Abortion

FILE - The historic Arizona Capitol building stands, April 11, 2024, in Phoenix. Democrats in the Arizona House are expected on Wednesday, April 24, to make another attempt to repeal Arizona's near-total abortion ban, which the state's highest court says can be enforced. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Arizona Democrats attempt to repeal the state’s 19th century abortion ban

For a third straight week, Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are attempting to repeal the state’s near-total ban on abortions after a court concluded the state can enforce the long-dormant law that permits the procedure only to save a patient’s life.
 
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, March 7, 2024. The Supreme Court is considering a case that will determine when doctors can provide abortions during medical emergencies in states with bans enacted after the high court's sweeping decision overturning Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court to consider when doctors can provide emergency abortions in states with bans

 
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, March 7, 2024. The Supreme Court will hear its most significant case on homelessness in decades Monday, April 22, as record numbers of people in America are without a permanent place to live. The justices will consider a challenge to rulings from a California-based federal appeals court that found punishing people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

When can doctors provide emergency abortions in states with strict bans? Supreme Court to weigh in

 
File - The Supreme Court is seen on Friday, April 21, 2023, in Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could determine whether doctors can provide abortions to pregnant women with medical emergencies in states that enact abortion bans. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

What’s EMTALA, the patient protection law at the center of Supreme Court abortion arguments?

 
FILE - People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government wants to allow anti-abortion groups access to women considering interrupting their pregnancies, making abortion a flashpoint argument in Italy 46 years after it was legalized in the overwhelmingly Catholic country. The Senate on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, was voting on procedural legislation tied to EU COVID-19 recovery funds that includes an amendment sponsored by Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

Abortion returns to the spotlight in Italy, 46 years after it was legalized

 

When can doctors provide emergency abortions in states with strict bans? Supreme Court to weigh in

Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider how far state abortion bans can extend to women in medical emergencies. Learn more about the Idaho abortion case the justices are weighing.
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Biden blasts Florida’s 6-week abortion ban, blames Trump for ‘this nightmare’

Italian women demonstrate against the government to protect the right to abortion

Experts group says abortion in Germany should be decriminalized during pregnancy’s first 12 weeks

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Maine’s governor signs bill to protect providers of abortion, gender-affirming care

Maine’s Democratic governor has signed a bill designed to protect providers of abortion and gender-affirming care from legal action brought by other states. Gov.
 
People listen as President Joe Biden speaks about reproductive freedom on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla. Biden is in Florida planning to assail the state's upcoming six-week abortion ban and similar restrictions nationwide. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden blames Trump for Florida’s 6-week abortion ban, says women nationwide face health crisis

President Joe Biden is blaming Donald Trump for Florida’s upcoming abortion ban and other restrictions across the country that have imperiled access to care for pregnant women.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about abortion access during a Democratic National Committee event Oct. 18, 2022, in Washington. As he campaigns for a second term, Biden is highlighting how women’s health has been affected by the overturning of federal abortion protections. His campaign is getting help from two women who say abortion restrictions put them in medical peril. Amanda Zurawski of Texas and Kaitlyn Joshua of Louisiana say their personal experiences are driving them to campaign for Biden in North Carolina and Wisconsin over the next two weeks. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden administration tightens rules for obtaining medical records related to abortion

The medical records of women will be shielded from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal.
 
FILE - An attendee at Planned Parenthood's Bans Off Our Bodies rally for abortion rights holds a sign reading "Idaho the women as property state" outside of the Idaho Statehouse in downtown Boise, Idaho, on May 14, 2022. A new Idaho organization says it will ask voters to restore abortion access and other reproductive health care rights in the state after lawmakers let a second legislative session end without modifying strict abortion bans that have been blamed for a recent exodus of health care providers. . (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

Idaho group says it is exploring a ballot initiative for abortion rights and reproductive care

A new Idaho organization says it will ask voters to restore abortion access and other reproductive health care rights in the state after lawmakers let a second legislative session end without modifying the strict abortion bans.
 
A anti-abortion supporter stands outside the House chamber, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at the Capitol in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Democrats clear path to bring proposed repeal of Arizona’s near-total abortion ban to a vote

Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state’s highest court concluded the law can be enforced and the state House blocked efforts to undo the long-dormant statute.
 
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan visits the Bridge Boat Show in Stevensville, Md., Friday, April 12, 2024, as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Anti-Trump Republican Larry Hogan navigates dangerous political terrain in pivotal Senate contest

Larry Hogan has transformed Maryland’s sleepy Senate race into a top-tier contest in the fight for the Senate majority.
 

Campaign to legalize abortion in Missouri raises nearly $5M in 3 months

A campaign to legalize abortion in Missouri has raised close to $5 million. Missourians for Constitutional Freedom on Tuesday announced a $4.8 million haul from January through March.
 
FILE - A cyclist rides past the New York Court of Appeals, May 5, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. New York’s highest court will hear arguments Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in a lawsuit that seeks to throw out a regulation requiring health insurance policies to cover medically necessary abortions — a case that could jeopardize a similar state law. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

New York’s high court hears case on abortion insurance coverage

New York’s highest court has taken up a case that seeks to throw out a regulation requiring health insurance policies to cover medically necessary abortions.
 
