Georgia Supreme Court Upholds 6-Week Abortion Limit
The Georgia Supreme Court upheld the state’s law on Tuesday limiting abortion to six weeks of pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat can typically be detected.
The Georgia Supreme Court upheld the state’s law on Tuesday limiting abortion to six weeks of pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat can typically be detected.
Iowa Republicans passed a bill late Tuesday evening to protect the unborn from abortion once a heartbeat can be detected, which is around six weeks of pregnancy.
Iowa Republicans released a proposal for a fetal heartbeat bill that will be debated and voted on in next week’s special legislative session.
Saturday marks one year since the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision — a precedent that enabled abortions of an estimated 64 million unborn babies.
A judge on Friday temporarily blocked South Carolina’s six-week abortion restriction until the state Supreme Court reviews the law.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) signed a bill on Thursday restricting abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
Bills protecting unborn babies failed on Thursday in Nebraska and South Carolina — states that are dominated by Republicans, CNN reported.
The Florida House passed a bill 70-40 on Thursday outlawing abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, sending it to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) desk for final approval.
The state senate passed a bill which would ban abortions after six-weeks — around the time when a baby’s heartbeat can first be detected.
A majority of Floridians say they support legislation to protect unborn babies once a heartbeat can be detected, a new poll found.
State lawmakers introduced a bill that would prohibit abortions after six weeks, which is usually when a fetal heartbeat is detected.
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the law is unconstitutional because it violates the state constitution’s privacy protections.
Georgia has hit a new record high in film and TV production spending, signaling a significant rebound from the coronavirus pandemic as well as a rebuke to the left-wing celebrities who in recent years called for a Hollywood boycott of the state over its fetal heartbeat abortion law.
A federal court dismissed all challenges to the private enforcement mechanism of Texas’s six-week abortion ban on Tuesday.
A study released in October by the University of Texas at Austin revealed the number of abortions performed in Texas in September, when the state’s Heartbeat Act (SB 8) took effect, declined by 50 percent, compared to September of the previous year.
A federal appeals court ruled the Texas Heartbeat Act can remain in effect while litigation continues over whether the law is constitutional.
A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama blocked Texas’s new pro-life law by issuing a preliminary injunction Wednesday evening in a suit brought by the Biden administration.
A report from a pro-abortion rights news outlet said Wednesday half of the abortionists at Whole Woman’s Health clinic in Fort Worth have left their jobs since Texas’s Heartbeat Act went into effect September 1.
Texas Right to Life said a judge’s decision to grant Planned Parenthood’s request for a temporary restraining order against the state’s Heartbeat Act does not block private citizens from enforcing the law.
The Texas legislature passed a bill that will outlaw abortions in the state once a fetal heartbeat is detected and sent it to the governor.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a fetal heartbeat bill into law Tuesdday that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed three pieces of pro-life legislation Monday, stating he wants to be “the most pro-life governor.”
An Idaho bill that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected passed the legislature and awaits the signature of the governor.
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against South Carolina after Gov. Henry McMaster signed a fetal “heartbeat” bill into law.
The South Carolina House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Claims that most Americans support Roe are not true, since poll questions often fail to tap what Americans really think about abortion.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said he will sign into law a bill that bans abortions at the time a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
A federal appeals court has upheld a block on Mississippi’s “heartbeat” abortion law that prohibits the procedure once an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected at about the sixth week of pregnancy.
A California abortionist testified this week during the preliminary criminal hearing of the Planned Parenthood video journalists that there is “no question” some second-trimester induced abortions discussed in the videos resulted in live births.
The UK-based Guardian newspaper has declared war on the pro-life movement, adopting a reproductive rights lexicon as dictated by the abortion lobby.
Bernie Sanders endorsed a primary challenge to one of the lone pro-life Democrats left in Congress, Rep. Dan Lipinski. The move came despite Lipinski having been one of the few Democratic superdelegates to back Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, described Disney’s support for “pro-abortion ideology” as contrary to the company’s business interests given their focus on creating entertainment content for children.
The New York Times described an unborn child’s detectable heartbeat as “embryonic pulsing” in its article this week detailing the bold pro-life movement sweeping the states.
NBCUniversal said on Thursday that newly passed abortion laws would “strongly impact” its film and TV production location decisions.
A judge has blocked a Mississippi law that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at the sixth or seventh week of pregnancy.
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) argued Wednesday that “too many” male lawmakers are driving anti-abortion legislation nationwide as the country faces what she described as an “all-out assault on women’s constitutional rights” aimed at overturning Roe v. Wade.
Georgia’s new Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act prohibits abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, but it will not imprison women who have abortions or miscarriages.
Actress and political activist Alyssa Milano has called for women to abstain from sex via a “sex strike,” claiming, “Our reproductive rights are being erased.”
Three film industry companies thus far say they will no longer shoot in Georgia unless the state’s new “Heartbeat” abortion law is repealed.
Hollywood actress Busy Philipps revealed that she had an abortion at 15 and used the occasion to slam Georgia’s new “Heartbeat” law that bans most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.