Several Texas women have lodged complaints against hospitals for not terminating their failing and dangerous pregnancies because of the state’s ban. In some cases, women lost reproductive organs. In asking the Supreme Court to toss out the lower court decision, the admin...
A conservative judge in Texas has raised questions about an effort to overturn the decades-old approval of a leading abortion drug, in a case that could threaten the country’s most common method to end pregnancies.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices' most significant case on the hot-button issue in nearly a quarter-century. One of this election-year term's biggest cases is being argued ...
One of her last cases in Texas still haunts her: a young woman who became extremely ill after she tried to end her own pregnancy with an unknown medication she bought in Mexico. Smith spoke with a supervising physician about the case. Texas women facing pregnancy complications are forced to ...
Texas’s Senate Bill 8, or S.B. 8, effectively bans abortions after six weeks for all but those in a life-threatening condition, making no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. It marks the latest chapter in an ongoing battle over reproductive rights within a state where abortion access...
Some social media posts are using the criminal sentencing of a man in Texas to criticize the state’s strict abortion law
Abortion providers in Texas filed a lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday challenging his statewide ban on abortions during the coronavirus outbreak. Abbott’s administration last week directed health providers in the state to pause all surge
DALLAS (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday defended a new state law banning most abortions that also does not provide exceptions for cases of rape or incest, saying it does not force victims to give birth even though it prohibits abortions before s
The justices have never said why they opted to hear the Texas cases so quickly or how soon they might be decided. The time since the arguments is less than a blink of an eye in high-court terms, where months typically elapse between arguments and a decision. But the justices themselves ...
It’s a tactic that’s been utilized by groups across the ideological spectrum, but the volume of cases filed before Kacsmaryk and other Texas judges has raised concerns among experts. WHAT SET OFF TRANSPARENCY ALARM BELLS? Kacsmaryk set the first hearing in the closely watched case on a ...