Category: abortion

Anti-Conscience Mandates Force Doctors to Violate Their Religious Beliefs

Commentary Coercion is becoming ubiquitous in medicine. It’s not just vaccine mandates. Doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who oppose morally contentions medical procedures are increasingly being forced to choose between remaining in their professions and violating their deepest-held religious beliefs. Take the new “Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill of 2021” just passed in Queensland, Australia. The law…


KY Attorney General Asks Supreme Court to Allow Him to Represent State in Abortion Case Governor Doesn’t Want to Pursue

Kentucky’s Republican attorney general should be allowed to defend the state’s abortion law in court after the state’s Democratic governor refused to do so, the Supreme Court heard Oct. 12. Although it was the court’s first abortion-related case since Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s addition to the bench last year gave its conservative wing a 6–3 majority,…


AT&T Responds to Attacks Over Texas ‘Heartbeat’ Abortion Law

AT&T over the weekend responded to criticisms from two progressive advocacy groups, which recently launched ads against the telecom giant for allegedly donating to Republican Texas lawmakers who backed the state’s new “heartbeat” abortion law. The two groups, Corporate Accountability Action and American Bridge 21st Century, ran television and digital ads in Texas highlighting AT&T’s…


Texas Abortion Ban Resumes Temporarily After Decision by US Appeals Court

The Texas Heartbeat Act, a law that bans most abortions, is temporarily back in effect after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by the state to set aside a lower court judge’s decision while the case is reviewed. The Texas law, also known as Senate Bill 8, bans abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which…


Abortion Issue May Be a Distraction

Commentary This is the season of abortion alarm. On Oct. 2 abortion-rights activists led a Women’s March focusing on “reproductive justice” in some 600 municipalities across the United States. The total number of participants nationwide—in the tens of thousands, according to the march’s spokespeople—was nowhere near the estimated 1 million that the original Women’s March,…


Texas Appeals Ruling Blocking Anti-Abortion Law

Texas appealed a court order handed down Wednesday that temporarily blocked the state from enforcing an abortion law that went into effect last month. “We disagree with the Court’s decision and have already taken steps to immediately appeal it to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, wrote on…


Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas Anti-Abortion Law

A federal judge in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday granted a temporary injunction against the Texas anti-abortion law that drew national attention after it recently survived judicial scrutiny by the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, an Obama appointee, opined that “a person’s right under the Constitution to choose to obtain an abortion prior to fetal…


Former Planned Parenthood Abortion Doctor Led to Pro-Life Perspective by ‘Hand of God’

A former abortion doctor who worked for Planned Parenthood in the mid-1990s had an unexpected realization that she’d made a huge mistake—and this change of heart set her on a journey to the side of being pro-life. She believes God was instrumental in guiding her on that journey. Dr. Patti Giebink from Chamberlain, South Dakota, entered…


Students Sue St. John’s University Over Vaccine Mandate, Citing Use of Aborted Fetus Cells in Testing

A group of students at St. John’s University (SJU) in New York are suing the school over its COVID-19 vaccination requirement, which they say violates their religious belief regarding abortion. The 17 students filed the lawsuit against the Manhattan-based Catholic university in Suffolk County Supreme Court. They are seeking $2.75 million in damages, barring a…


Pennsylvania Lawmaker Introduces ‘Parody’ Forced Vasectomy Bill

In an effort to promote his views on abortion, a Pennsylvania lawmaker has issued an official memo loaded with sexual double entendre, announcing startling proposed legislation. Democrat state Rep. Christopher Rabb’s memo calls for “all inseminators to undergo vasectomies within six weeks from having their third child or 40th birthday, whichever comes first.” The legislation…