A CHALLENGE TO DETTERLING (Before he leaves us sine die on this blog)

 

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Saturday, 16 April 2016

A CHALLENGE TO DETTERLING (Before he leaves us sine die on this blog)

A CHALLENGE TO DETTERLING (Before he leaves us, sine die, on this blog)

Detterling next week deo volente the techno squad on here will ensure that you will be prevented from even reading this blog. Afore ye go let me issue you with this little challenge...

You have been crying the most toe curling awful crocodile tears about what you claim is my plagiarising Clive James. (This was a subject of conversation last night in the Good Yarn and all agreed that even by your previous standards of canting and phoniness this took the biscuit.) Why don't you write to Clive James and find out if he agrees with you? I think you'll find that he regards it as an honour that I have quoted him. I'm sure also that Clive will see a fellow literary soul in my writing.

So, what's stopping you writing then? Oops! Sorry. I forgot. You just don't have the bottle! Silly me!

Clive James: literary soul brother of Gene?

I came out with another corker about you last night in the Good Yarn. You know that at every session we have this little parlour game: Detterling is the sort of man who...

Last night my contribution was:

'Detterling is the sort of man who in church would join in with the 'clap hands' Gloria.'

How we laughed!

YOU NEVER WROTE TO CLIVE JAMES R.I.P. DID YOU DETTERS?

 

DELIA   ... what a delightful derriere!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! No offence Detters. Just my little joke. What larks!

 Many thanks Sir Henry...

Sir Henry26 January 2022 at 06:13

Good afternoon.

I am able to put the suggestion that Mr Vincent is masquerading as me to rest straight away. If you right click on my icon, it should take you to my site, from whence you can click on Sir Henry at Horringer Court - which leads to here; http://horringercourt.blogspot.com/

Kind regards, Sir Henry. 

 SIR HENRY, remember this good lady from West Sussex? A music teacher. Sadly she took her own life after being hounded for three months by The Clique.

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM...

Myrtle Thornbury R.I.P.  victim of The Clique

 

1 comment:

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   Sir Henry25 January 2022 at 02:31

   Good morning Mr.Vincent. How refreshing to revisit your site, given that TES is no more, only to be replaced by the clique forum run by Miss Strange and her fellow Woke warriors. Kind regards, Sir Henry

Great to hear from you Sir Henry. Detterling, who posts on here occasionally, will be very interested to learn that you, his long-term nemesis, have commented on here.

Please send me a link to Ms Strange's blog.

Best wishes,

GENE

 Memorial to Emmanuel Levinas ...  (one of Gene's favourite  philosophers)

Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is honored in a Lithuania still grappling with the Nazi era

The scene of horrific murders of Jews by locals during the Holocaust, Kaunas is at the center of an ongoing controversy over how perpetrators should be treated.

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

 

Published: JANUARY 20, 2022 01:18

 

Updated: JANUARY 20, 2022 01:21

A bicycle path passes on either side of a monument to Holocaust survivors buried in a mass grave in Šiauliai, Lithuania, pictured on Nov. 10, 2021.

(photo credit: Courtesy of Rabbi Kalev Kerlin/JTA)

 

 FURTHERMORE DETTERLING...

(Wherein  Gene scoffs at Detterling.)

Why don't you stand on your own two feet and fight your battles like a man?

Oops! Sorry, I forgot. You can't can you? You are a total bottlejob.

 

Woman Saw Heaven, Hell

January 24, 2022 by sd

Those near-death experiences continue to keep coming (a sign of the times) and continue to inform. They also continue to fascinate.

Most recently, a woman named Charlotte Holmes of Mammoth, Missouri, with whom we spoke the other day.

She “died” or nearly did three years ago — after a visit to her cardiologist’s office, where her blood pressure had spiked to 234 over 134!

She’d had a previous stroke. And now, rushed to a bed at Cox South Hospital in Springfield, she collapsed on the third day and her heart stopped beating for a documented period of: eleven minutes.

