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Abortion

Published
June 16, 2023

Abortion providers in North Carolina file federal lawsuit challenging state’s new restrictions

North Carolina has been one of the few remaining Southern states with relatively easy access to abortions in the wake of last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision to strip away constitutional protections for abortion.
Published
June 4, 2023

Commentary: Resistance to abortion rights is about keeping women down

I consider the value of a potential life against the value of a woman’s lived life to the point she becomes pregnant, and I come down on the side of that lived life.
Published
May 26, 2023

Judge halts South Carolina’s new, stricter abortion law

Judge Clifton Newman's ruling that put the state’s abortion law back at roughly 20 weeks came about 24 hours after Gov. Henry McMaster signed the bill into law without any notice.
Published
May 26, 2023

Letters to the editor: Abortion; town meeting
Published
May 22, 2023

More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law

More Texas women who were told they could not end pregnancies with fatal fetal anomalies or that endangered their health are challenging the state's restrictive abortion laws.

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Published
May 16, 2023

Abortion after 12 weeks banned in North Carolina after lawmakers override governor’s veto

The votes came as abortion rights in the U.S. faced another tectonic shift with lawmakers in South Carolina and Nebraska also considering new abortion limits.
Published
May 12, 2023

Lawmakers consider adding right to bodily autonomy to Maine Constitution

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Craig Hickman, has raised a host of possible scenarios that likely would need to be sorted out by the courts if the amendment were to pass.
Published
May 10, 2023

Vermont governor signs first-in-nation bill shielding access to medication abortion

The Republican governor signed bills into law that explicitly include protecting access to a medication widely used in abortions even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of the pill, mifepristone.
Published
May 6, 2023

Over-the-counter birth control pill faces FDA questions

Opill could become the first contraceptive pill to be moved out from behind the pharmacy counter onto store shelves or online.
Published
May 5, 2023

Anti-abortion bills draw advocates back to Maine’s State House

While the crowd was much smaller than the one that packed the Capitol for Monday's abortion debate, lawmakers heard several hours of testimony Friday on bills proposed by abortion opponents.