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

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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.

 

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

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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.

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Planned Parenthood to Stop Selling Baby Organs, Will Still Give Remains to Researchers

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America CEO Cecile Richards announced today that Planned Parenthood no longer plans to sell organs harvested from aborted fetal remains to scientists–although it still plans to give the organs to researchers.

The move comes in the wake of a series of undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood officials allegedly negotiating the sale of aborted fetal remains in violation of federal law.

Richards recently testified before members of Congress about the organization’s practices. Her letter to the National Institute of Health acknowledges that Planned Parenthood will continue to give organs harvested from aborted babies to researchers; Planned Parenthood affiliates simply will receive no compensation for the organs.

Of course, there are still serious ethical questions about medical research conducted on organs harvest from aborted babies, as we have written before, so this is by no means a solution to the situation. However, this is a step in the right direction.

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