“They called a code and they come running in,” she told a Christian network, CBN. “I was above my body. I could see them doing chest compressions. I could see them, all the nurses around. I could smell the most beautiful flowers I’ve ever smelled. And then I heard music. And when I opened my eyes, I knew where I was. I knew I was in Heaven.”

As near-death experiences go, it was as standard as it was astounding.

From “above” her body, Charlotte saw the nurses frantically working on her. One staff member knelt astride of the dying woman on the bed, delivering chest compressions as others administered drugs, adjusted monitors, and called out readings. She saw her husband Dan in a corner of the room. But in an instant, Charlotte was elsewhere.

As the Ozark Times recounted, “A beautiful scene surrounded her, and she saw and heard angels singing amazing music. She felt the wind on her face as the angels fanned their huge wings. And then she saw her parents who had died years ago, and a cousin who’d had a leg amputated, standing at the golden gate on two good legs. Finally, she saw a little boy. She wondered who the toddler standing with her parents was – and then felt God telling her it was the baby she and her husband, Danny, had lost in a miscarriage nearly 40 years ago.”

“I looked around at the beauty,” Holmes told the television network. “I could see the trees, I could see the grass. And everything was swaying with the music, because everything in Heaven worships God.

“I can’t convey to you what Heaven looked like, cause it’s so above what we could even imagine, a million times.”

“The most beautiful, wonderful smell, like nothing I’d ever smelled before.

“I’m a flower person; I love flowers, and there were these flowers that had this fragrance you can’t even imagine,” she told the local paper.

Next, “God took me to a place beyond anything I could ever have imagined,” she said. “I opened my eyes, and I was in awe. There were waterfalls, creeks, hills, gorgeous scenery. And there was the most beautiful music, like angels singing and people singing with them, so soothing. The grass and trees and flowers were swaying in time with the music.”

In an interview, Charlotte added to Spirit Daily, “There’s just so much that you can’t put into words. What I thought Heaven would be it was not — it was just so much more gorgeous and peaceful and beautiful. I thought people would be just walking around in robes. But it’s not like that. Those I saw were in regular clothes. There’s places in Heaven where they are in robes, probably a higher realm, an even holier place. A holy place. It was just so vast — He showed me so much in a short period of time.”

So often do we hear that: how welcoming and ineffable Heaven, or at least stages of the afterlife, are. It was that sense of going home. It was how great those she knew looked — as if everyone, including saints of old, was in his or her thirties (no one overweight or wearing glasses). In their new bodies, she says laconically but unforgettably, “they looked wonderful.” Check out 1 Corinthians 13:12 (“At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.” Many believe Saint Paul may have himself had a near-death brush.)

As a famed evangelist once said, “It’s true that our appearance will change, because God will give us new bodies, similar to Jesus’ resurrection Body. Those bodies will never grow old or tired, nor will they ever experience pain or suffering or death. But we will still know each other. When Jesus was transformed into His heavenly glory before the eyes of some of His disciples, ‘His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light’ (Matthew 17:2).”

And yet, as with Charlotte — who also saw a tremendous light, behind her parents  —  His disciples still were able to recognize Him, as was also the case with Moses and Elijah when, on Tabor, came from Heaven to speak with Him. Angels? They had “iridescent wings.”

Actually, Charlotte was at the “gate” but hadn’t passed through them (once that’s done, it’s said by many, it’s a definitive transition, not just any holding area.)

Fear of death?

That’s gone forever — for Charlotte and virtually everyone else who claims to have glimpsed paradise.

As the Missouri woman witnessed, there‘s also an opposite destination.

And it was “shocking” to witness.

“God took me to the edge of Hell, and I looked down and the smell –rotten flesh,” she recounts. “That’s what it smelled like, and screams. After seeing the beauty of Heaven, the contrast of seeing Hell is almost unbearable. And He says, ‘I show you this to tell you if some of them do not change their ways, this is where they shall reside.'”

