BOSTON — Lawmakers in Massachusetts have passed an amendment attached to a budget bill, essentially allowing abortion up to birth for “fatal fetal anomalies” and lowering the age of parental consent from under 18 to under 16. It is not clear whether or not Republican Gov. Charlie Baker plans to sign the measure into law. […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Four Alabama Supreme Court justices have used a ruling in an abortion case as an opportunity to call the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade and the 1992 opinion of Planned Parenthood v. Casey — precedents that have perpetuated the shedding of innocent blood in America. […]
Voters in Louisiana approved a ballot initiative on Tuesday that adds a sentence to the state Constitution noting that the document cannot be construed to find a “right to abortion” in the state. However, the move will not affect any laws in Louisiana unless the issue of abortion is sent back to the states via […]
Jerusha Duford, granddaughter of the late Billy Graham, says that she will be voting for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden this election and has written an op-ed and recorded a video citing the values of her grandfather and asking Christians not to vote for Donald Trump. “I want every marginalized community, every sex, every race, […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Residents in Louisiana will vote next month on a ballot initiative that asks whether or not the state Constitution should be amended to include a sentence declaring that there is no “right to abortion” in the state. Amendment 1, also known as the No Right to Abortion in Constitution amendment, would […]
Stevie Nicks of the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, which became popular in the 1970s, says that she had an abortion in 1979 after becoming pregnant by her boyfriend, because if not, her career and the band would have ended. At 72, she seems to express no regrets for conversely ending the life of her […]
JERUSALEM — A limestone weight that dates to the First Temple era and may have been used in marketplace commerce or for the acquirement of animals to sacrifice was recently discovered in Jerusalem during a soil sift from an excavation near the Western Wall. The weight, inscribed with a symbol representing the word “shekel,” was […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal filed by attorneys for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), which sought for the court to overturn an injunction against Gov. Henry McMaster’s order stripping abortion giant Planned Parenthood of state Medicaid funding. “Petition denied,” the court simply said […]
Shannon Dingle, a former pro-life speaker who appeared at Evangelicals for Life conferences, has released an op-ed outlining that she now supports abortion “rights.” “I’m not pro-life anymore, not in the political sense,” she wrote in an article released by USA Today on Sunday. “I firmly believe that decisions regarding pregnancy should be between a […]
SALT LAKE CITY — During Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate for the 2020 election, USA Today Washington Bureau Chief and moderator Susan Page asked both Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris what they specifically would want their state to do if Roe v. Wade is overturned. Neither gave a direct answer as […]