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Alexandra Snyder Life Legal is assisting in two cases of medical malpractice against notorious late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart and his associates. In both cases, the women found Carhart through his website, abortionclinics.org, which boasts of “specializing in 2nd and 3rd trimester abortion care.” Carhart, who is over 80 years old, operates two abortion mills—one in …

Gosnell Award: Prominent Abortionist Works Hard to Prove “Legal” Is Far from Safe Read More »

Katie Short As this issue of Lifeline went to print, we were still awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court in Jackson Women’s Health Organization v. Dobbs, the Supreme Court case that could curtail or overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The decision will allow states much greater leeway in passing laws …

Red State Roes Read More »

Allison Aranda You may recall in 2020 Life Legal brought your attention to the increasing number of cities enacting bubble zones outside of abortion clinics. These zones are designed to silence and intimidate pro-life sidewalk counselors. What the abortion cartel did not anticipate was that the peaceful, courageous sidewalk counselors would not back down! In …

Abortion Advocates Turn to Criminal Harassment and Violence as the Fate of Roe Hangs in the Balance Read More »

Sadie Daniels In 1973 the Supreme Court of the United States handed down the now infamous Roe v. Wade decision which invalidated laws restricting abortion in all 50 states. In Roe, the Court adopted a trimester framework for balancing what it saw as the competing interests of the state in protecting the life of the …

Dobbs: How Did We Get Here? Read More »

Catherine Short On December 1, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case challenging a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation. Adhering to the Supreme Court decisions of Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the district court in Mississippi and the Fifth Circuit had struck down the …

Dobbs v. JWHO and the Unworkability of Viability Read More »

Life Legal Advisory Board Member Raymond (Ray) Dennehy passed away on April 19, 2021, at the age of 86. Ray was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco for 41 years. He was an articulate champion for the lives of unborn children and was invited to the University of California, Berkeley, for …

IN MEMORIAM: Ray Dennehy (1934–2021) Read More »

I grew up in the red state of Indiana, home to the Nation’s largest annual right to life banquet. Living in California for five years during the 2016 campaign cycle and through Trump’s presidency was a vastly different experience on the pro-life front. While Indiana’s State Legislature actively passed safety reforms,1 safeguards to stop sex …

The Danger of Being Carol Everett: How the State of Texas is Putting a Pro-Life Organization Out of Business Read More »

Caroline* called us after her mother’s care was taken over by a court-appointed guardian. The guardian does not know the family and has never visited the woman—yet she has the power to liquidate the woman’s assets, enter into contracts on her behalf, determine where she will live, and make life and death decisions about her …

Guardians of What? Premature Death? Read More »

Last July Life Legal filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, urging it to take up a case involving Mississippi’s ban on abortions after fifteen week’s gestation: Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This May, the Court announced it would hear the case. Dobbs is the first, and only, Supreme Court case since Roe …

Supreme Court Takes Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Read More »