Abortion

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

“Democrats are ready for another attempt, and the latest iteration of the new stimulus bill in the House includes no Hyde Amendment language.

“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

Read Schumer Claims Conservative Supreme Court Justices Will ‘Pay the Price’ If They Rule against Abortion Advocates and the followup, Chief Justice John Roberts Scolds Schum

“Brigitte Amiri, deputy director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said in a statement released Tuesday that the ordinances were ‘part of a nationwide attack on abortion access.’” - CPost

“This week, the Senate will consider a bill to criminalize the act of killing an unborn human being after 20 weeks’ gestation, the point at which scientific evidence suggests fetuses can feel pain.

“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