The Texas state legislature return to the statehouse to again take up a controversial bill that would place stringent restrictions on abortion services in the state.
A Georgia state senate committee has voted in favor of a so-called "fetal pain" bill, a measure that would narrow the legal window during which women can legally obtain an abortion by six weeks. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, House Bill 954 would "tighten medical exemptions for terminating pregnancies and require any abortion performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy be done in a way to bring the fetus out alive."
Taking a page from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", anti-abortion forces from Ohio enlisted 50 school-age children on Tuesday and an equal number of slightly creepy teddy bears in their effort to convince the state Senate to pass a so-called fetal heartbeat bill. The bears, advocates said, played a short audio clip of a supposed 18-week-old fetus' heart when pressed.
