By Calvin Freiburger Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post that appeared at LifeSiteNews and is reposted with permission. Photo: Facebook.com/thesatanictemple The secular advocacy group Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit against the state of Missouri in hopes of overturning its requirement that women be given critical information before going through with aborting their children. … Read more
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court panel ruled that a 2014 Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital passes constitutional muster. The 2-1 ruling reverses the 2017 ruling of federal district court Judge John deGravelles, who had blocked the law. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel … Read more
By Dave Andrusko U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Bobby Shepherd Back in May 2017, pro-life Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs that blocked state laws requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 … Read more
By Dave Andrusko In a decision with potentially nationwide implications, the Supreme Court this morning rejected an appeal from the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Arkansas, thus allowing the state to enforce its law requiring abortion clinics providing chemical abortifacients to have a contract with another physician with admitting privileges at a local hospital who agrees … Read more
By Dave Andrusko California Attorney General Xavier Becerra To absolutely no one’s surprise, California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra on Monday filed an appeal of Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia’s oral ruling last week holding that lawmakers illegally used a special session in 2015 to ram through a highly controversial assisted suicide law. Becerra … Read more
Judge to rule June 5 on motions filed by the ACLU By Dave Andrusko Kentucky State Rep. Addia Wuchner When the District Court for the Western District of Kentucky temporarily blocked Kentucky’s just enacted ban on dismemberment abortions, both sides found something to salvage from last week’s action. The ACLU, which challenged HB 454 said, … Read more
By Dave Andrusko When last we wrote about the legal challenge brought by an adherent of the Satanic Temple to Missouri’s 72-hour waiting period/informed consent law, the Western District Court of the Missouri Court of Appeals had just ruled that because “Mary Doe’s” challenge “raises real and substantial constitutional claims, it is within the Missouri Supreme … Read more
Department of Justice By Dave Andrusko There we were last night watching Fox News when we learned Fox News had obtained a letter sent by Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd to the Senate Judiciary Committee formally requested unredacted documents from the Committee supporting a December 2016 report titled “Human Fetal … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Judge S. Margene Burnett In a huge victory Monday for pro-lifers in Missouri, Jackson County Circuit Court Judge S. Margene Burnett denied the request of two Planned Parenthood affiliates and two abortionists for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction of portions of Missouri’s new pro-life law, SB 5, passed during a … Read more
Compares abortion to having tonsils removed By Dave Andrusko U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan (Flickr.com) Editor’s note. Since this story was first posted this morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington has stayed Wednesday’s ruling in order to hold a hearing Friday on the merits of the case. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge … Read more