Tag: abortion laws

Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference: PAC Leader Says Pro-Family Candidates ‘Should Not Be on the Defensive’

Ralph Reed, the founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC), opened the political action committee’s annual Road to Majority Policy Conference with a call for conservative political candidates to “grow a backbone” as they defend their views on faith, family, and their opposition to abortion. The Road to Majority Policy Conference runs from June…


Battle Over Late-Term Abortion, Pregnancy Counseling, Divides Maine

The viability of a baby to survive outside the womb will no longer be a legal limitation on abortion, if Maine Democrats get their way. The new legal standard will be the “professional judgment of a physician.” That is the language of a bill, LD 1619, currently before the Judiciary Committee of the Maine State…


IN-DEPTH: Maine Democrats Push to Remove Abortion Limits—Christians Say Their Pro-Life Advice Is Being Criminalized

The viability of a baby to survive outside the womb will no longer be a legal limitation on abortion, if Maine Democrats get their way. The new legal standard will be the “professional judgment of a physician.” That is the language of a bill, LD 1619, currently before the Judiciary Committee of the Maine State…


5,000 Fewer Abortions per Month After Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision: Study

A new report indicates there have been 5,377 fewer abortions on average each month in the first six months after the U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case. The Society of Family Planning (SFP)—a non-profit organization that studies “abortion and contraception science” and has argued (pdf) for…


Kansas Supreme Court Unlikely to Shift on Abortion-Friendly Stance

The Kansas Supreme Court appeared unmoved on March 27 by Kansas Solicitor General Tony Powell’s arguments that its 2019 ruling recognizing abortion as a “fundamental right” under the Kansas Constitution should be overturned. Powell spent Monday morning defending two state abortion laws before the court—a 2015 ban on second-trimester dismemberment abortions and a 2011 law…


Christians React to California Governor’s Pro-Abortion Billboards and New Abortion Laws

After Gov. Gavin Newsom placed pro-abortion billboards as part of his re-election campaign advertisements in states restricting abortions, Christians in California are responding. On Sept. 15, Newsom, a Democrat, announced several versions of billboard advertisements that would be going up across seven states. “Just launched billboards in 7 of the most restrictive anti-abortion states that…


Louisiana Sheriff Refuses to Enforce State Abortion Law

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson from Louisiana has announced that she will not be accepting any individual to custody at the Orleans Justice Center arrested for violating the 2006 trigger law that bans abortions in the state following the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The Sheriff’s announcement “tightens the circle of protection from…


Leak of Supreme Court Opinion on Abortion Law Is ‘Judicial Insurrection’: DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has characterized the recent leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade as a “judicial insurrection.” “To have that leak out the way it did was really unprecedented,” DeSantis said during a May 3 press conference. “And I think it was really an attack on a lot of…


Abortion Laws Legal Challenge: The Lessons of Brauer v. Canada

A courageous woman from Nova Scotia, Connie Brauer, tried to change the scandalous abortion situation in Canada by suing the federal government in the Federal Court in 2019. Brauer, a “self-represented party”—meaning she had no lawyer—sought, among other remedies, an immediate injunction banning all abortions in Canada and an immediate end to the public funding…


Abortion Law Legal Challenge: The Lessons of Brauer v. Canada

Commentary A courageous woman from Nova Scotia, Connie Brauer, tried to change the scandalous abortion situation in Canada by suing the federal government in the Federal Court in 2019. Brauer, a “self-represented party”—meaning she had no lawyer—sought, among other remedies, an immediate injunction banning all abortions in Canada and an immediate end to the public…