Latest Abortion News
For WVa. abortion protester, charges dropped with conditions
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A protester forcibly removed from a chamber gallery at the West Virginia Capitol and later arrested for disrupting lawmakers as they moved to ban abortion last year will see all charges dropped against her, if she stays out of trouble for the next six months. ...
Ohio lawmaker would thwart speaker on 60% vote threshold
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A state lawmaker has made a procedural move that could force a vote in the Ohio House on a proposal to make it more difficult to amend the Ohio Constitution, a measure that could impact the fate of a measure protecting abortion rights that’s moving toward fall ballots. ...
North Dakota aims at school curriculum to deter abortions
North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus develops in each week of pregnancy under a bill Senate lawmakers approved during a vote Wednesday. The 37-9 vote comes on the heels of the North Dakota Supreme Court's ruling this month...
Idaho law could criminalize helping minors get abortions
Idaho lawmakers are considering making it illegal for an adult to help a minor procure an abortion without parental consent. The measure would create a new crime of “abortion trafficking,” barring adults from obtaining abortion pills for a minor and “recruiting, harboring, or...
Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
Charlotte Observer/Raleigh News and Observer. March 25, 2023. Editorial: Ted Budd’s bizarre new bill links abortion to human trafficking Ted Budd, North Carolina’s newest U.S. senator, introduced a bizarre bill this week ostensibly suggesting that abortion...
Wyoming abortion clinic fire suspect to go free pending case
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She posted on social media about competing in a bike race, losing her pet hedgehog and visiting a butterfly garden with her grandmother but gave no sign of the anti-abortion views investigators say drove her to set fire to a Wyoming abortion clinic. On...
Man charged with firebombing Wisconsin anti-abortion office
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After nearly a year of searching, investigators used DNA pulled from a half-eaten burrito to capture the man they believe firebombed a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group's office. The U.S. attorney's office in Madison announced that police...
Georgia high court considers whether abortion law is void
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's highest court is considering whether the state's restrictive abortion law is void because it violated U.S. Supreme Court precedent that was in effect at the time when it was enacted. A lower court judge last year ruled that the law enacted in 2019 was not...
Liberal outraises conservative in Wisconsin court race
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Democratic-funded candidate in Wisconsin's pivotal state Supreme Court contest has raised more than five times as much money as her Republican-backed opponent ahead of the April 4 election. Liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz raised...
Kansas high court signals continued abortion rights support
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ highest court signaled Monday that it still considers access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state constitution, as an attorney for the state argued that a decisive statewide vote last year affirming abortion rights “doesn't matter." ...
