Category: Judicial

By Dave Andrusko Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today joined a 19-state coalition supporting Indiana’s appeal to the Supreme Court in defense of its parental consent statute for minors who are seeking an abortion. His amicus (“friend-of-the-court” brief) was filed in the United States Supreme Court after the Chicago-based Court of Appeals for the Seventh …

By Dave Andrusko On Friday, the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with the state of Tennessee and said the state’s 48 hour waiting period would remain in effect while Attorney General Herbert Slattery appeals Senior federal District Judge Bernard A. Friedman’s 2020 decision striking down the requirement of the 2015 law. Twenty-eight states …

By Dave Andrusko The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty reported today that last week “Multiple orders of Catholic and Anglican nuns, alongside several Catholic dioceses, Christian churches, and faith-based social justice ministries” filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to hear its case against a New York abortion mandate. The case is Diocese of Albany v. Lacewell …

By Dave Andrusko In the first ruling since the Kansas Supreme Court found a heretofore unknown “fundamental right” to abortion hidden away in the Kansas constitution, Shawnee County District Judge Teresa Watson used the  2019 Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt opinion to strike down the state’s ban on the dismemberment of living unborn babies, enacted in 2015. “The abortion …

By Dave Andrusko Ohio Right to Life, NRLC’s state affiliate, explains that Ohio’s Telemedicine Abortion Ban will not go into effect, as scheduled, thanks to Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas Judge Allison Hatheway who issued a preliminary injunction yesterday.  Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 260 into law on January 9, 2021, and it had …

By Dave Andrusko As we noticed in a prior post today, pro-abortionists are (I believe) genuinely unnerved by passage of what one pro-life legislator called “discrimination-motivated abortions” and pro-abortionists label “trait-selection” laws. Both refer to abortions sought because the baby is the “wrong” sex, ethnicity, or because he/she has a genetic anomaly, most often Down syndrome. …

Editor’s note. This was provided by the office of pro-life Attorney General Daniel Cameron. FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 16, 2021) – Attorney General Daniel Cameron led a coalition of 21 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Tennessee to enforce its abortion waiting-period law while a lower court reviews the …

By Dave Andrusko Pro-life Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has added her voice to the chorus of critics of a January 5th decision by a three judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. In that 17-page  decision, Judges James Loken, Bobby Shepherd and Ralph Erickson upheld U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker’s decision to …

By Dave Andrusko The vote was not as one-sided as it should have been—only 9-7—but earlier today the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction against Ohio’s Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act. Championed by Ohio Right to Life, H.B. 214 “prohibits a doctor from performing an abortion if that doctor knows that the woman’s reason …

By Dave Andrusko The vote was not as one-sided as it should have been—only 9-7—but earlier today the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction against Ohio’s Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act ]. Championed by Ohio Right to Life, H.B. 214 “prohibits a doctor from performing an abortion if that doctor knows that the woman’s …

Outcome foreshadowed by 2019 Kansas Supreme Court decision By Dave Andrusko If ever there were any doubts that Kansans must pass the “Value Them Both Amendment” to the state constitution, they were eliminated Wednesday.  In the first ruling since the Kansas Supreme Court found a heretofore unknown “fundamental right” to abortion hidden away in the …