An incoming new president and state legislative sessions ramping up are likely to bring more changes to abortion policy across the U.S., which is still settling after the seismic shift in 2022 when the U.
The move has no immediate legal force but will likely spark lawsuits that advocates hope will restore abortion rights.
Some of the bills were filed in direct response to ProPublica’s reporting on the fatal consequences of abortion bans.
The anti-abortion movement is on the rise in Russia, and the Kremlin is responding by changing the law to make terminations more difficult.
A man defaced two crisis pregnancy centers in Texas in light of the leaked Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court draft opinion that indicated the high court was going to turn abortion decisions back to the states in 2022, federal prosecutors said.
A federal judge in Texas is allowing three other states to pursue a challenge seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.
“Basically, the farther the patients resided from an abortion facility, the more they were depending on the pills being mailed to them,” co-lead researcher Dr. Emily Godfrey, an OB/GYN and family doctor with the University of Washington, said in a news release.
New laws restricting abortion could lead to new legal fights over whether the restrictions violate the new constitutional amendment.
A Boise State University public policy survey found that the majority of Idaho residents prefer abortion policies that are more lax than the state’s current restrictions.
Republicans are fuming at the State Department after learning that recipients of funding from the legacy program to curb HIV/AIDS across Africa, PEPFAR, performed abortions in violation of U.S.
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio has acquired the Women's Med Center in Kettering, a suburb of Dayton. It's the first acquisition for Planned Parenthood in Ohio since voters passed the constitutional amendment to protect access to abortion in 2023.