A taxpayer-funded organization reportedly selling baby hearts and livers should be a huge story. Not so, say the broadcast networks, which have devoted just 39 seconds to the story, out of the 9 hours and 30 minutes of news shows they’ve aired since it broke.
Abortions have declined in states where new laws make it harder to have them – but they’ve also waned in states where abortion rights are protected, an Associated Press survey finds. Nearly everywhere, in red states and blue, abortions are down since 2010.
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, gave an major victory to a pro-life group that sought to challenge an Ohio law that bans campaign statements deemed to be false. The court ruled that the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) can proceed with a lawsuit challenging that Ohio Election officials violated SBA List’s First Amendment Rights.
The Supreme Court will be issuing opinions in 17 cases over the next two weeks including the religious rights of corporations, abortion clinic buffer zones, the right to criticize elected officials and privacy rights of people under arrest.
As part of a nation-wide trend, states – stretching from Montana to Maryland — are introducing personhood bills to affirm the right to life for the unborn, starting from the moment of conception, Worthy News monitored Friday, February 27.
A new bill could give citizens in the least populated American state the right to constitutionally define a person as a human being from conception, as part of a national movement to reduce abortion rates, Worthy News monitored Tuesday, February 26.
A Chicago-based pro-life law center has launched a law suit against staff of a clinic involved in a botched late-term abortion in hopes it will result in charges of “infanticide” and “change public opinion” about this controversial procedure.
Britain’s government adviser on the environment says abortions should be part of a policy against global warming and that couples who have more than two children are being “irresponsible.”
Pro-life activists were weighing their options Monday, January 26, after President Barack Obama signed an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option.
A Christian conservative group in the United States has received permission to display a pro life vigil, which consists of 25 large signs showing the development of life from conception to birth, along the parade route during the Presidential Inauguration.
On Thursday, August 7, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago handed down a decision upholding a federal trial court ruling that an ordinance in Granite City, Ill., regulating the manner in which individuals could distribute religious and other types of handbills was unconstitutional.
WASHINGTON (BP)–A bill reforming campaign financing that was approved by the U.S. Senate April 2 violates the free-speech rights of pro-life and other advocacy organizations, according to charges made before and after the vote.
Rutherford Institute Attorneys Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Citing Free Speech Violations
WASHINGTON – Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of several residents of the city of Fargo, North Dakota, who were arrested while participating in a peaceful residential “prayer walk.”
(AgapePress) – A leading pro-life group says Planned Parenthood is lying to American women by telling them that RU-486 abortions are safe when, in reality, it is a deadly drug with severe side effects.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP)–When Daryl Orman was invited to deliver the March 9 invocation for the Florida House of Representatives, he had no idea the invitation would put him in the middle of a statewide controversy. But that’s exactly what happened when Orman, pastor of First Baptist Church, Stuart, asked Jesus to instill in the lawmakers “the desire to protect the unborn.”
The Clinton Administration yesterday released federal guidelines allowing research using human embryos. A leading pro-life advocate says the idea is unethical and immoral.
(AgapePress) – Most pro-life advocates agree that human life begins at the moment of conception. However, there are pro-abortion forces who would deny a child’s right to life even after birth. An important new pro-life bill–the Born Alive Infants Protection Act–would establish a federal law recognizing that an infant is legally alive once he or she is completely outside the mother’s womb.