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Researchers at John Hopkins found that Texas abortion laws may have increased the number of births in the state. NTD spoke with the executive director of a Texas pro-life organization to learn more about the abortion ban’s impact.

Abortion bans were upheld following court rulings on Friday that lifted an injunction against an abortion ban in Indiana and cleared the way for a 12-week abortion ban to take effect in North Carolina. In Indiana, the state’s Supreme Court ruled that the state’s abortion ban doesn’t violate the state constitution, and lifted a preliminary […]

North Carolina’s GOP-controlled General Assembly defied the veto of Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, and successfully passed a bill that aims to prohibit the majority of abortions after the 12-week mark. The measure to override Cooper’s veto required a three-fifths majority in both chambers, which was easily achieved owing to the Republican supermajority. The state House voted […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis late Thursday signed into law a ban on abortions after six weeks, shortly after the Florida House passed the bill. “We are proud to support life and family in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said in a statement. “I applaud the legislature for passing the Heartbeat Protection Act that expands pro-life […]

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 […]

A judge in Indiana on Sept. 22 blocked the state’s new ban on abortion. The law went into effect a week prior, banning most abortions at all stages of pregnancy but allowing exceptions for rape, incest, and health reasons.

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 […]

Louisiana’s abortion ban is prevented from being enforced for a second time after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order late Tuesday. Judge Donald Johnson in Baton Rouge granted the temporary restraining order and set a hearing on July 18 at 8:30 a.m. CT for both sides to argue the case. Kathaleen Pittman, director of […]

A judge has temporarily blocked an abortion ban in Kentucky that came into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on June 24 that overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The Kentucky abortion ban, passed in 2019, has an exception that lets the doctor perform the abortion if it is deemed necessary […]

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law a measure that would ban abortion starting at conception, with few exceptions allowed. The measure, Oklahoma HB 4327, now becomes the strictest abortion restriction signed into law in the United States. It prohibits doctors from carrying out abortions after pregnancy. Exceptions include in the event that […]