TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor on Friday vetoed a bill aimed at ensuring that child support payments cover fetuses, a measure critics saw as a move by anti-abortion groups toward giving them the same rights as the mothers-to-be carrying them. The measure scuttled by Gov. Laura Kelly was similar to a Georgia law […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — A Florida Republican senator this week said she has sidelined a bill that seeks to add fetuses to wrongful death lawsuits amid ongoing concern from Democrats that the legislation was an attempt to grant personhood to fetuses. Lawmakers expected to hear the bill, SB 476, in the Senate committee on Rules on […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S. Lawmakers in at least six states have […]
The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating the source of a package containing two preserved fetuses in glass jars sent to the city’s medical and science Mütter Museum. The museum staff reported receiving the package Tuesday morning, police said in a statement. The package was addressed to the museum curator with no return address and contained […]