In neither case Monday is the right to an abortion directly at issue. But the motivation for the lawsuits is that the Texas law conflicts with landmark Supreme Court rulings that prevent a state from banning abortion early in pregnancy. Arguing for the United States, Solicitor General Elizabeth...
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
Doctors say strict abortion laws in Texas put pregnant women and their physicians at serious risk In 2022, Texas enacted another, more restrictive law, banning all abortion from conception, except when the mother's life was in immediate danger. The prospect of facing prosecution has created such ...
and Amy Coney Barrett under President Trump, many fear its lack of action this week is a sign of things to come; and since the Supreme Court said in July that it would hear a case on a Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks later this year, other red states may look to...
Top Republicans in other states say they are examining how the Texas law’s unique “private right of action” enforcement structure could be used for similar abortion bans.
Texas has become the largest state with a law that bans abortions before many women even know they are pregnant. The measure signed Wednesday by Republican Gov.
Both advocates and opponents of Texas’ six-week abortion ban were holding their breath up to a midnight deadline on Wednesday, waiting to see if the Supreme Court would act to block what would be the most restrictive abortion law since Roe v. Wade. But there was no intervention from the...
RELATED: Texas governor signs law banning abortions as early as 6 weeks The law has been in place since Sept. 1. The outcome is at best only a partial victory for abortion providers. The same federal judge who already has once blocked the law almost certainly will be asked to do so agai...
A Texas law banning most abortions in the state took effect Wednesday, with the Supreme Court silent on an emergency appeal to put the law on hold. If allowed to remain in force, the law would be the most far-reaching restriction on abortion rights in the United States since the high cou...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term, which in December will include arguments in Mississippi's bid to overturn 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion. Last month, thecourt did not ruleon the constitutionality of the Texas law in...