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Republicans in the Florida House and Senate filed similar bills on Tuesday that would restrict abortion after six weeks of pregnancy — around the time when a baby’s heartbeat can first be detected.

The court tossed out challenges to three pro-life laws, ruling that the state constitution does not guarantee a right to an abortion. 

Hungary’s abortion law is being amended so that doctors must show expectant mothers the heartbeat of their unborn child before a termination decision is made, to ensure informed consent.

A GOP-led committee in S.D. declined to take up Gov. Noem’s abortion bill, citing it might harm ongoing legal battles to ban the procedure.

Planned Parenthood reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to block a new Texas law that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected by claiming the Lone Star State is “forcing people to stay pregnant.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tweeted Wednesday that the Texas ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected is a “catastrophe to women” in the state.

Texas has become the first state in the nation to enact a “Heartbeat” abortion law, which bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.

Texas abortion providers filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to block the new Texas Heartbeat Act from taking effect on September 1.

A commissioner of Manatee County, Florida, received unanimous approval from his colleagues on the board to move ahead with a plan to explore a local county “heartbeat” abortion ordinance, even though such a ban would be more restrictive than the state’s current abortion law.

A federal appeals court has upheld a block on Mississippi’s “heartbeat” abortion law that prohibits the procedure once an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected at about the sixth week of pregnancy.

Acting president of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson says her organization has been the victim of politicization.

A federal judge in Ohio has issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the state’s “heartbeat” law from going into effect.

A WSJ/NBC poll found “record high majority” support for abortion in America, though it limited its respondents to only “four broad options.”

Disney and Sony are among the film industry companies that donated to the re-election campaign of Louisiana Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards in the wake of the governor’s trip to Los Angeles last fall to meet with Hollywood film executives.

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said she had a “really solid meeting” with film industry executives this week urging them not to boycott the state over its law restricting abortions when a heartbeat is detected.

Business leaders from over 180 companies have endorsed an ad in which they condemn pro-life laws and call them “bad for business.”

Louisiana Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a bill into law Thursday that prohibits abortions in the state once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually at the sixth or seventh week of pregnancy.

A judge has blocked a Mississippi law that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at the sixth or seventh week of pregnancy.

Comedian D.L. Hughley on Tuesday joined the chorus of left-wing Hollywood celebrities lashing out about the rising pro-life movement in America, saying that the same states enacting anti-abortion legislation have historically sanctioned the raping of slaves.

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said last Thursday that he is “deeply disappointed” by the recent passage of strict anti-abortion laws in several U.S. states. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) bizarrely claimed Thursday there would be as many Planned Parenthood clinics as post offices in the United States if male lawmakers could get pregnant.

In a rare display of political activism, actress Reese Witherspoon took to social media on Wednesday and blasted the half-dozen states that have passed legislation outlawing abortion once a heartbeat is detected in the womb.

2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) argued Wednesday that “too many” male lawmakers are driving anti-abortion legislation nationwide as the country faces what she described as an “all-out assault on women’s constitutional rights” aimed at overturning Roe v. Wade.

Georgia’s new Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act prohibits abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, but it will not imprison women who have abortions or miscarriages.

A group of women in Georgia’s film industry launched an effort to oppose the boycott on their jobs pushed by abortion extremists in Hollywood

Actress and left-wing activist Alyssa Milano doubled down on her calls for a sex strike and falsely claimed Tuesday that residents of states with pro-life “heartbeat” laws could be imprisoned for receiving an abortion.

“Good Place” actress Jameela Jamil slammed Georgia’s recently signed abortion law, describing it as “inhumane” and revealing that terminating her pregnancy was the “best decision” she has ever made. 

Appearing Monday on Fox & Friends, actor and producer Dean Cain ripped the Hollywood left’s reaction to Georgia’s “Heartbeat” law, saying left-wing celebrities “pretending to be the bastion of moral superiority is an absolute joke.”

Left-wing actress and singer Bette Midler called on Georgia’s women to “stop having sex with men” in response to the Peach State’s passage of a “Heartbeat” bill that bans most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Hollywood producers J.J. Abrams and Jordon Peele will still be filming their upcoming HBO horror series in the State of Georgia.

Three film industry companies thus far say they will no longer shoot in Georgia unless the state’s new “Heartbeat” abortion law is repealed.

A black Ohio state representative proposed an amendment to the state’s “Heartbeat” abortion ban that would have exempted black women from the law because their “history includes rape and forced birth imposed on enslaved women and black women after slavery.”

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law Thursday that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) called the Georgia bill that would ban abortions after an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected a “forced pregnancy bill” that would put women’s lives in danger. Abrams said, “It’s

In his opinion, Huppert wrote the heartbeat law’s “narrow amount of time afforded [to] women” to have an abortion was not consistent with a “fundamental right,” as the state Supreme Court ruled.

CNN chief Jeff Zucker announced Thursday that he is taking a six-week leave to have heart surgery, Variety reports.