Latest Reproductive rights News
Missouri abortion-rights amendment could be axed from the ballot after ruling
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Friday ruled that an abortion-rights campaign did not meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot, potentially thwarting a yearslong effort to undo the state's near-total abortion ban. But Cole County Circuit Judge...
New Mexico starts building an abortion clinic to serve neighboring states, train medical students
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion, Gov. Michelle...
Missouri judge says abortion-rights measure summary penned by GOP official is misleading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that an anti-abortion GOP official used misleading language to summarize a ballot question designed to restore abortion rights in the state. Cole County Circuit Judge Cotton Walker threw out a description of the amendment as...
Alaska governor vetoes expanded birth control access as a judge strikes down abortion limits
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In competing developments about reproductive rights in the nation's largest state, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill to expand birth control access while a judge struck down decades-old restrictions on who could perform abortions. The Republican...
Judge blocks Ohio from enforcing laws restricting medication abortions
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two more Ohio laws restricting abortions have been blocked by the courts as the legal impacts of a 2023 constitutional amendment guaranteeing access to the procedure continue to be felt. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway issued a preliminary...
Trump calls for universal coverage of IVF treatment with no specifics on how his plan would work
POTTERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says that, if he wins a second term, he wants to make IVF treatment free for women, but did not detail how he would fund his plan or precisely how it would work. “I'm announcing today in a major statement that under the...
Missouri abortion-rights amendment faces last-minute legal challenges
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Both sides of the debate over whether to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri’s constitution have filed last-minute legal challenges hoping to influence how, and if, the proposal goes before voters. Missouri banned almost all abortions immediately after the...
Trump would veto legislation establishing a federal abortion ban, Vance says
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk. “I can absolutely commit that,” Vance said when asked on NBC's “Meet the...
Judge blocks 24-hour waiting period for abortions in Ohio, citing 2023 reproductive rights amendment
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A county judge in Ohio temporarily blocked several state laws on Friday that combined to create a 24-hour waiting period for obtaining an abortion in the state, in the first court decision on the merits of a 2023 constitutional amendment that guarantees access to the...
Nebraska is the latest state to add abortion to November ballots. What would the measures do?
Competing abortion measures to expand or limit abortion rights will be on the November ballot in Nebraska after election officials on Friday confirmed each side had turned in enough signatures. The move makes Nebraska the first state to carry competing abortion amendments on the...
