With this lawsuit, we enter uncharted territory. The most ambitious — and most consequential — form of assistance involved doctors in jurisdictions whereabortion is protectedmailing abortion pillsintostates where abortion is banned. This strategy has had obvious practical advantages: It makes medicatio...
New York is proud to be a safe haven for abortion access,” James said in a prepared statement. “We will always protect our providers from unjust attempts to punish them for doing their job and we will never cower in the face of intimidation or threats.” ...
This was the news at the start of the week. As the week came to an end, The Texas Tribunereportedon a very different kind of lawsuit related to abortion in the state. A Texas man is suing three women under the wrongful death statute, alleging that they assisted his ex-wife in...
If the court allows the providers to continue their lawsuit, it would still take a separate order from the justices or a lower court to put the law on hold. The Texas ban, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in May, prohibits abortion after cardiac activity is detected in a fetus, usu...
That makes the Texas lawsuit thorny. Even if Paxton prevails in Texas court, Ziegler said, it’s unclear how that could be enforced. “Is he going to go to New York to enforce it?” she asked. Still, anti-abortion groups cheered the filing and abortion rights supporters ...
Under the bill, a person filing the lawsuit would not need any personal connection to the abortion in question. The bill has been opposed by medical groups. Texas law currently bans abortion after 20 weeks, with exceptions for a woman with a life-threatening medical condition or if th...
In Texas, where strict laws ban abortion with limited exceptions, women are struggling to find quality reproductive health care. Some doctors say the state law is dangerously vague.
The Supreme Court voted Friday 8 to 1 in favor of allowing the clinics’ lawsuit against the ban to proceed, with only Justice Clarence Thomas voting the other way. But the court was sharply divided, 5-4, on the knotty issue of whom to target with a court order that ostensibly tries to...
The Supreme Court decided Monday that a court order finding Texas hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a state abortion ban will stay for now.
Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the US to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned.