by APFLI | Jan 29, 2016 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Canada’s Supreme Court has given the government a four month extension to pass legislation on euthanasia, after which there will be no legal protections. The court struck down a law banning euthanasia last February in the case of Carter v. Canada. The ruling...
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, 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...
