The South Carolina Senate approved legislation on Tuesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation. The Senate approved the legislation by a vote of 36-9 allowing exceptions only if the mother's...
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The US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a Louisiana abortion law that would require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges in a nearby hospital and significant surgical upgrades to abortion centers. In a one-sentence order, the...
Louisiana officials respond to emergency abortion law challenge in Supreme Court
Louisiana officials filed a response Wednesday in the US Supreme Court defending a law regulating abortion just days after the court heard oral arguments in another major abortion case from Texas. Clinics on the...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard argument on a Texas law that would require abortion clinics to upgrade facilities to hospital-like standards and would require doctors to have admitting privileges at local...
Louisiana abortion clinics and doctors on Friday filed a new application with the US Supreme Court attempting to block a 2014 state law that would require three of the four remaining abortion clinics in the...
The Indiana Senate on Wednesday released a bill from committee that would ban abortions based on genetic disabilities and would also require aborted or miscarried fetuses to be cremated or interred. The Senate Health and...
Federal appeals court allows Louisiana to enforce abortion restrictions
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Louisiana may enforce an abortion law from 2014 which critics say will result in the closing of most of the state's abortion clinics. The law,...
Oklahoma Supreme Court upholds medication abortion restrictions
The Oklahoma Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision Tuesday, upholding a law that restricts use of medication abortion drugs. The Oklahoma statute restricted the use of Mifeprex and misoprostol, abortion-medication drugs that are generally...
JURIST Guest Columnists James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU), John L. Hick of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Dan Hanfling of the UPMC Center for Health Security and...
Federal judge rules Louisiana cannot enforce abortion law during appeal
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the state of Louisiana cannot enforce an abortion law while the state is appealing a pretrial order against it. US District Judge John deGravelles ruled in January that part of...