Court rules against challenge to controversial U.K. abortion law
A woman with Down syndrome has lost her court challenge against a law allowing the abortion up until birth of a fetus with the condition.
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A woman with Down syndrome has lost her court challenge against a law allowing the abortion up until birth of a fetus with the condition.
"I don't care about 6 weeks," says Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, whose service helps women get abortions in places with restrictive laws.
"I can assure you that no one finds herself on that table on purpose."
Clinics in states near Texas said they can barely keep up with demand after the state enacted the nation's most restrictive abortion law.
"On the morning of September 6, I provided an abortion to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state's new limit," the doctor wrote.
The department said in its filing that the new law, S.B. 8, prevents "women from exercising their constitutional rights."
Mississippi officials are asking the Supreme Court to overrule its abortion precedents.
Governor Greg Abbott said that the state will "eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them."
The site gained attention when abortion rights supporters began sending in fake tips to spam the site over the weekend.
Under the order, the anti-abortion rights group is banned from "instituting private-enforcement lawsuits" against Planned Parenthood itself, as well as its doctors, staff and patients.
"The Act is a breathtaking act of defiance — of the Constitution, of this Court's precedents, and of the rights of women seeking abortions throughout Texas."
The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to remain in effect.
The Texas law taking effect Wednesday prohibits virtually all abortions in the state.
Opponents blasted the law, considered the most extreme abortion rights curb since the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. It bars abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks.
The law only allows abortions to save the mother's life – but does not make exceptions for those impregnated by incest or rape.
At 26 years old, Poppy Northcutt made history as NASA's first female engineer in Mission Control. Today, at age 77, she has a different mission: helping patients in Texas navigate the state's maze of abortion restrictions.
High school senior Paxton Smith said she couldn't stop thinking about a strict abortion bill signed into law days before by Governor Greg Abbott.
The legislation would let private citizens sue doctors who perform abortions as well as any individuals who "aid and abet" in patients getting the procedure.
The case sets up a high-stakes showdown over the future of Roe v. Wade.
Measure also declares the city a "sanctuary for the unborn." Abortion rights advocates are seen as virtually certain to go to court to try to stop it.
The Trump administration's changes to the family planning program resulted in more than 180,000 unintended pregnancies, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The FDA announced Monday evening that it would temporarily pause a medication abortion restriction that requires the pills to be dispensed in person.
After the Supreme Court struck down its 2014 abortion law, Louisiana's taxpayers could be on the hook for nearly $9 million.
The bill only allows the procedure to save the life of the mother and does not provide exceptions for those impregnated by rape or incest.
Abortion rights advocates said it was another in a long string of recent Ohio laws aimed at making legal abortions harder for women to get.
There's a new safety concern about doctors prescribing one experimental weight loss treatment, retatrutide, that hasn't even been FDA approved yet. Adam Yamaguchi reports.
Doctors are jumping the gun to prescribe a medication lacking FDA approval that has gone viral on social media. "Why are we waiting?" one physician asked.
Approved 20 years ago as a diabetes treatment, GLP-1 drugs have been found to help patients reduce weight, changing the lives of more than 30 million people in the U.S. But there also have been troubling side effects reported.
Approved 20 years ago as a treatment for diabetes, GLP-1 drugs have been found also to help patients significantly reduce weight. More than 30 million people in the U.S. have had their lives changed by GLP-1 medications. But there have also been troubling side effects reported. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with experts who say the drugs might prove useful in treating other diseases associated with obesity (including cancer); and with patients who have taken GLP-1 drugs and experienced widely varying reactions.
A medical breakthrough is showing promise for millions of Americans with Type 1 diabetes. It's an alternative to taking insulin without the injections. Mark Strassmann has more details.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.
Dr. Sara Whittingham thought she would know if something was wrong. But her minor symptoms had a surprising cause.
Travel bans and conflict have disrupted supply chains in the Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving health workers without Ebola tests and protective gear needed to contain the outbreak.
The FDA is moving ahead with a safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone, a senior FDA official confirmed to CBS News, a step that could create a path for the Trump administration to restrict access to the medication.
The Justice Department accused the EEOC of violating civil rights laws by issuing guidelines that effectively pressured employers to make race-based considerations in hiring and promotions.
The report offers a fresh look at the finances of a program that provides benefits to more than 70 million Americans.
NASA's Artemis III astronauts plan to carry out rendezvous and docking procedures with commercial moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin.
Meta pledged to invest $115 million to train electricians, plumbers and other workers needed to operate data centers.
A man suspected of driving while impaired was attacked by an alligator after attempting to flee police in Louisiana, authorities said.
