by APFLI | Dec 24, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood
Diane Derzis is the owner of the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi and she is no stranger to some strange quotes. Through botched abortions, dozens of pro-life laws providing women the protection for their medical health her facility ignores, and lawsuits...
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 | Abortion - Archive
A Belfast High Court judge has ruled that Northern Ireland must make abortion available for unborn children conceived in rape or incest or diagnosed with “fatal fetal abnormalities”. In his ruling, Justice Mark Horner claimed that unborn handicapped babies...
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, Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Population - Archive
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world’s largest purveyor and performer of abortion, works in 170 countries with Member Associations in 147 countries which operate in 159 countries with activities in an additional 11 countries. Planned...
by APFLI | Dec 22, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Right to Life - Archive
International Pro-Abortion Actions The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) in a new fact sheet– Mandatory Waiting Periods and Biased Counseling Requirements in Central and Eastern Europe; Restricting access to abortion, undermining human rights, and reinforcing...
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 21, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, General Information / History / Stats / Types
The total number abortion sites in America continues to decline, following nationwide trend extending back to 1991. In 2015, abortion centers closed at a rate of more than one per week with 53 abortion sites shutting down or halting all abortion services. Operation...
by APFLI | Dec 20, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood
[Note correction at end of article] The ABQ Journal newspaper is reporting that the University of New Mexico, which is a publicly-funded institution, has partially cut ties with Southwestern Women’s Options, a late-term abortion facility owned by Texas abortionist...
by APFLI | Dec 17, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Right to Life - Archive
In a year when multiple states have opened official investigations into its practices, Planned Parenthood has been discreetly expanding the reach of its abortion services in Texas. The nation’s leading provider of abortions has set its latest covert action for...
by APFLI | Dec 12, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Responses - Ideas To Promote Life
Every 26 seconds, a preborn baby loses his or her life to abortion. Online for Life needs your help to flip this statistic upside down. We envision a world in which every 26 seconds, expectant parents in crisis are choosing Life for their preborn babies. We long to...
by APFLI | Dec 9, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood
A pro-choice researcher wrote about how the term “baby” is dreaded in abortion sites. Feminist author Wendy Simonds interviewed abortion industry workers for her book Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. Although the book was written from a...
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 | Dec 4, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood
Yesterday [3 Dec 15] was a monumental and historic day for pro-lifers. For the first time, the United States Senate passed a bill to defund Planned Parenthood. Republicans figured out a way to skirt a Democrat filibuster, which forces a bill to pass by 60 votes,...
by APFLI | Nov 30, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood
Much has been speculated about regarding the man responsible for the horrible shooting in Colorado Springs, but one person we should be focusing on is Garrett Swasey. Garrett Swasey is one of the three victims who lost their lives in the shooting. He was a 44-year-old...
by APFLI | Nov 25, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, General Information / History / Stats / Types
Since 1969, CDC has conducted abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions in the United States. Each year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies of 52 reporting areas (the 50 states,...
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 - 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...