There were people in hell she knew, says Charlotte, people she had respected, looked up to, thought (in a worldly way) to be “wonderful.”

I said, ‘This can’t be,’ and He said, ‘It can, if they don’t change their way, for eternity.’ I think He wanted me to tell people, you can’t be on a fence, you can’t have your foot in this world and Heaven. Baptist or Catholic or Assembly of God [which Charlotte was] — He doesn’t care. It’s what you have in your heart. I heard my father say, ‘You have time to go back and share.’”

Some in hell, she claims, “were preachers on TV I’ve seen. Here on earth, so many are just trying to get ahead. But what’s important is not what we accumulate on earth. I just don’t care about material things. You need to stay in your Bible. He said so clearly: ‘Never put your eye on man.’”

Clear enough? The Missouri woman believes there is currently enhanced spiritual warfare because we are approaching the coming of Jesus and both angels (which she still sees) and demons are everywhere — “close to end of time and Satan is really coming against a lot of people,” is the way she puts it.

But Charlotte focuses on the main event:

Her “journey” to Heaven.

“I can look you square in the eye and tell you for sure,” she says, “‘Heaven is real.’ And God loves us so much. His love is so pure. He wants us so much. He told me, ‘Bring home as many as you can.'”

[resources: books on afterlife and Michael Brown retreat, February]

 

 GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS   ...   sorry folks, another delay

                                                                       Granny Barkes

Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworths was scheduled to be published on 1st February 2022. This will now be delayed over copyright complications with regard to Johnny Bluenote's paintings which are to be used in the book.

Johnny Bluenote is a long-term friend of Gene. He is an exceptionally talented painter and photographer. The American abstract artist, Franz Kline, has been a big influence on Johnny Bluenote's work.

Abstract by Franz Kline

GENE

 Now I'm as big a fan of Pope Francis as the next man, but...

 Now I'm as big a fan of Pope Francis as the next man, but I must say that I do miss Pope Benedict XVI.

He told it like it was. He called Muslims warmongers, he described Buddhists as spiritual masturbators. And (I loved this!) he said that the Anglican Church had no legitimacy.

But it was to the arsenokotai  that he was most direct. He told the arsenokotai that homosexual acts were always intrinsically morally evil.

Good old Pope Benedict XVI. POLITICAL CORRECTNESS NEVER MEANT ANYTHING TO HIM.

 The notification that meant the sky falling down on the heads of many TESSERS; Gene and Detterling among them...

TES Community is now closed

You may have noticed that Community has been under maintenance for the past few weeks. This was due to some essential work to ensure that this separate platform was in line with the compliance standards of the rest of Tes.

This work raised several other issues and as a result, we wanted to let you know that Community will not be returning. 

Today, there is a need, greater than ever before, to ensure security, safety, data integrity and reliability. The nature of the Community platform, its set-up, and how it has evolved, has made this a bigger and bigger challenge. Of course, engagement and interaction is still available through our many other channels.

Community has been part of the Tes website for several years. However, we have also seen that as people engage with information differently, fewer and fewer people are using Community. At the same time, we have seen more and more subscribe to other information sources, such as newsletters and websites, or simply engage with us and others through our social media channels. 

Forum platforms like Community also come with justifiable legal and ethical responsibilities. This means that every comment and every subject on Community rightly comes with an expectation for Tes to ensure compliance. Over recent years, this has become increasingly difficult for us to support and so it risks some conversations moving from healthy debate into potentially offensive territory. 

The combination of these factors means it simply isn’t viable to maintain Community going forward. 

We know that there were still a number of people that used this forum on a regular basis, and we hope that through our other channels we can still offer you the opportunity to engage and support each other in the same way.

Of course, although this facility may be closing, it doesn’t mean that we aren’t looking at how we can host this kind of engagement again in the future, using new technology and a fresh approach. 

Thank you for the many conversations.

