Abbott not backing down on fetal burial rule
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Category Archives: Abortion
Planned Parenthood pushes challenge of Mississippi law
Planned Parenthood is asking a federal judge to quickly rule in its favor and overturn a Mississippi law that bans Medicaid spending with any health care provider that offers abortion. The women's health group argues that a judge should make a summary judgment backing its challenge of the Mississippi law, now that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an injunction against a similar law in Louisiana.
Republicans go after Planned Parenthood contractor
House Republicans are seeking to hold a firm that procured aborted fetuses from Planned Parenthood, and its president, in contempt of Congress. A special panel set up to investigate how medical researchers obtain fetal tissue from abortion providers announced Monday it will meet on Wednesday to consider whether Congress should hold in contempt StemExpress and its executive Cate Dyer.
Tim Kaine: Catholic of convenience
One surefire way to spot an election year is to check Tim Kaine's closet. If he's been rummaging around inside, looking for his clerical collar, someone is going to be voting in November.
Oklahoma’s first new abortion clinic in 40 years opens doors
Despite facing some of the nation's strictest anti-abortion laws, a Kansas-based foundation opened a new facility in Oklahoma City - the first new abortion provider in the state in 40 years. The Trust Women South Wind Women's Center welcomed the first patients last week to its clinic on the city's south side.
The New Pro-Life Movement: Neither New nor Pro-Life
Now that the practical choice is between coughing Clinton and terrifying Trump, the Seamless Garment crowd is making new attempts to co-opt pro-life sentiment in favor of the vociferously pro-abortion candidate that is, Clinton. This New Pro-Life Movement is supposedly bolder, more sincere, more consistent, and especially more "prudent" than the old one.
“I want to live to see the day that…we send Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history.”
GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence spoke to a convention of conservative Christians Saturday, drawing loud applause for his promises that he will work with Donald Trump to restrict abortion rights and appoint right-wing justices to the Supreme Court. "Let me be clear: People who know me well know I'm pro-life, and I don't apologize for it," said Pence, the Republican governor of Indiana, to the largely evangelical crowd at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC.
NY attorney general says court sets abortion rights Updated at
New York's attorney general says abortion rights provided by U.S. Supreme Court rulings can't be diminished by the state law against late-term abortions enacted before the court's landmark Roe v.
US Congress blocks Zika funding plan
The US Senate has failed to pass a funding bill to help fight the Zika virus for a third time. Senate Democrats blocked the $1.1bn bill after Republicans sought to stop funding for pro-abortion group Planned Parenthood.
Rubio: No Abortions For Zika-Infected Women
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Mike Pence: No Friend to Women
In the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Mike Pence, attempts by correspondent Lesley Stahl to get insights into Pence was noticeably futile. Pence sat and smiled tensely as Trump stole the show.
Democrats Euphemize Abortion as Convention Opensby Alexandra…
But abortion was indirectly referenced more than a handful of times, via euphemisms such as "woman's right to choose" and "family planning." Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren described Hillary Clinton as "a woman who fights for children, for women, for health care."
Tim Kaine: Abortion is murder, and that’s totally fine
The Democrats are a morally incoherent party, and nothing captures with more perfection the feckless irrationality than Sen. Tim Kaine on abortion. Speaking to CNN, the irrational Kaine said, "I have a traditional Catholic personal position, but I am very strongly supportive that women should make these decisions and government shouldn't intrude[.] ... I'm a strong supporter of Roe v.
Catholic Tim Kaine insane on abortion
Hillary Clinton has picked Virginia senator Tim Kaine as her V.P. Much is being made of the fact that he speaks Spanish and is Catholic and used his Spanish while a Catholic missionary. Kaine is the latest Catholic politician to follow the tortured logic of Mario Cuomo to justify abortion when you know it is wrong, according both to your faith and to logic.
Alaska’s supreme court and the parental notification abortion law
You can't have a story about abortion laws without a certain amount of angst and controversy, but this week's news out of Alaska was disturbing for reasons which go well beyond the ubiquitous battles between pro-life and pro-abortion forces. The state had previously passed a referendum driven law which required parental notification 48 hours in advance for girls below the age of majority to have an abortion.
How the Judiciary Contributes to the Growth of Government
Conservatives frequently say we must appoint "conservative judges" who don't make law, but interpret the law. This sounds great, but a close analysis shows why it doesn't work out the way we want.
ACLU Preparing For Legal Challenges If Trump Gets Elected
U.S. Republican presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump speaks to the media regarding money he listed as being donated to veterans groups at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson The American Civil Liberties Union released a 28-page report Friday arguing most of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's governing agenda is unconstitutional, and promises to keep a running tally of all Trump's policy goals that run afoul of the Constitution.
Trump adviser: Women should be ones to decide on abortion
One of Donald Trump's potential running mates said Sunday that women should be the ones to decide whether or not to have abortions. Women "are the ones that have to make the decision because they're theones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not," Ret.
Abortion foes promote fetal-pain laws
Stung by the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned Texas abortion clinic restrictions, leaders of the country's largest anti-abortion group are redoubling their efforts for restrictions on abortion that they claim will prevent fetal pain and that they think can fare well in the public eye and, they hope, in the courts. The National Right to Life Committee's leaders said they remained confident in their strategy of undermining Roe v.
A victory for the rights of Colorado women and families
Last month the Supreme Court issued a decision that many believe is the turning of the tide in reaffirming the right to seek an abortion. Whole Woman's Health vs. Hellerstedt overturned many of the provisions of Texas' House Bill 2, a law that resulted in closing more than half of the state's clinics.