Texas Encourages Court to Endorse Risky, Medically Unnecessary Abortion Procedure
In fighting to ban the safest and most common method of later-term abortion, Texas advocates for experimenting on women.
The fight over reproductive freedom enters a grim new chapter.
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.
A Louisiana suit threatens to unravel dozens of cases nationwide by blocking abortion providers from challenging restrictions on behalf of their patients.
The deal will make millions in Medicaid funding available despite the fact that Texas’s program bars women from seeking care from their provider of choice.
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