Category: Roe v. Wade

She Reminds Us What’s At Stake in Abortion By Benjamin Clapper, Executive Director, Louisiana Pro-Life Federation Yesterday morning, ABC News published its first interview with “Baby Roe”, the daughter of the late Norma McCorvey, the woman at the center of Roe v. Wade. As the film ‘Roe v. Wade’ shows, McCorvey, born in Simmesport, was …

 By Dave Andrusko The Biden-Harris administration made its opposition official today. In a 39 page amicus the justice department rejected the position of the state of Mississippi that the Supreme Court uphold the state’s 2018  “Gestational Age Act.” “Under principle of stare decisis–and because Roe and Casey were and remain correct–the court should again “reaffirm …

By Dave Andrusko As the last (and brief) post of the week, let me refer to a Facebook post from an old friend. For 36 years Richard Doerflinger worked tirelessly for Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. His breadth of expertise was, and is, breath-taking. In his post, Doerflinger quoted …

By Dave Andrusko We pick up today where we left off last week in our series of overviews of important amicus briefs filed in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which the Supreme Court will hear this fall. We began this series on July 22, and it continues to be well received. …

By Dave Andrusko Today, we continue to examine amicus briefs filed in the important case of  Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which the Supreme Court will hear this fall. We began this series on July 22 and it has been well received. As you no doubt already know, the justices will hear the state …

James Bopp, Jr., NRLC General Counsel, explained that the joint National Right to Life/ Louisiana Right to Life amicus brief in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization “supports the overturning of Roe v. Wade and provides a legal framework that will lead directly to achieving that goal.” A look back at the …

National Right to Life supports a wide variety of amicus briefs—including the one from over 200 members of Congress that we discussed elsewhere–which defend Mississippi’s protective HB 10 against pro-abortion attacks and explain to the justices why Roe v. Wade is not only bad law but also outdated and ought to be overturned.

By Dave Andrusko A coalition of 24 state attorneys general, led by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, encouraged the Supreme Court in an amicus brief filed last week to use Mississippi’s Gestation Age Act to overturn Roe v. Wade, arguing that “[t]he Constitution does not include a right to abortion, and there is no history …

By Dave Andrusko Tomorrow we’ll return to analyzing briefs submitted to the Supreme Court in support of Mississippi’s Gestation Age Act which, with some exceptions, prohibits abortions after the 15th week. Included over the last eight days was an examination of the joint brief filed by National Right to Life and Louisiana Right to Life.  …

By Dave Andrusko  Editor’s note. This appeared a year ago in NRL News Today and was well received. I hope you like it. “Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.” — Historian Daniel Boorstin “A nineteenth-century German historian wrote that every moment of history is equally present …