Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania reacts to Supreme Court draft opinion
The organization said it is going to fight back and work to protect abortion access.
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The organization said it is going to fight back and work to protect abortion access.
It's unclear if the draft represents the court's final word on the matter.
While it passed the house and senate easily, a bill about teaching race in schools failed to meet the deadline in the W. Va. Senate in order to become law.
The bill would ban abortions solely based on a prenatal diagnosis of disability.
A Republican-backed amendment declaring there is no constitutional right to abortion has advanced to the full state Senate.
Resolutions are also expected to be introduced this year in Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Mississippi and South Carolina.
Doctors would be required to report cases of babies born alive after abortions or attempted abortions, under legislation approved Thursday by the GOP-controlled Ohio Senate.
The split decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a Texas law that essentially bans abortion in that state has brought strong reactions.
A city in Ohio has banned abortions, declaring itself "a sanctuary city for the unborn."
Pennsylvania's Legislature began to advance bills to restrict abortion rights. One seeks to restrict abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat and another would prohibit an abortion on the basis of a Down syndrome diagnosis.
Planned Parenthood has sued to block an Ohio law banning the use of telemedicine for medication abortions as unconstitutional.
Planned Parenthood and other operators of abortion clinics lost in court on Friday in their bid to reverse a decades-old Pennsylvania court decision upholding limits on the use of state Medicaid dollars to cover the cost of abortions.
Abortion clinics in Ohio sued to block a state law requiring that fetal remains from surgical abortions be cremated or buried.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a bill into law requiring that fetal remains from surgical abortions be cremated or buried.
Ohio court rules abortions can continue amid coronavirus pandemic.
A state lawmaker has proposed legislation that would ban abortion in Ohio if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
The West Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill that would penalize physicians who don't provide medical care to a baby born after an abortion attempt.
Pennsylvania's Senate is taking up debate on a bill to outlaw abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, although it faces a veto on Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's desk.
Two state lawmakers have introduced a "heartbeat bill" that would ban abortions if a heartbeat is detected.
Republican Senators Doug Mastriano and Stephanie Borowicz of Central Pennsylvania plan to propose legislation that forbids doctors from performing an abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected.
A federal appeals court is upholding a Pittsburgh ordinance that creates a 15-foot buffer zone against protests outside abortion clinics and is also allowing "sidewalk counseling" within that zone.
A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's decision to put on hold an Ohio law prohibiting doctors from performing abortions based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
A hotel in Michigan is offering free lodging and transportation for women who are seeking to have an abortion but live in states that have restricted access to the procedure.
The rule would let health care clinicians object to providing abortions and other services that conflict with their moral or religious beliefs.
