Former Trump campaign consultant Jason Miller claims in a libel lawsuit that he lost his job at CNN and was shunned in his community after a politics website reported false accusations that he slipped a lady an abortion pill.
Read moreA federal judge in San Francisco struck down a lawsuit Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union that claimed U.S. Health and Human Services violated the separation of church and state by allocating millions of dollars to faith-based groups that took in unaccompanied immigrant minors but refused to give them birth control or access to abortions.
Read moreRejecting arguments that a court order is crippling David Daleiden’s criminal defense, a federal judge Wednesday refused to lift an injunction banning the release of secretly taped videos of a National Abortion Federation meeting.
Read moreThe decision of a Sixth Circuit panel to strike down an Ohio law that revokes health care funding from abortion providers was debated before the en banc court on Wednesday.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 Wednesday in favor of a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have credentials to enter nearby hospitals — a rule that opponents say could limit abortions to just one doctor at one clinic.
Read moreDefending its authority to keep underage immigrants from getting abortions, the government urged the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday to vacate a nationwide injunction.
Read moreAttorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation pressed ahead Friday with their efforts to block the Trump administration from coercing unaccompanied minors into carrying unwanted pregnancies to term.
Read moreEfforts to stop an anti-abortion protester from using his webpage to paint procedures done by doctors as “aggravated murder” and equating abortion to the Holocaust did not violate his freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.
Read moreAn anti-abortion crusader’s lawyer on Friday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a nearly $200,000 contempt fine, accusing a federal judge of bias and painting the fine as an unfair criminal penalty imposed on her client.
Read moreAn Iowa judge denied an anti-abortion group’s motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by two abortion providers who argue the state’s new fetal-heartbeat law is unconstitutional.
Read moreA federal judge Wednesday permanently blocked Texas regulations requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains, predicting they could lead to a “near catastrophic failure” of the reproductive health care system in the state.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case challenging Indiana’s law criminalizing the acquisition of aborted fetal tissue, but the three-judge panel repeatedly questioned whether the case didn’t better belong in state court.
Read moreA federal judge temporarily has blocked Governor Henry McMaster’s latest attempt to remove Planned Parenthood from South Carolina’s Medicaid program.
Read moreAn Eighth Circuit panel on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a Satanist’s challenge to Missouri abortion laws based on her religious beliefs, finding she lacked standing because she wasn’t pregnant when she sued.
Read moreA federal judge indicated Thursday she would toss a lawsuit accusing the U.S. government of violating the Constitution by funding religious groups that care for unaccompanied immigrant children and trafficking victims but deny them access to abortions and contraception.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit on Wednesday affirmed that Alabama cannot enforce its law that prohibits and criminalize second-trimester abortions unless the fetus is dead before it is extracted.
Read moreArgentina’s Senate on Thursday rejected a bill to legalize elective abortion, a defeat for a grassroots movement that came closer than ever to achieving the decriminalization of the procedure in the homeland of Pope Francis.
Read moreEighteen states and the District of Columbia are urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold legal protections for young immigrants who seek abortions after they enter into the United States without a parent or guardian.
Read moreA new abstinence focus at the White House inspired pushback from Planned Parenthood this year, but numerous affiliates of the organization learned Thursday afternoon that they made the list for upcoming Title X grants.
Read moreTwo Midwestern Christians claim in court that they are not free to express their religious beliefs outside an Ohio abortion clinic without being threatened and arrested by police.
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