On Friday a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a Kentucky law requiring abortion clinics to obtain transfer agreements with nearby hospitals and ambulance services to transport women if an abortion leads to an emergency situation.
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.
Louisiana Sen. Katrina Jackson said the abortion safety law blocked by the Supreme Court amounts to “unelected justices” overriding the people’s will.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court’s liberal wing in a 5-4 ruling that struck down a Louisiana abortion safety law.
Four conservative justices wrote four separate dissents to the decision Monday in June Medical Services v. Russo, striking down a Louisiana abortion law.
Pro-life and pro-abortion activists rallied on the steps of the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday as lawyers inside tried to convince justices to support a Louisiana law to protect women by requiring abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges.
Pro-life leader Kristan Hawkins said the case before the Supreme Court shows the abortion industry is putting profits ahead of women’s safety.
At Wednesday’s “Protect Women, Protect Life” rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Jeanie Holmes recalled an abortion she had in 1991 in Baton Rouge, LA, as a freshman in college.
Abortion lobbying groups took to Twitter to condemn what they say is the “medically unnecessary” Louisiana safety clinic law case that will be before the Supreme Court Wednesday.
A pro-life leader states the arguments used in 1973 to justify abortion rights to the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade are no longer relevant.