VAN GOGH'S GOD

As I wound my way through the immersive Beyond Van Gogh exhibit at the Birmingham Jefferson County Civic Center a few days after Christmas, a question kept nagging. What did Vincent see when he gazed at the world? What experiences or ideas lurk behind his swirling skies, his screaming colors, his darkly outlined but often featureless human figures? At times, I thought I caught hints of terror in the desperation of his empty Night Café (1888) and the nightmarish flickering of trees. Vincent was institutionalized more than once. Are his paintings projections of inner turbulence? 

Not according to the painter. In letters, Van Gogh claimed he tried to capture the incandescent beauty of nature, radiant with a glory beyond nature. But even a modestly theological description of Van Gogh’s work will provoke protests. After theological training and a stint ministering among the poor, Vincent turned from the Dutch Calvinism of his parents. He abandoned the church after his pastoral call wasn’t renewed, scorned the religious art of his contemporaries, and almost never painted biblical scenes.

Yet Van Gogh didn’t become a secular artist. In Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art, Debora Silverman describes the aesthetic Christianity of Dutch Romantic Allard Pierson, who encouraged Christian artists to cultivate a “passion for reality.” Because art is “purely materialistic,” Pierson said, the aspiration to ascend “beyond matter” is a fraud. The artist’s vocation is instead to “make us almost see and feel the visible world” as a bearer of “the eternal.” 

Van Gogh’s theorizing echoes Pierson. Though he no longer took the Bible literally, he found inspiration in Scripture’s “lofty ideas.” Christ-haunted, he regarded Jesus as “a greater artist than all other artists” because his medium wasn’t marble, clay, or color, but “living flesh.” Every corner of creation pulses with divinity. “I think sometimes I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning,” he wrote, adding, “All nature seems to speak. . . . I do not understand why everyone does not see and feel it; nature or God does it for everyone who has eyes and ears and a heart to understand.” 

Because material things can mediate the grandeur of the supernatural, painting is free to flirt at the edges of allegory. Vincent rebuked his fellow painter Emile Bernard for failing to discern the layered Christian symbolism of Rembrandt’s Butchered Ox (1655). Visually, the painting is nothing more than a flayed carcass, but it conjures Flemish depictions of the feast of the prodigal son in Jesus’s parable, which in turn pointed to the crucified Christ who offers his flesh as food for prodigal humanity. Van Gogh reminded Bernard that the ox was the traditional symbol of Luke the Evangelist, signifying the artist who must be “as patient as an ox.” 

In his own painting, Van Gogh likewise drew almost imperceptibly on biblical motifs. At the center of his Café Terrace at Night (1888) is a white-robed waiter, standing among eleven guests seated at tables, as a black-clad twelfth figure escapes through a doorway. Behind the waiter is a window, divided into four panes by a cross that the waiter almost seems to bear on his shoulder. It’s been called Van Gogh’s Last Supper, but I suspect Van Gogh was up to something more subtle: Those with eyes to understand discern intimations of the monumental Last Supper every night in perfectly ordinary Paris cafés.

The Sower (1888) achieves its effects in a similarly oblique fashion. Van Gogh admired Jean-Francois Millet’s dark, solid Sower for its “sublime, almost religious emotion,” but aspired to portray the scene with a more vibrant post-Impressionism palette. Vincent knew and quoted Jesus’s parable of the sower, but his sower isn’t the Son of Man, the seed isn’t the word, the birds aren’t demons. Still, the painting intentionally embodies a “longing for the infinite, of which the sower, the sheaf are the symbols.” The top third of the painting is flooded with gold, sunlight filling the sky above and bronzed wheat answering below. The sower strides over the ploughed earth, a patchwork of blues, reds, browns, and whites, tossing yellow seed, which might be morsels of sunshine. Vincent’s paintings of wheat fields and sunflowers show golden seeds matured into a golden crop, as earth becomes luminous with the brightness of heaven.

