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Abortion providers in North Carolina file federal lawsuit challenging state's new restrictions
Abortion providers in North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit Friday that challenges several provisions of a state law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in the dwindling days before the new restrictions take effect.
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South Carolina Senate Approves Bill Banning Most Abortions After Around 6 Weeks of Pregnancy
The South Carolina Senate has approved a bill that would ban most abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy, sending the bill to the governor who has promised to sign it.
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More Women Sue Texas Over Abortion Law They Say Put Their Lives at Risk
More Texas women who were told they could not end pregnancies with fatal fetal anomalies or that endangered their health are challenging the state’s restrictive abortion laws.
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Spread of Abortion Restrictions in South Puts Pressure on Virginia
As more Southern states pass new restrictions on abortion, Virginia is poised to become an outlier in the region for its relatively permissive laws, setting up the state as a destination for women seeking abortions and raising questions about providers’ capacity to meet demand.
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Appeals Court Appears Skeptical of Keeping Full Access to Abortion Pill
At issue are the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone in 2000, and FDA actions making the drug more accessible in later years.
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3 Judges Who Chipped Away Abortion Rights to Hear Federal Abortion Pill Appeal
Three appeals court judges with a history of supporting restrictions on abortion will hear arguments May 17 on whether a widely used abortion drug should remain available.
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Biden Administration May Halt Plans to Move Space Command to Alabama Over State's Abortion Law, Officials Say
Some defense and congressional officials believe the White House is laying the groundwork to halt plans to move U.S. Space Command’s headquarters to Alabama in part because of concerns about the state’s restrictive abortion law, according to two U.S. officials and one U.S. defense official familiar with the discussions.
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Republican Virginia Attorney General Miyares Defends Staying Out of Abortion Pill Case
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has defended his decision not to join most of his Republican counterparts across the country in supporting a lawsuit challenging the safety and approval of the abortion medication mifepristone.
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Harris on Abortion: Government Shouldn't Tell a Woman ‘What to Do With Her Body'
“One does not have to abandon their faith … to agree the government should not be telling that woman what to do with her body,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.
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Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Pill for Now
The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.
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Supreme Court Extends Temporary Pause on Abortion Pill
The Supreme Court extended the temporary hold on access to the abortion pill mifepristone Wednesday.
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Supreme Court Temporarily Extends Access to Abortion Pill
The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Friday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug mifepristone to take effect. The court is dealing with a new abortion controversy less than a year after its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright. At...
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Protesters Gather as Supreme Court Weighs In on Abortion Pill
After the U.S. Supreme Court put a temporary hold on a lower court’s ruling that would have limited access to a widely used abortion pill, protesters from both sides gathered in D.C. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.
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What's Next for Abortion Pill After Supreme Court's Order
Here’s a look at what has happened so far, the conflicting rulings and how the legal fight might be expected to unfold.
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Mifepristone Will Be Legal ‘As Long As We're In This Fight,' Says Conn. Attorney General
Connecticut is one of 17 states that brought the case to protect the abortion medication after conflicting court rulings over its legality.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Strikes 1931 Abortion Ban From State Law
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Wednesday repealing Michigan’s abortion ban from 1931 that made it a crime to assist in an abortion. The abortion ban, which fueled one of the largest ballot drives in state history, had been unenforceable after voters enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution last November. Whitmer and other Democratic leaders stressed that it was...
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US Supreme Court: Trans Girl Can Run Girls Track in West Virginia
The Supreme Court is allowing a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school’s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues.
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Alexandria Poised to Clear Zoning Hurdles for Abortion Clinics
Alexandria is set to become the first location in Virginia to make it easier for abortion clinics to locate there. News4’s Julie Carey reports.
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Maryland Voters to Decide Abortion Constitutional Amendment
Maryland voters will decide next year whether to enshrine the right to abortion in the Maryland Constitution, after the House of Delegates voted Thursday to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot.
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DNA From Burrito Helps Police Find Man Suspected of Firebombing Wisconsin Anti-Abortion Office
After nearly a year of searching, investigators used DNA pulled from a half-eaten burrito to capture the man they believe firebombed a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group’s office. The U.S. attorney’s office in Madison announced that police arrested 29-year-old Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury at Boston’s Logan International Airport on Tuesday. He was charged via the complaint with one count of...