The court fight over the Texas law is focused on its unusual structure and whether it improperly limits how the law can be challenged in court. Texas lawmakers handed responsibility for enforcing the law to private citizens, rather than state officials. The law authorizes lawsuits against clinics,...
voters in 10 states will decide on measures that would add abortion rights to their state constitutions.To understand the impact of the changing legal landscape and its complexities, we went to the first state to change
Pills have become the most common means of abortion in the U.S., accounting for nearly two-thirds of them by 2023. They're also at the center of political and legal action over abortion. In January, one judge let three states continue to challenge federal government approvals for how one...
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These lawsuits will tee up even messier questions. Here’s another certainty: Whatever happens in this case will be just the tip of the iceberg. If Texas and other anti-abortion jurisdictions can target doctors who mail pills into their states, it will be harder to target providers who serve...
Despite the scramble to restore full abortion rights in Texas, a legal resolution is not expected to happen quickly, experts say.
The court fight over the Texas law is focused on its unusual structure and whether it improperly limits how the law can be challenged in court. Texas lawmakers handed responsibility for enforcing the law to private citizens, rather than state officials. The law authorizes lawsuits against clinics,...
Abortion providers in Texas say they have seen a sharp drop in patients in the two weeks since the nation’s strictest abortion law took effect.
The new wave of lawsuits and the Texas challenge stand out from previous challenges to abortion bans that were largely filed by OB-GYNs and abortion providers after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, removing federal protections for abortion rights. In a preliminary injunction heari...
Texas officials crafted the law to allow private citizens, rather than state officials, to enforce it by filing lawsuits in state court against anyone who performs an abortion or "aids or abets" them. The ban's design complicated efforts by the clinics to stop it from taking effect, as it...