Two UN human rights experts have inserted themselves into the debate around the recently-enacted law in Texas that prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Texas in response to a state law banning abortions after six weeks’ gestation.

By: Rich Lowrey – nationalreview.com – September 7, 2021 Texas pro-lifers had a legal strategy in mind when the state’s heartbeat law, also known as S.B. 8, went into effect on September 1.  They’d sue an abortion provider under the law to try to get the inevitable litigation about the statute going in the most favorable district court under the best...

Texas is a sideshow. The main show comes this fall.

Everything else is just noise.

Abortion-rights advocates are outraged at this tiny preview of a United States where courts are no longer de facto defenders of unlimited abortion.

When you just look at the “stats” for preborn life – What’s the baby’s gender? What’s my income? – you are unable to see the inherent dignity of life.

If Planned Parenthood’s mission is truly to serve women in need, the Texas Heartbeat Act presents the group with a prime opportunity.

More than 80 members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter concluding that the Biden administration broke the law by dropping a lawsuit filed on behalf of a pro-life nurse forced to participate in the performance of an abortion in violation of federal conscience laws.

A key House subcommittee on Monday cleared a spending bill for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) without including a decades-old rider prohibiting funding for abortions.