Forty-One Senators Say 'No' to Protecting Abortion Survivors
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late Tuesday, 41 U.S. Senators voted to block the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act from being brought to a final vote on the Senate floor. In a 56-41 vote, the bill failed to receive the needed three-fifths majority, or 60 senators, to overcome a Democrat-led filibuster. This leaves open loopholes that allow medical staff to abuse and kill newborn babies in 35 states, with zero fear of legal consequences. Four more votes would have overcome the filibuster, which would have allowed a vote on the bill that would have easily passed. But, 41 Senators did not want to allow the up or down vote on this bill that bans infanticide.- Wednesday, February 26, 2020
PENSACOLA, FL – A federal Court of Appeals ruled that the World War II-era 78-year-old Bayview Cross in Pensacola, Florida, does not violate the U.S. Constitution and will remain standing. The appeals court noted it has become “embedded in the fabric of the Pensacola community” and that removing it could “strike many as aggressively hostile to religion.”
MYRTLE BEACH, SC -- United Parcel Services (UPS) has discriminated against employees’ religious freedom for voluntarily praying together before work. Several drivers also have been fired.
Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to UPS stating that drivers’ prayer meetings must be allowed again, and the drivers who have been fired must be reinstated.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Education announced a proposed rule that will provide guidance on legal protections for prayer and other religious expression in public schools. The purpose of this updated guidance is to provide information on the current state of the law and to clarify the extent to which prayer in public schools is legally protected.
INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI -- A property management company of a 55 and older housing development in Missouri has banned residents from decorating their duplexes with outside Christmas lights and yard decorations.
Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to the MACO Management Company on behalf of residents at Grandview Estates, a HUD-subsidized residential complex. MACO Management has prohibited residents from decorating their duplexes with outside Christmas decorations, including lights and yard decorations. Nothing in the lease agreement or regulations supports such a ban and residents have previously displayed Christmas lights and yard decorations for many years.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court said it would not hear a challenge to a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform an ultrasound and show the image of the unborn baby to the pregnant woman as she listens to the fetal heartbeat, prior to her decision whether to have an abortion or choose life.
The High Court’s action rejected a challenge to HB 2, known as “The Ultrasound Informed Consent Act,” which was challenged in EMW Women’s Surgical Center v. Meier by the only licensed abortion center in the state and three doctors who work there.
