Federal Court Strikes Down the Country's Most Extreme Abortion Ban
Well, I’ll be damned: some good news in the battle for reproductive rights!
For the third time, the Ohio House has passed an abortion ban that would make the procedure illegal once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, or as early as six weeks. Both the governor and much of the Senate have expressed strong opposition to the bill, though, making it unlikely to ever become law.
Worst Hat Trick Ever: North Dakota Governor Signs Three Anti-Choice Bills
Right on the heels of the North Dakota House passing a mind-numbingly restrictive "fetal personhood" amendment, Gov. Jack Dalrymple has just signed three abortion-limiting bills into law, effectively outlawing abortions in North Dakota after six weeks of pregnancy.
Meet The Woman Behind North Dakota's Anti-Choice Fetal Heartbeat Bill, Passed By Senate Yesterday
Yesterday the North Dakota Senate appproved two strict anti-abortion bills that had been waiting to be approved since February. They're now on their way to Republican Governor Jack Dalrymple for his signature, and he's quite likely to sign them into law, given his own anti-choice themed changes to lengthen the…
Ohio Senate Re-Aborts Heartbeat Bill
Zombies and fetuses have been hot in 2012, so it makes perfect sense that the Ohio Senate would try to make that state cool again by combining the two into one terribly stupid political maneuver. The so-called "Heartbeat Bill," which proposed banning abortion from the moment a fetal heartbeat could be detected, would…
Abortion-Seekers in Texas Must Look at Sonogram, as if They Didn't Already Know What Was in There
A judge has ruled that it's perfectly legal for the state of Texas to require women seeking abortions to first look at a sonogram, listen to the fetal heartbeat, and listen to a doctor's speil about possible dire consequences that could befall them for choosing to terminate their pregnancies. Don't Mess with Fetus!
Advocates Of Ohio 'Heartbeat Bill' To Begin Airing Obnoxious Ads
Mississippi's jaw droppingly absurd Personhood Amendment is drumming up a lot of press, but theirs isn't the only kooky pro-life law poised to pass this fall; Ohio's got a bit of overreaching anti-choice legislation of its own: a fetal heartbeat bill. And supporters are about to to take to the TV airwaves to urge…
Ohio's "Heartbeat Bill" Is In Limbo
Voting on the bill banning abortions in Ohio after detection of a fetal heartbeat has been delayed, as anti-abortion legislators and activists debate just how unconstitutional they want to get. The fetus that testified couldn't be reached for comment.
