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Texas bans abortions under “heartbeat” bill, executes man on same day Texas Governor Gregg Abbott signed a reactionary “heartbeat” abortion ban into law on Wednesday de-facto banning abortions, on the very same day that Quintin Jones was executed following a rejection by the Texas parole board to spare his life and Abbott’s decision to ignore Jones’s plea for clemency. The Republican governor’s actions mark a definite escalation of the assault on democratic rights in the United St...

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone joins Fox & Friends to discuss his letter on excluding Catholics who support abortion from Holy Communion. On Mother’s Day this year I want to thank my mother for the most precious gift: My life.   She gifted me with my life, even though at first she was uncertain about it, and even though she had to change the plans she had made for herself and her future.  My mom, Naomi Barber, was courting my dad, Rev. A.D. King, in 1950. She was a freshman at Spellma...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dr. Michael Cackovic has treated his share of pregnant women. So when Republican lawmakers across the U.S. began passing bans on abortion at what they term “the first detectable fetal heartbeat,” he was exasperated. Thats because at the point where advanced technology can detect that first flutter, as early as six weeks, the embryo isn’t yet a fetus and it doesn’t have a heart....

Biden to the nation: Were turning peril into possibility

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dr. Michael Cackovic has treated his share of pregnant women. So when Republican lawmakers across the U.S. began passing bans on abortion at what they term “the first detectable fetal heartbeat,” he was exasperated. Thats because at the point where advanced technology can detect that first flutter, as early as six weeks, the embryo isn’t yet a fetus and it doesn’t have a heart....

‘Fetal heartbeat’ in abortion laws taps emotion, not science NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dr. Michael Cackovic has treated his share of pregnant women. So when Republican lawmakers across the U.S. began passing bans on abortion at what they term “the first detectable fetal heartbeat,” he was exasperated. That’s because at the point where advanced technology can detect that first flutter, as early as six weeks, the embryo isn’t yet a fetus and it doesn’t have a heart. An embryo is ter...

CITY OF AKRON Summit County announced a series of pop-up vaccine clinics in addition to its site at the county fairgrounds. Included is Mondays pop-up site at the Firestone Community Center in Akron. Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, April 29: Summit County offers pop-up vaccine clinics Columbus mayor requests federal probe of police force Kent State to offer vaccines at campus health center Officer pleads not guilty to new charge in Andre Hill case Fetal heartbeat in abortion law...

Yet bans pegged to the “fetal heartbeat” concept have been signed into law in 13 states, including Cackovic’s home state of Ohio. None has taken effect, with all but the most recently enacted being struck down or temporarily blocked by the courts. Now, one of the most restrictive, signed by Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee last year, goes before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday. Proponents of these so-called “heartbeat bills” are hoping for a legal challenge to ...

Yet bans pegged to the “fetal heartbeat” concept have been signed into law in 13 states, including Cackovic’s home state of Ohio. None has taken effect, with all but the most recently enacted being struck down or temporarily blocked by the courts. Now, one of the most restrictive, signed by Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee last year, goes before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday. Proponents of these so-called “heartbeat bills” are hoping for a legal challenge to ...