Shifting abortion laws cause confusion for patients, clinics
The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future.
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The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future.
"It is absolutely none of my business. I will not persecute Texas women or anyone else pursuing those same rights."
Texas' pre-Roe v. Wade ban was blocked by a state court in response to a lawsuit filed yesterday, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Hillary Clinton said that the overturning of Roe v. Wade should be a wake-up call for Americans.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Friday to end constitutional protections for abortion opened the gates for a wave of litigation from all sides.
Conservatives say they're hopeful and happy.
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.
As the court ruled against abortion rights, Justice Clarence Thomas argued precedents on contraceptives and same-sex relationships could come next.
Tarrant County Republican Rep. Giovanni Capriglione authored the Texas trigger law, which will ban nearly all abortions when it takes effect later this summer
SMU constitutional law professor Dale Carpenter reacts to SCOTUS draft opinion that would overturn Roe V. Wade
Pro-abortion rights rallies were held Tuesday night in downtown Dallas, drawing hundreds of people where those with opposing views were also speaking out.
SMU Constitutional Law Professor Dale Carpenter said nothing like this has ever happened.
The historic Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion began at the old federal courthouse in downtown Dallas.
The Supreme Court appears ready to overturn its landmark decisions establishing the right to an abortion, according to a draft opinion obtained and published by Politico.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D- Texas 30th District) reacts to the Supreme Court's draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Rep. Pat Fallon (R- Texas 4th District) reacts to the Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
It's unclear if the draft represents the court's final word on the matter.
The Texas Supreme Court on March 11 paved the way for the nation's toughest abortion law to remain in place in a ruling that again deflated clinics' hopes of stopping the restrictions.
Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who at 26-years-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade before the US Supreme Court, has died. She was 76.
The justices returned a lawsuit over the six-week abortion ban to a federal appeals court that has twice allowed the law to stay in effect, rather than to a district judge who sought to block it.
The Supreme Court is allowing Texas' new restrictive abortion law to remain in effect, but ruled that abortion providers can sue over the state's ban on most abortions.
A Texas judge has ruled the enforcement scheme behind the nation's strictest abortion law is unconstitutional in a narrow ruling that still leaves a near-total ban on abortions in place.
After a long decline abortions in the U.S. appear to be inching up, though officials are cautious about calling it an upward trend because a government report is incomplete.
The high court's first decision of the term deflated expectations that the justices would resolve the issue of whether Texas' ban on most abortions could be challenged in federal court.
The demise of Roe v. Wade would return abortion policymaking to states, continuing the battle over abortion access.
