The Arizona Court of Appeals on Friday temporarily blocked a 150-year-old law in the state that bans nearly all abortions. The three-member panel’s ruling (pdf) comes after a state judge ruled on Sept. 23 (pdf) to lift an injunction against the abortion ban, which makes it a crime to provide an abortion unless the mother’s life is […]
Ohio’s abortion ban, which applies after a fetal heartbeat is detected, has been blocked indefinitely amid ongoing litigation brought by abortion providers challenging the state laws. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins previously issued a temporary injunction on Sept. 14, which blocked the abortion ban for 14 days, before granting the preliminary injunction on […]
The West Virginia legislature passed a near-total abortion ban on Tuesday, sending the measure to the governor’s desk. If it becomes law, some Republicans in the state have said they hope it will make it impossible for the state’s only abortion clinic to continue to offer the procedure. The proposed legislation bans abortions with exceptions […]
The latest inflation numbers are in. How are prices moving and what does the administration say amid pressure from Republicans? On Capitol Hill, Sen. Lindsay Graham proposes a national abortion ban. What’s in his bill, and who’s supporting it? The former security chief testified before the Senate. He said Twitter executives were unmoved when he […]
Three Republican-led states this week enacted abortion bans triggered after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, while a judge on Aug. 25 blocked an abortion ban in North Dakota a day it was set to take effect.
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s law banning abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, except in an urgent medical emergency, is back in force. U.S. District Judge William Osteen’s decision on Aug. 17 eliminates an injunction he had issued against the 20-week abortion ban in 2019. He said that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on June 24 in […]
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Aug. 17 temporarily blocked the state’s law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is at about six weeks gestation. South Carolina’s abortion ban was signed into law by Republican Gov. Henry McMaster in February 2021 but was blocked from being enforced soon after by an Obama-appointed federal judge. […]
The Idaho Supreme Court on Friday said it will not block a trigger law that bans nearly all abortions in the state slated to take effect Aug. 25, as well as a separate law that bans abortion after about six weeks set to take effect Aug. 19, amid ongoing litigation. The court also allowed a civil enforcement […]
A West Virginia judge on July 18 temporarily blocked the state’s pre-Roe abortion ban from taking effect. The preliminary injunction issued by Kanawha County Circuit Judge Tera Salango came in a lawsuit filed in June on behalf of Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, the state’s only abortion clinic. The clinic had suspended abortions and […]
