Republicans at a Right to Life rally in Frankfort emphasized a need to maintain the state’s strict abortion ban without exceptions. Meanwhile, GOP bills to add exceptions haven’t moved.
With abortion policy left to the states, far-right GOP lawmakers in nearly a dozen ultraconservative states — already with some of the nation's strictest abortion bans — are trying to tighten the reigns even more for pregnant people by opening them up to murder charges.
As Americans face the reality of President Donald Trump's second term and the mass firings, takeover of federal agencies by billionaire mogul Elon Musk, and looming trade war that have come with it, the direct democracy advocacy group Fairness Project warned of a "major attack" on voters' rights taking place at the state level across the country.
The president's order aimed at expanding access to IVF has come under fire from groups opposing the discarding of unused embryos.
A third bill to remove the rape exception from West Virginia’s total abortion ban has hit the state’s legislature—all within a two-week period.
Abortions resumed in Missouri over the weekend following a ruling blocking regulations that clinics said made it impossible to provide abortions despite a new constitutional amendment for reproductive rights,
A group of Republican lawmakers want to remove the rape and incest exception in West Virginia’s near total abortion ban. It’s one of several abortion-related measures introduced so far this session in the overwhelming Republican legislature that aim to discourage individuals from having the procedure.
North Dakota and Tennessee have passed similar laws in recent years with support from the anti-abortion group that makes the “Baby Olivia” video.
An Arizona House committee has approved legislation that would impose new requirements and restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs, and another measure could affect health clinic funding if the