Florida Republicans just sent Governor Rick ‘Freedum’ DeSantis a bill that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Florida’s anti-choice bill does have exceptions “if the abortion is necessary to save a mother’s life, prevent MORE
Of all the arguments that animate the anti-abortion cause, two stand out as particularly far-fetched: that banning abortion protects women’s health and shields African Americans from genocide. Yet for years, these arguments have driven debates MORE
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WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Texas, the toughest such law in the United States, in a challenge brought by President Joe Biden’s MORE
A House panel on Thursday heard three Democratic Representatives testify about their personal histories of abortions, while one Republican freshman from Florida told of her own mother’s choice against her doctor’s advice to have an MORE
A group of House Democrats were gathered on the steps of the Capitol on Friday when Marjorie Taylor Greene began heckling them. The Democrats were holding an event touting Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, MORE
A lawsuit in Texas was filed on Monday against a doctor who admitted to performing an abortion under the new restrictive state law. Alan Braid, a San Antonio physician, stepped forward last week to say MORE
Salon By SAHOTRA SARKAR PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 4:00AM (EDT) A recent friend-of-the-court filing in that case implicitly claims that biology – and therefore biologists – can tell when human life begins. The filing then MORE
Not to be outdone by Wing Nut extraordinaire, Governor Gregg A-Butt, (Idiot-Texas), South Dakota’s Governor Kristi Noem issued an executive order on Tuesday limiting women’s access to to abortion medication. Her order “directed the state MORE
Texas Governor Greg Abbott defended his state’s strict new abortion law, saying that it doesn’t force victims of rape and incest to carry babies to term because it “provides at least 6 weeks for a MORE
In 5-4 ruling, the United States Supreme Court rejected an emergency request to block Texas’ forced birth law that not only bans abortion at six weeks but allows private citizens “anywhere in the country -to bring MORE
The US Supreme Court failed to step in and review Texas’ new law banning abortion at six weeks before most women even know they are pregnant. “The law allows private citizens to bring civil suits MORE
The groups, including Planned Parenthood and other abortion and women’s health providers, told the court that the law would “immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas, barring care for at least 85% of Texas MORE
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker ruled that several of “Indiana’s laws restricting abortion are unconstitutional, including the state’s ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions.” The ruling includes a MORE
Monday on ABC’s The View, Meghan McCain said Joe Biden would need to talk to his creator over his pro-abortion stance because he is “doing grave spiritual harm to himself and harm to this country.” Despite MORE
A high school valedictorian had prepared a speech that was approved by school officials for the commencement ceremony. But Paxton Smith of Lake Highlands High School in Dallas aborted her pre-approved speech and used her platform MORE
LE††UCE PREY The decision comes after students at the school and its alumni petitioned Notre Dame’s president, Rev. John Jenkins, not to invite Biden, the second Roman Catholic president, over his pro-abortion policies. While the MORE
The Dobbs case concerns a Mississippi law that bans abortion procedures after the 15th week of pregnancy. State legislators attempted to institute the ban in 2018, but U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves blocked the measure from taking effect. The MORE
The Trump administration said Wednesday it was cutting $200 million in federal healthcare funding to California because the state requires insurance providers to cover abortions. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it MORE
Most of the signatories are among the 20 worst countries to be a woman according to the Women, Peace and Security Index established by Georgetown University. None of the top twenty countries on the Georgetown index – MORE
A federal judge agreed Monday to suspend a rule that requires women during the COVID-19 pandemic to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang (an MORE
The Supreme Court has ruled on a Louisiana law that should not stand and reaffirms abortion rights. The opinion was written by Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena MORE
RICHMOND, Va. (ABC7) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Sunday that he has signed new legislation that expands access to voting in the Commonwealth. The new bill repeals Virginia’s voter identification law, makes Election Day MORE
Federal judges on Monday lifted restrictions Texas, Ohio and Alabama imposed on abortion during the coronavirus pandemic in decisions that could have repercussions for several more Republican-led states that have deemed the procedure non-essential during the crisis. MORE
Texas became the latest state to ban abortions “to comply with the state’s temporary suspension of surgeries that are not deemed ‘medically necessary’ amid the COVID-19 outbreak.” “Any type of abortion that is not medically necessary MORE