A federal judge barred Illinois state officials from enforcing the state's assisted suicide law against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, a Catholic pharmacist, and groups of Roman Catholic nuns while litigation continues. The plaintiffs argue that the laws violate their religious beliefs, constitutional protections, and other legal provisions, and the court order prevents enforcement of specific provisions requiring healthcare providers to inform patients about assisted suicide and to refer patients to willing providers.
Two women have filed a federal lawsuit against Planned Parenthood affiliates, alleging they were pressured into unwanted abortions at Minnesota abortion facilities in 2020 and 2021 and that the abortions violated their constitutional rights. The 80-page proposed class-action complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. It seeks to represent […] The post Women Sue Planned Parenthood for Pressuring Them to Have Abortions appeared first on LifeNews.com .
McKenna West, a surrogate who refused to have an abortion at the request of the biological parents, filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme Court to block a California court order that recognizes Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar as the infant's legal parents and allows them to move the newborn out of Texas. West, dismissed from the Texas court case and seeking custody or conservatorship, argues the judgment violated federal due process and fears the couple will not provide life-saving care for the baby, who was born with a serious heart defect and remains hospitalized in Dallas.
McKenna West, a surrogate who refused to abort a baby diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, has filed an updated brief with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking an administrative stay to prevent the baby from being moved out of Texas.
Deep-blue states struggle in court to compel religious professionals to spout progressive orthodoxy, and federal appeals court set to rule in similar challenge by pro-life pregnancy centers. U.K. diverges from Canada's approach's
Surrogate mother McKenna West has filed an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a California court order that recognizes the California couple who hired her as the legal parents of the child born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). West argues for custody or conservatorship, claiming she does not trust the couple to provide life-saving care and alleges they demanded she abort the baby, while the couple has obtained a restraining order barring her from seeing the child and is suing her for breach of the surrogacy agreement.
The Catholic objectors will be shielded from the law while a federal lawsuit plays out against the state policy. The post Court says Chicago Archdiocese, Catholic sisters won’t have to submit to state suicide law appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
The Supreme Court let Texas ban abortion the instant doctors detect a heartbeat. Now pro-abortion activists insist that same heartbeat is just noise from a machine. Turns out obstetricians have used that...
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing Illinois from enforcing its new euthanasia law on Carmelite nuns and the Little Sisters of the Poor. The legal challenge involves Catholic leaders and healthcare institutions arguing that the law threatens their religious identity by requiring participation in assisted suicide and restricting speech about it.
The Idaho Supreme Court approved the final ballot language for a referendum to legalize abortion, which explains the proposal's effects despite objections from pro-abortion activists. The initiative, called the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, would create a right to abortion before fetal viability and in medical emergencies after viability, while a 'no' vote would maintain Idaho's current restrictive abortion laws with exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.
Five national or statewide religious health care associations and two individual plaintiffs have joined a federal lawsuit filed by Thomas More Society challenging Illinois' assisted suicide law just two days before it takes effect. The lawsuit argues that the law violates constitutional rights by forcing healthcare professionals and entities to promote assisted suicide against their conscience and faith, and the plaintiffs seek to extend emergency protections previously granted to original plaintiffs.
The Indiana Supreme Court heard arguments regarding whether abortion is protected under the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, following a challenge by the ACLU against Indiana's abortion ban based on plaintiffs' asserted religious beliefs. The state attorney general's office urged dismissal of the case, arguing the plaintiffs lack standing as they have not been pregnant or sought abortions, while the ACLU contends the law forces women to alter their behavior to avoid pregnancy or face legal challenges.
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to overturn Wisconsin's pro-life laws: a 24-hour waiting period and a stipulation that only physicians can commit abortions.
VA's Court of Appeals will hear the appeal in a lawsuit about the state’s proposed pro-abortion amendment instead of sending it to the state supreme court.
Illinois threatened to punish Catholic nuns simply for telling a dying patient not to kill herself. A federal judge shut that threat down less than a day before the law was...
Planned Parenthood is suing Wisconsin to let non-doctors perform abortions. The judge who might decide the case used to work for Planned Parenthood herself. Now that same court could decide whether unborn...
The Indiana Supreme Court heard arguments on a religious-freedom challenge to abortion restrictions in the state. The case involves plaintiffs' claims and the history of injunctions that prompted the state's appeal.
Cooke describes two British couples facing the destruction of stored embryos after sperm donors withdrew consent. She discusses their calls for legal change and frames the dispute around the moral status of embryos.
A federal judge on September 11 issued a temporary restraining order blocking Illinois from enforcing its physician-assisted suicide law against Catholic entities, including Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, two orders of Catholic women religious, and an Illinois pharmacist, who argued the law would force them to facilitate assisted suicides in violation of their faith.
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on September 11 blocking Illinois from enforcing its physician-assisted suicide law against Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, two orders of Catholic women religious, and an Illinois pharmacist who challenged the law in court.
Surrogate McKenna West, who fled to Texas after refusing to abort a child diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, has filed an emergency application asking the Supreme Court to block a California court order recognizing the biological parents as the legal parents. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in the custody battle, and a Texas judge ordered life-saving care for the child and prohibited removal from the state, but West was dismissed from the case and now seeks to participate in medical decisions and prevent the child from being moved to California for hospice care.
A federal judge issued a temporary order blocking Illinois from enforcing its assisted suicide law against the Archdiocese of Chicago and two Catholic religious sister groups while a federal lawsuit proceeds. The lawsuit argues that the law infringes on religious liberty by compelling Catholic healthcare providers to participate in assisted suicide, and similar lawsuits have been filed by other Catholic healthcare organizations and professionals in Illinois.
Flanders reports on an indictment alleging that a Kentucky man replaced his pregnant girlfriend's medication with an abortion drug without her knowledge. She summarizes the reported evidence and places the allegation alongside other cases of coerced or nonconsensual abortion.
Cooke reports that a federal judge temporarily blocked Illinois assisted-suicide legislation following a challenge by religious plaintiffs. She distinguishes that action from a separate disability-rights lawsuit and outlines the law's scheduled implementation.
Thomas More Society announces additional organizational and individual plaintiffs in its challenge to Illinois’s assisted-suicide law. The release seeks expanded protection for healthcare professionals who object to informing, referring, or participating on religious and conscience grounds.
A federal judge denied a request from disability rights advocates to block the Illinois assisted suicide law from going into effect on September 12, 2026, rejecting arguments that the law violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other protections. The judge noted that one plaintiff, a quadriplegic woman, did not demonstrate harm under the law and questioned the standing of the plaintiffs, while giving them 30 days to appeal the decision.
Sielicki reports that the Idaho Supreme Court approved descriptive language for an abortion-related ballot proposition. She outlines the initiative's potential effect on existing restrictions and the court's rejection of objections to the wording.
Disability rights organizations petitioned a federal judge to block the Illinois assisted suicide law scheduled to take effect on September 12, 2026, arguing it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and discriminates against disabled people due to potential physician bias and coercion. Additionally, Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich and two orders of Catholic nuns filed a lawsuit claiming the law infringes on constitutional protections for free speech and religious freedom, while a judge is expected to decide on the law's legality before its implementation date.
