Texas moves to ban taxpayer-funded abortion travel
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A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot require employers to provide accommodations to employees who get abortions, striking down a rule adopted during the administration of Democratic former President Joe Biden.
Reproductive rights advocates are suing Arizona to unravel several laws regulating abortion access in the state.
The lawsuit said the laws create restrictions that do not pass muster after voters created a right to an abortion in the Arizona Constitution.
That bill passed the Texas Senate in mid-April. An amended version passed the Texas House, with a narrower margin than the abortion clarification bill. The clarification legislation received widespread support from a variety of lawmakers and advocacy groups, to a degree that’s unusual for an abortion-related bill.
The National Abortion Federation says that 65% of providers in Colorado reported trespassing at clinics in 2023 and 2024 — one of the highest percentages in the nation.
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Yet even as the number of clinics has dropped nationally, about 80% of clinician-provided abortions are still done by brick-and-mortar clinics, according to the most recent #WeCount report, which looked at 2024 data from April to June.
Catholic hospitals run 20% of California's maternity wards. Their policies generally prohibit abortion, even in miscarriage, as long as a heartbeat can be detected.
Pregnant women and some family members would be allowed to sue anyone who helps provide drugs like mifepristone and misoprostol meant to induce an abortion under proposed legislation.
A Wisconsin appeals court judge who was an outspoken supporter of abortion rights in the state Legislature is running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
A new lawsuit seeks to overturn a trio of abortion restrictions based on the sweeping reproductive rights measure Arizona voters approved last year. The big picture: Voters in November overwhelmingly passed Proposition 139,