If The Sower sows with the hope of beginnings, Van Gogh’s reapers bring about endings. Reaping is parabolically the end of the age, but Vincent’s reapers are neither angels nor the grim reapers of medieval illuminations. In Wheat Field with a Reaper (1889), Van Gogh’s harvester nearly disappears in the yellow swirl of the field; he’s dressed in light green (the color of the sky), not black, and his face is fully visible. In this depiction of “a little reaper and a big sun,” the reaper is death as rest, who comes “almost smiling.” All flesh is grass, yes, but this grass is adorned with a glory greater than Solomon’s, and the harvest isn’t a moment of grief but of fulfillment, when the grain, full-grown, is gathered into the barns.

Van Gogh once wrote to his brother Theo of his desire “to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize, and which we seek to convey by the actual radiance and vibration of our coloring.” Van Gogh didn’t reject the supernatural, but naturalized it. What terror there is in his paintings is the sublime terror evoked by the uncanny beauty of what Scripture identifies as the glory of God.

Peter J. Leithart is President of Theopolis Institute.

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 Hooray! for Victoria Gillick!

VICTORIA GILLICK

 Don't hear much of Victoria these days. I thought she was a great campaigner.

 

USA Pro-life vs. Pro-choice states: If Roe falls, what would the abortion landscape look like?

 

 

Green Pro Life

Red Mixed

Blue Pro Choice

 

 

By Jonah McKeown

Washington D.C., Jan 19, 2022 / 14:30 pm

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case which observers believe could present a significant challenge to Roe v. Wade, the court’s 1973 decision which legalized abortion nationwide. 

But even if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, abortions will almost certainly continue in the U.S.— at least in certain states. 

While the nation awaits the court’s ruling— which could come at any time until roughly the end of June— numerous states are taking legislative action to codify abortion rights, while other states are doing the opposite, creating a potential patchwork of abortion laws throughout the country.

What are the trends? Which states are moving in a pro-life direction, and which in a pro-choice direction? Check out the map above and see where your home state falls. 

More detailed information on each state, and links to coverage by CNA and other outlets, is listed below. 

Information is up-to-date as of Jan. 19, 2022. 

Alabama

Alabama has a “trigger law” that would ban almost all abortions if Roe v Wade were to be overturned, as well as a total ban passed in 2019, which is currently blocked in court. 

A group of 23 Republican lawmakers have prefiled a bill (HB 23) that would implement a Texas-style heartbeat abortion ban, enforced by private lawsuits.

Alaska

The Alaska State Supreme Court found a "right to abortion" in 1997. Alaska law requires the "informed consent" of a patient before they have an abortion, meaning that their doctor must discuss with them the physical and emotional risks involved in abortion before they obtain one. Both pro-life and pro-choice advocates in Alaska has discussed the possibility of asking voters in Nov. 2022 to call a constitutional convention, which only happens once every 10 years.

Arizona

Arizona has a ban on abortion that predates Roe v Wade and is currently unenforceable. Arizona also has laws that prohibit abortions done solely because of a nonlethal genetic abnormality, such as Down syndrome. The state also prohibits race and sex-selective abortions.

Arkansas

Trigger law, 20-week ban. 

California

Abortion rights enshrined in law since 1969. California has a parental consent law for minors seeking abortions on the books, but the law is permanently enjoined by court order, meaning minors in California can seek abortions without their parents’ knowledge or permission. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a pair of bills Sept. 22 that relate to privacy surrounding abortion. 

Senate Bill 245, introduced in 2022 by Sen. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach), would put an end to out-of-pocket costs paid by those seeking abortions. The state already requires abortions to be covered by health insurance.

Colorado

No gestational limit- voters rejected a proposed 22-week limit in 2020. 

The Reproductive Health Equity Act is set to be introduced in the Colorado General Assembly in 2022. Its sponsors say the act will ensure every individual has the fundamental right to choose or refuse contraception; every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to choose to continue a pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion; and a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the laws of Colorado.