FILE - Abortion-rights protestors march between the Indiana Statehouse and the Indiana State Library where Vice President Kamala Harris was meeting with Indiana legislators to discuss reproductive rights, July 25, 2022, in Indianapolis. After a near-total ban on abortions went into effect in August 2023, some Indiana Republicans want access to reports detailing each abortion still performed in the state. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Indiana limits abortion data for privacy under near-total ban, but some GOP candidates push back

Some Indiana Republicans in key campaigns for office are fighting for access to detailed abortion reports that the health department stopped releasing to protect patient privacy under a near-total ban on the procedure.
 
FILE - An exam room is seen inside Planned Parenthood on March 10, 2023, in Fairview Heights, Ill. Workers are entitled to workplace accommodations for abortions and some pregnancy-related conditions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, according to federal regulations published Monday, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

New rules for Pregnant Workers Fairness Act include divisive accommodations for abortion

Workers are entitled to time off and other job accommodations for abortions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, according to finalized federal regulations published Monday.
 
Participants in the 'March for Life' rally stand with banners reading 'Every life is a gift', 'Life is life' and 'Euthanasia no thanks' in Munich, Germany, Saturday, April 13, 2024. An independent experts commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Currently, abortion is considered illegal in Germany, but not punishable if a woman undergoes mandatory counseling and a three-day wait period before she has the procedure. (Uwe Lein/dpa via AP)

Abortion in Germany should be decriminalized during pregnancy’s first 12 weeks, experts recommend

An independent expert commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
 
FILE - Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego speaks to reporters at the state Capitol in Phoenix on April 9, 2024. The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864, a time when gold-seekers were moving in, dueling had to be regulated and the U.S. Army was forcibly removing Native Americans from their land. The law's revival is just the latest instance of long-dormant restrictions influencing current abortion policies after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Jonathan Copper)

The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona’s abortion ban

The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864, a time when gold-seekers were moving in, dueling had to be regulated and settlers were increasingly encroaching on tribal lands.
 
Anti-abortion demonstrators march in support of every conceived life and against steps taken by the new government to liberalize Poland's strict law and allow termination of pregnancy until the 12th week, in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday, April 14, 2024. Last week, Poland's parliament, which is dominated by the liberal and pro-European Union ruling coalition, voted to approve further detailed work on four proposals to lift the near-ban on abortions. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish opponents of abortion march against recent steps to liberalize strict law

Thousands of Polish opponents of abortion are marching in Warsaw to protest recent steps by the new government to liberalize the predominantly Catholic nation’s strict laws and allow termination of pregnancy until the 12th week.
 
FILE - Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, listens during a House Criminal Justice Committee meeting, Feb. 20, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Johnson, now running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Marsha Blackburn, has joined the growing ranks of progressive candidates choosing to tell their own abortion stories. They are doing so more frequently in states that have banned abortion in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, file)

Progressive candidates are increasingly sharing their own abortion stories after Roe’s demise

They’re doing so more frequently in states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
 
Several dozen students gather outside the Memorial Union on the University of Kansas' main campus for a campus LGBTQ+ pride photo, Friday, April 12, 2024, in Lawrence, Kan. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for minors and 2 anti-abortion bills

The governor of Kansas has vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she says is a vague bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally in Conway, S.C., Feb. 10, 2024. Trump still says he's proud that the Supreme Court justices he nominated overturned Roe v. Wade. Yet he avoided questions about whether he would support a national abortion ban should he return to the White House. Trump tried to put the issue to rest on Monday, April 8, in a video statement where Trump did not call for a national abortion ban, disappointing religious conservatives. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump pushes Arizona lawmakers to ‘remedy’ state abortion ruling that he says ‘went too far’

Donald Trump is declaring anew that the Arizona Supreme Court “went too far” with a ruling allowing prosecutors to enforce a near-total abortion ban.
 
FILE - The Maine State House is seen at dawn, Jan. 3, 2024, in Augusta, Maine. The Democratic-controlled Maine Legislature has approved a bill that would protect health care workers who provide abortion and gender-affirming care from legal action brought in other states. If signed by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, Maine would join more than a dozen states that shield medical providers and others from out-of-state investigations regarding abortions. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine lawmakers approve shield law for providers of abortion and gender-affirming care

The Democratic-controlled Maine Legislature has approved a bill that would protect health care workers who provide abortion and gender-affirming care from legal action brought in other states.
 
FILE - Thousands of protesters march around the Arizona Capitol in protest after the Supreme Court decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision Friday, June 24, 2022, in Phoenix. An Arizona Supreme Court ruling, Tuesday, April 9, 2024, allowing enforcement of an abortion ban is the latest action to elevate abortion as a key political issue this year. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Arizona just revived an 1864 law criminalizing abortion. Here’s what’s happening in other states

Abortion was already a major issue in U.S. elections in 2024. An Arizona Supreme Court ruling elevated it more.
 
