(Illustration by Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; Photo via Getty Images) Two months before the U.S. Supreme Court shot down an attempt to ban abortion medication, a San Diego County doctor who was a plaintiff in the case stepped onto a stage in Texas and warned that another civil war is coming — this […]
Texas lawmakers touted their heartbeat law as a crusade to save lives, but the reality of the state’s near-total ban on abortion has been deadly. Hundreds of babies died after the law went into effect, according to a new study published Monday. The findings in JAMA Pediatrics show that infant deaths rose after Texas’ Senate […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Reeling from a string of defeats, anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using an array of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives intended to protect reproductive rights or prevent voters from having a say in the fall elections. The tactics include attempts to get signatures removed from initiative […]
The Southern Baptist Convention voted to condemn in vitro fertilization at its annual meeting in Indianapolis this week, over the objections of some members. Conservative lawyers pushing to sharply restrict medication abortion lost a major case at the Supreme Court, after pursuing a strategy that many of their allies thought was an overreach. Former President […]
The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature passed a resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 1044) that will go on the November ballot and asks voters like us to give up our right to vote. I’ve got to give the schemers behind this atrocity some credit. Using the democratic process to kill an element of the democratic […]
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat who is running for governor against Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, plans to launch his first two television ads on Tuesday, one of which attacks his opponents’ views on abortion in the high-stakes battleground race, according to a campaign official who shared the ads exclusively with NBC […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is set to return to federal court Monday in hopes of reversing an $8000,000 award to a flight attendant who said she was fired for her anti-abortion views and a judge’s related order that the airlines’ lawyers take religious liberty training from a conservative Christian legal group. Southwest argues […]
City officials announced a series of street closures coming Saturday to downtown Salem near the Capitol Mall. The permitted closures will be in effect throughout the day. and coincide with the Oregon Right to Life annual Oregon March for Life event. The anti-abortion group’s event includes a live band, speakers and march around the Capitol […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation’s capital was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly five years in prison. Lauren Handy, 30, was among several people convicted of federal civil rights offenses for blockading access to the Washington Surgi-Clinic on Oct. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York is suing an anti-abortion group and almost a dozen pregnancy counseling centers for promoting an unproven method to reverse medication abortions, Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday. James, a Democrat, sued Heartbeat International and 11 pregnancy centers in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, arguing the groups violated laws around […]
In the two years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, the 50-year-long partnership between Republicans and anti-abortion activists has steadily fractured as political backlash to abortion bans has mounted. But perhaps the biggest crack emerged on Wednesday, when Arizona’s Republican-controlled state legislature moved to repeal the state’s 1864 near-total abortion ban. After […]
The Italian Senate has approved a law allowing anti-abortion groups access to women considering ending their pregnancies. The development revives tensions around the issue of abortion in Italy, 46 years after it was legalised in the overwhelmingly Catholic country. The Senate, where the government has a majority, voted 95-68, giving final approval to legislation tied […]