Biden admin faces questions from appeals court in abortion pill case
Anti-abortion groups claim the FDA's green light of mifepristone forces them into situations where they must perform elective abortions.
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Anti-abortion groups claim the FDA's green light of mifepristone forces them into situations where they must perform elective abortions.
Democrats will maintain their narrow Pennsylvania House majority after winning a special election in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Democrats are clinging to a one-seat Pennsylvania House majority but that could change when voters fill a suburban Philadelphia vacancy next week.
With a legal battle over mifepristone putting the nation's most common method of abortion in the spotlight, the Pennsylvania attorney general is assuring residents that it's still legal and available in the state.
All eyes were on the Supreme Court on Friday.
A health provider has dropped a lawsuit seeking to overturn West Virginia's near-total abortion ban.
A Pennsylvania court is throwing out a challenge to how lawmakers have bundled together five potential state constitutional amendments, including one regarding abortion.
The city said if the Texas ruling went into effect it would put a strain on public health.
Limits on how late into a pregnancy the drug can be taken, who can prescribe it and how it can be dispensed were set to take effect Saturday at 1 a.m.
Under the law, anyone performing an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy could be charged with a third-degree felony.
A federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail.
A controversial ruling by a federal judge in Texas over an abortion pill used for two decades has brought sharp condemnation from some local leaders.
Pennsylvania launched a website for reproductive health care resources after a Texas judge's unprecedented ruling halting approval of the nation's most common method of abortion.
The FDA approved mifepristone more than 20 years ago.
The judge ruled that the FDA's more than 20-year-old approval was unlawful.
A protester arrested for disrupting West Virginia lawmakers as they moved to ban abortion last September will see all charges dropped against her — if she stays out of trouble for the next six months.
An abortion provider filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to overturn West Virginia's near-total ban, saying it is unconstitutional, irrational and causes irreparable harm to the state's only abortion clinic and its patients.
Rose Winland will not serve jail time for disrupting lawmakers as they convened to pass a near-total abortion ban.
Ohio's ban on most abortions will remain blocked.
Support for abortion rights did drive women to the polls in Tuesday's elections.
In five states, voters will decide in the midterm elections this November whether to protect the right to abortion or restrict access.
Abortion providers across Pennsylvania urged the state's highest court on Wednesday to overturn a longtime ban on Medicaid funding for the procedure.
Republicans say Democrats are the ones pinning their hopes on the wrong issue.
More women than ever from out of state are coming to this region for abortion services, says Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania.
The event was organized by Women's March Pittsburgh.
