Abortion

“Judges last week blocked two state laws protecting babies with detectable heartbeats.” - WORLD

“Americans currently consider race relations, the coronavirus, the government and the economy to be the most important problems facing the U.S. Abortion is not near the top of that list; still, a core one-quarter of U.S. adults consider it to be a threshold vote issue.” - Gallup

“We are simply saying all these rights that have been won over the years in the area of racism or sexism should be applied to the unborn in Mississippi,” said Republican state Sen. Joey Fillingane. - W.Examiner

“On the last day of the Tennessee General Assembly legislative session, a sweeping pro-life bill went from near extinction to becoming law.” - BPNews

“The Illinois Baptist State Association (IBSA) … is among three plaintiffs in a lawsuit the nonprofit Thomas More Society filed Wednesday (June 10) in Sangamon County Circuit Court challenging the Illinois Reproductive Health Act’s abortion coverage mandate.” - BPNews

“The last abortion center in Missouri won a lengthy courtroom brawl to keep its license even though only a handful of women ended their pregnancies at the facility in the last year. On May 30, the day after the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission ruled in Planned Parenthood’s favor.” - WORLD

Current law “creates a legal fiction granting abortion providers standing to represent the interests of the women they injure. This is similar to allowing a car manufacturing company to represent consumer interests when challenging a car safety law. Although not often discussed, this issue of third-party standing could be the linchpin in this case.” - W.Examiner

“Producer Nick Sweeney…appears to be selling the entire mainstream media on the idea that the last decades of Norma McCorvey’s life were ‘an act’ and that her relationship with the pro-life movement was defined by money.

“According to this narrative, Evangelical leaders mainly supported abortion rights. They jumped into the culture war only when the IRS moved to strip the tax exemptions from racially discriminatory schools. Opposition to integration is the poisonous acorn that grew into the mighty political oak of conservative Christianity.” - David French

“…according to a new documentary on her life, ‘AKA Jane Roe,’ which premieres Friday on FX, McCorvey made a startling claim during a ‘deathbed confession’ delivered in 2017: She was paid to embrace the anti-abortion movement.’ - RNS