Texas moves to ban taxpayer-funded abortion travel
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A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot require employers to provide accommodations to employees who get abortions, striking down a rule adopted during the administration of Democratic former President Joe Biden.
Reproductive rights advocates are suing Arizona to unravel several laws regulating abortion access in the state.
The lawsuit said the laws create restrictions that do not pass muster after voters created a right to an abortion in the Arizona Constitution.
That bill passed the Texas Senate in mid-April. An amended version passed the Texas House, with a narrower margin than the abortion clarification bill. The clarification legislation received widespread support from a variety of lawmakers and advocacy groups, to a degree that’s unusual for an abortion-related bill.
Catholic hospitals run 20% of California's maternity wards. Their policies generally prohibit abortion, even in miscarriage, as long as a heartbeat can be detected.
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The National Abortion Federation says that 65% of providers in Colorado reported trespassing at clinics in 2023 and 2024 — one of the highest percentages in the nation.
Yet even as the number of clinics has dropped nationally, about 80% of clinician-provided abortions are still done by brick-and-mortar clinics, according to the most recent #WeCount report, which looked at 2024 data from April to June.
A Wisconsin appeals court judge who was an outspoken supporter of abortion rights in the state Legislature is running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Medical care for brain-dead pregnant woman have been taken out of the hands of her family due to law, activists argue.