The Supreme Court denied on Sept. 3 Oklahoma’s emergency application to restore a canceled $4.5 million family planning grant. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito dissented from the decision to deny the injunction against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency that withheld the grant. The three justices […]
Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that he’d vote no on a ballot measure seeking to enshrine abortion access in Florida’s constitution, saying that a six-week ban is too short and a law allowing a nine-month abortion is too radical. The proposed amendment to Florida’s constitution will be decided by voters in November. The […]
The Montana Supreme Court ruled on Aug. 14 that a state law requiring parental consent for minors to access abortion violates their right to privacy under the state constitution. Montana’s Parental Consent for Abortion Act has been held up in litigation since it was approved in 2013. It requires girls under the age of 18 […]
A Roman Catholic diocese is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a New York appeals court ruling requiring religious charities to provide abortion coverage in their employee health insurance packages. Lori Windham, vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, confirmed during an online press conference on July 25 that the Roman Catholic Diocese […]
A group of Republican-led states do not have legal standing to try to get a court to impose restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, including a ban on prescribing it by telemedicine and dispensing it by mail, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court on June 27 decided to dismiss Idaho’s appeal against a lower court ruling that granted an exception to its strict abortion law for abortions deemed to be medical emergencies. The decision allows emergency abortions to proceed in Idaho, while a challenge to the state’s abortion law moves through the lower courts. President […]
Shawn Carney, president and CEO of 40 Days for Life, spoke with NTD about the second anniversary of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the court’s recent decline to limit access to a widely-used abortion drug, mifepristone, and how the fight for the right to life continues.
A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked enforcement of a rule in two states that required employers to provide accommodations to employees who want to undergo elective abortions, with the judge siding with plaintiffs who argued that abortions aren’t “medical conditions” that employers must facilitate. U.S. District Judge David Joseph announced the ruling in an […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on May 23, allowing Arizona doctors to travel to the Golden State on a temporary basis to perform abortions for their patients. Senate Bill 233, introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner of Oakland and Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry of Winters, allows licensed Arizona abortion providers […]
A bill to criminalize possession of the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol without a valid prescription cleared the Louisiana Senate on May 23, paving the way for the state’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry to sign it into law. The bill, which creates the crime of “coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud,” would add the […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a new lawsuit against two organizations and seven individual activists for allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act with demonstrations outside abortion clinics. Federal prosecutors filed their lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on Monday. The complaint alleges […]
Arizona’s near-total abortion ban will be repealed just weeks after the state’s Supreme Court ruled it enforceable. The Arizona House narrowly passed the repeal on April 24 as three Republicans joined with Democrats to approve the measure. On May 1, the state Senate followed suit in a 16–14 vote—but not before several disappointed senators had […]
SACRAMENTO—California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined the Legislative Women’s Caucus to announce a new bill, which would allow licensed doctors in Arizona to provide abortions to their patients while temporarily practicing in California, at a press conference held at the Capitol on April 24. “If you care about women and girls and their future … this […]
The Arizona House of Representatives approved a bill to remove the state’s strict abortion prohibition on April 24. The vote comes two weeks after a judge ruled that the state could enforce the 1864 legislation which contains only an exemption for cases where the mother’s life is in danger. The day of the vote, three […]
Most Supreme Court justices seemed inclined to accept Idaho’s argument on April 24 that the state’s strict abortion law does not conflict with a federal law that prevents hospitals from refusing to treat indigent emergency room patients. At the same time, liberal justices vigorously questioned whether the Idaho law is putting women in danger. The […]
The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments at 10:00 a.m. ET on April 24 over the legality of Idaho’s abortion ban in medical-emergency situations in a fight between state officials and the Biden administration.
Arizona’s Republican-led House of Representatives declined to discuss a bill on April 17 that would repeal the state’s 1864 abortion ban after the state Supreme Court upheld the controversial law a week prior. The lawmakers voted not to discuss the measure on the House floor after two previous attempts were also unsuccessful. The law has […]
Former President Donald Trump said his shift in position on a federal abortion ban is because the nation no longer needs one. “We don’t need it any longer because we broke Roe v. Wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible,” President Trump said during an April 12 press conference at his Mar-a-Lago […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) praised former President Donald Trump and the GOP for their efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade, leaving the abortion issue to the states amid the recent Arizona Supreme Court’s decision upholding a Civil War era abortion ban. When asked about her view on the Arizona ban on almost all abortions in […]
Former President Donald Trump said on April 10 that he would not sign a federal abortion ban if one is placed on his desk as president. While in Atlanta on April 10 for a fundraiser, the former president was asked by a reporter if he would sign such a law if passed by Congress. “No,” […]
