US Opponents of Mississippi Pro-Life Law Have More in Common with China and N. Korea Than Europe cbn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(Getty Images) Mississippi’s common-sense limits on late-term abortion are well within the mainstream of American popular opinion and clearly within the mainstream of European political opinion, he said.
In the study, Nguyen looked at the abortion laws in 50 European countries, independent states, and semi-autonomous regions with populations exceeding 1 million.
Among those states, 42 permit abortion without restriction as to reason, otherwise known as elective abortion or abortion on demand. Eight of the states, including Great Britain and Finland, require a reason for the abortion.
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For the 42 states with elective abortion, 39 limit elective abortion to 15 weeks’ gestation or earlier, according to the report. The majority of these 39 states limit elective abortion at 12 weeks or earlier.
Most European Countries Limit Elective Abortion to Before 15 Weeks, Like Mississippi's Law Now Before SCOTUS cnsnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnsnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Alexis McGill Johnson / screenshot from Planned Parenthood video
Planned Parenthood has a founder problem. Margaret Sanger was a racist and a eugenicist. This is by no means news critics of Planned Parenthood have been needling the organisation over her noxious ideas for decades. Finally, under the pressure of the anti-racist movement, Planned Parenthood has cracked.
An astonishing
New York Times, by Alexis McGill Johnson, the new president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, appeared under the headline “I’m the Head of Planned Parenthood. We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder.” She writes:
Up until now, Planned Parenthood has failed to own the impact of our founder’s actions. We have defended Sanger as a protector of bodily autonomy and self-determination, while excusing her association with white supremacist groups and eugenics as an unfortunate “product of her time.”