abortion

Depending on how the Supreme Court rules on Mississippi’s abortion law, the legality of the medical procedure could be decided state-by-state, says Florida State professor and author Mary Ziegler. “There are going to be large regions, mostly across the South and Midwest, where abortion is entirely illegal. And it’s going to be much more difficult for many people in the...

“If you have access to money to take a plane or take a train or go somewhere where abortion is safe and legal, you’ll do that,” says Kim Wehle, professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She says if the Supreme Court guts Roe v. Wade, “you just might not have any option but to carry a child...

With the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments about Mississippi’s abortion law and another in Texas, “there is pretty much no question that abortion rights will be cut back. The question is to what extent,” says University of Miami professor Caroline Mala Corbin.

The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, marks the most significant challenge to abortion rights in decades.

Anti-abortion petitioners in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health argue that Roe v. Wade should be overturned.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority justices are signaling they will allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy

It’s the moment conservatives have been waiting for

Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion

On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion is imperiled as never before.

The FDA is reviewing some restrictions on medication abortion after a lawsuit from the ACLU – but the practice is under threat from state laws that are restricting abortion access. We explain more in this LXplanation.

The U.S. Supreme Court seemed pretty skeptical on whether states could limit challenges to their laws – with justices wondering if the Texas abortion law SB-8 exploits a loophole. That could open up more litigation about the validity of the law overall, Florida State law professor Mary Ziegler explains. The main case that will shape the future of abortion policy...

Some of the justices who had previously rejected a bid to block the Texas law signaled they were concerned about the way it was written.

Abortion and guns are front and center as the Supreme Court heads back to the bench to hear oral arguments in some of the term’s highest-profile cases.

The Biden administration and abortion-rights providers in separate briefs slammed the Texas law as unconstitutional and designed to avoid court review.

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a Texas law that bans most abortions after as early as six weeks of pregnancy, the court said Friday.

If the Supreme Court considers arguments to overturn Roe v. Wade’s precedent for abortion rights, “it should reject them,” the Justice Department said.

The petitioners last month had submitted the unusual request for the Supreme Court to take up the case before final judgment in lower courts.

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block the enforcement of a Texas law that bans abortions after as early as six weeks of pregnancy.

Legislation in the General Assembly would repeal a law requiring parents be notified at least 48 hours in advance of a minor having an abortion.