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A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruled Sunday that Louisiana must continue to provide Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics for 14 days. Judge John deGravelles's...

The Superior Court of Maricopa County on Thursday struck down a 2012 Arizona law that mandated abortion pills be regulated according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as violating the state constitution. The law...

California pregnancy clinics on Saturday filed suit challenging a new state law that would require them to inform women and girls that come to their clinics of abortion services provided by the state. This is the first law...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Utah on Tuesday blocked an order by Governor Gary Herbert that would have prevented Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds after the...

The US Senate on Tuesday voted against a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation. Supporters of the bill, which needed 60 votes but only received 54, contend...

The US House of Representatives on Friday approved the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 , a bill that would cut all federal funding to women's healthcare provider Planned Parenthood . The vote followed...

Planned Parenthood on Friday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama , alleging that Alabama Governor Robert Bentley's termination of Medicaid provider agreements for the facility violates...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Tuesday that challenges Alabama's same-sex marriage ban. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of April Aaron-Brush and Ginger Aaron Brush, a same-sex couple who...

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael J. DeBoer of the Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law discusses the recently passed Women's Health and Safety Act and the challenges facing this legislation... On April 9, 2013, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed...

The Alabama Senate on Thursday approved a bill that requires a parent or guardian's approval before a minor can have abortion. Under the law, a minor wishing to get an abortion without parental consent must...