Virginia Democrats on Wednesday advanced bills that would get rid of abortion restrictions like the requirement that ultrasounds be performed prior to the procedure, the first step in their effort to undo so-called TRAP laws.
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A lawyer for a Satanist argued before the Eighth Circuit on Thursday that Missouri’s law requiring physicians to give women a pro-life booklet and an ultrasound before providing an abortion violates her First Amendment rights.
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Kansas lawmakers proposed a constitutional amendment Thursday that could potentially affect abortion rights, after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled last year that women have the right to an abortion under the state’s constitution.
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Senate Democrats on Wednesday grilled a former Republican Mississippi state lawmaker now up for a federal judgeship on his political past, including his support for overturning the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion decision and his record on issues from guns to voting rights.
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In a push for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, more than 200 Republican members of Congress filed an amicus brief urging the high court to reconsider the landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide.
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White evangelical Protestant voters distinguish themselves from other religious and nonreligious groups by approving of abortion restrictions and disapproving of workplace protections for LGBTQ people, according to a poll released Thursday.
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Charlie McMillan is no ordinary city official — he’s only 7 months old and a new face of the anti-abortion movement in America.
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Siding with its magistrate and its lower court, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday 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.
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Two days after an abortion clinic opened its doors March 1 in Mount Juliet, a small city near Nashville, the city’s commission held a first reading of an amendment to its zoning ordinances that placed strong restrictions on where surgical abortions could be performed in the city.
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Mississippi cannot enforce a law barring abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday in a major setback to efforts by conservative-leaning states challenging abortion rights.
Read morePlanned Parenthood claims Alaska and its Board of Nursing unconstitutionally prohibit advanced practice clinicians from providing gynecological care, including “safe, early abortion and miscarriage care, which they are highly qualified to provide.”
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Lawyers for Planned Parenthood argued before the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s refusal to reimburse it for health care services is an example of legislation through appropriation.
Read moreA federal grand jury indicted a Colorado man Monday on charges of killing three people in a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015, though the suspect has not yet been deemed mentally competent to stand trial.
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The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Kentucky law that requires doctors to show and describe ultrasound images to patients seeking abortions.
Read moreFour police officers who arrested an anti-abortion protester over a perceived bomb threat are entitled to qualified immunity, the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday.
Read moreAnti-abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt will go to trial on nine counts of criminal eavesdropping and conspiring to invade the privacy of abortion providers at an industry conference in 2014 and at a Pasadena, California, restaurant.
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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to a seat on a federal court in Missouri, over objections from Democrats and one Republican to her record of anti-abortion litigation.
Read moreA federal judge blocked a Trump administration “conscience rule” late Tuesday that would have expanded protections for health care workers with religious objections to certain medical procedures, just two days before it was set to take effect.
Read moreA federal jury found an anti-abortion cohort led by David Daleiden caused substantial harm to Planned Parenthood by infiltrating abortion industry conferences to secretly tape abortion doctors and staff, and awarded punitive damages of $870,000.
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