Casey Smith, Indiana Capital Chronicle Indiana Supreme Court Justices will decide the future of Indiana’s near-total abortion ban after hearing oral arguments over the constitutionality of the new law on Thursday. Attorneys for abortion care providers maintained that the ban will “severely” injure women and girls, while lawyers for the …
Read More »State Abortion Bans Are Preventing Cancer Patients From Getting Chemotherapy
Shefali Luthra This story was originally published by The 19th. A six-week abortion ban in Ohio has forced people with cancer to travel out of state for abortions that are necessary to continue with life-saving treatment, according to affidavits submitted by abortion providers in the state. In at least two …
Read More »Virtually All Abortions Are Now Criminalized In Arizona After Judge Reinstates 1864 Ban
Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror A near-total ban on abortion in Arizona that was written in 1864 but has been blocked since 1973 can now be enforced, a Pima County judge ruled late Friday afternoon, criminalizing almost every abortion in the Grand Canyon State. In August, Attorney General Mark Brnovich …
Read More »Judge Issues Preliminary Injunction, Pausing Indiana’s Near-Total Abortion Ban
Casey Smith, Indiana Capital Chronicle An Owen County judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday in a lawsuit that seeks to strike down Indiana’s near-total abortion ban — halting the state’s new abortion law that officially took effect Sept. 15. Judge Kelsey Blake Hanlon, a Republican, said in her ruling that …
Read More »West Virginia Lawmakers Pass Near-Total Abortion Ban
Ian Karbal, Mountain State Spotlight The West Virginia Legislature has passed a near-total abortion ban, after negotiations among Republican lawmakers who seven weeks ago were unable to agree on how strict the ban should be. The state Senate passed the bill by a 22-7 vote. The House of Delegates approved it …
Read More »‘Republicans Keep Showing Us Who They Are’: Graham to Intro Federal Abortion Ban
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is expected to introduce legislation Tuesday that would ban abortion nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a proposal that reproductive rights defenders warned is a signal of the draconian policy agenda the GOP intends to pursue if it retakes Congress in the upcoming November midterms. Graham …
Read More »Texans Who Perform Abortions Now Face Up To Life In Prison, $100,000 Fine
Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune Performing an abortion is now a felony punishable by up to life in prison in Texas after the state’s trigger law, which has only narrow exceptions to save the life of a pregnant patient, went into effect Thursday. The law was “triggered” when the U.S. …
Read More »Indiana Becomes First State To Pass Abortion Ban After Roe v. Wade Reversal
Mariel Padilla, The 19th With the passage of a near-total abortion ban Friday night, Indiana became the first state to pass an abortion restriction after Roe v. Wade, which protected the federal right to abortion, was overturned. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 1, which is set to go …
Read More »U.S. Department of Justice Sues Idaho Over Abortion Trigger Ban
Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the state of Idaho over the state’s trigger law that will ban nearly all abortions. The law is scheduled to take effect on Aug. 25, unless the Idaho Supreme Court puts the law on a temporary hold after …
Read More »Louisiana Abortion Ban Temporarily Lifted By New Orleans Judge
by Julie O’Donoghue, Louisiana Illuminator A state district judge in New Orleans on Monday temporarily lifted Louisiana’s abortion ban until July 8, when the court will consider a legal challenge to the ban from a Shreveport abortion clinic, the clinic’s administrator and a medical student abortion rights organization based at …
Read More »Oklahoma’s House Passes A Near-Total Abortion Ban
Mariel Padilla Originally published by The 19th Oklahoma’s state House on Tuesday voted 78-19 to pass a near complete ban on abortions, legislation that far surpasses Texas’ six-week ban. The bill is now headed to the Senate and, if passed, will be the strictest anti-abortion bill in the country. The …
Read More »Texas abortion law challenge heads to state’s supreme court, likely adding more delays to case
By Lomi Kriel, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica Jan. 17, 2022 The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday sent the legal challenge to Texas’ restrictive abortion law to the state’s Supreme Court, a move that is expected to significantly delay the case and that abortion opponents had hoped …
Read More »Supreme Court Seems Skeptical About Texas Abortion Law
A majority on the US Supreme Court appeared to be leaning Monday towards blocking a Texas law that bans abortion after six weeks. The court fast-tracked two separate but related cases (Whole Women’s Health v. Jackson and United States v. Texas) to be heard Monday, and spent about three hours …
Read More »Supreme Court to hear oral arguments Monday over Texas abortion ban
On Monday, The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on Texas’ six-week abortion ban. The controversial law, which took effect in September, makes it illegal for a woman to get an abortion after six weeks– a period in which women typically aren’t aware that they are pregnant. In addition, the …
Read More »Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Block Texas Abortion Ban
On Monday, the Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to block SB8, a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks. The administration claims the measure is unconstitutional, that it was purposefully designed to evade judicial review, and violates the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which enshrined …
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