NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court dealt opponents of Texas’ strict abortion law another defeat Monday by steering the case next to the state’s Republican-majority Supreme Court, raising concerns that the near-total ban on abortions will remai
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state's ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect. The court acted Friday, more than a month after hearing arguments over the law that makes abortion illegal after...
In Texas, performing an abortion at any stage of pregnancy is a felony unless there is a risk of death or “impairment of a major bodily function” for the pregnant person. What constitutes an impairment is not defined in the law, and it has fallen tocourtsandthe state medical boardto in...
The state said the Texas woman received acombination of two drugsthat are generally used in medication abortions. Mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone and primes the uterus to respond to the contraction-causing effect of the second drug, misoprostol.The two-drug...
Addressing “all the men and women in this room, and watching around the country," Beyoncé said, "We need you." She and Harris were joined at the rally by several women who have nearly died from sepsis and other pregnancy complications in Texas because the state's restrictive abortion ...
"Texas looms so large when it comes to abortion rights and access and what we're really seeing is this coordinated strategy of layering bans and restrictions to very nearly ban abortion," said Elizabeth Nash, interim associate director of state issues at the Guttmacher institute, a r...
Republican Michael Williams, a former Texas Railroad Commissioner and Texas Education Commissioner agreed with Trump's assertion. "I think he was right, and it was a good thing that he appointed three Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn Roe in the Dobbs case," said Williams....
Following the court’s September vote, the Justice Department filed its own lawsuit over the Texas law. The justices on Friday dismissed that suit, which raised a separate set of thorny legal issues.
“I have cared for thousands upon thousands of people with medication abortion,” said Moayedi, whose clinic provides “wraparound” care, seeing people before or after abortion in Texas, where abortions are illegal with rare exceptions. “I can count on my one hand — less than one han...
Monday’s maneuver also keeps abortion off the Supreme Court’s docket – for now – after two major abortion cases last term, including one from Idaho raising very similar issues as the Texas dispute. The high court’s handling of both the Idaho and Texas cases leaves unanswered questions ab...