Pro-Life News

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that would have curtailed access to abortions in the state and that was nearly identical to a measure the court overturned in Texas in 2016. The ruling is a win for advocates of abortion access, who feared the case could quickly pave the way for states to impose greater restrictions on the procedure. But legal and legislative battles over the procedure are sure to continue, including in Texas, where there are more than 6 million women of reproductive age. Read more......

Many of the country's leading pro-life advocates said the U.S. Supreme Court's June 29 ruling striking down a Louisiana abortion law puts women's health in danger, allows subpar care of women and gives abortion clinics a pass on "commonsense regulations" for "the sake of profit." "Women were dealt a huge blow in today's ruling from the Supreme Court," said Abby Johnson, former director of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Texas and currently leads the group And Then There Were None, which she founded. Read more...  ...

A Johnson County District Court Judge has blocked a mandatory 24-hour waiting period on abortions from taking effect. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed the legislation into law and Planned Parenthood and the ACLU both sued to stop it from taking effect. The ruling from the judge prevents the law from taking effect until the lawsuit is finished. At a press conference prior to the ruling, Reynolds said she would work hard to defend the law. Read more......

The Little Sisters of the Poor had a victory at the Supreme Court, nine years into the religious order's bouts of litigation over the Obama-era "contraception mandate" which obliged employers to provide for contraceptive coverage for employees through their health care plans. In a 7-2 decision, the Court's majority sided with the sisters in the latest round of lawsuits against them over the mandate, this time brought by the states of Pennsylvania and California, who argued that the exemption crafted by the Trump administration for organizations with religious or moral objections to the mandate shifted the cost of providing contraceptive coverage to the states and was procedurally...

A federal judge agreed to suspend a rule that requires women during the COVID-19 pandemic to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland concluded that the "in-person requirements" for patients seeking medication abortion care impose a "substantial obstacle" to abortion patients and are likely unconstitutional under the circumstances of the pandemic. "Particularly in light of the limited timeframe during which a medication abortion or any abortion must occur, such infringement on the right to an abortion would constitute irreparable harm," the judge wrote in his 80-page decision. Read...

A federal judge halted the roll out of a controversial abortion law in Tennessee less than an hour after Gov. Bill Lee signed it into law. Lee signed the state's wide-ranging abortion ban into law — legislation that will enact some of the nation's most restrictive abortion regulations. He signed the bill around 11 a.m. By 11:45 a.m., the court ruled against the law. Reproductive providers including Planned Parenthood, along with the American Civil Liberties Union and other abortion rights groups filed a lawsuit against the bill in federal court in Nashville in June after the bill passed the Senate 23-5 in an early morning vote. Read more...  ...

With three city council members voting in approval and two others abstaining, the town of East Mountain passed an ordinance declaring itself a "sanctuary city for the unborn." Located in East Texas near Longview, the small town joins a dozen others in the Lone Star State to have an ordinance that effectively prohibits abortions within city limits. Waskom, another East Texas town, was the first to pass such an ordinance in June of last year. Read more......

Congressman Roger Marshall says he has introduced the Abortion Provider Loan Elimination Act, which prohibits abortion providers from receiving funds through the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program and initiates an investigation into how Planned Parenthood received $80 million through the program during the height of the virus. Marshall says the legislation has the support of 20 members of Congress and is endorsed by Susan B. Anthony List, National Right to Life Committee and Family Research Council. Read more......