to do so is misleading as to the effect of Dobbs. If, as Plaintiffs argue, [abortion] providers are providing services in accordance with the terms of the injunction…, then those providers are acting contrary to North Carolina law. Neither this court, nor the public, nor counsel, nor providers have the right to ignore the rule of law as determined by the Supreme Court.”
August 18, 2022
Abortionists to Open New Locations in Carbondale
August 17, 2022
New Indiana Law Creates $45 Million Fund to Support Pregnant and Postpartum Women
August 16, 2022
Idaho Supreme Court Rules Abortion Ban Can Take Effect August 25
August 15, 2022
Planned Parenthood Drops Lawsuit Against Iowa Waiting Period Law
August 12, 2022
DOJ Sues Idaho to Block Abortion Trigger Law
US Attorney General Merrick Garland (D) |
August 11, 2022
Georgia Now Allows Residents to Claim Preborn Children as Dependents on State Tax Returns
August 10, 2022
Illinois Hospital System Pays $10 Million Settlement Over COVID Vaccine Mandate
As a result of the settlement, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate these health care employees who were victims of religious discrimination, and who were punished for their religious beliefs against taking an injection associated with aborted fetal cells.This is a historic, first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests to COVID-19 shots.
As part of the settlement agreement, NorthShore will also change its unlawful “no religious accommodations” policy to make it consistent with the law, and to provide religious accommodations in every position across its numerous facilities. No position in any NorthShore facility will be considered off limits to unvaccinated employees with approved religious exemptions.In addition, employees who were terminated because of their religious refusal of the COVID shots will be eligible for rehire if they apply within 90 days of final settlement approval by the court, and they will retain their previous seniority level.
August 9, 2022
Kentucky Appeals Court Lifts Injunction Against Pro-Life Laws
August 8, 2022
Indiana Gov. Signs First Post-Roe Abortion Ban
Indiana Gov Eric Holcomb (R) |
“Indiana Right to Life believes substantive changes to SB1 in the House provide renewed hope that over 95% of Indiana’s 8,414 abortions will end if it becomes law. House amendments will make abortion clinics a thing of the past in Indiana, requiring that abortions for limited circumstances be done in hospitals, or hospital-owned surgical centers. The House also tightened language for the life of the mother exception, limited abortions to ten weeks in circumstances of rape or incest, and limited abortions for lethal fetal anomalies to 20 weeks.While we are disappointed that an amendment to limit abortions to only the life of the mother fell short in a roll call vote, we applaud those House members supporting the amendment for doing all they could to limit SB1’s exceptions. We will continue to work to build consensus going forward that all lives are to be valued, regardless of the means of one’s conception.While we cannot fully endorse the amended SB1 due to it rape, incest, and lethal fetal anomaly exceptions, we acknowledge the path forward is either the potential to end the vast majority of abortions in Indiana, beginning with the closure of Indiana abortion clinics in mid-September, or allowing all abortions to continue under current law, as women from Ohio, Kentucky, and other states travel to Indiana for abortions. We urge every legislator to prayerfully consider how their vote will impact the path Indiana now chooses."