Court Forces Church to Fund Killing Babies in Abortions– www.lifenews.com
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A federal appeals court has issued a shocking opinion forcing a church in Washington state to fund abortions.
A Seattle-area church has sued to stop a Washington state law that forces churches to fund abortions in their health care plans. Cedar Park Assembly of God challenged the Washington state law that requires nearly all health plans to cover abortion.
Biden’s Attempt to Force State to Kill Babies in Abortions Goes Down in Flames– www.lifenews.com
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The Trump administration has dropped a Biden-era lawsuit that attempted to force Idaho health care practitioners to perform emergency abortions despite the state’s near-total abortion ban. By dropping the lawsuit, the federal government will no longer attempt to usurp the state’s pro-life law and force abortions.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a stipulation of dismissal letter Wednesday in an Idaho federal court stating that both parties in the case, the federal government and the State of Idaho, agreed to the dismissal of all the claims brought against Idaho’s abortion law. The agreement effectively cancels the case known as Idaho v. United States and dissolves an injunction blocking the state from fully enforcing its abortion law.
Under the previous administration, the DOJ sued Idaho claiming that its “Defense of Life Act,” which forbids abortion except to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest, violated the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). The 1986 EMTALA statute mandates hospitals provide stabilizing treatment at emergency rooms even if patients cannot afford to pay. Biden’s DOJ somehow rationalized that EMTALA’s “stabilizing care” provision included abortions and required doctors to perform them under a broader set of exceptions than just to preserve the life of the mother. Biden argued that its interpretation of EMTALA should prevail over state abortion laws and that abortions must be performed when patients request
Midwife student in Scotland suspended for pro-life social media comment wins case – Standing for Freedom Center– www.standingforfreedom.com
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Sara Spencer, 30, is seeking recognition of her rights to conscientious objection and freedom of speech following her unpleasant experience with National Health Service (NHS) Fife, which suspended her for a comment she made on Facebook.
Spencer, an American citizen residing in Scotland, was only a few months into her training at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland when her dream turned into a nightmare.
Shortly after beginning her placement at a clinic run by NHS Fife, one of 14 territorial boards in Scotland, Spencer was called in for a meeting with her line manager to be reprimanded.
Spencer told the Daily Mail, “At first I thought maybe I had just said something silly or made some kind of dumb mistake. My mind was racing, thinking what have I done?”
California Drops Prosecution Against Sandra Merritt, Who Exposed Planned Parenthood Aborted Baby Part Sales– www.lifenews.com
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After eight years of prosecuting Sandra Merritt, the California Attorney General’s office agreed to a plea deal to end this criminal case with no prison time and no fines for her role in the undercover journalism and videos that exposed Planned Parenthood’s trade in aborted baby body parts.
Before this unprecedented case, the State of California had never criminally prosecuted undercover journalists for surreptitious recordings made in the public interest. Yet, this courageous grandmother was charged with 16 felonies and faced more than 10 years in prison for shining a light on the abortion industry’s profit from illegal organ harvesting from aborted babies.
Liberty Counsel has defended Merritt for more than a decade against California’s and Planned Parenthood’s two-pronged strategy of criminal indictments and a civil lawsuit. The negotiated plea agreement includes the state dropping all remaining felony counts.
Merritt will plead “No Contest” to only one felony charge, which, after a one-year probationary period will be reduced to a misdemeanor at sentencing, and then expunged from her record entirely. Merritt will serve no prison time, will pay no fines, and will have no other penalties imposed for revealing the truth about Planned Parenthood. The deal is essentially a complete victory for Merritt in this politically-motivated criminal case.
Chip Roy Files Bill to Repeal FACE Law Biden Used to Put Pro-Life Americans in Prison– www.lifenews.com
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As pro-life activists await pardons from President Donald Trump, a key Republican member of Congress is introducing legislation targeting the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the FACE Act, which “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.”
“Now that we have a Republican trifecta in the House, Senate, and White House, Congress should move quickly to repeal this law and ensure that no future president can weaponize it against pro-lifers ever again,” Roy said in a statement.
“Free Americans should never live in fear of their government targeting them because of their beliefs,” Roy has said. “Yet, Biden’s Department of Justice has brazenly weaponized the FACE Act against normal, everyday Americans across the political spectrum, simply because they are pro-life.”
“Our Constitution separates power between the federal government and the states for a reason, and we ignore that safeguard at our own peril,” he added. “The FACE Act is an unconstitutional federal takeover of state police powers; it must be repealed.”
The bill comes as 21 pro-life advocates like Bevelyn Williams await a prdon from President Trump.
Pro-Life Accounts Restored on Facebook and Instagram Days After Letter From Attorneys– www.lifenews.com
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Last week, Meta restored wrongfully suspended Facebook and Instagram accounts for pro-life news site LifeNews.com, LifeNews CEO and editor Steven Ertelt, and potential adoptive mom Abby Covington.
The move came days after Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter to Meta calling on the social media giant to reverse its deeply flawed decisions to ban the accounts for weaponizing its standards against “human exploitation” and “child sexual exploitation.”
Meta’s restoration of the specific accounts also comes in the immediate wake of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of major changes at the company—including a badly needed series of improvements and clarifications to its content moderation policies. In both his video announcement on Meta, and his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience later in the week, Zuckerberg critiqued his company’s overly broad content moderation standards that have opened the door for vast censorship of political and religious views like those expressed by Ertelt and Covington. Those policies are in large part responsible for Meta’s low 15% of a possible 100% tally on ADF’s 2024 Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index, which measures corporate respect for free speech and religious liberty.
Minneapolis softens abortion buffer zone laws in pro-life victory – The Lion
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Chip Roy Says Republicans Should Repeal FACE Law Biden Used to Put Pro-Life Americans in Prison– www.lifenews.com
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Congressman Chip Roy said Congress should vote by the end of the year to repeal the law used by the Biden Department of Justice to throw pro-lifers in prison.
“Obviously, we need to move the bill forward, and it would be critical because of what we’re seeing with respect to the persecution of Americans being put in jail,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Signal.
Roy introduced a bill on Sept. 19, 2023, to repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994, which “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, introduced a Senate version of the bill the next month.
Critics have accused the Biden administration’s DOJ of weaponizing the FACE Act against pro-lifers while failing to charge pro-abortion vandals for the hundreds of attacks on pro-life pregnancy help centers since the leak of the draft Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in May 2022.
