Tagged: Reproductive Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down a Texas law that shut down more than half of the state’s abortion clinics over the span of three years. It was the court’s first major ruling...
U.S. state legislatures and lower courts are moving forward on a flurry of abortion related measures, all while a potentially landmark abortion case lingers before a divided Supreme Court that remains one justice shy...
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This week the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider reviving what would have been the most restrictive abortion law in the country – North Dakota’s so-called “Fetal Heartbeat Law.” The law would have banned...
This week marks the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, a case that codified a woman’s right to choose whether to carry a pregnancy to term or to have...
The Senate passed a budget reconciliation bill Thursday night. Senate Democrats introduced a number of amendments on gun safety, all of which failed. The bill that passed included a provision that takes aim at...
In Colorado, funding cuts are threatening a unique birth control program that some say is the most successful initiative nationwide for dropping rates of unplanned pregnancies. Hannah Leigh Myers reports from Denver. Download Audio...
Reproductive rights advocates have been in the streets in Louisiana and Texas this week, protesting laws that could shutter nearly all health clinics providing abortion services in their respective states. Barring court intervention, the...
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that some private companies can use religion as an argument to refuse to pay for certain types of contraception mandated by the Affordable Health Care Act....
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday morning in a case that will likely decide if secular, for-profit companies can opt out of parts of the Affordable Care Act – also known as...