Supreme Court may change the future of abortion

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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

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Who’s Really Exploiting Norma McCorvey?

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“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.

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Fact and Fiction About Racism and the Rise of the Religious Right

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“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

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Supreme Court considers abortion mandate again

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“For the third consecutive day, the justices heard oral arguments by means of a telephone conference because of restrictions brought on by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The religious freedom case was among 10 in which the high court postponed oral arguments from late March and April.” - BPNews

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Senate prepares to act on two pro-life bills

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“Pro-life advocates in the U.S. Senate will try again Feb. 24 to gain passage of protections for unborn babies late in their mothers’ pregnancies and newborns who survive abortions — something they have been unable to do the last two years. ​​​​​…. the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” - BPNews

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