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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron will argue his office’s ability to defend a state pro-life law before the U.S. Supreme Court October 12.

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) condemned the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett as “an attack on the Affordable Care Act” and “reproductive rights,” aka, abortion.

The attorneys general of 18 states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Mississippi’s law that bans abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation.

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin ceremonially signed into law four pieces of pro-life legislation as an appeals court heard a challenge brought by the ACLU regarding a state abortion safety law.

Lawmakers in Ohio reintroduced a bill Tuesday that would ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, as early as six or seven weeks into pregnancy.

Outgoing Gov. John Kasich has echoed the sentiments of Planned Parenthood and Democrats, referring to the “Heartbeat Bill” as unconstitutional. He has said he did not want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars defending the bill in court.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed into law a measure that bans dismemberment abortions in the state.

Planned Parenthood is demanding the Trump administration’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) director be fired after he declined to approve a late-term abortion for an illegal immigrant teen.

PolitiFact is assisting Democrat Doug Jones in his attempt to walk back his support for abortion until birth by claiming he cannot possibly be an advocate for “full-term abortion” because the term is “disconnected from reality.”

U.S. District Judge William Orrick has ordered any video links and references to the identities of members of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) to be taken down from the Internet.

An ACLU attorney says the second-trimester abortion procedure known as Dilation & Evacuation (D&E), or “dismemberment” abortion, is not “inhumane.”

A Texas state lawmaker has pre-filed a bill that would criminalize dismemberment abortions. If the law passes, it would be a crime for an abortion doctor to surgically dismember and extract a living baby while in the womb. The criminal penalty would be a state jail felony.

Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton continued her longstanding support of abortion rights and Planned Parenthood during the final presidential debate in Las Vegas, claiming that late-term abortions are usually performed because the mother’s health is in jeopardy.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed legislation that bans dismemberment abortions, a procedure during the second trimester of pregnancy in which the unborn baby’s limbs are torn from his or her body.

The executive vice president of Planned Parenthood says a new Mississippi law banning dismemberment abortion in which an unborn baby is extracted one piece at a time from his or her mother’s womb is an “attack on women’s health care.”

Kansas loses approximately $370,000 annually in federal Title X “family planning” funding that the Planned Parenthood affiliates in Wichita and Hays – and another unaffiliated facility in Dodge City – had been receiving. The Obama administration acted after Kansas passed a bill that directed Title X “family planning” funds to public health departments and hospitals, shifting it away from Planned Parenthood.

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.