The highest-ranking woman in the United States has made reproductive health a priority. Her response to Dobbs could be her defining test.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer leads a state with a Republican-controlled legislature. The dynamic complicates her options in response to the overturning of federal abortion rights.
The largest abortion provider in Arizona feels it’s too dangerous to continue with procedures after the Supreme Court decision, even as state laws are unclear.
Advocates say the president has more power than he’s exercising, but Biden says executive orders won’t restore abortion access.
In states with “trigger” laws, abortion services came to a halt on Friday morning as news rippled through clinic lobbies and patients, whose appointments were minutes outside of the window to receive care, had to be turned away.
“After today, young women will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote.
The administration may try to “preempt” state laws banning medication abortions, officials suggested.
As a 'major player' in creating anti-abortion legislation, Americans United for Life is exploring what is now possible by offering states model bills they can adapt or adopt in full.
Thirteen states have trigger laws on the books that immediately, or very quickly, banned abortion after the Supreme Court’s decision Friday.
The court’s majority and concurring opinion preview a debate over protections such as the right to marriage equality, contraception, interracial marriage and same-sex relations.