Category: Judicial

9th Circuit Court of Appeals lifts partial stay on aspects of Idaho protective abortion law

By Dave Andrusko A three judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Thursday that granted Idaho officials’ request to put the injunction against aspects of the state’s very protective abortion law on hold while the state appeals U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill’s ruling. The law protects unborn babies from abortion except for …

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Texas Attorney General Paxton Sues Yelp alleging that it discriminated against Pregnancy Resource Centers

By Dave Andrusko On Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Yelp after the company “violated Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act by appending inaccurate and misleading language to listings on pregnancy resource centers appearing in the search results on Yelp’s app and website,” according to a press release from the AG’s office. …

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Judge Beetem sides with pro-abortion ACLU, strikes down Ashcroft’s truthful ballot language

By Missouri Right to Life On Monday, Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem struck down Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s truthful ballot language for 6 pro-abortion initiative petitions that were filed in March (Fitz-James vs. Ashcroft, Case No. 23AC-CC03167 et. al.). Judge Beetem’s order included new rewritten ballot language declaring that Secretary Ashcroft’s language was …

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Ohio Supreme Court holds ‘unborn child’ wording can remain as part of abortion ballot language

By Dave Andrusko On Tuesday, on a 3-2 vote, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the term “unborn child” will remain in the ballot language for a November 7 vote on whether to enshrine abortion in the state’s constitution. Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights and five petitioners sued the Ohio Ballot Board over wording that substituted “unborn child” for the …

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Florida Supreme Court Heard Oral Arguments in 15-Week Abortion Ban

By Liberty Counsel The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, et al., v. State of Florida, et al., regarding the 15-week abortion ban which prohibits all abortions after 15 weeks of gestation.  On April 14, 2022, Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 5, known as the “Reducing Fetal and …

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Oregon Right to Life Sues Over Oregon’s Abortion-Coverage Mandate in Health Insurance

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, Oregon Right to Life (ORTL), the state affiliate of National Right to Life, sued for relief from Oregon’s requirement that employee health insurance plans provide coverage for abortion. “As a pro-life organization, no one questions that we hold deep moral objections to abortion,” said ORTL executive director Lois Anderson. “We are only asking for …

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More Court Wins in South Carolina and Indiana

By Virgina Pride Recently, the states of South Carolina and Indiana upheld their laws restricting abortions after months of legal challenges. In both cases, the challenge to their constitutionality was dismissed. South Carolina’s Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act (S.474) was passed in late May of 2023, but Planned Parenthood challenged this in court soon …

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New Mexico Supreme Court to hear challenge to  constitutionality of pro-life ordinances passed by local cities and counties

By Dave Andrusko Earlier this year, not content with a relentless string of pro-abortion victories, the state’s Attorney General  filed an emergency petition asking for and receiving from the New Mexico Supreme Court a hold on ordinances which were intended to protect unborn babies. On Tuesday, in a unanimous order, the state’s highest court “set the date for Dec. 13, and …

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West Virginia District Court Affirms West Virginia’s Right to Stop the Use of Mifepristone

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Late yesterday, the U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers issued a decision GenBioPro, Inc. v. Sorsaia. In the lawsuit, GenBioPro, a chemical abortion drug manufacturer, challenged West Virginia’s Unborn Child Protection Act claiming that it should be found unconstitutional on the basis that Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority over state laws …

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Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing physician filed petition for review with state high court

PHOENIX – The Arizona Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will review an appellate court’s ruling in Planned Parenthood of Arizona v. Mayes. The lower court’s ruling rewrote the state’s pro-life law and thwarted the Arizona Legislature’s intent. It also entered an injunction that halted the law from taking effect. In the case, Alliance Defending Freedom [ADF] attorneys …

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Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine vs. FDA: A Quick Run-Down

By Virginia Pride, Secular Pro-Life Earlier in 2023, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine [AHM], other pro-life medical organizations, and individual pro-life physicians filed a federal district court in Dallas, against the FDA concerning their regulations on dispensing mifepristone. This drug is the first of two used in the abortion pill sequence, blocking the pregnancy hormone progesterone …

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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Determines that Food and Drug Administration’s 2016 and 2021 Changes to Mifepristone Were Unlawful

Stay on Lower Court Ruling Remains While Litigation Continues WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), determined that when the FDA loosened regulations in 2016 and 2021 regarding the drug mifepristone, it did so unlawfully, failing to give adequate …

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