SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico House of Representatives advanced a bill on Wednesday that would repeal unenforced state law that makes it a crime to perform an abortion unless the procedure is a “justified medical termination.” The move has deeply concerned pro-life residents, who state that it would not only retain the status […]
PIERRE, S.D. — A South Dakota bill that sought to protect the rights of parents to refuse medical or psychological “treatment” for their child if the course of action would affirm the thinking that their son or daughter is anything but their birth sex has been struck down in a legislative subcommittee. Some considered the […]
NEW YORK — A Queens man who is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend will not face a charge for the death of his unborn child due to the new abortion law signed by New York governor Andrew Cuomo. The assailant had originally been charged with “abortion in the second degree,” but as abortion in […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two lawmakers in Tennessee have again filed a bill that declares the State’s intent to only recognize “natural marriage” and consider “void” and “of no effect” the 2015 Obergefell Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex “marriage” nationwide. According to The Tennessean, the “Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act” has been re-filed for the […]
The number of state-level bills being presented to outlaw abortion is increasing nationwide, with more lawmakers submitting legislation to ignore and defy Roe. Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Indiana are all currently considering legislation that would protect the unborn as persons and criminalize the act of abortion as murder. As previously reported, in Idaho, […]
ELDORA, Iowa (KRVR) — A 9-year-old boy clutched a stuffed animal as he told a judge that his father’s girlfriend often withheld food and helped lock him under a staircase in the basement at their Iowa home. “I couldn’t get out” of the basement enclosure, the boy testified Wednesday in an Eldora courtroom at the bench […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts sided with his liberal colleagues on Thursday in blocking a Louisiana law from going into effect that would have required abortionists in the state to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh were the four justices […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa — While calling the matter “a close call,” a federal judge appointed to the bench by then-President Barack Obama has ruled that the University of Iowa “unevenly” enforced its human rights policy when it de-recognized the Christian group Business Leaders in Christ (BLinC) for not allowing a student to serve in a leadership […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama senator has prefiled a bill that would authorize the offering of elective Bible classes in public schools in the state, following in the footsteps of several lawmakers who have recently offered similar bills in other states. Senate Bill 14, submitted by Senator Tim Melson, R- Florence, would also allow all […]
WASHINGTON — During his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Trump expressed a desire to “build a culture that cherishes innocent life,” and urged the passage of a bill that would ban abortions later in a woman’s pregnancy when children can feel pain. Reaction to his remarks have been mixed as some […]