Iowa Congressman Steve King on Wednesday defended his call for a ban on all abortions by questioning whether there would be “any population of the world left” if not for births due to rape and incest.
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Retrial begins Thursday for a young Salvadoran woman facing 30 years in prison for the “aggravated homicide” of her fetus in a miscarriage. Though a judge cleared her in the first trial, the state appealed, raising profound questions for the country’s progressive new president and the nation’s powerful Catholic Church.
Read moreCalifornia State University’s process of allocating mandatory student fees to fund student group activities is unconstitutional and excludes “unpopular viewpoints,” a federal judge has ruled in the group Students for Life’s challenge over being denied funding to bring an anti-abortion lecturer to CSU San Marcos.
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Tennessee’s neighbors did it and next year, it could be the Volunteer State’s turn. After states to its north, south and west passed tight restrictions and even outright bans on abortion, Tennessee is considering a similar restriction that would ban abortion the moment a woman receives a positive pregnancy test.
Read moreAn anti-abortion protester is entitled to an injunction allowing him to to stand near the entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic, the Sixth Circuit ruled. The court found that the street connected to the abortion clinic’s parking lot is privately owned, but it “has all the trappings of a public street” and can be considered a public forum.
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Louisiana’s solicitor general Friday asked a Fifth Circuit panel to grant the state extraordinary relief in a case brought by abortion providers challenging a host of health regulations, which they claim are unconstitutionally burdensome on patients and staff members.
Read moreAn attorney for the state of Kentucky argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday to reinstate a statute requiring abortion clinics to maintain transfer agreements with local hospitals, while a lawyer for one clinic said the rule effectively bans the procedure statewide.
Read moreThe federal judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of Arkansas abortion restrictions extended her order Tuesday while a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the laws proceeds through court.
Read moreA Florida appeals court reversed a ruling that struck down a law requiring women to wait 24 hours between being informed of abortion risks and having the procedure, finding that the lower court should have held a trial before declaring the law unconstitutional.
Read morePlanned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the state of Missouri in federal court Tuesday in an attempt to stop the state’s sweeping abortion bans.
Read moreWashington state will use its own money to reimburse family planning clinics that lost federal funding following a Trump administration directive gagging Title X recipients from telling patients about abortion services.
Read moreA magistrate for Europe’s highest court recommended upholding a lower court’s finding that the European Commission was right to reject a citizens’ initiative calling for a ban on abortion, stem cell research and the destruction of human embryos.
Read moreA majority of Ohio voters oppose their state’s ban on abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Friday – though most people of faith do not.
Read moreA federal judge has refused to dismiss Planned Parenthood’s challenge to an Idaho law mandating early abortions be done by physicians only, finding the health care provider has adequately shown the law would place “an obstacle in women’s path to seeking an abortion” in violation of the 14th Amendment.
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An Alabama attorney claimed Wednesday that under state law, anyone can do what his client is hoping to achieve: Successfully sue an abortion provider for wrongful death after getting a letter of administration to represent the estate of an aborted embryo or fetus.
Read moreA federal judge temporarily blocked the enforcement of a set of Arkansas laws that would have eliminated abortions in some cases and likely would have forced the shuttering of the state’s only surgical abortion clinic.
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Building on a 2016 ban on city-funded travel to states with anti-LGBT laws, San Francisco officials Tuesday voted unanimously to extend that ban to states with restrictive abortion laws.
Read moreThe Trump administration is giving taxpayer-funded family planning clinics more time to comply with its new rule that they no longer can refer women for abortions.
Read moreAt federal agency and court levels, the resources America makes available to couples dealing with unwanted pregnancies suffered twin setbacks heading into the weekend.
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