by ICE PAC Staff | Sep 7, 2011 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
A set of temporary regulations for abortion clinics in Kansas received a public hearing today – the next step toward making them permanent. Under a law passed this summer, all hospitals, doctors’ offices and clinics performing five or more surgical...
by ICE PAC Staff | Sep 6, 2011 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
Nebraska lawmakers passed a law banning abortions in which a patient communicates via webcam with an abortionist, who may be in another town or city. Simply put, the doctor asks the patient a few questions and then presses a button, which activates a drawer that opens...
by ICE PAC Staff | Sep 2, 2011 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
An appeals court today upheld much of a South Dakota law setting out what a pregnant woman should be told 24 hours before an abortion, including that the procedure would “terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.” The 8th Circuit...
by ICE PAC Staff | Sep 2, 2011 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
A lawsuit was filed Wednesday in an Idaho-based federal court challenging the constitutionality of an abortion ban that the state instituted earlier this year. The restriction bars abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy on the basis that at that stage the fetus can feel...
by Eleanore Strong | Aug 31, 2011 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
Earlier this year, Kansas legislators approved a new budget that transferred taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood to family planning groups that don’t provide abortions. This week, a federal judge ruled the state has to fund the group – whether it...
by Eleanore Strong | Aug 31, 2011 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, Parental Rights, State Abortion Policy
Tomorrow, two new laws affecting abortion will take effect in Nebraska. One requires girls 17 and under to obtain written, notarized consent from a parent before having an abortion, and the other prevents doctors from prescribing and opening containers of...
