Reproductive Justice, Rights & Health

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Judge excoriates ‘unprecedented scheme’ to deny women abortion right as law faces uncertain future

Law enforcement official confirms arrest and charge but police do not say under which law Lizelle Herrera charged

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A Texas judge on Tuesday blocked officials from enforcing a dormant 1925 abortion ban.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Friday that the federal government will ask the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision on a restrictive Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.

The case comes to the high court as advocates on both sides of the abortion debate are questioning the court's commitment to its Roe v. Wade decision.

Expect a challenge to Arizona's anti-abortion laws and a threat of prosecution for abortion providers after Roe v. Wade was repealed, experts say.

Police fired tear gas to disperse abortion rights backers demonstrating  from outside the Arizona Capitol Friday night, forcing lawmakers to huddle briefly in a basement inside the building as they rushed to complete their 2022 session

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Pima County Superior Court ruled Friday to lift the injunction on a pre-statehood ban.

09.28.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) Tonight, a federal district court judge granted a request by Arizona physicians and advocates to

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All Planned Parenthood Arizona locations and at least four independent clinics are pausing abortions in the wake of Friday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Dr Alan Braid of San Antonio became the first provider to reveal he violated the law in a Washington Post opinion piece

The lawsuit challenges provisions in the bill that ban certain abortions and equate fetuses to people.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years, a judge ruled Friday, meaning clinics statewide will have to stop providing the procedures to avoid the filing of criminal charges against doctors and other medical workers.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) on Tuesday signed into law sprawling anti-abortion legislation that bans the procedure if a mother is seeking to terminate a pregnancy due to a genetic abnormality in a …

Arizona’s Republican attorney general on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to allow the state’s ban on abortions based on genetic abnormalities to go into effect.The request by Arizona Attorney Gener…

AN ACT: AMENDING TITLE 36, CHAPTER 23, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, BY ADDING ARTICLE 3; RELATING TO ABORTIONll

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We must stand up to politicians who want to restrict people’s ability to make their own health care decisions in consultation with their doctors.

National Background and ContextEach year, a broad cross section of people in the United States obtain abortions. In 2017, 862,320 abortions were provided in clinical settings in the United States.The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and has reaffirmed that right in subsequent decisions.

Reproductive freedom and voting are intrinsically linked. 'As long as women's reproductive freedom continues to be politicized, women must vote.' 'Controlling women’s bodies has been a method of subjugation for

WASHINGTON • The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives plans to debate and vote on legislation aimed at stopping states from enacting tough anti-abortion regulations like the one in Texas, Speaker

Three Democrats – Bush, Barbara Lee and Pramila Jayapal – spoke before House oversight committee hearing on reproductive rights

Text for H.R.2694 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Summary of H.R.1581 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act of 2019

Sex and reproductive health-related bills in the U.S. Congress.