Florida lawmaker introduces abortion bill similar to Texas law
The bill, filed by state Representative Webster Barnaby, is similar to the law recently enacted in Texas, which bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
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The bill, filed by state Representative Webster Barnaby, is similar to the law recently enacted in Texas, which bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
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.