A federal appeals court again allowed most parts of Texas' near-total ban on abortion to continue on Friday, striking down a lower court ruling from less than 24 hours ago that would have allowed some procedures to continue. It's the latest decision in a legal battle over abortion access ...
"The Dobbs decision already made abortion out of access for many patients who live in states that have banned or so heavily restricted abortion," Welch said. "And we anticipate that [banning mifepristone] will just make it more difficult for some patients to get the care that they w...
If Abortion Were Banned, and This Mom Had Died, How Is That Pro-Life?
Terri Burke, who heads The Immunization Partnership, a pro-vaccine advocacy group, has the same Texas vaccine bills on her group’s watch list that Hardy does. “I fear the vaccine issue is something they (state lawmakers) will continue to chip away at, like abortion, the border,” Burke...
Elsewhere, nightmare post-Dobbs environments have emerged. According to a report from theAbortion Care Network, almost two dozen independent abortion clinics shuttered this year, on top of the 42 that closed in 2022. As of this month,14 stateshave banned abortion almost completely. ...
referenced in the Court’s ultimate decision,” Kaye said in a press briefing after the hearing. “Either with respect to the outcome of this case, or a broader signaling of how some of the justices believe this Comstock Act could be used to strip away a right to abor...
I spoke with Sergeant Mark Couch of the Texas Department of Public Safety. He said, "Yes and no on the legality (misdemeanor) part because the violator must be caught red-handed doing it. Since the motor vehicle law is not clear, most states also have laws that prohibit drivers from ...
“As our ad campaign shows, abortion survivors are real people,” said Cathy Blaeser of the MCCL Victory Fund. “But DFL lawmakers voted to put newborns who survive abortion or who have disabilities in jeopardy—to allow these babies to be set aside to die. We’re going to make Minnesotans...
Texas Department of Transportation officials said they are working with the contractor on the site to see if repairs or detours in the area can be created to bypass the bridges. “We understand that the active transportation community is keenly interested in this is a very important project,” ...
When I took up residence at the end of August on Signal Hill to work the Congressional elections in Orange County I had little knowledge of the history of this little city of 2.2 square miles completely surrounded by the City of Long Beach. I had heard of Signal Hill because of the infam...