By Dave Andrusko And here we go. The Supreme Court today released its calendar for March oral arguments and said they will hear FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26. It’s the first time since the court’s historic 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe, that the justices will weigh in on the issue of abortion. The … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Just after 6:30 on Friday evening, the Supreme Court issued a one-paragraph unsigned order granting an emergency application from the Biden administration to maintain FDA approval of mifepristone after the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals placed limitations on the first of two drugs that make up the chemical abortion regimen. At the request of the Justice Department and … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Judge Ketanji Brown JacksonPhoto: Lloyd DeGraneCC BY-SA 4.0 By the time you read this, Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will have finished her third, and final, day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. To be blunt, she has said nothing that would assuage pro-life concerns that Judge Brown Jackson … Read more
By Dave Andrusko For all the obvious reasons, both pro-life and pro-abortion forces are focusing a great deal of attention on the pro-life Mississippi law about which the Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments this fall. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health addresses Mississippi’s “Gestational Age Act” which, with some exceptions, bans abortions after the … Read more
Court takes up Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization WASHINGTON — On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, an abortion case concerning a Mississippi law passed in 2018. “We applaud the U.S. Supreme Court for examining the Mississippi law,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Back in December we reported on the question of whether the Supreme Court would take up conflicting appeals courts’ rulings over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s “Protect Life Rule.” The rule was upheld nationwide by the Ninth Circuit, with the exception of Maryland where the Fourth Circuit blocked the rule from … Read more
By Dave Andrusko We posted two stories yesterday explaining just a portion of the Supreme Court’s Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky decision in which the Justices voted to uphold one part of a 2016 Indiana abortion law while laying over for another day the second part. I’d like to revisit in depth … Read more
This is a game changer! Monday, President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The pro-abortionists and the far-left wing have already announced they will spend millions of dollars to fight to block Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation. In the history of the right-to-life movement, there has never been a more … Read more
By Dave Andrusko If you didn’t have reason enough to attend NRLC 2018 which begins tomorrow, you do now. After months of speculation, Anthony Kennedy, the pivotal justice in so many cases including abortion, announced today that he retiring from the Supreme Court effective July 31. Speaking on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell … Read more
WASHINGTON – In response to Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy’s announcement that he will retire from the U.S. Supreme Court effective July 31, the following statement may be attributed to National Right to Life President Carol Tobias: All too often, our efforts to protect unborn children and other vulnerable humans have been overridden by judges who … Read more