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
The Supreme Court considers whether Idaho's near-total abortion ban conflicts with a federal law aimed at ensuring certain standards for emergency medical care for patients, including pregnant women.
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.
The Supreme Court will consider another abortion case dealing with claims by a Republican-led state that the Biden administration is attempting to use a federal law as an "abortion mandate."
The Arizona Legislature is contemplating a repeal of a near-total abortion ban it first put on the books 160 years ago. For two weeks in a row, Republicans have blocked attempts to repeal the law by Democrats and one rebel Republican in the state House.
The Supreme Court will consider yet another high-stakes abortion case, one with potentially sweeping consequences for emergency rooms across the country. The case, coming nearly two years after the court overturned a nationwide right to abortion,
The case out of Idaho marks yet another challenge – the second before the justices in a month – seeking to clarify post-Roe abortion laws. And the stakes, legally and politically, are high yet again.
As former President Donald Trump moves closer to selecting his running mate, a major Democratic abortion-rights advocacy group is taking his pool of vice presidential contenders to task over their records on reproductive rights.
could establish a significant precedent regarding whether emergency medical care can be denied to a pregnant woman in distress in order to save the fetus.
The Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case about whether Idaho's near-total ban on abortion is preempted by Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA.
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that pits Idaho's near-total abortion ban against a federal law that the Biden administration says requires hospitals to offer emergency abortion care in certain situations.
Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday how far state bans can extend to women in medical emergencies.
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
Physicians in states with abortion bans may fear steep criminal sanctions if they provide an abortion in emergency cases, like ectopic pregnancies or preeclampsia.
The Supreme Court will weigh whether states can prevent medically necessary abortion despite federal law that says they must treat and stabilize all patients when they have a medical emergency.
As states ban abortions, a 1968 federal law requires hospitals that receive Medicaid dollars to stabilize patients in a medical emergency, creating a catch-22 for care providers
While the national political spotlight is trained squarely on Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York City —with moments as comic as the judge reading memes into the record and as tragic as a man self-immolating outside the courthouse on Friday—it might end up being less politically consequential than events hundreds of miles away.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a dispute between the state of Idaho and the Biden administration over whether state bans on abortion violate federal emergency medicine statutes,
An 1864 near-total abortion ban takes effect in Arizona this week, according to lawyers for the anti-abortion doctor who won his state Supreme Court appeal to uphold the law. Some providers say they will continue to provide abortion services until June 8 — a directive from by Attorney General Kris Mayes.
The Supreme Court this week will consider whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho's strict abortion ban. Why it matters: The case justices will hear Wednesday focuses on a key Biden administration effort to preserve abortion access and puts a spotlight on stories of pregnant patients who have been denied abortions in medical emergencies since Roe v.
A progressive political action group is launching a campaign to unseat two Arizona Supreme Court justices who recently upheld a near-total abortion ban from 1864.
The abortion extremism of the Biden administration will be on full display this week as President Joe Biden’s lawyers try to convince our nation’s highest court that a 38-year-old federal law requiring hospital emergency rooms to stabilize sick patients also includes an abortion mandate.
The Biden administration on Wednesday will head to the Supreme Court to defend one of its primary efforts to protect abortion rights after the fall of Roe v. Wade. At stake is whether a federal emergency care law passed 37 years ago trumps state laws that ban abortion in nearly all circumstances.
Numerous lawsuits have been filed since Idaho abortion laws went into effect nearly two years ago. Here’s how this one, between the U.S. Department of Justice and the state, made it to the court of last resort.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, for the first time since overruling Roe v. Wade, will consider the scope of a state abortion ban and whether a federal law governing emergency care protects access to abortion at hospitals when a woman's health is at risk.
The case comes from Idaho, where the law banning abortions is sufficiently strict that the state's leading hospital system says its patients are at risk.
Idaho already has a near-total abortion ban, but the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right Christian legal advocacy group arguing the lawsuit on behalf of the state, is utilizing the case to advance the idea of fetal personhood.
Attorney General Kris Mayes is calling on the Arizona Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to revive a near-total ban on abortions from 1864, saying that the court’s reasoning for doing so is irreparably flawed.
Less than a month after the justices heard oral arguments in a case seeking to roll back access to one of the drugs used in medication abortions, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in another case involving abortion.
Hospitals across the country have long operated under the same federal law that says they must treat and stabilize all patients when they have a medical emergency. But in states that now ban abortions and have limited or no health exceptions to these restrictions,