Abortion

"When opening statements finally got underway, Feinstein said the question is not whether Kavanaugh believes the Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion is 'settled law' but 'whether you believe it is correct law.' She expressed concern with Kavanaugh's dissent earlier this year from a decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordering the Trump administration to grant abortion access to a pregnant immigrant teen in the U.S. illegally." - BPress

"Public views of abortion in all 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) would take on an added importance if Roe v. Wade were overturned." - Washington Examiner

When the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, polling showed that blacks were less likely than whites to support abortion. Sixties-era civil rights activists like Fannie Lou Hamer and Whitney Young had denounced the procedure as a form of genocide. Jesse Jackson called abortion “murder” and once told a black newspaper in Chicago that “we used to look for death from the man in the blue coat and now it comes in a white coat.”

"While 60 percent of respondents think that abortion should be “generally legal” during the first trimester, support falls to 28 percent in the second trimester and only 13 percent during the third trimester." NReview

"Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed a bill Wednesday banning abortions after 15 weeks. . . . The bill is now law, but will not go into effect unless the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi upholds a similar ban in Mississippi." Jurist

"How does a country that only seven years ago had nearly 70 percent of its population declare themselves Roman Catholic ignore the heeding of the church?"  WRN

Ireland has voted by a landslide margin to change the constitution so that abortion can be legalised, according to an exit poll conducted for The Irish Times. The poll suggests that the margin of victory for the Yes side in the referendum will be 68 per cent to 32 per cent – a stunning victory for the Yes side after a long and often divisive campaign

"When Cecile Richards stepped down as president of Planned Parenthood last week, glowing profiles celebrated her leadership of the nation’s largest facilitator of abortions. But Richards’ legacy is dark. Nearly 4 million unborn children died in Planned Parenthood centers during her 12-year tenure." WORLD