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Planned Parenthood Sues State, Says It May End Chemical Abortions Under New Law

Dec 29, 2015Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Yesterday Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a federal lawsuit against Arkansas state officials over a law passed last spring requiring doctors to follow FDA protocols when administering abortion drugs like RU-486.

One of the provisions in the law requires the abortion clinic to contract with a physician who has admitting privileges at a local hospital to handle emergency complications resulting from abortion-inducing drugs. According to various news sources, Planned Parenthood is suing the state in part because it says it cannot find a doctor with whom to contract.

Planned Parenthood says if the law is enforced–and if it is unable to find a doctor with whom to contract–then Planned Parenthood no longer will be able to perform drug-induced abortions in Arkansas.

You can read the full text of the law here.

U.S. Supreme Court Seriously Considering AR Pro-Life Law

Nov 23, 2015Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Last October Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sent a request to the U.S. Supreme Court asking them to review the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Law.

Portions of the law were struck by lower federal courts, but A.G. Rutledge is asking the Supreme Court for a hearing to determine the law’s constitutionality. Progress is being made on that hearing; earlier this month the U.S. Supreme Court asked opponents of the law to respond to the A.G.’s request by December 10.

As the A.G.’s office notes, this shows the U.S. Supreme Court is giving the issue “serious consideration.”

The Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act was sponsored by Sen. Jason Rapert in 2013; it originally prevented most abortions after the twelfth week of pregnancy. Portions of the law pertaining to informed-consent prior to an abortion are still in place, but the provisions preventing a doctor from performing an abortion after the twelfth week of pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat is detected were struck down.

The A.G.’s office asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review and uphold the entire law as constitutional last October; a review would set the stage for the court to revise or overturn key elements of past abortion decisions, such as Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Planned Parenthood Abortionist Calls Aborted Baby’s Heart “Cute”

Oct 29, 2015Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

The Center for Medical Progress has released an eleventh undercover video–this time showing an abortion doctor from Planned Parenthood describe the process of picking through organs from aborted babies.

Dr. Amna Dermish is the protege of Dr. Deborah Nucatola; you may recall Dr. Nucatola was featured in the Center for Medical Progress’ first video released, in which she discussed abortion and the harvest of organs from aborted babies while casually sipping wine and eating salad.

At one point in this newest video, Dr. Dermish describes how one of Planned Parenthood’s “POC [products of conception] persons” picks through the organs of aborted babies, saying, “She’ll pull out, like, kidneys, and heart, and, like, heart we’ll frequently see at nine weeks [gestation], and she always looks for it. . . . Well, it’s cute.”

You can watch the video below. Warning: The content is graphic.

You can also watch the unedited footage of the conversation below. Warning: The content is graphic.