‘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’

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.

Secretary of State Frank LaRose is fond of saying that “it’s easy to vote and hard to cheat” in Ohio elections. But his recent — and not-so-recent — conduct seems to contradict both halves of that formulation, a watchdog says.

The Title IX final rule from the Biden administration includes protections for LGBTQ+ students in schools

Distrust of elections has created tension in tight-knit Michigan communities.

Previously unreported property in Gallatin County goes up by 14% while some neighbors increase by more than 40%

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

Ohio Senate candidate faces tough choices about reproductive rights

A state fair spokesperson said they would cooperate with the city of Dallas’s guidance on the matter.

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

The provisions are part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, which every Republican senator opposed

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.

A south Alabama representative has refiled a bill that would require unemancipated minors to receive parental consent for vaccinations.

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.

Many patients were unaware of the law change, Planned Parenthood staff say

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s ultra-conservative blueprint for the next Republican president, envisions an Ozzie and Harriet-style society where children are raised by married heterosexual parents, unburdened by the prospect of same-sex neighbors or drag queen story hours at the local library.

Thirteen counties in Kansas ceased to offer obstetric care services from 2013 to 2023 — a statistic that points to a shrinking availability of maternal care in Kansas, the lack of which can cause poor outcomes in pregnancy and delivery, overburdened hospitals and long drives for women seeking adequate care.

Amid calls from Republicans to tone down the rhetoric around the election, Gov. Janet Mills reiterated her belief that democracy is on the ballot

‘A victory for common sense itself,’ says Kentucky Attorney General Coleman

Thurston cites law requiring affidavit identifying paid canvassers by name

Andrea Bryant lives in Bethlehem, about a mile from the landfill there. She doesn’t open her windows at night anymore because she’s often been woken up by a thick stench in her house, though the noise still rouses her most mornings.

In Arizona, the state’s highest court upheld a Civil War-era abortion ban. Florida and South Carolina moved to restrict abortion to six weeks — before many people know they are pregnant.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday morning it will take up a challenge to Tennessee’s 2023 ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday signed an executive order establishing the Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

Dozens of Missouri doctors joined in asking the court to uphold a federal law that allows doctors to perform emergency abortions in states with bans

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down a rule enacted following a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that defined a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock attachment as a machine gun, which is generally prohibited under federal law.

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle’s order on Tuesday admonished Florida for trying to regulate gender-affirming care based on “anti-transgender animus.”