California could become one of the first states — if not the first — to create explicit constitutional rights to both abortion and contraception.
Read More »Physician Reaction to Historic Supreme Court Ruling Overturning Roe v Wade
Although the majority opinion states that the decision applies only to abortion, doctors are concerned that by eroding the constitutional right to privacy, the decision has the potential to restrict the ability of patients to access contraception or fertility treatments.
Read More »If Supreme Court Reverses Roe V. Wade, 22 States Poised To Ban Abortion
What would the U.S. look like without Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide? That’s the question now that President Donald Trump ...
Read More »Trump’s Next High Court Pick Likely To Target Abortion. Is That What The Public Wants?
President Donald Trump has vowed that his nominees to the Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized ...
Read More »Supreme Court Vacancy Creates Confusion For Future Of Reproductive Rights
The death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has complicated the fate of many major cases before the Supreme Court this term. But few issues face ...
Read More »U.S. abortion rate at lowest since Roe v. Wade
The U.S. abortion rate has declined by more than one-third over the past two decades to a record low, federal officials reported Friday. Abortions fell ...
Read More »Tough Texas Abortion Law Likely Headed to Supreme Court
By David Crary and Juan Carlos Llorca ASSOCIATED PRESS EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Abortion-rights lawyers are predicting “a showdown” at the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Read More »Judge Says Mom Can Choose To Block Dad From Delivery Room
By Alan Lyndon A New Jersey court has ruled that a woman about to give birth has control of the delivery room and can choose ...
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