Abortion
When Ron DeSantis said during last week’s Republican presidential debate that he would support a federal ban on abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy, some anti-abortion activists called it the news they had been waiting months to hear.
A judge has sentenced an abortion opponent to five years in prison for burning a Wyoming abortion clinic.
The complexities of abortion-related politics in the post-Roe v. Wade era are continuing to put the squeeze on Republican Daniel Cameron.
A woman who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.
Virginia Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the rhetoric being used by their Democratic opponents in abortion-focused messaging in this year’s critical legislative elections.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law protecting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in other states.
Ohio Supreme Court justices have questioned the state’s lawyer about a legal strategy that Ohio is attempting in hopes of reviving its law banning abortions except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy.
A coalition of anti-abortion organizations is urging two Wisconsin prosecutors to pursue charges against abortion providers in their counties despite a court’s ruling that abortion is legal.
A Missouri judge has tossed Republican-written ballot summary language Monday that described several proposed constitutional amendments as allowing “dangerous and unregulated abortions until live birth.”
Nikki Haley is gaining attention in the GOP race with her calls for “consensus” around abortion, an unusual tone in a campaign where Republican White House hopefuls often prefer to highlight their eagerness to fight President Joe Biden and other Democrats.
A Nebraska mother who pleaded guilty to giving her teenage daughter pills for an abortion and helping to burn and conceal the fetus has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Brazil’s top court is deciding whether abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy will be decriminalized nationwide.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued an anti-abortion group and a chain of anti-abortion counseling centers, saying the organizations misled women when they offered unproven treatments to reverse medication abortions.
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear says now is not the time to “sub out the quarterback” when Kentucky has so much momentum.
Prosecutors say a 73-year-old man has pleaded guilty to driving a car into a planned abortion clinic in eastern Illinois and trying to set the building on fire earlier this year.
The influential abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America has changed its name to Reproductive Freedom for All.
Kentucky’s debate over abortion access is heating up the governor’s race. Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear continues to criticize Republican Daniel Cameron’s support for the state’s existing abortion ban.
The Ohio Supreme Court says a portion of the description of a ballot question enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution is misleading.
One of the biggest fights over abortion rights this year is in Virginia, where all of the state House and Senate seats are up for reelection. Republican Gov.
Five women state senators from South Carolina who formed a bipartisan coalition to filibuster a near-total abortion ban in their state have been chosen to receive the John F.
Republican gubernatorial candidate in Kentucky appears to soften his hardline opposition to abortion
Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron has appeared to soften his hardline opposition to abortion.
A complaint has been filed alleging that Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita violated professional conduct rules in statements about a doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim last year.
Donald Trump is facing political blowback from within his party for his comments about abortion. The former president said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Florida ban on abortions at six weeks of pregnancy signed by Gov.
Planned Parenthood has resumed offering abortions in Wisconsin at clinics in Madison and Milwaukee. The resumption of services on Monday is the first time abortions have been available in the state since the U.S.
Indiana’s attorney general has sued the state’s largest hospital system, claiming it violated patient privacy laws when a doctor publicly shared the story of an Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion.
Some of Donald Trump’s top Republican rivals addressed a large, influential gathering of Iowa evangelical Christians on Saturday night.
Louisiana’s election is just a month away and candidates hoping to break through the pack tried to set themselves apart during a televised debate.
Donald Trump is dominating the early stages of the Republican presidential primary even as he’s refused to endorse a federal ban on abortion.
Abortion providers in South Carolina want to lengthen the narrow window when they can legally terminate a pregnancy under a strict new ban.
Planned Parenthood says that it will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemingly banned the procedure actually didn’t apply to abortions.
Women in three states are challenging strict abortion laws that went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.