Tag Archives: Roe v. Wade

Legislation signed into law in Kansas last week will sharply restrict women’s access to abortions, part of a nationwide assault on reproductive rights. The language of the bill “declares the life of each human being begins at fertilization, with all state laws to be interpreted and construed to protect the rights, privileges, and immunities of the unborn child, subject only to the U.S. Constitution and the judicial decisions and interpretations of the U.S. Supreme Court.” Although the statute gives a …

A controversial Arizona law that would ban most most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy will be ruled on by a panel of federal judges. Arguments over the law were heard this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Opponents of the law argue that it is in clear opposition to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which ordered that women cannot be banned from getting an abortion until the fetus is …

A federal judge has indefinitely extended his injunction of a new Mississippi law that requires abortion clinic physicians to be board-certified OB-GYNs and to have patient-admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The law was scheduled to go into effect on July 1, and would have closed the state’s only abortion clinic, but U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III blocked it while he considered its constitutionality. The controversial Mississippi law is just one of the latest measures in an ongoing …