On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume argued that “all-out challenges, head-on challenges to Roe v. Wade” like Alabama’s abortion ban will not succeed at this time. Hume began
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed the Human Life Protection Act into law, one that makes most abortions in the state at any point during pregnancy illegal, except those necessary in order to prevent “a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.”
On Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) stated that Alabama’s abortion ban and similar efforts are “an all-out attack on women’s reproductive freedom and our basic civil rights.” Gillibrand said, “This Alabama effort and the effort
On Wednesday, the day after the Alabama State Senate passed one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans, Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth defended the legislation, despite the sudden onslaught of national media criticism. During an appearance on Birmingham, AL radio
Alabama Sen. Doug Jones (D) tweeted a video message Monday night in which he referred to pro-life lawmakers in his state as “so extreme and so callous” for approving a bill that would make most abortions illegal.
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia signed into law Tuesday the “Heartbeat” abortion bill than bans most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Planned Parenthood said Thursday that while the group is “disgusted” by State Rep. John Rogers’ “reprehensible” remarks about abortion, the real problem with them is they are serving as a “complete distraction” from the “death sentence” that an abortion ban would mean for women.
Democrat Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama said Thursday he was “absolutely appalled” by State Rep. John Rogers’ comments on abortion, describing them as “outrageous.”
U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, a Republican from Alabama, described as “horrific” the comments of state Rep. John Rogers about abortion during debate in the Alabama House of Representatives.
Alabama state Rep. John Rogers, a Democrat, said, while debating a bill that would ban most abortions in the state, “Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later.”
The Alabama state House overwhelmingly approved a measure Tuesday that would ban most abortions in the state.
A bill introduced Tuesday in the Alabama State House would ban all abortions at any stage of pregnancy, except if the mother’s health is in danger.
The Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America West (WGAWest) are suggesting the film and television industry will boycott Georgia if the state signs into law legislation that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Actress Alyssa Milano called for Hollywood film companies to boycott the state of Georgia after its Senate passed a measure that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
The Mississippi state Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would prohibit abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually at the sixth or seventh week of pregnancy.
A federal judge temporarily blocked Kentucky’s new law banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected – usually six or seven weeks into a pregnancy.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a bill into law Wednesday that will make abortion automatically illegal in the state should Roe v. Wade be reversed or the U.S. Constitution is amended to permit states to ban the procedure.
The Utah state House has passed a bill that prohibits abortions sought expressly because the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
The Arkansas Senate passed legislation Thursday that would ban abortions in the state in the event the states are once again permitted to decide whether to prohibit the procedure.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed into law a measure that bans dismemberment abortions in the state.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, signed a bill into law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.
Pro-life activists across Ireland say they are going door-to-door Saturday to save their country’s 8th Amendment and to protect mothers and babies from abortion.
The Constitutional Tribunal of Chile has approved a bill that will allow abortion in some situations, a move that Socialist President Michelle Bachelet has campaigned for since 2015.
BELFAST (Reuters) – Women’s rights groups are to ask the British Supreme Court on Wednesday to compel the government to fund abortions for Northern Ireland residents travelling to England to avoid some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.
TEL AVIV – An article in Foreign Policy magazine states that 40 percent of women in the West Bank have had abortions even though the Palestinian leadership has outlawed it.
“You start in Iowa and lock up conservatives, because if you don’t do that, none of the rest matters,” Walker’s adviser reportedly told journalist Tim Alberta. “It’s much easier to move from being a conservative to being a middle-of-the-road moderate later on. In Iowa, you see the beginnings of that,” he added. “He’s capturing that conservative wing first and foremost, and then moving from Iowa to the other states and bringing other voters into the fold.”
A district judge in Kansas blocked the state’s ban on “dismemberment abortion” – the first ban of its kind in the United States – on the grounds that prohibiting the procedure would create an “obstacle” for women who want to terminate their pregnancies with brutal dismemberment.
Mumsnet, the popular online forum for mothers, has been accused of openly promoting the use of illegal abortion pills ordered by post. The site’s annual charity appeal is supporting The Abortion Support Network, a group that encourages women in Ireland
When unsuccessful Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis (D) was asked this week why it was acceptable to abort a seven-pound baby, she responded, “That never happens. It never happens. It really never happens.”
President Obama “strongly opposes” the House bill that would ban abortions earlier than 20 weeks, even though Republicans made changes to the bill after it was pulled by leadership in January.
