South Dakota voters will decide on a measure that would establish a right to an abortion and add an amendment to the state constitution that would determine when the state may regulate abortions. Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly called for the restoration of the reproductive ri...
Abortion Rights Protected in Michigan, California, Vermont More The Associated Press California state Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, right, hugs Jodie Hicks, chief executive officer and president of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, at a gathering in support of Propositio...
Yet, following a string of ballot amendment wins last year — including in Ohio, wherevoters emphatically backedenshrining reproductive rights in the state Constitution —Republican lawmakers have resorted todenying the results, attempting to strip courts of the ability to interpret the amendments, or ...
In 2018, voters agreed to amend the Alabama Constitution to say the state recognizes the “rights of unborn children” and “does not protect the right to an abortion or require the funding of abortion.” A 1951 law made it a crime, punishable by up to 12 months in prison, to induce ...
Last year, voters decided to amend the state constitution to prohibit the state from denying or interfering with a woman's "reproductive freedom." Protestors demonstrate at the March for Reproductive Rights organized by Womens March L.A. on April 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. ...
FILE - Abortion-rights activists protest outside of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2022. The influential abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America announced Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, that it has changed its name to...
Jan. 26, 2023 Abortion rights advocates worry that students' reproductive privacy is at risk. Read More Has a US Supreme Court Opinion Never Been Leaked in Advance Before? Written by: Nur Ibrahim May 3, 2022 The highest court in the U.S. is more secretive than other institutions. Rea...
Though abortion rights supporters prevailed on ballot measures in seven of the 10 states where abortion was up for a vote on Nov. 5, the state supreme courts they've elected indicate legal fights to come aren't clear-cut.
Becerra went to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in St. Paul, then appeared with Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic legislative leaders at a news conference a few hours before the Minnesota House passed a fast-tracked bill to codify abortion rights into state statues by a vote of 69-65. ...
Many said they were motivated to vote yes by the state Supreme Court’s conservative majority voting earlier this year to uphold an 1864 near-total abortion ban, which the Legislature narrowly repealed even as most GOP lawmakers voted to keep it in place. Y...