Pro-life leaders are accusing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of operating with a “reckless disregard for women’s health and safety” over the agency’s handling of a controversial abortion pill that’s now at the center of a high-stakes high court case. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case that could curb nationwide access to abortion pills …
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The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation. The central dispute in the case is whether the Food and Drug Administration overlooked serious safety problems when it made mifepristone easier to obtain, including …
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said he’d be “amazed” if a fellow justice leaked the court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, which effectively ended the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion. “Do you have a sense of what the motive of the leaker was?” NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Breyer in an interview aired Sunday …
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Wyoming’s Republican Governor Mark Gordon signed into legislation Friday a bill outlawing gender-reassignment procedures on children and vetoed a bill that would have imposed further restrictions on abortion clinics, including required licensure. SF0099, also titled “Children gender change prohibition,” prohibits physicians from performing gender-reassignment procedures on children and administering related medications. The legislation specifically banned “a surgery that sterilizes the …
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Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer weighed in on the 2022 Dobbs ruling leak during a new NBC “Meet The Press” interview, calling it “unfortunate.” Breyer, who retired in 2022 after the ruling and was replaced by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, spoke to the network about how he tried to remain “calm” during such a chaotic event. Still, he acknowledged …
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Virginia officials agreed not to force Christian ministries to violate their religious beliefs in a new settlement agreement reached Friday. Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom announced it settled its lawsuit filed in 2020 against the state on behalf of two churches, three Christian schools, and a pro-life pregnancy center network objecting to provisions in a state anti-discrimination law. In …
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Former President Trumpsuggested Tuesday that he would support a ban on abortions at around 15 weeks of pregnancy, touting the time period as a uniting factor for the nation. “We’re going to come up with a time — and maybe we could bring the country together on that issue,” Trump said while calling into the “Sid & Friends in the …
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An Arizona lawmaker announced on the state Senate floor Monday that she plans to have an abortion after learning that her pregnancy is not viable. State Sen. Eva Burch, a registered nurse known for her reproductive rights activism, was surrounded by fellow Democratic senators as she made the announcement, The Arizona Republic reported. Burch said that she found out a …
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Tuesday’s Democratic primary for one of three contested seats on the Ohio Supreme Court will kick off a high-stakes battle for partisan control of the court this fall. The court, which currently has a 4-3 Republican majority, holds sway over how to implement an amendment to the state constitution protecting abortion rights that voters overwhelmingly approved last year. Ohio is …
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