Connecticut

Abortion protected under state law.

 

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Delaware

Abortion protected under state law.

Florida

Lawmakers in Florida have introduced a 15-week abortion ban for the state, which is currently unenforceable due to Roe v. Wade. 

The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List praised the effort and urged the bill’s passage. 

 “We urge the Florida Legislature to swiftly pass and send to Governor DeSantis’s desk this groundbreaking pro-life legislation that would finally end brutal late-term abortions in the Sunshine State,” said Sue Liebel, SBA List State Policy Director, on Jan. 11. 

 

“Abortions after 15 weeks are gruesome and inhumane for unborn children and increasingly dangerous for the mother with every passing week.”

According to SBA, Florida has the third highest number of late term abortions among states that report them. 

Georgia

Heartbeat ban. Pro-life lawmakers in Georgia are preparing to introduce legislation to prevent the abortion pill from being prescribed through telemedicine and prevent it from being delivered by mail.

Hawaii

Abortion protected under state law.

Idaho

Trigger law; heartbeat law. A conservative policy group in the state has said that passing a Texas-style heartbeat ban is part of their 2022 agenda.

Illinois

Right to abortion is enshrined in state law. The state also recently repealed its requirement that parents be notified about abortions.

Indiana

22-week ban, abortion pill reversal notification law (blocked)

Iowa

Heartbeat ban (unenforceable); State Supreme Court has found a "right to abortion."

Kansas

Abortion is allowed under a state Supreme Court ruling; in Aug. 2022, Kansans will vote on an amendment to the state's constitution to exclude a "right to abortion" and reserve the right to regulate abortion in the state to the legislature.

Kentucky

Trigger law, heartbeat bill. Rep. Nancy Tate, R-Brandenburg, has plans to file a bill banning the receipt of abortion pills by mail.

Louisiana

Trigger law, State constitution excludes right to abortion, heartbeat ban

Maine

Abortion protected under state law.

Maryland

Abortion protected under state law since 1992. Montgomery County Del. Ariana Kelly (D), a former executive director at NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland, has said that she will be introducing legislation to expand abortion access in the state.

Massachusetts

State Supreme Court has found a "right to abortion." A bill currently in the state's Joint Committee on Public Health would force public universities to provide medication abortion services at student health centers.

Michigan

Abortion advocacy groups in Michigan have launched a ballot initiative to override a state abortion ban— which is currently unenforced— by way of a constitutional amendment. The state’s Catholic Conference said the effort shows the power of the abortion industry in influencing state policy. 

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan are two of the organizations sponsoring the ballot drive. Organizers of the ballot initiative need about 425,000 valid voter signatures to put it before the electorate in November, the AP reports. 

Michigan is one of several states with an abortion law on the books which is currently unenforceable due to Roe v. Wade. A 1931 Michigan state law makes it a felony for anyone to provide an abortion unless "necessary to preserve the life of such woman." 

“More than anything, women considering an abortion deserve support, love, and compassion. For decades, abortion has been touted as the only option, harmless and easy, yet we know this is a lie. Abortion hurts women,” Rebecca Mastee, Policy Advocate for the Michigan Catholic Conference, said Jan. 7.

“Today’s news that some are looking to enshrine abortion in the state constitution is a sad commentary on the outsized and harmful role the abortion industry plays in our politics and our society. We look forward to standing with women through a potential statewide ballot campaign to promote a culture of life and good health for both moms and unborn children.”

Minnesota

State Supreme Court has found a "right to abortion."

Mississippi

Pre-Roe ban, Trigger law, dilation and evacuation abortion ban, heartbeat law. Mississippi's 15-week ban is currently being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Missouri

Trigger law, Eight-week ban (currently blocked by courts). 

House Bill 1854, introduced Jan. 2022, would defund Planned Parenthood. State Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, R-Arnold, in 2022 introduced a Texas-style heartbeat ban.

