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A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania lawmakers has sponsored a bill that would ban abortions in the state based on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill that bans abortions sought for a diagnosis of a genetic disability such as Down syndrome.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a fetal heartbeat bill into law Tuesdday that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed three pieces of pro-life legislation Monday, stating he wants to be “the most pro-life governor.”

A new Utah law that will require biological fathers to pay for half of a woman’s pregnancy costs will take effect May 5.

The Texas Senate has passed seven pro-life bills this week, including a “heartbeat” measure and one that would ban elective abortions entirely should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.

Texas lawmakers this week advanced seven pro-life bills out of committee and into the full Senate chamber for hearings.

The South Carolina House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Republican-led legislatures have not been wasting any time introducing and passing pro-life legislation in their states.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) led a letter Friday with 47 other pro-life senators to pledge to Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) they will be unified in blocking any bill that undermines pro-life protections, including one that would attempt to repeal the Hyde Amendment.

On Thursday Senate Republicans introduced a measure that would ban organizations from the use of taxpayer funds to promote or refer girls and women for abortions abroad.

Planned Parenthood facilities in Texas will no longer receive taxpayer funds through the Medicaid program beginning February 3.

Republican-led states, such as Utah, are pushing for legislation that seeks to protect pregnant women and their unborn babies.

A federal appeals court ruled against Arkansas bans on late-term abortions and those based on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

The Satanic Temple announced it has posted billboards in Texas and Florida to promote what it calls its “religious abortion ritual.”

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) condemned the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett as “an attack on the Affordable Care Act” and “reproductive rights,” aka, abortion.

President Donald Trump has achieved more pro-life accomplishments than any modern United States president.

Gov. Tate Reeves (R) of Mississippi signed a bill into law Wednesday that bans abortions based on sex, race, or disability.

Louisiana Sen. Katrina Jackson said the abortion safety law blocked by the Supreme Court amounts to “unelected justices” overriding the people’s will.

A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against a Missouri abortion law filed by a member of the Satanic Temple.

Pro-life leaders praised Trump for rejecting coronavirus bill proposals that would force American taxpayers to fund abortion.

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.

A video shows Alabama Democrat Sen. Doug Jones calling a query into his anticipated vote on a late-term abortion ban a “stupid question.”

The desperation of the abortion industry and the politicians whose campaigns it funds was on full display as the House voted Thursday to remove the decades-old deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to schedule consecutive votes this month on two pieces of pro-life legislation.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) is leading 17 states in an amicus brief before the Supreme Court to support an Indiana abortion law that requires parental notification.

BuzzFeed News spelled out that abortion is still as controversial as it was in 1973 when the Supreme Court invented a right to the procedure.

Pennsylvania Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf tweeted his intention to veto “any” pro-life legislation that is passed in the state’s legislature.

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said he “will continue to defend pro-life laws in Kentucky, no matter the fight the ACLU, Planned Parenthood…bring.”

Christian evangelist Rev. Franklin Graham said progressive leaders in San Francisco who have banned travel for city employees to states that have enacted abortion restrictions “want everyone to swallow the lie that abortion is a woman’s right.”

A federal appeals court panel affirmed a lower court’s ruling that blocked Ohio’s law banning abortions performed because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

A federal judge temporarily blocked Georgia’s abortion law that bans the procedure once a fetal heartbeat can be detected at about six or seven weeks of pregnancy.

A group of Republican senators introduced legislation Friday that would ensure dignified burials for aborted babies.

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (LA) and his colleagues announced a hearing on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, legislation that would protect babies born alive after abortion from infanticide.

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin ceremonially signed into law four pieces of pro-life legislation as an appeals court heard a challenge brought by the ACLU regarding a state abortion safety law.

Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Missouri over the state’s law that bans abortion past the eighth week of pregnancy.