by APFLI | May 12, 2008 | Legislation / Court Cases
For more information about Right of Conscience, visit http://www.aul.org/Rights_of_Conscience MO protects all healthcare providers who object to participating in abortions. Here are some MO Code sections that should be of help: TITLE 12. PUBLIC...
by APFLI | Apr 27, 2008 | Legislation / Court Cases
April 18 marked the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, in which it rejected legal challenges to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. While opponents of the ban claimed numerous lawsuits would be brought forth to...
by APFLI | Apr 22, 2008 | Legislation / Court Cases
ILLINOIS COURT REJECTS WALGREENS' ATTEMPT TO DENY PHARMACISTS' CONSCIENCE RIGHTS. An Illinois state court has rejected the latest attempt by a major pharmacy chain to read pharmacists out of that state's Health Care Right of Conscience Act. On April...
by APFLI | Apr 19, 2008 | Legislation / Court Cases, Uncategorized
Despite setbacks along the way, pro-lifers refused to give up on an Oklahoma ultrasound bill. This week, their persistence was rewarded. Members of the state legislature banded together and overrode the veto of Gov. Brad Henry (D) to enact a law that requires doctors...
by APFLI | Apr 1, 2008 | Legislation / Court Cases
U.S. Sens. David Vitter, George Voinovich and Sam Brownback this week introduced the Pregnant Women Health and Safety Act, which would require physicians who perform abortions to hold admitting privileges at a hospital that the physician can travel to in one hour or...
by APFLI | Feb 20, 2008 | Legislation / Court Cases
CMA Physicians Laud HHS Secretary Leavitt for Protecting Physicians and Patients on Abortion and Conscience Issue Washington –June 27, 2008–The Christian Medical Association (CMA, www.cmda.org), the nation's largest faith-based organization of...
by APFLI | Feb 14, 2008 | Legislation / Court Cases
For the second time, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld a double murder conviction of a man who killed a pregnant woman’s unborn children. The decision further validates the constitutionality of the state’s unborn victims law, which pro-life...
by APFLI | Oct 27, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
City councils don’t normally get involved in the abortion debate, especially when it concerns regulating abortion centers themselves, but that’s what the council in this Virginia city has done. Last week it passed a resolution that would create a committee...
by APFLI | Oct 23, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
The Uruguayan Senate is preparing to vote again on decriminalization of abortion in the country. The legislation would allow abortion for virtually any reason during the first three months of pregnancy. Although the new vote was originally scheduled for today, it has...
by APFLI | Oct 8, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
Right to Life of New Zealand took the law to the nation’s high court saying that it was intended to provide abortion guidelines but has, instead, been used to promote unlimited abortions for any reason. Right To Life New Zealand filed suit against the Abortion...
by APFLI | Sep 4, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
UN STUDY SHOWS 28% OF COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE PERMIT ABORTION ON DEMAND A recent United Nations report on international abortion policies reveals that while most countries worldwide allow abortion in extreme cases in order to save the life of the mother, only a minority...
by APFLI | Jul 18, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
On Thursday, July 12, the Minnesota Supreme Court handed down an important ruling, reversing the criminal convictions of pro-life protesters Ron Rudnick and Luke Otterstad for displaying large signs on an overpass on two occasions in the Twin Cities suburb of Anoka,...
by APFLI | Jul 14, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
Louisiana Legislative Update/2007 Summary (Please see www.legis.state.la.us for bill texts and voting lists): HB 25 (Crowe plus 45 sponsors), to expand the “Woman’s Right to Know” Act to include mandatory provision of information on fetal pain and...
by APFLI | May 14, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
The Justice Department, in its first formal filing in court interpreting the Supreme Court’s April 18 ruling upholding a federal ban on an abortion procedure, told a federal appeals court on Thursday that the ruling sweeps so broadly that challengers should not...
by APFLI | May 8, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
A federal judge issued a final judgment 8May07 reiterating what the U.S. Supreme Court said more than a year ago — that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used against anti-abortion protesters. The judgment from U.S. District Judge David Coar...
by APFLI | May 6, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
APPEALS COURT RULES WAL-MART CAN IGNORE PHARMACIST'S CONSCIENCE PLEA. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on 2May that Wal-Mart is not required to respect the conscience rights of a Wisconsin pharmacist. Neil Noeson cited religious objections to filling...
by APFLI | May 2, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
Today, the Missouri Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 2005 Missouri law (section 188.250, RSMo, http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/c100-199/1880000250.htm ), which allows parents to sue those who assist their minor daughter to obtain an abortion in violation of...
by APFLI | May 1, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
The Missouri legislature is moving forward on a plan that could close down abortion sites in Columbia and Kansas City. The bill passed a Senate Committee late last night and caused quite a stir at the Capitol today. Only doctors at surgical centers with strict...
by APFLI | Apr 27, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
The Kansas state House has approved an amendment to a budget bill that would strengthen the enforcement of late-term abortion laws there. The legislation includes a provision that allows policy makers to know the exact diagnosis of women who get a late-term abortion....
by APFLI | Apr 19, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
February 5, 2007 by Michael J. New, Ph.D. Center for Data Analysis Report #07-01 The reduction in the incidence of abortion during the 1990s became a topic of much discussion during the 2004 presidential election. Between 1990 and 1999, the number of reported...
