Category: Roe v. Wade

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. We are 24 days out from the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. As a reminder, Roe dealt with a Texas law and Doe v. Bolton dealt with a Georgia law. We are running news posts as well as re-running posts from past editions of NRL News Today and NRL …

By Dave Andrusko Just last week, we wrote about BeLynn Hollers’s profile of Linda Coffee, the less well known of the pro-abortion tendem that argued Roe v. Wade. Over the weekend, her co-counsel, Sarah Weddington, died Sunday morning at age 76. In a February 2003 story in the Texas Monthly, Weddington spoke of how her …

By Dave Andrusko I imagine  perhaps not one in a hundred pro-lifers recognize the name Linda Coffee. She was the co-counsel, along with the more famous Sarah Weddington, in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the twin juggernauts that launched a thousand abortion clinics. So why did the rabidly pro-abortion Dallas Morning News run …

By Paul Stark Editor’s note. We are 32 days away from commemorating the 49th anniversary of the January 22, 1973 decisions. NRL News Today is posting new stories and the accounts people liked best.  On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton. The Court …

“The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant mothers” By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. In 33 days we will commemorate the 49th anniversary of the invidious Roe v. Wade decision.  As we approach that date, we are reposting new and previously run stories. The following is a long excerpt from Justice …

By Dave Andrusko During her 30 years covering the Supreme Court, the influence wielded by the pro-abortion  New York Times’ Linda Greenhouse was so pronounced they coined a phrase for it. The “Greenhouse effect” was an attempt to explain how conservative justices moved steadily left: it was to gratify and gain acceptance from reporters in …

The first paragraph (in a story that appeared the day before the anniversary of Roe) was her thesis: “For most of the 28 years [remember, this is 2001] since the Supreme Court handed down Roe v. Wade, the political debate over abortion has remained, essentially, frozen in time. Science has changed, the culture has changed, …

And for the first time, the scientific and medical evidence regarding the harms of abortion was presented directly to the SC. We hope they don’t choose to ignore the facts. Roe must go. Read the full story.

By Dave Andrusko We can only hope that the panicky pro-abortion reactions to the oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court on the Texas Heartbeat Law are accurate.  To take just one of umpteen opinion pieces, the Los Angeles Times’ David Savage offered this assessment: “The Supreme Court is ending the year starkly split on …

“The Roe framework, then, is clearly on a collision course with itself. As the medical risks of various abortion procedures decrease, the point at which the State may regulate for reasons of maternal health is moved further forward to actual childbirth. As medical science becomes better able to provide for the separate existence of the …

By Senator James Lankford (R-Ok)  The sound of a baby’s heartbeat in the womb is a sound you will never forget. But every two seconds a baby is aborted, meaning that with every beat of your heart, a baby loses his or her right to life. If that sounds sad and shocking, it’s because it …