by APFLI | Dec 22, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
US-based Americans United for Life (AUL) released the Infants’ Protection Project, a series of model legislation to enhance protections for unborn children. The proposals include eight pieces of legislation for state legislators to introduce. According to AUL,...
by APFLI | Dec 22, 2015 | Legislation / Court Cases
The US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Arizona’s law banning abortions based on a child’s race or sex. A lawsuit by the NAACP’s Maricopa County Branch and the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum challenged the state’s 2011...
by APFLI | Dec 22, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Responses - Ideas To Promote Life, Right to Life - Archive
States across the US enacted 47 new pro-life laws in 2015 according to a new report, 2015 State of the States: Fighting Back by Pushing Forward, which looks at the nearly 400 bills proposed in state capitals that seek to increase protections against abortion. The...
by APFLI | Dec 22, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Right to Life - Archive
Sierra Leone’s Parliament voted to legalize abortion, approving the Safe Abortion Bill 2015. The new law will permit abortion on demand for the first trimester, and in certain exceptions later in pregnancy. The bill’s sponsor, Isatu Kabia, argued abortion...
by APFLI | Dec 22, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
The Dominican Republic’s high court has ruled a new law legalizing abortion is unconstitutional. The law, strongly supported by the president, would have permitted abortion in cases of rape, incest, and in cases where the unborn child had a disability. The case...
by APFLI | Dec 8, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
Pro-lifers won new victories for the unborn this year when state legislators approved nearly 50 pro-life bills. The Hill reports that 16 states passed pro-life legislation to restrict abortions and protect unborn babies in 2015, according to data released by the...
by APFLI | Dec 7, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
Life Legal Brief Completely Refutes National Abortion Federation: NAF Invited David Daleiden To Its ‘Secret’ Meetings The National Abortion Federation has played the victim card too long. In the months since suing David Daleiden and the Center for Medical...
by APFLI | Nov 25, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, all fourteen judges of Kansas’ state Court of Appeals will begin analyzing all legal briefs, pro and con, for an expedited hearing on the grisly topic of dismemberment abortions. That includes a “friend of the court” brief submitted by...
by APFLI | Nov 24, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
A U.S. appeals court ruled Monday that a Wisconsin law requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is unconstitutional. Admitting privileges are important because they would help protect the health of a woman who is victimized by a...
by APFLI | Nov 24, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
Life Legal is grateful for the opportunity to represent David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). Earlier this year, David released the first of a series of undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts. We wanted to give you...
by APFLI | Nov 18, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
Tuesday [17 Nov 15], the Ohio House of Representatives passed Substitute House Bill 294 to block abortion providers in Ohio from qualifying for five funding programs administered by the Ohio Department of Health. The chamber adopted the measure 62-30 after lengthy...
by APFLI | Oct 23, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
After Voting to De-Fund Planned Parenthood, GOP Congress Cuts Funding to Pro-Abortion UNFPA Ohio House De-Funds Planned Parenthood After It Sells Aborted Baby Parts New Panel to Investigate Planned Parenthood Harvesting & Sale of Aborted Baby Parts U.S. House,...
by APFLI | Sep 29, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
The Life Institute has welcomed the defeat of a motion to Repeal the 8th Amendment which was before the Limerick City and County Council yesterday. The motion was proposed by members of the Anti-Austerity Alliance but was decisively rejected yesterday as 23...
by APFLI | Sep 25, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
UPDATES 3 Dec 2015 Missouri Judge Allows Unqualified Planned Parenthood to Keep its Abortion License for Now Legislature fights back by filing a bill to protect women from shoddy providers When Missouri University cancelled Colleen McNicholas’ deficient...
by APFLI | Sep 24, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
The state Assembly voted Thursday to strip Planned Parenthood of about $3.5 million in government funding a year. The measure passed, 60-35, with all Republicans backing it and all Democrats opposing it. It now goes to the Senate, which like the Assembly is controlled...
by APFLI | Sep 18, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
House Votes to De-Fund Planned Parenthood After it Sells Body Parts From Aborted Babies The House of Representatives voted today for legislation that would temporarily de-fund Planned Parenthood while an investigation continues into it s sale of aborted babies and...
by APFLI | Sep 17, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
A federal appeals court has shut down the attempt by a pro-abortion group to stop the release of more videos exposing the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Last month a federal judge in California blocked the release of additional videos showing the abortion...
by APFLI | Sep 16, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
Action Alert: Prosecute, Defund, & Protest Planned Parenthood In response to the Congressional hearing on Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of fetal body parts and the ongoing debates on defunding Planned Parenthood and passing protections for babies born...
by APFLI | Sep 10, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
Gianna Jessen; NRLC General Counsel James Bopp,Jr.; Priscilla Smith, director of the Yale Law School’s Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice; and Melissa Ohden sworn in during a hearing before House Judiciary Committee Alas, I had way too many irons in the...
by APFLI | Aug 17, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
PP Held to Its Word in Restrictive Covenant…. PP Officials Admit that Abortions Are a MAJOR Part of Their Business…. As Planned Parenthood on the national stage reels from revelations that it sells baby body parts, alters procedures to suit high-rolling...