A divided Seventh Circuit panel reversed an injunction blocking an Indiana law criminalizing the acquisition of aborted fetal tissue, ruling against a university that uses the tissue for research.
Read moreKentucky’s last remaining abortion clinic filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new bill, expected to become law, banning abortions motivated by a fetus’ sex, race or disability.
Read moreLawmakers in Arkansas and Utah sent their governors legislation Wednesday banning most abortions 18 weeks into a woman’s pregnancy, moving the states closer to enacting bans that could be among the strictest in the country.
Read moreThe en banc Sixth Circuit ruled 11-6 Tuesday that Ohio can withhold funding for public health programs from abortion providers, most notably Planned Parenthood.
Read moreAn Alabama judge’s ruling has given legal standing to an aborted embryo.
Read moreEl Salvador’s Supreme Court on Thursday commuted the 30-year sentences of three women imprisoned for abortion convictions, lessening their punishment to time served and ordering them released immediately.
Read moreA bill that bars abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected is one step closer to becoming law in Georgia after a panel of Republican lawmakers in the state House voted in favor of the measure.
Read moreMissouri’s Republican-led House on Tuesday advanced a bill that would ban almost all abortions in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. And if the high court doesn’t switch course, the Missouri bill would ban most abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected: as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
Read morePlanned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains is not entitled to summary judgment in a case over the fatal shooting carried out on Nov. 27, 2015, by Robert Dear, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled, finding that Planned Parenthood knew violence could be expected at its clinics, based in part on death threats to its medical director.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Friday set up new obstacles for women seeking abortions, barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from making abortion referrals. The new policy is certain to be challenged in court.
Read moreThe Trump administration announced a new regulation Friday that would withhold federal grant dollars from groups that provide abortions or referrals for abortions.
Read moreA staunchly conservative Seventh Circuit panel upheld Chicago’s “bubble zone” ordinance creating a buffer area around medical facilities – including abortion clinics – but the ruling almost begs the pro-life plaintiffs to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Read moreA San Francisco judge on Monday delayed a long-awaited preliminary hearing to decide if there is enough evidence to try two anti-abortion activists for recording Planned Parenthood staff allegedly arranging the sale of aborted fetal tissue, after state prosecutors and attorneys for the health care provider unexpectedly filed a series of motions on the eve of the proceedings.
Read moreIn a 5-4 order, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency stay Thursday night that blocks efforts by Louisiana to significantly limit women’s access to abortion providers in the state.
Read moreThe Supreme Court is temporarily keeping a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics on hold.
Read moreFighting a preliminary injunction before the Sixth Circuit, Ohio argued Wednesday that a state law outlawing abortions if a woman’s decision is based on indications that a fetus has Down syndrome is constitutional.
Read moreA federal judge ordered Planned Parenthood and four of its affiliates to turn over a narrow range of documents related to its fetal tissue donation program in a highly acrimonious lawsuit accusing anti-abortion activists of smearing the organization.
Read moreA 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a California law requiring faith-based pregnancy centers to provide women with information about family planning and abortions has far-reaching consequences for government regulation, public health and commercial disclosures, according to an analysis published Thursday by the NYU College of Global Public Health.
Read moreThe Iowa Legislature’s latest effort to ban early-term abortions was struck down as unconstitutional Tuesday by a state judge who said the detection of a heartbeat does not necessarily indicate a viable pregnancy.
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