Pro-Life News

The Supreme Court left in place a Kentucky law, mandating doctors perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before they can perform abortions. The high court declined, without comment, to hear an appeal brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the state's lone abortion clinic. The Kentucky law, which requires a doctor to describe an ultrasound in detail while a pregnant woman hears the fetal heartbeat, was passed in 2017. Read more......

A key Florida Senate committee voted, along party lines, to advance a bill that would require parental consent for abortion, overcoming a procedural hurdle by Democrats last month to stall the legislation. The 6-3 vote also begins moving what is likely to be one of the legislative session's most controversial bills through the more moderate Senate, which looks likelier this year to pass the proposal. Read more......

Left-wing U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave an interview to the BBC this week in which she offered more of her personal views on abortion, which she has long strongly supported. "I think society needs to be more active on this issue," Ginsburg said. "And the truth is that with all these restrictive laws" — that is, state laws restricting the availability and legality of certain abortions — "the only people who are being restricted are poor women. They normally can't pay a plane fare or the bus fare, they can't afford to take days off of work to go." Read more......

A Michigan-based pro-life group delivered 379,418 petitions to the state capitol Monday in an effort to ban an abortion procedure known as the dilation and evacuation method, or dismemberment abortion, that's performed during the second trimester. Michigan Values Life submitted the signatures aimed at initiating the dismemberment abortion ban, well above the 340,047 number required by state law. If enough of the petitions are certified as valid, then the legislature will have 40 days to pass the initiative. If the initiative is passed, according to Michigan law, then pro-choice Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will be unable to veto it. Read more...  ...