In Florida, Arizona and Texas, laws that target undocumented people or deny them driver's licenses make it especially difficult for them to travel out of state for care.
Led by Andrea Campbell of Massachusetts, the top lawyers from blue states want to use shield laws, legal hotlines and “reproductive justice” units to secure abortion rights.
At A Woman’s Choice in Jacksonville, staffers treated a surge of last-minute patients before the May 1 deadline. Now, they will have to refer most of them out of state.
In a case before the Supreme Court, Idaho is contesting EMTALA, a law that requires federally-funded hospitals to provide stabilizing emergency care — including, in some cases, abortion.
A new Biden administration rule means that doctors cannot turn abortion-related records over to law enforcement.
Nonprofits help people cross state lines for abortions. Now those journeys will be longer and costlier — and donations are dwindling.
The statewide ban had been blocked while Roe was the law of the land. It will prohibit abortion except to save the life of the pregnant person.
The presumptive GOP nominee again celebrated the end of Roe v. Wade and did not address whether he would use executive power, an approach anti-abortion groups have been studying.
The court paved the way for a six-week ban passed in 2023 to take effect.
The justices questioned whether the doctors have been harmed by the drug's availability, but some also probed how a dormant anti-obscenity law might apply to the pills. Their decision could have profound effects on abortion access and the FDA's authority.