From Oklaoma

Republican Gov. Mary Fallin plans to sign two bills intended to further restrict abortion in Oklahoma.

A fetus is seen in an ultrasound image in this file photo. Today, Republican Gov. Mary Fallin plans to sign two bills intended to further restrict abortion in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma governor to sign 2 abortion bills

Fallin has scheduled a public bill signing on Wednesday to sign a bill under which doctors could face felony charges for performing abortions after a woman reaches 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill is called the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” and is based on the premise that a fetus can experience pain after 20 weeks. It includes an exemption for abortions performed when the life of the mother is at risk or if there is a risk of physical impairment of a “major bodily function.”
The second bill would prohibit health insurance plans in Oklahoma offered under the new federal health care law from offering coverage for elective abortions.

Read more.... http://newsok.com/oklahoma-governor-to-sign-2-abortion-bills/article/3560419#ixzz1K5WE8DMY

From England

The Department of Health has lost a court battle to keep secret some details on abortion statistics.

The government was challenging an Information Tribunal decision but data on late abortions must now be disclosed.
The court case follows an application by an anti-abortion group, the ProLife Alliance, for the publication of all data on abortion in England and Wales.

Read the rest here.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13145488

From WSJ

By Ashby Jones

If there’s one Supreme Court case that your average high-school student can remember by name, it’s Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision which held that a woman’s right to privacy extends to abortion.
But is Roe v. Wade still the law of the land? Writing for Slate, Dahlia Lithwick says the answer might be no.
How’s that, you ask?
The Supreme Court has not explicitly overturned Roe. But Lithwick’s premise derives from the fact that since the start of this year, some 916 measures “seeking to regulate reproductive health” have been introduced in 49 states. Some which have successfully passed include an expansion of the waiting period in South Dakota from 24 to 72 hours and a requirement that counseling from “crisis pregnancy centers” include scientifically flawed data on risk factors.
Additionally, writes Lithwick, legislation has been introduced in 13 states requiring that women have an ultrasound procedure before having an abortion. And measures have been introduced in 17 states which mimics a Nebraska law banning abortion at 20 weeks.
Observes Lithwick:

It hardly bears observing here that most of these measures are against the law. That law is Roe v. Wade. Making abortion illegal after 18 or 20 weeks doesn’t meet the viability test that was laid out in Roe, and 72-hour waiting periods and doing away with health exceptions for the mother would also violate both Roe and its progeny.

So what’s going on? A very gradual chipping away at Roe. Lithwick cites the Rev. Pat Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, who recently said: “We don’t have to see a Roe v. Wade overturned in the Supreme Court to end it. … We want to. But if we chip away and chip away, we’ll find out that Roe really has no impact. And that’s what we are doing.”
Supporters of abortion rights are apparently nervous about challenging these laws, fearing that such a challenge could wind up in the lap of a Supreme Court with different ideas about abortion than it did 38 years ago. So they passivly sit, allowing these state measures to become law.
Lithwick doesn’t like this line of thinking and ends her piece thusly:

Is that what supporters of the right to abortion, not to mention the rule of law, really want? At the very least, let’s put it to the test.

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Idaho governor signs abortion-ban bill into law

Idaho governor signs abortion-ban bill into law

On Wednesday, Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter signed legislation that bans most abortions after 20 weeks into law.

(AP) 04/15/2011

Senator Rubio

Here's the link.... http://www.redstate.com/snarkandboobs/2011/04/14/senator-rubio-says-notion-that-planned-parenthood-funding-must-remain-untouched-is-absurd/

From the other side

Por-life is a choice.... http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/04/13/antichoice-movement-intendedfactual-statement

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Prayer for today.

Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image - as well as theirs - made for eternal life.

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Iowa House bans abortion after 20th week of pregnancy

(Reuters) - The Iowa Senate will consider a bill that bans abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, following approval of the measure by the state House Thursday night, lawmakers said Friday.
State Rep. Mary Ann Hanusa, a Republican, said the bill is a priority because a Nebraska doctor has said he plans to open a clinic in Council Bluffs, Iowa where he would perform so-called "late term" abortions.
"There is a substantial and growing body of medical and scientific evidence that unborn babies at 20 weeks can feel intense pain when they are aborted," Hanusa said during debate Thursday. "At 20 weeks, unborn children have pain receptors throughout their body and nerves link these to the brain."
Iowa is one of 15 states considering a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, citing fetal pain research. The bills are modeled after a Nebraska law passed last year. A Kansas 20-week ban has already passed the state's legislature, and Gov. Sam Brownback is expected to sign it.
The Iowa House bill passed on a 60 to 39 vote.
Iowa's Senate has a Democratic majority of 26-24, but Hanusa said Friday she knew of some Democrats in the Senate who would support it. Four Democrats in the House joined all but three Republicans to support the bill. The Republicans who refused to support it wanted a ban on all abortions.
State Rep. Sharon Steckman, a Democrat who opposed the bill, noted that abortions after 20 weeks are rare and typically done in cases where something was "terribly wrong" with the fetus or the women was in danger. She said the bill only allows an exception if the woman is "pretty much at death door."
"I don't see how people think this is something taken lightly," said Steckman. "I don't think the bill is very well thought out for the woman's safety and health."
"I think the doctor and the woman know what's best in this situation and not a bunch of politicians," said Steckman.
(Reporting by Kay Henderson; Writing and additional reporting by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Greg McCune)

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