Idaho State

The Hill

The Supreme Court’s dismissal of Idaho’s challenge to a federal emergency care law is offering temporary relief to physicians and patients in the state, but it failed to close the door on whether federal law allows physicians to perform abortions in medical emergencies. The justices on Thursday ruled 6-3 to dismiss the case as “improvidently…

Supreme Court’s Idaho decision deepens abortion uncertainty

Michigan State

DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Tuesday blocked Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period for abortions, saying it conflicts with a 2022 voter-approved amendment to the state constitution that guarantees abortion rights. The waiting period “forces needless delay on patients after they are able to consent to a procedure, thus...

Michigan's Abortion Waiting Period Ruled Unconstitutional

The Conversation U.S.

The SCOTUS opinion did not take on the substance of the plaintiffs’ claims against mifepristone, and the abortion pill is already facing other challenges.

Supreme Court unanimously concludes that anti-abortion groups have no standing to challenge access to mifepristone – but the drug likely faces more court challenges

Iowa State

CBS Chicago

The Iowa Supreme Court said Friday the state's strict abortion law is legal, telling a lower court to dissolve a temporary block on the law and allowing Iowa to ban most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy — before many women know they are pregnant.The 4-3 ruling is a win for Republican lawmakers, and Iowa joins more than a dozen other states with restrictive abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Currently, 14 states have near-total bans at all stages of pregnancy and three ban abortions at about six weeks.The Iowa Supreme...

Iowa's Supreme Court tells lower court to let strict abortion law go into effect

Texas State

The Independent

 The highest court in Texas has rejected a historic challenge to the state’s anti-abortion laws from a group of 22 women – some of whom nearly died during pregnancy – demanding urgent clarity on whether emergency medical exceptions to abortion bans include life-threatening pregnancies.On Friday, a unanimous Texas Supreme Court decided that the state law was broad enough.Plaintiffs in Zurawski v Texas had urged the state to allow doctors to use their best medical judgment without fear of prosecution under the state’s severe anti-abortion laws, after providers denied them emergency abortion care during complicated pregnancies that put their health...

‘Feels like a gut punch’: Texas rejects challenge from women denied life-saving emergency abortions

Florida State

A Florida mother had to carry her pregnancy to term at great risk to her physical and emotional health, even though doctors told her the baby would live only a few hours. In 2022, when she was around 24 weeks into her pregnancy, Deborah Dorbert, a Florida wife and mom, learned during a routine ultrasound that the baby that she and her husband were so eagerly awaiting had a rare medical disorder.

Florida’s abortion restrictions had devastating consequences for this mother

Louisiana State

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

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NewSantaAna

The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Daily Montanan

Births continued a historic slide in all but two states last year, making it clear that a brief post-pandemic uptick in the nation’s birth numbers was all about planned pregnancies that had been delayed temporarily by COVID-19. Only Tennessee and North Dakota had small increases in births from 2022 to 2023, according to a Stateline […]
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The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans

North Dakota State

Col. Brandon Solberg, superintendent of the North Dakota Highway Patrol. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor) North Dakota Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. Brandon Solberg will retire from law enforcement and transition to director of facility management for the Office of Management and Budget effective Dec. 1, Gov. Doug Burgum announced Friday. Solberg...

Highway Patrol superintendent to retire, take new state government role

At a Planned Parenthood Great Northwest rally on April 21, 2024, Idahoans advocated for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal law protects access to abortion procedures in emergency situations, even in states like Idaho with strict abortion bans. (Otto Kitsinger for the Idaho Capital Sun) Earlier this year,...

I’m staying in Idaho to practice medicine after the U.S. Supreme Court’s EMTALA decision

Reuters

(Reuters) -Iowa can enforce a ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, the state's highest court ruled on Friday, reversing a lower court order that had blocked the law from taking effect.

Iowa can enforce six-week abortion ban, US state's top court rules

California State

Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, a Michigan court blocked the state’s required 24-hour waiting period before an abortion.
                Michigan Court of Claims Judge Sima Patel ruled the requirement infringes on the state’s constitutional right to abortion, which was approved by voters in November 2022. The ruling also stops the state from mandating certain information be given before the procedure, saying it can be coercive.
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Michigan court overturns 24-hour abortion waiting period

Alaska State

Alaska Department of Health Commissioner Heidi Hedberg gave an update on the backlog of food aid applications in the Division of Public Assistance at a news conference for Gov. Mike Dunleavy's proposed FY 2025 budget in Juneau on Dec. 14, 2023. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Alaska’s Department of Health...

USDA penalizes Alaska $12 million for overpaying food stamp benefits

Missouri State

Jefferson City, MO

Othel Moore died at the Jefferson City Correctional Center in December while restrained and in isolation (Caspar Benson/Getty Images). Four former Missouri correctional officers face murder charges and a fifth is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the December death of a man incarcerated at the Jefferson City Correctional Center. Othel...

Missouri corrections officers charged with murder in death of inmate in restraints

States with abortion restrictions are facing reductions in care, and forcing colleagues in other states to manage the fallout.

Opinion: Draconian abortion laws are driving OB-GYNs from red states

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

Kate Cox, who sued the state of Texas after she was denied an emergency abortion, is pregnant again. Cox made the announcement at a a campaign event in Maryland on Monday with Vice President Kamala Harris where they called for restoring abortion access in Texas. In December 2023, Cox sued...

Kate Cox – who sued Texas for denying her an emergency abortion – announces pregnancy at Dobbs event

Georgia State

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Douglas, GA

Daily Coffee Press

A 29-year-old, Travis Eugene Brinson Jr., who was arrested in March, has been sent back to prison just almost ten months after his release. Court documents show that Brinson Jr. was taken into custody on March 4, 2024, on one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. A copy of the arrest warrant states that Brinson Jr. was in possession of a firearm that night between 8:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at a residence on MLK Drive.

Convicted Felon in Georgia Sent Back to Prison for Ilegall Firearm Possession

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Congressional Democrats mount campaign against 1873 act that could be used against abortions

Mifepristone, one of two medications used for an abortion, is often mailed to patients, giving those in rural and remote areas wider abortion access. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty...

Congressional Democrats mount campaign against 1873 act that could be used against abortions

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