South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed into law a 20-week abortion ban Thursday, making it the 13th state to pass similar legislation since 2010. The bill’s passage has added impetus to the call for a nationwide 20-week abortion ban.

Author Jerry Bridges died Sunday after suffering a heart attack Saturday morning in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was 86. The hospital staff placed him on life support until his children said their final goodbyes, according to an obituary posted at The Gospel Coalition.

Bridges was known for writing books encouraging readers to pursue holiness and a gospel-centered life. His direct and simple style conveyed truth to thousands.

Surrogate mother Melissa Cook gave birth prematurely to three healthy boys Feb. 22, but she has yet to see them or learn how they’re doing. According to a California court, Cook has no parental rights, despite saving one of them from the abortion his intended father demanded.

Cook, once an advocate for surrogacy, says the practice needs additional scrutiny. She’s fighting for new regulations even as she seeks legal intervention on behalf of children she now considers her own.

The West Virginia state legislature voted yesterday to ban a common abortion procedure that terminates a baby’s life by ripping him or her apart limb-by-limb in the mother’s womb.

The House of Delegates passed the legislation 86-13, and the Senate approved it 24-9. The bill bans dismemberment abortions, a second trimester procedure pro-life advocates describe as especially “barbaric.” The abortion method also is known as “dilation and evacuation.”

Idaho has joined two other states considering legislation to ban donations of aborted fetal tissue and close the donation-for-reimbursement loophole used by Planned Parenthood.

The Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee voted along party lines Friday to introduce the Idaho Unborn Infants Dignity Act, which would criminalize donating fetal tissue from abortions. It also prohibits research centers from conducting experiments using aborted fetal tissue, a ban under consideration in three other states.

As bioethicists and scientists debate the ethics of genetic manipulation through processes like CRISPR and MRT, a recent poll shows genetic editing has yet to gain approval from the majority of Americans, including the U.S. director of national intelligence.

A federal judge refused to grant a preliminary injunction Friday against a California law that forces pro-life pregnancy centers to advocate for abortion.

Under the law, pro-life pregnancy centers must give information about abortion even though they exist to offer abortion alternatives, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney Matt Bowman argued during a Jan. 28 hearing.