by admin | Sep 21, 2019 | Events
Building momentum on an important initiative This spring, Girls’ Health First made big waves in Springfield this year, despite the tragic ending to the spring session.Planned Parenthood even had to issue a letter to every legislator attempting to discredit the...
by admin | Jun 18, 2013 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
The House Tuesday passed a bill that would ban most abortions nationwide after 20 weeks. The most far-reaching abortion legislation in the House in a decade, it was passed 228-196, mostly along party lines. Source: Politico.com
by admin | Jun 12, 2013 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
With Republicans supporting it and Democrats opposed, a House committee has passed a bill that would ban abortions nationwide at 20 weeks of pregnancy. Much of the debate focused on amendments by Democrats who hoped to gut the bill and allow late-term abortions in...
by admin | Apr 16, 2013 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed into law a measure that outlaws abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the premise that at that point a fetus can feel pain. Dalrymple already has signed a law that bans abortion as early as six weeks, or when a fetal...
by admin | Apr 16, 2013 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Mississippi from revoking the license of the state’s only abortion clinic. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III extended an injunction he issued several months ago, which blocks the state from closing the clinic...
