Pro-Life News

Even as most states are trying to make it harder to get an abortion, California could make it free for more people. State lawmakers are debating a bill to eliminate out-of-pocket expenses like copays and payments toward deductibles for abortions and related services, such as counseling. The measure, approved by the Senate and headed to the Assembly, would apply to most private health plans regulated by the state. The state legislature is considering the bill just as the fate of Roe v. Wade has been thrown into question. The conservative-leaning Supreme Court has agreed to review later this year a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks, and its ruling could end or weaken Roe. Read...

Americans are sharply divided in their abortion views, including on its morality, with an equal split between those who believe it is morally acceptable and those who say it is morally wrong. The 47% who say it is acceptable is, by two percentage points, the highest Gallup has recorded in two decades of measurement. Just one point separates them from the 46% who think abortion is wrong from a moral perspective. Since 2001, the gap between these readings has varied from zero to 20 points. The latest gap, based on a May 3-18 Gallup poll, is slightly smaller than last year's, when 47% thought abortion was morally wrong and 44% said it was morally acceptable. Americans have been typically more...

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said his office will seek a U.S. Supreme Court review of a U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling that upholds an injunction prohibiting the state from implementing a 2019 abortion law. A three-judge 8th Circuit panel heard arguments in September and handed down its ruling determining Missouri's law prohibiting abortions after eight weeks and abortions based on Down syndrome diagnoses prevent women from making their own decisions. Missouri "failed to demonstrate its policy priorities outweigh the public interest in access to pre-viability abortions or the significant interference with (Planned Parenthood's) business and the harm to pregnant...

Southern Baptists passed a sweeping resolution on abolishing abortion, one that blasts "traditional pro-life laws" and "incremental, regulatory guidelines." The resolution, which is nonbinding, marks a shift in the formally held viewpoint of the convention, whose public policy arm has advocated for restrictions on abortion. Instead, this resolution — which was not proposed through regular means at the commission, but added on by a messenger with support of others — argues for the immediate abolition of abortion, not laws to restrict abortion. The resolution was amended to add the word "alone" to the phrase "RESOLVED, that we will not embrace an incremental...

Governor Roy Cooper has vetoed House Bill 453, legislation that aims to prevent abortion for the reason of sex, race, or a positive prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis. The bill places the reporting onus on physicians who would be required to submit signed affirmations confirming whether the race, sex, or presence of Down syndrome motivated a woman seeking an abortion after the 16th gestational week. Physicians would have to report if the patient told them this information or if they had a reason to believe these were factors. In Cooper's veto message, he said the legislation was an example of government interference in private medical decisions. Read more......