Much has been made of Planned Parenthood’s marketing spin about “only” 3% of their services being abortions. This is one of their lead arguments and it has been quickly swallowed and advanced by their supporters. It is part of their effective campaign to conflate abortions (which are increasingly unpopular — especially with young people) with birth control (which most people reflexively support). Yes, it is deceptive, but remember that Satan is evil, not stupid. They could separate the...Read Full Story
Editor’s note: Mark Osler, a highbrow of law during a University of St. Thomas Law School in Minnesota, is a former sovereign prosecutor and a author of “Jesus on Death Row,” a book about collateral punishment.
(CNN) — Thirty-nine years ago, Roe v. Wade was decided. With a thoroughfare of scarcely 4 decades, a landscape of termination has altered in a approach that should difficulty even those who cruise themselves pro-choice.
Right now, 10 states and a District of Columbia have no...Read Full Story
The Susan G. Komen Foundation , the nation’s largest breast cancer organization, has decided to withdraw its $690,000 in charity to Planned Parenthood. The Komen Foundation claims that it made the move not for political reasons but to follow its governing policy not to give to groups that are under investigation. As Chairman of the House Commerce and Energy Oversight Subcommittee, Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL 6th) has begun a first-ever audit of Planned Parenthood to investigate its...Read Full Story
From: LifeNews.com A new estimate published by the National Right to Life Committee indicates there have been an estimated 54,559,615 abortions since the Supreme Court handed down its 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision allowing virtually unlimited abortions. Although the March for Life took place today, yesterday was the 39th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions — companion cases from Texas and Georgia that struck down pro-life laws protecting unborn children across the country...Read Full Story
1/22/73 U.S. Supreme Court confirmed freedom of choice! At the time, the Supreme Court recognized the inherent right to privacy for women, an urgent issue given that women were dying in emergency rooms across the country from self-induced abortions. But today, women across the nation are disturbed to see a set of politicians doing everything they can to undermine this landmark decision that has stood as a critical safeguard for women's health for four decades. The best way to reduce the need...Read Full Story
After years of litigation in the Roe v. Wade case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Roe , legalizing abortion 39 years ago today.
The court extended the right to privacy clause in the 14th Amendment to a person’s choice to have an abortion; however, that right must be balanced with the state’s interest to protect prenatal life and the mother’s health.
A person may chose to have an abortion until the fetus is viable or “potentially able to live outside the mother’s womb...Read Full Story
Here we are folks, at nearly 4 decades still having to defend and fight for our REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.
Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a controversial landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion . Decided simultaneously with companion case Doe v. Bolton , the Court ruled that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion, but that right...Read Full Story
In the time leading up to the decision in Roe v. Wade, as well as the time right after, the argument was made that abortion would not become a post-conception contraceptive for mothers who simply decided they wanted a boy instead of a girl, or a ...
Rallied by the approval last fall of a state law banning so-called "partial birth" abortion, Michigan abortion opponents are pushing for more in 2012 — from a "Choose Life" fundraising license plate to a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that her predecessors on the high court mistimed the milestone 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. "It's not that the judgment was wrong, but it moved too far too fast," Ginsburg told a symposium at Columbia Law School marking the 40th anniversary of her joining the faculty as its first tenure-track female professor. At the time of Roe v. Wade, abortion was legal...
MCALLEN — Two Texas women's health clinics and an Illinois waste disposal company will have to pay fines after state environmental officials concluded they improperly disposed of fetuses in a landfill. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ...
Though they’re on opposite sides of the birth control and abortion debate, both Sister Carol Keehan, the president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association and Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, issued ...
But don't worry folks, they aren't really an organization dedication to abortion. From the Susan B. Anthony list: The horrific, anti-Life remarks from Planned Parenthood directors were on full display as they celebrated the 39th anniversary of ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- In a ruling announced Thursday, the state Supreme Court determined that state wildlife authorities had no right to give a Yakama fisherman a ticket for catching undersized fish with a net at a tribal fishing site.In a 6-3 decision, the