By a 5-4 vote, the nation’s top court on Monday stayed enforcement by the state of Texas of a state law that could have forced nine abortion clinics to close…
The district attorney in Albany, Georgia, has dropped a murder charge against a woman accused of ending her pregnancy with a drug she bought online without a prescription.
A federal appeals court has ruled that plaintiffs challenging a surgical center requirement for Texas abortion clinics should have brought the claim in a prior suit challenging other parts of…
A federal appeals court has ruled that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People can’t use trademark law to stop an anti-abortion activist from substituting “abortion” for “advancement”…
Updated: The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general after a vote earlier today to end debate on her nomination.
Kansas has become the first state in the nation to enact an abortion law that bans a common second-trimester procedure that abortion opponents call “dismemberment abortion.”
A new Arizona law requires doctors to tell patients receiving drug-induced abortions that the procedure may be reversible, though many doctors question whether the advice is supported by scientific study.
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge on Wednesday to block an Alabama law authorizing judges to appoint a lawyer for the fetus when minors ask a judge…
More than four months after Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch was nominated for U.S. attorney general, the Senate has yet to schedule a vote on her confirmation.
The Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to rehear en banc a case involving a law that requires anti-abortion pregnancy centers to post ads encouraging clients…
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked enforcement of a controversial new Arizona law that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
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