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The North Dakota Legislative Assembly passed a bill Monday prohibiting abortion in the state if the US Supreme Court ever declares that such a move would be constitutional. The measure,...

The US Supreme Court issued an order Monday that vacated a 2005 decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit striking down Missouri's 1999 "partial birth" abortion ban....

Two US lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday to prohibit the government from interfering with a woman's right to have an abortion following the Wednesday's US Supreme Court decision upholding a federal ban on "partial-birth" abortions . Sen. Barbara Boxer...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 . In Gonzales v. Carhart , the Court held that groups challenging...

President Bush Monday celebrated his administration's anti-abortion record in a telephone address to pro-life marchers demonstrating in Washington DC on the anniversary of the 1972 Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court ruling. Bush told the gathering that...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the consolidated cases of Gonzales v. Carhart , 05-380, and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood [Duke...

JURIST Guest Columnist Adam Samaha of the University of Chicago Law School says that this Term's US Supreme Court cases will likely reveal whether we have a new boss on the Court who can push its decisions in new directions,...

The US Supreme Court on Monday announced it would hear a second case challenging the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 . The court granted certiorari in Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in four cases Tuesday. In Cunningham v. California, the Court will consider whether California's determinate sentencing law is invalid because judges are able to impose increased sentences based on their own findings of...

MSNBC is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case concerning the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act .The Bush administration in September appealed to the Supreme...