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The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other workplace accommodations for abortions.

Judge rules that federal agency can’t enforce abortion rule in Louisiana and Mississippi

HuffPost

Awareness of the Comstock Act is alarmingly low — and Republicans want to use that to their advantage.

Democrats Are Trying To Repeal An Archaic Law That Could Create A National Abortion Ban

Kansas State

TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court affirmed Friday the fundamental constitutional right of women to terminate a pregnancy and struck down a state law banning a second-trimester abortion method. In a separate decision issued simultaneously by the state Supreme Court, the majority declared unconstitutional a state law imposing a...

Kansas Supreme Court strikes down state law banning second-trimester abortion procedure

New Mexico State

CBS News

Washington — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Sunday that two years after the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion guaranteed under Roe v. Wade, "there are more abortions happening because more women are at risk.""You create a draconian situation, you're going to increase risk at every single place," Lujan Grisham said Sunday on "Face the Nation." She said that in the new patchwork of access in states, many women struggle to find a provider, leading to less access to contraception and less overall information about public health. Transcript: New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on "Face the...

N.M. governor says abortion increased after Dobbs because "more women are at risk"

Scripps News

New restrictions intended to dissuade pregnant women from obtaining an abortion have now gone into effect in Kansas, despite an effort by the state's Democratic governor to veto them.

New anti-abortion laws go into effect in Kansas despite governor's veto

South Carolina State

The Independent

Three female GOP state senators who tried to protect abortion rights in South Carolina lost primary elections this month to men who ran on anti-abortion platforms.Katrina Shealy, Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson were among a bipartisan group of five women state senators, dubbed the “sister senators,” who filibustered a near-total abortion ban in 2023.During the filibuster, each of the five women took turns describing the complexities of pregnancy and the reproductive system, the dangers of lack of access to contraception, and inadequate privacy laws, with all lawmakers speaking for as long as four hours each at a time. All five...

Three female Republicans who tried to protect abortion rights in South Carolina lose primaries to men

Salon

For close court watchers, it wasn't surprising that the Supreme Court rejected an effort by Christian right forces to take away access to the abortion pill. The case was too ridiculous, even for the current iteration of the court, which is dominated by six Republican appointees fighting varying levels of corruption allegations. The lawsuit was brought by a group of doctors — and dentists — who do not prescribe the medication in question, mifepristone. It was based on a total lie, which is that the drug is dangerous. (All evidence shows it's safer than Tylenol. The risk of death from Viagra is 10 times higher.) And the argument was eye-rollingly silly: The plaintiffs claimed to be worried they'd be asked to treat abortion patients in an emergency, an instance that rarely comes up, due to the drug's safety. When it does, emergency room providers have a right to ask a pro-choice doctor to step in to handle it.

After Supreme Court's abortion pill decision, Donald Trump is even more likely to ban abortion

Montana State

HELENA, Mont. — Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade: She needed to get sterilized. Within a week, she asked her provider about getting the procedure done. Ferst, 28, said she has always known she doesn’t want kids. She also...

Rate of Young Women Getting Sterilized Doubled After ‘Roe’ Was Overturned

The Biden administration on Tuesday told emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health.

In wake of Supreme Court ruling, Biden administration tells doctors to provide emergency abortions

Kansas' highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and banning a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution protects abortion access.The Kansas Supreme Court's 5-1 rulings in two separate cases signal that the state's Republican-controlled Legislature faces stricter limits on regulating abortion than GOP lawmakers thought and suggests other restrictions could fall. Lawsuits in lower state courts already are challenging restrictions on medication abortions, a ban on doctors using teleconferences to meet with patients, rules for what doctors must tell patients before an abortion and a...

Kansas Supreme Court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws

Idaho State

Pregnant people in Idaho should be able to access abortion in a medical emergency in Idaho, at least for now.

Supreme Court decision allows pregnant people in Idaho to access emergency abortion care — for now

Traverse City, MI

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Lansing) says that if she’s elected to the U.S. Senate this year, she wants to use her background as a former CIA and Defense Department official to build a proactive strategy on basic rights and democracy. “I’m so sick of playing defense on democracy —...

Rep. Slotkin says it’s time to stop ‘playing defense on democracy’

Wisconsin State

CBS Minnesota

The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided Monday to consider two challenges to a 175-year-old law that conservatives maintain bans abortion without letting the cases wind through lower courts. Abortion advocates stand an excellent chance of prevailing in both cases given the high court's liberal tilt and remarks a liberal justice made on the campaign trail about how she supports abortion rights. Wisconsin lawmakers enacted statutes in 1849 that had been widely interpreted as outlawing abortion in all cases except to save the mother's life. The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion nullified the statutes, but legislators...

Wisconsin Supreme Court will consider if 175-year-old law bans abortion

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Wilmington, NC

Town Talks

According to a report by News Observer, Wilmington ranks No. 1 on a list of cities that attracted new residents last year, according to results published Monday, Jan. 2. To create the list, the moving company United Van Lines said it studied more than 100,000 shipments that took place throughout 2022. About 30 to 40% of those customers also filled out surveys, in which they shared demographic information and their reasons for relocating, according to information shared with McClatchy News.

People flocked to this North Carolina city in 2022. So much so, it topped national list

UPI News

The Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision has fundamentally changed the experience of adolescence and young adulthood in America.

Abortion bans shaping entire generation of young people

Mediaite

Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the decision, which did not deal specifically with the merits of the case
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JUST IN: Supreme Court Unanimously Rules to Preserve Access to Abortion Pill

ABC News

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a legal challenge the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of the abortion pill mifepristone.

Supreme Court unanimously strikes down legal challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

Houston, TX

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Hattiesburg, MS

Mississippi News Group

HATTIESBURG, Miss. – On Friday, June 14, 2024, the Hattiesburg Police Department arrested three individuals in connection with the deadly shooting of 21-year-old Marcus "MJ" Daniels, Jr., charging each with capital murder according to a press release from the Hattiesburg Police.

Multiple teens arrested on Capital Murder charge following death of MJ Daniels

Oklahoma State

Clinton, OK

HB 1542 went into effect in November, allowing restaurants and public school district cafeterias to donate food without fear of being held liable. Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton, the author, said it was an effort to combat Oklahoma's high food insecurity rates. (Kennedy Thomason/Oklahoma Voice) OKLAHOMA CITY– Watching students throw leftover...

Oklahoma food donation law making small impact

PBS NewsHour

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and a ban on a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution protects abortion access. “We stand by our conclusion that section...

Kansas’ top court strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws, reaffirms previous stance on state constitution

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Proposed Arkansas abortion amendment meets signature threshold

A supporter of the Arkansas Abortion Amendment holds up a sign in an Arkansas Capitol hallway while petitions to put the amendment on the November ballot...

Proposed Arkansas abortion amendment meets signature threshold

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