Emergency Contraception Fills in Massachusetts Spiked After This Policy Change
Making emergency contraception easier to get leads to more people getting emergency contraception. Who would've guessed?
Making emergency contraception easier to get leads to more people getting emergency contraception. Who would've guessed?
The party platform previously called for a constitutional amendment to protect unborn children. Now, it says abortion should be left to the states.
Two years after the Dobbs decision, Americans are increasingly concerned with how abortion bans affect women with wanted pregnancies.
Upcoming legislation would repeal parts of the 1873 law that could be used to target abortion, but the Comstock Act's reach is much more broad than that.
A handful of Republican lawmakers worked with Democrats to repeal an 1864 law banning most abortions.
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A "desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the Court's opinion.
The "most pro-life president in American history" cannot please hardline activists without alienating voters.
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There are no good sides in today's Supreme Court case concerning the EMTALA and abortion.
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Reproductive freedom initiatives are advancing toward November ballots, putting the matter of abortion access in voters' hands.
The case hinged on statutory interpretation, not the merits of the state's 1864 ban.
His embrace of federalism is one of those rare instances when political expedience coincides with constitutional principles.
The former and would-be president is keen to avoid alienating voters who reject both kinds of extremism on the issue.
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After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos were children, legislators scrambled to protect in vitro fertilization clinics.
Allowing surrogacy brokers to be paid is good. Allowing surrogates themselves to be paid would be better.
Two-thirds of Americans oppose the Alabama ruling that claims frozen embryos are equivalent to children.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.
A state judge ruled that a lawsuit seeking clarification on Idaho's vague abortion ban can move forward, despite dismissing some of the suit's claims.
The Court announced today that it would take up a case involving access to the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone.
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Abortion issues come before two other state Supreme Courts—in Arizona and Wyoming—this week as well.
The Court has been asked to intervene in cases involving abortion pills and criminal prosecution of abortion doctors.
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A wave of ballot measures reminds us most Americans are moderate on abortion.
The former president is right to worry that supporting restrictions on abortion could hurt him in the general election.
Despite state-level bans, new data show around 46,000 more abortions were performed during the first six months of 2023 than during the same period in 2020.
Alabamans have no right "to conspire with others in Alabama to try to have abortions performed out of state," argues Attorney General Steve Marshall.
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For now, doctors who end pregnancies when a woman’s life is at risk can still be prosecuted.
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A study from researchers at Johns Hopkins is the first to look at the effects of Texas' 2021 "Heartbeat Act" on live births.
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Americans’ opinions are more nuanced than headlines suggest, leaving little room for total bans.
It's one small victory for free speech and due process, but similar battles continue to play out elsewhere.
If a national consensus on abortion ever emerges, it won’t be forged in the White House.
Mifepristone will remain on the market for now with no changes to how it can be prescribed.