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A federal appeals court ruled against Tennessee’s abortion restrictions on Friday, nine days after another pro-life “heartbeat” law went into effect in Texas. In July 2020, Tennessee enacted a law restricting abortions at several stages in pregnancy, including abortions conducted after detection of a fetal heartbeat which can occur as early as six weeks post gestation. The law also prohibited abortions conducted because of the race or sex of the baby, or because of a Down syndrome diagnosis. On Friday, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit ruled against both provisions, upholding a lower court’s ruling that halted them from...

The pro-life position is simple and straightforward. It goes like this: It is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being; abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being; therefore, abortion is wrong. An article in the abortion sympathizing Mary Sue claimed pro-life people who oppose late-term abortions are the ones who actually cause late term abortions because they support restrictions on earlier abortions, when many women do not even know they are pregnant. It was claimed that women who find out they are pregnant later are “forced” to seek late term abortions due to restrictive pro-life policies. Like so many...

A controversial abortion bill that was headed for a House vote Thursday was dropped Wednesday night, following pushback from several moderate GOP lawmakers who worried that the measure might alienate millennials and female voters. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would have nationally prohibited abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and was based on the medically disputed idea that a fetus can feel pain at this point in gestation. Abortion-rights advocates argued that the proposed bill would have violated the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which holds that women have a constitutional right to abortion up until viability,...