Legislation

Idaho Law Could Criminalize Helping Minors Get Abortions

Idaho lawmakers are considering making it illegal for an adult to help a minor procure an abortion without parental consent. The measure would create a new crime of "abortion trafficking," barring adults from obtaining abortion pills for a minor and "recruiting, harboring, or  […]

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Utah Advances Legislation to Ban Clinics That Offer Only Abortion

The Utah House of Representatives passed some of the strongest pro-life legislation advanced since the reversal of Roe v. Wade. If passed by the state's Senate and signed into law, the measures effectively would shut down abortion clinics that only offer abortion and would also help victims of rape  […]

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Some Pro-Lifers Say Proposed Kentucky Bill Goes Too Far

Some key pro-life supporters said they oppose a bill in the Kentucky House of Representatives that would allow women who have an abortion to be prosecuted. First-term state Rep. Emily Callaway, R-Louisville, filed House Bill 300 in the General Assembly. It would allow prosecutors to file homicide  […]

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Iowa Lawmakers Announce Bill to Ban All Abortions

Iowa anti-abortion groups and some Republican lawmakers are starting the push for a "life at conception" bill that would ban all abortion in Iowa. Maggie DeWitte, who heads the Coalition of Pro-Life Leaders, announced the effort Monday at a Prayer for Life anti-abortion rally at the  […]

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Minnesota's New Abortion Law 'The Worst Kind of Barbarism'

Winona-Rochester Bishop Robert Barron called a newly passed Minnesota abortion bill that enshrines abortion rights into law "the worst kind of barbarism." The bill, titled the Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act, enshrines a constitutional right to "reproductive freedom,"  […]

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House Passes First Anti-Abortion Bill Post Roe Decision

House Republicans used their new majority to push through a largely symbolic bill that would require health care providers to provide care to infants born after an attempted abortion. The main difference between the 2002 law and the most current one — the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act  […]

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Pro-Life Laws Are Saving Thousands of Lives Across the Country

According to a study from the pro-abortion WeCount coalition, the answer is "yes," with the number of abortions nationwide falling by 10,000 in the first two months after the Dobbs decision. Ten thousand lives saved is cause for celebration, although you might not guess that from the  […]

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South Carolina Lawmakers Fail to Pass Stricter Abortion Laws

Abortion laws in South Carolina almost certainly won’t get more restrictive, after Republicans in the General Assembly could not agree on a total ban on the procedure during a special legislative session. South Carolina was for decades at the forefront of more restrictive abortion laws that  […]

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Lindsey Graham's Abortion Ban Stuns Senate GOP

Lindsey Graham’s anti-abortion legislation once unified the Republican Party. The 15-week abortion ban he pitched had the exact opposite effect. The South Carolina senator chose a uniquely tense moment to unveil his party’s first bill limiting abortion access since this summer’s watershed reversal  […]

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