Proposed amendment also includes anti-transgender regulations, complicating the abortion issue for voters. | Opinion
A contest for control of Wisconsin’s top court may be even nastier and more expensive than its bitter 2023 predecessor, with the fate of an 1849 abortion ban and other policies at stake.
Democrats counted on a backlash against overturning Roe v. Wade to propel Vice President Harris into the White House. This was the first presidential election since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that ended Roe and returned abortion law to the states.
SB 846, filed by Sen. Bryan Hughes would give unprecedented prosecutorial powers to the attorney general on issues of voter fraud and abortion.
Reproductive rights are now enshrined in the state constitution, but Missouri’s main abortion provider is fighting legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure. Meanwhile, anti-abortion lawmakers strategize to prevent a return of abortion services.
One of the Trump administration’s actions that supporters of abortion rights found most alarming — and that opponents were quick to celebrate — was tucked into an executive order that had nothing to do with abortion at all.
The resolution, if passed by voters, would remove the provisions that were in Amendment 3 and instead allow abortion only in cases of rape, incest, medical emergencies or fetal anomalies. It would also restrict transgender youth from accessing appropriate health care.
Abortion foes worried before his election that President Donald Trump had moved on, now that Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion policy, as he said on the campaign trail, "has been returned to the states.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said, "Again and again, at every turn, some Republicans and the Trump administration have pushed forward dangerous policies intended to threaten access to abortion care. I think it's just shameful.
Abortion-related ballot initiatives were voted on in 10 states during the election. Here is a state-by-state breakdown of where abortion currently stands in each state. Despite Kamala Harris' loss ...
Planned Parenthood hopes a Jackson County judge will reconsider a December decision that kept some abortion restrictions in place.
The vast majority of Texans support exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban for rape, incest and fetal anomaly, a new poll shows. The poll, conducted online by the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs in January,