Ohio sued over law requiring burial of aborted fetal remains
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.
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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.
Archdioceses in St. Louis and New Orleans are encouraging Roman Catholics to choose coronavirus vaccines made by Moderna or Pfizer — if they are available.
The House passed its bill by a 79 to 35 vote Wednesday after hours of emotional testimony from both supporters and opponents, and gave the measure final approval Thursday.
The proposal faces a final procedural vote that likely won't change the outcome and will then be sent to the governor for his signature.
New restrictions have tightened up what were already some of Europe's strictest laws on the procedure, and the reaction on the streets has been one of fury.
President Biden is expected to rescind the Mexico City Policy, also known as the global gag rule, as part of a slew of executive actions on Thursday, according to two people familiar with the White House's plans.
An October 22 ruling by the Polish constitutional court to ban abortions of fetuses with congenital defects, even when the fetus has no chance of survival at birth, sparked the protests.
Abortion rights advocates say the decision to end funding could affect a variety of non-abortion health services for low-income women.
Abortion is legal in South Dakota. Whether you can get one is another story.
Colorado voters protected access to abortion later in pregnancy, while Louisiana paved the way to prohibit the procedure entirely.
Hours ahead of Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation vote, the Supreme Court announced it would consider Mississippi's petition for the hour to hear its 15-week abortion ban.
"We take unpaid leave. We are closing the shops. Or quite simply – we won't go to work," a group of women's rights activists said.
Constitutional Court ruling bars abortion of defective fetuses, closing one of the last loopholes in what were already some of Europe's toughest reproductive health laws.
A conservative blog that marked the ads' claims as "partly false" has since posted an apology and retracted its fact check.
After nearly 20 hours of questioning, senators were left with a few clues on how Amy Coney Barrett might view abortion and Roe v. Wade. Here's what we know.
Anti-abortion rights advocates have spent years passing laws aimed at reversing Roe v. Wade. Now, they're closer than ever.
"I've always considered myself pro-choice ... but when you live it in real life, you realize the significant impact it can have on a family," he said.
The antibody cocktail President Trump took and praised was developed using cells derived from kidney tissue of a fetus aborted in the Netherlands in the 1970s.
The unsigned order is the high court's first decision following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a fierce supporter of abortion rights.
Even with Roe intact, access to abortion is hanging on by a thread in states across the South and Midwest.
It won't be long before we learn how the Supreme Court views abortion access following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Four years ago on the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump pledged that if he were elected, only "pro-life" justices would get his nomination for a seat on the Supreme Court.
The move toward collective bargaining comes as Planned Parenthood and other abortion-rights groups have been scrutinized for a lack of diversity within senior management.
It's the court's first major abortion rights decision since two Trump appointees have taken the bench.
The new federal judge also indicated he believed abortion should be illegal in all cases, even to save the life of the woman.