On Monday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL 5) announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in the special election to replace former Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), now the attorney general.
The governor of Alabama appointed his own state’s Attorney General, Luther Strange, Thursday to fill the Senate seat left vacant by former senator Jeff Sessions taking over President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.
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.
A federal judge is temporarily blocking Alabama from terminating its Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, in the wake of a series of videos exposing the abortion business’ apparent practice of harvesting the organs of unborn babies for sale on the open market.
A federal judge in Baton Rouge says Louisiana must continue to fund Planned Parenthood affiliates in that state for 14 more days. The ruling involves a lawsuit filed by the abortion business over Gov. Bobby Jindal’s recent order to terminate its Medicaid funding according to the state’s contract.
With the ACLU at its side, Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against Alabama following the state’s decision to terminate its Medicaid contract. This comes in the wake of the recent video scandal exposing the abortion provider’s practices of harvesting aborted baby body parts to sell on the open market.
The Obama administration is threatening states attempting to defund Planned Parenthood–those trying to stop the flow of their Medicaid funds to the abortion provider–with potential violation of federal law and, ultimately, the cutting off of Medicaid funds to those states.
