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 | 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 | Adult & Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Research (Ethical), Artificial Conception, Stem Cell Research & Cloning
US: Legislation Passes to Ban Production of 3 Parent Embryos The US House of Representatives passed legislation banning the creation of 3 parent embryos. This past year, Chinese, British and American scientists have been praising the potential of genetically modified...
