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Science has been pivotal in shifting many hearts and minds on abortion. Written in 1973, Roe could not comprehend that expectant parents would one day use sonograms to look at their unborn children’s hands and feet and see themselves in the faces of their offspring. We now know that the fetal heartbeat begins as early as six weeks and that an unborn child can feel pain at 20 weeks, if not earlier. These realities weigh heavily on the hearts of millions of Americans, and they are driving pro-life change in state after state. Read more......

Nowadays the American South represents a hub of anti-abortion fervor, home to a series of laws and regulations that have eroded Roe v. Wade, as liberal states in the Northeast and elsewhere have enacted laws to codify that landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision. How that regional reversal came to pass touches on demographic and ideological shifts, as well as a political environment in which few governors or state legislators anywhere claim to be moderates on the issue. Read more......

Senate Bill 4 by Brownsville Democrat Eddie Lucio, Jr., would prohibit what some lawmakers have referred to as "mail-order" abortions, a practice by which drugs that induce abortion are sent by mail to people seeking to terminate a pregnancy. During the pandemic, a Food and Drug Administration policy change allowed people seeking an abortion to receive the medication via mail without an in-person doctor's office visit. Critics of the policy change, which spurred the legislation, say it creates a safety issue for people using the medication. Although he said he didn't like that an abortion would still take place, Lucio said the legislation would prevent complications that he...

Lawmakers sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra demanding answers on why the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC). The center, which has received federal funds from HHS since 1998, forced a nurse to help perform an abortion against the nurse's registered conscience objections and in clear violation of long-standing federal law. Under the Trump Administration, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) conducted an extensive investigation and referred the violation to the DOJ, which then filed a lawsuit in federal court. However, under the Biden...

By abandoning the Hyde Amendment, Democrats have placed themselves on the wrong side of national polling and may suffer politically in the 2022 midterm elections. If pro-life voters mobilize in key districts, political observers tell InsideSources they may weaponize national polling that consistently shows solid majority support for the ban on federally-funded elective abortions. In January, a Marist/Knights of Columbus poll showed 58 percent of Americans opposed to taxpayer-funded abortion. Read more......

Texas can limit access to the most common procedure used to end a pregnancy in the second trimester, an appeals court ruled Wednesday, in a decision likely to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. The ruling paves the way for Texas to be the first state in the nation to impose such a ban. At issue is a law passed by the Texas Legislature in 2017 that requires doctors to stop the heart, or cause what they called "fetal demise," before the commonly used dilation and evacuation abortion procedure — except in the case of a medical emergency. Those who violate the law can face fines or jail time. The Texas law has never gone into effect. It was struck down by a district judge in Austin...

A U.S. District Court judge placed a permanent injunction on Aug. 10 on several Indiana pro-life laws, including those that required physicians to examine patients in person before performing abortions and that mandated that only physicians can administer first-trimester medication abortions. An Indianapolis Star article said several requirements in state law were deemed unconstitutional by Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana in a ruling in Whole Health Alliance v. Rokita. Some provisions were upheld, including the requirements that only physicians can provide first-trimester aspiration, or suction, abortions and that ultrasounds must be...

Following the District Court ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Noem, Gov. Kristi Noem announced Friday that the state will appeal the ruling to the United States 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. "All life is precious. Mothers should have the opportunity to hear all relevant information before they are faced with the 'choice' of whether to end their unborn child's life," Gov. Noem said. "I look forward to the day when all life — born and unborn — is protected by law. Given that the US Supreme Court will soon decide on the constitutionality of prohibiting abortion before 'viability,' we are asking the 8th Circuit to recognize that the people's legislators should have the ability to...

A spokeswoman with Texas Right to Life said a federal appeals court ruling upholding the Texas Dismemberment Abortion Ban is a "long-awaited victory" Texans are celebrating. "Anyone can see the cruelty of dismemberment abortions, ripping a child's body apart while her heart is still beating," said Kimberlyn Schwartz, the organization's Director of Media and Communication. "We're grateful the judges recognized this horror." The ruling from the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in New Orleans, upheld the state's 2017 law, reversing previous court rulings that blocked it. It also reversed an earlier ruling by a three-judge panel of the 5th...

Texas abortion providers made a last-minute plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state's new abortion restrictions law, which is set to come into effect Wednesday and would ban the procedure as early as six weeks of pregnancy — a period when many women are unaware that they are pregnant. Providers and abortion advocacy groups say this would affect at least 85 percent of the abortions taking place in the state. The law would allow members of the general public to sue those who might have violated the restrictions, which providers call a bounty hunting scheme. In the Supreme Court emergency filing, attorneys for providers said the law would likely close clinics across the state and...