Articles tagged Heartbeat Laws

Georgia Supreme Court restores heartbeat law after activist judge declared it ‘unconstitutional’

The Georgia Supreme Court reversed Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, allowing the state’s heartbeat law to continue being enforced while the abortion industry’s appeal is considered.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Oct 8, 2024Oct 9, 2024

Pro-life expert debunks report linking maternal deaths to abortion restrictions

Charlotte Lozier Institute fellow Dr. Michael New argued that a report claiming pro-life laws led to increased maternal death in Texas is flawed and that ‘countries with strong pro-life laws also have low maternal mortality rates.’

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Jonathon Van Maren

• Sep 24, 2024Sep 24, 2024

Iowa’s heartbeat abortion ban will finally take effect Monday, judge rules

Iowa has had a heartbeat law on the books since 2018, but it took a special legislative session and a new ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court to overcome resistance from judicial activists.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Jul 24, 2024Jul 25, 2024

Iowa Supreme Court votes 4-3 to uphold heartbeat abortion ban

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state’s heartbeat law on Friday, ordering a lower court to dissolve its temporary injunction against the ban in a victory for pro-lifers.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Jun 28, 2024Jun 29, 2024

Hundreds of Iowans gather to ‘remember the unborn’ at state’s second annual March for Life

An estimated 300 pro-life advocates came to the event, which was part of the national March for Life State March program. This was begun prior to the Dobbs decision to show the fight for pro-life laws at the state level.

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Lisa Bourne

• Jun 28, 2024Jun 27, 2024

Federal judge upholds South Carolina heartbeat law in blow to Planned Parenthood

Judge Daniel Coble rejected Planned Parenthood’s latest legal challenge to South Carolina’s heartbeat law after the state’s supreme court upheld the law last year.

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Calvin Freiburger

• May 22, 2024May 22, 2024

Bishop Paprocki: Biden ‘mocks our Catholic faith’ by using sign of the cross to promote abortion

Bishop Paprocki condemned Biden’s use of the sign of the cross at an abortion rally as sacrilege and appeared to suggest that the Democratic president and nominal Catholic may have excommunicated himself.

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• May 9, 2024Jul 9, 2024

Trump refuses to say he will vote against radical pro-abortion amendment in Florida

Trump also criticized Florida’s six-week heartbeat law again, telling Time magazine he thinks the measure, which is expected to save tens of thousands of children, is ‘too severe.’

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Calvin Freiburger

• May 2, 2024May 3, 2024

Sen. Rick Scott backtracks on support for Florida heartbeat law, now prefers 15-week abortion ban

'I think it’s important we do what there’s consensus' for on abortion, the former governor and current senator says.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Apr 16, 2024Apr 17, 2024

Trump says Arizona went ‘too far’ in reviving near-total abortion ban, will be ‘straightened out’

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee also speculated that Florida will ‘change’ in November as pro-lifers are working to defeat another radical abortion amendment.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Apr 10, 2024Apr 11, 2024

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Articles tagged Heartbeat Laws

Georgia Supreme Court restores heartbeat law after activist judge declared it ‘unconstitutional’

Pro-life expert debunks report linking maternal deaths to abortion restrictions

Iowa’s heartbeat abortion ban will finally take effect Monday, judge rules

Iowa Supreme Court votes 4-3 to uphold heartbeat abortion ban

Hundreds of Iowans gather to ‘remember the unborn’ at state’s second annual March for Life

Federal judge upholds South Carolina heartbeat law in blow to Planned Parenthood

Bishop Paprocki: Biden ‘mocks our Catholic faith’ by using sign of the cross to promote abortion

Trump refuses to say he will vote against radical pro-abortion amendment in Florida

Sen. Rick Scott backtracks on support for Florida heartbeat law, now prefers 15-week abortion ban

Trump says Arizona went ‘too far’ in reviving near-total abortion ban, will be ‘straightened out’