‘Patients cannot go to court to challenge a law while hemorrhaging,’ lawsuit says

The Attorney General’s Office has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to keep the state’s abortion ban in effect while it mulls over a lower court’s decision finding the law unconstitutional.

Three attorneys general argue federal laws around the mifepristone make it difficult for states to enforce abortion bans

Agency’s general counsel resigned in protest

Ohio women 50 and older are headed to the polls having lived through the days before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, during the time when abortion was legal, and now, after the decision was overturned in 2022 and power given to each state to decide.

On Thursday, Democrat Jennifer McCormick released her gubernatorial plan to promote abortion rights within the state’s near-total abortion ban, detailing the executive actions she’d take if elected to bypass a Republican-led General Assembly.

A Republican candidate for the Minnesota House said he believes abortion should be limited, and expressed openness to abortion bans after the 5th or 6th week of pregnancy

More doctors are considering leaving or retiring early, while fewer medical students are applying to obstetrics and gynecology residencies in Texas.

Majority of abortions still happening before nine weeks gestation

6 states accounted for the majority of cases documented by researchers.

Because of the way state-level abortion protections were established in Nevada, abortion law is largely shielded from meddling by state lawmakers.

The report found that nearly half of reported cases came from Alabama.

“This is not the end all, be all,” state Sen. Elizabeth Coleman said. “And I think you will see efforts, win or lose, for Missourians to get another say in this”

Harris plans Georgia Friday visit to campaign for reproductive rights

‘You can’t expect politicians … to do the right thing for the right reason’

First state to vote on competing abortion initiatives on same ballot

The director of one of the campaign’s biggest donors said it’s impossible to ‘achieve anything without a campaign that is grounded in grassroots support and the support of Missouri voters’

U.S. House Democrats introduced a resolution Thursday that would clarify when health care providers can use abortion as emergency medical care amid a patchwork of state laws that has led to dozens of stories of women being turned away from emergency departments when experiencing complications or miscarriages.

In the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court started allowing states — what has become almost half of the country — to ban all or most abortions, doctors continue to report that these laws have detrimentally changed their jobs and the quality of care they can provide pregnant patients.

The percentage of people who say they’ve tried to end a pregnancy without medical assistance increased after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. That’s according to a study published Tuesday in the online journal JAMA Network Open.

Both Protect the Right to Abortion and Protect Women and Children qualify for the November ballot

Voters will get to decide whether they want abortion protected in the Montana Constitution.

Most major party leaders who took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, mentioned that Vice President Kamala Harris would work to restore federal abortion rights if elected president.

There were 18,488 abortions performed in Ohio in 2022, a 27.4% decrease compared to 2012, according to Abortion Forward.

Republican U.S. House candidate Joe Teirab’s anti-abortion views run so deep that he attributes his very existence to anti-abortion advocates.

Ohio Senate candidate faces tough choices about reproductive rights

The ballot question was among four citizen-led measures certified by the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office for the November ballot

New data studying state funding for anti-abortion centers showed Ohio provided more than $22 million to groups in the state since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturned national abortion rights.

Both the overall number of abortions and the use of telehealth abortion care continue to increase in the United States, according to the latest #WeCount report released Wednesday.

District court did not err when it granted an injunction blocking enforcement of 2020 near-total abortion ban, Supreme Court rules. Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit will continue to play out while lawmakers look to restrict current 18-week ban, possibly to 6 weeks.