The report offers a fresh look at the finances of a program that provides benefits to more than 70 million Americans.
Meta pledged to invest $115 million to train electricians, plumbers and other workers needed to operate data centers.
The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses, including tech giant Alibaba, to its list of Chinese military companies, keeping them from getting U.S. defense contracts.
Stellantis is recalling almost 1.08 million Jeep Wranglers and Gladiators in the U.S. that could catch fire even when they're parked and turned off, federal regulators say.
Going public will allow OpenAI, valued at $852 billion, to inject more cash into its business as the AI race quickens.
Democrats say they won't vote to reauthorize the key spy authority known as FISA Section 702 as long as Bill Pulte is leading the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The Justice Department accused the EEOC of violating civil rights laws by issuing guidelines that effectively pressured employers to make race-based considerations in hiring and promotions.
The House will be voting on Republicans' $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the rest of the Trump administration.
The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses, including tech giant Alibaba, to its list of Chinese military companies, keeping them from getting U.S. defense contracts.
Maine Democrat Graham Platner is seeking to make the nomination official to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November.
There's a new safety concern about doctors prescribing one experimental weight loss treatment, retatrutide, that hasn't even been FDA approved yet. Adam Yamaguchi reports.
Doctors are jumping the gun to prescribe a medication lacking FDA approval that has gone viral on social media. "Why are we waiting?" one physician asked.
Approved 20 years ago as a diabetes treatment, GLP-1 drugs have been found to help patients reduce weight, changing the lives of more than 30 million people in the U.S. But there also have been troubling side effects reported.
Approved 20 years ago as a treatment for diabetes, GLP-1 drugs have been found also to help patients significantly reduce weight. More than 30 million people in the U.S. have had their lives changed by GLP-1 medications. But there have also been troubling side effects reported. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with experts who say the drugs might prove useful in treating other diseases associated with obesity (including cancer); and with patients who have taken GLP-1 drugs and experienced widely varying reactions.
A medical breakthrough is showing promise for millions of Americans with Type 1 diabetes. It's an alternative to taking insulin without the injections. Mark Strassmann has more details.
Police appeal for calm as graphic video of a Belfast stabbing attack fuels calls for anti-immigration protests in Northern Ireland.
The drugs found in the lumber were mostly cocaine and ketamine, with an estimated retail value of $8.3 billion, officials said.
The cause of an Apache helicopter crash near the Strait of Hormuz that led to the U.S. military's first-ever sea drone rescue is under investigation.
The bear sightings had forced the closure of all 94 public primary and middle schools in a city just north of Tokyo.
One suspect drove a vehicle "at very high speed and recklessly, even hitting several local residents" before being stopped by authorities, officials said.
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Meta pledged to invest $115 million to train electricians, plumbers and other workers needed to operate data centers.
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From labor shortages to environmental impacts, farmers are looking to AI to help revolutionize the agriculture industry. One California startup, Farm-ng, is tapping into the power of AI and robotics to perform a wide range of tasks, including seeding, weeding and harvesting.
SpaceX is setting aside a large chunk of shares for ordinary investors as it seeks to raise a record $75 billion. Here's what to know.
"AI can make everything that was on my plate visible to colleagues while I'm gone," one expert said.
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Great white sharks are classified as "critically endangered" in the Mediterranean Sea, and underwater sightings are incredibly rare.
The expected arrival of El Niño this summer could trigger another mass coral bleaching event, which would be the fifth on record, researchers said.
More than 5,300 years ago, Oetzi the Iceman was strolling through the Alps on the border of Austria and Italy when he was killed by an arrow in the back.
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A man suspected of driving while impaired was attacked by an alligator after attempting to flee police in Louisiana, authorities said.
Nick Reiner is accused of stabbing his parents Rob and Michele Singer Reiner to death at their home in December.
The drugs found in the lumber were mostly cocaine and ketamine, with an estimated retail value of $8.3 billion, officials said.
One suspect drove a vehicle "at very high speed and recklessly, even hitting several local residents" before being stopped by authorities, officials said.
NASA's Artemis III astronauts plan to carry out rendezvous and docking procedures with commercial moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin.
Out of an abundance of caution, NASA briefly directed five of the seven crew members aboard the International Space Station to wait inside the docked SpaceX Crew Dragon "Freedom" spacecraft.
Three solar flares burst from the sun this week, raising the chances of seeing the northern lights for people across the United States.
NASA officials said the $582 million MAVEN orbiter could not be recovered after a problem on the far side of Mars late last year, and that its extraordinarily successful mission was at an end.
Damage to Blue Origin's lone launch pad in the wake of last week's spectacular explosion was not as severe as initially feared, the company said.
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