State expected to appeal decision enjoining Indiana’s 2017 parental involvement law

By Dave Andrusko A divided three-judge panel of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of a lower court judge blocking Indiana’s Senate Bill 404, a 2017 law designed to give parents more rights if their minor daughter seeks an abortion. The Associated Press reported that Tuesday’s decision by the majority says …

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New bill (SB179) introduced in Nevada will erase parental involvement

She can’t get a Tylenol at school, but Democrats want to make sure you never KNOW she had an abortion. Your daughter needs you! Planned Parenthood, National Abortion Rights Action League, and Nevada’s Progressive Democrats think your daughter should be able to hide an abortion from you, her parents. You, who love her and know …

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Every attempt to normalize abortion fails. Here’s why

By Jonathon Van Maren Despite decades of activism and a near-complete takeover of the institutions of academia, the media, and the educational system, abortion activists have spectacularly failed to accomplish their goal of “normalizing” abortion and persuading people that feticide is like an appendectomy, but safer. The “ShoutYourAbortion” campaign flopped when it turned out that …

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The pro-abortion lobby repackages old myths that judicial bypass is “burdensome,” “unpredictable” and “traumatic”

By Ingrid Duran, Director, NRLC Department of State Legislation Editor’s note. Last Thursday we posted a story I wrote headlined, “Small study trashes judicial bypass as a ‘form of punishment’ to teens seeking abortions.” The whole point of the study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, was to persuade the reader that this tiny study …

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Avoiding Parental Involvement: Abortion worker speaks

By Sarah Terzo Margo, who worked at a late-term abortion facility, on how the clinic managed to avoid parental involvement: Where I worked we were a privately owned late term abortion clinic up to 20 weeks, and Michigan did pass a 24 hour consent law, and we did have parental overrides, judicial overrides that the …

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Alabama Supreme Court reinstates parental lawsuit over daughter’s secret trip to New York for abortion

By Dave Andrusko Without issuing an opinion on the merits, the Alabama Supreme Court Friday reinstated a lawsuit brought by the parents of a minor girl who allege that the parents of their daughter’s former boyfriend took their daughter to New York in 2011 for an abortion without their knowledge. The suit was brought in …

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Breaking: Texas Senate poised to pass bill to protect pregnant teens & parental rights

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick & Senator Charles Perry led the Pro-Life charge By TEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE Last night, the Texas Senate voted 21-10 to pass House Bill 3994, to protect teens seeking secret abortions. According to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the bill is expected to pass the final step in the State …

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Study Finds Parental Involvement Laws Reduce Teen Suicides

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research Whenever parental notification or consent laws are considered, abortion advocates make many dubious claims – that they aren’t needed, since most teens already tell their parents (so why the problem?), that teens fully comprehend the medical and psychological consequences of their decisions (they don’t), …

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New Hampshire Parental Involvement Law on its Way to Governor Lynch’s Desk

By Dave Andrusko The decision whether New Hampshire will have a new parental notification law now rests in the hands of Democratic Gov. John Lynch, who, according to press accounts, has not said whether he supports HB 329.

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