California heads to court to fight Trump birth control rules

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge will hear arguments Friday over California’s attempt to block new rules by the Trump administration that would allow more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women. Judge Haywood Gilliam previously blocked an interim version of those rules — a decision that was upheld in... Read More

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Abortion

January 10, 2019

Kansas abortion foes brace for state Supreme Court decision

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents in Kansas have been bracing themselves for nearly two years for a ruling from the state’s highest court that protects the right to have an abortion and potentially upends politics in a state long at the center of the national debate. The Kansas Supreme Court is relatively liberal in... Read More

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Abortion

January 2, 2019

Kansas judge rules telemedicine abortions can continue

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge ruled Monday that Kansas cannot stop telemedicine abortions, thwarting the latest attempt by state lawmakers to prevent doctors from providing pregnancy-ending pills to women they see by remote video conferences. District Judge Franklin Theis ruled that a law barring telemedicine abortions and set to take effect in January has... Read More

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Abortion

December 11, 2018

Justices won’t hear states’ appeal over Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a high-profile case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their effort to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood, over the dissenting votes of three justices. The court’s order reflected a split among its conservative justices and an accusation from Justice Clarence Thomas that his... Read More

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Abortion, Planned Parenthood

November 20, 2018

Trial over Kentucky abortion law in judge’s hands

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The fate of a Kentucky abortion law is in the hands of a federal judge after a trial wrapped up Monday over a lawsuit pitting Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration and the state’s only abortion clinic. The suit challenges a law aimed at a common second-trimester procedure to end pregnancies. An ACLU... Read More

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Abortion

August 2, 2018

Abortion-rights activists brace for new wave of restrictions

NEW YORK (AP) — Abortion-rights advocates are intensifying efforts to make it easier for women to get abortions amid a new wave of state-level bans and restrictions expected to occur under a reconfigured U.S. Supreme Court. The efforts include boosting financial aid for women needing to travel long distances to get an abortion, and raising... Read More

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Abortion

July 13, 2018

Supreme Court could return abortion debate to the states

BOSTON (AP) — Anticipating renewed fights over abortion, some governors and state lawmakers already are searching for ways to enhance or dismantle the right in their constitutions and laws. President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has raised the possibility that a conservative court majority could weaken or overturn... Read More

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Abortion, Supreme Court

June 29, 2018

More conservative court may weaken, not kill abortion rights

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is Roe v. Wade really in peril? The worst fears — and highest hopes — excited by the prospect of a new Supreme Court justice may well be overblown. Democrats and liberal interest groups, gearing up for President Donald Trump’s choice for the seat opened up by Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, are... Read More

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Abortion

June 27, 2018

Pregnancy center ruling a blow for abortion-rights advocates

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In knocking down a California law aimed at regulating anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to abortion-rights supporters who saw the law as a crucial step toward beating back the national movement against the procedure. Democratic-led California became the first state in 2016 to require the... Read More

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Abortion

June 21, 2018

Virginia health care providers sue over abortion regulations

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A group of women’s health care providers filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to overturn a number of Virginia’s abortion regulations in light of a landmark 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The lawsuit filed in federal court challenges Virginia laws, some decades old, that restrict who can provide an abortion and how... Read More

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Abortion

May 17, 2018

Iowa abortion suit won’t have easy path to US Supreme Court

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Supporters of the nation’s strictest abortion law are hoping a lawsuit filed against the Iowa measure will bring the issue back before the U.S. Supreme Court, but constitutional experts say that’s unlikely because of a legal maneuver by abortion-rights groups. The Iowa affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union and... Read More

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Abortion

May 3, 2018

Iowa lawmakers send 6-week abortion ban to governor

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican legislators sent Iowa’s governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation’s most restrictive regulations on the procedure.... Read More

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Abortion

April 10, 2018

State appeals abortion ruling for minors in Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges will hear arguments Tuesday appealing an overturned law that let judges put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like process and appoint a lawyer for the fetus in Alabama. A 2014 law changed the process that allows minors to get an abortion with a judge’s waiver instead of parental consent.... Read More

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Abortion

April 2, 2018

Court: Government can’t block immigrant teens from abortion

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court in Washington has told the Trump administration that the government can’t interfere with the ability of pregnant immigrant teens being held in federal custody to obtain abortions. A judge issued an order Friday evening barring the government from “interfering with or obstructing” pregnant minors’ access to abortion counseling or... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Abortion, Imigration

California heads to court to fight Trump birth control rules

Kansas abortion foes brace for state Supreme Court decision

Kansas judge rules telemedicine abortions can continue

Justices won’t hear states’ appeal over Planned Parenthood

Trial over Kentucky abortion law in judge’s hands

Abortion-rights activists brace for new wave of restrictions

Supreme Court could return abortion debate to the states

More conservative court may weaken, not kill abortion rights

Pregnancy center ruling a blow for abortion-rights advocates

Virginia health care providers sue over abortion regulations

Iowa abortion suit won’t have easy path to US Supreme Court

Iowa lawmakers send 6-week abortion ban to governor

State appeals abortion ruling for minors in Alabama

Court: Government can’t block immigrant teens from abortion

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