Deadlock leaves injunction against first-in-nation abortion ban in effect
His silence has resulted in a top pro-life U.S. Senator challenging him to speak out for unborn children on today – the day that the majority of Americans who are pro-life solemnly recall the awful Supreme Court decision that ushered in an era of virtually unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy for any reason.
I am reminded of my own journey to Washington for the March for Life in 1987. Abortion defenders blame the law for putting dozens of clinics out of business and making access to abortion effectively inaccessible for many Texas women, violating Roe v. Wade which, ironically, began in the Texas courts.
“I was told to meet at a location in downtown Chicago”, she said during a conference call organized by Planned Parenthood.
The appellate judges tied 7-7 in their finding, which now sends the case back to the lower court.
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, issued a statement decrying efforts to regulate abortion clinics.
If you are the Abortion Establishment, at least you could console yourself that Mr. Obama mentioned “reproductive freedom”, since that was conspicuously absent from his final State of the Union address. That represents the first time since 2008 that the pro-abortion rights side surpassed the anti-abortion side, Gallup said.
The Kansas Court of Appeals is deciding whether to allow the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion method.
If the decision stands, it would “immensely strengthen protection” of abortion rights when Planned Parenthood and similar organizations challenge legislation and laws restricting abortion in Kansas, said Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. That act was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2007 in the case Gonzales v. Carhart.
González-Rojas said she has heard of women who took medicine found on the black market and women who were punched in the stomach or thrown down stairs in desperate attempts to end a pregnancy when they could not access abortion services. Pregnant women and expectant couples are offered vital parenting resources, and birth mothers in tough circumstances are educated on the handsome choice of adoption and are connected with the many families eager and ready to open their hearts and homes to children.
Caption + Kathy Ostrowski, lobbyist and legislative director for the anti-abortion group Kansans for Life, criticizes a state Court of Appeals ruling on abortion, Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan.
Appeals court judges split 7-7 in a ruling Friday over whether the Kansas Constitution protects abortion rights independently of the U.S. Constitution.
The case is expected to be appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court.
Days after referring to Planned Parenthood as the “establishment” for its endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vermont Sen. You saw what happened when I talked about the horrific truth of the Planned Parenthood videos during a Republican debate.
State legislatures across the country have passed more restrictions on abortion services more quickly over the past five years (288 in total, according to the Guttmacher institute) than at any other point since Roe v. Wade.