Category: abortion

Clock Is Ticking on Texas Abortion Trigger Law

With few exceptions, Texas will outlaw abortions on Aug. 25 when the state’s trigger law goes into effect. The U.S. Supreme Court issued its official judgment July 26 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade. The judgment clears the way for Texas’ “trigger law,” which bans almost all…


Abortion, Democracy, and History

Commentary When Sen. Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln faced off in a debate in Peoria, Illinois, in 1854, the issue tearing apart the nation was slavery. A central issue was whether slavery would be permitted in new territories entering the union. Douglas’ answer to the question was politics. Lincoln’s answer was morality and the Bible….


House Democrats Propose Bill to Place Term Limits on Supreme Court Justices

House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a bill to place term limits on U.S. Supreme Court justices in a bid to “restore balance” to the majority conservative bench. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, claimed that the nation’s higher court faced a “legitimacy crisis.” “Five of the six…


Michigan Medical School Students Walk out on Pro-Life Speaker During White Coat Ceremony

Dozens of incoming medical students at the University of Michigan walked out of the initiation ceremony on Sunday, following a failed attempt to pressure the school to cancel a pro-life doctor as the ceremony’s keynote speaker. The July 24 ceremony, during which students received their medical white coats and took the White Coat Pledge and…


17 Attorneys General Warn Google About Censoring Pregnancy Crisis Centers

A coalition of 17 attorneys general is threatening Google with an anti-trust investigation if it censors pregnancy crisis centers from search results related to abortion. Pregnancy crisis centers are different from abortion centers in that they provide resources for women who choose to carry their babies to full term. The attorneys general of Virginia and…


Illegal Immigrant Indicted in Rape of Young Girl Who Traveled for Abortion

A grand jury in Ohio has indicted the man accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion that became a flashpoint in the national debate over access to the procedure. The 27-year-old defendant, Gerson Fuentes, was charged with two felony counts of rape in an indictment filed Thursday…


YouTube to Remove Abortion Videos Spreading ‘False Claims’

YouTube has announced that it will begin removing videos that promote ways to perform unsafe abortions and that feature false claims about abortion safety. “Like all of our policies on health/medical topics, we rely on published guidance from health authorities,” the Google-owned video streaming platform said on Twitter. “We prioritize connecting people to content from…


Georgia’s Abortion Ban Takes Effect After Appeals Court Overturns Injunction

Georgia’s abortion ban took effect on July 20, immediately after a federal appeals court overturned a lower court order. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit stayed the injunction that was issued in 2020, after issuing a ruling finding that the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade and a…


Georgia’s Abortion Ban Takes Effect After Appeals Court Ruling

Georgia’s abortion ban took effect on July 20, immediately after a federal appeals court overturned a lower court order that had blocked enforcement of the 2019 law. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued a stay on a lower court injunction that was issued in 2020, after ruling that the…


Democrats Call for Shutdown of ‘Deceptive’ Crisis Pregnancy Centers Amid Wave of Pro-Abortion Violence

Democrats in both the House and Senate are calling for the shutdown of “deceptive” crisis pregnancy centers amid a wave of violence across the United States by pro-abortion activists, prompting GOP backlash. Crisis pregnancy centers are nonprofits founded for the purpose of providing counseling, support, and resources to persuade women against having an abortion. Often,…