The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case Monday, meaning a lower court’s ruling to invalidate an Oklahoma state law restricting abortion drugs will stand.
The Oklahoma law would have restricted the way abortion inducing drugs like RU-486 could be used in the state. Pro-abortion groups sued claiming the law violated previous court ruling regarding how abortion drugs could be dispensed.
The bill would have prevented doctors from using mifepristone, which induces abortions up to the seventh week of pregnancy.
In a related action, pro-abortionists from Texas have filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court to block enforcement of Texas abortion law. The appeal goes before Justice Antonin Scalia for consideration.
A federal appeals court reinstated most of the restrictions in Texas’ new abortion law just three days after a judge ruled they were unconstitutional.
The judges of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the law requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals while the lawsuit moves through the court system. The restrictions go into place Friday.
The panel left in place the decision by District Judge Lee Yeakel preventing the state from enforcing the USDA’s protocol for abortion inducing drugs when the woman is between 50 and 63 days into her pregnancy.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott made an emergency appeal of Judge Yeakel’s ruling arguing the law requiring doctors to have admitting privileges is constitutional use of the Legislature’s authority. The court’s order is temporary pending a full hearing, which will likely happen in January 2014.
The law also bans abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and starting October 2014 requires doctors to perform all abortions at surgical centers.
A federal judge struck down key parts of a law in Texas aimed at improving health conditions for women seeking to end their child’s life via abortion.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel blocked the part of the law that requires doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital because it “places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus and is thus an undue burden to her.”
The judge also blocked a part of the law that deals with medication-induced abortions but allowed restrictions to remain. The provisions include requiring the drugs to be used in strict compliance with FDA requirements and making follow up visits mandatory.
Pro-life groups said that the blockage of the law puts women’s lives in danger.
“Blocking this law only puts vulnerable women in greater danger. We are very disturbed that a judge would partially block a law that is grounded in the latest science and in common sense,” Anna Higgins of the Family Research Council told CNN.
The Office of Personnel Management told government employees Monday that members of Congress and their staffs can buy health care plans that pay for abortions even though the premiums are paid largely by taxpayer money.
The action appears to violate federal law prohibiting taxpayer funded abortion. Continue reading →
Virginia Democratic candidate for governor was caught on video telling a woman that if he is elected he will take action to get around regulations that put requirements on abortion clinics.
Terry McAuliffe said he will use executive actions to get around the regulations passed by Virginia legislators requiring abortion clinics to meet health standards placed on every other surgical center in the state. Continue reading →
Anti-life activists are creating a video game where the goal is for a woman to kill her baby via abortion through the crowd-funding site “Indiegogo”.
The game is titled “Choice: Texas, A Very Serious Game” and is in the developmental stages by a professor at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and an activist poet living in Austin, Texas. Continue reading →
A Democratic California Assemblywoman’s bill would allow nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants to kill babies via abortion if signed by California’s Democratic governor Jerry Brown. Continue reading →
Recently released court records show that Arizona judges have approved almost 75% of requests from minors for an abortion without their parent’s consent.
Since 2010, 95 of 128 minors who asked a judge to permit the abortion without parental consent received the order. State law requires parental consent for abortion by minors but a minor can trump their parent’s wishes through a court. Continue reading →
A judge ruled on Wednesday to block North Dakota’s law that would require doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.
“Certainly none of this comes as a surprise,” East Central District Judge Wickham Corwin said as he issued his injunction stopping the law from taking effect. Continue reading →
Irish President Michael Higgins signed into law a bill that legalizes abortions in Ireland for the first time.
The “Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act” will allow abortions when the life of the mother is in danger due to the pregnancy. However, there is a provision that will allow a woman to have an abortion if she can convince doctors that she will commit suicide unless she can kill her baby via abortion. Continue reading →