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Some state abortion bans stir confusion, and it’s uncertain if lawmakers will clarify them
By Kimberlee Kruesi and Geoff Mulvihill On December 30, 2023 Ever since the nation’s highest court ended abortion rights more than a year ago, vaguely worded bans enacted in some Republican-controlled states have caused bewilderment over how exceptions should be applied. Supporters have touted these exemptions, tucked inside statutes restricting abortion, as sufficient enough to…
Pharmacist refused emergency contraception prescription. Court to decide if that was discrimination
By Trisha Ahmed On December 21, 2023 Attorneys for a woman who was denied emergency contraception in 2019 told the Minnesota Court of Appeals Thursday that the pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription discriminated against her on the basis of her sex. But an attorney for George Badeaux, the pharmacist at Thrifty White in…
Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion
By Brendan Pierson On December 7, 2023 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court order allowing her to obtain one for medical necessity. Paxton said in a letter that the order by District Court Judge…
US Supreme Court declines chance to restrict abortion clinic ‘bubble’ zones
By Andrew Chung On December 11, 2023 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed up a chance to consider overruling its own precedent allowing protective “bubble” zones around abortion clinic patients, turning away a challenge by a Catholic woman in New York to a now-repealed county law passed after the justices overturned abortion rights nationally…
US Supreme Court to decide access to abortion pill in major case
By Andrew Chung On December 14, 2023 The U.S. Supreme Court, which in 2022 ended its recognition of a constitutional right to abortion, on Wednesday agreed to hear a bid by President Joe Biden’s administration to preserve broad access to the abortion pill, setting up another major ruling on reproductive rights set to come in a presidential…
Abortion battles shift to medical emergencies, travel
By Brendan Pierson On December 27, 2023 The legal landscape surrounding abortion has been roiled by uncertainty since the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which had guaranteed abortion rights nationwide. Abortion providers and reproductive rights groups have brought a slew of lawsuits seeking to invalidate new bans…
Adoption Agencies Under Pressure 18 Months After Roe v Wade Overturned
By Kate Plummer On December 24, 2023 On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court released a ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that protected a pregnant woman’s right to choose to have an abortion “without undue restrictive interference from the government.” Since ruling on the case at the heart of the Supreme Court’s decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health…
Abortion Activists Are Winning
By Khaleda Rahman On December 27, 2023 In the 18 months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, sending the issue of abortion to the states, abortion rights supporters have won time and time again. Most recently, voters in the increasingly Republican-leaning state of Ohio resoundingly approved an amendment to the state constitution to protect abortion access.…
Women’s rights and women wronged in 2023
By Agence France-Presse On December 28, 2023 The year saw progress on women’s rights in some countries, such as Spain’s introduction of menstrual leave, France’s bid to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution and the arrival of the #MeToo movement in Taiwan. But there were also setbacks in 2023, from Taliban edicts tightening restrictions on…