By Dave Andrusko If your agenda is increasing abortion “access,” one of the quickest, if not the absolute quickest, route is to end the Hyde Amendment, credited with saving 2 million lives since the government stopped routinely paying for elective abortions. No surprise, then, the Abortion Lobby has placed the Hyde Amendment in its crosshairs. … Read more
Rep. Mike Conaway WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee praised Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) for his introduction late yesterday of the Second Chance at Life Act of 2019. This protective legislation, based on a model developed by National Right to Life, will require that a woman be informed that the effects of the … Read more
‘Love Life Amendment’ Ensures No State Right to Abortion Louisiana State Rep. Katrina Jackson and the Executive Director of Louisiana Right to Life Benjamin Clapper BATON ROUGE – State Rep. Katrina Jackson (D-Monroe) has filed HB 425, the Love Life Constitutional Amendment to the Louisiana Constitution. The Love Life Amendment would ensure that no right … Read more
Editor’s note. The following comes from Rhode Island Right to Life. The specific information how to contact Rhode Island state Representatives is found here. The Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing on two EXTREME New York style abortion expansion bills ( 2019 — H 5125 and 2019 — H 5127 ) for … Read more
By Kerry Uhlenkott, Legislative Coordinator, Right to Life of Idaho Idaho Gov. Butch Otter You may have already read that Gov. Butch Otter signed both SB 1243 Abortion Pill Reversal Informed Consent and HB 638 Reporting of Abortion Complications into law. Both of these laws will go into effect on July 1. We can be … Read more
Permanently Redirects Family Planning Funds to Local Health Departments Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam NASHVILLE, March 23, 2018 – Tennessee Right to Life applauds final passage of legislation which codifies existing policy established in 2011 by the Haslam administration which prioritizes public health departments to receive Title X family planning funds rather than Planned Parenthood abortion … Read more
WASHINGTON – A majority of the U.S. Senate today voted to advance the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 2311), but on a near party-line vote, a minority blocked consideration of the bill. Fifty-one senators (forty-eight Republicans and three Democrats) voted to take the bill up for debate, but 60 votes were required. This bill … Read more
By Dave Andrusko With all Republicans supporting and all but six Democrats opposing, the House of Representatives today passed The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 4712) by a vote of 241-183. Looking ahead, NRLC President Carol Tobias cut to the chase when she commented, “The 183 House Democrats who voted against the bill will … Read more
HARRISBURG, Pa. –Preborn babies in Pennsylvania would no longer have to undergo brutal dismemberment abortions, under a bill passed Tuesday by the PA House of Representatives. Senate Bill 3, which has already passed the PA Senate, would ban abortions in which living babies are torn limb by limb from their mothers’ wombs. The legislation would … Read more
By Jennifer Popik, J.D. Director of Federal Legislation On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 which contains a new prolife provision. Under the provision, parents will be permitted to name unborn children as beneficiaries of 529 College Savings Plans, and be able to start saving … Read more