Much of this info available as a tweet thread here. As seen on Twitter/X: So the South Carolina abortion ban directly resulted in a woman being charged with murder for a miscarriage? That sounds awful. Also really strange, because South Carolina’s abortion law sprecifically does not allow criminal prosecution of women who get abortions. Here […]
Under the “abortion rights” section of NBC’s website, they have “A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion ban.” The article is a summary of an unpublished analysis from the Gender Equity Policy Insitute (GEPI). I searched their website and couldn’t find any recent reports related to Texas. I can’t look at […]
Remember this meme? When media outlets make biased decisions about what stories to cover or not cover, it activates the availability heuristic, a common logical fallacy. That’s why it’s important to rely on data, not anecdotes – especially when it comes to matters of health. The data tell us that maternal health in the United […]
This article is a guest contribution from practicing lawyer, Bridget Fay. If you’d like to submit a guest article, or otherwise work with SPL using your area of expertise, fill out our volunteer survey here. Prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women Health Organization, Supreme Court jurisprudence required that states permit […]
A transcription of the video, with source links and post-video notes, follows. A new study purports to show an increase in infant mortality in Texas due to their Heartbeat Bill: their September 2021, approximately six week abortion ban. Specifically, the study found an excess of 216 infant deaths, or a 12.7% increase over what they […]
This article originally appeared at Created Equal and is reprinted with permission. According to the latest tally, there could be up to 12 states facing a constitutional amendment on November’s ballot expanding abortion beyond viability killing babies that are five, six, seven months gestation, and even up to birth. According to current polling, if the […]
The following is a reprint from Public Discourse. This article was co-authored by Monica Snyder (SPL’s Executive Director), Charles Camosy, and Eric Scheidler. While we continue to seek ways to extend robust legal protection to prenatal children and to persuade our pro-choice brothers and sisters that such laws are necessary to forge a truly just […]
Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the FDA in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. The Court found that the AHM lacked standing to challenge the FDA’s regulatory changes to the abortion drug mifepristone. The decision was unanimous and Justice Kavanaugh wrote the opinion. From the drug’s approval in 2000 […]
Last month, Secular Pro-Life sounded the alarm about a dangerous pro-abortion decision by the Court of Appeals of Indiana. That court sided with plaintiffs who wanted religious exceptions to Indiana’s pro-life law. But the court’s logic was much broader than that, opening the door to any religiously motivated homicide, regardless of the victim’s age. In […]
On May 7th, New York Supreme Court Judge Daniel Doyle removed from the ballot a proposed amendment intended to enshrine the right to abortion in the New York State Constitution. It is unsurprising that the media have labeled the judge as “conservative,” irrespective of the merits of the decision, which appears to be beyond reproach. The New […]
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