Oklahoma Lawmaker Calls Abortion Worse Than Slavery
State legislators are crafting ever more extreme abortion restrictions designed to reach the Supreme Court. 2021 has already seen more than 500 bills filed across the country.
The fight over reproductive freedom enters a grim new chapter.
State legislators are crafting ever more extreme abortion restrictions designed to reach the Supreme Court. 2021 has already seen more than 500 bills filed across the country.
The president signaled that Trump’s domestic gag rule should be lifted, but changes to Title X won’t be immediate.
In fighting to ban the safest and most common method of later-term abortion, Texas advocates for experimenting on women.
Overriding judicial decisions, an important tool in Congress’s legislative toolbox, has fallen by the wayside over the last 20 years.
The Trump administration has already offered the eight-member court an opportunity to restrict abortion access amid the pandemic.
While the administration wins for now, the court’s opinions signal more litigation to come on the question of the ACA’s birth control mandate.
As the public health crisis continues, providers confront anti-abortion protesters and politicians exploiting the outbreak to undermine reproductive health.
Trump’s rules would allow nearly any employer to deny birth control coverage, a costly imposition as the nation heads into a coronavirus-induced recession.
Voices
Until last year, Joe Biden supported a law that restricted federal funding for abortion — and his flip-flop smacks of political expediency.
Just over three years after the Supreme Court ruled that an anti-abortion law was illegal, the court is being asked again to weigh in on the very same law.
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