How conservative media weaponized a story about a 10-year-old and abortion
In a matter of days, a case described in a news story in Indiana turned into a national flashpoint in the culture wars. An Indy Star story included the case
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State judge blocks Louisiana from enforcing abortion ban
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana authorities have once again been blocked from enforcing a near total ban on abortion, this time under a judge’s order released Tuesday by a state court
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Federal judge blocks Arizona’s ‘personhood’ abortion law
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge in Phoenix on Monday blocked a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children and that abortion rights groups said
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Roe v. Wade: How abortion came to divide U.S. politics
WASHINGTON – Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, the issue has become one of the defining fault lines in U.S. politics,
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Supreme Court’s abortion decision puts doctors in legal limbo : Shots
Dr. Kara Beasley protests the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, in Denver, Colorado on June 24, 2022. JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle
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Texas Supreme Court blocks lower court order for clinics to resume abortions – National
The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had allowed clinics in the state to continue performing abortions even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it’s landmark
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Some U.S. states will try to arrest women travelling for abortion, Biden says – National
President Joe Biden predicted on Friday that some U.S. states will try to arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the procedures nationwide. Thirteen Republican-led states banned or severely restricted
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Same-sex couples in U.S. concerned after abortion ruling
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Emails and phone calls from same-sex couples, worried about the legal status of their marriages and keeping their children, flooded attorney Sydney Duncan’s office within hours
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U.S. officials fight over enforcement of abortion laws dating back to 1800s
In Arizona, Republicans are fighting among themselves over whether a 121-year-old anti-abortion law from the pre-statehood Wild West days, when Arizona was still a frontier mining territory, should be enforced
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