September 8, 2022
Chicago Police Investigating After Dead Infant Found on Sidewalk
California Legislators Pass Block of Pro-Abortion Bills
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Among other things, the legislation:
- prevents California law enforcement from cooperating with abortion investigations from other states
- blocks abortion-related medical information from being shared with other states
- prohibits a coroner's statements from being used to convict a mother of infanticide
- allows non-doctors to commit abortions without oversight
- creates a $20 million fund to pay the abortion costs of women who come to California from other states
September 7, 2022
Appeals Court Ends Injunction Against Florida's 15-Week Abortion Law
The law was set to take effect on July 1, but Leon County Circuit Judge John C. Cooper issued a temporary injunction blocking Florida from enforcing the law while a challenge was considered. It then advanced to the First District Court of Appeal, where that injunction was overturned in a 2-1 ruling.
This ruling allows Florida to enforce the 15-week abortion limit as the legal challenge progresses.
Court Rules California Cannot Force Church Health Plans to Cover Abortion
September 6, 2022
Veterans Affairs Announces Legally Dubious Plan to Offer Abortions
September 2, 2022
Nurse Sues after Being Fired By CVS for Refusal to Prescribe Abortion Drugs
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September 1, 2022
Planned Parenthood Sues to Block Indiana Abortion Ban
Planned Parenthood Lawsuit Challenging Indiana Abortion Complications Law Dismissed
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita |
August 31, 2022
Fifth Circuit Rules Government Cannot Force Christian Hospitals to Commit Abortions
August 30, 2022
Oklahoma's Abortion Trigger Law Takes Effect
“Today marks the latest attack against the fundamental rights of Americans as new abortion bans go into effect in Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. These extreme bans will criminalize abortion, in some cases without exceptions for rape or incest. These near-total abortion bans are part of a growing effort by Republican legislators to roll back the freedoms Americans have relied on for nearly half a century. Today’s radical steps take away women’s reproductive rights and put personal health care decisions in the hands of politicians instead of women and their doctors, threatening women’s health and lives.”
Abortion threatens and ends millions of lives every year. Oklahoma's citizens elected pro-life legislators with the intent to save lives from the deadly practice of abortion. The trigger law is not a tyrannical piece of legislation drafted by misogynistic politicians without their consituents' consent. It is a manifestation of democracy taking effect after being stifled by 50 years of Roe v. Wade.
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.”