Dariusz Matecki, top right, a conservative lawmaker in the Polish parliament, displays a poster showing a fetus and the words "10th week after conception," during a vote on abortion in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, April 12, 2024. Polish lawmakers voted Friday to continue work on four proposals that would loosen the law on abortion, a divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country which has a near-total ban. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish lawmakers vote to move forward with work on lifting a near-total abortion ban

Polish lawmakers have voted to continue work on proposals to lift a near-total ban on abortion, a highly divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country.
 
FILE - Protesters in Phoenix shout as they join thousands marching around the Arizona state Capitol after the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision on June 24, 2022. A stunning abortion ruling this week in April 2024, has supercharged Arizona’s role in the looming fall election. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

A near-total ban on abortion has supercharged the political dynamics of Arizona, a key swing state

A stunning abortion ruling this week has supercharged Arizona’s role in the looming fall election. Suddenly, emboldened national Democrats are pouring new resources into the state as Republicans scramble to navigate the evolving political landscape while confronting nagging internal divisions.
 
In this combination photo, President Joe Biden speaks in Milwaukee, March 13, 2024, left, and former President Donald Trump speaks in New York, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo)

Many say Biden and Trump did more harm than good, but for different reasons, AP-NORC poll shows

A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that more than half of U.S. adults think Joe Biden’s presidency has hurt the country on cost of living and immigration.
 
Iowans supporting access to abortion rally on Thursday, April 11, 2024, outside the courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa, where the Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments on the state's restrictive abortion law. The law that bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy is on hold as the courts assess its constitutionality. (AP Photo/Hannah Fingerhut)

Iowa asks state Supreme Court to let its restrictive abortion law go into effect

Iowa has asked the state Supreme Court to let its blocked abortion law go into effect and uphold it altogether, disputing abortion providers’ claims it infringes on women’s rights to exercise bodily autonomy.
 
FILE - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey answers a question during a news conference, Dec. 2, 2020, in Phoenix. A ban on nearly all abortions in Arizona doesn’t sit well with Ducey, the Republican former governor whose expansion of the state Supreme Court allowed him to appoint the four conservative justices whose ruling cleared the way for it. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)

Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says the abortion ruling from justices he chose goes too far

A ban on nearly all abortions in Arizona doesn’t sit well with Republican former Gov. Doug Ducey. Yet he was the one who appointed the four conservative justices whose ruling cleared the way for it.
 
Rep. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, talks about her bill that would make it a crime to take a minor to another state for gender-affirming care without the consent of the child's parent during legislative session of the Senate, Thursday, April 11, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

Tennessee GOP senators OK criminalizing helping minors get transgender care, mimicking abortion bill

Tennessee lawmakers are considering criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent.
 
Dariusz Matecki, a conservative lawmaker in the Polish parliament, displays a poster showing a fetus and the words "10th week after conception," during a debate on liberalizing the abortion law , in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday April 11, 2024. He also played the sound of a child's heartbeat through a microphone next to his chair. The traditionally Catholic nation has one of the most restrictive laws in Europe — but the reality is that many women terminate pregnancies at home with pills mailed from abroad. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland has a strict abortion law — and many abortions. Lawmakers are now tackling the legislation

Poland’s parliament is holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country’s strict abortion law.
 

Man gets 7½ years for 2022 firebombing of Wisconsin anti-abortion office

A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 7½ years in prison after pleading guilty to firebombing the office of an anti-abortion group two years ago.
 
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks to reporters at the state Capitol in Phoenix on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jonathan Copper)

Arizona’s abortion ban is likely to cause a scramble for services in states where it’s still legal

Doctors and clinic leaders say there’ll be a scramble across the Southwest and West for abortion care.
 
Arizona state Rep. Matt Gress, R-Phoenix, speaks to reporters on the House floor at the Capitol, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Phoenix. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state can enforce its long-dormant law criminalizing all abortions except when a mother's life is at stake. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Shouts of ‘Shame! Shame!’ erupt in Arizona House as fight over abortion ban engulfs lawmakers

The fight over a newly revived 1864 Arizona law criminalizing abortion throughout pregnancy unless a woman’s life is at risk has engulfed the state’s lawmakers.
 
FILE - Supporters of Florida Voice For The Unborn demonstrate outside the fourth floor as legislators work on property insurance bills, May 24, 2022, at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. The Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday, April 1, 2024, that a ballot measure to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution can go before voters in November. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)

Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?

Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S.
 
FILE - Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 14, 2024. Florida voters are going to decide on abortion rights this November. For the Senate race, this could mean a mixed impact dependent on turnout. Sen. Scott is planning a no-vote in November for the abortion rights amendment, which would protect abortion in the state's Constitution if approved by voters. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

Republican Sen. Rick Scott softens his abortion position after Florida Supreme Court ruling

Sen. Rick Scott of Florida is joining other Republican incumbents scrambling to strike a balance in their abortion rights messaging.
 
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