Alabama lawmakers strengthen restrictions on abortion clinics
Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation Tuesday which imposes tough restrictions on abortion clinics and practitioners within the state. The Women's Health and Safety Act was passed in the Alabama Senate by a 22-10 vote [AL.com...
Arkansas legislature overrides governor's veto of voter ID bill
The Arkansas House of Representatives on Monday voted 52-45 to override Governor Mike Beebe's veto of a bill that requires voters to provide photo identification. Since the state senate voted March...
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple on Tuesday signed three laws, HB 1305, HB 1456 and SB 2305 , which impose the nation's most severe restrictions on abortion. These new laws, respectively, ban abortion ...
The North Dakota House of Representatives approved legislation on Friday that bans abortion by defining life as beginning at conception. The legislation, known as the personhood measure, passed by a vote of 57-35 . The North...
Philippines Supreme Court temporarily blocks state funding for contraceptives
The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Tuesday temporarily blocked implementation of a law that provides for state funding of contraceptives. The legislation , which was signed into law last year following approval ...
A federal judge on Thursday struck down a Missouri health insurance law that required insurers to issue policies without contraception coverage if individuals or employers objected for religious or moral reasons. Judge Audrey Fleissig for the...
The North Dakota legislature passed two bills Friday that would place strict limits on abortion, banning non-emergency abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected and barring terminations sought because of genetic abnormalities. HB 1305 and HB 1456 ...
Judge Lynn Winmill of the US District Court for the District of Idaho on Wednesday struck down Idaho's "fetal pain" statute, which banned most abortions after 20 weeks. The bill, called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child...
Arkansas legislature overrides governor's veto of 12-week abortion ban
The Arkansas legislature voted Wednesday to override Governor Mike Beebe's recent veto of the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act , which bans abortions "of an unborn human individual whose heartbeat has been detected ......
Oklahoma Attorney General E Scott Pruitt on Tuesday filed a petition asking the US Supreme Court to review a decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court which struck down two...
