Commentary Like death and taxes, there are inescapable realities to which all of us must resign ourselves. With sombre countenances, we are forced to acknowledge that no Canadian NHL team (particularly one based in Toronto) will ever again win the Stanley Cup. We know for a certainty that the moment you take your snow tires…
Texas Ban on Common 2nd-Trimester Abortion Method Upheld by Appeals Court
August 19, 2021
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A Texas law effectively banning an abortion procedure commonly employed during second-trimester pregnancies in the United States was upheld by the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday, reversing a ruling last year by a three-judge panel of the same court. The 2017 law, which imposes civil and criminal penalties on physicians who perform dilation and evacuation abortions…
Federal Judge Strikes Down Several Indiana Abortion Laws
A federal judge in Indianapolis struck down several of the state’s abortion laws on Tuesday, ruling that they are unconstitutional, including the ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortion services. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, in her ruling (pdf) also upheld some of the…
Tennessee’s 48-Hour Abortion Wait Period Is Legal, Federal Appeals Court Rules
A federal circuit court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of a Tennessee law that requires doctors to provide pregnant women seeking an abortion with materials about the safety of the procedure and have them wait two days before performing the procedure. “Tennessee’s 48-hour abortion waiting period is facially constitutional. The law is supported by a…
Independent Journalist Tells Supreme Court Some Research Labs Have Racial Quotas for Aborted Baby Body Parts
Supreme Court justices were told Wednesday in an amicus curiae brief that some medical research laboratories use racial quotas in buying body parts from unborn babies killed via live dismemberment in abortions. “Even though four-month-old infants in the womb move, kick, suck their thumbs, hiccup, and demonstrate a readily discernable heartbeat and brainwaves, and even…
Time to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Commentary In May, the Supreme Court put abortion on the docket for its upcoming session by agreeing to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The high court’s decision to hear this case registered on the seismometer of every American that carefully follows the abortion issue. It means that Roe v. Wade, which has defined…
The Case for the Unconstitutionality of Abortion
Commentary In the April issue of the conservative journal First Things, the esteemed natural law philosopher John Finnis wrote an essay titled “Abortion Is Unconstitutional.” Finnis’ basic argument was that the traditional conservative or originalist stance on abortion and the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision—namely, that the Constitution is “silent” on the…
12 GOP Governors Ask Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Twelve Republican governors urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark ruling, in a major case related to an abortion law in Mississippi. “The Court’s decisions in Roe and Casey are prime examples of invading an area that has not been committed to the Federal Government and remains reserved to the States,” the amicus brief…
228 Federal Lawmakers Urge Supreme Court to Reverse Roe v. Wade
Americans United for Life filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of 228 federal lawmakers urging the court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion. Abortion opponents are optimistic that the 6-3 conservative majority created on the court with the addition last year of Justice Amy Coney Barrett creates…
Pro-life Activists Think Upcoming Supreme Court Case Could Overturn Roe Decision
News Analysis Mississippi’s recent call for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion lawful throughout the United States, has been warmly received by pro-life activists who say it could be the vehicle the court uses to finally right what they consider to be an egregious wrong. Mississippi’s…
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