By Dave Andrusko Dr. Daniel Grossman If you could work your way through Justice Stephen Breyer’s 40 page majority opinion, obliterating portions of Texas’ HB 2, there are two inter-related conclusions that virtually leap off the page. First, he comes close to charging Texas with bad faith in passing a law that requires abortion clinics … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. If you want to peruse stories all day long, go directly to nationalrighttolifenews.org and/or follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/daveha There has been a boatload of brilliant pro-life commentaries, decrying the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn portions of Texas’ 2013 law, HB 2 in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. Here … Read more
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act not challenged By Dave Andrusko In its succinct and to the point statement this morning, National Right to Life lamented the Supreme Court’ 5-3 verdict that struck down two provisions of HB2, Texas’s omnibus 2013 law. Justice Kennedy joined Justice Breyer (who wrote the majority opinion) and Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, … Read more
WASHINGTON – By a vote of 5-3, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck provisions of HB2, a Texas law requiring abortion clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers and requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in case of medical emergencies (with certain exceptions.) The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Once again, the Supreme Court today did not issue a ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt— the pro-life 2013 Texas law known as HB 2. At issue are two provisions: (1) that abortion clinics meet the same building standards as ambulatory surgical centers; and (2) that abortionists have admitting privileges at … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. Parts One through Three can be read at here; here; and here. One of the central concerns for particular members of the Supreme Court in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt was that the closure of abortion clinics, particularly in the western and … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker is a familiar name to NRL News Today readers. She is a reliable ally of pro-abortionists who can be counted on to rubberstamp their requests. (See here and here.) The latest illustration came on New Year’s Eve when she granted a restraining … Read more
By Dave Andrusko As widely, but not universally expected, the United States Supreme Court agreed today to take up a lawsuit brought by a coalition of abortion providers that challenges two provisions of H.B. 2, an omnibus 2013 Texas law. However reluctant justices may (or may not) have been to wade into the abortion controversy, … Read more
By Jay Hobbs Editor’s note. Yesterday we posted the news that over the weekend A Woman’s Friend Pregnancy Resource Clinic in Marysville and Crisis Pregnancy Center of Northern California in Redding had sued California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a sponsor of the new law, asking for an injunction preventing “The Reproductive FACT Act” from taking … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Pro-abortion attorneys have vowed to quickly appeal a decision by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which upheld the bulk of Texas’s historic HB 2, the 2013 law which then-state Senator Wendy Davis famously filibustered. Noteworthy is that pro-abortionists did not challenge the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection … Read more