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Abortion

Nov 12, 2025

Appeals court to hear arguments on law cutting Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds

A federal appeals court will hear arguments Wednesday about whether a spending law passed in July that ended Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood can remain in effect while legal challenges […]

Some details from complaints about South Carolina judges will be made public, the state's Supreme Court ordered Wednesday. (Associated Press file)
Feb 12, 2025

When does a heartbeat start? South Carolina Supreme Court again takes up abortion issue

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With a heartbeat abortion ban solidly in place in South Carolina, lawyers for the state and Planned Parenthood return to the state’s highest court Wednesday to […]

Anti- and pro-abortion protestors argue during competing rallies June 24, 2022, outside a Planned Parenthood of Missouri office in St. Louis. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch file)
Nov 5, 2024

High court races grow costly amid abortion debate

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Abortion and reproductive rights have been central to the races for president and governor in North Carolina, a battleground state that has more moderate abortion restrictions […]

The handsome and dapper appearance of H.H. Holmes was just a façade for the serial killer born Herman Mudgett.
Oct 7, 2024

Law ’n History: Dr. Holmes and Mr. Hyde

By R. Marc Kantrowitz He was a catch. Handsome, of medium height and build, dapper in appearance and dress, exuding wealth. A doctor no less and young, in his later […]

Gov. Maura Healey is one of two Massachusetts officials and a nonprofit official being sued after the state started a campaign urging pregnant women not to seek help from ‘crisis pregnancy centers.’ (Associated Press file)
Aug 30, 2024

Pregnancy centers sue Massachusetts over campaign

BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey launched a $1 million taxpayer-funded initiative in June designed to discourage people from seeking help from “crisis pregnancy centers” that are typically religiously affiliated […]

Planned Parenthood has challenged a new Missouri law that kicked the organizations off the federal Medicaid health insurance program. (Associated Press file)
Aug 28, 2024

Planned Parenthood challenges law that drops clinics from Medicaid

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Two Planned Parenthood affiliates filed legal challenges Monday against a new Missouri law that kicked the organizations off the federal Medicaid health insurance program. Planned Parenthood Great […]

Workers deliver boxes of signed petitions supporting a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban July 5 to the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. (Associated Press file)
Aug 23, 2024

Court decision effectively keeps abortion issue off ballot

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state’s rejection of signature petitions for an abortion rights ballot initiative Thursday, keeping the proposal from going before voters in […]

An armed California was arrested near the home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in June 2022. (Associated Press file)
Aug 22, 2024

Trial date set for Kavanaugh’s would-be assassin

GREENBELT, Md. — A trial is scheduled to start in June 2025 for a California man charged with trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in […]

Abortion opponents protest Jan. 24, 2023, at the south steps of the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (Associated Press file)
Jul 8, 2024

Kansas Supreme Court strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and a ban on a common second-trimester procedure, […]

Cases awaiting decisions this term from the U.S. Supreme Court range from presidential immunity involving former President Donald Trump to abortion to homelessness. (Associated Press file)
Jun 21, 2024

SCOTUS has much to do, little time left to do it

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is headed into its final few weeks with about a third of the cases heard this year still undecided, including ones that could reshape […]

Some progressives have been calling for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire from the Supreme Court so that President Joe Biden can appoint her successor. (Associated Press file)
May 9, 2024

Analysis: Justice’s health isn’t the real issue for Democrats

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Kevin J. McMahon Trinity College It almost sounds like a bad joke: What did […]

Emily Thompson, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Votes South Atlantic, announces a $10 million state voter engagement campaign at a news conference April 25 at Bicentennial Plaza in Raleigh. (Associated Press)
May 2, 2024

Judge rules some NC abortion pill restrictions unlawful

Some North Carolina restrictions on dispensing abortion pills are unlawful because they frustrate the goal of Congress to use federal regulators to ensure the drug is distributed safely, a judge ruled Tuesday.


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