WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case surrounding the constitutionality of North Carolina’s ultrasound law, allowing a lower court ruling declaring the regulation a “free speech violation” to stand. As previously reported, lawmakers in North Carolina passed the Women’s Right to Know Act in 2011, which required women to obtain […]
NASHVILLE — A Bible Belt state is among the latest to consider legalizing assisted suicide, in part due to the efforts of an activist who asserts that the choice to end one’s life is the “ultimate civil right.” On Tuesday, those both for and against physician assisted suicide spent two hours presenting their thoughts about […]
AUSTIN — A federal appeals court has upheld several abortion restrictions encapsulated in a Texas law known as H.B. 2 that may close most of the abortion facilities in the state. “[T]he State truly intends that women only receive an abortion in facilities that can provide the highest quality of care and safety—the stated legitimate […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite impassioned objections, the California State Senate approved a bill on Thursday that would allow some elderly and disabled people to seek help in killing themselves through lethal doses of drugs. SB 128, also known as the “End of Life Option Act,” was passed by the Democrat-controlled state Senate in a 23-13 […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal appeals court panel consisting of all George W. Bush appointees has declared an Arkansas state law banning abortion when a heartbeat is detected to be “unconstitutional,” upholding a lower court ruling opining the same. As previously reported, in March 2013, legislators voted to make the Human Heartbeat Protection Act […]
PASADENA, Calif. — A federal appeals court has unanimously struck down Idaho’s 20-week abortion ban, stating that it is “facially unconstitutional because it categorically bans some abortions before viability.” The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, located in Pasadena, Calif., ruled in favor of a woman who filed a class action lawsuit after she was faced […]
SACRAMENTO — The California Assembly voted Tuesday to advance a bill that would require pregnancy centers to inform all clients that they can obtain an abortion at state-funded facilities. As previously reported, AB 775 is known in the legislature as the Reproductive FACT Act, but to pro-lifers, it is dubbed the “bully bill.” The text […]
PORTLAND, Maine — Lawmakers in Maine have proposed a bill that would provide clarification on the rights of parents to make medical decisions for their children in light of an incident that concerned Christian groups and others across the country. As previously reported, Aleah Peaslee was six months old when her father, Kevin Peaslee, 22, […]
ABUJA, Nigeria — Concerns are being raised over a known abortion activist group that is present in Nigeria to offer services to the over 200 women and girls that were recently found to be pregnant after being rescued from the Islamic terror group Boko Haram. As previously reported, last month, the Nigerian army rescued nearly […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A nationally-recognized Satanist organization has filed suit against the state of Missouri in effort to obtain a “religious exemption” from a law requiring mothers to wait 72 hours before obtaining an abortion. As previously reported, the New York-based Satanic Temple announced last summer that it was using the Supreme Court decision in favor […]