Stacey Abrams, current Democrat candidate for Governor of Georgia, is making abortion rights a key issue in her gubernatorial electoral run.
Black activist Rev. Al Sharpton has stepped up to give his opinion on the Supreme Court's shocking ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The grim fate of abortions becoming illegal again got a step closer to becoming reality after a bill packaged as the Women's Health Protection Act failed at Senate.
If the U.S. Supreme Court allows states to further restrict or even ban abortions, Black and Hispanic women will bear the brunt of it according to new statistics analyzed.
Chanel Dickerson, assistant police chief in Washington, D.C., recently came forth with a jaw-dropping claim that as an 18-year-old cadet she was told by MPD to either have an abortion or be fired from the program.
A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state since September.
Even before a strict abortion ban took effect in Texas this week, clinics in neighboring states were fielding growing numbers of calls from women desperate for options.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court sided Tuesday with Texas in allowing it to ban most abortions while the state is under an emergency order that limits non-essential surgeries during the coronavirus pandemic. A panel of judges at the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a decision by a lower court […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The governor and attorney general of Texas are moving to ban most abortions in the state during the coronavirus outbreak, declaring they don’t qualify as essential surgeries. Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that the order issued over the weekend by Gov. Greg Abbott barred “any type of abortion that is […]
The Supreme Court will look over abortion laws, specifically one which will limit Louisiana to one abortion provider. The law requires the doctor performing the abortion to have privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. A similar law in Texas was stricken down in 2016 because it placed an “undue burden” on women seeking abortion.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is adding an abortion case to its busy election-year docket, agreeing to take up a Louisiana law that could leave the state with just one clinic. The justices won’t hear arguments until the winter and a decision is likely to come by the end of June, four months before […]
Lawmakers in California are working on a bill right now that would mandate state funded colleges provide the abortion pill to students. Every year over 2 million college aged women get pregnant which disrupts their work and academic lives, weather they choose to carry the pregnancy to term or not. California would be the first […]
