By Dave Andrusko Barbara Holt, President, North Carolina Right to Life A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals today unanimously upheld a lower court judge’s decision striking down The “Right to View” provision of North Carolina’s 2011 “Woman’s Right to Know” law. That provision requires that an ultrasound image of the … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Earlier today the full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider a ruling by a three-judge panel which blocked Mississippi from enforcing a law that requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The court offered no explanation. The effect is that the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the … Read more
By Dave Andrusko North Dakota Supreme Court On Tuesday the North Dakota Supreme Court upheld a 2011 law which regulates how chemical abortifacients—generically referred to as “RU486”—are administered to women. In so doing, the state’s highest court reversed a ruling by District Judge Wickham Corwin who routinely hammers pro-life laws with relish. Tammi Kromenaker, … Read more
By Dave Andrusko U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson This morning’s 172-page opinion by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson that overturned an Alabama law that required abortionists to have admitting privileges came as no surprise to anyone who followed the three-week trial in May and June that Thompson held without a jury. Equally unsurprising is … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Judge William Fletcher Less than a month ago, a three-judge panel of the famously liberal, pro-abortion 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a challenge to Arizona’s HB 2036, a 2012 law that requires that any abortion-inducing drugs be administered “in compliance with the protocol authorized by the … Read more
By Dave Andrusko On the first day of the trial in the lawsuit challenging Alabama’s law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges in a local hospital, the owner of two abortion clinics and a lawyer for the Alabama Attorney General clashed repeatedly over the impact of Alabama’s HB57. The exchanges between June Ayers, the … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Judge Edith Jones A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit Thursday unanimously upheld provisions of Texas’ H.B. 2 that had been challenged by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and several Texas abortion clinics. At … Read more
Ten states have passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act WASHINGTON — Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear an appeal in the case of an Arizona abortion ban does not affect abortion laws passed in ten states that prohibit abortion 20 weeks fetal age on the basis … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Judge Marsha Berzon Back in November NRL News Today ran a story headlined, “Skeptical Appeals Court Panel hears Arizona’s ‘Mother’s Health and Safety Act.’” You didn’t need to be an attorney to grasp that Judges Marsha Berzon, Mary Schroeder, and Andrew Kleinfeld were keen to strike down a law that bans abortion … Read more