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In 1999, Senator Ray Haynes carried Senate Bill 149, “The Sharon Hamptlon Act”, inspired by the case of Sharon Hamptlon, who bled to death from a punctured uterus at the hands of abortionist Bruce Steir. She died while being driven home by her mother. Her three-year-old son was in the car. [more]
On May 18, the North Dakota Supreme Court heard oral arguments in North Dakota v. Family Life Services (FLS), in which the pro-abortion state attorney general placed an entire pro-life ministry into state-governed receivership. [more]
Scalia: “Does the deck seem stacked? You bet.”
For those of us who believe that the state has a higher interest in protecting the lives of the unborn than it does in collaborating with moms who desire to abort their ill-timed or inconvenient children, awaiting a decision from our current Supreme Court is much like watching “Godzilla Versus The Smog Monster”: you know the dialogue is going to be bad and that there will be dismembered victims in the aftermath, but you can’t help but open one eye in wonder as to how far the authors will go in shocking us. [more]
An Interview with Tom Condit
. . . In 1986, Planned Parenthood sued my brother and three other pro-life leaders for supposedly unlawful picketing activities. Planned Parenthood had everything but the evidence. It turned into a scandalous case of pro-life persecution. I contributed what little I could while still in law school, but the case lasted so long that I was able to argue it to the Supreme Court of Ohio in February, 1990. [more]
With nothing left to accomplish in the fight for unrestricted, tax-payer funded abortion in California, pro-abortion state legislators this spring embarked on a different pet project: demonizing pro-life activists. On February 24, State Senator Deborah Ortiz (D-6) introduced SB 1945, entitled the Anti-Abortion Crime Law Enforcement Act. The bill’s language of intent begins, “The Legislature finds and declares that antiabortion crime and hate crime differ in concept but often converge in practice, and that law enforcement should address them in concert.” [more]
This article was originally published in Lifeline Vol. X, Nº 2, Fall 2000.
Lifeline is a publication of Life Legal Defense Foundation, Napa, Calif.