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Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House

Mar. 27, 2024 20:02 PM EDT

Marilyn Lands, who campaigned on abortion rights in deeply conservative Alabama, won a special election to the Alabama Legislature, in a victory that Democrats say illustrates voter backlash to extreme reproductive restrictions imposed by Republicans. Lands, a Democrat, on Tuesday...

Iowa attorney general not finished with audit that's holding up contraception money for rape victims

Mar. 27, 2024 13:43 PM EDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its victim services that has held up emergency contraception funding for victims of sexual assault. Attorney General Brenna Bird, a Republican, paused the funding while awaiting the...

50 years after the former Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that legacy is under threat

Mar. 27, 2024 07:50 AM EDT

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. The fierce debate has fueled...

Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone

Mar. 26, 2024 18:57 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion case since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. In...

5 takeaways from the abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court

Mar. 26, 2024 17:00 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case that could have far-reaching implications for millions of American women and for scores of drugs regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. ...

Kansas legislators pass a bill to require providers to ask patients why they want abortions

Mar. 26, 2024 15:32 PM EDT

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would require Kansas abortion providers to ask their patients why they want to terminate their pregnancies and then report the answers to the state. The Senate approved the bill 27-13 after the...

Bill that would have placed the question of abortion access before Louisiana voters fails

Mar. 25, 2024 18:15 PM EDT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bill that ultimately would have let voters decide whether abortions should be legal in Louisiana, a state with a near-total ban, failed after a Republican-controlled committee rejected it Monday. The legislation proposed an amendment to Louisiana's...

Editorial Roundup: United States

Mar. 25, 2024 17:05 PM EDT

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 23 The Washington Post on SCOTUS and abortion The Supreme Court declared nearly two years ago, when it overruled Roe v. Wade, that the rules on abortion were now up to the states —...

Supreme Court again confronts the issue of abortion, this time over access to widely used medication

Mar. 25, 2024 06:47 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will again wade into the fractious issue of abortion this week when it hears arguments over a medication used in the most common way to end a pregnancy, a case with profound implications for millions of women no matter where they live in America and, perhaps,...

Mifepristone access is coming before the US Supreme Court. How safe is this abortion pill?

Mar. 24, 2024 09:05 AM EDT

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation. The central dispute in the case is whether the Food and Drug Administration overlooked serious...