Social Movements & the Law

The company has placed a limit of three units per week on emergency contraceptive pills in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

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a challenge to Arizona's anti-abortion laws and a threat of prosecution for abortion providers after Roe v. Wade was repealed, experts say.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

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

Any day now, the Court could protect abortion rights — or open the floodgates for more restrictions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to a showdown over abortion in a case that could dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights. With three justices appointed by President Donald Trump part of a 6-3 conservative majority, the court is taking on a case about whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb.

The Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Senate Democrats on Wednesday accused the U.S. Supreme Court of abusing its "shadow docket" process for considering emergency actions to deliver conservatives major wins on cases involving broad social and political issues without public deliberation.

The cases addressed Trump’s broadening of religious exemptions for providing birth control in the Affordable Care Act

Move by president signals start of White House fightback after supreme court struck down Roe v Wade