by APFLI | Oct 1, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Right to Life - Archive
An international pro-life pregnancy care center umbrella group is urging Illinois pregnancy centers to defy a new state law requiring them to participate in abortions, even as those centers and others file suit against the law. In a letter quoted in part by Heartbeat...
by APFLI | Sep 1, 2016 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
California Senators passed an oppressive, Planned Parenthood-backed bill on Wednesday to stop whistleblowers and journalists from conducting undercover investigations of any “health care providers.” The Center for Medical Progress’s undercover video project did a lot...
by APFLI | Jul 4, 2016 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases, Possible Adverse Effects
Less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court nullified certain abortion safety laws, a medical emergency at the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in St. Louis, MO, has illustrated how women have been left in jeopardy by the nation’s High Court. It happened on...
by APFLI | Jul 4, 2016 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Legislation / Court Cases, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption, Responses - Ideas To Promote Life, Right to Life - Archive
http://safehaven.tv/ This spring, a little girl in Ohio should have celebrated her first birthday. There was no party, though. Why not? Well, she wasn’t put in a hospital nursery after she was born. She was put in a plastic bag. Emile Weaver received a life sentence...
by APFLI | Jul 1, 2016 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
Planned Parenthood says it will work with its abortion-rights allies in eight states to repeal laws that may be vulnerable following the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down tough abortion restrictions in Texas. The repeal campaign will initially target...
by APFLI | Jun 30, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) struck down a Texas law (H.B.2) that sought to protect women’s health by requiring abortion clinics follow minimum standards for ambulatory surgical centers and that abortionists have surgical privileges at a...
by APFLI | Jun 30, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
The Supreme Court of Justice in Mexico decided 3 to 1 to reject a proposal to overturn federal law and declare that the criminalization of abortion is unconstitutional and that women have the right to make their own decisions on abortion. Currently abortion is illegal...
by APFLI | Jun 29, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
In 2011 alone, abortion related complications affected 26,500 women and over 3000 women needed hospitalization; but the abortion industry has opposed Common sense health standards at every level in every State in America, and on June 27th 2016 the abortion industry...
by APFLI | Jun 23, 2016 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Birth Control Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
Just one Planned Parenthood affiliate in Iowa allegedly committed $28 million in medicaid fraud. And now a federal appeals court has ruled that it cannot stop the lawsuit a former Planned Parenthood clinic director filed against it. Former Planned Parenthood clinic...
by APFLI | Jun 23, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Media - Fertilization / Pregnancy / Human Development, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption, Responses - Ideas To Promote Life
Among the various pro-life bills introduced at the state level, Oklahoma’s recent plan to start teaching fetal development in public schools deserves far more attention than it’s gotten so far. Banning certain abortion procedures, regulating abortionists, defunding...
by APFLI | May 26, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
In her responding brief opposing the defense motion to quash the tainted indictments, Anderson makes one more startling admission. She acknowledged that her office violated the law when it made public Daleiden and Merritt’s indictments before they were served or...
by APFLI | May 26, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Studies - PreTerm Delivery / Premature Birth / Prematurity Complications
Comment: There are many reasons for premature birth, one of which is previous abortion. Abortion can weaken the cervix, so that as the baby gets bigger, the weakened cervix cannot stay contracted, and the mother gives birth too early. There are now over 140 published...
by APFLI | May 17, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, General Information / History / Stats / Types, Legislation / Court Cases
Pro-life efforts in Alabama are making a huge difference for unborn babies and their moms across the state. A new report found abortions dropped 21 percent in Alabama in just four years. The Alabama Media Group reports [...
by APFLI | May 5, 2016 | Legislation / Court Cases
2 of Alabama’s 3 Largest Abortion Sites May be Forced to Close Protests at Huntsville abortion site 5.5.16 Rev. James Henderson speaks to reporters outside the Alabama Women’s Center, LLC in Huntsville while being videoed by one of the abortion...
by APFLI | Apr 30, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
On 2 March 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court [SCOTUS] heard arguments for and against Whole Women’s Health vs. Hellerstedt, which is a pro-abortion challenge to the Texas law that abortionists shall follow medical health and safety standards to protect women seeking...
by APFLI | Apr 12, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
Louisiana Governor Signs Bill to Ban Dismemberment Abortions Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed into law to ban dismemberment abortions. Several other states, including West Virginia and Alabama, have already approved or are considering legislation to ban the...
by APFLI | Jan 29, 2016 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Legislation / Court Cases
Ohio Legislature Defunds Planned Parenthood, Cuts $1.3 Million in Funding The Ohio House of Representatives has made its final vote to approve HB 294, which forbids state health funds from going to Planned Parenthood or any other abortion provider in the state. [10...
by APFLI | Dec 31, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
In January, 2015, for the first time since 2006, a pro-life Senate majority was sworn into office after hard-fought victories in the 2014 elections. In addition to defending pro-life seats, the following either ousted a pro-abortion incumbent or flipped an open seat...
by APFLI | Dec 29, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
Operation Rescue is wrapping up an eventful and productive year, culminating with the release of our annual survey of abortion centers that revealed the good news that the national trend of closing abortion centers strongly continues. “As the old saying goes,...
by APFLI | Dec 28, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
Judges Turn Away Two Injunctions to Halt California Bully Bill Pro-life pregnancy help centers are days away from having to choose between following their conscience and following a newly enacted state law in California, after two district judges denied motions for...