Montana

State Supreme Court has found a "right to abortion." Abortion restricted after viability; other restrictions, such as requirement that only doctors perform abortions, are enjoined by court order. 

Nebraska

Six-week ban currently under consideration. State also has dilation and evacuation abortion ban. Six week abortion ban has been introduced. 

Nevada

Right to abortion enshrined in state law since 1990. 

New Hampshire

New 24-week limit took effect in 2022. For this year, legislation has been introduced to repeal the state's 24-week limit and ultrasound mandate; a bill to protect the conscience rights of healthcare workers who object to abortion, sterilization, or artificial contraception; a bill to allow biological father to seek a court injunction to stop a mother having an abortion; and a heartbeat ban.

New Jersey

Bill S49/A6260, which was introduced Jan. 6, codifies a “fundamental right to reproductive autonomy, which includes the right to contraception, the right to terminate a pregnancy, and the right to carry a pregnancy to term.” 

A “right to abortion” already existed in New Jersey because of state Supreme Court rulings. Proponents of the bill say the legislation is necessary to protect abortion in the state if Roe v. Wade were overturned. 

The bill passed by both houses of the New Jersey state legislature the afternoon of Jan. 10 was vigorously opposed by the state’s Catholic conference. Gov. Phil Murphy signed the bill into law Jan. 13. 

New Mexico

1969 abortion ban repealed in 2021.

New York

The 2019 Reproductive Health Act eliminated restrictions on abortion until the moment of birth in cases deemed necessary for the mother’s "life and health."

North Carolina

20-week ban. Heartbeat bill introduced. 

North Dakota

Trigger law, heartbeat bill. Republican Sen. Janne Myrdal has said she wants to pass a Texas-style heartbeat ban.

Ohio

Heatbeat ban. Texas-style heartbeat ban introduced in late 2021.

Oklahoma

Pre-Roe ban, Trigger law, Heartbeat ban. A Republican lawmaker, Oklahoma State Rep. Sean Roberts, has announced plans to introduce a law modeled after the Texas abortion ban.

Oregon

Abortion fully protected under state law.

Pennsylvania

24-week-limit; abortion not explicitly protected under state law.

Rhode Island

Abortion protected under state law. The Equality in Abortion Coverage Act seeks to repeal a law prohibiting insurance coverage for state employees and Medicaid recipients seeking abortions.

South Carolina

Heartbeat ban. Introduced in 2022, House Bill 4568 and its counterpart Senate Bill 907 would require “the disclosure of medical information" about abortion pill reversal. Other legislative efforts are underway to make adoption easier and less expensive in the state. 

South Dakota

Trigger law. Governor Kristi Noem said in Jan. 2022 that she will be introducing a heartbeat ban for the state, as well as introducing legislation to ban telemedicine abortions in South Dakota. 

Tennessee

Trigger law, heartbeat ban, State constitution bars protection.

Texas

Pre-Roe ban, Trigger law, Heartbeat ban (currently enforced through private lawsuits).

Utah

Trigger law as well as numerous other current restrictions on abortion such as a waiting period.

Vermont

Abortion protected under state law. The Vermont House of Representatives is due to begin debate on an amendment to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution, which would require voter approval in the fall.

West Virginia

Abortion not explicitly protected under state law. Several abortion expansions enacted in 2021, including the allowing of abortion coverage to be included without limits in health plans on the state exchange, meaning that taxpayers would be funding abortions under the law. 

Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin has suggested he may be open to a 20-week ban.

Washington

Abortion protected under state law.

Pre-Roe ban, dilation and evacuation abortion ban, State constitution bars protection. West Virginia's House Bill 4004 would ban most abortions after 15 weeks.

Wisconsin

Pre-Roe ban, but Wisconsin’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has said he will not enforce a ban on abortions if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

Wyoming

Restricts abortion after viability - abortion not protected under state law. Some have speculated that Republican lawmakers may introduce a Texas-style heartbeat ban.

Washington, DC

Abortion fully protected under law.