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(SRN NEWS)-( ) Lawmakers in pro-life states are focusing on measures intended to crack down on abortion pills. The governor of South Dakota signed such a bill this month and lawmakers in Mississippi appear close to finalizing one. The emphasis comes as a new survey suggests that getting pills through telehealth has passed traveling to other states as the most common way for women in pro-life states to obtain abortions. A Guttmacher study finds that in 2025, for the first time, more women in the 13 states that ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy obtained pills through telehealth than traveled to other states for abortion.
( ) Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion clinic doctor sentenced to life in prison for killing three babies who had been born alive, has died at the age of 85. Gosnell’s grimy West Philadelphia clinic became known as the “house of horrors.” Former employees testified that he routinely performed illegal abortions past Pennsylvania’s 24-week limit. In the scandal’s aftermath, two top state health officials were fired. The Department of Corrections says Gosnell died at a hospital outside the prison system. He had most recently been incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution-Smithfield, about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh.
( ) California lawmakers are considering a bill that would establish buffer-zones around houses of worship, designed to keep protesters at a distance. The legislation would establish a 100-foot zone around any church, synagogue or mosque and would bar protesters from approaching members of the congregation except with consent. The legislation, which has the support of 40 California Jewish groups, has been prompted by pro-Palestinian demonstrations outside synagogues. However, the invasion of a church in Minnesota by protesters opposed to President Trump’s immigration policies likely influenced the bill as well.
( ) A new poll charts the relationship between faith and education in this country. It comes from the Pew Research Center and it reveals that the religious communities whose members are most likely to have at least a bachelor’s degree are Hindus. Pew finds that 70 percent of them have a B.A. or more, followed by Jews at 65 percent. The survey also reveals that 44 percent of Muslims have a degree as do 40 percent of Mainline Protestants. Meanwhile, less than one-third of Evangelical Protestants have a bachelors along with less than one-quarter of Black Protestants.
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